This role requires working on a rota basis with typical shifts including:
- 1pm - 7.30pm (weekdays only);
- 4.15pm - 9am including an 8-hour sleepover;
- 8.30am or 9am - 5pm (weekends only)
Potential Interview date: 22nd October 2020
Here at Mercy UK we have a passion for God, passion for people and passion for excellence – this means we are committed to becoming an organisation where team members feel supported, valued and challenged to deepen their personal and professional growth. As an agile and fast-moving team, we seek to give our very best to what we do in attitude and activity.
As a Pastoral Support Worker, you carry heart and passion for the emotional, mental and spiritual health of the incredible women who are residents of the Mercy UK home. You have a unique set of skills; bringing together keen organisational and administrative skills with pastoral people skills. You are a cheerleader and at times, a coach to a diverse set of residents, all of whom are wired differently, with different learning styles, outlooks and life experiences but all of whom are united in their pursuit for freedom from life-controlling issues and into intimacy in their relationship with God, self and others.
You are safe hands as the primary point of contact and support for residents during evenings and weekends and your experience and abilities in pastoral support and communication equips you to deliver a fun yet informative schedule. You are able to perceive the needs of the group as well as the individual resident and you can hold these in tension. You are confident in your judgement and decision-making and understand the importance of working as a team and seeking guidance, where needed.
As residents wrestle through their own healing journey and put into practice all they are learning, you can prayerfully direct them, support and signpost them towards healthy choices and ways in which they can strengthen themselves in their own relationship with God, understanding that your best days are when you are in overflow in your own discipleship journey.
The post will include but is not limited to:
- Working innovatively with residents in their engagement with creative solutions and tools to improve their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being.
- Offering accountability in a resident’s self-administration of medications and facilitating the provision of medical care, as directed
- Empowering residents to improve their confidence in the kitchen, cooking and food-handling
- Facilitating the residents’ evening and weekend engagement with their external support network such as her home church, friends, family and other support partners through scheduled internet/email, post and phone use
- Creating fun and dynamic workshops and activities based on your own hobbies and passions, encouraging residents to explore their own creativity and skills
- Cultivating a sense of safety and consistency in the home by facilitating a fun yet informative programme schedule on and off-site and communicating changes or delays appropriately to the resident group and where necessary, the wider team
- Facilitating constructive and healthy discussion of Christian teachings and theology, and demonstrating healthy and appropriate personal boundaries and conversation within the home
- Transport residents to and from offsite activities including to and from church services and hospital or doctors’ appointments
- Willingness to be disturbed during sleeping hours to offer support, prayer or sleep-aid guidance to residents requiring support
- Ensuring any significant matters are communicated appropriately and promptly to ensure resident needs are being handled with excellence across the team
- Connecting regularly with the Senior Programme Manager in a one:one setting and being willing to engage in reflective practice towards personal and professional development.
- Undertaking a variety of administrative tasks, as directed, and ensuring the efficient filing and security of resident personal, sensitive and confidential information, upholding discretion at all times and ensuring that resident information is processed in line with regulatory requirements.
- Presenting the vision and mission of Mercy UK and being willing to deliver training to Christian audiences of all denominations and backgrounds as well as bringing an example of healthy Christian leadership in line with Mercy UK’s statement of faith and lifestyle policies.
- Remaining discerning, innovative and open to change, offering your skills and support across the charity, as needed.
- Undertake continued training, be an active participant and show commitment to personal and spiritual development.
- Adhere to ethical practice, strict confidentiality, disclosure and safeguarding policies and use discretion at all times.
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Here at Mercy UK we have a passion for God, passion for people and passion for excellence – this means we are committed to becoming an organisation where team members feel supported, valued and challenged to deepen their personal and professional growth. As an agile and fast-moving team, we seek to give our very best to what we do, in attitude and activity.
As the HR Administrator, you take pride in excellence and efficiency, and you understand that these things are best used to serve others. Your eye for detail and love for people means that you apply your skills in administration to making the lives of the people you work with easier. Working with databases, systems and processes are all in your repertoire of skills and you have the ability to deliver clear and concise documentation and correspondence.
Working closely with the HR Advisor, you will collaborate on bringing change and addressing areas of improvement. Whether through researching or reviewing data, you seek to understand the changes to be made and the most effective way of making them, administrating change projects as well as the everyday tasks with care.
Job Description:
The post will include but is not limited to:
- Bringing efficient administrative support to the HR department and delivering HR services to the highest possible standard to members of the Mercy UK team
- Working innovatively under the direction of the HR Advisor to roll-out new policies, process and areas of improvement
- Ensuring that our recruitment processes are effective and run smoothly, creating an outstanding first impression, raising our employer profile and attracting the best possible talent
- Assisting in delivering excellent end to end recruitment, onboarding and induction processes to ensure an outstanding employee experience from beginning to end
- Carrying out the information gathering and research tasks as directed, and producing reports to demonstrate results, key learnings and recommendations.
