Citizens Advice Southwark has a track record of delivering high-quality services from its offices in Peckham and Bermondsey and outreach locations across Southwark and South East London. We sort out problems together, for good, by providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice across all areas of social welfare law, and through using the experience of our clients to bring about positive change through research and campaigns. 

This post is funded by Southwark Council.

The post is suitable for an experienced Advice Session Supervisor (ASS) or as a development opportunity for a Certificated Generalist Advisor to train to become an ASS within six months of starting in post. If applying without existing experience of supervising volunteers and of undertaking the role of Advice Session Supervisor the starting salary will be Scale 6 - £29,194 whilst undertaking training.

The post holder will be required to work across all of our offices and outreaches in Southwark according to operational needs.

The role includes:

• Providing advice to the public and undertaking casework on social welfare law issues
• Supervising advice and gateway assessment sessions
• Supporting and supervising volunteers

To be successful you will need:

• Have achieved the Generalist Advisor Certificate and have experience of Generalist Advice Casework
• Either experience of supervising volunteers and undertaking the role of Advice Session Supervisor or be able to demonstrate the ability to undertake this role with training provided within 6 months of starting

• To understand, empathise with and be committed to the Service’s aims, principles and equal opportunities policies

Closing date: 9.00 am Wednesday 2nd June 2021

Interviews: Monday 7th June 2021

For further information and an application pack please click on the Apply button.

We offer a range of employee benefits, including generous annual leave, an employer matched pension contribution up to 10% salary, and training and development opportunities to continue your professional development.

Citizens Advice Southwark is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all applicants who meet the person specification irrespective of sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, age, or disability.

About the service

The Macmillan Take Home and Settle Service (TH&S) pilot will provide practical daily living and emotional support during a time when people diagnosed with cancer may feel unwell, vulnerable, anxious, lonely or struggle to self-care effectively. The service will support Tower Hamlets residents aged 18 years and over, including those having surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.

This service will help people with cancer by:

• Ensuring that the home environment they are returning to is safe, clean and comfortable
• Organising food shopping
• Organising practical support – personal care, household tasks, support with pets, children or other dependents
• Planning ahead for the treatment schedule which may last several weeks / months
• Providing reassurance and reducing anxiety just by being there to be able to deal with certain activities
• Signposting and referring to other holistic support services in the community, or adult social care for a full assessment if needed

It will provide support in accordance with the Care Quality Commission registered regulated activity of providing personal care when required in accordance with the agreed support plan.

Main tasks

• To accompany patient home as agreed within the Care and Support Plan;
• To ensure that the home is warm and welcoming prior to discharge;
• To ensure that there is food and drink available in the home;
• To make tea and light snack for person on arrival home;
• If a care package has been agreed to stay with the person until the Care Agency has arrived;
• To provide visits in accordance with the individual’s support plan and contractual requirements;
• To work flexibility between 08:00-20:00hrs in accordance with the demand of the hospital and the needs of the service;
• To help maximise independence and adopt an enabling approach;
• To supervise/assist with the service user’s personal care needs as agreed within the individual care plan and in accordance with Care Quality Commission registered regulated activity – Personal Care;
• To develop a listening and caring relationship with the service users (and carer, where applicable), providing companionship and supervision for the person, if applicable
• To collect shopping, prescriptions as requested by the service user;
• To prepare and serve drinks and simple meals with/for the service user
• To provide light housework duties e.g. cleaning, ironing, washing etc.
• To employ safe moving and handling skills where appropriate;
• To check the home for potential trip factors e.g. post and newspapers on the floor etc.
• To encourage the service user/carer to liaise with GP concerning medication and other medical matters, and aid them to regain physical independence by encouragement to follow prescribed exercise, and use of mobility appliances where applicable;
• To ensure safety in the home;
• To liaise with relatives, neighbours who support service users with service users’ permission;
• To liaise closely with hospital cancer teams, Therapists, District and Community Nurses; reablement Services and other health care professionals to take account of duty of care to service users, other staff and, if applicable, use equipment as directed in care/reablement plan;
• To accompany the person outside the home, including pushing wheelchair, in accordance with individual’s care plan and completed risk assessment;
• To support service users to access community services available to them outside of their home e.g. clubs, support groups etc.
• To assist in the provision of social and therapeutic support to users of the service, helping user to re-establish social links and activities, accompanying service user to shops, post office etc.;
• To provide the service in an equal opportunities context.

