Thank you for your interest in the position of Rainbow Café Development Worker at Switchboard in Brighton and Hove.

This year we’re celebrating our 45th birthday, and this landmark makes Switchboard the longest-running LGBT organisation in Brighton and Hove. This an important and exciting time to be joining the charity. Despite the challenges of 2020, Switchboard is in a solid position and we are looking forward to welcoming new colleagues to our team. Our vital work has never been more needed.

Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ people looking for a sense of community, support or information.  We connect people and support them directly through specially developed Switchboard services or link them to other specialist organisations. Switchboard’s dedicated staff team run a number of services that offer information and support, befriending and social prescribing for LGBTQ communities.

We are now looking to recruit a Development Worker for our Rainbow Cafe. This is one of Switchboard’s frontline projects, working with LGBTQ people impacted by dementia or memory loss, and their carers.

Switchboard’s Rainbow Café has been delivering a vital service for the past 4 years, and we are looking for someone who can continue to develop and manage this service, working with LGBTQ people living with dementia, their friends, families and carers to design, create and deliver the support systems that they want. 

The project will be based in Brighton and Hove and will involve engaging with individuals within our LGBTQ communities, building trust and supporting people to attend group sessions.

We will be working within covid-safe guidelines for the forseeable months, including home working.

Please download the attached Application Pack and Application Form (below) and return to the email address specified by 5pm on November 11th 2020.

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about enabling and supporting Carers?

If so this is your opportunity to join a dynamic team that provides a range of support services to unpaid Carers in Wandsworth.  We require creative and proactive self-starters to support Carers in Wandsworth.

The successful applicant will have knowledge and experience of dementia and the issues as they relate to Carers. They will have experience of providing advocacy, support and information, excellent organisational and communication skills, and a commitment to working with Carers and volunteers. They will be able to adapt to providing services both face to face and via virtual platforms whilst maintaining a consistent service for Carers.

To apply for this role please see documents below with detailed instructions for your application, you will need to complete our application form and equality and diversity form.

Thank you for your interest in the position of Volunteer & Helpline Coordinator at Switchboard in Brighton and Hove.

This year we’re celebrating our 45th birthday, and this landmark makes Switchboard the longest-running LGBT organisation in Brighton and Hove. This an important and exciting time to be joining the charity. Despite the challenges of 2020, Switchboard is in a solid position and we are looking forward to welcoming new colleagues to our team. Our vital work has never been more needed.

Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ people looking for a sense of community, support or information.  We connect people and support them directly through specially developed Switchboard services or link them to other specialist organisations. Switchboard’s dedicated staff team run a number of services that offer information and support, befriending and social prescribing for LGBTQ communities.

We are now looking to recruit a coordinator for our volunteer team, with a focus on ensuring our volunteer-led helpline runs smoothly. This is Switchboard’s longest running project, we’ve provided a listening ear for LGBTQ people since 1975.

Please download the attached Application Pack and Application Form (below) and return to the email address specified by 5pm on November 11th 2020.

Are you a knowledgeable, confident and customer-focused professional seeking an exciting, varied and invaluable position within an award-winning charitable organisation? Jewish Care is currently seeking a Community Housing Officer to join their friendly and hard-working Community Services team. In this role, you will contribute towards ensuring that the department provides high quality housing management services within our Extra Care Housing Services located in Golders Green and Hendon. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a newly formed team and be responsible for a wide range of housing management duties.

What you'll be doing:

* Working closely with the Property Services department to effectively manage void units within specified turnaround timeframes
* Letting void units and supporting tenants to settle into their new accommodation
* Leading on property sign-ups and ensuring tenants understand their agreements, responsibilities and financial obligations
* Supporting tenants in accessing the handyperson service and both internal and external OT services
* Ensuring tenants are compliant with their tenancy agreements and taking proactive action in relation to any breaches
* Delivering housing surgeries to tenants living in Jewish Care Independent Living Schemes
* Ensuring Health & Safety compliance within the building and undertaking periodic audits
* Overseeing rent and service charge accounts and managing arrears in a proactive and sensitive manner
* Administering the organisation's obligations in relation to rent deposit schemes

What you'll bring to Jewish Care:

