Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone.

We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. A valuable part of this work has been the provision of services to children and young people from our Children and Young People Services offices in Levenshulme. The holistic mix of services delivered includes advice, volunteering, mentoring and counselling. The services have been successfully evaluated and involve young people in design, development and delivery.

Our work is guided by our values of:

Openness  | Belonging  | Strength  | Collaboration

The Service Manager will support staff and play a strategic role in developing the delivery of high quality young people-led services.

We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop our services for children and young people.

Position: Service Manager, Children & Young People Services

Salary: £35,934 pro rata

Hours: 28 hours per week

Funding guaranteed until the end of June 2021.

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Being able to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way.
• Experience of managing and developing services.
• Experience of working strategically.

You can download the application documents from this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

All applications must be received by 12noon, Wednesday 9th December 2020.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

Victim Support is looking for a Children and Young Person's Triage Worker based in Lancashire

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.

Victim Support are commissioned to provide a specialist children and young people's service - Nest . Nest receives around 4,000 referrals every year from the police, other agencies and individuals for young victims of crime and/or domestic abuse. Young people access our support for a wide range of crimes such as harassment, theft, assault, grooming and sexual exploitation.

We have an exciting new opportunity to work as part of our specialist team as a Triage Worker. This role is pivotal in ensuring that we offer the right support at the right time for young people and you will be responsible for completing initial impact and risk assessments. In addition you will be responsible for reaching out and engaging with young people via social media platforms to increase knowledge and awareness of the service to those in need.

We are looking for a someone enthusiastic with a proven track record of engaging with children and young people You will need an excellent telephone manner as well as experience and knowledge of social media platforms and how children and young people use them. You will need to be able to work efficiently at a fast pace in order to manage your workload and will have excellent IT skills.

You will be based in one of our offices - Lancaster, Accrington, Preston or Blackpool but initially due to the current circumstances will be working from home so you will need to have a confidential and appropriate space from which to work.

Closing date is 30th December and interviews will be held via Skype on Monday 4th January 2021 with an anticipated start date of 1st February 2021

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 and Essential). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

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

Victim Support 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 is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment for our staff. 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 welcome applicants from all communities and as part of our commitment to the we would particularly welcome applicants of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage. We also particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people from LGBT+ Communities.

Children Support Worker role based in East London paying up to £12 per hour

Your new company
Children's Support Worker jobs in East London - Full or Part time - Flexible hours that suit you. Hays Social Care specialise in working with experienced Support Workers offering flexible hours either on a full or part time basis. We work with a varied client group around East London, including mental health, learning disabilities and physical disabilities paying up to £12 an hour.
We are currently looking for experienced Support workers to work within children's residential homes.

Your new role
Delivering daily care to children and young people with complex needs, including assisting in the development of their social and emotional growth and practical support duties as required, to include meal preparation and supervision, laundry, clothes, cleaning, supervision of social activities and assistance with washing and bathing where additional needs may require this.

The work hours / weekly rota will include a variety of shifts including day, afternoon, waking nights and sleep ins

What you'll need to succeed

• Enhanced DBS
• Experience working with children and young people

What you'll get in return

• Flexible working options available.
• Weekly pay
• Competitive rates
• Wide range of shifts

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

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Are you passionate about diversity, education and empowering young people? Would you relish the opportunity to inspire and create new inspiring pathways for young people into careers that are traditionally underrepresented?

This role encompasses overseeing the development, expansion and delivery of our children and young people’s education project. Delivering an inter-woven programme of activities and visits inspiring futures into various STEAM pathways. Building on our existing offerings to children, the programme will deliver a range of activities spanning coding workshops, Science club, work etiquette workshops, visits to various institutions and a series “Living careers Libraries” whereby participants can meet and connect and be inspired by those in different careers.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to inform, support and inspire the young people as to which pathways they may choose with a particular focus on supporting children from BAME backgrounds into industries where they are traditionally under-represented.

Our perfect candidate for this role would have a strong background in youth work and/ or community-based education, you will be a natural at community engagement and direct delivery as well as project management.

