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We have an exciting opportunity for someone committed to working with community members and people with lived experience to support their initiatives and ideas related to death dying and loss.
Based in the Community Action Team at St Christopher’s Hospice, the Community Practice Development Lead will be a key part of our work on societal change, developing community-based projects which explore new modes of care for others and ourselves at the end of life, and build confidence for a range of community members in end of life processes and planning.
To succeed in this role, you will:
- Ensure that the way we do things is participatory, shares leadership and looks for opportunities across all our work to enable community members and citizens in End of Life issues.
- Have a passion for working with people to support their initiatives and ideas and build strong relationships with them.
- Support people with lived experience to address their own ambitions for helping themselves and each other.
- Be committed to societal change and of working together to take new approaches to seemingly entrenched challenges.
- Comfortable and reflexive about changing power and leadership in healthcare and keen to learn and help others understand the potential of these approaches.
- Able to explore and work with people at the end of life and death, dying and loss, and appreciate intersectional experiences of life, death and loss.
About us
We are a world-leading hospice aspiring to a world in which all dying people and those close to them have access to care and support, whenever and wherever they need it. St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating over 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 7,500 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We seek to work in partnership with communities to find ways to respond to societal need and create change, and to develop a mutual response to a population which is living with growing challenges.
Please note that this post is being offered on a 3-year Fixed Term Contract, and there will be an opportunity for flexibility regarding work hours.
St Christopher’s is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, faith and religion, disability and age, although we are underrepresented across the organisation with BAME and LGBT employees, and thus we encourage applications from these groups.
Benefits of joining St Christopher’s
- You will gain a stimulating and rewarding role with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community
- Access to excellent training and development opportunities
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- A number of health and wellbeing schemes
- A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan
- An onsite staff canteen
- Access to plenty of free local street parking
Closing Date: 4th July 2021 at Midnight
Interview Date: TBC
In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.
Age UK Wandsworth is an independent charity that works to promote the well-being of all older people in the London Borough of Wandsworth. This is a brand new role, funded by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust, to start up and deliver indoor and outdoor activities (e.g. coffee mornings, board games, park walks, photography). We are searching for a self-starter who has excellent communication, organisational and customer-service experience and wants to make a difference to the older veterans in our local community.
What we can offer:
- A warm welcome from our small and friendly team of staff and volunteers and our hypo-allergenic office dog.
- The opportunity to be on the “front line” and really make a difference to the lives of older veterans in Wandsworth.
- A busy work place where no day is ever the same.
- An experienced leadership team who believe in the value of personal and professional development. We will provide training on our services and in areas such as safeguarding and GDPR.
You will:
- Have experience of organising activities/events, ideally with vulnerable groups. Be a “connector”, who enjoys chatting with and bringing people together.
- Be comfortable organising and taking part in outdoor activities in all weather conditions, i.e. have the mindset that there is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.
- Be competent in Microsoft Office Applications, including Excel and Word. Experience using other bespoke IT systems, e.g. databases, would be beneficial to your application, but we can offer training in this area. You will need to be IT literate to manage client data and reporting schedules.
- Have a positive “can-do” attitude, excellent time-management and be an excellent communicator who approach challenges with enthusiasm.
Age UK Wandsworth is committed to safeguarding all those in our care. All offers are subject to satisfactory references and DBS check. CVs will not be considered. You can download an application pack, which includes a job description and person specification, from our website.
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Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with Age UK Kensington & Chelsea, an independent, local charity supporting older people to remain connected within their community. They offer a range of different services designed with the views and preferences of their service users at the forefront; from Integrated Health Teams and Social Prescribing, to befriending, to dementia support, to combatting loneliness and isolation, to Information and Advice, practical help and homecare, to Digital Inclusion. They also offer Social Prescribing to people over the age of 18 via their trading arm, Age United. They are now recruiting for an Operations Manager to oversee their integrated health and social prescribing services.
Reporting up to the Director of Services, you will provide leadership across two of Age UK K&C's teams; My Care My Way (MCMW), an exciting integrated care service, providing additional support for older adults in GP practices, and Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLW), a new community-connector service for over 18s embedded across five Primary Care Networks. You will ensure that outcomes for both services are achieved through effective management practices and will motivate and support staff to build long term and sustainable relationships within the GP practices in which they are located. You will work alongside the Director of Services in providing strategic oversight for both services, and will contribute to the development and maintenance of systems to improve service delivery and ensure consistent quality of care.
To apply for this role you will have significant experience of managing and developing frontline teams across the health, social and voluntary sector. You will have significant experience of working with and supporting older people, as well as an understanding of the health and wider social issues affecting them. You will have demonstrable experience of working within primary care, and alongside clinical leads and senior staff. Overall, you will be a strong project manager, skilled at monitoring and evaluating services, and working to ensure the highest quality of service provision for all beneficiaries.
Please initially apply by submitting your CV in Word format (cover letters are not required at this stage). Successful candidates will then be contacted and provided with further information.
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