Rochdale & District Mind’s Listening Lounge aims to provide an alternative for people who utilise crisis helplines, access emergency departments for mental health support or need a listening ear outside of core mental health hours. This service aims to improve individuals’ experience and reduce pressure on crisis, hospital and urgent care services.

We are looking to recruit an individual to staff the Listening Lounge sessions, to listen to and support those individuals who attend in crisis. The Listening Lounge sessions take place on evenings and weekends in Rochdale and Middleton, providing out of hours sessions in a comfortable environment, offering a range of support and informal interventions in order to prevent escalation.

Main duties:

• Providing mental health & wellbeing assessments, reviews, support groups and one to one support.
• Specialising in one or more of the following: substance, self-harm, suicide risk, managing difficult emotions, domestic abuse, housing, debt and benefits or similar.
• Implementing wellbeing based outcome tools such as the WEMWBS, PHQ & GAD or others as required.
• Providing help and advice about additional services so that individuals have a full appreciation of the services available within the borough.
• Supporting individuals in developing their own Wellbeing plan by identifying and accessing services to meet their needs.

Closing date for applications day 16th February 2022 at Midnight.
Shortlisting 17th February 2022.
Interviews to be held 22nd / 23rd February 2022.
Start Date 1st April 2022.

- Stoke-on-Trent Community Drug and Alcohol Service offers support to adults and young people who are concerned about their drug and alcohol use.

Our Stoke Community Drug and Alcohol service is looking for an individual to join our team. The role will be a Recovery Worker with a lead on families within our service. This includes a caseload of pre and post natal clients, clients with safeguarding contact, working within our partnership agencies including the local hospital and regular communication with partner agencies including Social care and Specialist Midwives.

Ideally you will have experience of working in a health social care/substance misuse setting. Safeguarding experience and working with families is preferable. We are looking for positive and motivated candidates who are able to communicate with a wide range of people and in different settings. You will also be results driven, highly organised with excellent time management skills.

Further information

This job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level with Barred List(s).

This is a permanent full time position for 37.5 hours per week.

Interviews may be held virtually via Google meet on the 16 February 2022.

What’s great about working with children and young people?

It’s so many things, seeing young people develop skills, confidence and self-esteem… making friends… trying new things… developing resilience… establishing their own identity… achieving dreams and goals… reaching their potential!

You could be part of this.

We are looking for someone who can quickly establish rapport with children and young people and their families, and take the lead in arranging and delivering fun activities that challenge and inspire participants.  

You’ll join an established team working with vulnerable children and young people aged 8-19 years, delivering a programme of late afternoon activities, Saturday clubs and school holiday trips and events.

You will build the programme for your area; planning, organising and risk assessing activities that match the interests and needs of the young people, supporting personal development, independence and community engagement. You’ll then lead the activities, working alongside colleagues and volunteers to support the young people to participate, interact and make choice and decisions together.

You’ll be allocated an existing caseload of children and young people with disabilities, and will take on new referrals, working with participants and their families to create appropriate care plans. You will need to keep excellent records and maintain regular communication with families.

We want to reach more young people, so there will be opportunities to promote the service by visiting schools and community groups, and to develop wider networks.

This is a full-time role to include Saturdays, with flexibility on the other days and hours to be worked. The role covers West Kent so you must have your own car. We have several offices across the area, so base is flexible.

About the role:

This role sits within the team to cultivate relationships and support the Postgraduate experience at uea(su). This includes supporting the Postgraduate Education Officer in delivering their education portfolio; to work with students, UEA staff, and staff at uea(su) to ensure the academic interests of students studying in the Faculty of Social Sciences are represented effectively, and to support thriving student academic societies in this faculty.

The role holder will work across uea(su) to deliver a bespoke experience for students studying in SSF, to make sure our union is meeting their needs, and to support a strong partnership with academic staff in these faculties.

Duties of the role include, but are not limited to:

Support the Postgraduate Education Officer to deliver the education aspects of their portfolio

Oversee support for Postgraduate democracy, working together with other members of the Student Voice team to ensure effective and fair processes

Provide bespoke support for academic representatives (Convenors, Course Reps) and other student leaders in the Faculty of Social Sciences (SSF). Working to develop their leadership and advocacy skills and working with relevant staff and Officers across uea(su) to remove barriers to participation.

