Community leader jobs
About Us
The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) is the umbrella body for the not-for-profit social welfare advice sector in the UK. Our members include national organisations such as Citizens Advice, Age UK, Law Centres Network, Macmillan, and Shelter. Together, our network represents around 2,000 advice outlets across England and Wales.
We exist to champion access to justice by strengthening the advice sector. We do this by promoting collaboration, developing quality standards, influencing policy, and leading sector-wide projects that support the delivery of high-quality, accessible advice.
ASA also owns and manages the Advice Quality Standard (AQS), the only independently audited quality mark designed specifically for providers of generalist and specialist social welfare legal advice services.
We are entering an exciting new phase of strategic development, expanding our impact across the sector and working to ensure advice services are high-quality, sustainable, and accessible to those who need them most.
The Role
We are seeking a highly capable and motivated Deputy Director to lead our quality assurance work and play a central role in shaping and delivering cross-sector projects. You will oversee the management and strategic development of the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) and collaborate closely with the Director on broader organisational and policy initiatives.
You’ll represent ASA at external stakeholder meetings, manage contracts and project teams, and act as a senior leader within a small and dynamic team that is passionate about access to justice and social welfare.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead on the delivery of the Advice Quality Standard, ensuring its integrity and independence as a sector-wide benchmark.
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Manage and deliver strategic projects aligned with ASA’s business plan and broader goals.
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Represent ASA at external meetings, consultations, and strategic discussions with stakeholders.
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Line manage project staff and consultants, and oversee contract relationships with AQS licence holders.
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Build and maintain strong relationships with key partners and funders, including government and regulatory bodies.
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Identify opportunities for growth and development in ASA’s offer to the sector.
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Support ASA’s communications strategy, including website, newsletters, and social media.
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Stand in for the Director when required and contribute to the wider running of the organisation.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone who is passionate about social justice and experienced in leading quality assurance or project delivery in a public or voluntary sector context.
Essential skills and experience include:
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Commitment to the values of human rights, social justice, and access to justice.
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Strong project management skills and experience delivering strategic outcomes.
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Understanding of standards and quality assurance in service delivery.
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Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
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Proven experience in managing people, partnerships, and budgets.
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Ability to work flexibly, independently, and as part of a collaborative team.
Desirable experience includes:
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Direct knowledge of the social welfare advice sector.
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Experience managing quality assurance frameworks in public services.
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Skills in fundraising, evaluation, or research.
Benefits
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Salary: £42,000 per annum (inclusive)
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Pension Contribution: 6% employer contribution
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Annual Leave: 30 days + 8 statutory bank holidays
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Flexible Working: Office space available in central London, with flexible hybrid arrangements
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Professional Development: Opportunities for training and learning within a supportive environment
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Impact: A unique opportunity to influence quality and standards across a critical sector
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Build on your Charity Career with this Activity based role
This is a part-time role of 3 days per week in a well-established charity based in Twickenham. This role would really suit someone who wants to have the opportunity to work flexibly and build their career in the Charity sector.
Richmond Carers Centre has the mission to help unpaid and family adult carers to live a full, active and meaningful life by providing them with advice, information, activities, breaks and emotional support either face to face, by phone or by email to enable them to live well.
As the Adult Carers Activities Coordinator, you will directly deliver our leisure break activity and training programmes. You will plan, deliver, promote and review a programme of activities for adult carers, including outreach activities and leisure events, as well as group work to help enhance carers’ health and wellbeing. The core aim of the activity programme is to provide carers with a much needed break from their caring responsibilities, in a safe and social environment where they can meet other carers and focus on their wellbeing.
You will be someone:
- Who works in a person-centred way.
- Has outstanding organisational skills and plans and budgets well
- Is creative and is an innovative thinker
- Has experience of leading/planning activities across a range of subjects/activities
- Builds relationships both within the team and with external providers
- Communicates well by phone and in person
- Has experience of working with clients who have support needs
Main Duties include:
- To coordinate and deliver an established activities programme for adult carers with the aim to provide them with a break from their caring role and socialise with other carers to help reduce their isolation.
- To coordinate and deliver a training workshop programme to provide carers with information and advice to support them with their caring role and opportunities to learn.
- To work with relevant professionals to deliver a programme of wellbeing activities, including yoga, Pilates and complementary therapies.
- To recruit, train, support and manage volunteers and paid sessional staff to contribute to the delivery of a selection of the activities and workshops.
- To research and continually develop the activities and training programmes to ensure it is responsive to carers needs.
- To create promotional material to promote activities and training opportunities to carers registered with Richmond Carers Centre.
- To work with Adult Carers Support Team Leader to ensure activities are within budget, achieving targets and meeting the requirements of funders.
