About us

The Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) is the leading charity dedicated to fighting primary bone cancer. Our mission is to save lives and improve outcomes through research, information, awaress and support. In July 2019 we were awarded 'National Healthcare & Medical Reseach Charity of the Year' at the national Charity Awards and earlier in the year the Yorkshire & Humber Institute of Fundraising awarded our Fundraising & Communications Team with 'Fundraising Team of the Year'. We are a small but incredibly passionate and driven organisation that is proud and supportive of our people - together we make the biggest impact for our community. 

The Role

The Challenge Events Fundraising Officer will contribute to the overall fundraising strategy by delivering a programme of activities that maximise income generation and recruitment and retention of supporters for the Bone Cancer Research Trust.

You will operate as a key member of the Challenge Events Team and will have the opportunity to explore new exciting opportunities for the charity. You will also lead on existing events which form part of our core income programme and help grow our expanding portfolio of Challenge Events.

To deliver on our strategy through to 2022 we need to ensure we deliver high quality, meaningful events that help meet our income and charitable objectives. This role will have a direct impact on the primary bone cancer community through Challenge Events by empowering and involving patients, carers, friends, relatives, healthcare professionals and researchers.

About You

The ideal candidate will bring experience of successfully building events fundraising streams through different challenges and bespoke events as well developing meaningful relationships with professional event organisers. They will be results-orientated with a passion for first-class supporter care. They will build excellent working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders as they pull together new ideas for events that will help to ultimately save lives.

As we are a small team, a team-player attitude is a must, as well as a positive and can-do approach.

If you have excellent communication and event management skills, a natural ability to liaise with stakeholders, and determination to succeed, we would like to hear from you.

Application Process

1. Application Form & CV submission closing date: 11th December
2. Interviews W/C 16th December

For more details please see the full Job Description. 

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people

Mental Health Co-Ordinator – Early Help Hub
West Early Hep Hub, Albion House, Yeadon
NJC Scale points 23-25, starting at £26,999 pa/pro-rata
37 hours per week

This role is fixed term for up to 2 years, with the possibility of being extended.

The aim of the Early Help Hub Team is to support children and families in Leeds, with a focus on getting it right the first time, in partnership with others. The aim is to further build resilience, confidence and expertise across the partnerships to support improved outcomes for children, young people and families.

You will be required to effectively lead in the area of mental health with other Co-ordinators as part of the Hub, including upskilling others across the partnership around mental health, through sharing best practice, skills, knowledge and expertise.  You will provide advice and support on adult mental health issues.

You need to have substantial experience of working with people with mental health needs, a good knowledge of mental health interventions and their effectiveness and experience of building and maintaining positive links with a wide range of services and stakeholders.

CLOSING DATE:  19 November 2019
Interviews will be held on: 29 November 2019

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website where you can download the application pack.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.

No agencies please.

Location: At our Harrogate (HG1 5LX) office and in Ripon (multiple outreach locations)

Hours: 

• Harrogate: 30 hours per week (4 days)
• Ripon: 18.5 hours per week (2.5 days)
• Adviceline (in Harrogate): 22.5 hours per week (3 days)

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. We give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.  We help with everything from money issues to problems at work, housing to consumer rights.

We are looking for someone who has good organisation and administration skills to support the services delivered by volunteers in our busy office.

The Advice Co-ordinator, reporting to an Operations Support Manager, is responsible for the day to day delivery of the General Advice Service to clients, whether that be face to face, by phone or email. Each Advice Co-ordinator will be predominately based in one location but will be required to travel to the other locations to assist with cover and other related activities.
This role is focused on the integrity and quality of advice delivered at the front line. The role will be the focal point for determining the desired atmosphere of professionalism and warmth within each location and will be expected to manage the vast majority of issues that arise on any particular day at the office. The role will also supervise, manage, quality check and appraise any volunteers involved in delivering the General Advice Service.

Funding: These roles are funded from our core funding from North Yorkshire County Council and Harrogate Borough Council

Application Closing Date: 12 noon on 9th December 2019

Interview Date: To Be Arranged, provisionally late Dec 2019 or early Jan 2020

For more information and to apply, please click on the Apply button.

