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Youth Futures Foundation is looking for a senior External Affairs professional to lead a busy multi-disciplinary team to drive our reputational, influencing and engagement work as the What Works Centre for Youth Employment.
About the role
- This is a newly created role where you will have responsibility for driving an integrated approach to our audience influencing to deliver our strategic objectives, through collective oversight across our public affairs, stakeholder relations, communications and marketing work.
- The post holder will report to the Director of Policy and External Affairs and work closely with the CEO, wider Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Deputy Director of Strategic Development to enable purposeful reputational growth, enhanced brand recognition and the delivery of external impact.
- The post holder will need to be an experienced leader and manager; a people person able to inspire, nurture and support a team of motivated engagement and communications professionals as well as deputising for the Director more widely when required.
- To be successful, the post holder will need to be able to balance big picture thinking with driving practical implementation and outcomes across the team and thriving in ambiguity when needed. The skills and experience to drive and support internal change to foster an optimal operating environment and ability to design and embed future focused ways of working will be important to the success of the role
This role can be based at any of our hubs located in Birmingham, Leeds or London. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.
For more information, please download our recruitment pack.
We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.




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RNID Near You Co-ordinator (East Riding)
Remote working in East Riding of Yorkshire
£14,976 pa plus excellent benefits (FTE £24,960)
21 hours per week
Permanent
Please note: The post requires travel across the East Riding area so living within or very close to the border is an essential requirement.
You will be joining us at an exciting time as we reopen services that unfortunately closed due to the pandemic. As a coordinator, you will focus and lead on developing and delivering our community service across the East Riding of Yorkshire through drop-ins offering:
- practical hearing aid support
- information on hearing loss and tinnitus
- hearing checks
You will be responsible for co-ordinating up to 15 drop-in services and be able to recruit, train and manage a team of up to 30 volunteers to deliver the service across the county of East Riding.
You will:
- Coordinate our volunteering team to deliver a high level of service at our RNID Near You drop-in sessions.
- Recruit volunteers across the East Riding of Yorkshire to strengthen existing sessions and open new sessions as required.
- Work with NHS audiology to induct and train our volunteers to high standards.
- Promote our sessions to ensure maximum engagement from local hearing-aid users.
- Ensure all paperwork is processed correctly and reports to stakeholders are timely completed.
You want to make a difference in people’s lives and love to interact with various audiences, including volunteers, health & care professionals, and service users. You have experience managing your own workload and are able to work flexibly when required. You can motivate volunteers to assist clients with hearing aids sensitively, to give clear guidance and take into account individual wishes and health needs.
You are ready to work for a home-working organisation and have good IT skills, particularly with Microsoft Office applications including Teams, Outlook, Excel, and Word. You will be able to recruit, train and manage a team of volunteers and deliver an excellent service across East Riding of Yorkshire. While home based, regular travel to venues where we provide drop-in sessions will be required.
We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus. Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus.
We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better. RNID has a proud history and big ambitions. We also know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.
Our values are at the heart of how we work and communicate with each other, and the outside world. We strive to be an organisation that is connected, insightful, curious and passionate in everything we do.
We champion the value of difference and equality and celebrate our diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds or who are deaf or hard of hearing. With almost 20% of our employees having a disability we proudly hold Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria.
Closing date: 21 July 2025.
Interviews: w/c 28 July 2025.
Supporting people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus
Youth Forum Co-ordinator
NYCC, LocalMotion & Edmonton Community Partnership are looking for a dynamic and community-focused Forum Co-ordinator to lead the development of a brand-new role within the Enfield Professional Partners Youth Forum. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how local organisations work together, foster trust, collaborate and ensure the voices of young people are heard and their needs, met. If you’re passionate about building meaningful relationships, coordinating impactful partnerships, and driving systems change at a grassroots level, we want to hear from you.