Oversee recruitment of SSF Course Reps and Convenors, in collaboration with School Student Partnership Officers to ensure students across the Faculty are properly represented

Ensure that all Course Reps in the Faculty receive appropriate training and support to deal with students’ issues, and to prepare for SSLC and other School or Faculty meetings

Support SSF to develop an annual student voice plan, working with students and staff from the Faculty to identify priorities, and implement improvements

Ensure effective communication between the faculty and SU is maintained via regular update meetings with key academic role holders in the faculty (e.g Student Partnership Officers, Associate Directors for Teaching)

Where appropriate, attend committees and other meetings in the faculty providing support to student leaders and insight into the student experience

Length of contract:   12 months fixed term 

Salary:  £22,183 to £26,511 per annum (NJC scale 12/21)

Based at: Trafford

Hours:  30 hours                                                                                                       

Our Mission

We help people to achieve the outcomes that matter to them in their lives, by providing high quality advocacy.

Purpose of role

The role of a community advocate will be to provide support to individuals 18+ within the community to have a voice in decisions affecting their life, whilst helping them to understand their rights. The role will require the post holder to promote self-advocacy and empowerment and enable people to make informed decisions and get their views heard in matters relating to mental health and/or care and support needs within health and social care. This will be through one-to-one advocacy and other models of advocacy as required. This activity will include working with people of all ages, including those with learning disabilities, people with mental health needs, people with physical and sensory impairment, and older people.

Here are a few examples of how you could be supporting someone:

• Supporting a parent to have a voice when dealing with children social care services.
• Supporting a person to navigate health services and attend appointments such as mental health services or the GP.
• Supporting a person to access and navigate adult social care services
• Supporting a person to express dissatisfaction with services such as NHS Organisations or Adult Social Care or speaking on the phone if appropriate.
• Support a person to understand what services are available to them both statutory and in the community to meet their health and social care needs.

The new ICS Officer role will help place the public, patient and service user voice at the heart of Gloucestershire’s ICS.  This includes seeking the views and experiences of the public, patients and community groups.  Engagement with local people takes place in health and care settings, through voluntary sector partners and in local communities.  The ICS Officer will liaise with key partners and representatives across the ICS to support the key priorities of Gloucestershire’s Health and Care System.  The post will play a key independent role in the delivery of the ICS’s Working with People and Communities Strategy.  

Job Summary

You will be required to:

• Collaborate with the Gloucestershire ICS’s Engagement and Involvement teams to support the strategic priorities of the system. 
• Design and deliver a range of engagement activities, using a range of techniques to reach diverse communities throughout the county.
• Use a variety of methods in monitoring and evaluating people’s experiences, including identifying themes and concerns as well as identifying good practice.
• Focus on outcomes and improvement of ICS delivery in health and care services.
• Draft reports, with the support of colleagues, that ICS partners can use to improve public, patient and service user experience.
• Develop close working relationships with key individuals and groups across the ICS, it’s provider members and VCS organisations.
• Attend key ICS meetings on a regular basis.
• Maintain the independence of Healthwatch Gloucestershire in being an authentic voice of the public, patients and service users in dealings with all partners.
• Work with Healthwatch Gloucestershire team members to deliver the best outcomes. 
• Work with the Volunteering Officer to engage volunteers in supporting ICS work.
• Work with the EC Communication team to design materials – logos, leaflets and images – to promote the work.
• Provide regular updates and progress reports to the Healthwatch Gloucestershire Manager and Local Board.

We’re working with a membership body who are looking for a Community Coordinator to join their team. You’ll support the member experience whilst driving engagement and growth. You’ll identify and provide training, guidance and support to internal and external stakeholders, enduring activity and engagement through planned content. You’ll also repurpose content for use on a range of social media platforms, providing statistic-based reporting.

You’ll create, recommend and execute community engagement programmes, actioning these plans across the member community platform. You’ll act as a champion for the online member community, whilst also encourage the community to engage and see the benefit of connecting on the platform. Additionally, you’ll work alongside the marketing team to create compelling content for the member community across a range of channels.

You will need:

• Ability to investigate, evaluate and analyse information to produce actionable insight
• Excellent content creation skills, including social media platforms
• Excellent reporting skills
• Ideally membership body experience

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call Chloe on 02030 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner

Hours of work: 18 hours over 3 days a week

Accountable:  Chief Executive Officer

Term:                12 Month Fixed -Maternity Cover

Location:         All MFT Locations as required, home and online working

Accepting Aplications until: 6th February 2022

Role Description

Main purpose of the post

To empower people with lived experience of mental health problems to utilise their expertise to improve the way mental health services are developed, reviewed, and delivered through co-production and involvement.
 

