Background
The Kindling Trust works to create a fairer, more sustainable society, starting with the food system. Working alongside communities, farmers, policy makers and activists, we aim to create radical social change, addressing problems at their root cause.
In 2016, The Kindling Trust opened their 2nd FarmStart training site at the old plant nursery site in Woodbank Memorial Park, Stockport. Following a community consultation process in 2017, we started working together with local residents and groups, to develop the site into a thriving community food hub.
Current activities include: a range of community events, from gardening to bat walks; our wellbeing programme, offering cookery, gardening and access to healthy veg for people referred via Social Prescribing and other local services; FarmStart training programme, supporting new growers to scale up to market garden production; Volunteering days to support and learn about commercial, organic food production; and opportunities to buy local, organic veg through the Veg Box People veg bag scheme.
You will be joining us during our 3rd year of a 5 year grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, so you will be building and expanding on what the team has already achieved. We now need someone with the experience, skills and drive to take us to the next level; to make Woodbank Community Food Hub both engaging and less dependent on funding over the next two and a half years.
Job Description:
Main Duties:
- Co-ordination and development of Woodbank Community Food Hub
- Deliver our 5 year plan to make Woodbank Community Food Hub more financially independent over the next 2.5 years. For example developing income generating activities such as courses, events, sales of organic produce etc.
- Seek and develop new opportunities to secure the future of Woodbank Community Food Hub, e.g. partnership working, funding opportunities etc.
- Co-ordinate the development and improvement of the site to make it as welcoming and productive as possible. This includes overseeing and supporting a volunteer maintenance crew.
- Work with the Wellbeing Co-ordinator to explore opportunities for securing ongoing funding for programme, through, e.g.: Stockport’s Clinical Commissioning Group, Public Health or SMBC.
- Work with the team to promote the Veg Bag Scheme locally and to staff the collection point
- Work with the FarmStart Co-ordinator to maximise the production of organic produce grown on site.
- Facilitate volunteering days at Woodbank, in partnership with the Woodbank Team.
- Respond to the current situation (covid restrictions), finding ways to continue to develop the site and engage people, whilst keeping the various site users safe.
B. Community Engagement:
- Organise a variety of community based events to engage the local community in the site, i.e. biodiversity walks, guided tours of the site, farmers market type events.
- Plan and coordinate training courses to take place at Woodbank
- Engage and develop partnerships with local community groups to increase usage of, and involvement in, the site.
- Recruit and support volunteers and community gardeners involved in activities at Woodbank.
- Attend meetings, community and public events, to promote the work at Woodbank.
- Liaise with the other groups using the site as well as SMBC (e.g. to gain permission for running community events, around health and safety etc.)
- Work towards engaging the various users of the site in the development and running of the Hub in the way that is best for both those groups and the future of the project.
C. Health and Safety
- Co-ordinate the Woodbank Team and other users of Woodbank to maintain the security of the site and the safety of all those who use it.
- Ensure all participants, volunteers and gardeners are provided with Health and Safety information relevant to the site.
- Carry out risk assessments for all activities taking place at Woodbank.
D. Publicity/Marketing
- Produce and distribute promotional materials to advertise upcoming events.
- Publicise events and activities widely through e.g. the Woodbank notice board, regular updates to the Woodbank Community mailing list, local community events & groups, local press, social media
- Write up events for Kindling latest news.
E. Administration:
- Monitor and update all policies and procedures relevant to the project.
- Update and maintain the Woodbank Community database (and others, as required)
- Report to relevant funders
- Create surveys and feedback forms for activities and collate evidence for social impact monitoring
F. Finances
- Manage project budget with the Woodbank Team and our Book Keeper
- Process project expenses.
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G. General responsibilities of this post
- Report progress to Kindling Team meetings.
- Reflect Kindling’s vision and principles, strategy and policies at all times.
- Be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures.
- Fulfil such other duties and assignments as may be required from time to time.
Covers all of Wales, majority based at home
This role involves a considerable amount of travel therefore applicants should be willing to travel across Wales.
About us
As the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of services to disabled people, we believe disabled people should have the freedom to live their lives the way they choose – with the opportunity and support to live independently, to contribute economically and to participate fully in society.
With 5,000 staff and 10,000 volunteers supporting nearly 70,000 people in the UK and around the world, Leonard Cheshire provides support to 3,200 people in a variety of UK living services including supported living, nursing and day centre facilities. We also support 12,000 young people in the UK with skills, confidence and employment programmes. Internationally, we are a specialist development non-governmental organisation, delivering inclusive education, youth leadership and access to livelihoods programmes to more than 50,000 people in 15 countries across Asia and Africa.