* CIH qualification Level 2/3 (Desirable)
* Similar experience within a Housing Association, Local Authority or Private Lettings Company
* Experience delivering housing services to older vulnerable people within a supported or 'with care' environment
* Neighbourhood management experience within a supported or 'with care' context
* Experience managing void properties and property lettings
* Experience managing rent and service charge accounts including arrears management and debt recovery
* Knowledge of tenancy agreements, rent setting, service charge legislation and financial procedures
* Knowledge of Health & Safety and other statutory compliance issues
* Exceptional customer service skills
* Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
* Ability to attend panel and committee meetings (some of which occur during evenings)
* A clean UK driving licence and the ability to travel as needed with own vehicle

What we do:

Jewish Care is a leading communal organisation and the largest health and social care charity for the Jewish community in the UK, caring for nearly 7,000 people every week including older people with dementia, disabilities, mental health needs, Holocaust survivors and many more. We are proud to be a multi award-winning organisation, receiving prestigious awards that include The Skills for Care Best Employer for over 250 people, and The Investors in People Gold standard.

Why you'll love working with us:
Jewish Care offers excellent benefits and training to all staff. Benefits include, free meals, 20 day's annual leave, Jewish Care Pension scheme, various discounts, Loans and mileage reimbursement, ride to work scheme, eye tests, employee referral bonus and more.

We are a team of many different backgrounds and cultures

Jewish Care is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity. Though our clients are of similar religious tradition, our staff represent various cultures and faiths, bringing their own unique perspectives and individuality to their roles.

Please be aware that this vacancy will close, once a sufficient number of suitable candidates have been identified therefore, we would recommend that you submit your application as early as possible. To request a full job description, please email [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!
Benefits

Jewish Care offers excellent benefits and training to all staff. Benefits include, free meals, 20 day's annual leave, Jewish Care Pension scheme, various discounts, Loans and mileage reimbursement, ride to work scheme, eye tests, employee referral bonus and more.

About

Jewish Care is a leading communal organisation. We are the largest health and social care charity for the Jewish community in the UK, caring for nearly 7,000 people every week. Approximately 1500 staff from multi-cultural backgrounds together with 3,000 volunteers help to maintain their service. It provides a wide range of services to help meet the community's physical, social and emotional needs, both directly and in partnership with other organisations. We care & support many people including; older people with dementia, disabilities, mental health needs and Holocaust survivors and many more.

We aim to make a positive impact on the lives of Jewish people by creating excellent social care that enhances well-b

Do you care deeply about the welfare of older adults?

Do you have experience in social care or working with people with a wide variety of needs and abilities?

Are you an experienced, highly organised and creative groups facilitator?

If you answered yes to all of the above, this could be the role for you!

We’re looking for an experienced and skilled individual who will deliver a package of support, including one to one home assessments and running group activities, to help reduce loneliness, improve health and wellbeing and increase older people and their carer’s opportunities to connect to their local community.

What we do

Time & Talents is a lively, busy community centre in the heart of Rotherhithe, SE16.  Set in a leafy heritage building, and ‘T&T2’, our second venue in Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, we offer something for everyone. With a history of 133 years of supporting people of all ages in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey, we bring people together for mutual support, fun and friendship, with a wide range of services and activities for older people and other adults, along with volunteering and children and families’ projects.

We work with around 400 older people and their carers a year, many of whom are very frail and elderly. Sadly, though they very often get left out: their friendships and networks disappear, family and friends move away, and they end up very lonely and isolated. Once that happens, mental and physical illness too often follow. We believe that surrounding older people with a welcoming, nurturing community, is vital to improving and maintaining their wellbeing. We also know they want to thrive, create, feel a sense of purpose, and continue living their lives to the full, for their whole lives.

In response to this we offer one to one support and case-working, befriending, and an exciting programme of social and support groups with fully escorted transport. We also run fun events and intergenerational activities to bring the whole community together. From reminiscence, art, music, and health and wellbeing advice, to outings and new and exciting experiences, no two days are the same.

The role

In this role, you'll deliver some of our existing groups, including our Happy Mondays group, Friday Social Club and a lively Stroke Club. With the support of volunteers and community members, you'll coordinate other smaller peer-led and tutor-led groups (from exercise classes to a mental health support group for older women). You will also take responsibility for a new caseload of referrals and carry out home assessments on clients to identify their individual needs. Working closely with health, adult social care, housing departments and voluntary sector organisations, as well as liaising with referees, you will work hard to ensure clients’ and their carers needs are met, providing help with anything from applying for making adaptions in the home to supporting them to get involved in one of our many groups or projects.

