HR Business Partner
Location: 55 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BN (may involve some travelling around South West)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £40,000.00 per annum + benefits
Closing Date: Monday 10 August '20 (12 noon).
Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of marginalised people?
Julian House is a Bath-based charity supporting people who are homeless and socially excluded to build sustainable independent lives.
We have been through an exciting period of growth to deliver our strategy and are well placed to continue to develop, with ambitions to support more people across the South West, at a time when there is increasing demand for our services.
We are looking for a dynamic, CIPD qualified, HR Business Partner with proven change management and employee relations experience who can successfully partner the business to improve organisation performance.
You will provide excellent strategic HR advice and guidance on the full range of people issues including recruitment and on-boarding, learning and development, employee engagement, compensation and benefits, talent management, disciplinary, grievance and capability issues and HR information systems.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will work as part of the wider senior management team, leading on the development and implementation of our People Strategy, and projects within this including reward, retention, policies, diversity and staff well-being.
Confident and credible, you’ll need to be comfortable working at pace, often on multiple projects at the same time. With excellent communication skills, acting as a coach to all levels of management, you will play a key role in embedding best practice in people management and shaping the culture of the organisation. Excellent problem solving and influencing skills are also key requirements for this role.
You’ll be responsible for managing and developing a small team comprised of an HR Assistant, Volunteer Coordinator and Head Office Receptionist.
Above all, you will share our passion for making a difference to the lives of the most marginalised.
Upon the end of the pandemic restriction period, the successful candidate will be based at our Head Office in Bath and occasionally required to travel to other offices and services.
We are committed to equality of opportunity in service provision and employment. We are also committed to developing an organisation that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve and welcome applications from all sections of the community and candidates with lived experience. We are proud to be a Disability Confident and Mindful employer.
This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. We are happy to consider reduced hours for the right candidate.
The salary for this role is £40,000 pa.
As an employee, you will receive an excellent benefits package which includes:
- Cash health care plan
- Up to 27 days annual leave (depending on length of service)
- Employer pension contribution (up to 6% of your gross salary)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff Award Scheme
- 20% Discount at Julian House Shops and Bike Workshops
Closing date:
The closing date for this post is Monday 10 August ’20 (12 noon).
Please note: interviews will be taking place on Monday 17 August '20.
To Apply:
To apply for this role all you need is an up to date CV with a cover letter to include why are you a great fit for this role. Please reference the person specification and draw on your track record and transferable skills, giving clear examples. If possible please upload your CV and supporting statement as one document. Please upload your CV & Cover Letter via our Julian House jobs page on our website.
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The opportunity
You have an opportunity to join one of the UK’s most innovative and dynamic Community Foundations, working closely with the Operations Director and Finance Administrator to manage the finance systems.
You will play a very important role in our small team, helping the whole charity to work efficiently and effectively, ensuring we always maximise our impact in local communities.
About Somerset Community Foundation
Somerset Community Foundation is a charity which provides vital funding and support to around 300 small, local charities and individuals every year. Since 2002, we’ve awarded almost £10m of funding, thanks to the support of our generous donors.
Somerset is a wonderful county in which to grow up, live and work. But lots of local people face considerable challenges in their lives, whether through disability, poor health, poverty or disadvantage. Our funding plays a vital role in helping to reduce this disadvantage, creating stronger communities and changing thousands of lives across the county every year.
Our main office is based in the beautiful rural location of The Bath and West Showground, with the conveniences of Shepton Mallet not too far away. We offer flexible working hours and a homeworking policy to support our staff in maintaining a healthy work/home life balance. Somerset Community Foundation is an equal-opportunities and living wage employer.
The role
You will bring energy and enthusiasm to the team, ensuring financial functions are carried out efficiently, effectively, accurately and in a timely way to enable the Foundation to focus on achieving its charitable mission.
The focus of the role will be on managing and improving financial processes, ensuring that the Senior Leadership Team have up-to-date and accurate records for reporting to the Board, supporting the grants team with accurate fund reports and preparing the accounts for audit each year. You will work closely with the whole team of staff and volunteers, but you will work most closely with the Finance Administrator and will be line managed by the Operations Director.
You will be provided with training on the Foundation’s IT and finance systems. In addition, to help you understand the value of the Foundation, you may occasionally visit projects we have funded.
The successful applicant will always be expected to observe the Foundation’s values and policies and to actively engage with continuous professional development.
Person Specification
Skills, Knowledge and Experience (essential unless otherwise noted):
- Ideally at least five years’ experience in a similar role
- Minimum of AAT Level 4, preferably ACA/ACCA or equivalent
- Experience of accounting software, especially Sage
- Experience of working with databases and Microsoft Office, including Office 365 (desirable)
- Knowledge of charity finance
Personal qualities and attributes:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to work under own initiative but also able to request support when necessary
- Confident managing a busy and varied workload and able to prioritise effectively
- Good problem-solving competencies
- Understanding of the role of local charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises, and the people they help
*Please note that our office is in a rural location and that access to a car and a clean UK driving licence are required.