About the role
Leonard Cheshire Disability is recruiting for a Digital Inclusion Coordinator in Wales to support the delivery of our digital inclusion programme.
The role will work closely with partners, volunteers and other stakeholders within Wales providing them with advice, guidance and support to enable them to be more confident in supporting disabled people to use IT and get online as well as supporting disabled people to get online and develop skills for employability.
Effectively deliver all elements of the Digital Inclusion programmes (Tech Works and GoDigital), lead on volunteer recruitment to enhance the Programme’s reach and impact, and work with local community-based teams as well as our central assistive technology resource.
The programme gives disabled people access to computers and training to develop their skills and employability, supports a number of accessible IT suites and provides disabled people access to IT equipment in their homes.
Applicants will have to demonstrate experience of supporting people to use IT and prior work with volunteers.
An understanding of digital inclusion, IT skills for employability, accessible IT, adaptations and/or assistive technology will be an advantage.
The role will also be responsible for collating accurate data to support monitoring, evaluation and development; this will include monthly reports as well as quality and impact data.
About you
The role would suit someone who enjoys working with a variety of people, who has good attention to detail, who is self-motivated, takes their own initiative and who is very confident using Microsoft Office packages and databases.
You should be patient and comfortable explaining things from a very basic starting point. You will enjoy listening to what people want to achieve before assisting them to achieve it.
Driving license and access to a car would be beneficial.
Benefits
• Substantial annual leave (26 days).
• A generous employer contribution to a company pension scheme with additional life cover.
• Access to a cash health plan at favourable rates.
• Flexible working and lots more.
A satisfactory disclosure check is required for this post.
Closing date: 9 December 2020
We aim to conduct interviews via Zoom during week commencing 14th December 2020
Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability, supporting where possible, your requirements for reasonable adjustments.
Shortlisting for this role may take place as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy once a suitable applicant has been appointed.
*No Agencies*
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Help build a bridge!
When a child struggles with their mental health, their parents can seek help from their GP but there is often a wait for further specialist services. You can help bridge that gap.
As a Care Coordinator specialising in children’s mental health and based in GP practices in Sheerness, you will support children and families to access other community or social activities that offer opportunities for the child to develop confidence, self-esteem and resilience. Alternatively, those services may provide support to the parents or family as a whole.
Your time and expertise will support the child and family to understand conversations with primary health professionals, enabling them to make informed choices about their own health and wellbeing through the development of a personalised plan of care. You should be able to quickly connect and build trust with children, young people and families.
This Care Coordinator role is a great opening into Social Prescribing, a growing field in health and social care. We are looking for an organised, self-motivated and confident individual to join our established team. Applicants must have experience of working with children, a background in education, medical or social care, and of supporting individuals to access wider services. Car driver essential.
You will work alongside Social Prescribing colleagues and primary care professionals, and it is essential that you are able to communicate at all levels across both the health and social care sectors.
You will need to demonstrate a robust knowledge of confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and boundaries in all aspects of your work.
Don’t wait… apply now and start making a difference.
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Are you committed to improving lives for vulnerable people?
Community Connections Lewisham (CCL) is a preventative social prescribing project, delivered by Age UK Lewisham and Southwark, aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable adults across the borough of Lewisham. We achieve this through working with both individuals who want connecting to services, and the community groups they access. We support people to find:
- Local community groups and access to social opportunities
- Help with staying active
- Befriending and practical assistance (food shopping, odd jobs, etc.)
- New opportunities for employment, training and learning
- Volunteering opportunities and opportunities for participation in local projects
Partnership Coordinators hold a key role in the effective delivery of the project, driving it forward through their work. A varied role, Coordinators support vulnerable people directly over the phone and face-to-face, while also being responsible for relationships with our Key Partners across the borough. This ensures a healthy mix of public and professional-facing duties.
We are looking for somebody who is comfortable talking to a wide range of professionals as well as members of the public by telephone, letter and in person. You will be the point of contact for CCL which involves taking referrals by telephone and email, processing them in line with our systems and making onward referrals. The onward referrals we make will be to our Key Partners, the relationships with whom you will build and maintain.
This is a busy and rewarding role giving you the opportunity to make a real difference. There will be the opportunity to attend events, forums and meetings to broaden your understanding of Health and Social Care and build experience working in the voluntary sector. You will also be working closely with our other teams in both Lewisham and Southwark.
