Do you have the commitment and positive values to make a difference to the lives of people living in a supported living service in Cookridge, North Leeds?

Creative Support is a non-profit organisation which provides high quality person centred social care services for people with learning disabilities, mental health and other needs. Our Hall Lane supported living service in Leeds provides person-centred support to young adults who have learning disabilities, some of whom are on the autistic spectrum and have complex needs.

We are looking for calm, resourceful and energetic individuals who are well motivated, hardworking and keen to join our friendly team. You will provide person-centred care and support to tenants to take part in all aspects of every day life and to enjoy a wide range of activities. You will have skills in positive communication and engagement and will be able to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for the young people we support. You will have the maturity to be able to work within a positive behaviour support framework, to accept responsibility and to grow in confidence as a skilled practitioner. You must be able to follow agreed guidelines and to work positively within a consistent, mutually supportive team ethos.

You will have the opportunity to undertake the responsible role of being a Key Worker/Co-worker. This will enable you to plan alongside members of the person’s circle of support to enable individuals to be happy, healthy and to be successful in achieving their wishes and aspirations. Our Person centred planning meetings and processes are co-produced with the people we support and their families to promote a unified approach. Together we set meaningful and aspirational goals which Key Workers have a particular responsibility to work towards. This will provide you with a great experience to enable you to develop skills which can underpin a successful career in adult social care.

You must be willing to actively embrace all aspects of the role including support with personal care and domestic tasks as well as community activities such as walking, swimming and going to the gym. The ability to support people who can express their needs though challenging behaviour at times is essential. Prior experience in this field of work is beneficial, although not a substitute for an engaging, creative and person centred approach. We will  value the personal skills and interests you bring to the role and to the lives of service users, such as sports, walking and outdoor pursuits, creative arts, music and cooking; to name but a few!

The service has the benefits of being situated on the edge of the countryside overlooking the local golf course, with easy access to commute to the centre of Leeds. It is easily accessible by car, bus routes from Leeds centre and from Horsforth train station.

This role offers unique and challenging opportunities bringing great job satisfaction to those who are looking to make a positive difference to the lives of others. We provide relevant training including accredited health and social care diplomas through our own training academy. You will be required to work in a flexible manner on a rota which includes evenings, weekends and sleep-ins. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

This is a role which can be enjoyed by people who are committed to making a positive difference, including experienced care workers, graduates and people looking for a stimulating career path into social care.

Relief Positions are also available.

Creative Support is a nationwide not-for-profit care provider supporting adults with a wide range of needs. We provide personalised 24/7 support to individuals with learning disabilities living in their own tenancies across all parts of Calderdale. Relief workers supplement our full time staff team – with an expectation to equal the quality of service provided by our regular staff team. Promoting choice and independence, supporting people to achieve their personal outcomes, are paramount to our work.

You may be asked to deliver support in any aspect of daily living, including personal care.

Can you demonstrate a commitment to promoting independence for people with learning disabilities? Are you aware of the needs of people with learning disabilities, and have a strong commitment to deliver personalised support? Can you work effectively with other colleagues?

Can you work flexibly? As a Relief Support Worker you will need to be available to work evenings, mornings and weekends.

We can offer you both training and support. Relief support work can be a great experience and opportunity to progress your career in health and social care.

Interested? We would very much like to hear from you.

Support Worker

Dementia devastates lives. By 2021, 1 million people will be living with the condition. But dementia won't win. Until the day we find a cure, Alzheimer's Society will be here for anyone affected by dementia - wherever they are, whatever they're going through. Everything we do is informed and inspired by them.

We are the UK's leading dementia charity. Every day, we work tirelessly to find new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for dementia. We provide expert information, training, and support services to all those who need our help. And we are creating a more dementia-friendly society so people with the condition can live without fear and prejudice.

Please note during the current COVID19 situation all services are being delivered remotely by telephone or video conferencing. Also, candidates are advised that internal applicants subject to potential redeployment may take precedence.

Support Worker Responsibilities:

Alzheimer’s Society Wakefield’s Dementia Support service involves dedicated members of staff giving one to one support, information and guidance to people with dementia or their carers and wider family or friends, to help people understand dementia, cope with day to day living with dementia and prepare for the future. We are at the core of ensuring that people affected by dementia across Wakefield have access to a clear and supportive pathway throughout their journey with dementia.

As a Dementia Support Worker with our Wakefield team you will have the rewarding opportunity to provide support and guidance to people with dementia and their carers; helping to maintain their independence, improving their sense of well-being, and putting them in more control of their lives. The service is unique to each service user as it is based upon their personal circumstances and support needs.