Key Areas of Responsibility (including but not limited to):
- Ensure donations are properly recorded on our CRM and in Sage
- Monitor & check that supplier invoices and employee expenses are allocated to correct funds
- Reconcile bank accounts monthly
- Preparing monthly management reports, noting significant variances with forecasts
- Monitor outstanding debtors, and with line manager approval, chase overdue debtors
- Monitor and report on cash flow
- Oversee the BACS payments process bi-monthly and as needed
- Monitor monthly loan repayments in support of managing our investment portfolio
- Prepare fund balances as and when required by the programmes team to support grant-making and reporting to funder holders
- Prepare the monthly investment management report
- Work with members of the Senior Leadership Team to create Board reports, and attend meetings as requested
- Prepare statutory accounts, working with the Operations Director and CEO to ensure income and costs are allocated accurately across SORP categories
- Support the Senior Leadership Team in the preparation of the annual budget and cash flow forecast
- Attend SCF events as requested, including very occassional evenings
- Any other reasonable duties as requested
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Royal Osteoporosis Society have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Marketing and Communications to join their team based in Camerton, Bath.
Job Title: Head of Marketing and Communications
Location: Camerton, Bath
Salary: Up to £49,282 per annum
As a member of the Royal Osteoporosis Society team, your role exists to work with colleagues to ensure better bone health for everybody and help people to live well with osteoporosis.
Our mission is to improve the bone health of the nation and prevent osteoporosis by influencing healthcare providers and professionals; supporting services to help our beneficiaries; and drive research. We do this through living our charity values and we all work together to realise a future without osteoporosis.
The way we deliver our vision and mission is important. In this role, the decisions you make and the way you behave to deliver our mission, should reflect our organisational values. We have three guiding values; caring, influential and innovative.
Head of Marketing and Communications - The Role:
As Head of Marketing and Communications, you will lead on the digital marketing and communications strategy, management and creative leadership of the ROS brand, and development of information products and services.
With a current and proven working knowledge of digital content and development, a key part of the role will be in delivering the digital strategy, encompassing our successful digital channels which reach our various audiences.
As a member of the Leadership Team, you will report directly into the CEO, taking responsibility for the delivery of activity on time and within budget.
Head of Marketing and Communications - You:
Essential
- “Can do”; solutions-focused; keen to measure and prove impact
- Strong affinity with and commitment to our purpose
- Experience of leading multi-function teams through change, and supporting behaviour and cultural change
- Experienced line manager
- Highly organised with strong project management skills, and a creative and entrepreneurial ability to identify and develop new marketing and communications opportunities and partnerships
- Experience of influencing people at all levels with strong facilitation and negotiation skills to problem solve and agree consensus
- Strategic thinker with the ability to adapt and drive innovation in an operational environment, leading on planning and co-ordination
- Strong understanding of where / how to collate data, good level of analysis and ability to use insight to inform decisions
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal for a variety of audiences
- Demonstrable experience of planning, implementing and evaluating successful marketing and communications campaigns
- Strong digital strategy and implementation skills
- Strong media relations skills, experience of working with specialist and national news media
- Sensitivity to political audiences and other key stakeholders such as members of the Royal Family
- A pragmatist with a natural ability to problem-solve, be flexible, diplomatic and assertive with good negotiating and prioritisation skills
- Ability to set measurable objectives, evaluate and continuously improve activity
- Proven ability to manage budgets on time and to task
- Understanding of data protection regulations and GDPR 2018 requirements
Desirable
- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics 365
- An understanding of the health sector in the UK
The closing date is Monday 24th August 2020 and interviews will take place the week commencing 31st August 2020.
Please note, we do not accept CV’s, please click ‘Apply’ now to be redirected to our website where you can submit your application for this exciting Head of Marketing and Communications opportunity.
We are looking for a dynamic individual to lead and deliver our virtual stroke group offer over the next six months. This is a part time 14hrs a week post.
Bristol After Stroke run several peer support groups for people affected by Stroke. The groups offer opportunities for people to meet others in a similar situation to themselves, to build confidence, independence, reduce isolation and improve wellbeing. Bristol After Stroke’s mission is to support stroke affected people adapt to life after stroke, and our groups are a key part in meeting this aim. Please see our website for more information.
Due to corona virus BAS is unable to deliver our normal offer and for the next six months expects to be running only virtual groups. Currently the organisation offers;
• One telephone weekly group
• One weekly zoom group for younger people
• One bi-weekly conversation group for people with Aphasia
• Two monthly stroke cafés
Our current group organiser is leaving us at the end of September and we want someone to help us with our virtual offer until we will be able to return to running face to face groups. This post is therefore a six month contract however we may be looking to recruit to a permanent position once we understand what our face to face and virtual offer will look like in 2021.
The post will be supporting all the virtual groups except the monthly cafés and it is the ambition to potentially increase our virtual group offer over the course of the six month contract.
Job Summary
• Organise and facilitate three virtual support groups,
• Work imaginatively and creatively in leading activities that promote wellbeing, confidence and independence
• Lead good practice in our group work.
• Ensure all sessions are delivered safely and meet health and safety standards
• Keep up to date records of members, volunteers and group finances
• Co-ordinate the work of the group volunteers.
• Work with the Stroke Co-ordinators to enhance the health and welfare of all group members
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