About the Together Trust

We are one of the North West’s leading disability charities, offering individual care, support and education to thousands of people each year.

Our work is made possible with our incredible team of staff and volunteers who are positive role models to the people we support.

You will be joining an organisation driven by its values and desire to see meaningful change - the people we support really are at the heart of everything we do.

We want you to grow and develop - so we will support you to shape the career that you want to have.

A job with us can be challenging. But what we can promise is that your role will be incredibly rewarding and filled with meaning.

A job at the Together Trust is more than just a job - together we’ll change lives.

Are you a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist looking to develop your skills as part of a multidisciplinary team?

We are looking for an experienced clinician to lead our Occupational Therapy Team of up to six staff and manage a small caseload of students with complex presentations at Inscape House School. We are one of the Together Trust’s non-maintained specialist schools for over 100 students aged 5 to 19 all with autism as their primary need.

Our well-resourced and supportive team work closely together to deliver a high quality therapy service. You will offer clinical supervision and management of professional colleagues contributing to their development.

At the forefront of this role will be your knowledge of autism along with an understanding of the fundamentals and governance of a school.

Our multi-disciplinary team includes Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, teaching staff, school counsellors, positive behaviour support colleagues, psychologists and other support team members.

We have a culture of joint responsibility to embed therapy approaches, strategies and interventions. This is a great opportunity to help shape service delivery and contribute to school wide projects.

This is a truly rewarding role as you will get to track student progress and their journey to independence in a way you might not necessarily experience within an NHS setting.

We would consider both full-time and part-time applicants for this post.

Benefits

You will get to help the people we support celebrate along the road to a brighter future and be part of an incredible team of like-minded peers. Together we work hard, enjoy our jobs, and support each other. We also have a range of rewards and benefits for our staff:

• Follow your ambitions and progress your career through on-the-job training, apprenticeships and qualifications
• 25 days annual leave rising to 27 after 5 years
• A company pension plan with 7% employer contribution
• Opportunity to purchase a health plan to claim towards therapy, dental and more
• Unlimited access to our employee assistance programme for advice and support
• Support from mental health first aiders

Be a Disability Gamechanger and join our Support to Work employment team. The service is expanding so we are looking for a new Team Leader.

About the role

Manage a team of employment and partnership advisers by:

• providing supervision, coaching and guidance
• ensuring the service meets its targets
• delivering support to customers where required.

To succeed in this role you will need to be able to:

• take a flexible approach
• respond positively to change and the challenges and opportunities it brings.
• work well under pressure.
• deal with conflicting priorities.

The job is currently home-based due to coronavirus. When we return to our offices, you can do this job from either Leeds or Manchester.

About you

You should have knowledge of employability in the field of disability. You should have line management experience or you will need to show us that you are ready for your next challenge.

You should bring drive and enthusiasm to your role and care passionately about improving disabled people's lives through employment.

You'll need:

• effective organisation and communication skills. With excellent negotiation skills, you will be able to positively influence at all levels
• to be dynamic, results driven and able to evidence performance across a range of outcomes.
• to be a confident user of digital technology, including Microsoft Office Products.
• to show a positive approach to the adoption of innovative products and tools

Skills and experience

• Line management and supervision experience
• Knowledge of the employment sector
• Customer service skills
• Digitally confident
• Agreement with ‘Social model of disability’ approach

Disabled candidates

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of Scope’s mission and we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace with equality of opportunity for everyone.

We welcome applications from disabled people and guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum job criteria. Please let us know in your application if you would like to be considered for this.

Due to an internal promotion, we are excited to be recruiting another Programme Officer to build on the great work the charity is doing and to help us achieve more. Right to Succeed is all about bringing the community together to transform outcomes for children. Why? Because we believe every child deserves the right to succeed, no matter where they live.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent organisational and people skills who will be the reliable, positive, “go-to” person for a number of our programme teams. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting our high quality local and national Programme Delivery. This role provides an exciting opportunity to be part of an ambitious, passionate team committed to overcoming inequity and improving outcomes for children and young people.

