We are recruiting for a Children & Young People’s Youth/Play Worker to provide age appropriate positive activities for children and young people across Greater Manchester. This project is funded by Children in Need (CIN) and enables us to deliver group work to children and young people to engage with their peers, to get out of a difficult home situation and support them to build a positive peer support network.

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a dynamic, leading relationships charity based in Greater Manchester. 
 

The role

In this role you will develop and organise the delivery of peer support and positive activities for children and young people who may have witnessed/experienced domestic abuse. 

About you

You wil be confident in delivering group work, assessing and managing group dynamics with children and young people. You  will be creative and imaginative in your approach and have experience in gaining young people’s trust. You’ll have an understanding of the impact of domestic abuse and be passionate about supporting children and young people. You will also have comprehensive safeguarding and child protection knowledge. Above all you’ll bring a positive, solution focused attitude.

About us

Funding secured will enable TLC: Talk, Listen Change to grow our work with perpetrators of domestic abuse, their partners, and families. Over the coming twelve months, we are expanding existing programmes and developing several new ones, reaching considerably more people than we ever have before, and pioneering new approaches in this crucial area of work. This is a pivotal time for TLC: Talk Listen Change and we are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, engaged and highly motivated people to join our rapidly expanding team.

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest pool, reflecting the diverse range of people we support.

Location

We value the importance of flexible working. Our services are a hybrid of online and in person delivery and therefore this role will include travelling to locations primarily in Stockport and Wigan to deliver face to face sessions, although there may also be a requirement to deliver sessions across Greater Manchester. This role can be home based or in our office, Trafford House, Chester Road Manchester, M32 0RS. If home based there will be a requirement to travel to the office for training and meetings. We also value the importance of human connection so offer the flexibility to book working space in Trafford House. As in person external meetings and events return there will also be a requirement to travel across Greater Manchester and sometimes wider. 

We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact us. 

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Please note: we will be shortlisting applications on an on-going basis so we encourage applicants not to wait until the closing date to submit an application where possible.

30 hours-4 days but flexible working available

NJC Scale 7 £20,444 (Actual salary £16,576)

3 years fixed term, extension subject to funding

Home-Start Manchester is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under 5 years of age. Volunteers offer regular support, friendship and practical help to families under stress in their own homes helping to prevent family crisis and breakdown. 

We are looking for a Family Support Worker to complement the work of our volunteers, working directly with children and their families in their own homes and surrounding community in order to promote, strengthen and develop their potential. Experience of working with families with poor mental health and knowledge of the early parent-infant relationship is desirable, as well as a good knowledge of children’s development needs in the early years and the effect the Covid Pandemic has had on families and children. An understanding of trauma informed practice is also desirable.

The Family Support Worker will work in close partnership with other professional to collectively meet families’ needs. Parenting and/or experience of working with children and families, a minimum Level 3 or equivalent in Early Years/ Health and Social Care, and I.T proficiency are essential requirements for this post.  

Weekly hours can be worked flexibly, both in the office and at home, whilst meeting the need of the service. The role will require travel across all Manchester communities. It is desirable that applicants have use of their own car, for which expenses are paid. A DBS (Enhanced Level) will be required.

Closing date: 6th June 2022 at 12pm. Interview date: 16th June 2022 (venue TBC)

Please note we do not accept CVs. Please complete the application pack.

Home-Start Manchester is committed to safe recruitment practice as an important part of safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults.

Home-Start Manchester is fully committed to creating and sustaining a fully inclusive workforce culture. We support flexible working. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, and we particularly welcome applicants who are currently under represented in our workforce.  This includes but is not limited to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and disabled candidates.

Charity No: 1105353 Company No: 5183477

Housing Worker:

You will be part of the team of Housing Workers who are responsible for income collection across our refuges and dispersed properties and for ensuring financial resilience and promoting economic independence amongst service users. You will be one of the organisation’s champions on Welfare Benefits and personal debt advisers, providing support to both service users and staff. You will develop effective partnerships with relevant local authorities and other agencies to facilitate the best service for residents. You will advocate for residents and support them regarding their housing status and benefit applications whilst also managing their tenancy compliance.

This role has been assessed and confirmed as open to women only under the Equality Act of 2010, schedule 9, part 1

Hours of work: 35 hours per week

Salary: £19,178.73 per annum

Duration: Permanent (subject to funding)

To Apply: Application packs can be downloaded from our website or a copy obtained by emailing or info email. Application Forms should be returned to our info email you can also contact us by telephone.