What you are doing now:
- You might be working for or volunteering in a similar charity
- You may be working in activity planning in the public or private sector
- You may have the skills we need from some other combination of work and volunteering
- Or you may be looking to return to the workforce after a timeout for personal reasons
In any event if you feel you meet the skills we need, we would like to hear from you
Richmond Carers Centre welcomes and encourages applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.
Benefits of working for Richmond Carers Centre
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year (pro rata)
- Bonus 3 days of annual leave per year over the festive period (subject to Trustee approval)
- Workplace Pension Scheme with Peoples Pension
- Flexible working/option of working from home (subject to CEO approval)
- Equipment and support to be set up to work from home
- 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
- Supportive and friendly working environment
To apply, please complete the application form and the Diversity and Equalities Monitoring Form. CV’s will not be accepted. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, therefore please submit your application early to avoid disappointment, as this role may close before the closing date.
Email application documents to Beth Tingley, Adult Carers Support Team Leader (documents can be downloaded on our website). If you would like to talk more about this vacancy, please call Richmond Carers Centre and ask to speak to Beth.
Closing date: Sunday 29th June 2025
Shortlisting date: w/c 3rd July 2025
Interview dates: w/c 14th July with provisional dates allocated to Monday 14th and Wednesday 16th July and w/c 21st July with provisional date allocated to Tuesday 22nd July
Please note interview dates can also be scheduled around these dates to fit with the interview panel and candidates availability.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
In this key role, you’ll lead on engaging individual supporters, nurturing long-term donor relationships, and driving income from one-off and regular giving. You’ll bring creativity, insight, and a supporter-first mindset to help grow and steward our donor base during an exciting phase of our development.
Labour Behind the Label is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Individual Giving Fundraiser to plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate an ambitious and effective individual giving programme for individual donations, cash appeals and regular giving. You will be responsible for the coordination of these areas of fundraising across multiple channels, as well as the administration and stewardship required to ensure engaging supporter journeys.
The successful candidate is likely to bring a strong understanding of how we can recruit and retain supporters as well the latest digital trends and demonstrate creative and technical skills to deliver a digital fundraising strategy. You will be able to demonstrate a strong track record of boosting individual giving for small organisations, write compelling communications and have a particular flair for digital fundraising. You will collaborate with the team to optimise lifetime value from potential and current supporters. You will feel comfortable handling data sets and feel confident knowing how to make the most of data. You will be results driven and enjoy analysing your fundraising campaigns to ensure maximum success for the next.
Labour Behind the Label (LBL) supports garment workers' efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions, wages, and ensure their basic rights are respected. We do this through lobbying retailers, brands and political leaders; raising public awareness; promoting campaign action; and exploring legal possibilities for improving conditions.
Key areas
Fundraising
- Develop and implement LBL’s individual giving fundraising strategy (including one off, cash appeals and regular giving)
- Be responsible for driving up overall regular giving numbers
- Identify new ways to ask for funds; plan, implement and evaluate
- Manage one off appeals including our end of year Big Give appeal
- Manage LBL’s Challenge Events including the Six Items Challenge, Bath Half Marathon London Marathon and Brighton Marathon
- Be the first point of contact for supporters – send out materials if required and build relationships
- Create Meta ads where appropriate
- Oversee our grant fundraising pipeline by identifying new grant opportunities, tracking application deadlines, and coordinating with team members to ensure timely and strategic submission of high-quality grant proposals.
Communications
- Continue a regular giving strategy to generate growth in income and acquisition/retention numbers
- Continue to develop and implement a robust supporter journey
- Create social media assets for fundraising using Canva
- Social media use and update the website (including fundraising pages/posts and donation forms)
Database Management
- Manage the organisation’s database: Beacon
- Take a lead on ensuring data is properly processed, clean and useful for the team
- Manage data entry and updates on our CRM database to maintain up to date records on supporter contact information, attributes, relationships and donations
Other tasks
- Participate in team meetings
- Organisational management tasks as appropriate
- Represent LBL at meetings and events
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two key individuals to join the team at Basis Yorkshire as a Sexual Exploitation Specialist (16+). You will be providing bespoke trauma informed 1-1 and group work for women who have experienced, or who are experiencing sexual exploitation.
This role provides trauma informed support to girls and women who are at risk of or experiencing sexual exploitation. Working as part of an Adult Sexual Exploitation Partnership Project, you will be supporting girls and women aged 16+ using a theory of change which includes engaging through assertive outreach, helping to overcome trauma and complex emotions, empowering to build positive social networks and building on strengths through exploring their options. You will also be responsible for facilitating a weekly drop in session for women who have experienced Sexual Violence alongside another member of the Basis team. You will support girls and women to access the Criminal Justice System should they wish to do so, enabling them to stay safe and bringing perpetrators to justice. Wakefield is a new Service Delivery area for Basis Yorkshire and as part of this role you will work with the Service Delivery Manager and other Basis staff to establish strong working partnerships with key services in the area including, Children’s Services, Police and Adult Social Care.