- Educating and empowering new starters through your enthusiastic and informative induction training, enculturing new team members to our core values or key policies and our ethical working practices.
- Ensuring the efficient filing and security of employee personal, sensitive and confidential information, upholding discretion at all times and ensuring that employee data is processed in line with relevant regulatory requirements.
- Keeping record, note-taking and minuting as requested and offering administrative support to HR meetings and training
- Assisting with the efficient delivery of our payroll and pension processes
- Providing cover and assistance for the smooth running of Mercy UK, adding your administrative skills, where needed.
- Presenting the vision and mission of Mercy UK and being willing to deliver training to Christian audiences of all denominations and backgrounds as well as bringing an example of healthy Christian leadership in line with Mercy UK’s statement of faith and lifestyle policies.
- Remaining discerning, innovative and open to change, offering your skills and support across the charity, as needed.
- Undertake continued training, be an active participant and show commitment to personal and spiritual development.
- Adhere to ethical practice, strict confidentiality, disclosure and safeguarding policies and use discretion at all times.
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This is an exciting time to join us. Recognised as the UK’s Best Charity to Work For by the prestigious Sunday Times Annual Awards in 2019, we have developed three high-impact programmes that more and more churches across the UK are running and funding. This has led us to double in income in the last four years. We expect to do so again by 2026.
With more than 100 staff and income of over £5m, we have been upgrading our finance system and growing the finance team to keep pace but there is much more to do. Your task will be to continue this good work so that we have the appropriate systems, reporting and team capabilities for our scale now and in the future. Overseeing a team of 5 staff across finance and compliance, you will bring coherence, order to complexity and organisational excellence. You will also serve as Director of our commercial subsidiary Hope Park Business Centres that generates £800k of unrestricted funds for the charity.
We’re looking for a commercially minded and relational leader capable of developing the finance team and bringing strategic financial leadership to the organisation at every level. You’ll enjoy working in a growth context and come with an entrepreneurial, problem-solving mindset and the high expectations that inspire excellence in all those around you. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team and playing a central role in developing the organisational strategy and culture you will have outstanding judgement and integrity.
If this sounds like you and you share our passion to see UK churches transforming the lives of struggling children, then we would love to hear from you.
To apply for this role, click apply and send your CV and covering letter explaining why you meet the criteria.
Initial Interviews will take place on Friday 6th November via Zoom and final interviews at National Support in West Yorkshire, Thursday 12th November.
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Payroll & Finance Lead
Full time: 36 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Are you passionate about improving adult skills?
The demands of the modern UK workplace and the current economic crisis mean that adult learning is increasingly crucial for people of all ages regardless of their level of skills and qualifications.
Did you know…..
- one in five adults lack functional English or maths;
- longer working lives and frequent career changes mean regular upskilling is a necessity;
- rapid developments in technology require us all to keep acquiring new knowledge;
- automation means reskilling and redeployment are the only options for many.
Northern College, the only adult residential college in Yorkshire, is in a unique position to be able to offer the essential skills adults need and employers want. Our campus is open 24/7 so we can offer flexible and accessible modes of delivery – evenings, weekends, blended and residential – to meet the needs of the local, regional and national economy.
Our mission is to inspire positive change through adult education, and working closely with our community, voluntary and employer partners we will provide outstanding teaching and learning on our campus based in the grade 1 listed Wentworth Castle and surrounded by 500 acres of National Trust gardens and parkland.
We have a number of exciting new roles that will be at the heart of delivering our aims. If you are passionate about enabling adults to achieve the skills they need to reach their potential and you meet the requirements below then we look forward to receiving your application.
Key duties:
- Lead the preparation, calculation and processing of the college’s monthly payroll.
- Undertake pension and auto-enrolment responsibilities in line with regulatory dates.
- To reconcile the College’s monthly payroll and month end payments to external agencies such as HMRC and pension schemes within required timeframes
- Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts and support monthly budget monitoring and analysis reporting.
- Utilise relevant reporting tools to ensure the accuracy of data and to develop the payroll system to identify efficiencies and find solutions.
To be successful in this role, you will have or be able to:
- Demonstrable working knowledge of payroll including knowledge of PAYE, NICs and statutory payments.
- Knowledge and an understanding of accounting principles.
- Experience of working in Credit Control
- Be part-qualified CCAB (AAT minimum) or have an equivalent payroll qualification.
What we can offer you:
- Access to the LGPS pension scheme with generous employer contributions
- Up to 34 days annual leave entitlement (including bank holidays) plus college closure between Christmas and New Year
- Free access to 500 acres of surrounding National Trust gardens and parkland
- Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including access to Occupational Health services
- Career development and progression opportunities and access to support for professional development
- Flexible working opportunities
- Free on-site parking
- Opportunities to take paid time off to participate in volunteering in community and charity fundraising events.