We are looking for a permanent Weddings and Functions Manager role (W&FM) to develop the wedding business and to develop and grow the events business at East Riddlesden Hall. One of the most important parts of this role is have the couples and clients at the heart of what we do. It is essential we have a robust customer journey and that everyone receives an exceptional level of service. The National Trust is a charity and we run the commercial business to support to conservation work we do. It is a really important part of our work.

What it's like to work here

East Riddlesden Hall is a tranquil 17th century house, formerly owned by a cloth merchant. With the atmospheric exterior and the friendly interior, this house is home to a wonderful array of seventeenth century needlework and original exquisite plasterwork ceilings, created by local craftsmen. The intimate gardens, with an ever-changing palette of colour, offer a peaceful space to relax and unwind. There is a mud pie kitchen and a hobbit house.

What you'll be doing

The role has come about due to an internal restructure change so that we can have someone to lead the team, lead the business and work with the wider property team to achieve more commercial revenue for the site whilst providing exceptional visitor experience.

The role will predominantly support the weddings and events in a coordinator capacity working through the full event cycle through to delivery. The rest of role will importantly manage the bar plus staff and a wedding co-ordinator plus a growing volunteer team. You’ll also be part of the budget process and have a good handle on the figures, ensuring reporting is timely and that we are meeting our budget requirements.

Who we're looking for

To be successful in this role you'll need to able to have/be;

• Exceptional customer service skills
• Line management experience or able to manage a strong team of staff and volunteers
• Ability or experience to build to strong relationships with internal and external suppliers
• Flexible to working requirements of business needs from midweek, weekends and evenings
• Able to grow and deliver a commercial business within a charity setting

Benefits

Benefits include flexible working whenever possible plus free parking at most locations. You’ll be entitled to discounts in high street stores and cinemas, National Trust shops and NT cafes, and have free entry to NT properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18).

Your health and wellbeing is important to us and is supported through generous annual leave and the option to buy additional days (minimum contract length applies), a cycle to work scheme, subsidised health cash plan, a loan towards rental deposits and confidential access to a free support service 24 hours a day should you need it.

Your future financial health is helped by an employer matched - up to 10% of basic salary - contributory pension scheme and you can further your career with training and development tailored to you.

All of this and the opportunity to give something back to your community with up to 5 days of paid volunteering per year!

Closing date: December 1st 2019

Would you like to join one of North Leeds’ most established Social Care charities which positively changes lives and helps hundreds of people each year? 

Applications are welcome from candidates who have the appropriate skills in a Health and Social Care setting and have knowledge of Health and Social Care. You will be passionate about delivering the highest level of training to learners and you will have a real commitment to passing on your skills and expertise to the next generation of healthcare staff or improving the skills of existing staff, enabling them to progress and inspire others.

The role will also include assessment of competence within the workplace and supporting learners to collect evidence for the achievement of the Care Certificate.

You will have Level 3 Qualification or above in Health & Social Care and Level 3 Award in Education & Training (PTLLS) or equivalent or a willingness to undertake this. You will also have excellent time management and communication skills to enable you to support learners

CV’s are accepted however please ensure that you request a job specification to be able to evidence the essential criteria for the role.

For further information please call 0113-218-5899. 

The closing date for applications is 22 November 2019 or earlier if a suitable candidate is sourced.

Interviews will take place on 3 December 2019.

If you are shortlisted you will be contacted directly, if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, it can be assumed that unfortunately, your application was unsuccessful on this occasion.

Engagement Worker

Salary £25K 35hrs Leeds Community Gambling Service

GamCare is the leading national provider of information, advice and support for the treatment for anyone affected by problem gambling. We are delighted to have opened a brand-new service in Leeds with our regional Partner NECA. This service is integrated with the new NHS Northern Gambling Service.

The Leeds Community Gambling Service is seeking a full time Engagement Worker to deliver interventions from the main service hub and from smaller hubs locally and will be required to deliver individual and group-based interventions by various mediums, such as face to face and telephone to people concerned about their own gambling or someone else’s gambling.