Basis Yorkshire is an award-winning charity that was founded in 1995 and now operates across Yorkshire. This is a unique opportunity to join a challenging and vibrant organisation, working with women and young people who are involved in sex work or being sexually exploited. For more information about what Basis Yorkshire does and its values, please visit our website.
Our energy for and commitment to our work makes us a vibrant and resilient organisation with a strong and compassionate workforce. We are looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people who have experienced or are experiencing child sexual exploitation, can embrace our core values of respect and trust and will support us in providing a unique service through their creative approach.
Basis is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian backgrounds, those who experience racism and those from the LGBTQ+ community as they are currently under-represented within our staff team. Equally we encourage applications from experts by experience. All appointments will be are made on merit, based on the criteria identified in the job description. You will be based in Leeds and may need to work some unsocial hours. There is some free parking but parking near the office will also be reimbursed.
Basis works with women and nonbinary people who work in the sex industry and women and young people who are sexually exploited
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Refuge Worker
Location: Warwickshire
Salary: £13,445.70 per annum
Contract type: Part-time, Fixed Term (12 Month Maternity Cover)
Hours: 19.5 hours per week, must include Tuesday's
This is an exciting opportunity to join Refuge as a domestic abuse refuge worker, providing high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children living in our refuge accommodation in Warwickshire.
The post holder will work closely with survivors from the point of crisis and admission to the refuge, through to move on from the emergency accommodation. This involves providing a personalised, holistic support and safety plan, enabling survivors to access housing, welfare, benefits and legal advice.
You will also work in partnership with both statutory and voluntary sector partners to ensure that the whole range of survivors’ needs are met.
A key requirement is to ensure that survivors are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota. This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role.
Closing Date: 09:00am 9 June 2025
Interview Date: 17 June 2025
Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services, and we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development.
Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Youth Endowment Fund
Violence against Young Women and Girls Lead
Reports to: Head of Toolkit
Salary: £55,000 per annum
Contract: 2-year fixed term
Location: Central London, Hybrid*
Closing date: Friday 13th June 2025 at 9am
About the Youth Endowment Fund
We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
Last year, 244 people in England and Wales tragically died after being assaulted with a knife. Of these, 32 were children. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them. Even when violence doesn’t strike directly, we know that the fear of violence has a terrible effect on children’s lives. One in 12 women will be a victim of violence against women and girls each year in England and Wales. Our Children, Violence and Vulnerability (CVV) research with teenage children showed that 33% of teenagers have encountered online content that encourages violence against women and girls.
The Youth Endowment Fund exists to try and permanently change things. To succeed, we must build an exceptional body of knowledge about violence affecting young people and how we reduce it. This knowledge has to be both rigorous and highly relevant to those making decisions about how to support vulnerable young people. We need to find out what works and what doesn’t through evidence synthesis, data analysis and qualitative research into children’s lives. We need to convert this into highly accessible content on what works, how delivery organisations need to change their practice and how the systems they operate in need to be reformed. We then need to work with the right people that can make change happen, across systems, policies and practice, to have a real impact on reducing violence affecting children’s lives.
Violence against Young Women and Girls
At the heart of our work is getting clear on what works. We are looking for someone who can lead our research and change agenda on violence against young women and girls (VAWG). We have built the foundations of this work by:
- developing our understanding of experiences of violence through our Children, Violence and Vulnerability (CVV) research with teenage children;
- reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that aim to prevent relationship violence and violence affecting young women and girls, which is summarised in our Toolkit; and
- ensuring a strong focus on VAWG prevention in our Education Systems Guidance and Education Practice Guidance, based on the evidence we have for relationship violence prevention delivery in education settings.
There is still a lot to do. We need to fund new research to fill gaps in our understanding of what works. We need to turn this evidence into actionable recommendations and sustainable change that will keep children safe from violence.
Key Responsibilities
The Violence against Young Women and Girls Lead will lead the VAWG research and change agenda for YEF.
You will:
Be the YEF’s expert on VAWG
- Making sure we understand the key issues, stay on top of the latest research and are connected to the right people.
Lead YEF’s research agenda on VAWG
- Commissioning research that fills important gaps in knowledge and leads to important changes in policy and practice.
Develop evidence-based recommendations on the prevention of VAWG.
