Hope for Justice is seeking experienced and enthusiastic professionals who are able to work directly with survivors, offering legal advocacy and specialist support and advice.

Could you join our team of Independent Modern Slavery Advocates, helping people who have been victims of modern slavery to understand and access their entitlements to welfare and housing benefits, conducting needs-led assessments, and signposting them to relevant services?

The successful candidates will have worked previously with vulnerable adults in an advisory capacity, and have excellent knowledge of welfare benefits law and the laws relating to modern slavery. They must also have demonstrable core legal skills including research, advocacy, negotiation, drafting and interviewing. A full list of required skills, competencies, duties and responsibilities is available in the Role Profile, below.

These full-time positions will be based at Hope for Justice Head Office in central Manchester.

Role Profile - Independent Modern Slavery Advocate

Department: UK Programmes - Advocacy

Location: Head Office, Manchester

Main Purpose

• To provide advocacy and victim services to survivors of modern slavery in the UK - managing a caseload, conducting assessments and developing pathways for survivors.
• To provide advice to professionals and individuals, building partnerships with other organisations and providing specialised training.
• To support Hope for Justice’s ‘Reforming Society’ agenda.

Main Duties

• Empowering survivors by providing a clear overview of their rights and entitlements in theirown language, providing options and choices every step of the way
• Once the survivor understands their rights, providing a detailed assessment (legal and support needs, including an individual risk assessment and safety planning). Anticipating and understanding the barriers victims face and the advocacy needed to overcome barriers
• Ensuring smooth transfer into safe accommodation and into the community, advocating for clear pathways of support for the survivor in accordance with the non-statutory government endorsed Slavery and Trafficking Survivor Care Standards 2018, produced by the Human Trafficking Foundation
• Act as a single point of contact for the survivor and relevant agencies through all processes. Providing a point of trust for the victim and high-quality communication with all relevant agencies
• Ensure “supported” referrals to relevant legal and support agencies - including supported housing; victim/witness support; and immigration, civil compensation, public law and criminal law solicitors
• Where necessary, support attendance at appointments, empowering and advocating for the survivor’s needs and wishes to be heard in all processes, as well as supporting the survivor to negotiate these processes and overcome barriers in processes
• Assist survivors in developing confidence to do things themselves to foster independence
• Ensuring the survivor is well supported as a witness through criminal and civil proceedings and ensuring their voice is heard in these proceedings
•  Establishing good working relationships with key agencies and services the survivor routinely interacts with e.g. support workers, social services, GPs and other statutory and non-statutory agencies, to help ensure clients receive coordinated help and support
• Manage a caseload to ensure every client has opportunities to access relevant services appropriate to their individual needs
• General file management and compliance with professional legal ethics, including confidentiality

Key Result Areas

• Progressing caseload from initial assessment to closure, addressing identified needs
• Building and maintaining partnerships with other organisations (including state and NGO) to create opportunities for survivors of modern slavery
• Supporting the Reforming Society agenda – providing evidence base for reform; providing advice and training, where necessary, to agencies in the community to improve responses to victims of modern slavery thus creating lasting structural change

Soft Skills

• Communication skills (including presentation)
• Relationship management
• Creative problem solving
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Negotiation & conflict resolution
• Decisiveness
• Listening & providing feedback
• Positive attitude and resilience
• Empathy and emotional intelligence
• Critical thinking and attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure & time management
• Flexibility
• Self-motivation and strong work ethic

Technical Skills

• Strategic and operational knowledge of modern slavery and broader Human Rights legislation
• Understanding of the legal rights and obligations of victims of modern slavery – including an understanding of immigration, housing, community care, welfare benefits, public law, civil law (including access to compensation), debts and victim rights in the criminal justice process
• Advocacy, research and drafting skills
• Interviewing skills, particularly in relation to vulnerable people
• Maintaining professional boundaries
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency

Experience & Education

• Educated to Degree level
• Previous work with vulnerable adults, ideally with a legal or social work background
• Enhanced DBS check
   

Care Team Manager

You will join our client as a Care Team Manager who will manage the day-to-day running services in Rochdale.

Care Team Manager Responsibilities:

They provide a supported housing service for people with Learning Disabilities and some mental health problems. But they need your help in order to provide the very best Person Centred Support. As well as ensuring the quality of service and support provided to people who use their services, they’ll rely on you to manage service contracts, line manage front line staff and organise any building maintenance requirements. Whether you’re carrying out an induction, undertaking an investigation, putting team development plans in place or providing support to their business development team, one thing’s certain – you won't be short of challenge and variety.