You will offer support and guidance to your clients in a variety of ways, whether in the client's own home, at service offices or at other locations, face to face, by phone, letter or email.

Support Worker Requirements:

We are looking for an individual who possess NVQ level 3 (or equivalent) with an understanding of dementia and the needs of those living with dementia and their carers.

Your ability to assess client needs along with the understanding of the need for client confidentially is essential to providing a valuable and worthwhile service.

To be successful in this role you will have excellent non-judgmental communication skills as well as strong organisational and time management skills in order to manage your caseload of clients effectively.

About Alzheimer’s Society:

Alzheimer’s Society embraces diversity, inclusion and accessibility for all of our people. We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do.

Position: Dementia Support Worker
Location: Wakefield and Five Towns
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part time, 28 hours per week
Salary: £15,971.20 - £16,616 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience)

Closing date: 09 July 2020
Interview date: W/C 20 or 27 July 2020

You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Dementia Adviser, Care Assistant, Caseworker, Special Needs Assistant, Social Worker, Social Care, Community Care, Helpline Coordinator, Volunteering Officer, Support Worker, Mental Health, Dementia, NFP, Not for Profit, Charity etc.

Touchstone is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Live Well Leeds Mental Health Support Coordinator
Salary: Starting at £21,589 per annum – NJC Scale Points 12 – 17
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: This role is fixed term for 12 months, with the possibility of being extended

The aim of the Live Well Leeds service is to provide flexible and practical support to people (aged 18+) within the Leeds Metropolitan District. The service has been commissioned by Leeds City Council Adult Social Care for 5 years. The contract is delivered by a Strategic Partnership (comprising Touchstone as the lead, Community Links and Leeds Mind) and a Delivery Network (comprising of 16 different voluntary sector partners).

The service will be easy for diverse people to access, navigate and receive high quality support for everyone to improve and maintain their mental health.

Live Well Leeds offers a seven day service, including evenings and weekends according to community/individual needs and wishes.

About the role

You will work as part of the Live Well Leeds partnership to recognise individual service users’ strengths and assets, and then provide support to maintain and improve mental health.

You will provide flexible, supportive, caring and responsive interventions to and with service users.  This will involve working one-to-one, facilitating groups, and enabling peers/volunteers to deliver group support. 

You need to have substantial experience of working with people with mental health needs, a good knowledge of mental health interventions and their effectiveness and experience of building and maintaining positive links with a wide range of services and stakeholders.

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website to download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

Closing Date:  Sunday 19 July 2020
Interviews will be held on: Monday 3 August 2020 (via Zoom)

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.

 

Are you caring and compassionate? Looking for a role where you can make a real difference to people’s lives every day? Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as a Night Recovery Worker. You don’t need experience, we’re more interested in your personality, so if you can bring empathy and a real commitment to supporting people to achieve independence, we will provide you with all the training and development you need to excel in this role.

Right now, we are looking for someone like you to join our team at Moor View where we support people with mental health problems. Following a recent CQC inspection that raised some operational issues, we have taken positive steps to address them and have started an improvement journey which we’d love you to join us on. You’ll share our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment where people can thrive and achieve their full potential. You’ll join a team of Recovery Workers and get involved in a range of duties such as helping to come up with a personal support plan, developing domestic and finance management skills or accessing work, leisure or educational opportunities. It’s a varied role but one that will give you real satisfaction as you see the difference your input makes to the lives of the people we support.

Training and Benefits

When you join us you will receive a thorough induction and ongoing training and development, along with a great range of benefits including 25 days annual leave (which increases the longer you are with us) family friendly policies, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

The salary is £17,004.00 with progression to £17,230.00 per annum. In addition the successful candidates will receive a £1,000 Golden Hello payment.

Please note that this post is for a night worker and the post-holder will be required to work night shifts. 

This is a rolling recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply.

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits? Apply now via our website.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

£19,847 - £23,350 p/a (outside M25) ; £22,847 - £26,350 p/a (inside M25) – to be pro-rated 

Please note successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual)

Part Time (2.5 days p/w) - 6 month fixed term contract

Location to be confirmed but will involve remote working for now

Please note due to the current situation, there is no specific base location as most of the work will be carried out remotely with the learners. However when it is safe to work in an office environment, we do expect the successful candidate to be based in one of our offices – we are currently have offices in London, Leeds, Coventry, Wrexham and Norwich.

Are you a flexible yet resilient individual with experience of working with socially excluded adults and building excellent working relationships with partners and specialist support organisations? 