We are keen to encourage applications from those with lived experience of overcoming one or more of the issues our programmes seek to address, as we understand the extra value that this brings to our programme delivery.

The succesful candidate will play an integral role in supporting staff across multiple programmes with a core focus on ensuring the programmes have the administrative support to enable them to effectively deliver high quality programmes that deliver maximum impact within their respective areas. 

The core objectives of the role include, but are not limited to: 

1. Supporting high quality programme delivery 

2. Supporting strategic and operational relationships 

3. Robust programme administration

4. Supporting programme related external and internal communications activity

The role will initially be a 12-month fixed term contract, but will ideally be extended/become permanent subject to funding.

Please note, due to Covid-19s, we will be carrying out interviews by video-call and the successful candidate will initially be required to work from home (home working equipment provided). 

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. Our services focus on promoting recovery, wellbeing and greater independence. We are looking for a Waking Night Support Worker to work in Whalley Range, Manchester.

You will be supporting a transgender male at his home and in the community who has support needs including autism, learning disabilities, epilepsy and mental health needs. You will provide respectful personal care and work in a person centred and anti-discriminatory manner, ensuring that the rights and entitlements of the service user are respected at all times.

The service user is very easy going and has a good sense of humour. He also enjoys participating in a variety of interests which he may require support with which include music, particularly the genres of rap, hip-hop and grime, attending sensory rooms, collecting teddy bears and watching TV such as Thomas the Tank Engine, In the Night Garden, The Goldbergs, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, American Dad and Ice Hockey.

The service user would like to be supported by someone who is comfortable working around cats as he does have a cat in his home. He also has acute sensory issues so ideally needs staff to avoid the use of strong perfume whilst working with him as this gives him headaches and sensory overload.

Candidates will require excellent communication skills. Experience and knowledge of the service user’s conditions are not a requirement as long as you have an open mind and are empathetic warm, patient, understanding, reliable and non-judgemental.

The possession of a clean drivers licence and willingness to drive service user vehicles (a manual) would be desirable for this role as the service user has a mobility car and struggles greatly with public transport.

In return we offer a wide range of benefits to ensure job satisfaction. This includes:
• QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care Level 2, 3 and 5
• Free life assurance
• Pension with company contribution
• A range of employee discounts

Love meeting new people and passionate about fundraising in a fast paced environment?

Join us!  We are looking for a Fundraising Champion to join our expanding team here at Reuben’s Retreat.

This is an exciting new role and will be an amazing opportunity for the successful candidate with room for progression.

OVERVIEW

Reuben's Retreat was founded in August 2012 just 2 days after 23-month old Reuben moved to heaven. His legacy “Reuben's Retreat” will be a home from home for children with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses to spend time with their family, to relax and recharge.  It already serves as a bereavement counselling support centre for families that have lost a child and for parents whose children may not reach adulthood.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

The postholder will be responsible for creating fundraising events/activities that have a positive impact on the income to the charity. In addition, the postholder will work closely with the Senior Fundraiser, Operations Manager and Chief Executive to achieve Reuben’s Retreat’s wider fundraising aims.

Job Specification & Person Spec are attached

All criteria is desirable, not essential, however we would expect your experience to meet a good proportion of these and have the ability to perform well in other areas quickly and efficiently.

You must hold a full UK Driving License and have access to a car.

To apply, please send:

– A copy of your CV with a covering letter (1000 words) explaining why you want the job and outlining how you meet the criteria for the role

– A personal statement (1000 words) with examples of how you meet our charity core values as outlined in the job specification

If you have any questions about this exciting role, please call 01457-680023 and ask for Stacey.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Survivors Manchester is currently looking for someone special, someone that has the passion to ensure that everything this amazing organisation does is of quality, that it remains authentic to its roots, and it continues to deliver on what male survivors want. Are you that person?

For the past 11 years, Survivors Manchester has provided survivor-focused therapeutic and advocacy support to male victims/survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation. We have developed a three tiered approach to services and underpin everything we do with a 'trauma and recovery' framework pioneered by Dr Judith Herman.