- Drawing on research and expert insight to produce recommendations for systems and practice guidance, across the seven essential sectors that we work with: children’s services, education, health, neighbourhoods, policing, youth services, and youth justice.
- Writing and publishing evidence briefings and recommendations for policy makers and system leaders about how to prevent VAWG.
- Working across YEF teams to ensure that YEF recommendations on VAWG are incorporated across our evidence and change products, including systems, sector and practice guidance, the Toolkit and implementation resources.
Develop and lead a change strategy.
- Developing great relationships with senior leaders, policymakers, commissioners, and key stakeholders connected to VAWG across England and Wales.
- Generating a strong understanding of key issues and needs across systems and sectors and building credibility and trust in YEF’s evidence products and recommendations.
- Creating practical tools and resources that help leaders put evidence into action.
- Developing, managing and tracking your change plan to get more senior leaders to be aware of and use our guidance, tools and resources, continuously looking for data-driven improvements.
- Delivering events and presentations to effectively connect people with the evidence.
As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
- Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.
While it’s not a criterion, we’re especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It’s also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
Secondments
We are open to candidates that would prefer to join us on a 12-month secondment. Secondment candidate should ensure that their current organisation is in support of this in principle, all candidates will go through the full interview process. Candidates should state clearly in their covering letter if they would like to join us as secondee.
Hybrid Working Details
The office is based in Central London. Those living in and around London are expected to be in the office for a minimum of 2 days per week. If you live outside of London and work remotely, you’ll be expected to work from the London office 2 days per month.
As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.
To Apply
To apply, please send a CV and cover letter, and complete the monitoring form click on "Apply for this" button by 13th June 2025.
When applying for this role, please ensure that your cover letter can answer, within a maximum of 1000 words, the following questions:
1. Briefly describe the key pieces of research that you have commissioned or delivered related to VAWG and be clear about the role you played in the work.
2. Provide some clear examples of work you have delivered to translate research findings into products or activities to influence policy and practice. Include the key people or organisations that you were seeking to influence.
Interview Process
This will be a two-stage panel interview process. The first stage interview will take place in week commencing the 23rd June 2025.
Shortlisted candidates, invited to an interview, we will ask you to prepare a 10-minute presentation on the main issues that the Youth Endowment Fund should be addressing related to Violence against young women and girls.
The second stage interviews are currently scheduled for the week commencing 30th June 2025.
PLEASE NOTE: We do not sponsor work permits and you will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK.
Benefits Include
• £1,000 professional development budget annually
• 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Four half days for volunteering activities
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24hr phone line for free confidential support • Volunteering days - 4 half days per year
• Death in service - 4 times annual salary
• Flexible hours. Core office hours 10am – 4pm
• Financial support including travel and hardship loans
• Employer contributed pension of 5%
Personal Data
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
We exist to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Our client is a charity which matches members of the public who need free legal help with barristers who are willing to donate their time and expertise in deserving cases for those who are unable to obtain legal aid and cannot afford to pay. We do this in every area of law, across England and Wales before every court and tribunal. We believe that fair and equal access to justice is the foundation of our society. That the quality of your legal representation shouldn’t depend on the depth of your pockets, but the merits of your case. We are the Bar’s pro bono charity, funded by the dedicated barristers who also volunteer their time and skills.
At a time of change, and as demand for their service increases, the organisation are now recruiting for a dynamic new Director of Casework on a full-time, permanent basis.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Director of Casework will be a key member of the Senior Management Team and will have overall responsibility for the entire casework function and the efficient delivery of pro bono work through projects and partnership work. Your role will encompass overseeing, reviewing and refining the casework process, leading on quality management and leveraging digital tools to enhance service efficiency and improvement. You will provide strong leadership for the Casework team on a daily basis, act as first point of contact for any complaints or escalated cases and will actively contribute to the organisation’s wider strategy whilst building and maintaining strong relationships across the legal field.
To be considered for this position, you will be passionate about access to justice and an experienced senior leader with experience of managing and leading teams in a casework environment and/or complaints handling environment. You will have demonstrable experience of court processes, or a law qualification, and will have experience in delivering organisational change and continuous improvement across a service for the benefit of both service users and staff.
Please note, first stage interviews will take place in person on Thursday 19th June, and second stage interviews will take place on Wednesday 25th June.
The charity is partnering with Prospectus, a specialist recruitment consultancy, to recruit for this vacancy. To apply please submit your CV only in the first instance, preferably in Microsoft Word (cover letters are not required at this stage). Suitable candidates will then be contacted and sent across the full job description. If you have any further questions or would like to know more about this opportunity, please contact Victoria Savva at Prospectus).
As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
Please note this role is hybrid, working 3 days a week in their London-based office.
