We are a small community based charity recruiting a CEO who is passionate about enabling disabled people to reach their potential. They will join a team of 20 skilled staff, as well as a committed Board of Trustees.

As the CEO you will lead on the development of our strategy, with the priority of promoting the Organisation and finding new opportunities and funding for our work.

Although a background working for organisations that support disabled people would be an advantage, we also value experience gained in other areas of the health and social care, charitable or third sector.

You will work collaboratively with the existing senior management team.  You will have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build partnerships and networks and inspire others to support our work.  You will show us that you are assertive and able to operate in what can be a challenging funding environment.

Kingsley Organisation began its life in 1987.  We are a charitable company providing person-centred day opportunities for disabled adults.  Through our ‘Chainreaction’ service we aim to provide individuals with a choice of activities that improve health and wellbeing and allow them work towards their personal goals.  We are passionate about inclusion and value therapeutic approaches, including group work.   

We base our disability services in community settings and the Organisation’s head office Kingsley Centre is an established venue, operating for over 30 years.  With a shop and Post Office and hosting a variety of community and leisure activities, we are also able to offer supported volunteering and training in employability skills. 

We also provide our Chainreaction service in north London and are currently based in a community centre in Islington          4 days a week.

Closing date for applications 11pm on Tuesday 7th June.  Interviews will be held the week beginning 20th June. 

We are seeking an exceptional candidate with experience of events planning, logistics and administration in an environment where excellent communications skills, discretion and a calm approach are essential.

A natural problem solver, you will help define our full year activities plan for the children we support including residential respite and educational breaks, memory making days and online workshops.  For each activity you will select and invite attendees, liaise with referrers and families, plan pick up/drop off locations and minibus routes and coordinate all aspects of pre-event planning.

About the role

The Children’s Events Planner is critical to the success of Honeypot breaks and activities.  Under the direction of the Operations Manager, you will coordinate all planning and logistics for our busy programme of children’s breaks and activities.  As the ‘hub of the wheel’ you will work closely with referring organisations, families, our Children’s Services Leaders, minibus drivers and others, proactively identifying and mitigating potential bumps in the road to ensure the smooth and safe delivery of each event.

Beyond individual events you will identify and build relationships with new referring organisations and be a trusted partner to those who have worked with Honeypot for many years.  You will also oversee our referrals process, providing guidance to potential referrers and ensuring new referrals are allocated and processed in a timely fashion, consistent with our eligibility criteria.

You will ensure our commitment to safeguarding vulnerable children and family members is upheld and be proactive in identifying and implementing improvements to optimise service value and effectiveness.  A ‘can do’ attitude and flexible approach are essential.

Key skills:

• Empathy, ability to manage sensitive conversations and maintain confidentiality.
• Strong professional judgement, ability to problem solve independently in situations where safeguarding is our overriding concern and time may be short.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; excellent attention to detail, accuracy.
• Ability to respond to changing or unforeseen circumstances in a calm and effective way.

Key tasks:

• Advise potential referrers on eligibility and procedures.  Ensure new referrals are processed and onboarded in a timely fashion, in partnership with Children’s Services Leaders, referrers and families.
• Plan breaks and activities schedule for rolling 6-12 months ahead, ensuring best and most consistent coverage of service for approx. 1,000 children across 10 counties.
• Manage all aspects of logistics associated with breaks and activities – where, when, who, how?  Book children onto breaks and liaise with referrers and parents regarding dates, travel arrangements etc.
• Manage consent process and associated online forms, ensuring all necessary information pertaining to children is available in good time before an event.
• Prepare break packs for staff containing all relevant information.
• Plan efficient and viable routes and timings for minibus pickup and drop offs, ensuring drivers are advised clearly and in good time.
• Ensure all breaks are fully populated to make full use of available capacity, backfilling late withdrawals.
• Coordinate the distribution and collation of feedback and evaluation surveys.
• Seek new opportunities to provide high value, memorable experiences for Honeypot children, for example through the identification and research of potential memory making days out.
• Manage our online workshop programme, ensuring events are scheduled, defined and communicated to families in good time.
• Manage database, promote excellence in data quality, optimise value of management information through reporting and analysis tools.
• Be committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children.
• Alongside the Children’s Services Administrator, be the public face of Honeypot House for telephone and face to face enquiries.
• As a key member of the Honeypot House team, continually seek opportunities to enhance the children’s Honeypot experience through site care and development.