The Engagement Worker will be expected to work in a way that recognises and values diversity and with an understanding of the functional model of problem gambling, the model of change, motivational interviewing, CBT and commitment to recovery approaches.

You will be a self-starter, with a passion for delivering innovative, quality services, and a collaborative style.

For further information please contact Charlie Plücker (number available on the GamCare website Job Advert).

To apply, please complete the application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey which can be found on the GamCare website.

Please note we do not accept CVs

Closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 18th November.

Interviews are expected to take place between 28th and 29th November in Leeds.

This role will require an enhanced DBS check

GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.

If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:

Job application: <name of vacancy>

Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.

Child Bereavement UK (CBUK) has 25 years’ experience in supporting families and educating professionals when a baby or child of any age dies, or when a child is facing bereavement.

Bereavement Support Practitioner
Hours: 30 hrs per week (fixed term contract to February 2022)
Salary: £24,000 p.a. (pro-rata)
Base: Child Bereavement UK, Brooklands Court, Tunstall Rd, Leeds LS11

Our service, funded by Leeds City Council to support bereaved children, young people and their families in Leeds, is experiencing increasing referrals so we are expanding the team.

We are seeking to appoint a passionate, skilled and experienced Bereavement Support Practitioner to support the Team Lead in developing and delivering this service to children and their families.

Closing Date: Friday 6th December 2019
Interview Date: Wednesday 18th December 2019

Application Process:

If you would like to apply for this position, please download the attached Job Description.
Click the apply button and attach your CV and a short covering letter detailing which post you are applying for and how your experience fits the role, it will be sent automatically to us.

No agencies please.

We have an exciting opportunity for an administrator to join our team. The successful applicant will provide administrative support for our MaPS, Universal Support: Help to Claim services and Operations Manager.

The main duties of this post will include maintaining confidential client records and documents within set organisation procedures; contacting clients prior to appointments via telephone, email or e-texting; rearranging appointments if necessary via our electronic diary system and general day to day administrative duties compatible with this role.

Calderdale is part of the NHS England initiative to expand access to employment for people living with serious mental health conditions. The Individual Placement Support (IPS) model of employment support is an innovative and evidence based way of working and we are currently seeking an Employment Specialist work in line with IPS. 

This is a full time 37.5 hour post, and is a fixed term or secondment opportunity, until March 2021, with any continuation of this being subject to funding after March 2021. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of widening access to employment for people with mental health conditions while working for South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust. The post will be based in Calderdale within Community mental health teams where you will deliver employment support to individuals with severe mental health conditions across Calderdale and be a highly valued member of a team of mental health professionals, which includes psychiatrists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses and psychologists. 

90% of people with severe mental illness say they want to work, but currently only 8% are in work. Getting into employment can be a critical part of a recovery journey, so as an employment specialist you will focus on providing motivational, supportive and person-centred advice to enable service users to secure paid employment. You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Core and Enhanced mental health teams in the community pathway in Calderdale and carry a caseload of 20-25 people. You will help to raise expectations around the ability of service users to access paid employment and support people into paid employment related to their preferences and skills. 

You will be passionate about joining us in this exciting new role, and be willing both to help to develop the service and transform lives through enabling people to gain paid employment. You will need a good understanding of people and of mental health conditions, along with experience of local networking and partnership work such as with the DWP. This is a dynamic and diverse role where no day is ever the same – determination and strong listening skills are essential as is being able to take initiative. Working positively with local employers and negotiating job opportunities is a key part of what you will be doing. 

You will be part of a small IPS team within the Calderdale mental health teams while having support and supervision with the IPS Team leader. Full specialist training is funded for this role. 

The Role:

The postholder will manage a caseload of up to 20-30 service users in specialist mental health services using the principles of the Individual Placement and Support model to enable people to gain paid employment. The Employment specialist will work according to the Individual Placement and Support Model (IPS) under the direction of the IPS Team Manager to deliver a holistic recovery plan for mental health service users in secondary care. Training in IPS will be provided.