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for Peer Advisor Network Caseworker to join us and provide a high-level service to our peer advisors in order to help them overcome the added challenges that COVID-19 presents.

About St Giles Trust 

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. In response to COVID-19, our peer advisor network has been awarded a 6-month top up grant to allow us to meet the significantly increased needs of our peer advisors which is where you come in.

About this vital role

Work with hub teams to identify peer advisors who need extra support, take responsibility for a caseload of clients and keep recording systems up to date. You will also regularly liaise with peer advisors and regional teams to agree and regularly review an action plan that addresses wider barriers. Providing day-to-day support to peer advisors to enable them to achieve agreed targets and outcomes will be key, as will putting into place any corrective action to address any shortfall. When it comes to promoting projects with partner agencies, other St Giles trust teams and referral organisations to identify and receive appropriate referrals, again, we’ll count on you to deliver.

What we are looking for:

• A good understanding of the issues faced by our client group, and the barriers faced when starting employment, particularly by people with lived experience 

• A proven ability to assess client needs, provide client led support and constructive feedback motivate and encourage individuals to make progress

• Experience of providing support remotely and building relationships and improved outcomes by phone and online 

• Knowledge of current agencies available for sourcing employment, training, housing support, substance misuse support and other related barriers and the ability to help clients to access them 

• A collaborative approach and the ability to build positive working relationships with other staff, volunteers and partners to achieve targets and resolve conflicts of interest professionally

• Good IT skills and a flair for setting up and operating systems to monitor and report on work

Please note: an enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, access to clinical supervisions, cycle scheme, season ticket loan and much more.

If you have any queries or require further information, please visit our website.

Closing date: 8th July 2020. Interviews: 13th / 20th July (due to the current situation, interviews will be held via video)

We are looking for a full time History Tutor and a part time Science Tutor to join our amazing team at Brian Jackson College.

At Brian Jackson college we support young people with Social, emotional and mental health providing an alternative and  inclusive approach  toeducation.Working in small groups you will provide appropriate lessons that are engaging and creative to support the progress of all our students.

Potential candidates must have an interest in working within a charity sector that supports dissafected and disadvantaged young people.

If you are interested in joining our team please email for more information including the job descritption.

At TLG, we’re passionate about building an exceptional staff team that love making a difference to struggling children across the UK. We’re looking for a natural leader who has experience of working in HR.  We’re looking for someone who is inspired by the opportunity of finding, developing and equipping excellent people in one of the fastest growing charities. We want to build a talented team that reflects the diversity of the communities that TLG serves and with this in mind, we are looking for someone wo can apply their experience of reaching and engaging potential BAME candidates to the TLG recruitment process. The role will also support in the guidance, advice and coaching for managers across TLG and partner organisations on the full range of HR activities.

You’ll need to love working with people, be great at building relationships to achieve outcomes, and have tenacity for high expectations when it comes to finding talent for TLG.  We’re looking for someone who thrives under pressure, influences others to great outcomes and has tried and tested methods of implementing HR strategy that leads to organisational performance. As the HR teams grow there will be opportunity to specialise and develop within the role.

TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and their families and expects all staff including volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check. The role will require you to travel.

TLG particularly encourage applications from BAME candidates to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

The date of initial and final interviews is to be confirmed.

Touchstone is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Live Well Leeds - Service User Consultant
Salary: Starting at £19,554 per annum (pro rata) – NJC Scale Points 7 – 11
Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract: This role is fixed term for up to 12 months

The aim of Live Well Leeds is to provide flexible and practical support to adults within the Leeds Metropolitan District. This has been commissioned by Leeds City Council Adult Social Care. The contract is delivered by a Strategic Partnership (comprising Touchstone as the lead, Community Links and Leeds Mind) and a Delivery Network (comprising of 16 different voluntary sector partners).

The service will be easy for diverse people to access, navigate and receive high quality support for everyone to improve and maintain their mental health.

Live Well Leeds offers a seven day service, including evenings and weekends according to community/individual needs and wishes.

The successful candidate will work with Live Well Leeds staff and volunteers to ensure the full and effective involvement of service users in the design, development and delivery of services, identifying barriers to this, and supporting Live Well Leeds to develop meaningful service user involvement and activities.

Virtual information sessions will be held on 07 July 2020 and 09 July 2020. Please get in touch if you would like to attend either of these.

Closing date for applications:  Sunday 12 July 2020
Interviews, via zoom, will be held on: Friday 24 July 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website to download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. Further information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.