Part-time 21 hrs p/w with the potential for full-time subject to funding

Fixed term contract for 1 year

Camberwell, London SE5

Ref: CFM-222

Are you a compassionate, collaborative and influential individual with a proven record of working with socially excluded young people and adults?  Looking for an exciting and rewarding new career opportunity?

If so, join St Giles Trust as Children and Families Service Manager, where you will provide a high-level service and management support for London-based children and families projects as well as managing a team of SOS Gangs and Family Gangs Workers.  You will also have a national and organisational remit, which will offer professional, expert advice, information and support on children and family issues across all St Giles Trust’s client services.

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. 

About this vital role

Our successful candidate will lead on Children and Families Services across the organisation, which will include planning and providing advice, support and training to team members and attached volunteers in the form of team meetings, regular supervision meetings and daily contact.  You will also manage a team of front-line caseworkers and senior caseworkers and services as assigned, plus support and contribute to funding bids, strategic planning and development meetings and promotional activities.

We will count on you to ensure that monthly and quarterly reports are prepared and provided to contract managers and funders, while monthly performance data reports, narrative reports and risk registers are sent to the SMT.  Ensuring that referred clients are assessed with reference to St Giles Trust practices and that staff produce support and risk management plans based on these assessments is a key duty, as is developing and maintaining strong relationships with referral agencies.

What we are looking for

• Extensive supervisory experience in a social care and/or criminal justice setting
• The ability to provide support, supervision and coaching to staff
• Experience of casework or casework supervision, particularly disadvantaged families with complex needs, families or young people affected by gang and county lines activity or victims of serious youth violence
• Significant experience of managing teams who are geographically spread with multiple partnerships
• Strong interpersonal, negotiating and project management abilities
• Experience of setting up and operating systems to monitor and report on work with clients

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, childcare vouchers, season ticket loan and much more.

Closing date: 11pm, Sunday 5th June 2022. Interviews: Wednesday 8th June 2022.

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

For further information, or to apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button. 

As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will be DBS Checked.

The Charity is going through an exciting period of growth having recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility for multi-disciplinary therapy programmes for childhood disability and research of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, within the grounds of Keele University. This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast moving Charity at a time when it will attract national and international attention. 

As Head of Volunteer Development you will lead the Volunteer Team to influence and shape the volunteering strategic plan for all departments. You will build our volunteer resource through innovative opportunities and deepening our community connections. The role will be instrumental in developing the profile of volunteers throughout the Charity.

You will monitor, challenge and evolve the training and support offered to volunteers to establish a culture of continual improvement and a focus on the increasing capability of the volunteer team. You will be focussed on attracting high quality, skilled individuals to volunteer roles within the Charity that align with our requirements.

High level relationship skills are critical to this role, partnering with senior managers, line managers and other stakeholders. You will create innovative new recruitment partnerships and build relationships with medical and non-medical voluntary organisations to promote volunteering opportunities across the organisation.

You must have solid experience of leading and growing a volunteering function in an active fundraising environment, with the fundraising team as key stakeholders.  You will have expertise in using data and analytics to evaluate and demonstrate the value that volunteering brings.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement an effective Volunteer Strategy and Volunteer Journey with accompanying Action Plan to recruit and retain volunteers with the right skills at the right time to match the needs of the organisation
• Along with the Volunteer Engagement Manager, oversee the on-boarding and training programme, continually evolving and adapting
• Be integral to the development of new funding opportunities and the submission of tenders from a volunteer perspective
• Interact at Board level, including monthly presentations at the Executive Board Meeting highlighting progress against the Volunteer Strategy
• Promote and market Caudwell Children volunteer opportunities nationally, reaching wider audiences, demonstrating the use of different marketing media
• Monitor and evaluate all aspects of volunteer activity to ensure effectiveness
• Lead and inspire a positive culture of volunteering
• Establish a cohesive infrastructure of motivated volunteers
• Oversee the continuous evaluation of the programmes and services delivered by the Charity and provide volunteers with the skills required as necessary
• Liaise with Department to establish volunteer support requirements
• Increase volunteer diversity to meet strategy targets
• Attend nationwide volunteer recruitment events throughout the UK, particularly in Staffordshire and Cheshire
• Comply with safer recruitment policies ensuring all volunteers are referenced and DBS checked
• Ensure the volunteer journey is implemented with additional incentive features and programmes added
• Deal with any complaints or issues involving volunteers in the appropriate manner and take action where necessary
• Oversee the development and implementation of volunteer policies, procedures and standards of volunteer service across the organisation ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
• Ensure the Volunteer Department is compliant with ISO requirements. 
• Ensure that all volunteer services are delivered successfully and within agreed budgets and strategy. 
• Manage the maintenance of accurate and up to date volunteer records.
• Produce regular reports on volunteer activity and participation.
• Manage, supervise and mentor the Volunteer Team.
• Maintain the current corporate volunteer opportunities available to local and national organisations
• Work alongside organisations to increase corporate volunteering and match funded opportunities
• Maintain the current placement offer for student volunteers recognising the contribution to a sustainable volunteer strategy