As our Clinical Lead (Community), you will help us develop, manage and deliver our quality assured trauma-informed services to over 950 male (including trans and non-binary) survivors annually. You will help us ensure that the 2 - 3 new men that ask for help each day hear our voice and know we will help them develop their own healing journey; and you will play your part in our collective effort to #BreakTheSilence on the sexual abuse of boys and men. 

Whilst you will lead our amazing team of Trauma-Informed Therapists, Independent Sexual Violence Advisors, and Group & Community Development Team; manage our community based services; you will also deliver trauma-informed talking therapy services to identifying male, trans and non-binary victims and survivors sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation.

You will be a qualified counsellor / psychotherapist who holds a Diploma in Counselling / Psychotherapy or equivalent and be registered with BACP or equivalent (preferably an accredited member). You will understand issues relating to sexual violence, particularly as experienced by males; have experience of working in a highly confidential setting and of managing workforce teams.

In return for your time, experience and commitment to the organisation, you will receive an annual salary of £33,000 – £37,000; 25 days annual leave (increasing annually by 1 day to max of 30 days) plus bank holidays; company sick pay; monthly clinical supervision; pension contribution; and a range of training opportunities.

If this is a role that you think you could achieve great things in, then we want to hear from you.

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society – do you share our passion to live in a world free from slavery?

We are seeking an experienced and well-qualified HR Adviser to join the team at Hope for Justice, with a primary focus on recruitment, staff development and well-being.

Overview

Main Purpose

To provide advice and assistance to line managers in relation to a broad range of HR matters with a main focus on recruitment, staff development and well-being.

Department: Operations/HR

Location: Head Office

Reporting To: HR Manager

Main Duties

• Deliver high quality HR advice to staff and managers in relation to all aspects of the employee lifecycle ensuring compliance with policies, employment law and regulations
• Provide HR support on all aspects of operational HR including recruitment across Head Office and the wider group.
• Assist with the management of all core Employee Relations cases (incl sickness, performance management, grievance and disciplinary processes)
• Liaise with the HR Manager to ensure appropriate support provided on complex ER issues
• Champion the development of people management skills within the group
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR systems and practices
• Manage the dedicated HR mail accounts

Key Result Areas

• All HR enquiries responded to promptly and with accuracy
• HR systems and practices developed for efficiency
• People Management development

Soft Skills

• Excellent organisational/prioritisation skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to identify staff development needs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Technical Skills

• Ability to write and present information
• Generalist HR experience
• Experience with HRIS (desired)

Experience & Education

• Minimum level 5 CIPD qualified or equivalent
• Proven experience facilitating, advising, guiding and supporting line managers on a range of ER issues
• Demonstrable understanding of HR compliance with legislation
• In depth knowledge of best practice HR operations & processes

Full and part time positions available 

Remote working from home with occasional visits to the office at either Oldham or Stockport.

Travel across Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale & Trafford may also be required occasionally.

The Citizens Advice services across Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford are leading providers of advice and information, supporting tens of thousands of clients every year and we are now looking to recruit ambitious individuals to join our growing team.

Working on our telephone AdviceLine service and/or other digital channels you will provide an Emergency Triage service to clients from across Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford supporting them to get the advice they need for the problems they face.

With a demand of over 50,000 calls per year, the AdviceLine service is the most popular access channel for clients to access information, advice and guidance.

The ideal candidate will have experience of working within a target driven environment where excellent customer service is provided and the client is at the heart of everything they do.  

You will have the ability to control a telephone interview and/or digital communications whilst gaining the right level of information from the client allowing you to support the clients next steps in solving their issue.

We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, as they are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Closing date: 16th July 2020 - 9 am

Online assessment: Provisional date set for Thursday 23rd July 2020. 

Face to face Interviews: Provisional date set for Thursday 30th July 2020

Please take a look at our full job pack, and apply on our website.

