Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone.
We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. A valuable part of this work has been the provision of services to children and young people from our Children and Young People Services offices in Levenshulme. The holistic mix of services delivered includes advice, volunteering, mentoring and counselling. The services have been successfully evaluated and involve young people in design, development and delivery.
Our work is guided by our values of:
Openness | Belonging | Strength | Collaboration
The Service Manager will support staff and play a strategic role in developing the delivery of high quality young people-led services.
We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop our services for children and young people.
Position: Service Manager, Children & Young People Services
Salary: £35,934
Hours: 35 hours per week
Funding guaranteed until the end of December 2021
(with potential to extend subject to funding).
The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:
- Being able to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way.
- Experience of managing and developing mental health services for young people.
- Experience of working strategically.
You can download the application documents from this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.
All applications must be received by 12noon, Monday 1st February 2021.
Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.
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The Tutor Trust is hiring an outstanding School Partnerships Manager. We are an award-winning education charity that 'transforms lives through tutoring'. The heart of this role is building partnerships with school leaders across Greater Manchester.
About the Role:
This is a new role at The Tutor Trust. Initially, this will be a part-time role on a permanent contract, with an expectation that the role might become full-time. In the first instance, we will need two or three days per week from the successful candidate. The role will have a 3 month probation period.
Candidates must have Qualified Teacher Status. The ideal candidate will be an experienced school leader with good knowledge of the GM school system and a strong track record of collaborative working and partnership working. Alternatively, candidates may have some experience of working at a senior level within a local authority and/or multi-academy trust.
The SPM will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer, the COO, the Schools Team and the Quality and Impact team. The most important functions of the role are essentially a sales and marketing challenge and a customer relationship challenge: To research, identify and build partnerships with new schools across Greater Manchester. The SPM role will also include maintaining and building these school partnerships at a senior level, across individual schools, multi-academy trusts, diocesan relationships, local authority/city-region Education leads, etc.
Another key element of the role, depending on experience and time pressures, will be to support the Quality and Impact team and to help out with tuition observations in partner schools, lesson plan spot checks, and the collection and analysis of data from schools about Tutor Trust’s outcomes.
Main Functions
• To develop & maintain Tutor Trust’s strategy for building new school partnerships, in line with the growth targets in Tutor Trust’s Three Year Plan and our delivery role with the National Tutoring Programme
• To secure and carry out meetings with/presentations to system and school leaders, to help grow Tutor Trust’s network of partner schools
• To act as the main point of contact for senior figures in schools and MATs and in the wider Education sector
• To attend the regular meetings of the School Operations team, which is led by the CEO and the COO, with personnel from all three cities
• To work with the Quality and Impact team on quality assurance, data gathering and tutor support
• Depending on experience, to carry out tuition observations in partner schools and to carry out spot checks of tutors’ lesson plans
• To support tutor recruitment by helping with application marking and tutor interviews
• Depending on experience, the SPM may play a role in designing and delivering training modules and/or CPD sessions for tutors
• Adhere to protocols for safe working, data protection and confidentiality requirements, and of course Child Protection and Safeguarding.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties within the function commensurate with the level of responsibilities of the post.
Person Specification
Good candidates for this role will be high achievers with excellent IT and English writing skills. They will be creative, entrepreneurial and persistent, with well-developed inter-personal skills and a strong track record of partnership working.
Qualifications and Experience
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Qualified Teacher Status, with leadership experience within the school system and/or a local authority
• Excellent written skills, to prepare and present high impact proposals and to correspond professionally with a strong attention to detail
• A proven track record of success in managing and achieving set targets
• Experience in building and managing key external relationships
• The ability to work accurately and effectively under pressure, prioritising workload to achieve deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and presentation skills.
• Experience of promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
• Practical and confident in the use of all standard Microsoft Office programmes
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to summarise complex information with clarity, brevity and speed
Personal qualities
• Empathy with the needs of young people, in particular disadvantaged young people and vulnerable learners
• Energy and enthusiasm
• Dynamic, creative and driven
• A self-starter with an efficient and hard-working approach
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a broad range of stakeholders.