Person Specification
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience in community engagement, partnership working or voluntary sector co-ordination
- Excellent relationship-building skills, with the ability to connect and unite diverse stakeholders
- Understanding of the challenges of working with local authorities and how to engage effectively
- Strong advocacy and communication skills, with the ability to amplify under-represented voices
- Ability to navigate complex community dynamics, ensuring collaboration remains balanced and inclusive
- Experience in facilitating collaboration, resource sharing and collective decision-making
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Knowledge of the needs and challenges faced by under-served communities and young people
- Familiarity with funding and investment processes for community-led initiatives
- Previous experience in a co-ordinating role within the voluntary, community or public sector.
Apply here to help shape a more collaborative, inclusive, youth-centred future. Submit your CV and a short cover letter outlining why you’re the ideal candidate for this role.
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Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you have experience of working within drug services and with volunteers?
Do you have relevant experience? This might be alcohol, injecting drug use, viral hepatitis or other liver disease. Have you supported anyone who has?
We are looking for self-motivated individuals who like to be part of a team but equally can work on their own. The post holders must have a desire to make a difference in promoting hepatitis awareness & liver health among services and affected communities and by increasing access to hepatitis treatment and liver disease care. We are looking for a passionate and skilled peer lead who will work on the Community Liver Health Bus and in community outreach locations in South West London
We are a patient-led organisation – you will be working in an environment where the patient/service user/client is placed at the centre of all that you do.
The post holder is required to hold a clean driving licence.
The Hepatitis C Trust is a charity dedicated to eliminating hepatitis C in the UK by 2030.



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Want to change how the world talks about migration?
The Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths is hiring a Development Manager to help grow our work reshaping narratives around migration through creative practice and research. If you have experience in philanthropy, partnerships, or strategy—and care about justice, culture, and representation—this is for you.
What makes Goldsmiths unique?
Goldsmiths is a world-renowned university that has a reputation for rigorous and innovative academic work; creativity has long been our hallmark. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive.
About the Migrant Futures Institute
The Migrant Futures Institute (MFI) is being established at Goldsmiths in 2025 thanks to a major philanthropic commitment by Oak Foundation in academic year 2024-25.
The MFI is set to be a beacon of rigorous research, innovative policy solutions, and creative approaches to understanding and reshaping migration discourse. Through collaborative research and creative practice, the MFI engages directly with migrant organisations and communities, working with them to generate new knowledge, cultivate understanding, and support their well-being, creative and work aspirations.
About the Role
Building on an 8-figure philanthropic commitment made by Oak Foundation, the Development Manager will play a key role in securing the long-term viability and success of the Migrant Futures Institute. Working with the Director of Development and Alumni Relations and the MFI Director, the post holder will ensure that fundraising is an embedded strategic priority. They will develop and deliver outcome-led fundraising strategies that work within the broader University fundraising and communications environment and achieve philanthropic fundraising targets.
About the Candidate
You will demonstrate your ability to make things happen, to manage and move relationships forward, to communicate inspiring messages and build warm relationships that deliver support for the Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths. Your dynamic and proactive approach will be combined with a track record of delivering successful fundraising campaigns and experience of building partnerships and delivering support, ideally in an academic context, but transferrable skills from candidates looking to move into the sector are also welcomed. Understanding of and insight into the discourses, civic and academic organisations and issues related to migration in society would also be advantageous.
We strongly encourage applications from colleagues from racialised, minority ethnic backgrounds, especially those with migrant, refugee or diasporic backgrounds and experiences. Advancing equality and celebrating diversity are central values at Goldsmiths, University of London.
We offer a space for self-discovery, delivering world-leading research and progressive teaching from our single-site campus in the heart of South East



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Finance & Operations Manager
Barnwood is not your typical funder. We drive change so that disabled people and people with mental health conditions have choice of opportunities, access their rights, and are included where they live. We bring people together for a different conversation and explore big ideas. Through learning and collaboration, we influence the change that’s needed. By partnering with local organisations and looking for better ways to fund, Barnwood makes a difference in Gloucestershire.
As part of this work, our Finance & Operations Team engages with a wide range of people to support the Trust’s vision for Gloucestershire, and our Finance & Operations Manager is integral to this.