Chief Executive
Endurance House, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9ZR
£144,067p.a. plus £8k allowance
35 hours per week/full time/permanent
The Cambridge Housing Society (CHS Group) is seeking an exceptional leader who shares our values and ambition to join us as our new Chief Executive following the retirement of the current postholder.
Mission and ambition
CHS Group is a social enterprise and charitable housing association. It provides a wide range of services in the Cambridge area, including rental and shared ownership homes, housing with care for older people, support for young people, parents, people with additional needs or experiencing homelessness together with support in the community with money, debt, and employment advice. We have some 2230 general needs homes, 450 shared ownership, 84 sheltered, 208 units of specialist older people’s housing, and some 216 units of supported housing.
CHS’s nearly hundred-year-old mission, meeting the desperate need for affordable homes in and around Cambridge, is as relevant and important as ever. We believe that as an independent, locally based housing provider, we have a unique part to play in meeting local housing needs.
For further information about CHS, please visit our website.
We are well-led and financially strong, with G1/V1 regulatory gradings. We have a strong focus on our customers, who play a key role in shaping our business. We embrace innovation and new ways of working.
The Cambridge area has seen enormous growth in recent times and the government now has ambitions for further economic and housing growth. Our ambition is to be a key player in ensuring that growth is inclusive and people on lower incomes and facing other challenges have good homes and opportunities, while maintaining our strong service provision and financial security.
The person we need
Our new CEO will have:
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An outstanding track record of leadership at a senior strategic level in a social housing or other customer-focused regulated business, delivering positive outcomes and fostering a culture of performance, customer engagement and continuous improvement.
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A passion for meeting local housing and support needs, and deep insight into our social mission, and the legislation and regulatory issues facing social housing providers.
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The ambition, drive and partnership skills to make us a key player in the local growth challenge.
With strong communication, networking and interpersonal skills, our new CEO will quickly develop credibility in the role with the Board, staff members, tenants and stakeholders and demonstrate the ethics, values and personal qualities consistent with our values and ways of working.
Deadline for applications: 5pm Tuesday 17th June 2025
Interview dates: Tuesday 8th July & Wednesday 9th July 2025
Talent Acquisition Lead Location: Vauxhall, Fully Remote Salary: £37,000 Plus Benefits Vacancy Type: Permanent Full Time The Forward Trust is looking for more than just a recruiter. We’re after a proven communicator, a natural problem-solver, and a trusted leader who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves. This is a new function and we need someone who can own it. You’ll have the autonomy to shape how we attract and retain talent, with the support of a business that is fully invested in doing things better. We need someone who is solution-focused, optimistic in the face of challenge and unflappable when navigating complexity. You’ll be comfortable making decisions, navigating change, and building strong relationships across the organisation. Your knowledge of employment law, right to work, DBS requirements, and recruitment best practice will be sharp, current, and second nature. Experience with Eploy? Even better. We’re looking for someone who:
If you're ready to step into a role where your voice matters and your ideas will shape the future, we want to hear from you. Please see JD attached for more information. About Us We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
To Apply If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application. |
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Service Manager provides leadership for the outsourced service desk, IT supply and Site Service Engineering functions of the DDaT team and is the point of escalation for all Barnardo's colleagues accessing services, incident management and request fulfilment.
The DDaT Service Manager is responsible for the delivery of exceptional Site Service Engineering at over 1000 sites and responsible for the delivery of IT Supply services to over 7000 colleagues across the UK. The Service Manager also owns and operates the outsourced Service Desk via the current partner relationship, working in collaboration with internal technical teams. The Service Manager will report to the Director of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) and is a member of the DDaT Leadership Team.
Continuous improvement of services, ownership of the service catalogue entries, effective self-help documentation and assets, are core activities of the role, alongside ensuring the delivery of excellent business as usual services, and ownership of key transformation initiatives. Fiscal management of delegated budgets, accurate forecasting are key success factors of the role.
The post holder will be responsible for engagement with all stakeholders, aligning working practices with the DDaT Operating Model, identifying improvement opportunities and all other similar practices to grow the function.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Summary
The Human Resources department provides a strategic and operational HR service to the seven National Church Institutions (NCIs) and the 42 Diocesan Bishops' offices. Our HR Operations team focusses on the entire employee lifecycle providing support, advice and guidance to senior leaders, line managers and staff. The Organisational Development team lead on culture, values, wellbeing, development and our belonging & inclusion strategy. Through our External Service team, we also offer HR support on a consultancy basis to other Church of England organisations including our dioceses and cathedrals.
We are a friendly, diverse, well respected and highly engaged HR team who are committed to actively sharing knowledge and learning across the team and beyond. We encourage flexible working within the team and meet together online weekly and in-person once a month for collaboration, knowledge-sharing and building relationships.