Administration tasks

• To complete comprehensive Service User Comment Sheets
• To ensure that Medicines Administration Records are completed and returned to AUKEL Home & Care Office monthly;
• Report any “no access visits and/or incidents” in service user’s condition or circumstances in accordance with AUKEL Policies & Procedures e.g. failed visit policy;
• To report any safeguarding concerns in accordance with AUKEL policies and procedures.
• To complete all relevant induction and training including those identified by Macmillan  and the programme team for all new recruits

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The work of the Children, Young People and Families team is diverse, and current services include an Adventure Playground, coaching in local schools, homework clubs, youth work provision, out of school and holiday services and a family support programme. You will be part of a small and dynamic team, delivering a range of innovative early intervention and targeted services from our Adventure Playground and in local schools.

You will be confident that your professional approach and your solid grounding in youth/play and community work will allow you to work within High Trees’ collaborative approach to service delivery with other partners, stakeholders and local groups in order to provide the services needed in the local community. You will be skilled at service delivery, whilst also possessing the administrative and organisational skills to ensure all work is clearly tracked, monitored and evaluated as per our standardised online software and individual funders requirements. You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing young people and will be flexible in adjusting your practice to meet these needs.

Your work within the Children, Young People and Families team will contribute to ensuring High Trees meets its aim of providing the highest quality provision and continually strives to improve and expand its services as needed by the community. Hours will include evenings and weekends.

Lambeth Mediation Service (LMS) is a community voluntary organisation with a long-respected reputation.  We’ve been helping to resolve conflict for over 30 years and work with a team of  highly trained and experienced volunteers drawn from, and reflecting,  the diverse local community in Lambeth.

We’re now looking for a Development Officer to take the charity forward. Our ongoing major project is in community mediation and  we’re looking to expand this and further develop our service in other areas. This is an externally-focused role, designed to increase LMS’s opportunities and potential for growth by developing and implementing new initiatives and generating sustainable funding streams from new and existing clients.  LMS is a user/client centred service.

If you have experience of identifying, developing, implementing and marketing new business; understand the issues relating to the funding of community projects and have a commitment to reducing conflict through mediation  we would like to hear from you.

Interviews will take place week beginning 24th May 2021 

Support Workers – Learning Disability and Autism
Rate: £10.85/hour
Hours: Full-time and part-time
Location: South West London

Generate is a vibrant charity dedicated to providing person centred support to people with learning disabilities and autism.

We are looking for full and part-time Support Workers with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude to support people to achieve their life goals such as employment, education and housing, to connect to and engage with their community and to maintain good health and wellbeing.

The successful candidate will be Adventurous – Friendly – Encouraging – Supportive of relationships – Respectful and Resourceful.

You will be required to work flexibly and will be expected to be available evenings, weekends and public holidays.

The closing date for applications is 11th June 2021.
Interview days TBC.

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full Job Description and full details on how to complete your application.
Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

All applicants are required to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide 2 references.

Generate is committed to equality and valuing diversity.

No agencies please.

Recruiting for 2 Support Workers to join our Homelessness and Complex Needs Service in Westminster!

GBP 22,568 working 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Job Overview:
The post holder will work at Edward Alsop Court Hostel a support accommodation service for men with complex needs supporting men with complex substance use, mental and physical health and offending behaviours, and those who are nearing their end of life. Support is delivered by a team of Support Workers, Specialist Support Workers and Night Support Workers.