We are looking for a Finance & Operations Manager to provide effective financial management, accurate financial reporting and oversee the facilities management of the Trust’s offices. The Finance & Operations Manager will manage a team of 2 and be part of the Trust’s People Manager Team.
We want to diversify our team to better reflect the work and communities we support – this means we would particularly welcome applications from people who:
- are from Black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds.
- have lived experience of disability and/or mental health challenges.
Contract terms:
- This role is permanent, and we welcome applications from people looking for full time hours (37.5hrs per week), we will also consider for a minimum of 30 hours per week.
- We offer a flexible start between 8:00 am and 9:30am Monday to Friday.
- Salary £44,239 p/a FTE
- 36 days holiday inc. bank holidays (FTE)
- This position is based in our office in central Cheltenham with occasional opportunities for home working.
Summary of key duties:
Financial Management and Reporting
- Develop, implement and operate monitoring systems for financial forecasting and re-forecasting to support sound decision making.
- Lead on and co-ordinate the annual budgeting and planning process ensuring that information is collected, compiled and reported in a timely manner to the Leadership Team for review and recommendation to the Finance & Audit Committee.
- Produce quarterly and annual internal finance report and management accounts for reporting to the Leadership Team and Finance & Audit Committee, which summarise budget trends, analyse and report variance.
- Ensure compliance with all financial regulations, through liaisons with the Trust’s external auditors for preparing of the SORP financial statements.
Policy and Procedures
- Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of effective procurement policies, procedures and systems ensuring best value is achieved across all activities.
- Lead on the annual insurance renewal process, ensuring appropriate cover is in place and general administration of the Trust’s insurance policies is enacted.
Payroll
- Maintain payroll processing system and run the monthly payroll.
Facilities Management
- Support the development of a 5 year planned preventative maintenance plan for the Trust’s premises, to support budget and resource planning.
- Oversee the management of the Trust’s premises ensuring contracts are in place and appropriately managed to ensure the smooth running and maintenance of the building and that all health and safety requirements are met.
Line management responsibilities
- Provide line management to the Finance Co-ordinator and Workplace & Facilities Manager, enacting the Trust’s management processes to ensure that all employees are motivated, supported and enabled to give of their best.
- Contribute to Trust-wide people management policies, procedures and team culture as a member of the People Manger Team.
Essential Knowledge and Experience
- Qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA or experience to this level (E).
- Practical knowledge and understanding of management accounting principles and techniques.
- In-depth knowledge of budgeting and financial forecasting and preparation of financial reports for senior management and compliance purposes.
- Line management experience to foster a productive and supportive team environment.
Summary of skills
- Strong numerical and analytical skills to effectively analyse financial reports.
- Proactive problem-solver, demonstrating high levels of initiative, organisation and flexibility.
- Ability to work meticulously and methodically, demonstrating attention to detail.
- Strong IT skills (demonstrable proficiency in using MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Sage 50 Accounts) and the ability to use technology to achieve work plans and objectives.
For full details please see our application pack.
Benefits:
- 36 days annual leave including bank holidays. (FTE)
- Life Assurance (3 x Salary)
- Work within an organisation that is committed to improving equality and diversity.
- Competitive salaries and fantastic pension contribution rates.
- Excellent personal development plan and extensive training which includes a commitment to training employees to be confident when working with people with a wide variety of impairments, disabilities, and mental health challenges.
- Friendly and collaborative working culture; everyone’s voice is heard.
- We have a range of supportive wellbeing policies and almost a quarter of our employees, are qualified mental health first aiders with Mental Health England.
- Our offices in central Cheltenham are wheelchair accessible, have free accessible parking on site and great facilities.
- Assistance dogs are welcome.
Guidance On Applications:
Click on Apply Now to be taken to the Barnwood Trust website where you need to apply for this role via our online application form.
You will also find a detailed application pack which gives a full and detailed job description and person specification as well as guidance on how to make an online application and what you should include within it.
Should you have any questions or require any of the information in a different format please email the recruitment team directly at recruitment@barnwoodtrust. org
We want our application process to be right for you as an individual, so if there’s anything you think we can do to make this process more straightforward for you please email recruitment@barnwoodtrust. org directly to discuss what support we might be able to provide. Our career page on our website has some examples of things we may be able to put in place for people who request extra support.