A key part of the role is involving older adults and carers themselves in the delivery of the programme as volunteers, and involving people of all ages and backgrounds from the local community - from NHS health professionals to local artists and students. You will also need to build individual relationships of trust with older participants, and work closely with our Neighbourhood Care Coordinator and Older People’s Programme Manager to ensure we take a joined-up approach to caring for individuals.

About you

The role needs someone creative, energetic, passionate, but importantly, also highly organised. You must be as comfortable making sure a minibus schedule is up to date, as you are delivering craft activities or quizzes, or as comfortable hosting NHS professionals delivering healthcare advice, as you would be helping run an escorted visit to a local farm. You need to have lots of ideas, and be highly ambitious, but also be able to make your ideas happen. 

Most of all, we need someone who cares deeply about the welfare of older people and their carers, and is able to react quickly and appropriately to emerging issues – especially to the more serious care issues we inevitably encounter. While appropriate training will be given, we are looking for candidates with some social care experience ideally.

About us

We are an energetic, experienced, and passionate team of 15, with a strong sense of shared purpose and a lively sense of humour. You’ll have the chance to make a big contribution to a growing, ambitious and innovative organisation which has doubled its reach and impact in recent years.

This role is full time, with flexibility for regular evening and occasional weekend working.

Time & Talents is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity, and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person that they are. We actively encourage applications from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.

If you would like an informal chat about the job, please email us with your phone number and a suitable time for us to call.

The closing date is 09:00 on Monday 02 November.

TO APPLY: All applications to be submitted online via CharityJob.  Send a CV and a cover letter of no more than two sides of A4, explaining why you want the job and how your experience relates to the job description and person specification.

IMPORTANT: We’ll use cover letters to assess applications alongside CVs. Please ensure you take the time to include a well-written cover letter as detailed above.  We won’t assess applications without one.

Coronavirus/COVID-19: the safety and wellbeing of our current and future employees remains a top priority, therefore interviews will be conducted remotely by video if necessary.

Following new funding we are now looking to recruit a befriender to deliver a quality befriending service to older people in Tower Hamlets, to elders of Bangladeshi origin who may be experiencing loneliness, depression or dementia. This involves befriending older people and supporting them in a variety of practical ways helping to alleviate their loneliness through companionship through face to face visits and telephone. The overall aim of the post is to provide a social outlet for older people, to give them the support and information that they need and to help them develop greater independence, increase their social networks and enable them to lead a more fulfilling life. Our preference is to employ one person full time, but it may be possible to work flexible hours.

Send CV and covering letter setting out how you meet the requirements.

Interviews November 2020

With prior experience of running inclusive groups and the ability to establish rapport with older men, you will take  lead responsibility for delivering men-only activities at our community centre. You will organise and facilitatie centre-based activities for men, providing advice to individual members, and carry out networking and outreach to engage new members and partners. Whilst many of our service users are sheltering, you will maintain contact by telephone.

About Us

Holloway Neighbourhood Group runs a multi-purpose community centre - the Old Fire Station. and a mental health service - the Stress Project, in Holloway Islington. We deliver services and form partnerships to reduce social isolation and improve wellbeing for local residents. Our Older Men's Social Club has been running since 2017. 

About the Role:

• You will maintain phone contact with people to help them to feel connected, encourage them to be active, and let them know about local services that they may need
• Support older men to access online activities and facilitate online discussion groups
• Act as a welcoming host, a first point of contact, and a friendly face at our Older Men's Social Club 
• Liaise with external guest participants (eg health services, issue-based groups) 
• Facilitate issue-based conversations between participants on a wide range of subjects, including sometimes on sensitive issues 
• Follow up personal issues with individual participants in difficulties to ensure they receive appropriate help and support
• Plan and implement occasional outreach sessions to recruit older men to get involved

You will have:

• Experience in the running of inclusive groups, and providing one-to-one support to people experiencing difficulties (eg social care, youth work, mental health work, older people’s groups)
• Experience of, or evidence of competency in, issue-based group discussion
• Able to establish a rapport with, and gain the respect of, men 55 and older
• Able to handle and respond effectively to inappropriate and challenging behaviour
• Understanding of issues facing older people, and especially older men, and the wide range of experiences, backgrounds, and levels of vulnerability in this group
• Willing to attend and operate appropriately in places where isolated older men hang out, pubs, betting shops, etc.

Holloway Neighbourhood Group is committed to inclusion and racial justice and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds, ethnic minorities, lived experience of mental health conditions, and people returning to work.