Job Summary

Reporting into the Head of Programmes, you will be leading a team to provide better educational outcomes and career prospects for young people in our local communities. You will lead on the development and funding opportunities to expand our youth offer.

• Oversee performance, compliance, and day-to-day activities to drive performance on a single contract as well as supporting on frontline duties
• Drive the operational team to achieve sustained high performance and quality of delivery in accordance with contracts, business priorities and organisational culture and values
• Lead a team of Programme Leads, developing, mentoring, and coaching your team to ensure outcomes, team targets and individual goals are met
• Develop and maintain key stakeholder partnerships within the community, with external stakeholders and the wider business
• Provide a sense of authority to the customers and enable them to feel more confident and strengthened
• Lead on, write and project manage bids and proposals from beginning to end
• Provide a framework for IAG to help NEETs progress into education, employment and training
• Co-ordinate a programme of training and activities for participants to prepare them and give them the skills and experience to progress into education and employment
• Design engagement plans in order to deliver effective outreach in local boroughs

Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the delivery of contractual KPIs from participant attraction to sustained outcomes
• Driving the successful delivery of our youth programmes and achieving sustained high performance and quality of delivery in accordance with our commissioners
• Working collaboratively with other business units to ensure our services are integrated and company resources are utilised
• Building and developing relationships with key stakeholders across our delivery locations to ensure our programmes are reflective of the needs of the community
• Looking for growth opportunities with existing commissioners and establishing relationships with new potential funders
• Demonstrating a willingness to learn and motivate others to develop/grow industry-specific knowledge and skills
• Conducting monthly one-to-ones for all staff members within the team and using the performance management framework
• Working with the Quality and Compliance team to implement areas of best practice or plans for improved compliance
• Creating awareness amongst the employers about our company's vision of equal opportunities and values
• Accurately forecasting performance pipelines and identifying risks to contractual performance
• Preparing and presenting monthly management reports for the operations manager/director/prime providers
• Leading daily team meetings to ensure priorities for the day are disseminated and followed up with meeting notes to ensure accountability within the team
• Carrying out monthly caseload reviews with the team to ensure they are clear

Personal Attributes

• Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas
• Values and respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
• Gets things done, delivers to high standards, takes responsibility
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including influencing and relationship building with a wide range of people
• Outcomes focused and target driven and passionate about supporting young people

Skills & Experience

• Degree-level qualification or MA in relevant field, or equivalent work experience
• Proven track record in managing and setting up programmes
• Experience and understanding of Ofsted EIF requirements
• Achieved notable success through motivating and teambuilding staff responsible for delivering frontline services
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience developing proposals to secure grants and contracts
• Applied knowledge of project cycle management, including problem analysis, project design, financial planning and management, and monitoring and evaluation
• Experience coordinating bid teams to deliver proposals, bids, or manage contracts
• Experience working with partners and colleagues from different organisations and cultures to deliver complex work tasks as part of a consortium

For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing date: 17 December 2021

JOB DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE: IPS Employment Specialist

PAY BAND: £25,096.00 per annum

LOCATION: London Borough of Bexley  

ACCOUNTABLE TO: Operations Manager 

LINE MANAGER: Senior IPS Employment Specialist

HOURS OF WORK: 37.5 hours per week. The post holder may be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.

CONTRACT LENGTH: March 2023

For people who need mental health support, getting back into work is a vital step on their recovery journey. The evidence backs this up, but although 90% of people with severe mental illness want to work, only 8% of them are in paid employment.

If you would like to join our team and champion our mission and help people who need employment support to get back into work. You will be supporting service users who are under the care of Secondary Mental Health services to gain and retain paid employment and will be based within a clinical team.

This is an incredibly rewarding role You'll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction and support with their recovery journey alongside other key professionals. This is also a challenging role, so you’ll need to be empathetic, adaptable and dedicated to finding clients a role that’s right for them.