Co-production is where professionals and people with lived experience of mental health conditions work together to plan and deliver support, in partnership. It has been described as “a meeting of minds coming together to find shared solutions.” (Think Local Act Personal)

It’s also about people working together so that we move away from ‘doing to’ people to an approach that is ‘doing with’.

At Mary Frances Trust we have a long history of ‘working with’ people who use our services on an individual level.

We would like to however, take another step up and, recognising there is a room for improvement, focus and commit to full co-production also on service and strategic level – through our Advisory Group.

It will be for the Co-production & Community Engagement Worker to work with the Advisory Group to increase the members’ skills and knowledge so that they could meaningfully contribute to the strategic development of the Mary Frances Trust.

To do this, the Co-Production worker will need to understand the needs of the people using the service, while also having an awareness of the operational requirements of the Charity. This will enable better communication and understanding, so that Mary Frances Trust can be truly Co-Produced.

Key Responsibilities

1. Actively promote, coordinate and facilitate the work of Mary Frances Trust’s Advisory Group.

2. Outreach and community engagement to increase membership of the Advisory Group, across all areas of mental health and social care (secondary and primary, statutory and non-statutory) this includes but is not exhaustive of:

• Targeting minority groups and utilising creativity to engage people in ways that are meaningful for them.
• Regularly traveling to and engaging with people that use our services and service providers across the borough within their service settings; GP surgeries, recovery mental health teams, resource centres, supported housing, faith groups etc.
• Produce and distribute promotional materials
• Participate in Mary Frances Trust steering groups to e.g. participate in the co-designing of projects. 

3. Facilitate a safe online platform for service users to engage with the Advisory Group, each other and providers, including webpage, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

4. Arrange forums, promote and support people who access our services to attend.

5. Offer support and personal development opportunities on an individual and group basis.

6. Support and co-ordinate co-production engagement pieces for Mary Frances Trust and external stakeholders.

7. Regularly communicate with the Advisory Group providing relevant updates and external opportunities for co-production.

8. Co-produce pages for Mary Frances Trust “Communique” newsletter with people who use our services.

9. Promote, monitor, and collate results of Mary Frances Trust’s Satisfaction Survey.

10. Embrace and facilitate creative ways for people to share their experience and get involved; e.g. photography, poetry, visual arts.

11. Support people who use services and external stakeholders to work collaboratively and in-line with co-production guiding principles.

12. Support development of Co-production knowledge and culture within Mary Frances Trust.

13. Coordinate a pool of people who use our services who participate in staff recruitment internally and with external stakeholder organisations as and when required.

14. Compose and manage the Co-production budget.

15. Create and maintain good networking with other relevant groups and organisations.

16. Maintain records and data and to provide reports as required.

17. Work within the policies and procedures of Mary Frances Trust and to attend meetings and training as required.

Please download the full Job description and person specification.

To apply please follow the link and apply on Mary Frances Trust Online Application Form -

About Us

Mary Frances Trust (MFT) is a charity established in 1994 by people who used mental health services, carers and professionals to support people with any mental or emotional wellbeing problems. MFT is a lead provider of non-clinical mental wellbeing services in Surrey.

Mary Frances Trust (MFT) actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for our charity, and that diversity make us stronger.

Our Vision

We believe anyone experiencing any kind of mental or emotional health issues should be unafraid to ask for help, receive appropriate support for as long as they need, and feel inspired to develop the skills that will help them to restore and maintain their own wellbeing.

Our Mission

Our mission is to:

• Work alongside people experiencing any kind of emotional or mental health issues for as long as they need and inspire them to develop the skills that will help them to restore and maintain their emotional wellbeing.
• Involve people with experience of mental health at every level of the organisation so they can help us design, deliver, monitor, and review our services to ensure they respond to their changing needs.
• Consistently challenge stigma attached to mental illness and raise awareness of the importance for everyone to look after their mental wellbeing.
• Lead and co-ordinate the development and delivery of first-class, voluntary mental health services in Surrey.
• Maintain sufficient funding streams to be able to provide person-centered services to people experiencing any kind of emotional or mental issues.

Our Values

We are:

Inspiring

We offer everyone a personal, tailored approach with the space to think, try things out and find out what is working for them. We support people to draw from their own strengths and resources. We inspire and empower them to develop the skills that will help them to become experts at maintaining their own wellbeing.

Inclusive

The people we support aren’t passive recipients of services we design for them. We believe in a strength-based approach, where we listen and tap into their expertise. We involve them in every aspect of our organization, including the design, delivery, monitoring, review and development of services that respond to their changing needs.

