Do you have experience of working with children and young people and do you understand the challenges they face? Are you passionate about empowering young people to have their voices heard?
If so, you could be part of an exciting new project that brings positive change to young people’s health and social care services in Gloucestershire.
Healthwatch Gloucestershire is the county’s independent health and care champion. We exist to make sure that local health and social care services are shaped by the people who use them. We want to ensure that children and young people from across the county are listened to and heard by those responsible for health and social care services in Gloucestershire.
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Youth Engagement Officer to lead our new Young Listeners project. You will recruit, train and support a team of 10 volunteer Young Listeners, to design the project and engage with other children and young people through a peer-to-peer approach. It will be a varied and interesting job and no two days will be the same.
We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic people-person, with a can-do attitude, who will enjoy being part of a small and dynamic team.
In return we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous contributory pension scheme, comfortable office accommodation in Quedgeley and flexible working practices.
If this sounds like you, please visit our website for more information.
Alternatively, if you are interested in working on this project as a consultant, please get in touch.
About the role
The Youth Engagement Officer is an exciting and important role to engage young people across Gloucestershire. The role will lead an exciting new Healthwatch Gloucestershire Young Listeners project which aims to ensure the voice of children and young people in the county are listened to and heard by the people who buy, plan and run health and social care services in Gloucestershire . A team of 10 young people will be recruited to become Young Listeners who will then go out and engage with and listen to other young people on a variety of topics. The post holder will recruit, train and support the planning and delivery of activities to engage other young people in Gloucestershire. The post holder will work with the wider Healthwatch Gloucestershire team to deliver the project.
Job Summary
You will be required to:
- Project manage the project
- Recruit, train and support a team of 10 Young Listeners
- Work with the EC Communication team to design materials – logos, leaflets and images – to promote the project
- Identify opportunities for Young Listeners to carry out engagement working with groups and organisations across Gloucestershire
- Work with the Young Listeners to design their own engagement activities and data collection methods
- Provide support to the Young Listeners to carry out a minimum of 100 listening’s
- Analysis the data to identify key messages and recommendations for commissioners and providers.
- Work with the Young Listeners to report on their findings, e.g. video, audio presentation.
- Produce final report
- Monitor the project and on a monthly basis provide an update including case studies as required
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
VCH is recruiting a Best Practice Adviser in Volunteer Management to support the hundreds of community groups and charities that are delivering vital services across Hackney.
Over the last year, multiple frontline groups have sprung up to deliver essential supplies and services to people suffering the impact of COVID, while hundreds more charities continue to deliver essential programmes for residents to help people live better lives. Many of these groups are overrun with demand, and may benefit from support and guidance to develop programmes to ensure the effective and efficient recruitment and support of volunteers.
We’re seeking someone with previous experience in supporting community and voluntary groups around issues relating to Best Practice in volunteer management, to support new and existing organisations in making the most of their volunteer programmes. Alongside delivering bespoke, 1 to 1 support to individual groups, you’ll also help oversee the development of brand new good practice resources such as engaging training videos, online webinars, as well as facilitating group training courses and discussion forums.
We actively encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for this opportunity as we really want applicants to reflect the diverse demographics of Hackney residents. We are committed to equal opportunities and access for all people.
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Café West is located in the heart of Allerton, Bradford and is a community facility that aims to reach out to all local residents The centre has a range of excellent facilities and there is real potential to develop the provision and support on offer, and rise to the challenges that have presented themselves over the last year. An experienced enthusiastic and energetic manager with a real understanding of community development work is required to help the management committee reach their vision for the centre, and ensure that it achieves its aims. The successful candidate will;
- Have significant experience of managing all aspects of a community building
- Experience of all aspects of managing a staff team
- Have a strong track record of engaging with community groups, families and individuals
- Be able to demonstrate the values under pinning community development of equality, empowerment and social justice.
- Be able to work in partnership with a wide variety of agencies and organisations
- Have experience of working in the voluntary and community sector
- Have knowledge of how community centres are funded and fundraising skills
- Be available to work flexibly over 35 hrs per week including evenings and weekends in order to meet the needs of the community
- Experience of working in an area of multiple deprivation
The closing date for this post is 10 am on 8th February 2021. Interviews will be held on 15th February 2021. If you haven’t heard anything about your application by the 10th February 2021 please consider your application unsuccessful.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is a great opportunity to work within a busy and challenging housing and social care support company in Rochdale.
Newbarn Ltd provides specialist supported living and homecare/domiciliary support to adults aged 18-80 who are in need of housing and support. Our tenants experience mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities.