As an Employment Specialist, you’ll build a good rapport with your service users, gaining a real understanding of their key skills, their aspirations and their career goals and finding them opportunities to match. You'll also spend time building productive relationships with employers in order to identify and negotiate job opportunities in the hidden labour market.

Successful applicants for this post will receive training in the IPS approach, giving you the tools, you need to provide expert support and advice to service users, staff within your clinical team (e.g. Psychiatrist, Social Workers or Mental Health Nurse), while also building positive relationships with employers, opening doors and changing perceptions around mental health.

We welcome applications from people with personal experience of using mental health services.

Job Summary:

To provide support into employment for people with mental health problems including:

• managing a caseload of people who wish to return to paid work, enabling them to find or retain employment by liaising with work and training providers, accessing benefits advice and by personally providing on-going support to service users in job search and after gaining employment, in accordance with evidence based supported employment practice such as the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment.
• negotiate with local employers and voluntary bodies in order to secure employment opportunities within the community
• pro-actively support and motivate the client group in obtaining employment opportunities
• provide on-going support according to both the employee’s and employer’s needs therefore enabling service users to both gain and retain employment.

Key responsibilities:

• To work in partnership with individuals to support them in finding paid employment, or
• taking steps towards this.
• To develop strong links with other agencies such as voluntary, statutory and businesses in the development of work opportunities for service users.
• To support CMHT colleagues with information about work and training opportunities.
• To report on outcome measures for the service.
• To provide monitoring/audit information to the Senior IPS Employment Specialist responsible for Employment Services.

Main duties:

• manage a caseload of people who have experienced mental health problems who wish to work.
• prepare individuals for employment by assessing each person’s individual vocational needs which might typically include identifying strengths, help with benefits, support networks, travel to work plans, etc.
• co create employment action plans with the individual, and provide this to the care co-ordinator and other professionals where appropriate.
• assist individuals in job search and prepare them to apply for employment/education, liaising with colleagues as required e.g. Disability Employment Advisors, Jobcentre Plus, DWP contract providers and local colleges.
•  contact and meet with employers to identify job opportunities for individual clients.
• proactive approach in developing jobs tailored to suit individual service users’ needs by contacting local employers, discussing mutual requirements and negotiating
• opportunities.
• accompany job seekers to interviews if required.
• provide education and support to employers, as agreed with the individual and provide job retention interventions to people at risk of losing their employment, negotiating adjustments to the job role with employers to enable the person to retain their employment.
• support service users in the workplace by supporting them to learn the job role if necessary, and/or negotiating with employers to adapt the role at the start of employment or if difficulties arise in the workplace.
• identify any barriers for return to work and develop appropriate strategies to overcome those barriers for service users who wish to gain or retain open employment maintaining a positive attitude to addressing challenges.
• contribute to the opportunities for an individual’s increased social inclusion by developing partnership working with voluntary sector agencies, and linking with primary care employment and job retention initiatives.
• promote the Mindful Employer initiative and best practice in mental health and employment within the Trust and in other organisations in the local area.
• maintain and develop close links with referrers, care co-ordinators and Community
• regularly attend Team meetings.
• complete data monitoring sheets and keep accurate caseload records.
• maintain high standards of personal development and undertake further training as may be required.
• undertake regular supervision and annual appraisal.

Person specification:

Educational/ Qualification

IPS Training

Experience

Experience of helping people obtain or retain employment/training

Experience of assessing service users’ employment skills and needs

Experience of constructing and reviewing person centred action plans

Word processing/ computing skills

Experience of demonstrating impact and user outcomes

Ability to communicate effectively

Experience of working within health, social services or the voluntary sector with people who have experienced mental health problems.

Experience of collecting caseload and outcome data

Experience and knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability /employment related benefits.

Personal experience of using mental health services

Knowledge/Skills

Knowledge of vocational assessment and profiling

An understanding of the principles and practice of supported employment

An understanding of the employment needs and difficulties of people who experience mental health problems

Ability to be flexible, open and creative in problem Solving

Ability to initiate and develop

Relationships with professionals

Ability to work independently, reliably and Consistently

Ability to communicate effectively

Excellent organisation and time management skills, including ability to plan and prioritise own workload

Understanding of current Government initiatives relevant to employment e.g. Access to Work, Supported Permitted Work etc.

