We are looking for a talented Content Manager to join our Marketing and Communications team. Working to the Head of Marketing and Communications, you will be responsible for creating marketing and communications content across all our channels to enhance engagement with our key audiences and stakeholders, ensure brand consistency, bring Youth Futures Foundation’s work to life and transform our influence and impact. 

You will be equally at ease with translating complex research into engaging, digestible copy as sensitively telling young people’s stories. Your copy will promote and amplify Youth Futures’ short-term and long-term objectives for our activities including grant giving, research and evaluation, partnerships and youth voice.

Strategy & Development Manager 

Full Time, 37.5 hours per week 

London, Birmingham or Manchester

£32,000 per annum (plus £3,000 London Weighting if applicable) 

Who We Are Looking For

This is an exciting time to be part of Strategy & Development at Ambition Institute and we are currently looking for a motivated and talented professional to join the team as a Strategy & Development Manager on a permanent contract.

The role is responsible for supporting the business development function so that Ambition thoughtfully evaluates and successfully pursues tender opportunities that are aligned to our strategy and mission, and are commercially viable, as well as efficiently and effectively supporting strategy development and implementation across the organisation. 

To be successful in this role you will support organisation-wide implementation of our current strategic plan; conduct market research and analyse data to present insights and make recommendations to the Strategy & Development team and Senior Leadership Team. You will need to effectively build, foster and maintain relationships with teams across the organisation, and work flexibly across the Business Development and Strategy Functions and take on and complete tasks when needed.

For this role we are looking for someone who can support and occasionally lead on the development of new bids, including bid writing, financial modelling, and stakeholder management, as well as support the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of business development opportunities, including pipeline reporting to the Board of Trustees and Committees.

The role can be based in either our London, Manchester and Birmingham office and will report to the Associate Director, Strategy & Development. The role does not have direct reports at this time but may do so in the future. 

Who are Ambition Institute? 

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our Offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period 
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to Apply 

All applications must be received by the closing date, midnight on Sunday, 14th March 2021. Interviews will be held in the week beginning 15th March 2021. 

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

You can be based from any of our UK Trust offices, not just the locations advertised.

The Prince’s Trust is seeking a talented and enthusiastic person to be our Safeguarding Training Manager. Passionate and knowledgeable about safeguarding children and young people with a proven track record in designing and developing engaging and insightful safeguarding training, you will be working with a range of stakeholders at the Trust to ensure everyone who works, volunteers or delivers our programmes knows how we safeguard and protect every child and young person we engage with.  

Sitting within the National Safeguarding Team and working closely with our colleagues in our Learning Team to deliver consistent, high-quality safeguarding training at scale, you will benefit from a range of benefits outlined below. 

We anticipate the role will need to provide support to colleagues based in delivery centres across the UK, so being able to commit to UK wide travel (when restrictions ease) and potential weekend work, is a must.

For more information, please go to the job description. To apply, click on apply now and you will be directed to our website.

We are expecting a high level of interest in this role, so would encourage you to include all of your relevant experience, alongside your motivation to help young people and interest in the Trust, in your supporting statement.

 

Why we need Safeguarding Training Managers:

Last year, we helped more than 70,000 young people, with three in four young people on our programmes, move into work, education or training. 

The young people we help face a range of challenges, such as unemployment, mental health issues or some who have been in trouble with the law. Our job is to inspire and support young people, to help them reach their potential so that they can thrive and society can prosper.

We believe all young people should have the chance to succeed, and that young people are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

Perks for working at The Trust:

• Great holiday package! 30 days of annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
• The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
• You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

Here at The Prince's Trust, we're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can be themselves and do the best work of their lives is the right thing to do.

We’re a Stonewall Diversity Champion and we are an employer that is Disability Confident. Our staff, volunteers and young people are supported by PT CAN (our Cultural Awareness Network), PT NOW (Network of Women), PT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network) and Pulse (LGBT Network). For more information, click here.

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within the Trust, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

Req ID: 686 

Location: Flexible within England & Wales

Department: People Experience

Interview date: w/c 26 March 2021

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the
confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a difference, every single day, to people from all walks of life? The people that turn to Citizens Advice need help overcoming an obstacle in their lives – from debt to evictions to trouble at work – and you can be key to them getting the support they need in the quickest, easiest, and most effective way.