Deadline for applications: 12:00 noon on Friday 4th July 2025
First interviews: Monday 14th July and Wednesday 16th July 2025 in the mornings
Second stage interviews: Monday 21st July 2025
We would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible.
Barnwood acts as an agent of social change, working alongside disabled people and people with mental health conditions to create that change.





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We are excited to announce a new position within our Philanthropy, Engagement and Partnerships (PEP) team. The role of the Donor Officer is to support the development of effective relationships with donors, contributing to ongoing revenue generation for the College.
The role is key front-line fundrasing role and will involve identifying, and delivering new donors, as well as furthering a portfolio of current and past donor relations to secure funding for UWC Atlantic College. You will manage a portfolio of prospects and donors across alumni, parents, and other individuals to cultivate, solicit, and steward financial contributions.
You will hold key relationships with Alumni, parents, external and internal stakeholders, colleagues, and students. The role will also involve collaborating with various colleagues to plan and execute a program of donor-related events.
You will provide strategic contribution which supports UWC Atlantic’s strategies to acheive fundraising goals.
The opportunity is available to be based at UWC Atlantic, St Donats or Hybrid working from the UWC International Officer, 55 New Oxford Street and from home.
For a recording of the information session for this role, please contact us so that we can send details accross.
Completed application forms should be emailed to our recruitment email address.
Please note that the only method of application we accept is a completed UWCA Application form - we do not accept CV’s.
UWC Atlantic is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Position: Centre Operations Manager
Reports to: Executive Director
Location: Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, with the option for some remote working.
Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 (depending on experience)
Hours: 35 hours per week; occasional evenings and weekends required with TOIL.
Application Deadline: July 16
Purpose
As Centre Operations Manager, you work closely with the Executive Director to support Jamyang’s mission of fostering a caring, warmhearted community. You are the backbone of day-to-day operations, supervising local and resident volunteers in essential tasks such as facilities upkeep, team meal preparation, and general site care. You manage procurement and ensure that operational systems and processes are both effective and aligned with Jamyang’s values.
You’ll also play a key role in helping the Centre live its environmental commitments—making mindful choices in purchasing, resource use, and daily operations that reflect our shared care for the planet.
Key Responsibilities
1. Team & Volunteer Supervision
· Supervise local and resident volunteers in daily centre tasks (facilities upkeep; team meal preparation; general site care), ensuring tasks are completed efficiently, safely, and with care.
· Create and manage volunteer rotas, provide on-the-job guidance, and foster a supportive environment that aligns with Jamyang’s values of care and interconnectedness.
2. Procurement & Resource Management
· Oversee the procurement of goods and services essential for the centre’s operations, ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality, and sustainability.
· Maintain supplier relationships and monitor inventories to support seamless centre operations.
3. Operational Systems & Process Improvement
· Design and implement operational processes that support Jamyang’s mission and values, including record-keeping, contractor management, and facilities oversight: from scheduling minor repairs to coordinating decorative maintenance and small improvement projects.
· Administer digital tools (Asana, BreatheHR, QuickBooks Online) to support collaboration and productivity across the team.
· Ensure compliance with health & safety requirements (liaising with external H&S consultants).
4. Finance & Administration
· Oversee invoice tracking, vendor payments, and financial hygiene (liaising with the external bookkeeping service).
· Support budget monitoring, insurance, utilities, contracts, and other administrative tasks as required.
5. Leadership & Collaboration
· Collaborate closely with the People & Community Coordinator to align systems, onboarding, volunteer support, and community engagement initiatives.
· Foster a culture of calm, warmheartedness, and integrity across all operational functions.
Is This You?
The successful candidate is an adaptable and warm-hearted operational leader who balances strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving. They are energised by the opportunity to support Jamyang’s activities and values through collaborative relationships, effective systems, and the empowerment of staff and volunteers.
What You’ll Bring to the Team
3–5 years’ experience managing admin or operations in a small organisation or charity, and understand what it takes to keep things running smoothly.