Connected

We believe in the power of connections. Our services are always designed to help people connect or re-connect with their local community. We work in collaboration with local and national organisations to provide access to first-class mental health support in the communities we serve.

Respectful

We welcome everyone, and value equality and mutual respect. We offer the people we support a place where they feel safe and belong. We treat them with the same care as our staff and volunteers. We are committed to carrying our values in everything we do – both inside and outside of our organisation.

Positive

Our mental health shouldn’t dictate who we are or limit what we do. We support and inspire everyone to achieve their own goals and potential, so they can lead a fulfilling emotional life. We believe that everyone can find their own mental wellbeing, whether they have a serious mental health condition or not.

Richmond Mind is the leading voluntary provider of mental health support in the borough. We see an increasing need for mental health support both in our existing service users and the wider population and you will be joining us at a time of significant opportunity for development.

We want to ensure service user voice is heard and services are co-produced to ensure services are designed that meet their needs. You will lead on arranging and delivering a series of consultation and engagement events designed to hear from our current, and potential, clients and stakeholders across our range of services.

Our peer led services provide individuals with a unique opportunity to offer and receive support in order to improve the quality of their own, and others’ lives.You will coordinate and support our dynamic and exciting team of peer volunteers (who all have their own lived experience of mental health issues), to increase the wellbeing and resilience of our members through a programme of group support and activities. 

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about motivating and coaching individuals with mental health issues, and with an understanding of how the recovery approach can support both volunteers and members on their journey to recovery. As well as having an empathy with the core values of RB Mind, the successful applicant will have experience of consultation, supporting volunteers, facilitating groups, and an awareness of the boundaries we work within when supporting vulnerable adults. The applicant will be enthusiastic and self-motivated, and must be able to work on their own initiative. 

Benefits of working for RB Mind:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year, increasing by 1 day per full year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) [pro rata].
• Bonus 1 day of annual leave per year over the festive period (subject to Trustee approval) [pro rata]
• Flexible working/Option of working from home (subject to CEO approval)
• Paid time off for medical appointments
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Training and personal development opportunities
• Staff away days and socials
• Access to shared resources and training opportunities via Mind Federated Network

Richmond Borough Mind values diversity and difference. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community, particularly individuals with lived experience of mental health problems.

OVERVIEW

Salary: Up to £23,000 (dependent upon experience)

Working hours: This is a Full Time post working 36.5 hours per week Monday - Friday. We are looking for a team member that will be able to work in a flexible way, including occasional evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the service.

Location: Birmingham community based with some office working (and some remote homeworking during the pandemic) 

Contract type: Fixed term contract until 28/12/2023

Introduction to The Active Wellbeing Society

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives. We provide a wide range of services and programmes that support people’s mental and physical wellbeing. Services include community food support, telephone advice and listening services, physical and social activity programmes, social prescribing services and community development and engagement programmes. We also run virtual wellbeing support programmes for patients and citizens.

You may like to watch this introductory video which showcases the positive work of The Active Wellbeing Society: TAWS Launch October 2018 - YouTube

Introduction to the role and team

Our vision is to create stronger, healthier more resilient communities by connecting residents to each other and the places that they live. TAWS’ Food and Sharing team delivers a range of activities, from running community cafes using surplus produce, to providing opportunities for people to share skills, knowledge and resources for local benefit. The team has been increasingly working with a range of partners to explore the role of land use and the food system and how public land could be used to support food growing, spaces for nature to support wellbeing and for community connection and cohesion. We convene a food growing network, a multi-skilled community of organisations and individuals working in this area and have now been funded to deliver land reclamation projects by Sport England funded Active Communities programme as well as by the Future Parks Accelerator and Sustainable Food Places.

To deliver this work we are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Community Development worker: growing and greening to work with the community and a range of partners to convert disused or underused green space to community use. The postholder will be responsible for engaging communities of all kinds and in particular reaching those for are not usually reached by growing and greening initiatives. They will also work with landowners to find ways of converting spaces to community ownership and/or management in ways that will lead more people to become connected to place, experiencing the wellbeing of being outdoors and in the natural environment. 

The postholder will be passionate about the benefits that green space, outdoor environments and nature can bring to people and will have experience of delivering growing and planting initiatives and community and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will be confident to work with groups, experienced at supporting people to develop “green” skills and able to articulate and explain the benefits to a range of partners. The community development officer will be excellent at partnership working across multiple sectors.