• A flexible approach to work including willingness to take on tasks outside the normal remit
• Resilience, tenacity and strong influencing skills
• Excellent collaborative worker
• A flexible approach to work including willingness to take on tasks outside the normal remit.
• A positive ‘can do’ attitude
General Information
Salary £45k-£60k per annum, depending on experience (this is the FTE rate – salary will be paid pro rata).
The job is part-time 2/3 days per week, on a permanent contract (after a successful 3-month probation period). Your regular place of work will be the Tutor Trust office in Manchester, subject to ‘working from home’ guidance because of the COVID pandemic; however, the position will involve regular travel to schools and other partners across Greater Manchester and potentially some travel to our Leeds and Liverpool offices.
The hours of work are 16/24 hrs per week over 52 weeks. Holiday entitlement will be 33 days per annum (pro-rata) inclusive of Bank Holidays with 3 days of your allocation to be taken over the Christmas period. The role will also involve working occasional unsocial hours in evenings and at weekends.
In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an enhanced DBS check.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Wednesday 10th February 2021
Please complete an application form in full; CVs will not be accepted; you may send us a cover letter with your completed application form.
Interviews to be held: TBC but provisionally w/c Monday 15th February 2021.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Healthy Me Healthy Communities is a not for profit social enterprise founded in 2012 making a positive difference to people’s health, lives and local communities. HMHC operates on the principles of coproduction, bringing together a range of partners, resources and assets for achieving positive outcomes in neighbourhoods across Manchester. At the heart of our work is involving people who benefit from our work, believing everyone has the skills and capacity for improving their own, families and communities’ outcomes.
HMHCs’ Strategic Vision is:
“reducing health inequalities together”
So “everyone enjoying a long, healthy and happy life.”
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Training and Learning Programme Manager to join our small, friendly team. The Training and Learning Programme Manager will be responsible for developing and delivering our learning provision, including accredited and non-accredited courses and external income generating training.
Other details:
- 5% employer pension.
- 15 days holiday rising 1 day per year to a maximum of 30 days, plus 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Plus 1 leave day for employee birthday and 1 wellbeing day accompanied by £100 wellbeing budget.
- Sick-pay is 4-weeks full-pay, 4-weeks half-pay followed by statutory sick pay (subject to satisfactory probation period).
- Access to ‘Health Assured’ employee assistance programme for health & wellbeing support.
Equal Opportunities:
HMHC strives to be an equal opportunities employer and celebrates diversity and is committed to developing a diverse team. We welcome applications from people returning to work and may not have continuous employment history.
Key-tasks include:
- Manage learning provision.
- Working with SLT to identify, appraise and develop learning and development opportunities, informing strategic decision-making.
- Inducting and supervising tutors delivering HMHC provision.
- Delivering accredited learning provision, taking responsibility for learner journey.
- Manage the course accreditation process from concept to implementation.
- Monitoring budgets and outcomes from internal and external sources (I.e. grants, sales)
- Establishing the learning process, setting-up and coordinating course documentation that satisfy external accredited-body requirements.
- Registering courses and submitting relevant documents with external learning agencies (I.e. RSPH).
- Creating and coordinating marketing and promotion of courses.
- Work with SLT and L&D Leadership Team to develop and implement a quality management/improvement framework.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating learning provision for diverse groups of people at a range of levels.
- Deliver learning provision meeting external curriculum and quality standards.
- A recognised teaching or training delivery qualification.
- Experience of adult education quality standards and procedures.
- Able to organise course documentation, learner files and carry out administrative tasks to a high standard and in line with course requirements.
- Able to identify and appraise new opportunities to develop provision, improve learner experience and outcomes.
- Project management skills to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Experience of managing projects with multiple outcomes.
- Excellent administration skills.
- Able to engage and motivate people of all backgrounds to participate and become involved.
- Passion for supporting people facing social exclusion and inequalities.
- Skills to promote and market courses externally to generate income in line with organisational targets and budgets.
- Professional attitude and conduct.
- Experience of working on own initiative with minimum supervision.