Social Prescribing Link Worker (bilingual) – Oldham

At Action Together we see the amazing things people achieve when they work together to make the lives of others better. If you share our values; believe it’s possible; strengthen others and be true, we’d love you to consider joining our team.

Action Together are recruiting a Social Prescribing Link Worker to expand our established Social Prescribing Service by delivering our model in GP surgeries and community venues across Oldham. This post requires the successful candidate to be bilingual (fluent in English and another language spoken by Oldham communities eg; Bengali, Urdu, Bhangla and Sylheti). 

The Role

• To work as a key part of the established Oldham Social Prescribing Service, as part of an honorary contract with the Primary Care Network and their constituent practices.
• To work alongside people living within Oldham, building on “what matters to me”, to coproduce a simple “wellbeing action plan” based on the person`s strengths, needs and preferences, connecting them to community activities and support to improve their health and wellbeing.
• To support people in Oldham to play a more active role in managing their health and wellbeing by accessing community-based provision that improves their community connections & supports them to improve their personal resilience.To work closely with Primary Care to bridge the gap between clinical services and social prescribing.
• To manage a caseload of clients referred into the service by health & social care professionals.
• To hold clinics in each of the GP practices to meet with potential clients referred from the practice and carry out home/community visits as required with those clients

About You

The ideal candidate for this role will have;

• Experience of working with people to identify their strengths and to help them reach their aims
• Experience of community based remote working 
• Experience of developing successful working relationships with partners from other agencies
• Experience of managing your own caseload and working autonomously
• The ability to communicate fluently in English and another language spoken by Oldham communities eg; Bengali, Urdu, Bhangla and Sylheti.
• Understanding of the health and social care system and where social prescribing fits in
• Working knowledge of safeguarding practices, information sharing and data protection

If you are looking for a new challenge and enjoy working in a varied role as part of a busy and dynamic team, making positive changes to people and the communities of Oldham, then this could be the role for you.

Salary: NJC scale 19-22 £25,295 (pro rata for 18 hours)

Hours: 36 hours per week or 18 hours per week

Length of contract; 12 months fixed term (potential to extend dependant on funding)

Location: Oldham - Primary Care Networks

The closing date for applications is 07 August 2020

Interviews will take place mid August 2020

Please note- previous applicants for this post need not apply

All applications must be made via the application form on our website.

Be a Disability Gamechanger and join us as an In work Support Advisor on our national employment service. Support to Work provides employment advice and guidance to disabled people across England and Wales.

You will manage a caseload of customers who have recently started work. You will help them to create an action plan so they can be successful in their new role.

This will be done over the phone and via our online portal.

About the role

We are looking to recruit 2 experienced advisers with knowledge of employability in the field of disability.

You will need excellent communication skills and experience in a customer-facing role. This should include experience of supporting customers remotely online and over the phone.

To succeed in this role you will need to:

• have a flexible approach
• respond positively to change
• work well under pressure
• deal with conflicting priorities.

This service is open 9am to 7pm, Monday to Friday. You will need to be flexible and work 35 hours a week on a rota basis to support the team.

The job is currently home-based due to coronavirus. When we return to our offices, you can do this job from either Leeds or Manchester.

About you

You should bring drive and enthusiasm to your role and care passionately about improving disabled people's lives through employment.

You'll need to be confident with digital technology. Good working knowledge of IT including Microsoft Office products is essential. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft dynamics would be desirable.

You should be dynamic and results driven with demonstrable evidence of performance across a range of outcomes. Excellent negotiation skills will allow you to positively influence at all levels.

Skills and experience

• Excellent customer service skills, especially over the phone
• Experience of providing employment advice to a diverse group of customers.
• Knowledge of the national employment market
• Experience working in a team.
• Excellent written skills.
• Digitally confident with knowledge of CRM systems, especially Microsoft Dynamics, Skype for Business and Call Handling .
• Agreement with ‘Social model of disability’ approach

Disabled candidates

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of Scope’s mission and we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace with equality of opportunity for everyone.

We welcome applications from disabled people and guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum job criteria. Please let us know in your application if you would like to be considered for this.