Knowledge of good practice in employment

Legislation protecting Disability and Equality Ability to find solutions which improve the service

Excellent marketing and promotional skills

Additional requirements/ Personal attributes

Enhanced DBS

Flexible and adapt approach to work

Strong work ethic – be determined, dedicated and reliable

Be friendly and approachable

Able to communicate with people to inspire trust

Able to relate well to individuals of all ages and backgrounds

Flexible with a willingness to undertake further training or share workloads

Willingness to work in a variety of settings

Full driving licence and access to the use of a car for work

Please note that this position will be subject to satisfactory references

** Please note extension beyond 12 month contract is highly likely **

Working Well Trust is a mental health and employment charity in London.  All of our projects share the aim of improving the lives of people with mental health, learning disabilities and/or complex issues through training and employment.  

We are recruiting for our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) team in the London Borough of Enfield. We are a Centre of Excellence and adhere closely to the principles of the IPS model in supporting people in to employment. The roles we are recruiting for are as follows: 

• 1 x full time: 35 hours per week (salary = £28,057)
• 1 x part time: 17.5 hours per week (salary = £14,028)

You will work with clients (managing a caseload) who have mental health support needs, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences. You will deliver the IPS approach (for which training will be given); providing person centred support and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

You will work as part of a mental health team (Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust) maintaining positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.

Employment Specialists work with clients to identify their employment needs and then actively support them to achieve their employment goals, engaging regularly with employers directly to secure jobs.  We focus on people’s strengths and potential, working with clients who want to find work regardless of their experience level and background.  We do not use the phrase "job ready" as the only criteria is whether someone wants to get a job. 

Experience of employment support is not essential, it is more important that you share our commitment to supporting people to find the right job for them.  The successful candidate must be comfortable in approaching employers, persuading them to use our service, working with them to recruit our clients to fill vacancies and sustain employment. 

You will work closely with clinical teams, providing a coordinated approach that always remains client led.  You will also be in working to targets whilst maintaining a high-quality service.

The role is currently a mix of home and on-site working, but community work will be resumed once it is safe to do so for both staff and clients. 

If you would like more information about the role please see the Job Description for contact details . 

Please click apply to send your CV and cover form (please add the cover form to the end of your CV when uploading, applications without a cover form will not be considered). Candidates need to clearly outline how they meet the person specification points in their personal statement and specify whether the application is full or part time.

Staff benefits include an employer contribution to a personal or workplace pension equivalent to 6% of gross salary.  30 days annual leave plus paid public holidays. 

Working Well Trust is an equal opportunities and confident about disabilities employer (two ticks). 

Interviews will be scheduled as applications come in. 

Are you interested in helping people who have, or are recovering from, mental health problems, integrate back into work? Would you like to be part of an organisation that counts on the professionalism, insight, expertise and passion of its staff to inspire individual recovery for the people they work with? Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as an Employment Specialist.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

Right now, one of our partners, Richmond Fellowship, is looking for an Employment Specialist to join our EAs in IAPT Employment service. We help individuals with mental health problems to find paid employment. We also support people to retain their employment when they are struggling at work due to their mental health. We also advise and support employers about mental health in the workplace. But, it’s only possible with the help of people like you.

Your challenge? To do everything you can to help the individuals we work with to source appropriate work experience placements, paid or voluntary roles with local organisations/employers. Day to day, you’ll offer support, careers advice and guidance, helping people to set their own recovery and employment  focused goals and  provide training in personal and skills development such as CV preparation, interview techniques etc. You’ll also be responsible for establishing and maintaining positive links with partner organisations, local employers and other relevant agencies and have the initiative to develop and promote the service. Additionally, you will have responsibility for maintaining efficient admin systems to ensure referrals, assessments and reviews are completed in a timely manner.