- Good practical knowledge and use of IT packages including Microsoft Office, databases, email and social media.
- A good standard of education with evidence of professional development.
- Entitlement to work in the UK.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone.
We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. To help us continue our counselling provision to young people we are recruiting to a Counselling Team Leader. This is a Big Lottery funded post, with funding guaranteed to June 2021 and options for continuation funding currently being explored.
Our work is guided by our values of:
Openness
Belonging
Strength
Collaboration
The Counselling Team Leader will support our volunteer counselling placements alongside existing counselling provision.
We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop and manage accessible counselling services for young people.
Position: Counselling Team Leader
Salary: £29,636 (pro rata)
Hours: 17.5 hours per week
Funding guaranteed until the end of June 2021
(potential to extend subject to funding).
The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:
- Being able to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way
- Experience of delivering and managing counselling services
- Experience of working with young people
You can download the application documents from this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.
All applications must be received by 12noon, Monday 1st February 2021.
Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.
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A qualified and capable teacher, you will be keen to engage with students and rekindle their love of learning, and you will share our passion for egalitarianism and empowerment.
Because we serve people from all walks of life, wee are keen to develop a diverse workforce and particularly welcome applications from members of minority groups. You must be an experienced tutor who can plan and deliver appropriate tasks to help your students to develop a range of skills .
We need tutors with:
- up to date working knowledge and experience of teaching in the specialist curricula to diverse student groups
- experience of working in community settings
- a strong understanding of adult learning and a belief in its importance
- a recognised teaching qualification ideally at level 5 alongside a subject specialism (ideally also at level 5)
- experienceof delivering non accredited and accredited courses
- excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- willingness to travel across the region with the ability to deliver evenings and weekends
- A desire to share and improve teaching practice
WEA assumes you will be excited by using digital technology both in the classroom with the student and to manage course administration and communication. The ideal candidate will be IT literate and able to deliver accredited courses up to Level 2, through a blended learning approaching including use of our VLE.
The Workers` Educational Association is a unique charity and the UK`s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education. With a clear vision and a strong social purpose, we bring great teaching to local communities, with life-changing courses held in clubs, pubs, workplaces, schools and almost anywhere else you can think of.
Since 1903, we have been giving disadvantaged people the opportunity to return to learning - inspiring them to realise their full potential and become active, engaged citizens. We see education as a tool for social justice, not just self-improvement, and we pride ourselves on making learning accessible.
As one of our tutors, you`ll be so much more than just a teacher. Forming true partnerships with your students, you`ll go the extra mile to build their confidence, develop their knowledge and skills, and empower them to define and achieve their life goals. In short, you will be a catalyst for profound change.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing and Sales tutor to support provision across the North West. The main purpose of this post is to teach and offer support for students as part of a WEA Marketing and sales course through a holistic student approach. We are looking for a tutor who can provide inclusive support which encourages independent learning in relation to personal development, empowerment, and resilience and student engagement alongside academic achievement. The successful tutor will prepare course materials, identify students` needs, adapt courses and continually assess the effectiveness of your approach.
Every day will bring different yet exciting challenges.
A qualified and capable teacher, you will be keen to engage with students and rekindle their love of learning, and you will share our passion for egalitarianism and empowerment.
Because we serve people from all walks of life, we’re keen to develop a diverse workforce and particularly welcome applications from members of minority groups. You must be an experienced tutor who can plan and deliver appropriate tasks to help your students to develop a range of skills.
We need tutors with:
• up to date working knowledge and experience of teaching in the Marketing and Sales subject curricula to diverse student groups
• experience of working in community settings
• a strong understanding of adult learning and a belief in its importance
• a recognised teaching qualification ideally at level 5 alongside a subject specialism (ideally also at level 5)
• experience of delivering non accredited and accredited courses
• excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• willingness to travel across the region with the ability to deliver evenings and weekends
• A desire to share and improve teaching practice
WEA assumes you will be excited by using digital technology both in the classroom with the student and to manage course administration and communication. The ideal candidate will be IT literate and able to deliver through a blended learning approaching including use of our VLE.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Worker to join the City Hearts team. This person will
be key in helping us to provide the safe and secure environment for our clients. The role involves
undertaking in general maintenance and basic repair work across our safe-houses. They will be able to
plan and prioritise tasks as well as work reactively if or when an emergency arises.