Deadline for application: 13th June 2022

Interviews will take place on 20th June 2022

About You:

You will be a pro-active, reliable individual who reflects the values of PTMWA in all that you do. Your experiences, whether in paid or voluntary work, will enable you to fulfil the role requirements but it is your attitude and character that will make you a successful team member.

You will enjoy a challenge and actively participate in delivering and developing services of the highest standard.

About us:

PTMWA is a women-led organisation whose vision is to ensure that people, suffering, or at risk of domestic abuse receive appropriate support. We assist recovery by providing safe accommodation, specialist support services and by working in partnerships with other agencies. We also run the only museum dedicated to telling the story of women’s fight for the right to vote at out Pankhurst Centre headquarters.

We are a diverse organisation with c27% of our staff identify as BAME, 23% as LGBT+. We span the generations with c29% of staff being aged 18-24 and c10% aged 55-64 and c11% identify as having a disability.

Our staff, volunteers and service users have taken time to reflect on who we are and what we do when we are at our best. This reflection showed that we can proudly claim to be:

Courageous by challenging inequality, stepping forward and making change

Affirming by supporting and inspiring, paying attention to discover what matters

Generous by sharing our skills, creating energetic positive links, and thriving together

Rooted by being secure in our communities, participating and nurturing a sense of belonging

The post-holder will work with patients to plan the support they need to be discharged home; to support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to respond to the needs of people returning home from hospital; and to raise awareness of the wide range of assets available in the VCSE sector that enable people to self–care or provide short-term support.

The Home First Support Worker will use a person-centred approach to support individuals preparing for discharge or recently discharged from Salford Royal Hospital who have been identified as needing additional support within their home and community. The post-holder will work with individuals and families as part of a Home First Community Hub multi-disciplinary team, as well as within the Salford CVS team.

The Home First Support Worker will build strong working relationships across the Home First multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and raise awareness of the wide range of activities and services available in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) within the Home First Hub as well as the wider Salford Royal Hospital staff team. The post-holder will work pro-actively in partnership with a range of statutory and VCSE colleagues in the Home First MDT to ensure that the needs of individual patients are addressed wherever possible.

The Home First Support Worker will also work with the wider CVS team to map current community provision of activities or services (Age UK Salford, Helping Hands, and the Carers Service, for example) offering support for people to return home and become re-engaged within their community. They will also support a range of VCSE groups / organisations to develop services and activities that meet the needs of individuals.

The Home First Support Worker will be aligned to Salford’s flagship Wellbeing Matters programme, a partnership between Salford CVS and Salford Third Sector Consortium, and draw on existing knowledge from within the Community Connector and Development staff teams from the programme, working closely with that wider team at all times.

If you would like an informal chat about the role prior to applying, please contact Bruce Poole

Implementation Lead - British Transport Police representing The Children's Society.

2 Vacancies available, one role is for 37 hours per week and the other is 25 hours per week.

Flexible working hours: 8-4, 9-5, 10-6 or in between (to be agreed with your manager).

Contract until 31st March 2023, permanent pending funding

Family-friendly policies: Including enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave.

Free confidential counselling service: Available to all staff and volunteers

For a number of years, The Children’s Society have and continue to deliver a range of national and regional child exploitation programmes. The British Transport Police project is now entering it’s third year, having received further funding continue to work towards our goal of collaboratively preventing Child Exploitation and Abuse across England and Wales.

As an organisation, we work in collaboration with a range of professionals and this role will include working closely with the police as well as social workers and a range of charities. You will also work with ‘non-traditional’ partners like train drivers, retail staff and other businesses to coordinate work encouraging them to take a more active role in preventing exploitation across the country.

This programme focuses on collaborative learning using a variety of delivery approaches including facilitation, training, creating resources, leading working groups, leading reflective practice and providing safeguarding and best practice advice and guidance. All these approaches are utilised to encourage partners to ensure every child exploitation victim is recognised and supported, including those committing crime as part of their exploitation.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

The Implementation Lead will join this team and work alongside another TCS British Transport Police Senior Practitioner, working nationally to expand and develop our exploitation work within BTP.

The BTP County Lines Task Force known as Operation Defiant has been funded by the Home Office since 2019 and has taken a proactive approach to tackling County Lines. The Task Force is made up of specialist officers and analysts who develop operations and intelligence to specifically target Organised Crime Groups involved in County Lines Drug Dealing and to identify and safeguard vulnerable children and adults who may be criminally exploited through this model.