Responsibilities: Programme

• Working with the wider Family programme team to develop a calendar of events and activities that align with Nova’s mission and ethos
• Working with the Head of Community and Communications to ensure the programme is communicated as effectively as possible across all Novas communication channels
• Building on existing and developing new partnerships within the local community spanning charities, housing associations and schools
• Leading on the creation and implementation of the children and young people education initiatives spanning:
  • Coding Club with existing partnerships with Mama Codes & Apple
  • Science Club with existing partnerships with Imperial college and the Natural History Museum
  • English & Maths lessons
  • School based Living ‘careers’ libraries - inspired by The Human Library
  • Developing and delivering workplace etiquette workshops expectations networking and supporting/ identifying work placement opportunities -aged 14 - matching with individual aspirations through our networks
  • Facilitating connections to opportunities – work placements, mentoring etc.
• Engaging participants and promote programme internally and externally

Responsibilities: Evaluation

• Directly engaging partners, communities and people we support to gather compelling case studies demonstrating the impact of our work
• Capturing evaluation from children and young people
• Interpreting data into impact reports for trustees and funders

Responsibilities: General

• Encourage and maintain links between staff and volunteers, keeping a good flow of information and communication
• Maintain a general working knowledge of the activities of the organisation
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge
• Undertake any other duties as may from time to time be required
• Provide training for other members of staff/ volunteers when necessary
• Be open and responsive, working in a collaborative way with other staff members to create and implement the systems, policies and procedures outlined above and develop the organisation
• Work within Nova’s Equality and Diversity Policy through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensuring fair treatment in employment, service delivery and external communications
• Adhere to Nova’s policies and procedures on confidentiality and the management and sharing of information and to work within the established policies and practices of Nova.
• Ensure the maintenance of a safe working environment

Application Process: If this is you, please send us your CV and cover letter. Applications without a tailored cover letter will not be considered. This is a rolling process and we will close the vacancy as soon as we fill the role.

Closing Date: 16/12/2020

Interviews: Week 20/12/2020

Assessment Type: Panel Interview

We are looking for a new member of our domestic abuse outreach service. This role will be working with children and young people affected by domestic abuse. The work will include providing 121 support sessions and delivery of group work to children and young people.

If you feel that you would be a good addition to the team and have previous experience of supporting or working with children and young people please contact the address below 

Children & Family Worker

• To work in partnership with mothers/carers to identify children and young people’s support needs and to ensure those needs are met.
• To undertake needs analysis for each child and young person, to ascertain the level of support needed and the type of activities required to meet their needs.
• To develop and deliver a comprehensive programme of one-to-one and group therapeutic and play sessions, and shared activities within refuge.
• To provide school holiday play schemes in refuge.
• To supervise and accompany children and young people on trips and visits outside of refuge.
• To provide one to one support and family support with families living in the community.
• To seek approval of all programmes with the refuge manager and ensure that these are discussed with other relevant members of the staff team before implementation.

To participate in the development of informative literature for women and children, including a children’s introduction pack, which is to be kept up to date. 

An exciting opportunity to join the team at Manchester Young Lives as a Therapeutic Engagement Worker providing high levels of pastoral and therapeutic support for children and young people aged 5-18 years who have been impacted by Covid-19.

This role is to work specifically with those suffering increased levels of anxiety, loss of confidence and self-esteem, missing school or other types of isolation and trauma. The role will involve working face to face with children and young people in MYL centres, schools and the local community. The role has a city-wide focus so the successful candidate (s) will be expected to travel to multiple locations as part of their role

Successful candidates will have enthusiasm and passion for working with children and young people, with the ability to use creative and innovative techniques to engage and reassure young people .  A commitment to making a difference to local communities is also key to the success of this post. Hours of work include after school and evenings Monday to Friday with some weekend working also required to respond to local need. There is also a requirement for staff teams to work across a number of locations.

Please note CVs will not be considered as part of your application for this position. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

This post  is fixed term initially to 31/3/2021.

Due to expansion, Freeva is recruiting for a project support worker to join our dynamic and committed Jenkins Centre team.

Based at our Leicester office, the successful candidate will support the delivery of the adult interventions service for perpetrators of domestic abuse and the young person's project for young people using violence. The post will involve ensuring the day to day administrative procedures are completed; such as handling client and stake holder enquiries, processing referrals to the service and working with intervetions workers accross the project to keep administrative systems up to date. 