Hope for Justice is seeking experienced and enthusiastic professionals who are able to work directly with survivors, offering legal advocacy and specialist support and advice.

Could you join our team of Independent Modern Slavery Advocates, helping people who have been victims of modern slavery to understand and access their entitlements to welfare and housing benefits, conducting needs-led assessments, and signposting them to relevant services?

The successful candidates will have worked previously with vulnerable adults in an advisory capacity, and have excellent knowledge of welfare benefits law and the laws relating to modern slavery. They must also have demonstrable core legal skills including research, advocacy, negotiation, drafting and interviewing. A full list of required skills, competencies, duties and responsibilities is available in the Role Profile, below.

These full-time positions will be based at Hope for Justice Head Office in central Manchester.

Role Profile - Independent Modern Slavery Advocate

Department: UK Programmes - Advocacy

Location: Head Office, Manchester

Main Purpose

• To provide advocacy and victim services to survivors of modern slavery in the UK - managing a caseload, conducting assessments and developing pathways for survivors.
• To provide advice to professionals and individuals, building partnerships with other organisations and providing specialised training.
• To support Hope for Justice’s ‘Reforming Society’ agenda.

Main Duties

• Empowering survivors by providing a clear overview of their rights and entitlements in theirown language, providing options and choices every step of the way
• Once the survivor understands their rights, providing a detailed assessment (legal and support needs, including an individual risk assessment and safety planning). Anticipating and understanding the barriers victims face and the advocacy needed to overcome barriers
• Ensuring smooth transfer into safe accommodation and into the community, advocating for clear pathways of support for the survivor in accordance with the non-statutory government endorsed Slavery and Trafficking Survivor Care Standards 2018, produced by the Human Trafficking Foundation
• Act as a single point of contact for the survivor and relevant agencies through all processes. Providing a point of trust for the victim and high-quality communication with all relevant agencies
• Ensure “supported” referrals to relevant legal and support agencies - including supported housing; victim/witness support; and immigration, civil compensation, public law and criminal law solicitors
• Where necessary, support attendance at appointments, empowering and advocating for the survivor’s needs and wishes to be heard in all processes, as well as supporting the survivor to negotiate these processes and overcome barriers in processes
• Assist survivors in developing confidence to do things themselves to foster independence
• Ensuring the survivor is well supported as a witness through criminal and civil proceedings and ensuring their voice is heard in these proceedings
•  Establishing good working relationships with key agencies and services the survivor routinely interacts with e.g. support workers, social services, GPs and other statutory and non-statutory agencies, to help ensure clients receive coordinated help and support
• Manage a caseload to ensure every client has opportunities to access relevant services appropriate to their individual needs
• General file management and compliance with professional legal ethics, including confidentiality

Key Result Areas

• Progressing caseload from initial assessment to closure, addressing identified needs
• Building and maintaining partnerships with other organisations (including state and NGO) to create opportunities for survivors of modern slavery
• Supporting the Reforming Society agenda – providing evidence base for reform; providing advice and training, where necessary, to agencies in the community to improve responses to victims of modern slavery thus creating lasting structural change

Soft Skills

• Communication skills (including presentation)
• Relationship management
• Creative problem solving
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Negotiation & conflict resolution
• Decisiveness
• Listening & providing feedback
• Positive attitude and resilience
• Empathy and emotional intelligence
• Critical thinking and attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure & time management
• Flexibility
• Self-motivation and strong work ethic

Technical Skills

• Strategic and operational knowledge of modern slavery and broader Human Rights legislation
• Understanding of the legal rights and obligations of victims of modern slavery – including an understanding of immigration, housing, community care, welfare benefits, public law, civil law (including access to compensation), debts and victim rights in the criminal justice process
• Advocacy, research and drafting skills
• Interviewing skills, particularly in relation to vulnerable people
• Maintaining professional boundaries
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency

Experience & Education

• Educated to Degree level
• Previous work with vulnerable adults, ideally with a legal or social work background
• Enhanced DBS check
   

Are you a warm, highly motivated person with person-centred values who can empower and support people with a learning disability to transform their lives?  Are you creative, proactive and willing to go the extra mile to enable people to achieve their aspirations?