With Covid 19 resulting in so many people having to shield, self-isolate and spend significant amounts of time at home, there are increasing inequalities in access to green space, as well as increasing levels of loneliness and isolation.

As such, engaging people in deprived communities will be a key part of the role, overcoming the complex barriers that prevent residents engaging in growing and nature-based activity and so supporting people to engage with their local green space will be a key aim of the role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities:

1. Deliver programme to convert land in Birmingham and Solihull to community use for growing and nature-based activities.
2. Create and deliver a process for land conversion that supports community ownership / governance / management of spaces to support community cohesion and wellbeing
3. Build connections amongst a range of stakeholders, including local authorities and community groups to develop a cross-functional group to support community food growing.
4. Support teams within TAWS to deliver growing and greening activities into a range of other community activities including low traffic neighbourhoods.
5. Develop a process for skill and asset sharing amongst community groups ensuring that community best practice is captured.
6. Develop workshops where skills and ideas can be shared between groups
7. Develop outdoor initiatives to activate green spaces withing communities.
8. Working with Programme Manager, Data and Insight Team and wider team to accurately record a range of data on our database/data collection systems.
9. Work to develop new opportunities and capture impact
10. Work with comms to develop appropriate materials and promotional info supporting the gathering of stories, case studies and good practice 
11. Represent the organisation at external and internal meetings

12.Promoting growing, green space and nature-based interventions to a range of stakeholders.

13.Working to overcome the barriers to growing and green space experienced by many and the link to wellbeing outcomes.

MAIN DUTIES

1.Delivering greening and growing programmes across a range of funded programmes.

2.Developing a process for converting council owned land to community ownership and/or management in ways that can be scaled across the city.

3.To build a network of community groups and organisations working to create thriving communities through growing and greening.

4.To develop opportunities for skill and asset sharing through workshops and other means.

5.To seek new funding and partnership opportunities.

6.To activate converted spaces through a range of activities.

7.Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support.

8.To ensure you have a knowledge of all the services and activities that TAWs and other key partners in the locality deliver

9.To ensure all data, monitoring and evaluation is kept up to date and reported back as required.

10.To implement and maintain the comprehensive data and evaluation systems, including Happiness Pulse and report any issues highlighted through the HI process.

11.To feedback on-going development, monitoring and evaluation of the programme. Highlighting any issues that need resolving.

12.To provide regular reports detailing the progress of the service and updates as and when required, working with the TAWS team.

13.To recruit and support volunteers and signpost to relevant and required training, matching them to activities for specific time-limited support in achieving positive engagement in activities promoting health and well-being to create future session leaders and to strengthen community resilience.

14.To keep records of your work and adhere to confidentiality, information sharing protocols and provide monitoring information as required.

15.To implement the principles of the TAWS in every aspect of your work and positively promote the principles of the policy amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.

16.To comply with the TAWS Data Protection Policy and to protect the health, safety and welfare of yourself and others. Support local groups to act in accordance with information governance policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act.

17.To work flexibly as required by the service and to take part in TAWS and other organisations’ meetings and events to promote, support and celebrate the work of the service and the partners.

KEY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

1.  Experience of supporting people to grow food or other plants and/or connect to local nature
2. Experience of working proactively to co-create new ways of owning and managing green space for community use.
3. Experience of collaborating with partners to develop new projects and initiatives
4. Experience of leading on a service or project
5. Experience of delivering citizen facing programmes
6. Relevant experience or professional or academic qualification relating to green space, growing and or urban nature.
7. Skills and experience of engaging diverse communities to co-create space for community use.
8. Knowledge of the health benefits of green space and nature and experience in articulating these to multiple groups.
9. Skills in planting, growing, gardening or urban nature.
10. Experience of supporting, training, supervising, motivating and developing volunteers to ensure a high quality service that meets the needs and promotes positive outcomes for individual service users.
11. Proven skills in collating information and data on community resources and organising these in up-to-date and accessible formats for a range of different service users from various communities.
12. Excellent record keeping skills and the proven ability to write comprehensive reports for a variety of stakeholders.
13. Group facilitation skills
14. Excellent IT skills and ability to do own administration using database, PowerPoint and other IT packages.
15. A confident and professional approach to working with a variety of stakeholders including community growers, voluntary sector organisations, Public Health and colleagues within BCC.
16. Excellent written, verbal, listening and presentation skills.
17. A proven understanding of safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults and ability to implement relevant policies and procedures.
18. The ability to work autonomously where needed and to plan, prioritise work under pressure and adapt to new models of working.
19. A commitment to equal opportunities and an understanding of the impact on individual’s, families’ and communities’ health and deprivation.
20. Demonstrable leadership skills
21. Ability to speak more than one language would be an advantage.
22. A positive and can do attitude
23.  Ability to work under pressure and be adaptable
24. Have mutual respect for everyone we work with, work for and support through our services.
25. The ability to work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning.
26. To undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