Process Improver: You’re confident designing and refining systems, whether it’s vendor coordination, digital tools, or day-to-day facilities management.
Financially Literate: You’re comfortable processing invoices, working with budgets, and collaborating on financial systems with attention to detail.
Tech-Savvy Organiser: You’re comfortable using tools like BreatheHR, Quickbooks Online, Microsoft Office, and you use digital tools to streamline operations.
Organised Operator: You’re skilled at managing multiple moving parts—balancing tasks, timelines, and priorities with calm focus and follow-through.
Compensation and Benefits
· £28,000–£32,000 per year, depending on experience
· 35-hour workweek (below market average), supporting a healthy work-life balance
· 33 days’ paid holiday (including bank holidays), above the UK statutory minimum
· Opportunities for professional development and training
· A warm, values-driven work environment at the heart of Jamyang Buddhist Centre
· Healthy, home-cooked vegan lunches provided on working days
· Free access to our full programme of teachings and events (unless otherwise indicated)
We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and lived experiences. We’re committed to building an inclusive team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
Jamyang London Buddhist Centre is a peaceful charity offering Buddhist education, community and a sense of calm in the city.




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Please note that all aplications must be made through our website. Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered.
Location: RSPCA Chesterfield Animal Centre, Chesterfield, S41 0HL (with potential for hybrid working from home up to two days per week)
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. Other flexible working arrangements that meet the operational needs of the Branch may be considered. Occasional overtime and/or weekend and Public Holiday working may be required, and this may be outside of normal working hours.
Job type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing date: Interviews will be carried out on a rolling basis as applications are reviewed and we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time
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We are looking for a special person to undertake an exciting new role within our passionate team of people dedicated to transforming the lives of animals in need.
You will be responsible for the successful expansion of our existing income streams in line with our fundraising strategy and nurturing successful, long-term relationships with our supporters, donors and key stakeholders.
Key to the success of the role will be the ability to identify development opportunities for our individual giving, legacy giving, grant funding and corporate donor programs as well as opportunities for special appeals to maximise our exposure throughout our whole catchment area.
The role will work closely with other members of the established team to utilise the potential of our Community Fundraising Volunteers and Content Creator Volunteers identifying opportunities for them to maximise their contribution to the Branch’s activities and ensuring their efforts are recognised appropriately.
Your existing communication skills will be put to good use acting as an ambassador for the charity, representing us at key events as well as reporting performance to the Board of Trustees.
This role is pivotal to ensuring the successful operation of the charity into the future and provides a chance to make a real and lasting difference to the lives of animals in need. There is potential to develop the role and shape the future direction of our fundraising activities.
Based at our newly rebuilt animal centre in Chesterfield but with scope also for hybrid working, you will have the opportunity to see our animal rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming work in day-to-day action.
So, if you have the vision and experience to help us unlock new income streams to drive growth and together with the desire to make a real difference to the lives of animals and the people who care for them then we would love to hear from you.
Further details of the role and requirements are available in the Job Description and Person Specification that form part of the application pack on our website job vacancies page.
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“Without [Tramshed] youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize.” – Alumni and Ambassador Bernardine Evaristo
Tramshed Arts Ltd is a community arts charity in Southeast London. As Woolwich’s home of participation, we change perspectives and increase social cohesion, through offering creative spaces across generations of the local community.
Job Purpose:
The Business Development Manager will play an integral role in growing our organisation and securing its future. You will develop authentic important relationships and partnerships to:
· Increase and diversify sustainable income streams, making the best use of our creative community space and talent.
· Foster connections with local businesses to attract corporate sponsorship and payroll giving.
· Research new opportunities for raising income such as events and training programmes.
You will be inspiring, ambitious, and unafraid to do things differently whilst embracing our core value of being a truly inclusive community space.
Benefits include some hybrid working, friendly team, accessible working space, 6 complimentary tickets per season for you or your friends and family, Continued Professional Development plan.
For the full role specification please refer to the attached JD.