The role is to work directly with all relevant stakeholders; including, service users, mental health staff in community teams, Vocational team and local partner agencies. A key part of the role is to actively engage with employers to enable service users to gain paid employment and to sustain this with ongoing support within employment as required.

Care/service/function provision: To ensure that all service users who say they want to gain paid employment are successful in accessing/gaining and retaining paid employment.

Core duties and responsibilities

1. To work directly with mental health teams in Calderdale to generate referrals for IPS and assess service users who want paid employment using vocational profiling and an employment action plan according to their strengths and choices.
2. To work directly with all relevant stakeholders and external agencies to ensure that the  service users meet their employment goals. This includes mental health teams, employers, local DWP, the Council Business and Economy and other Council teams.
3. Spend time getting to know local employers in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individual’s strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.
4. To ensure that service users support needs are identified in terms of barriers to employment, disclosure with the agreement of the individual and reasonable adjustments.
5. To ensure as much as possible that the quality of work environments is explored including potential for workplace adjustments to accommodate individual strengths, skills and coping strategies.
6. To support service users to training and education courses as appropriate.
7. To support service users to access work placements as appropriate towards the employment goals.
8. To provide support with CV’s, interviews, rapid job searching, and applications for employment as required.
9. To provide the individual and employer with individualised support in work on an ongoing basis and help the person sustain employment as agreed with the individual.
10. To maintain and update accurate records within the required IT systems to ensure prompt communication with the Multi-disciplinary team around progress, change or adverse events.
11. To work flexibly, as required by the individual, to gain paid employment.
12. To adhere to administrative, monitoring and evaluation systems requirements for IPS.
13. To undertake mandatory training as required including in the IPS model.
14. To provide and seek benefit advice for service users seeking paid employment
15. To provide employment specialist caseload cover.

For the full job description and person specification, please see the 2 attached documents.

As part of the successful NHS England IPS bid, this full-time post is initially a fixed term contract until March 2021 with any continuation of this being subject to funding. 

We are also able to consider this post as a secondment opportunity until March 2021. For secondment, approval from your manager as to whether you would be able to take up a secondment is required before applying for the post. 

Find out more about how IPS can make a difference to people’s lives at our recruitment information session on Monday 18th November at 3.00pm at Hope Street Resource Centre, Hope Street, Halifax, HX1 5DW

Post closes on Thursday 21st November. 

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

About Scope

We’re the disability equality charity. We won't stop until we achieve a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness. At home. At school. At work. In our communities.

We provide practical advice and emotional support whenever people need it most. We use our collective power to change attitudes and end injustice. And we campaign relentlessly to create a fairer society.

About the job

Be a disability gamechanger and come and join our Leeds Employment Team.  As Team Leader, you will support the successful delivery of our Employment Services based from our Leeds Office. Reporting to the Employment Team Manager, you will take responsibility for the line management of a team of Employment and Partnership Advisers providing effective supervision, coaching and guidance to these staff, ensuring the service KPI’s are met and undertaking delivery of support to customers provided where required

About you

We are looking to recruit a Team Leader with demonstrable employability sector knowledge within the field of disability. You will have line management experience or can demonstrate you are ready for your next challenge.

With effective organisation and communication skills as well as facilitation and training abilities, you will also show that you have a flexible approach and can respond positively to change and the challenges and opportunities this brings. The ability to work well under pressure and deal effectively with conflicting priorities will allow you to succeed within this role.

You will bring drive and enthusiasm to your role and can demonstrate that you care passionately about improving disabled people's lives through employment. With excellent negotiation skills, you will be able to positively influence at all levels. You will be dynamic, and results driven and be able to evidence performance across a range of outcomes.

It is essential that you have a good working knowledge of IT including Microsoft Office Products and are confident user of digital technology demonstrating a positive approach to the adoption of innovative products and tools.

In return we offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday, flexible working and discounts at gyms, shops and theatres. 

To apply

We are committed to equal opportunities. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and guarantee interviews to suitably qualified disabled applicants.

Please apply in writing with a CV and covering letter.

Closing date for applications: 29 November 2019.