The service sits in the heart of Westminster. Westminster is a high profile borough, with extensive network partners in ending homelessness and understanding of the needs of entrenched rough sleepers. Westminster offers extensive training opportunities and the service provides good work experience for psychology or social worker graduates. The team works closely with each resident to secure appropriate longer term accommodation from the beginning of their stay.

The ideal candidate will have good knowledge and understanding of homelessness and demonstrate the ability to manage a complex group with dynamic needs. We are looking for someone who is energetic, enthusiastic, non-judgemental, a team player, thrives on working under pressure, providing effective crisis intervention, able to assess the needs and risks of clients, demonstrate good problem solving skills, and can demonstrate excellent networking and partnerships. They will have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and will be good at using their own initiative. The post holder will receive regular supervision and casework management sessions and monthly reflective practice sessions.

Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake key-working responsibilities for a service-user caseload assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager
- Empowering and providing holistic support to service-users with high complex needs, specifically; single homeless people with mental health and substance misuse problems, dual diagnosis and forensic histories
- Building working relationships with local authorities, health trusts the local community and local police to support our service-users
- To induct new clients in line with the service policy
- To complete onward referrals to identified move-on and support clients to prepare effectively for move on
- To support and encourage clients to undertake housekeeping and client duties as necessary in order to maintain a clean and safe physical environment
- Reporting safeguarding issues efficiently using Look Ahead protocol policies and procedures
- Providing support with daily living activities, including practical assistance where skills are not yet developed, to ensure that service-users enjoy a high quality of accommodation
- Advising service-users on benefits and financial difficulties
- Conducting face to face interviews and assessments to assess service-users suitability for the service
- Supporting service-users to set personalised goals in the form of a support plan
- Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risk assessments with service-users
- Involving service-users in the development, design and delivery of the service
- Maintaining service-users rent accounts, and ensuring their rent accounts are managed and kept up to date
- Conducting Health & Safety checks
- Assisting the team in meeting occupancy targets by proactively preparing properties to be re-let
- To ensure that rental income is maximised by filling voids promptly and in line with the service's policy
- To liaise with Housing Benefit and the Department of Work and Pensions to ensure that clients and the Hostel receive all monies due to them
- To maintain a high standard of record keeping and keep all financial and administrative systems up-to-date and in line with policy
- Undertake any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as may be reasonably assigned
- Adhere to Look Ahead's Policies and Procedures

Essential:
- Managing complex and difficult situations in relation to people
-Personal experience of homelessness or a sound understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people and the difficulties they experience in accessing appropriate services for their needs

Desirable:
An understanding of:
- Offending behaviours
- Substance misuse and addiction
- Mental health issues

For the full job description, please visit the Look Ahead wesbite.

Your new company
A not for profit organisation based in London. They are a membership body that are looking to grow their fundraising team on the permanent basis but after an unsuccessful round of recruitment they are looking to onboard a temporary member for staff for three months, with the possibility to interview for the permanent role if you wish.

Your new role

• To support the Development team with day-to-day fundraising activities so that contacts are followed-up in a timely and efficient way

• To assist with fundraising proposals and presentation development, taking the lead on creating materials to position the organisation's fundraising in line with Development strategy. This means working closely with other departments
• To support the scoping and delivery of bespoke Development cultivation and stewardship engagement activity for prospects and funders, working closely with the Development colleagues, Events team and liaising with other departments as required.
• To play a significant role in creating and managing the delivery of the Annual Giving programme, working under the guidance of the Individual Giving Manager.

• To take the lead in liaising with IT to successfully expand the organisations ongoing utilisation of CRM and specifically implement its investment in Raisers Edge NXT; thereafter lead on the Development team's effective use of the system.

• Taking responsibility to manage and ensure the accuracy and value of Development team data - relationships, gift inputting, prospect management of individuals, corporates and trusts - on Raisers Edge, including pulling regular income, pipeline and KPI reports.