Care Team Manager Requirements:

- Substantial experience gained managing a caseload of individuals with complex needs is a given, as well as being values and outcome driven, able to lead by example using your firm, Values Driven but inclusive management style.
- You’re transparent and encouraging too and have lots of tact and diplomacy.
- What's more, you're great at managing conflicting priorities on time, have a flexible attitude to working hours and are willing to participate in on call arrangements.
- And, if you have experience of carrying out investigations, writing reports / recommendations and solutions driven, even better, although it's not essential as they offer an extensive induction and training program for managers.

About our client:

They are a leading, high quality social care provider for people with complex needs in the North West of England. With a background of over 18 years’ experience, they are a well-respected and highly regarded provider of specialist services tailored to the needs of individuals with complex needs.

They pride themselves on working in partnership with individuals, their families, commissioners and local communities to develop personalised services which are tailored to fit the individuals they support. They also want to promote the independence of the people they support by providing opportunities to work with and in local communities.

Location: Rochdale,

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £21,000 to £25,500 per annum

You may have experience of the following: Social Care Manager, Care Team Manager, Supported Housing Manager, Care Home Team Manager, Care Home Manager, Care Team Leader, Care Supervisor, Senior Care Assistant, Support Worker, etc,

Ref: 89977

POST

Brief Intervention Caseworker

RESPONSIBLE TO

NUM COO

RESPONSIBLE FOR

n/a

SALARY & HOURS OF WORK

Full time – Monday to Friday (37.5 hrs per week)

Term: 12-month fixed term contract

Salary: £24,000

Annual Leave Entitlement - 31 days including public and bank holidays

Pension: Work place pension contributions of 8% per month will be paid by NUM

LOCATION OF THE POST HOLDER

The post holder will be based at the NUM offices in Manchester. The post involves some travel throughout the UK and occasional work out of office hours.

ABOUT NUM:

National Ugly Mugs (NUM) is an award-winning charity with a mission to ‘end violence against sex workers.’ NUM provides a mechanism for sex industry workers to report crimes they experience and share this information within their communities to warn others to potentially dangerous individuals and situations.  We have a casework team that supports sex workers to further access criminal justice remedies and other services as determined by these victims to cope and recover from crimes they experience. We receive between 80-90 reports of crime per month, or 2-3 per day on average. We have a Research & Development (R&D) team of industry experts who shape our work and provide safety information to sex industry workers, allowing them to make informed decisions about their work.

In our mission to ‘end violence against sex workers’ we use the data and knowledge from sex workers towards education programs and political advocacy to both skill-up services and police forces to be more sensitive and responsive to the needs of sex workers, and to change the conditions that cause or promote harm to this population.  Through this work we support the full decriminalization of sex industry work to advocate for the rights of sex industry workers along with their full engagement in civil society.

ROLE SUMMARY:

We are looking for a Brief Intervention Caseworker (BIC) to work as part of the NUM Casework Team from our Head Office in Manchester.  This is a full-time office-based role that will use a variety of digital tools to engage with thousands of sex workers throughout the UK to share information that will allow them to make informed decisions about their safety whilst working and ensure they have access to appropriate support following a report to NUM.  The BIC will be responsible for monitoring data, providing members of the NUM team with information to support service development and policy advocacy toward the charities mission to ‘end violence against sex workers.’

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

• Reviewing and processing reports submitted to National Ugly Mugs (NUM) about incidents and crimes committed against sex workers;
• Produce NUM warnings from reports to disseminate to members in the form of NUM alerts;
• Providing signposting information to NUM members about appropriate support services relevant to their needs;
• Provide intelligence into police systems where consent has been provided;
• Establish and maintain strong national partnerships with existing support services;
• Maintain and update contact databases for police and support services throughout the UK;
• Maintaining and updating NUM’s monitoring databases;
• Provide support to the NUM Victim Support Caseworkers.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Relationship with the Chief Operations Officer (COO)

• To support the COO in the service delivery of National Ugly Mugs;
• To support the COO to develop and maintain effective monitoring systems and support procedures;
• To work as part of the Casework Team to provide reports and data to the COO to further the objects of the charity.

Communication and Relationships

• Developing and maintaining key contacts in support services and police forces throughout the UK;
• To provide non-judgmental support to sex workers irrespective of their gender identity, personal circumstances and experience of sex work;
• Establishing strong pathways into support organisations throughout the UK;
• Promoting NUM to member projects, non-member projects, other agencies, sex worker led organisations and online forums;
• Promoting a collaborative approach to delivering NUM, where possible and appropriate, involving member projects, sex worker organisations and online forums;
• Promoting the vision, philosophy and objectives of NUM;

• Supporting the COO in ensuring that effective pathways are in place and maintained for feeding reports to police intelligence and analysis systems at national and local levels;
• Supporting the Victim Support Caseworkers and provide cover where necessary to ensure the continuous running of NUM services;
• To undertake other duties, assigned by the senior staff, which reasonably fall within the scope of the post.