STAFF BENEFITS

• Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3 % employee contribution.
• Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
• Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)
• Death in Service – x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
• Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days
• Flexible working
• Hybrid working options
• Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly
• Fantastic volunteering opportunities within TAWS every month

APPLICATION DETAILS

Please submit a Cover Letter and CV.

When writing your cover letter we would suggest include an introduction of your experience of the 'Main Duties' and 'Skills & Experience' sections of the advert, but as a minimum please address the following:

1. Skills in planting, growing, gardening or urban nature.
2. Experience of supporting people to grow food or other plants and/or connect to local nature
3. Experience of leading on a service/ project / programme (community facing)
4. Skills and experience of engaging diverse communities to co-create space for community use.
5. Experience of supporting, training, supervising, motivating and developing volunteers to ensure a high quality service that meets the needs and promotes positive outcomes for individual service users.
6. A proven understanding of safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults and ability to implement relevant policies and procedures.
7. Excellent IT skills and ability to do own administration using database, PowerPoint and other IT packages.

Closing date: 9th January 2022

Due to the high numbers of applications we received for our job vacancies, we may close application windows early, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP

Interview date: 17th January 2022

Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked prior to starting.

We will provide all applicants with an outcome on your application, this will usually be within 1 week of the application window closing.

Thank you for your interest in working for The Active Wellbeing Society, we look forward to receiving your application.

It is said that “money makes the world go around” but the global financial system in its current form is in danger of making our world a very inhospitable place indeed for future generations.

Though it has lifted many out of poverty, today the global financial system has an oversized impact on many of the existential challenges we face. Biodiversity loss is such an example, as is climate change and the growing gap between rich and poor in terms of both income and health. Investment, lending and insuring decisions can enable destructive and exploitative industries or they can support a transition to a more sustainable way of living and use of precious resources. The latter approach is known as responsible or ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investment.

ShareAction’s vision is of a world where the financial system serves our planet and its people. Our mission is to define the highest standards of responsible investment and to drive change until these standards are adopted worldwide. We work towards our mission by:

• advocating for change in the investment industry using our research and rankings
• campaigning with allies to strengthen investor stewardship and change corporate behaviour
• pushing for public policy reform to transform the financial system

Position

You will be joining us at an exciting time, when there is rising interest in how banks are addressing climate change risks and fostering the transition to a fairer, cleaner and safer world. This is a rapidly evolving field, and we are looking for someone with excellent relationship skills and a passion to make a difference to join our team.

You will be responsible for supporting ShareAction’s banking work with high-quality engagement with banks and other stakeholders (such as investors, NGOs, high-net worth individuals, and policy-makers), and contributing to the raising of standards in the banking industry on climate change and biodiversity.

Key responsibilities: ​

• You will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with the following, ensuring quality records are kept of interactions (meetings, calls and email) through our CRM system:
• Junior and senior contacts at European banks;
• Junior and senior contacts at asset managers and asset owners;
• Experts and partner organisations to advance the aims of ShareAction’s banking programme;
• Other stakeholders including policy-makers, high-net worth individuals, and NGO partners.
• You will expand the network of investors that the banking team actively works with, convincing them to support relevant engagement opportunities;
• You will mobilise and support high-net worth individuals, foundations and higher education endowments engaging with their banks on climate change;
• You will organise meetings with and present the findings of ShareAction’s biannual surveys and leading practice reports to the banks surveyed. See for example the 2020 Banking on Climate Change survey we published in April 2020 and the Leading Practice report we published in September 2021;
• You will present the findings of our research pieces to banks and investors;
• You will represent the team at internal meetings such as our monthly company engagement meeting and ensure smooth coordination with other teams and contributing to team activities, including project management, monitoring and evaluation, and publication of research.
• You will support team activities such as filing shareholder resolutions and drafting AGM questions;
• You will contribute to the development of our survey methodologies, which will be led by the Financial Sector Research team & members of the Banking Standards team. On an occasional basis, contribute to other pieces of research related to the banking programme;
• You will organise events aimed at presenting our research reports to banks and other important stakeholders, together with others in the team, as well as represent ShareAction in appropriate external forums to amplify impact.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive and the role might change slightly from time to time.

