37.5hrs per week

About Bromley Mencap

Bromley Mencap is an award-winning, independent charity based in the London Borough of Bromley. We provide a range of services for disabled children, disabled adults, carers and families. We are user-led and have a membership of 1,500 disabled people and carers. We raise awareness of disability and influence change. We now need to recruit a new Head Employment Services to manage and extend our range of education, training and employment programmes.

About the role

This is an exciting time to join a successful organisation and drive forward a period of change brought about by the personalisation of health and social care services in a changing funding environment. You will manage, develop, and expand our training and employment services for disabled people. You will join our Senior Management Team and have responsibility for achieving quality, person-centred outcomes, establishing partnerships and ensuring the service is financially sustainable.  

About you

You’ll bring to the role a successful track record of managing staff, developing services and establishing partnerships. You will have experience of working to deadlines and meeting targets combined with a passion for Bromley Mencap’s work. With a positive attitude and facilitative style, you engage and influence with ease. You will have the ability to maintain high standards, with a disciplined approach, and work flexibly.

Application packs are available on our website via the Apply button.

Closing date: 5pm on 15th March 2021

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our team as Scheme Director to lead and develop Home-Start Lambeth.

Home-Start Lambeth improves the life chances of some of London’s most vulnerable children by supporting their parents to meet their needs. We offer support, friendship and practical help to families with young children who are struggling to cope. We train volunteers and match them with a local family. We also offer specialist support for women who have experienced Domestic Abuse. 

The Scheme Director will lead on the development and implementation of income generation and and service development strategies, as well as being responsible for the day to day running of the charity ensuring all legal obligations are met.

To apply for this position please read over the job description and person specification and return the application form and diversity form.

£22,847- £26,350 p/a – 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)

Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2022 – 35 hrs p/w (with some evening and weekend work)

Lambeth Civic Centre, with regular travel in and around the Lambeth Borough

Ref code: CFC-211

About St Giles and the Children & Families Service

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. 

For many families there are issues that precede a young person’s gang involvement. Personal circumstances typically involve poverty, unsuitable housing, separation, family conflict, domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health and imprisonment. Without the right support, families can become trapped in a cycle of homelessness, crime, unemployment and poverty that is passed on from generation to generation.

St Giles Trust solution to this stark reality is our & Families Service. The C&F team offer an intensive and holistic approach and our caseworkers help to unlock chaotic families’ potential, and empowering them to raise themselves out of poverty.

About this key role

You will be embedded into the team, with a ‘whole family’ approach in mind to help and support families in order to assess risk, ensuring all family members feel safe, mentoring young people who are involved in or at risk of gang and serious youth violence and offering holistic support to enable the family to achieve their potential and raise aspirations.

We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing our clients to apply for this role.

What we are looking for:

• Personal experience of the Criminal Justice System, and/or being involved in a gang or knife crime.
• Experience of working with socially excluded children, young people and adults
• Experience of providing advice and guidance and/or mentoring to young people
• Mentoring Level 3 qualification (or be willing to work towards this).
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and awareness of the issues faced by our client group, in particular barriers faced by people with lived in experience.

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

Successful candidates will have to undertake a DBS enhanced check. In addition, as the role involves working with young people, you will be expected to apply for a disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service before appointment is confirmed.

Closing date: 11pm, 3rd March 2021. Interviews: 10th March 2021 (Interviews will be held via video)

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

Please download and read the application pack and follow the instructions to apply. We will not accept CV's on their own for the post

Job description

We are looking for an experienced caseworker who can go the extra mile to help our residents. We work with secure tenants, leaseholders, private renters and people without secure tenancies living in temporary accommodation, of all ages and backgrounds. 

We pride ourselves on a service that welcomes everyone who has found their home on the Aylesbury estate.  You will be part of an established team of caseworkers, a family outreach worker and a benefits advisor who support over 150 households on the estate as it undergoes a full regeneration. 

Main Purpose of Job 

· To promote the wellbeing of residents i.e. residents in temporary accommodation, older persons, families and youths and to identify and respond to their support needs.

· To work effectively with partners and multi-agency networks to promote and provide effective support to residents.

· To ensure that people on the estate are informed about aspects of the regeneration programme and targeted assistance available to them.

· To provide casework support to residents affected by the regeneration and changes in legislation.

Please email your CV and supporting statement by mid-day on the 12th March 2021

Centre 70 is a successful charity, established in 1970. We offer a range of specialist advice, counselling, and wellbeing support to people in Lambeth and surrounding areas at our centre and at outreach locations (presently remote working). We have specialist Debt, Housing and Benefits projects and a dedicated Utilities Debt advice project. We also provide Student Finance and Grant Advice. We are foodbank voucher holders.