As part of BTP’s commitment to understanding the exploitation that underpins County Lines criminality and improving the forces response to safeguarding children at risk, the taskforce also has a multi-disciplinary safeguarding team that you will be part of. This includes a senior Subject Matter Expert in Child Exploitation with a background in leading social care and probation services and our own Implementation Lead roles which bring a child-focused charity sector perspective into the team.

You will work both operationally; supporting officers to safeguard suspected exploitation victims in live safeguarding cases and upskilling train staff and other businesses to identify and report exploitation concerns and strategically; to influence organisational change through coordinating British Transport Police activity (such as County Lines Intensification Week’s safeguarding activity in connection with the Prevention programme’s #LookCloser campaign), capturing learning and developing good practice.

The unique Implementation Lead roles means you’ll be working collaboratively across two teams and organisations with the exciting opportunity to learn from, share insight and create real impact across both and wider organisations.  This role is integral in achieving robust safeguarding around children and vulnerable adults at critical points. It requires strong operational knowledge and experience of statutory child protection, experience of providing safeguarding advice and the ability to professionally challenge at a management level. 

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

In order to be successful in this role, you must have:

• Significant practice experience of working with children and young people who have experienced child exploitation
• Experience of working in a multi-agency setting with Police, Children's Social Care and other voluntary and statutory partners
• Significant knowledge and experience of relevant safeguarding legislation and guidance relative to the field of child exploitation
• Experience in responding to and providing effective advice and guidance in relation to safeguarding concerns
• Experience of developing and delivering child exploitation focused resources, training and workshops and facilitating working groups and other learning interventions to increase knowledge and improve practice for BTP officers and external partners

INFO ABOUT THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY

The Children’s Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children’s lives happier and safer.

Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

We view diversity and inclusion as fundamental to achieving social change. To tackle the complex issues facing young people, we need access to diverse talent, perspectives, experiences and working practices. Applications from diverse backgrounds and communities are encouraged and we have policies to support flexible, inclusive and accessible employment.

The Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with.  As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.  We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 29 May 2022

Interviews to be held on week commencing 6 June 2022

Early Break is a young people and family charity that believes excellence at all points of delivery is a requirement. If you take pride in your work, are hardworking, want to be professionally challenged and are passionate to make a difference in the lives of others then our organisation could well suit you.

As a manager you will be child focussed with strong leadership skills, an ability to challenge and work at depth with others. The service requires both managerial experience and the ability to bring staff on the journey with you. You should have a strong knowledge of substance related issue in your practice and will be a reflective worker who has a strong professional curiosity. You will have a knowledge base of the environment of children and family services and will bring to the role your willingness and experience to support others to change lives and safeguard as required.

The key deliverables for this role are:

Key Deliverables

• Contribute to the maintenance of an ethos in which all workers, young people, families and all in contact with Early Break are valued and shown respect
• Ensure that Early Break is represented in a professional manner at all times
• Lead, alongside the Operational director, on the creation and maintenance of the highest standards in clinical service delivery to Service clients (including families), with flexibility in service provision and times of delivery
• Support the Operational Director in leading, motivating and line managing all workers and volunteers who deliver the Early Break  services
• Deliver training and support for workers in relation to national, local and in-house initiatives
• Represent the Service at relevant meetings, nationally, regionally and locally, as appropriate
• Support the Operational Director in the allocation of case work to workers and aid in monitoring case loads of individual workers
• Contribute to writing tenders and bids to charitable and statutory-sector funders
• Manage a small caseload and function as a key worker for young service users with complex primary drug and related healthcare needs, as required
• Ensure flexible and realistic care packages/support plans are developed for young people and families and evaluated at agreed intervals, with a focus on service user input and participation
• Ensure that care co-ordination is implemented effectively in the Service area
• Enable access to GP and other appropriate clinical input for clients
• Support in the assessment of service users for detoxification and residential rehabilitation interventions and support the care co-ordination of those clients, ensuring  reviews of their care are provided
• Development of the Service’s volunteer capacity in line with Early Break’s Volunteer Charter
• Development of pathways in frontline service delivery
• Liaise on service delivery/practice matters with other partner agency workers
• Ensure that workers fulfil all professional requirements expected of them by the Service, including safeguarding, supervision and IT recording
• Ensure case work recording is maintained to the agreed standard at all times
• Lead on development of  new ideas and initiatives, where appropriate as per the Early Break brand
• Attend training to ensure professional development needs are met as an Operational Manager
• Support in the recruitment of staff to the service area
• Support the Operational Director in accountability for the budget and adhere to appropriate financial policies
• Work as an effective member of the Early Break Management Team to maintain excellent standards in service as part of the Clinical Governance in service
• Be a strong voice in the Voluntary sector
• Ensure that risk assessments and risk management are effectively managed
• Co-ordinate meetings as required
• Ensure  all workers undertake clinical supervision
• Ensure all workers are updated with mandatory training as required and highlight service-wide training needs as they arise
• Ensure that all Service Policies and Procedures are adhered to and contribute to reviews of Policies and Protocols where required
• Assist in the development of the Service in line with recommendations for vulnerable young people and their families
• Undertake any additional duties as directed by, and negotiated with, the Chief Executive