• Minor electrical/heating/plumbing maintenance work (nothing that requires a license).
• Decorating property where required (painting patching etc.)
• Garden maintenance
• Minor joinery work (fixing doors/cupboards/ patching small holes)
• Assessing raised/identifying works/defects and determining whether we can fix in house or if
license contractors are required and communicating with contractors.
• Pricing up cost of repairs and rectifications i.e. sourcing cost of materials/ supplies
• Identify potential hazards/ issues that need to be addressed and feedback to Facilities Manager
• To carry out maintenance duties within the office environment and within City Hearts client
accommodation
• To have a keen eye for detail and take personal responsibility for the quality of work carried out
• To respond to the direction of the Facilities Manager and work in partnership with the wider team
of City Hearts to uphold a high standard of accommodation
• To prioritise effectively and manage and organize time independently
• To carry out work in a timely and appropriate manner, maintaining sensitivity to the
accommodation environment at all times
• To liaise with City Hearts support staff regarding minor repairs and feedback on any work carried
out
• To support the Facilities Manager in their duties
• To be available for out of hours support on a rota basis
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Don’t let a child’s start in life determine their future
Programme Innovations Director (North and Midlands)
- Based in North/Midlands, home based initially, with regular travel once restrictions ease
- Closing date: 1 February 2021, 9.00am
Join Future First and help us build a more equal world. Working with us, you can make a big difference
…To children and young people
- Tackle educational inequality and help close the gap
- Give young people hope, dreams and the chance to realise them
- Connect them with powerful, relatable role models
…To state schools and colleges
- Build, engage and sustain alumni networks
- Harness untapped resources
- Grow social capital and strengthen school communities
…To employers, funders and partners
- Showcase our work to gain support and investment
- Create exciting work experience opportunities (virtual and in person)
- Deliver employer programmes and funded interventions
…To you
- Learn, grow and create in a demanding but supportive environment
- Enjoy diverse and meaningful work
- Be rewarded and valued as part of a great, collaborative team
…To us
- Bring your vision, energy, indefatigability and solutions focus to ensure our service for schools and young people is second to none
- Give us your knowledge of education, schools and working with young people
- Deliver our programmes and demonstrate our impact
- Innovate to extend our reach to more schools and pupils
We would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and people with lived experience of the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer committed to recruiting a diverse workforce.
Safeguarding is a priority for us, and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check will be required for the successful candidate.
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Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone. We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults.
Our work is guided by our values of:
Openness
Belonging
Strength
Collaboration
Manchester Mind is looking to recruit a Schools Mental Health Practitioner to deliver one-to-one psychosocial support to young people within four schools in Manchester.
We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop and deliver accessible mental health support services for young people.
Position: Schools Mental Health Practitioner
Salary: £27,905 (contract will run until 31st July 2022)
Hours: 35 hours per week
The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:
- Ability to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way that builds kind relationships and is receptive to and appreciative of the skills and talents of everyone.
- Experience of delivering short and long term one-to-one support for young people.
- Experience of delivering and adapting services to ensure accessibility.
You can download all application documents from alongside this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.
All applications must be received by 9am, Thursday 28th January 2021.
Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.
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About Us
The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.
At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.
About the Role
In this exciting new post, you will play a pivotal role as a senior leader within the newly formed Funding Strategy Directorate, working closely with the Funding Strategy Director and Senior Management Team to ensure the implementation of the Fund’s vision and ambition.
The Funding Strategy Directorate is a central enabling function that supports the development, innovation and delivery of our funding across all our funding portfolios. This role will lead the Funding Design and Development function, accountable for our grant management system alongside funding controls, policy and practice. With a deep understanding and demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches and applied strategic thinking you will enable us to deliver excellent services both to our external customers as well as our internal teams.