This is an exciting new post funded by Trust for London for a Housing Caseworker to provide a housing advice service including at outreach locations (when safe), promote awareness of legal rights and work with volunteers. The work will be varied and rewarding. We encourage flexible working including working from home. Presently only remote working. 

 The interviews, which will be conducted virtually over Microsoft TEAMS, are scheduled for 5 March 2021

Hours: 28 hr pw.

Overtime: Taken as time off in Lieu (TOIL)

Holidays: 28 days per annum excluding bank holidays (plus additional special days between Christmas and New Year and Friday before the August bank holiday). 1 additional day for every complete year of service up to a maximum of 33 days per annum

To apply go to  C70 website. No CVs

“Providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice”

Citizens Advice Southwark has a track record of delivering high-quality services from its offices in Peckham, Walworth and Bermondsey and outreach locations across Southwark and South East London. We sort out problems together, for good, by providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice across all areas of social welfare law, and through using the experience of our clients to bring about positive change through research and campaigns. 

We are looking for an experienced Generalist Advice Caseworker to deliver a high quality advice service. You will be required to work across our three offices in Southwark according to operational needs. The role includes providing advice to the public and undertaking casework on social welfare law issues.

To be successful you will need to have:

• Six months recent experience of providing Generalist Advice to the public
• An understanding of the advice needs and issues of the local community in a diverse, inner city area
• To understand, empathise with and be committed to the Service’s aims, principles and equal opportunities policies

Closing date: 9.00 am Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Interviews Tuesday 9th March 2021

For further information and an application pack please visit our website via the Apply button.

We offer a range of employee benefits, including generous annual leave, an employer matched pension contribution up to 10% salary, and training and development opportunities to continue your professional development.

Citizens Advice Southwark is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all applicants who meet the person specification irrespective of sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, age, or disability.

Funded by London Borough of Southwark.

“Providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice”

Citizens Advice Southwark has a track record of delivering high-quality services from its offices in Peckham, Bermondsey and Walworth and outreach locations across Southwark and South East London. We sort out problems together, for good, by providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice across all areas of social welfare law, and through using the experience of our clients to bring about positive change through research and campaigns. 

We are looking to recruit an experienced Money Advice Caseworker to provide technical support to the money advice team and assist clients with complex debt problems and advise on income maximisation.

The role includes to:

• Assist in providing and developing a high quality money advice service
• Undertake specialist level money advice casework
• Lead in ensuring financial capability is integrated into the debt advice process
• Provide technical support and development of Volunteers, Trainees & Advisors

To be successful you will need:

• Experience of providing support to junior colleagues to aid their development
• Significant recent experience as a money advice caseworker in a target driven environment
• Hold an accredited qualification in debt advice
• A commitment and understanding of the Service’s aims, principles and equal opportunities policies

Closing date: 9.00am Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Interviews: Monday 8th March

For further information and an application pack please visit our website via the Apply button.

We offer a range of employee benefits, including generous annual leave, an employer matched pension contribution up to 10% salary, and training and development opportunities to continue your professional development.

Citizens Advice Southwark is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all applicants who meet the person specification irrespective of sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, age, or disability.

Bank Peripatetic Support Assistant - Homelessness

East London

P/T or F/T: 12hrs - 37.5hrs per week

Are you looking for a role where you can play a part in making a difference, demonstrate your transferable skills and choose from a variety of working hours that suit your needs? If the answer is yes, then read on.

Whether you are looking to work days or weekends only, we may have something perfect for you.  We are seeking people to and fill a range of peripatetic roles in Hackney, Havering and Newham and join our East London homeless and accommodation services in providing support to Rough sleepers.

SHP (Single Homeless Project) is one of London’s leading homelessness prevention charities and a dynamic and growing organisation changing 8,000 lives every year across London - from supporting people in crisis, to helping them take the final steps towards independence and employment.

The services provide 24hr cover within a range of settings e.g. hotels, HMO’s and hostels. Therefore, full day cover is needed from Monday – Sunday, in order to ensure there are staff on site at all times to support clients. The role will allow you to experience a variety of different settings and gain many learning experiences to develop your knowledge and career in this field. 

You will take part in all aspects of the day to day running of the service and actively support the Caseworkers and Complex Needs Workers in working towards clients, living safe, healthy and independent lives. Your role will form a pivotal position within the services, as the Support Assistant is the point of contact for daily events.