Essential Requirements:

(Typically hold, although experience will be considered) A relevant degree or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience

Level 3 Substance Misuse Practitioner Certificate or willingness to work towards

Experience of working in a substance misuse service

Experience of working in the third sector

Management training e.g. ILM

Caritas Salford operates the Cornerstone Day Centre, a community centre for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, from its Denmark Road site in Hulme, Manchester.  It is largest Day Centre for people experiencing homelessness in Manchester and has been operating for over 30 years.  Cornerstone welcomes people from all backgrounds and operates a policy of non-discrimination.

The day centre has stayed open throughout the pandemic providing a much needed emergency service to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.  We have undertaken extensive building work and re-designed the service model under our new Head of Homelessness and have welcomed a new Manager to take the service forward.  We are now recruiting new Project Workers to help support the re-modelled service and so it is an exciting time to join the new team at Cornerstone.

We are looking for Project Workers who will support the service to:

• Ensure that people in Manchester have the support they need to prevent them from becoming homeless, that people who do become homeless are helped to secure safe accommodation with the support they need to make a new home and that no one has to sleep rough.
• In parallel with delivering direct housing outcomes the centre aims to enable people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to improve their wellbeing through providing services which meet immediate basic needs, promote mental health and wellbeing, enable people to access health and other support services and to take up education, training, volunteering opportunities and employment, as a means of sustaining positive housing outcomes.

Delivering together

The Project Workers will work, on a co-production basis using strength-based approaches, with people who visit Cornerstone to design, deliver and evaluate the service to ensure that it is meeting their needs and will enable them have a voice in advocating for policy change where this is needed.

They will also work with other organisations in the statutory, voluntary and faith based sectors to deliver work in partnership to maximise the impact on the community.

Who we are looking for:

The Project Workers will be enthusiastic, energetic, organised, IT literate and have great communication skills.  They will have experience of working or volunteering in a community setting with volunteers and be passionate about making a difference to the lives of people who are homeless or who have challenges with their mental health or drugs or alcohol problems.  They will have a great customer service ethos.  They may come from a community development background or have an ability to involve the people who come to Cornerstone in activities and in volunteering.  They will have a strong ethos of equality, diversity and inclusion.

We are offering great benefits including:

• The job satisfaction of making a real difference to the lives of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Manchester.
• The opportunity to help shape the new service and work with the new manager to develop the new service model.
• Good pension and holiday allowances and employee assistance.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To actively promote and support the aims and objectives of the Caritas’ Homelessness Service.
2. To assist in all aspects of running of the Day Centre including ensuring a safe and high quality environment for people who visit, volunteers and staff.
3. Deputising for the Centre Manager when they are not on site.
4. Deliver excellent customer service and welcome people warmly in a manner which acknowledges their dignity and self-worth, including staffing the welcome desk.
5. Promote an environment where people can socialise and improve their wellbeing
6. Work with a co-production and strengths-based approach and enable people who use the service to volunteer to help run the service.
7. To deliver agreed outcomes and achieve targets that would be set by the Centre Manager.
8. To recruit, train, support, organise and mentor volunteers who use the service.
9. To recruit, train, support, organise and mentor volunteers from the general community, including training them to do support work and overseeing the quality of this work.
10. To provide on-site supervision for social work and other students, completing all the necessary meetings, observations and administration required by the education provider.
11. To deliver education, training and positive recreational activities aimed at enabling people to connect, be active, learn and/or have fun.
12. Support the delivering of basic needs services such as food, showers and clothing to meet immediate needs, including undertaking and overseeing practical tasks of cooking, cleaning and sorting donations.
13. Enable people to access and maintain safe accommodation through partnership working with other agencies.
14. Enable people to access the services that they need to ensure a good quality of life and prevent them from becoming homeless.
15. To conduct dynamic risk assessments and to identify and action safeguarding concerns when needed.
16. To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with other services, including supporting other services that work on site.
17. To record all outcomes and interventions on the Inform data base.
18. To undertake admin tasks as needed to help the smooth running of the service.
19. To support the promotion of the service in the community, to develop and maintain excellent relationships with donors, schools and parishes and to support fundraising events when needed, including attending the annual sleep out.
20. To attend meetings and training courses as required.
21. To work within the mission, values and ethos of Caritas Diocese of Salford.
22. To work within a culture of respect and promote equality, inclusion and diversity into the project and your working practices.
23. To promote and support Caritas Diocese of Salford as the umbrella charity.
24. To work in a way which promotes equality, inclusion and diversity.
25. To carry out any other duty, commensurate with the level of the post.