As well as a good understanding of mental health problems and the issues and barriers this can create for our clients, you’ll need excellent motivational, presentation and listening skills and a willingness to travel in the North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG area and to work outside of office hours as required.

This post will cover the North East Hampshire and Farnham area but not exclusively. The post holder will need to have the ability to travel throughout North East Hampshire and Farnham.

The salary for this post is £ 23,780 per annum with salary progression to £24,913 per annum.

There is a permanent full-time role requiring the post holder to work 37.5 hours per week.

Recovery Focus is committed to working towards equal opportunities and we select staff solely on merit irrespective of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, social class, religious belief, disability or history of mental health or addiction problems. If you need support to apply for the role or adaptions at interview please contact the recruitment team to discuss.

Closing Date for applications is 31 December 2021  (We reserve the right to close vacancies before the specified closing date, should a large number of applications be received).

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.

It is a mandatory requirement of the application process for this post that candidates submit a CV and Supporting Statement, thus only candidates that provide this will be considered for an interview.

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits? Apply now via our website. 

Employment Specialist sought with a background of helping people in to work. Role will be supporting people with mental health issues gain and sustain competitive employment. This role would suit somebody from one or more  the following backgrounds:

Charity Sector

Recruitment Consultants

3rd Sector Employment Caseworkers

Advocacy Caseworkers

Job Summary

The main purpose of the role is to support unemployed jobseekers with finding and sustaining employment, engage with employers, and make local communities aware of the benefits of our service. The clients we support are those who’ve yet to enter the job market – especially young people aged 16 to 24 who are not in employment, education or training; those who may never have worked in the UK and require guidance and assistance; and those looking to return to work after a long absence.

Key Responsibilities

• Meeting with jobseekers, identifying any challenges and barriers with finding employment
• Booking jobseekers to any relevant training courses, including customer service, security, hospitality, personal development, IT literacy and many others
• Supporting jobseekers with CV writing and the job application process
• Liaising with employers to identify any employment opportunities for the jobseekers
• Outreach work – promoting within the local community
• Overseeing and delivering employability training programmes that include web-based seminars, group sessions, and employability digital training
• Delivering regular employability sessions to groups of candidates referred to our service, particularly those aged 16–50
• Responsible for achieving personal and team KPIs set out in SLAs and guiding a team of advisors to achieve theirs
• Supporting medium- and high-risk offenders into employment, taking into consideration any restrictions on their order
• Engaging with employers and maintaining relationships to help secure employment

Personal Attributes

• Previous experience of a working in a similar role in Welfare to Work or publicly funded services; any relevant advisory and/or training qualification, e.g. PTTLS
• NVQ Advice & Guidance Level 4 or equivalent

Skills & Experience

• Able to demonstrate coaching/mentoring experience and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities
• Experience of working in a customer-facing environment (e.g. customer services, hospitality, social care, sales)
• Experience of working in a performance target-driven environment
• Willingness to travel locally (e.g. to meet customers/employers)

For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing date: 17 December 2021

You have recent experience in mental health employment support or a related field such as Human Resources, Recruitment, Education or Health and Social Care, and a good understanding of the Recovery and Personalisation agenda. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as an Employment Advisor.

Recovery Focus is a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

We’re looking for Employment Advisors to join our friendly, vibrant team and support the delivery of our Employment Service. We are based within Oxford Health’s NHS IAPT (improving access to psychological

therapies) Service, Healthy Minds in Bucks. Our Employment team supports adults who are experiencing common mental health difficulties, such as anxiety and depression, to either find work, stay in their current job, or return from sick leave.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of our Employment Service. This will see you focus on motivating, supporting and providing person-centred advice and guidance to people receiving support to enable them to move into suitable and sustainable work or to retain their current employment.

As well as a good understanding of people with mental health problems, you will need to have recent experience in mental health or a related field. You should also have knowledge of the Equality Act and basic employment legislation. You will also need to have experience of networking/liaising with local employers, delivering training and the initiative to develop and promote a service.