The role will include several office based activities. The successful candidate may spend time in each project in order to develop their understanding of how the business operates.
You will be providing administrative support to the CQC Registered manager and Project Lead and other colleagues when needed.
Shannon Trust is a charity operating across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, supporting thousands of people in prison each year to transform their lives by unlocking the power of reading. We inspire and train prisoners who can read to teach prisoners who can’t. 2020 was a year of adaptation brought about by COVID19 – we revised our delivery model and now, in 2021, we want to develop much further. To support this, we are now recruiting to new roles and are seeking proactive, committed, and enthusiastic applicants to join our team and help us continue our journey.
This role will develop our communications and marketing approach, working with our Fundraising Manager and the staff team to deliver and monitor fresh and impactful multi-channel communications. You will have strong copywriting and content development skills, a keen interest in social media, an eye for brand consistency and experience of working with data. You’ll be a self-starter who loves generating ideas and making them happen. Knowledge of fundraising would be a real bonus, as you’ll be helping to deliver funding applications and secure income enabling Shannon Trust to deliver more and improve its impact.
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Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN) is an organisation that takes a ‘whole system’ approach to community care and prevention through relationships and coproduction. Formed in 2001, WCEN has a central mission of reducing inequalities, working with our community, faith and statutory agency partners, bringing people together to generate ideas and solutions that can help address our most pressing health and social care challenges.
Over the last year, we have witnessed again the critical need to work together and alongside our neighbours to meet and overcome the challenges of inequality and disadvantage, towards a more equal and fairer society. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long standing health and societal inequalities, and the Black Lives Matter movement has bought to light the deep rooted systemic and structural inequalities that limit the potential of Black and Minority Ethnic communities to realise their individual and collective potential.
At WCEN we have worked alongside our partners and stakeholders to understand the deep fault lines that exist across our civic society and developed methodologies and practices that have sort to close the gaps in inequalities, through a community led and coproduced approach.
As we continue on this journey, we are seeking to recruit passionate and committed workers who have a knack in building trust and confidence with diverse and multicultural communities and change makers, and the skills and capabilities to think and develop new ways of working. These new ways of working, in the first instance, is in unlocking existing community strengths and potential towards enabling the co-creation of support and services to work in ways that may work better than they are at the moment- more culturally appropriate, people centred locally owned and led. And from here to support and organise local assets to ‘join up’ with others, including our public agency partners, to co-produce the better and smarter ways to access mainstream public services and support.
If this sounds like something you believe in and have the core values and strengths to contribute too, then we would love to hear from you. We are a small team, and a growing network, who all believe in our collective strengths to achieve the change that we want to see and have a determination to do so.
We are now recruiting full time Network Builders to support our mission to enable local and diverse voluntary, community and faith partners to co-produce with our statutory agencies, early help, intervention and prevention within their own community settings.
This Information Job Pack gives a full explanation of the job, which I hope will encourage you to apply for the posts.
Mummy’s Star was born in June 2013 and is the ONLY charity in the UK and Ireland ‘Supporting pregnancy through cancer and beyond’.
We are now at the exciting stage where we are looking to recruit an Information and Support Worker (ISW) to support our growing team. This is a home-based job so you will require lots of initiative to work on your own, be highly organised, committed and have good time management skills.
You are the first point of contact (along with the existing ISW’s) for women/families contacting us for support. You will need to demonstrate empathy, sensitivity, discretion and an understanding of how we can provide support. You will respond to enquiries via various contact channels; assessing the nature of each enquiry quickly, skilfully and if necessary, passing the enquiry to a Trustee most able to handle it.
You will be responsible for adding new women to our private forum for women who have been affected by cancer during or shortly after pregnancy. The topics discussed on here are highly sensitive and your will help ensure that the forum is a safe place for women to share their innermost feelings, reporting any concerns to the CEO.
As an Information & Support Worker, you will be directly supporting the families who seek help from the charity by email, phone and face to face, identifying what will provide relief and reassurance as well as practical assistance. In addition, you will help build links with hospitals and cancer treatment centers to ensure a speedy referral process is in place.
A Criminal Record Disclosure will be required.
Applicants must have use of own car (expenses paid).
Please note we cannot accept applications by way of CV.
To apply for this position, we ask for you to evidence, on no more than two sides of A4, how you meet the requirements detailed in the Person Specification. In addition, please supply details of employment history including 2 up to date references. CVs will be accepted but only as proof of employment history rather than evidencing meeting the person specification.