This role is in the EDI Team, which provides the strategic lead on the delivery of Citizens Advice EDI goals, across the organisation. The team aims to secure an equitable and inclusive service for all clients, staff and volunteers.

In this role, you can expect to contribute to our thinking and challenge the organisation to address equity disparities. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to share your EDI expertise and inform how projects or activities are delivered; and develop information and guidance to ensure that EDI is understood and advanced by colleagues across the service.

As a candidate, you will have strong EDI expertise and knowledge, and a track record of applying this to help advance EDI in a relevant context.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the
role as set out in role profiles. One of our strategic ambitions, articulated in our current strategic framework, is to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across our service delivery and our advocacy.

We have an opportunity for a Head of Services to join us based in Birmingham. You will join us on a full-time permanent basis and receive a competitive salary of £45,000 - £52,000 per annum.

Servol Community Services is an established charity providing person-centred support to adults affected by and recovering from mental health conditions. Support is provided to people in accommodation that meets their needs, including residential 24 hour staffed services and semi supported accommodation.

The Head of Services post is a new role, working closely with the CEO, developing informed strategy and leading, managing and supporting staff within Servol’s diverse functions/services to deliver sustainable and successful outcomes. This role also requires strong, visible and influential leadership of Servol and to deputise for the CEO in their absence.

Key duties and responsibilities of our Head of Services include:

1. Managing the delivery of a range of services which meet the highest professional standards, in accordance with the organisation’s objectives and core values.
2.Manage, supervise, and develop staff and volunteers.
3. Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, and extended management team.
4. Oversee the delivery of the IT services and operations, supported by efficient and fit for purpose processes demonstrating value for money.
5. Ensure effective facilities management and administration services are in place to enable the charity to fulfil economic and safe service delivery.
6. Ensure relevant statutory, regulatory, and professional standards are wholly achieved in relation to policies, processes, and procedures, particularly in respect of governance and employment legislation and IT functions.
7. Set and encourage high standards of performance and demonstrate a commitment to good practice and continual improvement in all areas of the organisation’s operations.
8. To manage and review contract rates to ensure competitiveness and maximize income generation.
9. Deputise for the CEO when necessary including attending meetings and preparing and presenting reports.
10. Pro-actively monitor and evaluate activities within Servol’s business through the development and delivery of effective cross service monitoring and evaluation, responding to issues and identify/follow up opportunities.
11. Secure/seek new business opportunities, develop, and write funding bids, and produce and lead on tender responses, and produce progress reports.
12. Develop business case funding/tender reports for funders, commissioners and the Board of Trustees.
13. Support the CEO strategic leadership role as an active member of the Senior Management Team, including being proactive in providing solutions to strategic issues with and for colleagues
14. To participate actively in strategic planning process in the following ways:
- Leading on/inputting to the planning and development of projects (both existing and new)
- Proactively alerting staff and trustees to potential opportunities and threats to the charity
15. Lead on the delivery of a sustainability plan.
16. Manage overall budgets for services across the organisation and produce reports related to these.
17. Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation.

Skills and experience required to become our Head of Services:

- Educated to Degree/NVQ L7 level or equivalent in Health and Social Care, Marketing & Communications, Advice and Guidance, Training or Business/Voluntary Sector Management
- Able to grasp corporate and functional business objectives
- Have worked in a multi locational role previously
- An working knowledge of the commissioning of services within the social care sector
- Previous senior operations management within a social care setting or at a junior level position is essential
- Managerial experience of agency/partnership working within the NHS/PCT or Strategic Level Contracts
- Ability to work with financial, budgetary and management controls
- Analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, political acumen and awareness of changing policy
- Proven experience of developing partnership and projects with public, voluntary and private sector organisations

If you feel that you have the skills and experience required to become our Head of Services, please click ‘apply’ today – we would love to hear from you.

Community Project Officer
Salary: £18,534 per annum
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week (with regular evening and occasional weekend working)
Core Hours: from 10am – 4pm, with some flexibility of starting earlier/finishing later
Benefits: 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays. All necessary PPE will be provided by the company. Laptop, mobile phone, and mileage allowance.
Based: Tipton with regular travel across the West Midlands Region (currently remote working due to Covid-19).

