Interviews: 10th June

The Legacy Administration Officer (known to the business as Legacy Case Officer) helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by providing an accurate and efficient service to process legacies in line with legislation, policy and best practice contributing to a high-income source for the organisation.

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can. We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential
• Proven experience of complex administrative work including managing casework.
• Basic understanding or demonstrable ability to learn and understand law pertaining to Wills, Taxation, Probate, Trusts, Property, Charities, the rules governing contentious and non-contentious Probate law and the IOF Code of Practice.
• High degree of sensitivity and emotional intelligence required to interact appropriately with those who have recently been bereaved.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and investigation skills.
• Ability to assess risk against benefit to reach a well-rounded conclusion.
• High organisational skills with the ability to maintain a number of projects simultaneously.

Desirable
• Previous experience working as a Legacy Case Officer or working within a Legal environment as a paralegal or qualified lawyer.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.

As part of your application ensure you provide to evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to complete your answers separately and copy and paste into the online form once finalised.

If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Do you want to make a difference now and for the future?

Are you confident, approachable, self-motivated and have a flexible attitude?

Then join our team supporting Young Carers, aged 5-18 years, who have caring responsibilities for someone in their family due to disability, long-term illness, mental health, or drug or alcohol misuse.

You will deliver the service across Hastings and Rother, and be expected to work once a week at our Tunbridge Wells head office, so having your own car is essential. You will manage an existing caseload and new referrals, meeting with families and Young Carers to complete statutory assessments, and providing short-term interventions that support Young Carers to improve their resilience, educational chances and wellbeing. This might be signposting to local services, action planning, one-to-one support, or our workshop programme.

Working closely with schools and Childrens Services, you will make referrals to a range of professionals and community services, ensuring whole family needs are met and thereby reducing the impact of caring on the Young Carer.

As a CYP Coordinator, you will plan and deliver workshop sessions and activities, providing opportunities for Young Carers to spend time with their peers and recognise that they are not alone.

You can make the difference and give a Young Carer their childhood back.

Do you want to make a difference now and for the future?

Are you confident, approachable and self-motivated, with a flexible attitude?

Then join our team supporting Young Carers, aged 5-18 years, who have caring responsibilities for someone in their family due to disability, long-term illness, mental health, or drug or alcohol misuse.

There are 2 posts available- one in Tunbridge Wells and the other in Folkestone. You will be responsible for delivering the service across the district so your own car is essential. You will manage an existing caseload and new referrals, meeting with families and Young Carers to complete statutory assessments, and providing short-term interventions that support Young Carers to improve their resilience, educational chances and wellbeing. This might be signposting to local services, action planning, one-to-one support, or our workshop programme.

Working closely with schools and Childrens Services, you will make referrals to a range of professionals and community services, ensuring whole family needs are met and thereby reducing the impact of caring on the Young Carer.

As a CYP Coordinator, you will plan and deliver workshop sessions and respite activities, providing opportunities for Young Carers to spend time with their peers and recognise that they are not alone.

You can make the difference and give a Young Carer their childhood back.

Youth in Mind Service Manager

Mind in Bradford is looking for a Youth in Mind Service Manager who will be responsible for leading and managing the day-to-day operations and sub-contracted elements of the Youth in Mind partnership, enabling effective linking with partners and communities across the Bradford District & Craven. 

Youth in Mind is a group of mental health services supporting children and young people (CYP) aged 5 to 25 across Bradford District and Craven.  You will play a key role in evolving collaborative ways of working across multiple providers to promote, protect and improve CYP mental wellbeing so our CYP have brighter futures and the opportunity to thrive and achieve their potential

Secondment opportunities are welcome.

The role will appeal to those who have:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Wide range of IT skills and computer literacy, including Microsoft applications and electronic client record systems
• Excellent planning and organisation skills 
• Ability to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a proactive manner with a positive attitude
• Ability to work with complex issues and manage a demanding workload.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Keen attention to detail
• Excellent working knowledge of programme management best practices
• Understanding of the issues experienced by children, young people and their parents/carers in Bradford District and Craven.
• Children and young people’s mental health services in Bradford District and Craven.
• Understanding of key current issues within mental health.
• Experience working in children and young people’s services and/or mental health services (statutory or voluntary and community sector)
• Experience developing quality assurance systems and achieving service improvement.
• Delivering high quality, evidence-based services which offer value for money.
• Commitment to equal opportunities and diversity, addressing health inequalities, and to child-centred services
• Passionate, driven, self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed approach
• Consistently achieves high quality standards and requires limited direction and supervision
• Resilient in a dynamic environment
• Understanding that mental health difficulties are a natural part of life.
• Understanding of and commitment to the Mind in Bradford values of Caring always, Working together, Supporting everyone, Enabling all and Improving continually
• Willingness to work in and travel to multiple locations across Bradford Central locality.

Salary scale: £27,000 - £30,000 pa  

Hours: 37 hours (to include occasional evening and weekend work)

Contract: Fixed Term to end 31st March 2023 (possibility of extension subject to

funding)

Base: Kenburgh House, 28 Manor Row, Bradford, BD1 4QU with requirement to travel within the Bradford District and Craven area

Responsible to: Service Director

Annual Leave: 25 days pro-rata

Pension: We operate a contributory pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into (subject to the conditions of the scheme).

Probationary period: 6 months

Closing Date: 10am on Friday 28th May 2021

Interview Date: Monday 7th June 2021

The Project Lead will support members of YBF in the delivery of holiday activities with food to support disadvantaged children/young people. 

This will include reviewing existing provisions, updating mapping of such, facilitating the scaling of existing schemes, identifying gaps in provision, planning and supporting delivery, stakeholder engagement and performance reporting. 

We are looking for an excellent end-to-end project co-ordinator with experience of cross-sector partnership working, relationship building and a passion to deliver for children and young people of Barnet.

Would you like to be part of an innovative, friendly & dynamic team committed to making a difference? Yellow Door provides a range of services to Adults, Children and Young People who have experienced or are at risk from Domestic & Sexual Abuse (DSA). We are currently seeking a creative, flexible and highly motivated practitioner who shares our values & passion for delivering the very best in DSA prevention & response.

Children & Young People’s Therapist

We are looking for a creative and skilled therapeutic practitioner with experience of working in a similar context with Children and Young People. You will predominately be offering one to one and group interventions to 11 to 18 year olds in addition to some specific group work with 3 & 4 year olds. The successful applicant will demonstrate the ability to assess risk, identify and respond appropriately to Children and Young People’s therapeutic needs and communicate sensitive and sometimes complex information to children, families and partner services.  

37.5 hours pw

£23,415- £28,887 FTE

(Fixed term 12-month contract any extension is subject to further funding. Starting salary dependent on qualifications and experience)

Closing Date: Midnight, 23rd May 2021

Interviews will be held on: 27th May 2021

Yellow Door works across Southampton & Hampshire but is based near central Southampton with free staff parking and opportunities for professional development. Working hours negotiable but some early evening hours may be required. We are an equal opportunities employer and operate a TOIL system to support flexible working.

Please contact us if you would like an informal discussion.