Requirements

We are looking for a passionate, determined individual, with the following experience and skills:

Essential

• At least two years of work experience in or with the banking sector, ideally focused on sustainable banking;
• Experience of managing stakeholder relationships across diverse groups, such as banks, investors, partner organisations, high-net worth individuals, and funders;
• Strong planning, co-ordination and organisational skills including note taking, meeting planning, coordinating collaborative engagement and record keeping;
• Persuasive communication skills (verbal and written) and desire to seek out speaking and networking opportunities;
• Excellent analytical skills – the ability to quickly get to grips with new and complex subject areas, assimilate information, pull out the relevant points and communicate them to internal and external audiences, even when you have not undertaken the research yourself;
• Good presentation skills and confidence speaking to large audiences;
• Great team player, who is happy to take advice and direction from colleagues working in other work programmes, such as supporter network/grassroots organising;
• Excellent organisational, project and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, plan and prioritise work effectively and meet deadlines;
• Can do attitude, willing to help support projects for the banking campaign, such as the filing of resolutions, and drafting of investor letters and AGM questions (if needed);
• Knowledge and interest of climate change;
• Experience of working with CRM systems, ideally Salesforce.

Desirable

• Knowledge of banks’s financing of the fossil fuel industry and/or how to interpret banks’s coal and/or fossil fuel policies
• Fluent in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and/or Spanish. Other languages are also a plus;
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office 365, particularly SharePoint;
• Knowledge and interest in biodiversity;
• Basic knowledge of data protection regulations / GDPR.

Closing date: Monday 7 February (9am)

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcome applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and so if you are not 100 per cent sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about your experience and what you hope to bring to this role.

We also actively encourage staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available- such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

ShareAction’s London office is based in vibrant Bermondsey and a short walk from London Bridge underground and national rail. Remote working will remain the norm for many ShareAction staff as we continue to face the Covid-19 pandemic, with office space available in London for those who wish to use it.

Please note that to be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work in the UK. Due to current restrictions we are unable to hire anyone that isn’t already living in the UK.
Due to our size we are unable to sponsor visas.

We are seeking an individual with exceptional partnership-building, networking and relationship management skills to drive forward our community engagement in Haringey. 

Public Voice is a Community Interest Company with a mission to improve neighbourhoods, the lives of the people who live in them and the public services they use.

We are an equal opportunities employer and an anti-discrimination, pro-diversity and inclusion organisation. We positively welcome applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities.

Our Partnership Manager will support a Joint Partnership Board (JPB) and its Reference Groups in Haringey. The JPB was set up in 2017 to ensure that vulnerable groups in Haringey have a voice in the way NHS services and social care are provided. It serves as an interface between local residents and representatives of Haringey Council and the NHS locally (through the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group.)

This is a senior role which requires an individual with great diplomacy, who can bring diverse people together and think strategically. If you believe in coproduction, have a real can-do attitude and want to join a friendly organisation which is going places, we want to hear from you.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

- Who we are

Organise is a fast-growing social enterprise on a mission to give everyone the tools, network and confidence to improve their life at work. Our vision is for a world in which decent, fairly paid work is available and accessible to all, and where all of us are treated with dignity and respect at work.

More than 1 million people are already using Organise. We put power in people’s hands, building a progressive force for change inside companies.

The Organise staff team pride ourselves on nimble, focused workplace campaigns. That means our team is decisive, ambitious and happy to take risks. We’re characterised by our energy and enthusiasm; we’d rather aim high and see what happens, than play it safe. We’re passionate about putting Organise members first – we believe change at work happens when more people get involved.

We're expanding our team and building out our platform to include a peer-to-peer network. We're building a space for people to build power and support each other at work pseudonymously. A space for our core members to talk to each other in a space their boss can't see. Small monthly subscriptions from members will verify their identity. The Organise network is paid for and protected by the workers. We currently operate in the UK, and are aiming to launch in the US in 2022.
 

- What you’ll be doing

You will be building and scaling our member engagement and growth - helping Organise members to take digital actions to improve life at work, at scale. You’ll play a pivotal role working alongside the Membership and Growth Lead in taking our membership from 1 million to 5 million.

You'll be excellent at communicating and collaborating with people across the whole organisation, to imagine, design, and test new content to support our members in this fast-moving workers’ rights landscape.