You will either be working on a rota for a fixed period of time or floating around different services, when needed for either 1 or 2 days shift cover or longer.  In your role, you will be supported by managers and caseworkers during Mon-Fri normal working office hours and on-call managers outside of these hours.

To be successful you will have:

• The ability to understand and apply a quality customer focused service and a willingness to work in a way that empowers our clients
• The ability to engage and relate positively to people from a range of backgrounds and cultures
• The ability to calmly and effectively manage challenging or difficult situations
• An understanding of Health and Safety at work and the likely issues that could occur in a residential building

You will also need to be confident in lone working (for outside normal working hours) and taking the initiative, as well as using computers to record daily logs accurately.  Reliability and flexibility are also required for this role.

In return, you will receive a full induction and guidance. Additional training opportunities may also be offered, to further enhance your learning and ability to support clients with complex needs 

Closing date: 1st March 2021 (midnight)

Interviews to be held: During 8th - 12th March 2021

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.

SHP is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and are IIP Silver accredited. 

We are looking for an Advice Supervisor or experienced Adviser (caseworker) to join our team.  If you are passionate about supporting individuals and families in need, have a minimum of two years Adviser experience (Citizens Advice or equivalent accreditation), are a natural team leader, enjoy delivering training and are interested in joining a dedicated professional team we would love to hear from you.

You must be prepared to work flexibly, currently due to the Covid-19, work is home based until our Lambeth premises and outreach re-open.  Our offices have excellent public transport links and Mitcham also has a carpark.  We offer a friendly and welcoming work environment and can provide flexible work opportunities dependent on service demands. 

We’re looking for someone to join our team.

Based in Barking Learning Centre
(home based during COVID-19 restrictions)

Do you want to make a difference in your community? Are you compassionate? Can you communicate clearly? Do you have an eye for detail? If so, you may be just the right fit for our team.

Reconnections is a pilot led by Independent Age in Barking & Dagenham and Havering, supporting people to reduce their feelings of loneliness and reconnect to life. The service works with over 65’s for an average of six months, building their confidence, resilience and social networks.

As we are currently experiencing high caseloads we are expanding the team. We have a temporary opportunity for a service administrator, with a view to potentially expanding the role if high caseloads are maintained.

We are committed to safeguarding and this role will require DBS certificate. (we will fund an application if required)

Interviews will be held remotely via MS Teams on the 17th March. 

Please let us know in your application if you have any restrictions on your availability for interview.

To apply, please visit our website to upload a covering letter detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification, along with an up to date CV.

Victim Support is looking for a Triage Independent Victim Advocate, currently home working, to be office based in London.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

The purpose of this role is to provide high quality holistic support to all victims and witnesses of crime referred to Victim Support whether by the Police another agency or self-referred.

As a Triage IVA you will lead on contacting clients immediately after a crime has occurred, completing initial needs and risk assessments that are comprehensive and holistic. You will provide information of support services, and tools. You will provide immediate and short term intervention to clients. Where longer term support is required or facilitation through attending appointments with clients you will make an initial appointment with a caseworker internally or refer externally as appropriate.

There will be a particular focus on those that are the most vulnerable, including repeat victims and victims of high harm crime. You will be expected to provide practical and emotional support in a way that is approachable, flexible and caring, showing empathy at all times. As well as being tenacious in support of your clients and being able to solve problems and surmount the challenges posed by the criminal justice system. In all, you will be able to demonstrate resilience and flexibility in your approach to work, which will be assessed throughout.

VS are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans, and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as A. In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

Victim Support is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all communities and monitor the diversity of applicants to analyse if we are representative of the communities we serve in terms of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, age and socio-economic status. As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.

If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

“Providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice”

Citizens Advice Southwark has a track record of delivering high-quality services from its offices in Peckham and Bermondsey and outreach locations across Southwark and South East London. We sort out problems together, for good, by providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice across all areas of social welfare law, and through using the experience of our clients to bring about positive change through research and campaigns. 

Generalist Adviser – Covid-19 Financial Shield Project

When the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and other Covid-19 related protections for households eventually come to an end, there is expected to be a significant rise in financial difficulties and debt problems, especially amongst already vulnerable people and people with long term health conditions.

To help address this Citizens Advice Southwark is working with the local Primary Care Networks to create a healthcare pathway allowing general practice to identify local residents that would benefit from pro-active and targeted money advice and financial support.

To deliver this exciting new project we are looking for 2 FTE generalist advisers who will be based at our offices and at GP surgeries in Bermondsey and Peckham and will work closely with Social Prescribing Link Workers employed by South and North Southwark Primary Care Networks.