What you'll need to succeed
We are looking for an experience Fundraising Assistant, someone that has between 6 months to two years experience within a fundraising capacity. This could be on a specialist basis or general. Within this role you will be supporting the individual giving, corporate partnership, major donor and fundraising events. You will be the go to point of contact from data cleansing. If capacity and experienced enough, you will have the opportunity to create promotion material. organise events and helping with presentations and pitches for high-value fundraising opportunities.

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.

A competitive salary and the opportunity to secure a longer term position.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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We're looking for an exceptional and experienced youth worker to join our small team, delivering immersive and horizon-broadening residential projects, and follow-on youth work support, for particularly vulnerable children. You'll run weekend youth group sessions, lead days out and overnight trips, as well as working 1:1 with young people in this interesting but challenging dual role. 

You'll work right alongside the charity's founders, playing an integral role in developing this young and vibrant charity and gaining significant insight into varied aspects of charity management and innovative youth work. Your main work will be helping lead and deliver our award winning Thrive Outside programme, which takes particularly disadvantaged young people, (primarily aged 8-13) on week long outdoor based breaks, helping them to feel brave, included,talented and successful, and then offers a range of tailored ongoing youth work support to those most in need, throughout the following years.

Our offer to the right candidate:

Salary: £27,000 - £31,000 dependent on experience. 

Hours: Fulltime: 37 hours per week spread over 5 days, one of which must be a Saturday or Sunday during term-times. Attendance on 7 residential projects a year.

Leave: 46 days per year, inclusive of bank holidays and pre-set reward days. (Yes, we know how generous this is - but we ask a lot in return. See recruitment pack.)

Other benefits: 3% employer pension contribution paid on full base salary; flexible working (outside core hours); Employee benefit scheme including employee health plan and reward scheme offering reduced cinema tickets, meals out and entry to days out/attractions.

Based: Our offices near Waterloo, Lambeth, but with youth work sessions across south London

To start: Must be able to start by week commencing 19th July 2021, at the latest. Fixed term contract until July 2023 with potential for extension.

You will need to have held a UK driving licence for a minimum of 2 years and be willing, with training, to drive a minibus as an essential part of the role.

What we’re looking for:

You should have good experience of working with young people (aged 8-17) as a youth worker, or in a similar role involving substantial direct work with young people. All children referred to Free to Be come from complex backgrounds and as a result children can at times display complex behaviour - we’re looking for someone who is passionate about the rights of these children, loves working with them, and is able to throw their heart and soul into making a real difference on their behalf. You’ll need experience of responding to complex behaviour in prior roles, as well as energy, vibrancy and resilience to forge deep and trusting relationships with marginalised children and families who have often had negative experiences of schools, social care or other more formal settings.

Attendance on our residential projects, totalling approximately 45 days and nights each year, is an important requirement of the role - you’ll need the flexibility to make this fit, and the confidence to take on leadership roles on these projects. Our projects use natural settings, work with animals and adventurous activities to capture young people's imaginations, so a love of nature and the outdoors, an ease with camping, and a willingness to 'rough it' a little are also important. (Although you don’t need to be Bear Grylls – our projects are about introducing young people to the outdoors and helping them experience freedom and space, rather than a huge focus on ‘outward bound’ adrenaline style activities.). 

This role would suit you if you’re motivated, proactive, and know that working with vulnerable young people is ‘your thing’. We want someone with drive and personality, who has fantastic rapport with young people, and are keen to encourage applications from youth workers who can help us represent the lived experiences of our children through their own lived experience or background. We’re focussed on investing in and developing the right candidate and we care much more about character and potential than word perfect CVs. If you have the drive and passion needed for this role, download our recruitment pack or visit our website to apply.

At Thames Reach we are driven and committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in service delivery to vulnerable people.

We are recruiting for a Lead Worker to join our Hackney Street Outreach Team. Hackney SORT forms part of a significant part of the borough’s complement of services working with rough sleepers. Hackney SORT works to rapidly reduce the number of people rough sleeping in the borough, by providing short sharp interventions to support them to access accommodation and ensure that the appropriate support is in place to sustain this.