This is a delivery role, so there’ll be lots of hands on work - this will include:

• Writing + building rapid-response social media posts, emails, and landing pages to drive action

• Running content experiments to bring in new members and hit ambitious targets on the numbers of people taking action + joining Organise each month

• Identifying when organiser campaigns become more relevant as the political landscape changes, and capitalising on those reactive moments to help grow Organise

• Creating (oh hey Canva), testing and analysing digital adverts to bring in new audiences

• Owning our social channels, creating daily content + interacting with the workers’ rights community in our tone of voice

• Community building through interaction, both on our social channels and within our (beta) worker-network space

• Analysing the performance of content, understanding what content helps us hit our targets and how we can improve performance even more

- You should apply if

• What we're building at Organise excites you!

• You love rapid-response digital mobilisation and content generation

• You are a strong communicator, able to write excellent copy to engage and motivate our members and represent Organise

• You have experience building and running experiments (A/B testing, SEO testing), and are able to use quantitative data to identify opportunities, assess the impact of interventions, and make recommendations to improve performance

• You are outcomes oriented, a natural multitasker, comfortable with multiple projects / conversations / shifting goalposts. This is a role where things will constantly change!

• You are up to date with trends and developments in the digital mobilisation and digital marketing space

• You understand the campaign lifecycle; the tactical toolbox available to those who seek to build power and make change; and the barriers faced by workers

• You are able to communicate effectively and work well with a diverse range of technical and non-technical colleagues

• You are open-minded and willing to learn new approaches to your role and our culture

- You'll benefit from:

• Equity in the business

• Wellbeing benefit and access to mental health support through Spill

• Remote working budget

• Learning & development budget + progression support

• Involvement in other aspects of the business, from strategy, management and training, to shaping team culture

• Being part of something that's both commercially successful and socially important

✨ Logistics

• Contract terms: This is a permanent contract. The role is full time. We're also open to job shares!

• Location: Can be remote (within +2/-5 hours of GMT) or hybrid based in our central London office (a dog-friendly office with a lot of plants) and will we provide you with all the tools you need!

• Competitive salary: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience. For this role, the UK starting salary is: £38K or 48K GBP and the US starting salary is $61K or $81K USD. We use a transparent salary formula based on your level and location cost of living + you'll get substantial stock options as part of our EMI scheme.

• Benefits: 38 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays), Flexible working hours, Childcare benefits/vouchers, forward thinking parental leave policy, menstrual and menopause policy, discounted gym membership, time off in lieu policy, team lunches and activities. Please note, these will keep evolving as we continue to grow!

Some highlights from 2021

• Using Organise, Amazon drivers landed national media coverage, including an exclusive BBC Newsnight investigation, exposing their working conditions & calling on Amazon CEO to lower their parcel targets back to a safe level. They’ve also met directly with MPs and got the Amazon CEO grilled in front of Parliament. 40% of drivers have had their targets lowered to a safer level now as a result - a huge win for their collective action.

• Over 100,000 members pressured the government to abandon their plans to scrap the laws protecting paid holidays and rest breaks (working time directive) - including sending tens of thousands of messages directly to the Business Secretary in the 24 hours leading up to the U-turn. Civil servants tell us (off the record) that the department were ‘astonished’ by the level of public backlash to the plans.

• Dan*, a Census worker, started a campaign when he noticed Census temporary workers were being asked to travel to attend their first-day induction without being offered to have their travel expenses covered. In response to thousands of people joining the campaign, ONS has agreed to make sure all temporary workers are reimbursed for their travel expenses. With this and the update to the Census Jobs FAQs page clarifying the expenses policy, Census workers can start their jobs without being out of pocket.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Volunteering team, supporting the FareShare Greater Manchester and Touch Wood operations.    It's a busy and varied role, but primarily focuses on recruiting, engaging and retaining volunteers to support the important work we do. 

The role requires someone with ideas and a good knowledge of the voluntary sector to recruit, train, and develop volunteers across our service.  The Volunteer Coordinator will work closely with the Volunteering and Employability Programmes Manager to identify ongoing volunteering needs for the organisation.

You'll be organised and highly proficient in all administrative duties.  You'll also help to manage and deliver our employability programme supporting administration of short courses.  You must be able to provide monitoring data to be used in compiling monthly reports for Board meetings, funding reports and audit purposes.  You'll have strong communication skills including a good telephone manner and be confident in dealing with enquiries at all levels.  We reach a wide variety of people from different backgrounds, abilities and communities. 

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.

The closing date for completed applications is noon on Friday 28th January 2022.  Interviews are expected to take place the following week.