A job share and /or flexible working arrangements will be considered. 

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.

35 hours p/w - Fixed Term Contract until September 2022

St Giles Office in Leeds with regular travel to HMP New Hall and HMP Wealstun.

Ref code: CFY-202

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, and addictions, hold the key to positive change in others. 

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 solution to this stark reality is our Children & 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

As a Caseworker, you will supervise and work in conjunction with volunteer Peer Advisors to provide support to prisoners and their families annually, who are based in Leeds Bradford or Wakefield.

A ‘whole family’ approach involves working with the family to assess risk, ensuring all family members feel safe and also mentoring young people. You will be 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
• A requirement to successfully get through vetting
• 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, access to clinical supervision flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, access to clinical supervision, season ticket loan and much more.

Closing date: 11pm, 3rd December 2020 

Interviews: 7th December 2020 (interviews will be held via video)

Location:  Lambeth

Salary: £20,962.50 pro rata per annum

Hours: 14 hours per week

Contract:  Permanent 

Vacancy Reference: SWA3018

Closing Date: 14/12/2020

Interview Date: 21/12/2020

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

Sessional  Play Workers plan and facilitate activities and play sessions for Children and Young People aged 0-16 year’s old living in refuges, ensure Health & Safety standards, and support evaluation & monitoring of children’s learning. You will support families to contribute to planning activities as well as supporting mothers to develop their relationship with their children through play and other activities. 

Hours will be flexible but will include late afternoons and some occasional weekend hours to meet the needs of children and young people in refuge and you will usually work hours over 2- 3 days. 

About the Role

We are looking for workers with experience of working with babies, children and young people in a childcare setting along with a qualification at NVQ Level 2 or higher in Child Development, Youth and Community Work or similar. Experience of working with children and young people who have experienced trauma is desirable. You will support families to continue their learning whilst in refuge and help them develop the skills to continue this work for themselves when they leave refuge. 

About You

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Due to expansion, opportunities have arisen to join our team of passionate and dedicated Interventions workers to work alondside our experienced and established team. The posts will play a key role in delivering The Jenkins Centre programme accross Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Currently our programme is being delivered online due to COVID 19 restrictions, however once safe to do so face to face delivery of the programme will recommence and there will be a requirement to deliver from our city office base and accross the county.

1 x  Interventions Worker (Male 37 hours pw)

1 x Intervention Worker (Female 37 hours pw)

1 x Interventions Worker (18.5 hours pw)

The successful candidates will have experience in delivering frontline services, group work, and be passionate about working with service users to change their behaviour. Evening work is required.

Please Note: This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Although not essential, we are seeking to recruit at least 1 candidate who is fluent in speaking an additional language for these roles.

LOROS Hospice is a local charity and every year we care for over 2,500 people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We deliver free, high-quality, compassionate care and support to terminally ill patients, their family and carers.

The following vacancy has arisen within the Fundraising Department who play a significant part in raising over £6 million each year through voluntary income.

Supporter Engagement Co-Ordinator (Young People) Salary range £20,000 to £25,000 per annum (depending upon experience) 37.5 hours per week 

LOROS is a much-loved charity with a broad supporter base; we pride ourselves on creating meaningful, life-long relationships with supporters of all ages. With a focus on individuals, organisations, clubs and educational facilities across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. LOROS is now looking for an energetic, fun and positive, ‘people-person’ to join our Supporter Engagement Team and work specifically with young people. As a Supporter Engagement Co-Ordinator you’ll provide the motivation, inspiration, encouragement and support that our young fundraisers and volunteers need to enjoy their fundraising and raise as much as possible. You will be pro-active in generating new contacts and building long-term relationships with individuals, groups and organisations. Throughout 2021 you will be instrumental in delivering the Rocket Round Leicester (RRL) Learning Programme which has been specifically developed for schools, colleges and community groups. The RRL Learning Programme is a ‘launch pad’ for the Supporter Engagement Co-Ordinator to build relationships and create lasting legacies As a member of the Supporter Engagement Team and wider Fundraising Department, you will be actively involved in the planning and delivery of Supporter Engagement Events and Campaigns as well as awareness raising activities such as delivering talks, presentations, arranging, and carrying out tours of the Hospice to visitors. The ideal applicant will be passionate and committed with a great work ethic. The applicant will be willing and able to work long hours over weekend and evenings. Due to the nature of the role you should have access to transport.

