We currently have an exciting opportunity for a creative Assistant Shop Manager who is looking to make their mark in a high profile store in Southampton. You will join us on a part time, permanent basis, working 14 hours per week on a rota basis (to include some weekends), and in return you will receive a competitive salary of up to £6,940.07 per annum plus excellent benefits.

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity with a nationwide network of adoption and homing centres, volunteer-run branches and charity shops. During 2020, despite all of the challenges, we helped 126,000 cats and kittens. That's the equivalent of around 345 cats a day!

Each of our shops has its own charm and personality due to our dedicated volunteers and colleagues. From vintage jewellery and jigsaws to harps and handbags, whether our customers are looking for that 'must have' item or simply a 'missing piece', our team of Assistant Shop Managers ensure customers are met with great customer service. We are helping the environment while improving the lives of cats, one t-shirt at a time.

Responsibilities of our Assistant Shop Manager:

As an Assistant Shop Manager you will assist with managing all shop activities and together with the wider management team, achieve set targets and maximise financial contribution to the charity. You will help with overseeing and managing all shop activities including recruiting, training and managing an effective team of volunteers; being responsible for the day to day running of the shop on days when the Shop Manager is not present, ensuring it meets agreed income and expenditure targets for Cats Protection and taking responsibility for the shop’s accounting procedures including cash reconciliation, daily banking and till procedures.

What we’re looking for in our Assistant Shop Manager:

• Previous retail experience
• A strong communicator with excellent organisational skills
• A highly self-motivated, positive and resilient individual
• The ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a variety of people
• Confidence working well on own initiative
• Experience of working in retail management is highly desirable, as is experience working in the charity retail sector

What we can offer you:

• salary of up to £6,940.07 per annum plus excellent benefits
• generous annual leave entitlement
• contribution pension scheme
• life assurance scheme
• range of health benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• and more

Join us as our Assistant Shop Manager and know you are helping to make a real difference to cats and kittens across the UK!

Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications or CVs that are emailed to us directly. Applications received after the closing date may not be responded to.

Closing date: 14 November 2021

Virtual interview date: 23 November 2021

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth and health & social care focused person to join our dynamic team and is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace. The successful candidate must be as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.

Countless talented young people across the country are unemployed, under-employed or looking for a better career. Meanwhile, across social care and the NHS (one of the largest employers in Europe) there is currently in a staffing crisis with thousands of vacancies across hundreds of roles. See some potential to do some brilliant work? Us too! Could you lead our programmes to get 10,000 young people into health and care careers over the next 3 years?

As a Youth Development Lead, you will work with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 16-30-year olds into sustained health and social care roles. Working as part of a regional team in the  South of England you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most.

 Responsibilities:

• Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills
• Delivery of Prince's Trust's Health & Social Care Project
• Accurately record and track young person’s journey and progression using The Prince’s Trust CRM system
• Supporting young people into positive sustained outcomes including education, training, and employment.
• Ensuring young people who need us the most are recruited and engaged through outreach
• This role could be based in any Prince’s Trust South centre or as a homeworker this role can involve travel throughout the  South of England, but we are particularly interested in people with local knowledge of the following areas: London, Sussex, Solent, Hampshire, Bristol or Kent
• Co-ordinating with partners to deliver employment programmes, including leading skills sessions
• Ensuring every young person ‘progressed’ has an action plan with an appropriate pathway of support and keeping detailed records of our engagement with them
• Recruitment and management of trusted partners who refer to and/or deliver our services
• The recruitment and management of volunteers to support and deliver our services

Requirements:

To support our delivery requirements across the  South of England we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who have some of the following qualities:

• Experience of the NHS or Health & Social Care sector in any capacity
• Experience of recruiting people in to roles within Health & Social Care
• Experienced in caseload management to a varied audience
• Have experience in using customer relationship management systems and reporting data
• Are able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience
• Can be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation
• Are experienced in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums.
• Is a natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people
• Have experience in at least one of the following areas:
  • Youth Work or Teaching
  • Health & Social Care sector
  • Recruitment
  • Careers & Employability Sector
  • Managing Partner Organisations and Volunteers
• Has a strong understanding of the challenges young people from within The Trust’s target groups might face. 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly team in the position of Academic Caseworker to support our growing Advice Service. The post holder will provide confidential impartial support, advice and advocacy to students about academic regulations, complaints, appeals, extenuating circumstances and other issues relating to their academic and student experience. Although we are hoping to recruit a full-time position, we are willing to consider part time hours for the right candidate.

The successful candidate will ideally have some knowledge and experience in supporting students, possess excellent communication and organisational skills and understand best practice in a client focused service. They will have excellent interpersonal skills, a ‘can do’ attitude and the ability to prioritise a changing workload. They will need to be someone who can analyse academic policy to the benefit of students and understand good practices when supporting students in a confidential manner. They will need to accurately maintain case records, demonstrate excellent attention to detail and communicate complex information to students, officers, service managers and key University staff.

Solent Students’ Union has a vision of ‘developing confident students at the heart of the Union and University’ which is underpinned by our mission to enrich the student experience through opportunities, support, influence and action. We are a close team of professionals who believe that every student matters and have great aspirations with increasing success. Although the post holder will primarily work on their own initiative, the successful candidate will be a proactive member of the team and will clearly demonstrate a commitment to our organisational values.

Further Information

For further information or an informal discussion on this post please contact Josh Whale, Representation, Advice & Democracy Manager via Solent Students' Union website/Contactus

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Job Summary:
To ensure inclusion underpins all we do at Touch Network, especially in volunteering and outreach. The role includes designing and implementing a ‘micro-volunteering’ system as well as leading on providing equal access to our opportunities and resources, including making improvements to the way we do things. The role is designed to be ‘out and about’ – meeting people, listening to them and ensuring Touch meets the needs of those who want to get involved, especially in more marginalised and/or excluded communities.  

Purpose of Role:
To challenge and support everyone working as part of Touch to ensure our community is genuinely open to all and to ensure we have done all we can to ensure our community is equally accessible for all, by being out and about, reaching, communicating and involving all different groups of people of Southampton.