Are you looking to make a difference every day to children and young people? Are you passionate about education and play? Do you want to join a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation and work as part of a friendly project team? Then this could be the role for you!

Groundwork West Midlands are offering flexible working conditions and plenty of on-the-job training and support.

Groundwork West Midlands is a registered charity based in the West Midlands.

What we need from you:

• Ideally you will have a qualification and experience working with Children and Young People, specifically 6-12-year olds (up to 16-year olds with additional needs).
• An understanding of the needs and issues relating to children and young people living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. 
• Experience in planning and leading child-led sessions and resources for delivery.
• Hold a current UK Driving Licence, with access to your own vehicle as the position involves regular evening and occasional weekend work

Desirable:

• Experience in marketing and the use of social media and / video making software for engaging with audiences and promoting the project.

As a Community Project Officer on the Go Play Sandwell project you would be leading on the delivery of outdoor / indoor play activities that are age-appropriate, safe, child-led, creative, and engaging. Responsibilities and Tasks include, but not limited to:

• To deliver high quality, safe and creative after-school, and holiday play sessions.
• To deliver activities to children aged 6-12-year olds (up to 16-year olds with additional needs) in parks, community venues and across the Zoom video platform.
• To plan and develop new play, environmental, arts and crafts sessions and activities for physical and virtual sessions.
• To ensure all sessions offer children a variety of child-led play opportunities including sports, games, creative and imaginative play activities, arts and crafts.
• To ensure all paperwork, (including project monitoring, evaluation, participant data, risk assessment forms, safeguarding and incident/accident report forms) are kept up to date and inputted accurately in a timely manner and to the required standards.

**PLEASE NOTE: CVs will not be accepted without a covering letter stating how your experience/qualifications meet the requirements of this role.

Closing date: Friday 12th March 2021.

Please apply now to avoid disappointment!

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 where you can complete your application for this position. 

An Enhanced DBS check will be carried out for this post.

No agencies please

RFEA are looking for a highly motivated Salesforce Administrator to lead the ongoing development of a Salesforce Non Profit Success Pack (NPSP) deployment across our Veteran's services. This role is part technical, part project manager, part administrator and part Salesforce analyst responsible for executing the day-to-day configuration, support, maintenance and improvement of our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform.

The successful candidate will have a record of success in adopting, maintaining and improving new information technology platforms and processes and will work closely with our Management Team and subject matter experts to identify, develop and deploy our new business processes including: Operations, Compliance, Business Development and Communications.

The Salesforce Administrator is expected to comply with all RFEA Data Protection Procedures, Privacy Framework, Policies including Safeguarding, Health and Safety as well as Operational Procedures Work Instructions.

The position is initially for 12 Months with possible options to extend.

Salary is between £30,000 and £35,000 depending upon experience. The appointment will be based in either Birmingham or London.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary system administrator for the Salesforce environment
• Handle all basic administrative functions including user account maintenance, reports and dashboards, workflows and other routine tasks
• Complete regular internal system audits and prepare for upgrades
• Manage Salesforce integrations
• Ensure all changes are adopted and embedded by clearly communicating and documenting the changes with/ for all relevant users
• Coordinate the evaluation, scope and completion of new development requests
• Work with the Compliance Manager to establish suitable processes to support administrative, development, and change management activities
• Able to deliver end-to-end configuration and change management of the system when improvements are implemented
• Manage delivery of work products by external contractors for large-scale implementations of new functionality
• Assist in training of new users and grow the Salesforce skill set across the charity
• Spearhead all saleforce training across the charity.

Key Skills Required:

• Excellent project management skills and a positive attitude
• Ability to meet deadlines, handle and prioritise simultaneous requests, and manage laterally and upwards
• Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the charity
• Ability to critically evaluate information and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs of the charity
• Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on Salesforce and all upstream and downstream applications, systems and processes

PERSON SPECIFICATION

RFEA Values

• Expert – We are always professional and knowledgeable, delivering the highest quality support.
• Supportive – We are respectful, helpful and empathetic to the needs of others.
• Passionate – We have a genuine belief in out cause and a powerful desire to support our clients.
• Open and honest – We trust each other, are open and candid, and take ownership of our actions.
• Resilient – We are flexible and adaptable to change, encouraging innovation and creativity.
• Collaborative – We thrive on new challenges, and building relationships and partnerships.