Research

• To keep up to date and maintain a thorough database of support agencies, police contacts and other key contacts throughout the UK;
• To keep abreast of trends in the UK sex work markets;
• To monitor NUM report data and keep up to date to enable statistical reporting for NUM advocacy and service development.

Culture

• To promote diversity and equality of opportunity in all NUM’s work and practices.

Monitoring and evaluation

• To ensure that NUM has the appropriate monitoring systems in place and to keep them maintained and updated;
• To produce regular updates on NUM reports for the COO and CEO;
• To maintain an ongoing library of case studies.

Emotional and physical effort

• There will be frequent direct exposure to emotional and/or distressing circumstances and/or content in relation to the role;
• This is a high-pressured role which will require some work out of office hours and some travel throughout the UK.

Knowledge training and skills required

• Excellent administrative and organisation skills;
• Demonstrable experience in triaging and risk assessing client needs to enable prioritization of work to victim support caseworkers;
• Experience of engaging with individuals who may have experienced traumatic events;
• Willingness to and/or experience in delivering advice, information, emotional and practical support and advocacy in partnership with health, wellbeing and criminal justice outcomes;
• Ability to provide support and engage via digital through, phone, text, social media and email;
• Strong empathic and active listening skills;
• An understanding of Equal Opportunities, the diversity of sex work and the impact of criminalisation, stigma, and marginalisation on sex workers;
• The ability to understand local, regional and national policy and evidence-based research in relation to community safety, health and social inclusion;
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work with multiple partners to promote safety and support for sex workers;
• Experience of multiagency working with services of conflicting demands
• An effective communicator with the ability to deliver guidance, advice and support to a diverse range of stakeholders to promote best practice in relation to supporting sex workers when they’re victims of crime;
• Prepared to undertake continued professional development;
• Experience with computer systems and the ability to efficiently work with multiple platforms to managing data and conform to legal regulations such as the Data Protection Act and GDPR.

If you are passionate about ending violence against sex workers and support the full decriminalization of sex work, we would love you to join us.  We hope that there will be opportunities at NUM beyond this fixed term contract for the right candidate. We expect our staff team to hold true to our core values of compassion, contribution, integrity and inclusion.

How to Apply:

To apply please send your CV (3 pages maximum) and cover letter (4 pages maximum)  by 5pm on Friday the 15th of November 2019 through the Charity Jobs website.  Your cover letter should set out why you are interested in the post and demonstrate with specific examples from your experience and qualifications how you are the right person for this role. Please also include 2 references (including your most recent employer) and an indication of when they can be contacted.  We will contact successful applicants by 5pm on Monday the 18th November 2019 and interviews will take place on Thursday the 21st November 2019 at our head office in Central Manchester.  Please note that if you do not hear from us by the 19th November 2019 you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application this time.  Due to limited capacity we are not able to contact unsuccessful applicants.

Important dates:

• Friday the 15th November 2019 @ 5pm - closing date for applications
• Monday the 18th November 2019 @ 5pm - successful candidates notified by
• Thursday the 21st November 2019 - Interview day (the interview date is fixed and non-negotiable and candidates must be able to attend in person).
• Start date for this role is ASAP
• Further information visit the NUM website

Equal Opportunities:

We are committed to inclusion and equal opportunities in the workplace and we actively encourage applicants of all different ages, genders, social and economic backgrounds, ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations, and from people with and without disabilities.

If you have any specific access requirements or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to apply or attend an interview, please contact:

Rosie Hodsdon
Executive Administrative Assistant - see NUM website for further details
Normal Working Days: Monday, Tuesday and Friday

Job description

Part Time Activity & Training Co-Ordinator

2 x Part Time roles

Salary: £22,178 pro rata for Part Time,

Hours: 18.75 hours per week (5 days) including evenings and weekends on a rota basis to support staffing levels at our Emergency Accommodation Provisions

Contract Length: Fixed Term until 31st March 2021, though funding will be sought to extend the post

Holidays: 22 Days plus Bank Holidays pro rate for PT

Base: Will be expected to work across all Wigan and Leigh sites deemed appropriate by management.

Responsible to: Training and Resource Manager

Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees

Summary:

The Brick is a small charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering tailored support, hope, and opportunity to those looking to improve their quality of life.