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About Us
Age UK Lewisham and Southwark (AUKLS) is a local, independent, self-funded charity dedicated to improving the lives of older people in Lewisham and Southwark. We pride ourselves on our open and participative working environment, adhering to core values of fairness and equality as a service provider, employer, and partner. We are proud to partner with Macmillan Cancer Support to provide essential social prescribing and Cancer Champion services to individuals affected by cancer, through 2 year and 3-year funding, respectively.
Help shape a more inclusive, compassionate approach to cancer support.
At Age UK Lewisham and Southwark, we believe everyone deserves access to personalised, culturally sensitive care. That’s why we’re looking for a Macmillan Personalised Care Cancer Social Prescribing Facilitator to support people affected by cancer — especially those from underrepresented communities — to access the culturally sensitive services and support they need to live well.
Why This Role Matters
This post will support adults in Lewisham who are experiencing cancer treatment and want to take proactive steps to get and stay well. Depending on the goals they set for themselves, you will introduce them to exercise classes, adult learning opportunities, social groups and other wellbeing opportunities to keep their minds focused on the future and getting better.
You’ll work directly with people living with cancer to:
- Complete Holistic Needs Assessments (HNAs)
- Co-create Personalised Care and Support Plans
- Connect individuals to local wellbeing, mental health, and community services
- Break down barriers to access for those often left behind
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Empathetic, patient, and passionate about community health
- Experienced in working with vulnerable adults and diverse communities
- Committed to equity, inclusion, and person-centred care
- Skilled in communication, collaboration, and motivational interviewing
- Organised, proactive, and confident using digital tools
We Welcome You
We know that diverse teams make stronger organisations. If you’ve never seen yourself in a role like this before — we encourage you to apply. We offer:
- Anonymised shortlisting to reduce bias
- Reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process
- Applications in alternative formats (written/audio)
Staff benefits
- 26 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata for part-time). Additional day's leave for Birthday
- One day a year for volunteering
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme, including access to 24/7 helpline for partners and dependents
- Flexi time scheme allowing the claiming back of additional hours worked
- Other flexible working options, including working from home (where appropriate)
- Generous contractual sick pay scheme, allowing staff to recover without the worry of loss of income
- CycleScheme members – enabling employees to save 25-39% of the cost of a new bike & accessories whilst also spreading the cost
- TechScheme members – enabling employees to purchase tech through AUKLS and spread the cost from their salary
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We are excited to be recruiting a part-time role for an Operations Manager in our dynamic voluntary sector adolescent mental health service.
Open Door is a young people’s mental health charity that has been based in Haringey, North London for 49 years. It aims to improve mental health and life-chances of young people. We provide an ‘Open Door’ to free, high quality psychological therapy to 12–24-year-olds delivered by experienced and highly trained clinicians. We also support parents and carers, struggling with the issues their children face. We aim for access to be simple and over half of those we support, self-refer. Many young people who come to us have significant mental health difficulties and have faced barriers to services. Open Door delivers evidence informed practice and has been commended for our ambitious approach to outcome driven care.
Open Door received national recognition for impact, as a 2024 finalist for Health Service Journal (HSJ) Award for Reducing Inequality and Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People Open Door is community embedded, integrated into the local mental health infrastructure, commissioned by North Central London Integrated Care Board and part of the Haringey Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service single-point-of-access. We have a strategic voice which is used to advocate for young people’s mental health and influence practice. Last year we supported over 800 young people, parents and carers and offered over 8000 appointments. This is an exciting time to join Open Door. The candidate will have key role in ensuring Open Door’s operations are efficient and effective.
Open Door works from our bases in Crouch End and Tottenham and provides services in local secondary schools and the @Haringey Autism Hub. Most of our work is delivered in person ad this is what most young people tell us they want. Demand for the service is high.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for our service users and staff. More than half of our young people are from global majority communities, and approximately 1 in 4 are neurodivergent.
Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is important as we are made stronger by the unique capabilities, qualities and experience that each staff member brings to Open Door. We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of all kinds, including global majority and/or neurodivergent candidates.
Open Door is a young people’s mental health charity which has been based in the London Borough of Haringey for 49 years.