Excellent motivational, presentation and listening skills are essential too, as is a willingness to travel in the local area and occasionally work outside of office hours. Customer focused, well organised and collaborative in approach, you’re a great administrator too. Indeed, you pride yourself on your word processing skills and ability to keep accurate computer records/use a database. The successful candidate will be expected to have a flexible approach to working to ensure effective service delivery.

This post is located in Aylesbury.

The salary for this post is £23,013 per annum.

This is a permanent full time post requiring the post holder to work 37.5 hours per week.

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits?

This is a rolling recruitment process, candidates will be shortlisted as and when they apply.

Mind in Croydon is a highly regarded voluntary organisation which is concerned with the welfare of people experiencing poor mental health, living in the London Borough of Croydon.

This role is an exciting opportunity to work in the Welfare Benefits and Employment Support Team based in South Croydon. The role is part time and contracted to September 2022 with a strong likelihood to be extended and possibly made permanent.

 The successful post holder will motivate and enable people experiencing poor mental health to take the opportunity to move towards the world of work. The post holder will carry a large and diverse caseload. The caseload will include an element of supporting people to sustain employment. Mind in Croydon is a voluntary organisation which is concerned with the welfare of people experiencing mental health, living in the London Borough of Croydon.

Key tasks include:

• Creating person centred action plans for clients and conducting reviews to set objectives and measure achievements.  Assisting the caseload with searching and applying for jobs, with a focus on finding jobs that match skills and abilities.
• Using an understanding of Disability Discrimination to support clients with employability goals.
• Collecting quantitative and qualitative data with the aim of demonstrating services impact and performance. 
• Develop links with employers to arrange work experience, work placements, in-house experience or work/job shadowing.
• Developing and delivering workshops to clients and wider stakeholders
• Maintaining accurate statistics and utilising a file management system.
• Undertaking a wide range of administrative tasks including keeping detailed case notes, quarterly stats for the commissioners, case studies for monitoring purposes etc.

Salary is £21,078 pa (FTE £26,347 pa)and there are excellent benefits incuding 28 days hols pro rata leading to 33 days pro rata after 5 years service. We offer a flexible and supportive working environment .

If you have some experience in mental health advice work, are empathetic, have strong communication skills and a strong work ethic, we look forward to hearing from you.

A leading disability charity is looking to recruit an E-Learning Platform Manager. This is an exciting newly funded role to join the Employment Services Team, working with customers to deliver a range of employment and training opportunities online.

The role is full time and permanent and will be based in Manchester or Leeds with part remote and flexible working opportunities. Part-time applications and other locations in England may also be considered.

As the E-Learning Platform Manager, your role will be to take the charity's existing portfolio of employment training modules and support the adaptation of these into digital modules so they are usable on their new e-learning platform. Your role will also include creating and managing the training sessions on the new platform, managing the testing and uploading of the sessions, and identifying and creating new resources to enhance the user experience. You'll put your excellent communication skills to use by working with disabled people to test the new resources before other customers use them.

You'll need to build and maintain excellent relationships across a range of internal departments to support the coordination and delivery of the new platform as well as drive growth of the platform and the potential opportunities to grow other services for their customers.

To be considered for the role, you'll need to have recent experience in planning and creating employment related learning content with experience of Moodle or similar software. You'll need to have good project management skills and an ability to learn and work with others to ensure learning is creative and accessible, optimising the impact for their customers.

You'll stand out further from the crowd if you have good knowledge of the social model of disability but this is not essential.

In return, the charity can offer excellent benefits and flexible working opportunities. Applications from disabled people are encouraged.

To show your interest, please click apply or send a copy of your CV to [email protected] quoting the job title and reference number J76175DT

Closing Date: Open until filled so please show your interest quickly.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

£25,526 - £33,476 p/a – please note successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual

Full time – 35 hrs p/w

Fixed Term Contract ending 31 October 2022

Based at Camberwell, London

Ref: SEC-214

Are you a driven and compassionate individual with excellent people skills? Do you have the skills and commitment to undertake a role that’s diverse and fast-paced? Then join St Giles as an Employment Adviser and you will be embarking on a highly rewarding and career-enhancing position.