AUKLS is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
If you are a good listener, a positive thinker, strong at multi tasking and passionate about supporting people that need help, we want to hear from you.
For full details please download our Recruitment Pack which includes a Job Description and Person Specification.
Closing date for applications – 9am Monday 14th December
**Interviews will take place on Monday 21st December**
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We are looking for TWO self-motivated and community-minded individuals to provide a social prescribing service to individuals over the age of 18 living in the London Borough of Lewisham.
Community Connections Lewisham is a preventative social prescribing project, delivered by Age UK Lewisham and Southwark, aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable adults across the borough of Lewisham. We achieve this through working with both individuals who want connecting to services, and the community groups they access. We support people to find:
- Local community groups and access to social opportunities
- Help with staying active
- Befriending and practical assistance (food shopping, odd jobs, etc.)
- New opportunities for employment, training and learning
- Volunteering opportunities and opportunities for participation in local projects
Community Facilitators take a holistic person-centred approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. They support their clients to tackle the wider determinants of health, such a debt, poor housing and physical inactivity. Community Facilitators strengthen community resilience and personal resilience, thus reducing health inequalities in the borough.
This rewarding role will see you support people on a short-term basis, helping and motivating them to make the changes they want to see in their lives. As well as interacting with the public, you will build relationships with Lewisham's local community groups and services and the wide range of professionals that refer into our project. This means you will get first-hand experience of Health and Social Care practice in London as well as an understanding of the sector and how it works. There will be opportunities to attend meetings and events, including forums with other Social Prescribers - helping you to gain an understanding of the rapidly growing way of delivering support.
We are looking for good listeners and positive thinkers, with exceptional abilities in organisation and administration. If you are passionate about helping those that need it, we want to hear from you.
AUKLS is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
For full details please download our Recruitment Pack which includes a Job Description and Person Specification.
Please note that we have two posts available - one Full Time, Permanent position and one Part-Time, 9 month Maternity Cover position.
Closing date for applications – 9am Monday 14th December
**Interviews will take place on Tuesday 22nd December**
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About the Role
THET (Tropical Health and Education Trust) and the Wales and Africa Health Links Network (WAAHLN) are two closely aligned organisations which collaborate to promote the value of Health Partnerships in Wales and across the UK. We are now looking to appoint an International Health Links Coordinator for a fixed-term role until the end of March 2021.
The International Health Links Coordinator will be part of the THET team, line-managed by the CEO of THET for the duration of this contract. The CEO and the International Health Links Coordinator will be accountable to the Board of WAAHLN. They will also work closely with the staff of Hub Cymru Africa, an organisation which supports the international development sector in Wales.
The role is ideal for a person with a knowledge of the health sector in Wales. Ideally, they would also have a good understanding of the global health work undertaken by Welsh institutions and NGOs.
You will work on two specific projects, the first to deliver a report making recommendations into how Welsh institutions can increase their access UK ODA funding opportunities in ways that bring benefit to patients in Wales. In parallel, you will deliver a range of capacity building activities to ensure Welsh institutions do not miss out on funding opportunities that present themselves between now and March 2021.
You will be adept at working in partnership with the volunteers who constitute the Board of WAAHLN and across the Welsh health community, and of drawing on the expertise of staff working across THET and Hub Cymru. These include experts in global health, international development, capacity building, fundraising, grant management and policy engagement.
This position will have a valuable impact in contributing towards longer term strategic aims of growing Wales’ access to ODA funding for global health work; developing strategic partnerships and networks across the UK to raise the profile of Wales in key forums; and building up the capacity of Welsh organisations.
About WAHLN
The Wales and Africa Health Links Network represents a unique response from Wales in relation to addressing the sustainable development goals (SDG) delivery as it harnesses the expertise which exists within the NHS in Wales and a counterpart in sub-Saharan Africa.
You can learn more about our work on our website.
About THET
Today, one billion people will never see a qualified health worker in their lives. Since 1988, THET has been working to change this.
From reducing maternal deaths in Uganda to improving the quality of hospital care for injured children in Myanmar, we work to strengthen local health systems and build a healthier future for all. We do this by leveraging the expertise and energy of the UK health community, supporting Health Partnerships between NHS institutions, Royal Colleges and academic institutions in the UK and those overseas. In the past ten years THET has reached over 100,000 health workers across 31 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in partnership with over 130 UK institutions. THET has country offices in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Somalia/Somaliland. Our team in the UK office is composed of Programmes, Grants, Communications and External Engagement and Policy and Learning teams as well as Finance, and Operations.