Please return completed information through charity jobs or:
Post: Mummy’s Star, PO Box 428, Hadfield, Glossop, SK14 9EA
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Starfish Health and Wellbeing provides a range of primary care psychological therapies service that offers support to people who are emotionally distressed and looks at how we can support them in their recovery. We are seeking to recruit Midlands based Social Prescribing Link Worker for a range of periods of fixed term employment up to three years working in a partnership between Starfish Health and Wellbeing and the Primary Care Network.
Job Title: Community Link Advisor
Location: Staffordshire
Contract: 22.5 hours, Fixed Term to 31/08/2021
Salary: £22,000 pa FTE, depending upon qualifications and experience
The areas the project will cover are Aelfgar, Brereton and Great Haywood Stafford.
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical ‘link workers’ who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.
Link Workers will support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable working collaboratively with local partners.
Key tasks of the role include: taking referrals from a wide range of agencies, working with GP practices within primary care networks, hospital discharge teams, pharmacies, job centres etc to promote social prescribing and its role in self-management; providing personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to improve their health outcomes; help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, loneliness, unemployment etc; working with individuals to co-produce simple personalised support plans, including helping people to gain skills for meaningful employment, where appropriate; supporting community groups to receive referrals; working collectively with all local partners to ensure sustainable community groups and with commissioners and local partners to identify unmet needs within the community; recruiting and developing a team of volunteers to provide ‘buddying support’ for people, starting new groups and finding creative community solutions to local issues, providing regular ‘confidence surveys’ to community groups receiving referrals, to ensure strength and sustainability and data capture.
The role will require the successful candidates to manage and prioritise their own caseload.
All Starfish appointments are subject to a six- month probationary period.
Closing date: 24th January 2021.
Please click the 'Apply Now' button for more information on how to complete your application.
A DBS disclosure will be requested for the successful applicant.
Starfish is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
No agencies please.
Job Title: Community Link Advisor
Location: Stafford
Contract: 37.5 hours, Fixed Term to 31/08/2021
Salary: £22,000 pa depending upon qualifications and experience
Starfish Health and Wellbeing provides a range of primary care psychological therapies service that offers support to people who are emotionally distressed and looks at how we can support them in their recovery. We are seeking to recruit Midlands based Social Prescribing Link Worker for a range of periods of fixed term employment up to three years working in a partnership between Starfish Health and Wellbeing and the Primary Care Network.
The areas the project will cover are Aelfgar, Brereton and Great Haywood Stafford.
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical ‘link workers’ who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.
Link Workers will support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable working collaboratively with local partners.
Key tasks of the role include: taking referrals from a wide range of agencies, working with GP practices within primary care networks, hospital discharge teams, pharmacies, job centres etc to promote social prescribing and its role in self-management; providing personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to improve their health outcomes; help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, loneliness, unemployment etc; working with individuals to co-produce simple personalised support plans, including helping people to gain skills for meaningful employment, where appropriate; supporting community groups to receive referrals; working collectively with all local partners to ensure sustainable community groups and with commissioners and local partners to identify unmet needs within the community; recruiting and developing a team of volunteers to provide ‘buddying support’ for people, starting new groups and finding creative community solutions to local issues, providing regular ‘confidence surveys’ to community groups receiving referrals, to ensure strength and sustainability and data capture.
The role will require the successful candidates to manage and prioritise their own caseload.
All Starfish appointments are subject to a six- month probationary period.
Closing date: 24th January 2021.
A DBS disclosure will be requested for the successful applicant.
Starfish is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
No agencies please.
PA & Admin Manager – Warwickshire and Worcestershire - 37hrs per week – circa £24,000 pro rata
Springfield Mind is the local Mind charity for South Warwickshire and Worcestershire. It works to improve wellbeing to prevent mental health problems in Warwickshire and Worcestershire. We have a vacancy for the role of PA & Admin Manager and are seeking a candidate with a positive and proactive approach to lead on the admin functions for the organisation to improve the lives of people living with mental ill health.
The role will support the Executive, including the Board of Trustees, to fulfil their governance responsibilities and provide personal assistance to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and secretarial support to the Chairman and Board of Trustees. Working directly to the CEO in the administration of governance systems and processes within Springfield Mind and to manage the facilities, administration and general office functions supporting the organisation’s service delivery and support programmes. To take the lead in the administrative team, acting as role model, creating and developing a flexible “joined-up” approach.
Closing date: 22nd January 2021
Interviews preliminary set to take place on 28th and 29th January 2021
FULL APPLICATION PACK MUST BE DOWNLOADED AND SUBMITTED
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