The NCIs comprises a wide variety of functions and professions to support the mission and ministries of the Church by working with those who serve in parishes, dioceses, schools and other ministries, and with partners at a national and international level.
- Reviewing risk assessments that have been completed by staff and line managers, requesting additional information, and advising on risk mitigation;
- Supporting requests for adjustments and additional equipment may be required, including requests for Access to Work funding, liaising with Facilities and Technology Services as required;
- Supporting the Head of Health & Safety in reviewing accidents and incidents that occur across NCI sites or involve colleagues in the course of their work;
- Advising staff travelling overseas on potential risks;
- Managing the lone worker safety devices used by the NCIs;
- Administering our Health Cash Plan scheme;
- Day to day administration of our Health & Safety reporting system;
- Assisting in the preparation of Health & Safety reports e.g., the Joint Staff Council and Health and Safety forum.
As an adviser within the HR Operations team, you will also get involved in responding to other types of HR queries via email, phone and Teams chat, and supporting colleagues in using our Oracle Employee and Manager self-service.
Key role requirements:
- This is a hybrid working role which can be based in our offices in either York or London.
- The HR Operations Team typically works from the London office 1-2 days per week depending on business need. Travel to other sites may also be required from time to time.
- Visits to other NCI work locations may also be required from time to time.
You'll need previous experience of advising on and reviewing health and safety risks, including Display Screen Equipment, lone working and overseas travel with, or working towards, a recognised Health & Safety certificate (e.g. IOSH/NEBOSH or equivalent).
We're looking for someone who has:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with accuracy and attention to detail including with numerical data. You will need to be able to communicate clearly to stakeholders at all levels within the organisation.
- An enthusiastic and highly organised approach to work, with the ability to understand and process high volumes of information. You will need to be able to work comfortably with competing priorities and show flexibility in your approach to customers to understand differing expectations.
An interest in and willingness to learn broader HR policies and processes. Experience in HR in addition to Health & Safety would be an advantage.
Closing date for applications is 15th June 2025.
- A salary of £40,572 per annum, plus age-related pension contributions between 8-15% of salary. We will also match any pension contributions you make up to an additional 3% of your salary.
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus eight bank holidays and three additional days (pro-rated if working part-time).
- We welcome all flexible working arrangement requests. This is looked at in a case-by-case scenario and if this fits within the department's needs. We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
- We offer many services and initiatives under our Family Friendly Programme, some of these include enhanced Maternity Leave initiative, Adoption Leave, Paternity Leave, & Shared Parental Leave. Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Automatic enrolment and access to Medicash (one of the UK's leading health cash plan providers), providing you with many services including reimbursements of routine dental treatment, optical, specialist consultations, and therapy treatments. Unlimited access to virtual GP & Private prescription service and health & Stress related helplines.
- Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the Department of Education Restaurant and Westminster Abbey with a plus-one guest.
- Apply for eligibility for an Eyecare voucher.
- Opportunity to join the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies.
- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
Senior Evidence Officer
We are looking for two new Senior Evidence Officers to join the team!
If you want to join an impact driven organisation, improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families then apply today!
Position: Senior Evidence Officer (2 roles available)
Location: London/hybrid
Hours: 35 hours (flexible working considered)
Salary: £53,300 plus generous benefits
Contract: x1 FTC until March 2027 with possibility of extension and x1 FTC 12 months (maternity leave cover)
Closing Date: Sunday 8 June 2025
Interviews: w/c 16 June 2025
The Role
The Senior Evidence Officers sit within the Evidence Team and involve leading highly impactful evidence synthesis projects. These projects contribute to the Toolkit – a suite of tools aimed at distilling the best available evidence and embedding evidence into policy and practice. Key responsibilities will include:
- Evidence scoping reviews
- Critical appraisal of intervention evaluations
- Designing and quality-assuring externally commissioned systematic reviews
- Producing evidence-based guidelines
- Conducting fast-paced evidence synthesis for policy stakeholders
About You
With an MSc or equivalent master's degree in research methods, education, public health, health sciences, social sciences (or other relevant field of research), you will have experience in: project management, delivering research/analytical complex projects at quality, establishing appropriate governance with multiple, diverse stakeholders.