To be successful in this post you will be passionate about our work and strategy ‘People in the Lead’. You will be an established leader with first class team leadership and coaching skills. You will be adept at setting strategies that drive forward positive change marrying business needs with innovative analysis. You will have experience of designing and delivering a major digital system and be skilled in making complex decisions balancing outcomes with risks.
The team is spread across the UK and you can be based at any of our office locations. When we return to the workplace there will be some travel between offices.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered
Interview Date: W/C 1 Feb 2021
Essential Criteria
Please ensure that your application demonstrates, with examples, how you meet all these essential criteria.
- Deep understanding of the communities we serve and our role as a funder
- Experience of leading strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business needs with innovative analysis
- Demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches, applying strategic thinking in how to provide the best service
- Responsibility for the design and delivery of at least one major digital system used by a business or organisation to manage its work whilst aligning with its ambition.
- Building or growing at least one team of mixed skills to deliver such a project.
- Proven ability to coach and lead teams in agile and lean practices, thinking of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes
- Excellent Communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrable ability to mediate between people and communicating with stakeholders at all levels
- Experience of making and justifying decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology, understanding how these impact on a funder context
For You
We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.
We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:
- Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
- Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Season ticket and cycle to work loans
- Paid volunteering leave
How to Apply
Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.
Equal Opportunities
Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive. We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.
We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Independent Sexual Violence Advisor to work collaboratively within an integrated team of counsellors and pathway navigators. The ISVA will provide a trauma informed, service-user led service support to survivors of both recent and non-recent abuse and support clients in coping with and recovering from their experience of abuse/trauma. The post is based in Macclesfield with travel around Cheshire East.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Pension Wise is a free and impartial government service that offers people guidance on their defined contribution pension options. Citizens Advice offers both telephone and face-to-face Pension Wise appointments in over 300 locations.
You’ll be part of a service that has helped over 300,000 people in the past 5 years offering them valuable and life changing guidance that gives them the confidence to understand their pension and how to get the best value out of them. In providing this necessary and impartial service you’ll see positive and rewarding results for the people you help. We receive fantastic feedback directly from the customers who use the service - Pension Wise has consistently received over 94% customer satisfaction scores.
You’ll be expected to supply accurate and relevant information and guidance on pension options and choices. You’ll need to have a good foundation knowledge of pension law and practice, gained in a pensions role, as well as a thorough understanding of a broad range of pension arrangements, both occupational and personal. You also should have an understanding and an ability to keep pace with wider retirement issues.
Successful candidates must be able to attend an online induction programme, starting on Monday 1st March 2021.
If you meet the essential criteria in the job description then please initially apply by sending your CV to and stating the job reference.
Unfortunately due to the high volume of applications we will only be able to respond to successful candidates.
Oasis has a vacancy for a Project Administrator to be part of a new team of working on a groundbreaking project, supporting A&E Departments in the Greater Manchester area in reducing the harm to young people from violence.
We are looking for an organised and pro-active Administrator who has a flair for setting up systems, maintaining databases, sorting paperwork and keeping processes on track, all while maintaining confidentiality and helping people from all walks of life. Like most administration jobs, no day will be the same, so you will need to think on your feet and be ready to challenge and be challenged. As this is a new project we are also recruiting for a Project Coordinator and three Youth Development Workers.
To be successful, you will need solid administration experience including minute taking, using social media, as well as data management systems. This role will suit someone who is self-motivated, flexible and reliable, and wants to work in a unique area of youth and community work.
Oasis Charitable Trust is a multi-national charity supporting young people and their families in 10 countries worldwide. Our vision is for building healthy communities: places where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their full potential.
Working for Oasis offers:
- A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution
- A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)
- A supportive, friendly work environment, with flexible working arrangements
If you are interested in this position, please download the documents on this page or go to the Oasis UK charity website (CVs alone will not be accepted).
Completed applications should be returned by 9am Monday 25th January 2021.