Essential Competencies

• Salesforce Admin ADM201 certified.
• Proven ability to design and implement new processes and facilitate user adoption
• Strong understanding of the platform, with the ability to build custom apps and objects, formula fields, workflows, custom views, and other content of intermediate complexity
• Motivated self-starter with ability to work cooperatively within an integrated team dedicated to achieving successful outcomes
• Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices and functionality
• Strong data management abilities
• A documented history of successfully driving projects to completion
• A demonstrated ability to understand and articulate complex requirements

To apply, please submit your CV and a personal statement. It is important that you include evidence of your Salesforce TrailBlazer profile within your application.

The closing date is 1st March 2021. Interviews will take place mid-March with the successful applicant starting In March/April.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake Ministry of Defence security clearance which requires applicants to have been resident in the UK for over 5 years. An Enhanced DBS disclosure will also be required.

Physiotherapist

Our client has a new and exciting opportunity for a confident and enthusiastic Registered Physiotherapist who wishes to enhance their knowledge and skills by supporting patients living with life limiting conditions. They aim to maximise quality of life and a focus on working towards patient centred goals to enable their patients to achieve what matters most to them.

This post requires the candidate to work predominately with patients on their Inpatient Unit, however there will be opportunity to be involved in their Day Hospice service and in the community as services develop.

Physiotherapist Responsibilities:

• To provide an evidence based physiotherapy service that aims to maximise quality of life for patients under the care of the Hospice, contributing to the effective provision of rehabilitation and therapy support.
• To work independently with support from other therapy team members, undertaking holistic assessment and treatment as an autonomous practitioner within the Hospice Multi-Disciplinary Team.
• To assist in the development and evaluation of therapy services provided by the Hospice, based on patient centred need.
• To be a resource and support to other Hospice staff and wider community professionals with regards to specialist palliative physiotherapy.

Physiotherapist Requirements:

• BSc Physiotherapy and current HCPC registration.
• Willingness to undertake Post registration education in palliative/end of life care or equivalent.
• Experience of working with and treatment of a broad range of conditions.
• Competence in respiratory assessment and treatment.
• Evidence of multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.
• Experience of managing own caseload and delegation to other team members.
• Ability to be flexible and responsible.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to complete a holistic range of assessments including use of outcome measures.
• Experience of/willingness to carry out exemplary joint therapeutic working.
• Demonstrable ability to participate in standard setting and audit.
• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidenced based clinical trends and practices.
• Ability to communicate across diverse groups and communities and evidence equality of opportunity in approach.
• Demonstrate an understanding of risk management processes and procedures and how these relate to clinical practice.
• Demonstrate ability to teach staff, patients and relatives across all areas of the organisation.
• Knowledge and ability to use Microsoft office and have good IT skills.
• Responsible car owner, with at least 2 years driving experience.

About our client:

Every day, they care for 400 people living with life-limiting illness across Birmingham and Sandwell. All of their services are free of charge to everyone who uses them, including individuals, their families, loved ones and carers. They offer a range of services in a number of locations – including at the Hospice, in people’s homes or in the local community – making end of life care more accessible for all. Most of their care is provided in people’s homes or in the local community – including at their three Satellite Clinics in Bartley Green, Druids Heath and Cape Hill . This care is delivered by their community and Hospice at Home teams, who work in conjunction with GPs, consultants and other healthcare professionals to offer specialist medical advice and emotional support.

Location: Birmingham

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £23,042 to £29,961 per annum

Ref: 96863

Join our dynamic team and you will be at the heart of delivering first class support to rare disease patients as part of an innovative third-sector Charity/NHS partnership.  Working from home and within NHS specialised multi-disciplinary clinics held in London and Birmingham, the successful candidate will assist our Patient Liaison Officer within our patient support team to provide information, support and advocacy services to those living with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.  This exciting role offers excellent learning and development opportunities for anyone looking to work within health and social care.

This is a permanent, part-time position commencing at 20hrs per week.

The successful candidate will live within commuting distance of London and Birmingham