.  If you are interested in applying for the position, please visit our website where you can find the application form and job description, the link is below. We can only accept application forms by way of application, not CVs. 

The role of the Outreach & Development Worker will be to ensure carers from a wide variety of backgrounds across all of Salford are aware of their rights and receive the support and services they need at the right time, and in appropriate places. The job holder will provide outreach support to carers including hospital and community venues and will report to the Outreach & Development Coordinator in enhancing the offer across Salford.

The role will focus on the outreach provision, being based at different venues across the City; hospitals, community venues, mental health settings and others accessed by people with caring responsibilities. The role will include the continued development of the service, assisting with the creation of resources and training. The role will develop an involvement offer; ensuring carers are at the forefront of service change and service offer.

This role is 0.5FTE and based at home and cross the community. 

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.

The role of the adult link worker will be to develop appropriate support, ensuring that carers from a wide variety of backgrounds are aware of their rights and are receiving the support and services that they require at the right time and in a suitable location. The role will also provide information, advice, and support to individuals and groups of carers as well as professionals and other organisations.

The service supports carers of all ages across Salford through a model of identifying carers, triage to find the support they need and offering them the appropriate provision. Part of this may be an offer information packs, access to groups, or a time-limited, 12-week package of support which will sometimes include a carers assessment. The aim of such support is to enable carers to develop resilience and to also be linked into local community assets, thereby reducing their reliance on other services.

This role is based both at home and in the community. 

Hours

37.5 hours

Salary
£22,307.00 – £26,357.00

Location

Cheadle/ Hybrid 

Job Purpose

To ensure the safe and effective handling of requests for Clinical Services support, ensuring the right type and level of support is received in a timely and quality fashion.

To support the Therapy & Specialist Support (TSS) team to provide a high quality and efficient service to families, young people, professionals and colleagues working in a range of settings and services both within and external to the Trust.

About you

Are you passionate about providing support to young people and their families? We’re looking for a Senior Co-Ordinator to join our Clinical Services team.

We’re looking for someone who has the following;

• Educated to minimum GCSE
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
• Experience of liaising with families who require support for their children who have additional needs
• Knowledge and understanding of Autism Spectrum Conditions and the impact that ASC may have on young people and their family
• Experience of working successfully and collaboratively as a member of the team.

Should be discover the ideal candidate prior to the expiry date, we will withdraw this advert. Early applications are encouraged.

Thanks to significant new funding TLC: Talk Listen, Change is growing and are looking for a Project Worker to deliver Make A Change in Trafford.

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a dynamic, leading relationships charity based in Greater Manchester. 

Make a Change

Make a Change is a whole-community approach to domestic abuse perpetration, offering interventions for those using abusive behaviour in their intimate or previously intimate relationships, support for their partners and/or ex-partners, community outreach, and workforce development to help recognise and respond to domestic abuse perpetration effectively. The model is designed to fill a significant gap in current service provision, for situations where people know that domestic abuse is taking place, but where the behaviour or concerns have not yet met the threshold for a statutory / family court / criminal justice referral.

The role
In this role you will directly manage a case load working directly with people who have been abusive to a partner. You will complete suitability assessments, deliver group and one to one work, liaise with survivor safety workers, reporting and where needed, advocacy work. You will also work closely with case workers from partner organisations to ensure the safety of survivors and children throughout the course of the intervention. The role also includes extending the impact of the project through outreach, training, workshops and the provision of specialist advice to other external stakeholders.