Interviews will take place on 11th & 12th February 2021 (possibly in person or online)
PART TIME, 24 HOURS PER WEEK (0.6 FTE)
FIXED TERM CONTRACT TO MARCH 2022
SALARY: £11,606 p.a. (plus 7% non-contributory pension)
LOCATION: GREATER MANCHESTER
Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
Oasis supports Equal Opportunities. Registered Charity No. 1026487
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Are you an experienced Chef interested in a career where you will make a real difference in young people’s lives? Do you have a knowledge of food hygiene to an intermediate level? Are you interested in a 14-hour, part time contract? Maybe a career as a Chef with Care In Mind is the next step in life for you...
Our client provides residential services for young people aged 16-30 years old who have been discharged from psychiatric inpatient stays or secure children’s homes. The young people they care for often require a high level of support and dynamic approach to risk management in order to support problems they may have with self-harming, behaviour and emotional regulation. Their aim is to support the young people using a therapeutic approach to live in a non-secure community setting and to achieve their individual goals in preparation for transition to adult life.
They are excited to announce the opening of their new Residential Eating Disorder Service based in Lostock, Bolton, where they are looking for a Chef with experience working within a Healthcare, Residential, NHS, or School environment. You will support the team to provide a high-quality service to their young people with eating disorders, ensuring safe and nutritious food is prepared.
Your week will consist of working 14 hours per week over a 7 day rota from 10am - 2pm (3 days week 1, and 4 days week 2).
Company Benefits
- £10.43 - £11.53 p/h (Dependent on experience & qualifications)
- 22 days holiday + 8 bank holidays pro rata (Rising to 27 days holiday pro rata plus bank holidays with service)
- Enhanced company pension
- Life Assurance (2 x annual salary)
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Paid Induction (Running over 3 days)
- Paid Enhanced DBS check
- Employee Assistance Programme / 24-hour Counselling Service
- Online shopping discounts, free eye tests and various other benefits
- Excellent Learning and Development opportunities
- Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
- Regular social events and recognition schemes (‘Employee of the year awards’, Summer & Christmas parties)
- Free on-site parking
Your role as a Chef
- To plan and prepare meals following strict meal plans directed by the dietetic assistant
- To ensure the correct portioning, labelling, and packaging of food items in line with food safety standards.
- To make the most efficient use of provisions and equipment to minimise waste
- To receive and store food and other goods, ensuring they are of the required specification and quality
- To prepare, cook and store meals for service users and staff, in accordance with standardised recipes and all preferences relating to dietary requirements, food allergies and intolerances
- To be able to demonstrate the ability to prepare food for patients and/or staff using both cook/chill products and fresh produce, and to be able to check temperature levels and be aware of the Food Temperature Regulations
- To follow health and safety guidelines carefully and alert your manager immediately of any concerns relating to health and safety issues.
- To attend all relevant courses, in-service training days and statutory annual updates in line with their policies.
- To comply with their Equal Opportunities Policy
- To always maintain confidentiality in accordance with the agreed policy.
- To demonstrate empathy and sensitivity to others that is non-judgemental and shows respect for their beliefs, values and culture.
Requirements of a Chef
- City & Guilds 706 Part 1 & 2 in Catering Services, NVQ in Food Preparation and Cooking or equivalent qualification
- Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate
- Experience of working as a Chef/ Cook in either a Healthcare, Residential, NHS, or School environment
- Good verbal communication skills and the ability to listen to others
- Good IT skills and the ability to write emails and use Microsoft office
- An Understanding of the issues around confidentiality and safeguarding
- The ability to form and maintain professional working boundaries between staff and service users
- Able to work shifts within 24 hour/ 7 days per week rota (including some bank holidays)
Desirable Criteria
- Full, clean UK Driving Licence and access to a car
- Previous experience of working with young people who have mental health needs
- Previous experience of supporting service users with eating disorders
- Previous experience of supervising a team
If you are interested in joining an enthusiastic, motivated business who thrive in developing and rebuilding young people and young adults with complex difficulties then please submit your application by Friday 12th February.
To support their commitment as a COVID-19 Secure employer, all of their interviews will be held over video platform.
Our client operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
They are an equal opportunities employer who values diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.
They reserve the right to close the advert early, should they appoint a suitable candidate.
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