Do you have experience of managing service delivery in a community, health or social care setting? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of unpaid friend and family Carers?

We are a successful charity provider working across the county with a critical service contract from West Sussex County Council to support unpaid friend and family Carers. We have a job share vacancy for a Community Team Leader

Key responsibilities include;

• Lead a county-wide team of Carer Wellbeing Support Workers to provide best value, high quality advice, assessment, information, support and advocacy for family and friend carers.
• Take responsibility for operation and development of programmes within specified areas
• Ensure Carers are offered a choice of personalised and time-focused support to best meet their needs/preference including 1:1 casework, groups, telephone/web-based support.

• Ensure strong integration with local health, social care and wellbeing support providers so that the team form and maintain effective working partnerships and maximise wellbeing support opportunities for Carers

• Monitor, evaluate and report on activity and quality for contract compliance and internal management reporting.
• Ensure our community services are shaped by carer views and opinion
• Responsible for the recruitment, training and performance management of staff in the community team
• Participate in the duty manager rota
• Ensure all safeguarding concerns are recognised and reported to the safeguarding lead

• Work closely with the Fundraising team to support growth and development of the CSWS community Service.

This is a 50:50 job share working 19 hours per week over 3 days, days to be agreed. You will share the management of activities, projects and staff with the other Community Team Leader.

You will have experience of managing service delivery in a community, health and social care, primary care or hospital services setting. Also a good understanding of Carers’ issues and needs, good communication and organisational skills together with an empathetic caring approach. Based from in our Worthing office, the role requires regular travel across the county.

As well as making a real difference to the Carers we connect with, we can offer a friendly and supportive working environment, flexible and family friendly working practices, generous holiday allowance, free parking, paid Carers leave and learning and development opportunities.

A standard DBS check will be required.

For more information, please visit our web site. Application is by CV and covering letter.

The closing date for applications is 8 January 2020. Interviews are likely to be held 24 January.

Overview - Justlife Brighton

The team provide holistic, responsive and flexible support to people with the aim of helping their experience of housing
vulnerability be as short, safe and healthy as possible. This includes health engagement work improving access to primary care, helping clients improve and maintain their health, as well as a weekly activities programme and support specifically for those in temporary accommodation in the city. Justlife also engages in research into the affects of living in temporary accommodation, which informs our work locally, as well as enabling us to have conversations on a wider scale to bring about positive change. The project funders include the Brighton & Hove Clinical Commissioning Group, The BIG Lottery Fund and other grant funders.

Job Summary - Engagement Worker

We have an exciting opportunity for a new Engagement Worker to join the team. The role will involve supporting a
caseload of people placed in temporary accommodation through a number of interventions including connecting them
with appropriate support services, accompanying them to appointments, assisting them in addressing health or substance misuse needs, as well as needs around housing and benefits. An important part of the role is also helping them in engage in the activities programme and other meaningful activities based on their strengths, interests and ambitions. Clients may be referred by the local authority or other agencies, as well as self-referring.
We are looking for someone who is highly motivated to support people, passionate about working collaboratively with
others and has some experience of working in a related field in a voluntary or paid capacity.

Closing date for applications: 5pm, Friday 10th January, 2020

Position:  12 Month Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)

Location: Brighton

Deadline for Applications: 6th December 2019

The position:

Our well-respected international health charity client is recruiting a Fundraising Lead with expertise in Institutional Funding to develop and influence their donor engagement strategy.

In this rewarding and meaningful 12-month contract fundraising manager role, you will lead a project team to build strong relationships with key donors, while implementing donor engagement strategies for existing government donors.

You will line manage 3 members of the team to develop funding applications and grow new strategic relationships. You’ll also have the opportunity to work with the wider fundraising leadership team to drive income strategy from a diverse range of donors, governments and international organisations, ensuring this well-established charity will continue to positively improve the health of people’s lives worldwide.

Requirements:

• Considerable experience of raising substantial funds through developing proposals from a variety of multilateral and bilateral institutional donors.
• Proven experience accessing funding through developing proposals and reports for a variety of donors, governments.
• Experience of strategizing and developing donor relationships, including identifying and building relationships, networking and nurturing relationships with donors.
• Experience of successfully managing a small team, including within a matrix-management structure.
• Considerable experience of preparing and presenting reports and presentations for a range of audiences.

This is a rolling recruitment with CV’s being shortlisted for interviews on an ongoing basis, so applicants are encouraged to apply early.

Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2023

Hours: 22 hours per week
Salary: £26,999 Salary per annum, pro rata.
Location: Eastbourne, with working in the local community.

Making it Happen mission statement is to ‘help communities take control of their future and achieve better outcomes for themselves and all of their members’. Our aim is to facilitate the development of locally ‘grown’ sustainable solutions that meet people and community needs.

Our Community Development Officers are enablers who will work in partnership with residents and organisations in specific local and often disadvantaged communities to maximise and build on the wealth of assets that people possess. They help communities grow and strengthen their personal resilience.