We are recruiting Relief Support Workers to support tenants with learning disabilities or autism to enjoy an excellent quality of life in a range of supported living services in the Tameside area.  You will work in collaboration with the service user, their family and wider support network to maximise their health and wellbeing and to promote their independence and community connections.

Our supported living services enable people to lead fulfilling and valued lives, maintain their tenancies, participate in their local community, develop independent living skills and achieve their desired outcomes.  As well as providing direct care and support, you will have the opportunity to act as a Key Worker supporting people to achieve their dreams and goals.

A high level of motivation and personal commitment is required along with demonstrable skills in engaging service users in their own support. You will also be expected to work professionally alongside Care Managers and health professionals and to communicate positively with the families of service users.

Our relief roles for Tameside require relevant experience of supporting people with a learning disability or autism. You will need good verbal and written communication skills and the ability to develop good quality support plans. You will have a strong work ethic and duty of care and be able to contribute to a positive, team approach.

The services are located across Tameside and are easily accessible by public transport.

Are you an excellent listener with a calm and responsive approach?

We are looking for an individual experienced in social care who has excellent customer care skills and a positive and confident communication style. You will need to be able to deal with issues that arise in a calm manner, offering appropriate support and advice to those who call. You will also require good IT and administration skills including Microsoft Word and Excel.

Senior responsibilities:
This role is ideal for those individuals who are looking to progress into management whilst working within a very experienced and established team.

You will also be expected to carry out routine administration tasks such as preparing personnel files for CQC inspections, recording & managing incident reports and collating & organising timesheets.

Terms of the role:
Hours are on a waking night basis, shifts will operation from 7.50pm till 08:10am.

Due to the nature of this role, the post is not suitable for individuals with commitments during the day which may affect their ability to perform a waking night shift.

The Out of Hours Service…

Creative Support’s Out of Hours service, based at our Head Office in Stockport Town Centre, provides essential support to staff, service users and third parties outside of normal office hours every day including Christmas Day.

The OOH Service offers expert internal advice as a telephone service, run each night by a qualified and trained social care advisor and a trained administrator. The core purpose of the service is to respond to serious issues and incidents that arise within the organisations services nationally.

What We Offer…

This is a perfect opportunity for those who are seeking to progress in the health and social care sector. We will support your continuous development by offering training and support. You may also have the opportunity to get involved in other aspects of quality within Creative Support such as assisting with key pieces of quality work.

Highways Engineer (Liveable Cities and Towns)

£28,667 per annum

(Inclusive of a Recruitment and Retention allowance)

(Ref: SUS2935)

37.5 hours per week - base: Manchester/Liverpool

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a Highways Engineer to join a truly collaborative team who design and deliver innovative solutions for walking and cycling infrastructure. Working together to achieve our strategic priority of liveable cities and towns for everyone, we are very proud of our portfolio of ground-breaking community-led projects such as the award-winning Levenshulme Bee Network, Liverpool School Neighbourhoods and York School Streets. We work across networks, neighbourhoods and streets, working hand in hand with local communities reshaping their streets and alongside Local Authorities unlocking the wider road network to encourage greater active travel. Underpinning all our work is a passion for sustainability and support for our vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone.  

We are looking for a talented engineer with a background in delivering quality highway infrastructure schemes and ideally with a track record of working with community groups and partners. Someone who can help us develop and progress feasibility reports, prepare designs and contracts and see our active travel projects through to construction and delivery. In return we can help you to develop new skills and give you the freedom to express yourself creatively. We also encourage professional development with our industry-leading internal multi-disciplinary training opportunities and support towards attaining incorporated or chartered status, including ICE and CIHT. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team who really enjoy working together and value the contribution and expertise each individual brings.

Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am Monday 20 July 2020.  Interviews will take place via MS Teams on Thursday 23 or Friday 24 July 2020.

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion. We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.