Community Engagement Specialist, UK

Hope for Justice is seeking a multilingual Community Engagement Specialist, to be based at our West Yorkshire Hub, to work with at-risk communities, law enforcement and business to develop an effective community-based approach to address modern day slavery, while developing effective networks and building trust with victims to help them escape their traffickers.

The role will depend on using local and cultural knowledge and language skills to engage effectively with potential victims and with key stakeholders in these communities.

The ideal candidate will have fantastic communication skills and well-developed emotional intelligence. They will be a confident self-starter, able to work unsupervised and with an understanding of the sensitivities and discretion required when working with vulnerable people.

This is an outstanding opportunity for anyone seeking to develop skills in community-based work while making a profound difference to the lives of people trapped in modern slavery.

More detail about the requirements of this role can be found in the Role Profile, attached

Location: West Yorkshire, UK

Salary: Competitive and negotiable based on experience

Full time

Closing Date: Friday, 29th November 2019 (Note: Early applications are welcomed, as preliminary interviews may be conducted throughout the process.)

To apply: Please visit our website

Team Leader - Leeds Service (full-time at 35 hours, Office Based, UK)

£28,000 - £33,000

GamCare is the leading national provider of information, advice and support for the treatment for anyone affected by problem gambling. In September 2019 we were delighted to open a brand-new service, the Leeds Community Gambling Service, with our regional Partner NECA. This service is integrated with the new NHS gambling provision for the North of England.

The Leeds Community Gambling Service is seeking a full time Team Leader to manage the treatment provision within the service.  As the Team Leader you will directly line manage the treatment practitioners to ensure the model of care is delivered safely and effectively.

You will be a self-starter, flexible, with a passion for delivering innovative, quality services, and a collaborative style. You will have experience of working in the addictions field and managing staff. We also expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children, young people and adults. Applicants will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.

A full job description and application form is available on the GamCare website.

This role will require an enhanced DBS check

To apply, please complete the following application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey, please go onto our website for further information.

Please note we do not accept CVs

GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.

If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:

Job application: <name of vacancy>

Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.

Previous applicants need not apply

For further information please contact Charlie Plücker, please go onto our website for further information.

This recruitment is on an ongoing rolling basis, applications will be reviewed regularly until the post is filled.

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Mental Health Employment Specialist
Location: Leeds
NJC Scale Points 12 – 17, starting at £21,589 pa
37 hours per week

WorkPlace Leeds, Leeds Mind, working in partnership with Touchstone and Community Links is a highly successful and innovative specialist employment and job retention service for individuals with mental health difficulties, based in Leeds.

The service provides a mental health specialism to individuals seeking employment whilst working within the Individual Placement and Support approach. This role involves supporting clients on a 1:1 basis to build confidence and self-esteem, explore volunteering and training opportunities and help clients to look for and gain paid work as part of their recovery at their own pace.

Closing Date: 28 November at 9:00am
Interviews will be held on17 December 2019

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website where you can download the application pack.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.

No agencies please.

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Your Space Community Wellbeing Development Worker
Salary: starting at £21,589 pa / pro rata (NJC Scale Points 22 – 25)
Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Location: Leeds

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a new service delivered by Touchstone, Womens Health Matters, Holbeck Elderly Aid and Leeds Beckett University to deliver a Wellbeing Space and Support Space across LS8, 9, 10 and 11. Your Space provides a community health development service in South and East Leeds. The service is funded by Public Health at Leeds City Council.

We are looking for a proactive, outgoing individual who is confident in using coproduction and asset-based community development approaches to improve individual and community protective factors and reduce risk factors associated with mental health and wellbeing.

You will design and deliver activities with targeted communities and the wider workforce to reduce risk factors associated with mental health and wellbeing. You will have experience of motivating others to have positive conversations about mental health, delivering both group and individual work, in the form of training sessions and wellbeing activity and be able to work with vulnerable or marginalised communities and volunteers successfully. The post requires a mix of standard hours and out of hours including some weekends

Closing Date: 1 December 2019
Interviews will be held on: 10 December 2019

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website where you can download the application pack.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.

Touchstone is a Trans Positive employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Mindful Employer, has been granted the Positive about Disabled People mark and Investors in People Platinum.

No agencies please.