Location: The succesful applicant can reside in any of the following areas :

Shropshire incl. Telford & Shrewsbury,West Midlands (Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley),Wrexham

Chester,Manchester,Liverpool,Bolton,Gloucester,Worcester,Bristol,Wales – in its entirety!

Travel, mileage allowance is calculated from theresidential SEAL break Pen Y Bryn, Newtown. Wales.

The SEAL Residential break is residential for (3days / 4 nights). Alternate weeks, working weekdays ( Monday to Thursday or Tuesday to Friday).

In person, face to face introductions with the school take place prior to the break and on completion of the break, follow up visits are required with the school (travel allowance paid).

Overnight additional payments to basic salary, £55 per overnight residential stays.

Role and responsibilities

We seek an exceptional candidate with previous teaching (Teaching Assistant or Teacher status),or child development experience, who is proactive, energetic, and passionate about supporting young carers and vulnerable children, with a programme of Social Emotional Active Learning during residential breaks to enable them to cope with anxiety, confidence, and learning.

As the SEAL Leader you be an integral part of our exceptional team with the responsibility of contacting schools / referring agents in the locality (within 150 miles) to promote our SEAL services, build a programme with the school / referring agent to support the identified children prior to the residential break and for 4-6 weeks after the residential.  You will identify, plan and deliver our services to a wide range of schools and communities to ensure identified children can access the unique services provided by Honeypot and are signposted to other skilled partners, as required.

Key Responsibilities

Contact schools within the locality

Promote the SEAL services offered by Honeypot

Discuss and plan with schools / referring agents a comprehensive residential break to meet pre agreed outcomes.

Set days with the Operations Manager to accommodate the SEAL break

A full job description and responsibilities is availble ( see forms)

Please visit our website for more information about our services

Fundraiser Job Advert

Part time: 21 hours 

Annual leave: 25 days pro rata plus bank holidays

Benefits: Contributory pension scheme and Employee Assistance Programme

Location: Hybrid (1 day per week from office/2 days remote working)

This is a new role for HF Mencap, reflecting the charity’s desire to further diversify our income.

You will be responsible for building our fundraising capacity at a crucial time for the organisation and supporting our fundraising strategy and plans.

This is a perfect position for someone with strengths in funding applications, bid writing and cultivating individual donors who is keen to develop their wider fundraising and development skills and gain “all rounder” experience in the charitable sector with hands on opportunities to inform strategy, develop relationships and support the growth of the charity.

The right candidate will help us engage with new and existing audiences, spreading the word about the amazing work we do and inspiring people to get involved. You’ll have a good knowledge of event planning and be prepared to network and get out into the community to attract new support.

The fundraiser's responsibilities would primarily be to identify and complete trust funding applications to trust funders as well as complete tenders and contracts but would also include developing fundraising programs/products, recruiting individual and corporate sponsors and volunteers, and encouraging support through promotional activities and events.

Interviews to be held the week of the 27th of June

Following awards from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Welsh Council for Voluntary Action, the Archdiocese of Cardiff is looking to appoint a full-time Parish & Digital Fundraising Officer.