About us

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. 

This exciting opportunity is based within our Skills & Employment Team which supports young people facing adversity, we aim to tackle the critical issue of Youth unemployment amongst those who are at risk/have experience of the criminal justice system.

About this role

As an Employment Adviser you will lead a small team of caseworkers and Peer Advisors, to provide a tailored one to one high-level service of engagement, advocacy and support for the young people. In addition, the senior caseworkers will work closely with the team leader and the Skills and Employment manager to assess standards of evidence and how well the data collected evidences the effectiveness of the young people’s journeys. 

The aim will be to support young people to achieve engagement in sustainable education, training, employment and a positive lifestyle, as well as improvement in their mental health, wellbeing and relationships.

The project team will be working with external evaluators to assess the project’s achievement and improve our ability to measure the impact of the service. 

To secure this great opportunity:

• Substantial experience and strong track record in successfully supporting young people into sustainable employment.
• Experience of working on a target driven project, and a proven ability to organise others to reach their targets
• Awareness of Matrix standards and ability to implement quality assurance measures
• Have experience in collaborating with partner agencies
• You will be an excellent communicator with impressive interpersonal skills

In return you can expect a competitive salary and generous leave allowance, staff pensions scheme, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice & counselling service, season ticket loan and much more besides.

Closing date: 11pm, Monday 13th December 2021. Interviews: Tuesday 21st December 2021.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy

Employment Caseworker – Young People Skills and Employment

£22,847 - £29,852 p/a -  please note successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual

Full-time (35 hrs p/w), fixed-term contract until 30th June 2022

Ref: EMB-212

Are you a driven and compassionate individual with excellent people skills? Do you have the skills and commitment to undertake a role that’s diverse and fast-paced? 

If so, St Giles is looking for an Employment Caseworker to work on a vital skills and employment project aimed at engaging, motivating and supporting young people to achieve engagement in sustainable education, training, employment and a positive lifestyle, as well as improvement in their mental health, wellbeing and relationships.

About St Giles

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. 

About this exciting opportunity

Our successful candidate will provide a tailored one to one high-level service of engagement, advocacy and support for young people. The aim will be to support young people to achieve engagement in sustainable education, training, employment and a positive lifestyle, as well as improvement in their mental health, wellbeing and relationships.

What we are looking for:

• Substantial experience and strong track record in successfully supporting young people into sustainable employment.
• Experience of working on a target driven project, and a proven ability to organise others to reach their targets 
• Experience of working to high standards of evaluation processes. An understanding of current labour market trends and knowledge of employment rights and contract types.
• Awareness of Matrix standards and ability to implement quality assurance measures
• You will be an excellent communicator with impressive interpersonal skills

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working,
a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, access to clinical supervisions, season ticket loan
and much more.

Closing date: 11pm Tuesday 14th December. Interviews: Wednesday 22nd December 2021.

For further information, or to apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

LOYALTY & CULTIVATION MARKETING SENIOR EXECUTIVE

Salary: £30,000 + benefits

Contract length: Permanent

Location: Stratford w/ flexibility

Closing date: Sunday 12th December 2021, 23:55

Are you a self-motivated and sharp minded individual with strong loyalty & cultivation or supporter journey marketing experience that can help us beat cancer?

Why we need you

We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Loyalty & Cultivation Marketing Senior Executive. We need you to support the retention and cultivation of loyal CRUK audiences across all areas of the organisation, by demonstrating the impact of CRUK's work and ways to get involved in supporting it, across multiple marketing channels. Further to this, we need you to support the Marketing Manager to deliver the marketing plan, meeting KPIs, to time and budget.

What will I be doing?