Mind in Haringey is looking for a young peoples' project worker to join their Haringey Wellbeing Network. The young peoples project worker will facilitate and support vulnerable young people between the ages of 16-21yrs in transition of adolscents to adulthood. The Young peoples project worker is to facilitate 1-2-1 and group sessions for young people, who have been referred directly from our Haringey CAMHS or young adults teams. The aim of this service is to offer a brief intervention and continue to support the wellbeing of young people who have been discharged from CAMHS or the young adults service. All work will be conducted in the London Borough of Haringey. 

Malachi

Malachi is an innovative specialist therapeutic family support service, established for over 30 years. We offer a diverse range of services to children and families in over 300 schools and other community settings. Our team of 60 dedicated staff work with the most vulnerable children and families and whilst it may be a challenging profession the rewards in seeing a family make lasting change really are wonderful.

The opportunity

The role is centred around assisting families, with the aim of enabling, achieving and maintaining outcomes to best support them. The Family Support Worker will manage a caseload and meet with families on a regular basis to provide a package of support interventions to meet the families targeted needs.

The role requires travel to sites, therefore driving is an essential part of the role. It is essential that candidates have a full driving licence and use of their own vehicle.

The working pattern for this role is Monday to Friday, 08.30 – 17.00.

Key work activities

• Work directly with children and their families in Schools and community settings, offering the right support at the right time.
• Implementing, monitoring and reviewing family support intervention plans to help strengthen family resilience.
• Proactively engage and support children and families to strengthen and improve their outcomes, develop their resilience and reduce dependency on external specialist services.
• Deliver a ‘solution-focussed’ approach, whilst maintaining focus on the safety and wellbeing of the family.
• Work with parents directly, to uncover underlying issues and enable them to gain and maintain independence and control over all aspects of their lives.
• Ensure that all children, young people and adults are adequately protected in line with Safeguarding Children and Adult Board reporting procedures.
• Liaise with teachers, other relevant professionals, social services and external agencies where appropriate.
• Write-up electronic records and assessments.
• Attend relevant meetings and training in accordance with your role.
• Undertake any other such duties that are required within your role.

What credentials are we ideally looking for?

• Level 3 in Counselling or other therapeutic qualification.
• A good standard of education including GCSE’s in English and Maths (or equivalent).
• Safeguarding and child protection awareness.
• Previous demonstrable experience of working directly with children on both a one-to-one and group/family basis.
• Confident in positively influencing family situations.
• Experience in completing an assessment tool, for example, outcome stars or Early help assessments.
• An understanding and knowledge of child development and attachment.
• Prior experience of communicating effectively with children and families, external agencies and other relevant professionals.
• Ability to update a case tracker system.
• IT proficiency
• Attention to detail, with the ability to accurately produce high quality concise reports and session notes.
• Ability to prioritise, demonstrating first class organisational skills and time management skills.
• Able to work on own initiative and as a member of a wider team.
• Ability to maintain a professional distance whilst fostering close working partnerships.

Benefits

• 45 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 24-Hour Doctorline
• Retail discount scheme
• Voluntary Health Cashplan
• Flexible working
• Laptop & phone

Would you like to apply?

Malachi are committed to safeguarding and supporting the welfare of children and their families, and we expect all our staff to share in this commitment. We adopt a safer recruitment process to best support this commitment. The post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check for the successful candidate.

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome CV's from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion and belief, sexual orientation, or status regarding gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity."

The closing date for applications is 29 November 2020. 

The selection process will consist of an initial psychometric test & pre-screen, as well as a two stage interview (observation exercise and panel interview). You will also be required to attend a full weeks induction, running from Monday to Friday, please ensure that you can commit to this.

Malachi would encourage candidates to submit their CVas early as possible, as we do reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

While we would like to contact all our candidates, unfortunately, this is not possible so if you have not heard from us a week after the closing date, your application has been unsuccessful.

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