You will be responsible for:

· Community engagement in several local areas of Eastbourne across Langney, Shinewater, Hampden Park, Sovereign and Devonshire.

· Mapping diverse range of local community assets

· Assisting community members in identifying next steps and access opportunities for training, upskilling, building confidence

· Developing, organising and publicising community-based events and initiatives

· Monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the project

· Collaborating on funding bids to support new & existing service provision and activities

Ideal candidates will be skilled community development workers who have experience of using asset-based community development approaches to deliver positive outcomes. You will be a great communicator who enjoys motivating and inspiring a wide range of people.

We are particularly encouraging local residents and community development professionals with knowledge of local area to apply.

The role is based in Eastbourne, with frequent travel to delivery locations across the town and beyond in East Sussex, therefore being a car owner and driver is essential.

This post is subject to DBS check.

3VA offers a friendly working environment, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata) and a contributory pension scheme. This role will offer great training and development opportunities as the project develops.

CVs will not be accepted. An application pack is available from the 3VA website.

For more information about the role, please contact Miriam Wilkinson, 3VA Head of Development.

Deadline for applications: 17th December, 5pm.

Interviews are to be held w/c 6th January 2020.

Female Support Worker
Brighton and Hove
35 hours per week over a rolling 7 day rota (+ sleep-in shifts)
27 days’ annual leave for full time hours; additional 3 days at Christmas and statutory public holidays
Salary Impact Band 3 starting £21,496 p.a. (for full-time hours)
This is for a permanent contract

Are you looking for a new challenge and a genuinely rewarding job?

We are seeking a full-time Support Worker to join our expert team, and we are also looking for relief/bank Support Workers. 

Stopover provides Brighton and Hove’s only female-specific young person’s housing and support through trauma informed care. 

This role is based in our Stopover 1, 2 and 3 houses which provide a pathway through high, medium and low-level support.

The young women we work with often have a history of negative and damaging relationships including abuse and domestic violence as well as mental health issues, behavioural issues and substance misuse. The role of the Support Worker is to provide a consistent, positive professional relationship that will allow the young women to start to trust, open up and address the issues in their past.

You will:

- be committed to fostering positive professional relationships with the young women;
- have an understanding of the effects of early trauma on young women, and 
- be able to provide on-going support through the transition within the Stopover accommodation pathway. 

In return we offer:

- ongoing support and training; 
- reflective practice with external facilitator;
- restorative circles with external facilitator;
- mindfulness, resilience and self-care with an external psychotherapist, and
- generous annual leave allowance. 

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check.

The closing date for applications is 9.00am, Friday 20th December 2019
Interviews are scheduled for the week commencing Monday 6th January 2020 

Other organisations may call this role Social Care Worker, Supported Housing Care Worker, Care Worker, Women’s Support Worker, Domestic Violence Support Worker, or Care Co-ordinator. 

To apply for the role of Support Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

Working in a small and dedicated team. Undertaking specialist Benefit Case work to support Autistic adults to access and maintain the welfare benefits that they are entitled to. A solid knowledge of the benefits system, welfare rights and entitlements, application processes and local eligibility criteria are all required for the role.

Benefits Case Worker

30 hrs with some occasional evenings and weekends required

Fixed term until 9/7/2021

£23, 000 pro rata (actual £18,400)

Assert supports Autistic adults in Brighton and Hove. We have an exciting opportunity for someone with the right skills, empathy and experience to help us provide and essential service in the city.

Purpose of Job:

To ensure the provision of high quality support services for adults with Asperger Syndrome (AS) or High Functioning Autism (HFA) that facilitate independent living and personal empowerment. The aim of this project is to support our service users through the provision of advice and guidance regarding all UK welfare benefits.

Undertaking specialist Benefit Case work to support Autistic adults to access and maintain the welfare benefits that they are entitled to. A solid knowledge of the benefits system, welfare rights and entitlements, application processes and local eligibility criteria are all essential to the role. Supporting members in application processes, providing supporting evidence, requesting appeals and attending tribunals are all important within the role. Good organisational skills, the ability to manage and prioritise your own workload whilst working positively and enthusiastically within a small team are essential.

This role will also require you to assist in the provision of general case work, including supporting with activities and supporting with marketing and publications and to implement and maintain administrative systems for report writing and monitoring purposes, including client database and newsletters.

This is a fixed term contract subject to funding but we aim to access additional funds to maintain this project and post.

For more information please get in touch. 

Please apply with your CV and a covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements on the personal specification. Please note that CV's must be accompanied by a letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role.

The  job pack is either available to download on Charity Job or from the bulletin board of the website

Closing date for application is 5pm on Thursday 2nd January.
Interviews are a two stage process:
Stage one will be on Thursday 9th January and is a panel interview
Stage two is on Tuesday 14th January from 8-9pm and is attending a client activity social session.