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Role - A strategic role, responsible for supporting, developing and maintaining effective partnerships to support the local VCSE sector and Redcar & Cleveland more generally. The post holder will also be the overall service lead (managing other team members), reporting to and working with the CEO in areas of quality, performance and service development.
Background (Summary)
Enhance is the newly funded VCSE infrastructure support service in Redcar and Cleveland made possible through the collaboration of a number of funders to fill a gap in local provision.
Lloyds Bank Foundation, Rank Foundation, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Tees Foundation and the Woodsmith Foundation have provided three years of funding and commissioned MVDA to develop and deliver a VCSE infrastructure service (Enhance) in Redcar and Cleveland.
Enhance will provide practical support to VCSE organisations based in the Redcar and Cleveland area who deliver services to local people and communities.
The service model for Enhance is based on three key areas:
Improvement – Providing practical support through an information and advice service. This will include for example advice on governance, funding, policy and practice
Growth - The development and delivery of a comprehensive training programme for all VCSEs in Redcar and Cleveland
Influence - Work to support the building and development of relationships; collaborative work across the VCSE sector and cross-sector partnerships
The service will be based in Redcar and Cleveland and will provide an outreach service in the more rural areas of the borough to ensure the services are accessible to all local VCSEs.
Full application pack available from: https://mvda.info//jobs/strategic-partnerships-manager-service-lead
Role - The primary focus of the role is to provide good quality information and advice to VCSE organisations based in Redcar & Cleveland that will support their development needs, including (but not limited to) key areas such as governance, funding, marketing etc. The post holder will have a key role in the development, delivery and evaluation of the Enhance service training offer.
Background (Summary)
Enhance is the newly funded VCSE infrastructure support service in Redcar and Cleveland made possible through the collaboration of a number of funders to fill a gap in local provision.
Lloyds Bank Foundation, Rank Foundation, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Tees Foundation and the Woodsmith Foundation have provided three years of funding and commissioned MVDA to develop and deliver a VCSE infrastructure service (Enhance) in Redcar and Cleveland.
Enhance will provide practical support to VCSE organisations based in the Redcar and Cleveland area who deliver services to local people and communities.
The service model for Enhance is based on three key areas:
Improvement – Providing practical support through an information and advice service. This will include for example advice on governance, funding, policy and practice
Growth - The development and delivery of a comprehensive training programme for all VCSEs in Redcar and Cleveland
Influence - Work to support the building and development of relationships; collaborative work across the VCSE sector and cross-sector partnerships
The service will be based in Redcar and Cleveland and will provide an outreach service in the more rural areas of the borough to ensure the services are accessible to all local VCSEs.
Full application pack available from: mvda.info/jobs/vcse-develeopment-officer
Role - Responsible for the development and implementation of the service communication strategy and plan, including the production and distribution of information, oversight of our online presence and development of work around AI for the benefit of the VCSE sector. The post holder will also co-ordinate aspects of our work in terms of VCSE networks and forums.
Background (Summary)
Enhance is the newly funded VCSE infrastructure support service in Redcar and Cleveland made possible through the collaboration of a number of funders to fill a gap in local provision.
Lloyds Bank Foundation, Rank Foundation, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Tees Foundation and the Woodsmith Foundation have provided three years of funding and commissioned MVDA to develop and deliver a VCSE infrastructure service (Enhance) in Redcar and Cleveland.
Enhance will provide practical support to VCSE organisations based in the Redcar and Cleveland area who deliver services to local people and communities.
The service model for Enhance is based on three key areas:
Improvement – Providing practical support through an information and advice service. This will include for example advice on governance, funding, policy and practice
Growth - The development and delivery of a comprehensive training programme for all VCSEs in Redcar and Cleveland
Influence - Work to support the building and development of relationships; collaborative work across the VCSE sector and cross-sector partnerships
The service will be based in Redcar and Cleveland and will provide an outreach service in the more rural areas of the borough to ensure the services are accessible to all local VCSEs.
Full application pack iavailable from mvda.info/jobs/information-and-communications-officer