About you

You will have direct experience of working with vulnerable service users and experience of working within a public protection/safeguarding multi-agency setting. You will also have experience of managing Safeguarding issues. Above all you will be comfortable with conflict management, and you’ll bring a positive, solution focused attitude.

We want you to feel empowered to bring your best to this role, so we encourage flexible working around core hours. We offer an annual continuous Professional Development allowance, generous annual leave entitlement and Birthday leave.

About us

Funding secured will enable TLC: Talk, Listen Change to grow our work with perpetrators of domestic abuse, their partners, and families. Over the coming twelve months, we are expanding existing programmes and developing several new ones, reaching considerably more people than we ever have before, and pioneering new approaches in this crucial area of work. This is a pivotal time for TLC: Talk Listen Change and we are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, engaged and highly motivated people to join our rapidly expanding team.

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest pool, reflecting the diverse range of people we support.

Location

We value the importance of flexible working. Our services are a hybrid of online and in person delivery and therefore this role will include travelling to locations within Trafford to deliver face to face sessions. This role can be home based or in our head office, Trafford House, Chester Road Manchester, M32 0RS. If home based there will be a requirement to travel to the office for training and meetings. There may also be a requirement to work out of a Local Authority base in Trafford. We value the importance of human connection so offer the flexibility to book working space in Trafford House. As in person external meetings have returned there will also be a requirement to travel across Greater Manchester and sometimes wider.  

We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact us. 

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Person specification:

You will be an experienced Counselling Supervisor who is accountable and responsible within their own practice. You will actively engage in your own Clinical Supervision process, modeling reflective practice in your own work. You will work at depth and support our workers to do the same.  You will be motivated to offer an excellent service for all you encounter within the context of the role. 

Key deliverables:

• Be a reflective practitioner in the role
• To offer a boundaried, reflective practice space for individual workers across Early Break 
•  To maintain professional standards in keeping with the relevant Codes of Ethics and Practice of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy balanced with the context of delivering a space for reflective practice in the Early Break Company where additional policy and procedures are in place.
• To understand the theoretical model upon which Early Break is based and work within the person-centred ethos
• To be skilled to offer a reflective practice space supporting the practitioners who deliver the service which holds at the centre, the clients of the service (young people and their families)
• Contribute to any developments of service relevant to reflective practice by increasing shared understanding of the value of this

As a worker you will be child focussed in your practice, you will be a reflective worker who engages in the opportunities to build on your practice that this role offers. You are someone who is organised in your administration and yet can work at depth with vulnerable young people and their families. You will have a knowledge base of the environment of children and family services and will bring to the role your willingness and experience to support others to change lives and safeguard as required.

Role requirements:

Relevant professional qualification in both Counselling and in Supervision and commitment to ongoing CPD.

You will have previous experience of delivering Counselling and Supervision work in an organisational setting. 

How to apply:

Please email a covering letter with your current CV

Please note: This role is based in the North of England and the Midlands and will involve travel across these regions.

As our Regional Programmes Manager, you’ll inspire and lead our team of remote-based Senior Project Workers and Project Workers to effectively deliver high-quality support services for kinship families across the North of England and some parts of the Midlands. You’ll do this by working in close collaboration with local authority teams across the North and the Midlands who have commissioned our services. You’ll also develop effective partnerships with other local authorities to secure commissions and generate income for services.

Your team will deliver the following programmes:

• Kinship Ready – online workshops to prepare new and prospective special guardians for their role, as well as wraparound one-to-one support
• Kinship Reach – remote one-to-one support and virtual support groups
• Kinship Connected – in-person one-to-one support and support groups in the community

This role is home-based with travel across the North and Midlands, as well as other parts of England and Wales from time to time.

About Kinship

Kinship is the leading charity in England and Wales for kinship carers – relatives and friends who raise children when their parents aren’t able to. We offer kinship carers expert advice as well as financial, legal, practical and emotional support and understanding from the moment they need it, for as long as they need it. We’re always there to help with the complicated and stressful decisions that so many kinship families have to make, as well as to celebrate the good times.

Working alongside kinship carers and the children they raise, with their voices and views at the fore, we build communities of support and give everything we have to fight for each family and their rights, as well as to raise awareness of kinship care and secure better support for all those playing this critical role.

In return, we offer 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if part-time) and pension.

For further details about the role, please refer to the attached job specification.

To apply, please click the Apply button to send us your CV and cover letter, along with a completed Equal Opportunities form.

Closing date: 12.00 pm on Monday 30 May 2022.
Interview date: Week commencing 13 June 2022.