About you

We are now looking for 2 enthusiastic, resilient, proactive and inspirational Activity and Training Co-ordinators to join our team. You should be a believer in the right to equal life chances with a passion to improve lives through collaboration and innovation.

You’ll be a confident self-starter, motivated, committed to the job and inspiring. You should be flexible and not be afraid to try something different.

As you may be working with challenging behaviour you’ll be confident in your ability to inspire and drive the right engagement and commitment. It’s key that you are brilliant at encouraging people to join in on activities and sessions and to engage in meaningful activities. You must believe in what we do and to succeed you must go above and beyond in your approach to your job which can be really challenging at times.

A driving licence is essential as you will be working across Wigan and Leigh; and in some instances you could be taking the people that we work with to attend sessions and activities across the Borough.

Closing Date 5pm 30th November

Interviews to take place 6th December

To Apply , please view the job description and submit a completed application form.

Only completed application forms will be accepted

School-Home Support is a dynamic charity with proven impact. For over 30 years it has been working with children and young people struggling to stay in school due to a wide range of complex family issues. We get children and young people back into school ready to learn, whatever it takes.

School-Home Support Practitioner
Cedar Mount Academy, Gorton, Manchester
5 days a week, term-time only
Starting salary: £18,074 per annum to £19,245 per annum (depending upon experience)

This is an opportunity to work alongside Cedar Mount Academy to support children and families to improve issues which are causing poor attendance and behaviour and helping parents to become more engaged with their child’s learning attainment and aspirations. The practitioner will work with pupils and their families in Cedar Mount Academy to provide practical and emotional support to vulnerable families across the school.

The successful candidate will have experience working in a school environment, delivering learning programmes and strong abilities in engaging challenging children and their parents.

Duties of the role:

• Vulnerable pupils and families
• Organise group work for both children and families
• Provide 1:1 emotional and practical support for families
• Encourage parental engagement in learning
• Support with children transitioning from primary to secondary school, and from secondary to further education, employment or training.
• Undertake work supporting improved attendance
• Support wider parental engagement with school
• Work as part of a team
• Collate and utilise data and statistics and produce reports as and when required

Closing date for applications: 23:59 pm, 15 November 2019
1st stage interviews: TBC
2nd stage interviews at the school: TBC

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to the School-Home Support website where you can download the job description and application form. 

Start Date: ASAP

School-Home Support takes very seriously the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and is committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. Our safeguarding policy recognises that the welfare and interests of children are paramount in all circumstances. All roles above are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

No agencies please.

School-Home Support (SHS) is a dynamic charity working to ensure every child is in school ready to learn. For over 30 years it has been working with children and young people struggling to stay in school due to a wide range of complex issues. We get children and young people back in school ready to learn, whatever it takes.

School-Home Support Practitioner
Working: across Rushbrook Primary Academy and Stanley Grove Primary Academy, Gorton Manchester
Hours: 5 days a week, Term time only
Starting salary: £18,074 per annum to £19,245 per annum depending upon experience

This is an opportunity to work alongside Rushbrook Primary Academy and Stanley Grove Primary Academy to support children and families to improve issues which are causing poor attendance and behaviour, and helping parents to become more engaged with their child’s learning attainment and aspirations. The practitioner will work with pupils and their families in Rushbrook Primary Academy and Stanley Grove Primary Academy to provide practical and emotional support to vulnerable families across the school.

The successful candidates will have experience working in a school environment, delivering learning programmes and strong abilities in engaging challenging children and their parents.

Duties of the role:

• Provide targeted casework for vulnerable pupils and families
• Organise group work for both children and families
• Provide 1:1 emotional and practical support for families
• Support families and children transitioning to secondary school.
• Encourage parental engagement in learning
• Undertake work supporting improved attendance
• Support wider parental engagement in school
• Work as part of a team
• Collate and utilise data and statistics and produce reports for the funder

Closing date for applications: 23:59 pm, 15November 2019
1st stage interviews: TBC
2nd stage interviews at the school: TBC
Start date: ASAP

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply' button to be directed to the School-Home Support website where you can download the relevant information pack and application form. 

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

School-Home Support takes very seriously the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and is committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. Our safeguarding policy recognises that the welfare and interests of children are paramount in all circumstances.

SHS is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

No agencies please.

An exciting opportunity to help develop our new social prescribing project and our work with people with mild cognitive impairment.

You will be working to connect isolated people back into their communities, as well as to support people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment to live active lives.

If you have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people who are potentially vulnerable then this is the job for you.