You can learn more about our work on our website.
Job Purpose:
This role will:
- Identify mechanisms and funding opportunities for Welsh institutions at UK level, particularly from ODA (Overseas Development Assistance) sources but also beyond so that the Welsh NHS and other health organisations can fully realise their international ambitions and associated benefits.
- Upskill Welsh based Health Partnerships to help increase the capacity, quality and impact of their work. This will focus on responding to challenges to post-colonial attitudes as well as the climate crisis.
Key responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to perform the following tasks across two key workstreams:
- Identifying funding mechanisms and opportunities for Welsh Institutions at a UK level (45%)
- Development of funding baseline and analysis of current trends.
- Identifying funding mechanisms and strategic stakeholders in the UK.
- Development of recommendations for Welsh institutions.
- Dissemination of report to relevant stakeholders.
2 .Capacity building (45%)
- Conduct training needs analysis of Health Partnerships and develop relevant action plan for 2020-21 to address these.
- Coordination of three training webinars to Health Partnerships addressing identified needs.
- Support key stakeholders in Wales to better articulate the role of the Welsh NHS.
3.Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (10%)
4.Other tasks as appropriate in relation to outcomes listed in ‘Job Purpose’ section.
Key Deliverables
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Report on funding mechanisms and opportunities at UK level for Welsh institutions.
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Capacity-building of Welsh institutions focused on business development, digitalisation and inclusion and diversity.
The role will have a significant research component, with a focus, as outlined above on the funding environment, but will also require strong interpersonal skills when liaising with Health Partnerships.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (or equivalent experience in a relevant area) -Essential
Experience
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Experience conducting research projects in limited timeframes. - Essential
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Experience delivering capacity building activities. -Essential
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Experience of working in the Welsh health sector. - Essential
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Experience in global health, international development or non-profit sector. - Desirable
Knowledge
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Knowledge of Welsh health sector and Welsh government. - Essential
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Knowledge of global health activity and programmes. - Essential
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Knowledge of global health funding environment. - Desirable
Skills
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Strong research skills and experience (academic or professional). - Essential
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Excellent communication skills (written and oral).- Essential
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Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders.- Essential
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Motivated, self-starter, can-do attitude.- Essential
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Welsh Language Skills - Desirable
Values
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Flexible and adaptable - Essential
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Intercultural sensitivity and awareness. - Essential
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Ability to work independently.- Essential
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Commitment to THET’s values and aims. - Essential
Conditions of Employment
Hours: Full Time Employment (37.5 hours per week)
Leave: 25 days annual leave per annum (pro-rata).
Please email your CV (maximum 2 sides of A4) and a covering letter (maximum one side of A4) citing ‘International Health Links Coordinator’ in the subject line. Any applications exceeding these parameters will not be considered. Please explain in the cover letter your experience in specified areas and your motivation for applying for this role.
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Community-led social action initiatives have been key to providing essential support and mutual resource to residents and neighbours across Hackney through the last 8 months, providing a vital role in the COVID social response. Residents have shown their commitment to providing neighbourly assistance and to utilising their skills and experience to support others. This may have been through established community groups, or new initiatives, but all focused on providing creative solutions to local needs.
We, at Volunteer Centre Hackney, have been providing support and guidance to many of these initiatives, and want to help these projects grow. We are committed to supporting local people to recognise their skills, ideas, and their experience and how they can use these to help others. Over the years, we have supported residents to host their own neighbourhood walking groups, a guerrilla gardening club, community meals, street parties, online wellbeing workshops, and an after-school club. We have linked residents to community organisations such as local youth clubs, to deliver coding workshops, or a theatre club or most recently, a digital buddy project.
We are working on estates and with GP surgeries, to engage local residents to come together to volunteer, to share their skills, to develop new project ideas and to build strong long communities. You will need to be passionate about working with local people, able to work independently and on your own initiative and resilient and confident to keep breaking through barriers, and making things happen.
You will be joining a nationally recognised award winning project, with funding from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and The National Lottery Community Fund as well as from City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group.
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East European Resource Centre is looking for a driven Community Giving Coordinator to develop digital individual giving and community giving platforms.
Deadline: CLOSED
Details how to submit an application: send CV with a short explanation how you meet requirements of the person specification using your skills and experience. Details are included in the job pack attached.
You will develop digital giving tools as well as community giving platforms in order to maximise income for our mission but also to use individual giving as a tool to increase outreach to new audiences and further promote the mission of our charity.