This role will enable you to use your existing knowledge and experience to move into a role where you will have more influence and responsibility within a team, to work towards quick outcomes, to support rough sleepers off the streets. Working in this team will give you an opportunity to make a real difference to rough sleeping.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing a caseload of rough sleepers, identifying the quickest and most appropriate route off the street, and devising a plan to achieve this, while holding a caseload of your own.
• Conducting regular outreach shifts, sometimes with volunteers.
• Focusing on improving the local response to rough sleeping by coordinating joint working and collaboration between agencies.
• Representing the team at multi-agency meetings such as Task & Targeting meetings.
• Identifying gaps in local provision and researching new pathways off the streets for a variety of rough sleepers, including those with no recourse to public funds.
• Accurately recording all work done.

With the help of our experienced senior staff and management, you will be supported and trained to use your strong communication and creative problem-solving skills, to enable you to create and deliver options for people where these may be hard to find. You will receive regular supervision from experienced staff who will both guide your work and encourage and facilitate your personal development. 

To be successful you’ll need to have:

• Experience in working with rough sleepers or vulnerable adults and supporting them to access services.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills in order to remain strongly outcome focused, with the ability to coordinate a high number of cases and complete tasks promptly and efficiently.
• Commitment to working in a challenging environment with the ability to be highly flexible throughout the working day.
• Good communication skills and confidence in public speaking when representing Thames Reach to external organisations and forming strong working relationships with partners; being able to challenge them when required.
• Strong IT skills with the ability use Outlook, online recording systems, Excel, and Word, using a tablet and a smart phone.  

The role will involve office and street-based work in Hackney. While a large proportion of your time will be spent working day time shifts, Monday-Friday, the role includes some early morning and late night outreach shifts.

As well as a great working environment, we also offer:

• Support to develop your case working skills and specialist knowledge.
• 6.5% employer & 1.5% employee contributory pension scheme, tuition aid and role-specific training.
• 29 days holiday and 8 paid bank holidays.

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

Company Description  

Twin employs around 100 full-time and seasonal staff across the UK who share a commitment to changing lives by providing high quality services to people from the UK and abroad. These services include education, training programmes, work placements, employment and volunteer opportunities, which are all designed to help people achieve their personal and professional goals.  

Our mission is to help people realise their full potential through life enhancing experiences.  

Boost your skills, top up your student loan, and give back to your community with NCS throughout July and August 2021!  

Salary:  

Daily residential rate: £120 

Daily non-residential rate: £86.80 

2021 NCS Programme 

NCS (National Citizen Service) is a government-backed initiative with a mission to equip 15-17 year olds with the confidence, skills and support they need to make a real difference in their communities. The aim is to encourage young people from different backgrounds to mix through a local, community-based programme.   

• NCS three-week wave which consists of one residential week (5 working days) and two non-residential weeks (10 working days).

In the first week (Mon-Fri), based at a residential centre away from home, teams of young people supported by staff will take part in challenging outdoor team building activities. In the remaining two weeks (Mon-Fri), delivered from a local hub, young people will build their confidence and other life skills, and then design and deliver a project that benefits their local community utilising the skills they’ve built throughout the entire programme. 

• NCS two-week wave which is fully non-residential (10 working days). 

In these two weeks (Mon-Fri), delivered from a local hub, young people will build their confidence and other life skills, and then design and deliver a project that benefits their local community utilising the skills they’ve built throughout the entire programme. 

Twin offers a fixed-term contract and aims to provide longer employment consisting of a few waves. This is however, subject to the performance on the programme and young people numbers. Wave Leaders commence employment a week before their wave start date and finish a week later. 

Additional opportunities in our Autumn 2021 programme may become available to those that will have worked on our summer programme(s) and received positive feedback. 

Locations: North East & South East London

About the role  

Come and work for Twin, a delivery partner of NCS, as a Wave Leader and play an integral part in the organisation and implementation of the National Citizen Service (NCS) ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the programme and manage seasonal staff; maintain proper levels of young people safety, discipline and welfare.   