The Parish & Digital Fundraising Officer will develop and implement systems to improve levels of charitable giving across the diocese. The postholder will be responsible for managing the administration and processes involved in parish fundraising activity (esp. regular / planned giving). The role will also promote digital fundraising including contactless giving and online donations.

Specific duties will include:

• Implementing the introduction of planned giving drives across the diocese to enable parishes to organise and support regular giving.
• Advising and training parish officers and volunteers in the effective management of all aspects of stewardship and financial sustainability.
• Helping build, manage and maintain a pipeline of planned giving drives (20 to 25 parishes in the first year).
• Overseeing rollout of contactless giving devices across the diocese, keeping up to date with advances in the area of digital giving
• Encouraging parishes to take up contactless giving devices and monitoring parish performance.

This post is advertised initially on a 12-month fixed-term basis with the possibility of extension.

Salary £30,000 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Cardiff / hybrid working
Line Manager: Development Manager

The incoming Director of Safety4Sisters will provide strategic direction, be a motivating and inclusive leader, and effectively campaign for policy change at a local, regional and national level. This is an exciting time to lead our small but committed and dynamic organisation and to take overall responsibility of the management of the charity, with full support from the senior management team and trustee board.

In the last few years, Safety4Sisters have experienced rapid growth and diversification of our services, as well as achieving charitable status. We are currently looking at our strategic priorities and our organisational structure to ensure that we are able to meet the needs of the women and children that we support, as well as campaign for their rights, for as long as we’re needed. The incoming Director will have a key role to play in navigating this next phase of our work by building a long-term vision for S4S – as well as putting it into action.

We think it is crucially important that our staff team reflects the diversity of the women that we support. In our recruitment to this role we are therefore actively prioritising women who are from racialised and minoritised communities and/or who have lived experience of going through the UK immigration system.

Age International is Age UK's international charity, supporting older people and fighting ageism around the world. Our work makes a real, tangible difference to the lives of older people living in the world's poorest places, helping them access better health and care, delivering life-saving aid in emergencies and working to ensure older people have a secure income.

Age International are expanding their team due to rapid growth and are recruiting for 2 Senior Direct Marketing Executives - Loyalty to join their proactive and driven team. With an ambitious plan to grow our income from Individual Giving, it's an exciting time to be joining the charity. In this role you will implement and manage projects across the Age International Individual Giving programme to develop and retain supporters with the aim of maximising the value of our relationships with individual supporters.

Initially, the role will focus on our supporter retention programme but offers excellent development opportunities across a range of exciting projects. With an eye for detail and excellent project management skills you'll be a team player, who isn't afraid to get stuck in to deliver our on collective objectives.

All applications must be supported by a full cover letter, highlighting your relevant experience, transferrable skills and why you wish to work for Age International.

We encourage an early application as we will be shortlisting/interviewing throughout the advertising period.

This is an exciting time to join Age International in one of our two posts that we are adding to the Loyalty team!

You will have:

• Proven successful experience in a direct marketing role
• Delivered and managed effective direct marketing campaigns
• Worked across multiple direct marketing channels, including digital and print
• Experience of preparing, re-forecasting and successfully meeting budget targets
• Proficiency in the use of MS Office applications, particularly Excel and Word
• Experience of managing internal and external stakeholders through various processes, including sign off
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to write compelling direct marketing copy
• Project management, numerical and analytical skills (ideally digital analytical skills)

What we offer in return:

* Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme.
* Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Heka Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Communications Officer
£27,000 to £30,000, 8% pension, generous annual leave and life insurance 
Full-time, permanent 
Location: London Bridge and flexible home working 

In this rewarding and varied role, help us to communicate the need for better, greener, fairer transport through the media, social media, supporter communications and more. 

As the country's leading transport charity, Campaign for Better Transport regularly features in national print and broadcast media, yet our small size gives you the chance to work on an exciting range of communications work with a strong campaigning focus.   

We are looking for a creative and effective communicator with excellent writing skills, able to turn complex information into compelling news, PR coverage and social media content. You will have a good understanding of the media and experience of delivering communications across a range of channels.

Key responsibilities include:

• Writing press releases and responding to media enquiries 
• Creating and posting content for the website and social media 
• Writing to our supporters and responding to messages via email and social media 
• Providing communications support for campaigns 

An ambitious and proactive Communications professional is required to support our exciting programme of growth over the next few years so that we can support more vulnerable families to give their children the best start in life. We’re looking for someone to help us build our social profile and create engaging content that tells the story of our work, help demonstrates our impact and engages with a wide audience.