This is an excellent opportunity for candidates with experience in individual giving fundraising, community fundraising, digital marketing or sales who wants to have tangible impact on lives of the most disadvantaged and marginalised Eastern Europeans! You will be a team worker and excellent communicator able to look beyond donations to real promotion of our work through fundraising asks.
We encourage candidates with lived experience of migrating from Central and Eastern Europe or Central European diaspora in the UK to apply for this position.
East European Resource Centre (EERC) is an independent charity that has been providing advice and support to disadvantaged Eastern European migrants since 1984. Since the 2004 / 2007 EU enlargement, our core user group comes from the accession countries. Our mission is supporting Eastern European migrants who experience poverty, exploitation and social exclusion in order to help them to make choices about their lives and realize their potential as equal members of communities. This position is an opportunity to help to fund our vital services and expand our reach to new audiences.
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The Role
DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.
The Client Contact Coordinator are responsible for processing referrals and undertaking holistic triage assessments by phone. Where needed, referral on to appropriate services within agreed protocols and pathways.
Client Contact Coordinator are also responsible for inputting accurate core data in DHI’s client record data system, providing advice and signposting to professionals, partner agencies, families, carers and service users.
Provide a first point of contact for people referred or self-referring for drug and alcohol services.
Ensure a welcoming and motivating initial contact for all service users and carers, especially those who are new to the system.
How To Apply
Please use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday 15th December 2020. Further information available on the DHI website
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City & Hackney Carers seek a tech savvy, people friendly individual to lead our digital inclusion project. Many unpaid carers lack the equipment, skills and/or confidence to join online communities and to engage with digital life. We want to change that. We are looking for a Project Cordinator to identify digitally excluded people, work with local businesses and donors to source the equipment they need to get online, and to host and/or facilitate digital activities.
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As the Senior Positive Voices Coordinator, you will manage the development and delivery of Positive Voices, a project where people living with HIV share their personal stories and educate the wider community by delivering key prevention, education, harm reduction and safer sex messages.
The post holder will be a key member of the national user involvement team's growing Positive Voices activity and can be based anywhere in the UK.
We particularly welcome applications from people living with HIV, and from trans and Black African communities. Interviews for this role are provisionally scheduled for 21st December 2020.
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Peer Aid is recruiting!
Opportunity to join this exciting new service as a Peer Aid Co-ordinator. Peer Aid provides integrated peer support within the National Gambling Treatment Service.
Please refer to attached Job Pack. Please send queries, completed application forms and CV's to Matt Blanks, Service Manager
Thank you
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HWCP are recruiting a new role that will be part of a social action movement at a time where the community needs are greatest?
Place Based Social Action Co-Ordinator
£29,737 per annum (37 hours per week, including occasional out of hours) 28 days Holiday plus public holidays and 3% Pension contribution
Fixed term contract until March 2022
The role requires an enhanced DBS check and references
Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership is a registered charity, representing and working on behalf of residents living on estates on the Southern edge of Bristol. Our vision is for all people in the communities we serve to have an equal chance to lead successful, healthy and happy lives. We are here to make Hartcliffe, Withywood and surrounding areas places that work for everybody by ensuring that our community has the capacity and confidence to make decisions about local issues. We believe in empowering local residents and building communities.
Project Summary. Funded through the National Lottery Community Fund and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to create positive change by enabling people, communities, local non-statutory organisations and the statutory sector to work collaboratively to create a shared vision for the future of their place, and address local priorities through social action.
Key Outcomes for Hartcliffe and Withywood:
- Community Led activity is realising children and young people’s aspirations and potential
- We have pride of place for our environment, owned and looked after by local people
- Everyone is welcome and feels safe
- Individuals and communities can have a positive impact on their Health and Wellbeing
Closing date Monday 7th December 2020. Interview date week beginning 14th December 2020
HWCP is an equal opportunities employer. We are keen to encourage applications from a diverse range of people without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or any other protected status.
Funded jointly by Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport and the National Lottery Community Fund.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Purpose
THET is an international health charity which sits at the heart of a network of UK institutions working with partners in Africa and Asia. These include hospitals, professional bodies, diaspora-led community groups and small charities. Together, we are very actively responding to the direct and indirect challenges of COVID-19.
THET is now looking to broaden and develop this network by strengthening the capacity of UK institutions to engage in global health work. We will do this by developing and delivering a comprehensive capacity development programme, using participatory workshops and online tools and resources. The programme will deliver demonstrable improvements against quality assured standards, of the capacities of participating organisations, their partners and beneficiaries.