You will be required to represent NCS goals and values effectively and be a point of contact and support for programme and core staff as well as other outside partnering charities/stakeholders, this includes being the contact between activity and progress on the wave.

You will be expected to act as a role model, encouraging young people to develop inclusive and positive behaviour towards others. 

Principle accountabilities:  

• Health, safety and well-being of all staff and participants during the programme 

• Successful delivery of the programme/contract 

• Developing and facilitating appropriate participant activity 

• Liaising with all Twin departments as required 

Person specification  

• An eye for detail  

• An influencer and excellent negotiator  

• Excellent organisational skills  

• Ability to deal with a demanding workload and prioritise  

• Ability to work in a highly pressured and fast paced environment  

• Good interpersonal skills with people at all levels  

• Fluent English communications skills – both written and verbal  

• A problem solver who thrives in a challenging environment  

• A flexible attitude to work  

This role is perfect for an experienced professional with a background in the education or youth work sector.   

The role may require long working hours and night shifts during the residential weeks of the programme.  

Twin Training International is committed to safeguarding. For all applicants called to be assessed/interviewed:  

• References will be followed up with specific questions as to applicant’s suitability to work with persons under 18  

• All gaps in CVs must be explained satisfactorily  

• Proof of identity and qualifications will be required  

• Successful candidates will be required to undertake a DBS check  

• Successful candidates will be required to complete online and 3 days training prior to commencing employment  

• Successful candidates will be expected to actively engage in the safeguarding of under 18s 

Note: You have to be 18 years old after 1st June 2021 before you can apply to work on the NCS programme.  

Job Title:     Senior Community Development Coordinator

Reports To:   Community Sports Manager

1. Job Purpose

The role is to develop and grow our Community Engagement programmes primarily in Croydon as well as supporting across Bromley, Sutton and parts of Lambeth to improve the opportunities of local children and young people using the brand of a professional football club.

To focus initially on the successful delivery of the Premier League Kicks programme, whilst also improving partnerships and expanding the footprint in the local community in response to local needs.

2. Principal Accountabilities/Responsibilities/Job Summary

• Support the high-quality delivery of all youth engagement projects, taking a lead role in recruitment of young people onto the programme, delivery of the provision and the support of training opportunities.
• Liaise with local sports and activity clubs to provide a range of possible exit strategies and pathways for individuals from the project.
• Identify participants within the project who may benefit from further educational or developmental training and work with colleagues to signpost them accordingly.
• Identify, recruit and manage volunteers, through internal and external relationships
• Engage new participants in the project through community outreach, events, internal collaborations, and marketing and promotion.
• Ensure that recruitment of young people onto programmes follows all appropriate safeguarding and data capture processes.
• Work closely with partnership organisations and workshop or qualification delivery agents.
• Support other staff that deliver on the programme to ensure a high-quality experience for the young people.
• Act as a role model and mentor for short term and casual members of staff delivering on the programme
• Support the data management system for the youth engagement provision and ensure all data is inputted accurately and in a timely manner.
• Support the Community Sports Manager on delivering the required safeguarding structure and provide updates and reports as required
• Support the Community Sports Manager in ensuring that all staff and volunteers are suitably qualified, DBS checked and adhere to health and safety and safeguarding issues
• Ensure all policies and procedures are adhered to
• Actively participate in continuing professional development and the appraisal process.
• Maintain the quality-of-service provision, regularly evaluating work and seeking to make improvements
• Cover as and when required for other departments within the Foundation
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of the role.

3.  Knowledge/Experience/Technical Skills

Essential:-

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Possess a youth work qualification/other relevant experience in a youth work environment.
• Sound project management knowledge and experience with a proven track record of achievement and managing partners.
• Up-to-date safeguarding and first aid qualifications.
• Possess sports coaching qualifications/other relevant experience in a sports environment.