This is a multifaceted role, which requires the post holder to take a central position within our organisation. They will play a key role in the development and implementation of our communications strategy to raise awareness of Home-Start Barnet and our services with a wide range of stakeholders.

We envisage the role being split mainly between social media (70%), marketing materials (20%) and website (10%).

Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Policy and Advocacy, the role will be responsible for developing and delivering high-impact parliamentary engagement and campaigns, building and holding relationships with those with political influence, and advising senior staff on political affairs.

The role will also involve working closely with coalitions and INGOs including BOND, GADN and GAPS to coordinate for greatest impact. It will involve being part of CARE’s work with Helen Pankhurst (Great Granddaughter of Emmeline) to host an annual event on International women’s day #March4Women that engages thousands of UK public in support of women’s rights.

In working to address women’s rights this role will be responsible for representing organisational values of anti-racism and feminism. In addition, CARE seeks to work in ways that reflect understanding of intersectionality, and the interconnected nature of race, class, and gender and how societies perceptions of those classifications can create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Duties will include:

• Work with the Head of Team to develop CARE International UK’s parliamentary and government strategy to achieve policy and advocacy objectives, with a particular focus on retaining UK government as a champion for gender equality and supporting aid commitments for women and girl’s development and emergency programming.
• Identify opportunities to support delivery of CARE International UK’s advocacy priorities in Westminster, devolved governments and with UK stakeholders as identified.
• Write briefings, parliamentary submissions, or letters as relevant and deliver parliamentary engagement events and activities on CARE International UK advocacy priorities working closely with policy colleagues to further campaign objectives for women and girls worldwide.
• Work with teams across CARE (Including Comms and Supporter Engagement) to ensure a coordinated approach to UK campaigns that engage the public with UK Parliament or Government.
• Track impact as part of CARE’s systems for monitoring and evaluating engagement in Parliament.
• Actively build and maintain relationships with parliamentarians, researchers and other political contacts including other UK public bodies as relevant.
• Build effective advocacy relationships with other civil society organisations, politically influential organisations and networks, and represent CARE International UK in coalitions, as appropriate.
• Keep abreast of latest political developments and parliamentary activity to inform advocacy strategies.

Why work for us?

At CARE International UK we are passionate about fighting poverty and injustice, particularly focusing on the role and importance of working with women and girls. The UK has a long history as a committed leader on gender equality and a champion for women’s and girls’ rights, but over the last two years, policy decisions by the UK government risk undermining significant achievements and the UK’s leadership on development, humanitarian response and gender equality. Can you help us ensure our priorities are heard and supported in government and parliament?

As a development and humanitarian agency with programmes and partnerships in over 100 countries worldwide CARE brings its experience of working in crises like Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, DRC, Afghanistan to policy-makers to inform decisions. Can you help us ensure the evidence and insight from CARE programmes and partners on the ground informs UK government international development strategies and emergency response? For example evidence shows that COVID-19 has had a significant impact on gender equality and women’s rights, and when intersecting with other crises, like climate change and conflict, risks rolling back hard-earned gains by a generation. Our campaigning and influencing work focuses on the importance of effective investments in women and girls and addressing gender inequality to ensure it remains a priority for the UK government.

Some of the areas that this role will focus on in the coming year include:

• the UK governments new International Development Strategy and how it will deliver on the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) on overseas aid and focus on helping the world’s poorest people and how it will use UK aid and global leadership to make progress on the biggest challenges facing the world, such as gender inequality, climate change and humanitarian crisis.
• The UK government’s FCDO-wide Women and Girls Strategy, how it addresses the economic and structural barriers to gender inequality and how it includes an intersectional approach that includes an understanding of the needs faced by women and girls facing intersecting inequalities.
• The government’s focus on preventing sexual violence in conflict, the proposal for a summit and a convention that supports progress on the issue and how this is integrated with wider strategies on prevention of violence against women and girls more broadly.
• Informing and influencing accountability at key parliamentary and government moments like autumn and other budget announcements, G7 meetings, PSVI Conference, Party conferences, donor conferences.
• And coordinating with the sector to participate in or lead at public campaigning moments, including #March4Women; #Wednesday4Women; Wave of Hope; Great Big Green Week; 16 Days of Activism on GBV.