You will also have:
- Significant knowledge of high-quality impact evaluation methodology with a rounded understanding of evaluation design
- Capability to work successfully and independently in a multi-disciplinary team
- Skill and experience in designing and commissioning research
- Advanced knowledge and experience of systematic literature review and evidence synthesis
- An understanding of government, the wider policy making community, and how to effect change in policy making and practice, with excellent knowledge of one or more relevant policy or practice areas
- An understanding of government, the wider policy making community, and how to effect change in policy making and practice, with excellent knowledge of one or more relevant policy or practice areas
- Good statistical skills, together with a strong degree of IT literacy
- Knowledge and understanding of early intervention and children’s social care and of services for children and their families across all sectors
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present confidently to diverse and high-level audiences, and to write cogently for a variety of audiences.
The Organisation
This is a great place to work, where everyone is high performing and where together everyone can achieve impact that makes a real difference for vulnerable children and families. Focussing on using and championing high-quality evidence, working directly with government and local leaders, the team provide practical solutions and encourage change. This is an organisation with ambitious aims and people are essential to its success.
Some of the great benefits include:
- 30 days annual leave, plus one extra day off for your birthday, paid bank holidays, and up to three can be switched for religious observance
- Up to five days carers’ leave, in a 12-month period, three days paid
- Paid compassionate leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced parental leave and pay
- 6% employer and 3% employee contribution. No limit on any additional employee contributions made via auto enrolment.
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 counselling, legal & information line
- Unlimited access to 24/7 GP
- Mental health support
- Life cover at x4 annual salary
- Bike to work scheme.
The organisation values and celebrates diversity and is committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees. People are at the heart of what does, and it’s vital that the workforce reflects the diversity of stakeholders and the wider society in the UK. We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities and offer excellent salaries, learning and development opportunities and a great office location situated in the heart of St James’. The team works in a hybrid and flexible way and recognises the importance of a good work-life balance.
The organisation is currently unable to offer sponsorship. Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying.
You may have experience in other areas or roles such as Research, Evidence, Research Officer, Evidence Officer, Senior Research, Senior Evidence, Senior Research Officer, Senior Evidence Officer Researcher, Senior Researcher, Lead Researcher.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
About us
Manx National Heritage (MNH) is the trading name of the Manx Museum and National Trust, a charity registered in the Isle of Man and custodian of some of Europe’s most important heritage sites, including the Great Laxey Wheel the world’s largest working water wheel and Castle Rushen, one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe. We care for more than 2500 acres of landscape and >1 million items in our Museum collections and archives.
MNH exists to take a lead in protecting, conserving, making accessible and celebrating the Island’s natural, built and cultural heritage for current and future generations whilst contributing to the Island’s prosperity and quality of life.
The Isle of Man has so much to offer its residents; with exceptional employment opportunities, a vibrant cultural scene and stunning landscapes.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced and talented Head of Marketing and Communications to lead a division contributing directly to increasing visitor numbers, expanding stakeholder engagement and driving income generation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and implementing an impactful marketing and communications strategy.
- Progressing the Fundraising Road Map.
- Developing our brand and ensuring effective communication with key target audiences.
- Creating inspiring messages and content that encourage action and support from targeted audiences, broadening corporate, individual, and public engagement.
About you
We are seeking an inclusive, strategic, and proactive leader who can inspire and motivate others to achieve results while achieving personal targets. This is an exciting and rewarding position, offering the successful candidate a unique opportunity to leave a personal legacy for the heritage of our nation.
We are looking for an ambitious senior marketing and communications professional with strategic vision and creative flair to deliver our media and engagement strategy. Building and maintaining strategic relationships and identifying opportunities to increase visitor numbers and improve external impact will be key to securing long-term financial sustainability. Raising the profile, fundraising, engagement, effective PR, and brand strategy are at the heart of this role.
We'd really like you to:
- Have experience leading a marketing, communications, and fundraising team to deliver against ambitious targets and objectives.
- Possess excellent communication skills and have successful experience with a range of online and offline marketing and communication channels.
- Demonstrate an innovative approach and a track record of driving growth and transformation, with a deep understanding of supporter engagement.
- Have relevant leadership experience in successful change management.
- Ideally, have knowledge of and experience in fundraising, gained from within or outside the sector, and be skilful when acting as a public face of the organisation.
- Have a genuine interest in built, natural, and cultural heritage.
Working for Manx National Heritage, you can enjoy:
✔ A competitive salary that increases each 12 months until you reach the salary maximum.
✔ A relocation package of up to £6,500 to relocate you, your family and your things over to the Island
✔ Generous annual leave, 10 Bank Holidays and a set extra day off between Christmas/New Year
✔ Subject to meeting eligibility criteria, the Manx National Heritage offers two exclusive pension arrangements with the Isle of Man Government Unified Scheme 2011 or the Isle of Man Government Defined Contribution (DC) Arrangement.
✔ Access to the Learning, Education and Development training facility, which is exclusively for Manx National Heritage employees, to keep on top of your continuous professional development.