Experience

• Experience in Youth/Community/Sports Development landscape
• Experience in working with young people from different backgrounds and line management of staff/coaches
• Commitment to a high-quality community engagement programme.
• Some experience of managing staff, both part time or full time.
• A passion and interest in developing a career in the sport for social change sector, particularly supporting young people’s opportunities in grass roots sport and the health and wellbeing of young people
• Interest in delivering community programmes in schools and community settings
• An understanding of support required for small community organisations or parties in the voluntary sector.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines without close supervision

Technical Skills

• Excellent communication/presentation skills both written and verbal
• Ability to manage partnerships effectively and concisely so external partners are satisfied with our work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all levels within the Foundation, the parent club and high-level external contacts.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, PowerPoint & Excel
• The ability to develop and maintain relationships with community providers, local authorities, the voluntary sector, schools and their staff including community workers, school nurses, teachers and senior leaders within the local authority and organisations/charities.

Attributes

• A flexible, “can do” attitude is an important component of this role

Desirable:-

Knowledge

• Educated to degree level
• Knowledge of Community cohesion and Local Government policy
• Working or residing in the London Borough of Croydon

Experience

• Working in a fast-paced environment

Technical Skills

• Good level of numeracy and budgeting skills
• Car driver/owner – clean driving licence
• First Aid Certificate
• DBS Checked

Attributes

• A willingness to work flexible hours which will mean some evening and weekend hours in order to get the job done.

A full clean driving licence is essential for this role

The Spires Centre is an award-winning day centre that has been working with homeless and disadvantaged people in South London since 1990. We work with some of the most isolated and vulnerable in our society. The majority of our clients are homeless or have insecure accommodation, with many also facing complex issues such as long-term unemployment, poor mental and physical health, addiction and substance abuse, or they may be involved in sex work.

Our Women’s service specifically works with vulnerable women and with the help of a dedicated volunteer team, we provide a range of services including late night and early morning outreach, a twice-weekly Women’s Space, Sanctuary sex worker Drop In every Tuesday evening and an Open Access/Drop-in session. In addition a full adult learning timetable offers free classes and workshops. We assess need, create bespoke support plans, provide ongoing key work and empower people to improve their circumstances. Last year we supported over 1100 people across all our services.

Purpose of Role:

• To work as part of a team to facilitate the smooth running of outreach and centre sessions aimed at vulnerable women and other individuals, including, but not exclusively, those who sell sex.
• To lead and coordinate support for allocated clients.
• To engage, assess and respond to the immediate needs of all new and existing clients attending centre sessions and contribute to their ongoing support.
• To participate in the outreach rota  and engage with women during late evening and early morning sessions.

Depaul UK are currently looking for a Reconnect Worker to join us in London. You will join us on a part time, fixed term basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £14,615.40 - £15,839.40 per annum (pro rata) + pension and benefits.

Depaul UK works with some of the most disadvantaged young people in the UK. We specialise in working in communities where poverty and long-term unemployment have resulted in generations of social exclusion and high rates of homelessness.

Over the past 30 years, we have grown as an organisation and developed and enhanced our work and the impact it has across the UK.  Depaul UK has a wide range of services for young people and adults at risk of homelessness.

The Reconnect Worker role:

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and youth-focused Reconnect Worker to join the team in London on a part-time basis working 22.5 hours per week until April 2022.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in developing and running our Family Support service in London. This service revolves around providing a wide-range of mediation services to support our clients and their families through conflict.

The successful post-holder will be responsible for processing referrals for clients to build up and take responsibility for their own caseload where they will be the named keyworker. This a unique opportunity to work with external agencies and services across the region to promote the service and build effective referral routes.