To undertake this role you will need:

• At least six months recent experience of providing Generalist Advice to the public including casework in welfare rights, housing and debt.
• Proven ability to interview clients using sensitive listening and questioning skills to get to the root of issues and empower clients in a non-judgmental way.
• An understanding of the financial challenges facing citizens, especially as a result of COVID.
• Ability to commit to and work within the aims and principles of Citizens Advice Southwark.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for this post.

Closing date: 9.00 am Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Interviews Tuesday 9th March 2021

For further information and an application pack please visit our website via the Apply button.

We offer a range of employee benefits, including generous annual leave, an employer matched pension contribution up to 10% salary, and training and development opportunities to continue your professional development.

Citizens Advice Southwark is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all applicants who meet the person specification irrespective of sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, age, or disability.

You’ve got a good understanding of mental health issues and really enjoy supporting others to achieve independence and lead their own recovery. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as a Recovery Worker.

Right now, our Supported Housing service in Southend is looking for someone like you to support the people who use our services to maintain their tenancy and independence in the community. Not only are we committed to putting them at the heart of everything we do, we recognise they should be involved in decisions that affect their future too. That’s why we need you to inspire and support them to lead their own recovery. So, whether it’s helping to come up with a personal support plan that will see them achieve their goals and aspirations, developing domestic and finance management skills or accessing work, leisure or educational opportunities, your empathy, enthusiasm and compassion will have every chance to shine. Entering accurate case notes onto our IT system will be important too. And, when it comes to regularly liaising with GP surgeries, the local council, charities etc. or promoting the service within the community, again, we'll count on you.

The chances are, you already work in the mental health field. What is for certain is that you’re caring, consistent, flexible and creative, work well under pressure, know how to connect with people at all levels and, like us, are keen to break down the stigma of mental health. Oh and you’re happy working independently or, as a valued member of our team, being part of a weekly rota system and providing sleep in cover. An understanding of drug and alcohol, county lines and anti social behaviour are important, along with the ability to partake in learning and development opportunities. You will need to have access to your own vehicle which you are willing to use for business purposes and a willingness to travel in and around the Suffolk area. Mileage expenses are paid on a biweekly basis.

This is for 2 permanent role's, requiring the post-holders to each work 37.5 hours per week.

The post holders will be required to work shifts within a 7 day rolling rota, including between 1‐2 night sleep in shifts per week.

The salary for this post is £17,354.00 per annum, inclusive of £350.00 Location Allowance per annum.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.

Closing Date for applications is 11:59pm on 10th March 2021 (We reserve the right to close vacancies before the specified closing date, should a large number of applications be received).

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 everyone 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.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the exciting, challenging and diverse boroughs of the City of London, Hackney and Waltham Forest within the charity sector, the post holder will be responsible for providing sessional counselling and or therapeutic group facilitation within one of MindCHWF’s psychological therapy services. The post holder will be a qualified clinician with a minimum of 500 clinical hours completed. They will be accredited with BACP, UKCP or HCPC with additional training and experience facilitating psychosocial group interventions and be confident working in a trauma-informed way with:

– clients who have a range of social and psychological support needs which range in complexity

– clients who are frontline health and social care workers

– In addition, they may have:

– Qualification in and experience delivering clinical supervision

– Experience/training/ knowledge of facilitating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, DBT, Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions protocol, Single Session Therapy (SST), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Mindfulness

– Lived experience as part of a demographic that experiences health inequalities

The post holder may offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and governance procedures.

Working on the front line of mental health and social care, the post holder will provide a psychologically safe environment for clients. They will work to demonstrate the value and outcomes of these services to bring about meaningful psycho-social change. The post requires self-sufficient administration in line with contract protocols, ability to manage intensive caseloads, collect and administrate outcome measures and a commitment to delivering good clinical outcomes.

Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest has a long-standing and well-established engagement with local and diverse communities and is committed to offer support and respect to anyone facing a mental health problem. The organisation offers opportunities for learning and development and supports a collaborative working environment.

Due to the organisation being within the charity sector, we regularly respond to and adapt services based on emerging need. This is an ideal post for a highly skilled therapist who is self-motivated, organised, flexible and interested to support service development alongside delivery.

After successful interview and subject to DBS and references, we will contact bank sessional workers for any short-term work that becomes available.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage applications from those from ethnic minority backgrounds or other underrepresented backgrounds.

We are a disability confident employer. All applicants with a disability, who meet the minimum essential short-listing criteria are guaranteed an interview. If this applies to you, please ensure you complete the equal opportunities section of the application form.

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