We are seeking a Government & Parliamentary Officer that can work with the team and our INGO colleagues to engagement government and parliament as part of a joint strategy to carry out this important work. This is a critical role that offers someone with knowledge and get up and go the chance to really shape policy debates and ultimately impact the lives of many thousands of people. If this sounds really exciting to you then we can’t wait to hear from you!

About you

The Government and Parliamentary Officer will have a strong understanding of UK Parliament and current parliamentarians and experience of the best strategies to influence and engage key stakeholders. You will understand political parties and how they play out in Westminster. You will understand the best ways to communicate the work of a humanitarian and development organisation with a focus on women and girls and how to work in collaboration across the sector to influence global summits and legislative processes.

Ideally you will have experience working in cross-organisational campaigns to deliver a shared influencing goal. You will relish the opportunity to work with a team of passionate and expert colleagues both in the advocacy and policy team and across CARE’s communication and supporter engagement teams.

Please Note that there are 2 contract types being offered : one permanent and the other 2-3 months Fixed Term contract

About CARE

CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places.  We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

CARE International UK is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to dismantling harmful and oppressive structures of power and accordingly centre gender equity in our work to save lives, fight poverty and achieve social justice. The post holder agrees to promote and uphold these principles.

CARE International UK operates fair, transparent and non-discriminatory recruitment practices and actively encourages applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from candidates from Black and minoritised communities, LGBT+ candidates and disabled candidates.

CARE International UK is a disability confident employer. As part of our commitment to disability inclusion we guarantee interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the relevant section in the online application form. If at any stage of the recruitment process you require reasonable adjustments, including a copy of the recruitment pack in large print or an alternative format, please contact HR team

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in CARE International UK includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

To Apply:

To apply, please click on the apply button to be redirected to our career page. Also, download and read the Government and Parliamentary Officer Candidate Brief, which includes the Job Description and Person Specification. Applications are completed online. If you require a copy of the recruitment pack in large print or an alternative format, please contact HR team Please note, Curriculum Vitae’s (CVs) will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: 23:59 Sunday 5 June 2022

Interview date: W/C Monday 6 June 2022

Oswestry Community Action, otherwise known as Qube, is a registered charity based in Oswestry, Shropshire.  Qube aim is to keep people engaged in their community, promote good health and well-being and reduce loneliness and isolation. 

The ethos of Qube is access to services for everyone.  Our services have been developed over time in response to local need such as rural poverty, isolation and lack of opportunities.  The majority of Qube’s services are aimed at those who are disadvantaged which includes disability, health including mental health, unemployment and rural poverty and isolation.

Qube’s main services are:

• Community Transport
• Creativity and Health
• Volunteering and Community Development
• Health and Well-being
• Social Prescribing

Social prescribing is a non-medical ‘prescription’ which supports people to make positive changes to their lives. This post will support voluntary and community groups across north Shropshire, to become more involved with social prescribing.  This will involve working closely with the Voluntary sector and Health/Public sectors to provide information and advice, networking opportunities and the development of services where gaps are identified.

The successful applicant will have experience of working within the voluntary sector and a good knowledge of voluntary sector structures, policies and procedures. 

This is a 2 year fixed term contract with the option for a further year dependant on funding

There is some degree of flexibility regarding the delivery of the 35 hours, and we would accept the following;

• 1x Therapist working 35 hours per week, or
• Therapists working a minimum of 14 hours per week

Job Summary.

To work as a member of Gaddum Therapeutic Services which includes Counsellors, Social Workers, Art Therapists, and Play Therapists. Your case load will be predominantly CYP who have experienced a bereavement of a significant person in their life.

Job Purpose.

To provide therapeutic support to CYP who have become stuck in their grieving process following the bereavement of a significant person. This will include one to one work and occasional group work which will usually take place at the child’s school, community venue or remotely via telephone or online video.

To offer advice and guidance to professionals and carers who contact us following a child’s complex bereavement. Effective working relationships with parents, carers and other professionals will be a crucial element of the role.