What makes this Reconnect Worker role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the skills required
- Training in interpersonal mediation with an accredited provider, if necessary
- Regular peer support with other Depaul Mediators/Family Workers, either via Skype or in person
- External Clinical Supervision
- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model
- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner

What will ideally support your success as one of our Reconnect Worker:

- Significant experience working with young people and families in crisis
- Experience of working independently and managing own caseload; self-motivated and able to prioritize tasks and carry out efficient organisation and administration
- Experience of carrying out risk and needs assessments and support planning for clients
- High level understanding of professional boundaries and ability to maintain impartiality

What’s it like to work at Depaul UK?

You'll be joining a friendly, flexible and values-led organisation, and will receive:

- Competitive salary
- 26 days of annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Interest-free Annual Season Ticket Loan
- 4 weeks Paternity Leave

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Reconnect Worker then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing Date: Tuesday 18 May 2021 at 12:00 pm

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this role. Our recruitment checks, induction, and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

IS Training and Development Officer

Full time at 35 hours
Office Based, London, UK (temporary home working due to Covid-19)
Salary: £25,375 - £28,420 Dependent on experience
Permanent

GamCare is the UK’s leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling related harms.

GamCare has enjoyed significant growth over the past few years and an excellent opportunity has now arisen for a dynamic training and development officer – passionate about preventing gambling harm and ensuring customer safety – to join our team.

With experience delivering training to a range of audiences, you will have an interest in the gambling industry and a commitment to making it safer. You will be an excellent oral and written communicator, able to express complex language in simple terms. You will be committed to protecting those at risk of developing a gambling problem.

You will also support the team in marketing, consolidating and developing GamCare’s existing suite of services for industry stakeholders. This includes our warm transfer service, e-learning and ‘Safer Gambling Lab’ focus groups with individuals with lived experience of gambling harms. You will undertake business development work and source content for our consumer and industry facing SaferGamblingStandard website

In particular, the job holder will be required to:

• Design [HL1] and deliver training on the topic of gambling related harm to a range of stakeholders including the gambling industry.
• Administer and support the development of GamCare’s e-learning courses.
• Support colleagues to deliver GamCare’s warm transfer service. This includes preparing quarterly reports for businesses on the number of successfully completed transfers and regularly monitoring data to ensure appropriate transfers are made.
• Manage pipeline of business, track and follow up on business development leads and proactively market our industry services, ensuring we meet team and individual targets.

In 2019 the Industry Services Team increased its training output by 62% and we are motivated to exceed this over the coming years. This is an exciting time to join the team as we look to boost our online offering and launch new e-learning courses to support delivery of our face-to-face services.

Support and training will be provided by the team, so we are open to considering candidates with more limited work experience if they can demonstrate the capacity, passion and initiative required for the role. Candidates with more limited experience may wish to draw on any transferable knowledge, skills or experience that they have developed which evidence how they meet the job description.

GamCare approach during Coronavirus

Whilst this is an office-based role, during the Coronavirus period you will be required to undertake duties from home. You will need to ensure that you have a confidential space within your home to work from, a home working risk assessment will be carried out by your line manager and you will be kept updated on the ongoing situation.

We are currently delivering training remotely though plan to resume face-to-face training soon, subject to the relevant risk assessments being carried out.

Location of new employees

GamCare’s Head Office is based in London and it is expected that time will need to be spent in the office on a regular basis.  As a result of the recent pandemic we are looking at our future ways of working and anticipate that there will be a mixture of home and office working, you will be responsible for covering all costs of travelling to and from the London office. As well as being present in the London office there may be occasions when you be required to travel to other GamCare sites and offices, so a flexible approach is welcomed at this time, associated reasonable costs of travelling to other places will be met by GamCare.  We can discuss what this may mean for you during the selection process.

To apply, please go onto the GamCare website and complete the application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey.

If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:

Job application: <Training and Development Officer>

Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.

To discuss the role further please email Andrew Bowring (Industry Services Training and Development Manager)

 Application forms forwarded to this email will not be accepted.

Please note we do not accept CVs.

GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.

Closing date for applications: 9am Friday June 4th 2021

Interview dates: Thursday June 10th 2021

Interviews are scheduled to take place remotely via videoconferencing software.