✔ Free access to the Isle of Man Government Staff Welfare Service which offers professional counselling, emotional support and sign-posting on a wide range of issues.
✔ Ability to apply for an unpaid career break after 3 years’ service.
✔ Access to a Cycle to Work scheme after your first year of employment.
Manx National Heritage protects and shares the Island’s heritage to enrich lives and support future generations.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you passionate about clients having a voice on how organisations provide services and support?
Whether it’s due to homelessness or poor mental health, the number of people experiencing a crisis is on the rise. Connection Support believes in a future where people are free from crisis. But for the times when crises do happen, we’ll be there to help every step of the way.
Does this sound like something you want to be a part of?
The impact you will have
Client involvement is at the heart of everything we do. You will be responsible for developing and enhancing our involvement with clients and the communities we work alongside, to give them influence, a voice and control in how we provide our services across the organisation.
We are also just as passionate about our volunteers. Part of this role will develop and enhance our work with volunteers, peer mentoring and student placements to maximise the impact of volunteering across our services, enhancing the support we deliver.
This is an exciting time to join Connection Support as we celebrate our 30th anniversary and turn our focus to preventing homelessness long before it happens, as well as continuing to provide support for those in crisis.
Contract: 12 month fixed term contract. Maternity cover
Hours: Between 22.5 and 37.5 hours per week. This post requires a minimum 30% of the time face to face.
Salary: £42,322 - £47,949 per annum (pro rata for part time), dependent on experience
Location: Based in one of our main offices across our areas of operation (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes) with flexibility to travel between offices and work from home.
Closing date: Tuesday 10th June at 10.00am.
Interview dates: Week commencing 16th June
About you
Your experience involves working in client engagement within the social care or similar sector. You are an excellent communicator who thrives on driving organisational change and forging relationships with clients, colleagues and stakeholders.
You are passionate about the value volunteers bring to client services and will have experience in supervising/managing volunteers and developing volunteer programmes/systems.
You have excellent research, analytical and problem solving skills and the project management skills to translate your ideas into reality.
You will be passionate about the impact you can have by being part of Connection Support, and your values align with ours.
Due to the nature of this role a driver’s licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
What we offer in return
Connection Support is committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and ensuring everyone is treated is valued, treated with respect and has a positive experience.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and underrepresented candidates, including but not limited to Black, Asian, ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, LGBTQIA+, men, women, and people with lived experience.
We have been named as one of the top 10 charities to work for in the UK by Best Companies and offer fantastic benefits including 30 days annual leave (pro rata for part time), plus bank holidays, sick pay, and an enhanced benefits package which includes cover on health benefits, eco travel incentives, childcare discounts, retail discounts and much more.
Should you need additional support with your application or require adjustments to any part of our recruitment process please don’t hesitate to ask. We are more than happy to help, drop us an email or call direct to discuss your requirements.
Connection Support is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Devices Co-ordinator to join the Clinical Asset Team. Your role is to support the Medical Devices Safety Engineer in pro-actively delivering maintenance responses, updating jobs on the CAFM system, ensuring compliance and asset management systems are up to date at all times.
This role is not open to sponsorship.
Role Requirements
- Provide operational assistance to all matters pertaining to clinical assets including compliance, asset management, service management and lifecycle management.
- Ensure clinical assets onsite are compliant or taken out of service.
- Allocate jobs to the appropriate contractor, using CAFM systems to create a document trail and manage frequently broken items, escalating issues to the Medical Devices Safety Engineer as appropriate.
- Raise purchase orders as required, appropriately storing relevant documents accessible to the team with expenditure tracked and ensuring appropriate service contracts are in place.
- Updating compliance system with relevant documents for compliance and tracking purposes (including those for Therapy items)
- Participating in the CAWG (Clinical Asset Working Group) and chairing and minute taking in absence of the Medical Devices Safety Officer
- Undertake other or additional duties that are within your skills and abilities, as the organisation may reasonably require from time to time.
- First response to clinical asset jobs coming through to the Helpdesk, co-ordinating with clinical staff at the scene, ensuring the appropriate response is carried out.
- Ability to work under pressure and to make decisions and problem solve as issues arrive
- React to orders and PPMs and within set SLA timeline, ensuring ongoing monitoring. Supporting the Medical Devices Safety Engineer in development of new PPMs.
- Collate relevant data and assist with the weekly work order tracker report and assist in distribution to relevant stakeholders.
Interview Date: TBC
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY – ‘How to Apply’
Terms and Conditions
PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process.
Strictly no agencies, please.
As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion.
About Us
The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.
Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.
Staff Benefits
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.
We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.
Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.
Equal Opportunity Employer
To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.
Online Searches
In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.