The Training Coordinator will drive this work, drawing on their own expertise in capacity building and online training, supported by THET’s Policy and Learning, External Engagement and Grants Management Teams.
The successful candidate will be joining THET at an exciting period of growth for the charity as we seek to capitalise on renewed UK Government support for this approach.
About THET
Today, one billion people will never see a qualified health worker in their lives.
Since 1988, THET has been working to change this. From reducing maternal deaths in Uganda to improving the quality of hospital care for injured children in Myanmar, we work to strengthen local health systems and build a healthier future for all.
We do this by leveraging the expertise and energy of the UK health community, supporting Health Partnerships between NHS institutions, Royal Colleges and academic institutions in the UK and those overseas.
In the past ten years THET has reached over 100,000 health workers across 31 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in partnership with over 130 UK institutions.
You can learn more about our work on our website.
Accountability and working relationships
This role will report to the Policy and Learning Manager but work very closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning(MEL) Adviser, Grants Officers and colleagues in the External Engagement Team.
Main responsibilities
- Assisting in the development and delivery of a strategy to effectively engage UK institutions with the potential to engage in global health activity by working closely with the Policy and Learning Manager including:
- Identifying and engaging with external stakeholders who could benefit from capacity building support
- Develop call for proposal documents
2. Lead on the development of capacity development project tools in partnership with the Policy and Learning and Grants Management teams, including:
- Create an online syllabus and effectively and efficiently manage online training courses
- Develop learning materials which we will be delivered through online training
- Call for proposal documents that will solicit applicants to support development of webinars
3. Deliver online training to UK institutions
- Lead on delivery of online training in conjunction with Health Partnerships using online learning sets
- Work with the External Engagement team on the use of digital platforms and integrating online learning materials
4.Facilitate virtual networking and peer to peer support
- Create an atmosphere that promotes the development of a sense of community among participants
- Effectively use selected technology to support online learning, helping participants identify and use appropriate learning techniques and identify strengths and areas of needed improvement
- Facilitate networking events for UK institutions
- Develop reciprocity and cooperation among participants which encourages peer to peer support
Person specification
Qualifications
- Degree level (Essential)
- Qualification in education and/or training( Desirable)
Experience
- Developing and delivering capacity development initiatives and training (Essential)
- Confidence using digital communications (Essential)
- Experience of contributing to a Health Partnership / links programme (Desirable)
- Experience of global health and international development (Desirable)
- Knowledge of the UK health community (Desirable)
Knowledge
- Training and education experience (Essential)
- Health Partnerships (Essential)
Skills & Abilities
- Training skills(Essential)
- Digital Communication skills (Essential)
- Communication skills (Essential)
- Ability to assimilate information (Essential)
- Teamworking skills - collaborative (Essential)
- Cultural awareness (Essential)
- Adaptability (Essential)
- Self-starter (Essential)
The full Job specification is also attached
To apply for this role please send your CV and a cover letter by midnight 7th December.
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 14th December. THET is an equal opportunities employer.
This post is UK based. Non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.
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Recruitment: Di’s Diamonds Development Activities Coordinator at Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering
Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering are recruiting for:
Di’s Diamonds Development Activities Coordinator
Salary: £ 23,220 per annum pro rata (£18,576 actual)
Hours: 28 hours per week
Closing date: Monday 7th December 2020 at 12:00pm
Proposed interview date: Tuesday 15th December 2020
We are looking for a Coordinator for the management of a service facilitating social, cultural and leisure activities for older people across Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham. You will be working alongside our other Di’s Diamonds Coordinators already facilitating services across Havering. You will play a significant role in reducing social isolation through developing activities and events, including on line activities and volunteering opportunities and promoting them to older people.
You will be identifying opportunities to develop the service in liaison with the Senior Manager and other colleagues.
As a Coordinator you will be managing a small team of volunteers who will assist with leading activities, and will work with professionals from health, social care and the voluntary sector to increase the reach of the service and develop opportunities for joint working. You will be responsible for recruiting volunteers to support older people in accessing activities.
Successful applicants will have experience of working with and understanding the needs of older people, in a paid or voluntary capacity. You will need to have the ability to write reports, maintain records and communicate effectively both one to one and as part of a team as well as supporting and motivating volunteers. Good computer skills and accurate record keeping are also required. An enhanced DBS Disclosure is required for this post.
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