Make an impact every day by…

• Undertaking internal and external landscape analysis to define and develop the audiences and product offerings that need activating

• Translating the marketing plan into cross-channel integrated briefs that meet the needs of Cancer Research UK audiences

• Translating cross-channel integrated briefs into campaign specific briefs, leading on the delivery of campaign set-up requirements in collaboration with internal teams

• Taking responsibility for the content and creative production process, working with internal and external stakeholders

• Working with UX experts to devise pre-launch test and learn initiatives

• Leading on all aspects of campaign delivery including direct mail production and fulfilment and paid digital campaign delivery

• Working with Adobe, Social and Marketing Delivery teams to deliver email, SMS, social and other specialist marketing activity

• Leading on in-campaign reporting and post-campaign analysis.

What skills are you looking for?

You’ll be able to bring to the role…

• Relevant experience of delivering multi-channel campaigns, from planning through to execution and analysis

• Strong loyalty, cultivation or supporter journey experience

• Good understanding of end-to-end supporter or customer journeys or loyalty programmes, and the role of different channels in fully integrated campaigns

• Data-driven with a good understanding of UX principles and experience of interpreting results and using insight to recommend opportunities for optimisation

• Experience of developing highly effective campaign assets for use across channels

• Commercially aware with experience of budget management

• Experience of managing and motivating agencies to drive maximum value from relationships.

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn’t be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, gym membership, childcare vouchers and much more. You’ll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately you’ll know that you’ll be changing lives through your work. 

If you’re as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.

Job title: Employment Advisor
Salary: Circa £22,000 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Reporting to: Performance Lead
Locations: Carlisle

About us

Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential.

About the role

Working as a member of the Employment Team you will engage on a 1:1 basis with our employment programme participants, establishing and maintaining excellent relationships to understand and meet their individual needs.  You will develop personal action plans which enable movement of these people towards and into further sustainable employment. You will work in a friendly, busy employment team environment to ensure programme performance targets are consistently achieved to meet requirements of the allocated contract.

A bit about you

We want someone like you with the confidence to positively engage and motivate people from a wide range of backgrounds. In your role you will work closely with the local community and employers, supporting referrals onto the programme and identifying employment opportunities. You will enable participants to develop valuable work based skills and gain knowledge. Your role will require you to be supportive and understanding, be able to deal with any issues that may arise confidently. You will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to adapt them pending on what you are dealing with, communicating at different levels as key in this role.

Closing date: Midnight on Monday 6th December 2021

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website. 

Make yourself at home:

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work.

Groundwork NE & Cumbria is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

No agencies please.

Job title: Navigator – Employment Support Advisor (ROAD)
Salary: Circa £21,500 per annum
Hours: Full Time – 37 hours per week
Duration: Fixed Term until end of June 2023
Location:  The Greenhouse Business Centre, Annfield Plain
The job is covering Peterlee & Seaham (East Durham)

About us

Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work.

Reaching Out Across Durham (ROAD) is an exciting employment Programme in County Durham jointly funded by the European Social Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund. Working in Partnership with 6 voluntary and community sector delivery Partners who are specialists in employment, financial and digital inclusion and volunteering, ROAD supports long-term unemployed people into or towards employment.

About the role

We are looking to recruit someone who will work as a member of a dedicated partnership team who will work as one of our Navigators on Reaching Out Across Durham (ROAD) you will manage a caseload of participants and provide them with 1:1 support, helping them overcome barriers to employment by signposting into existing and new services as well as supporting them to access job search, employment, training and self-employment. You will be responsible for supporting participants through every stage of their journey, enabling participants to address their barriers and realise their aspirations.

 This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service

 A bit about you

We want someone like you who has experience of undertaking participant engagement activities and caseload management on employability programmes. Proven experience of excellent people and communication skills, as well as ensuring quality assurance in programme delivery to achieve targets is essential. Your role will require you to provide 1:1 support and using action planning methods to enable individuals to achieve their goals.

Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 8th December 2021

To Apply and for More Information:

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Make yourself at home:

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work.

Groundwork NE & Cumbria is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

No agencies please.