This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth and health & social care focused person to join our dynamic team and is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace. The successful candidate must be as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.
Countless talented young people across the country are unemployed, under-employed or looking for a better career. Meanwhile, across the health and social care sector there is currently in a workforce crisis with thousands of vacancies across hundreds of different roles.
See some potential to do some brilliant work? Us too! Could you lead our programmes to get 10,000 young people into health and social care careers over the next 3 years?
As an Operations Executive, you will work with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 16-30-year olds into sustained health and social care jobs. Working as part of a team within our Central region you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.
- Delivery of Prince's Trust's Health & Social Care project.
- Accurately record and track young people’s journey and progression using The Prince’s Trust CRM system.
- Supporting young people into positive sustained outcomes including education, training, and employment.
- Ensuring young people who need us the most are recruited and engaged through outreach.
- This role could be based in any Prince’s Trust centres within Central region or as a homeworker this role can involve travel throughout Central England, but we are particularly interested in people with local knowledge of the following areas: Birmingham, Nottingham and Norwich.
- Co-ordinating with partners to deliver employment programmes, including leading skills sessions.
- Ensuring every young person ‘progressed’ has an action plan with an appropriate pathway of support and keeping detailed records of our engagement with them.
- Recruitment and management of trusted partners who refer to and/or deliver our services.
- The recruitment and management of volunteers to support and deliver our services.
Requirements:
To support our delivery requirements across Central England we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who have some of the following qualities:
- Experience of the NHS or Health & Social Care sector in any capacity
- Experience of recruiting people into roles within Health & Social Care
- Experience in caseload management to a varied audience
- Have experience in using customer relationship management systems and reporting data
- Able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience
- Can be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation
- Experience in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums.
- A natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people
- Experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Youth Work or Teaching
- Health & Social Care sector
- Recruitment
- Careers & Employability Sector
- Managing Partner Organisations and Volunteers
- Possesses a strong understanding of the challenges young people from within The Trust’s target groups might face.
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Urban Saints exists to make disciples of Jesus among young people across the UK. We are a network of passionate staff and volunteers who are committed to seeing young people grow through a range of discipleship groups, camps, resources and training – all of which point them towards Jesus.
Urban Saints is seeking a new Chief Mission Officer (CEO) to lead our work across the UK. The appointed candidate will need to demonstrate a passion for Christ-centred mission to young people and build trusted relationships across an organisation with over 1670 volunteers and 35 FTE staff. Reporting to the Chair of the Board, the role will involve full responsibility for all aspects of organisational leadership and ongoing strategic delivery of our mission.
If you think this could be you, please email Jonathan Payne at Carnelian Search with your CV for more details on the role.
We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.
As a senior support worker at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible. You will be a role model to others through demonstrating excellent support to those we support and you will help the registered cluster managers to coach, support and manage staff teams effectively. You will be responsible for nurturing and inspiring those coming to work for Hft to help ensure we have the best staff teams offering great support services. This role also offers great opportunities for career progression to help you develop your knowledge and skills
Salary: Up to £23,059
Hours: Full Time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week (typically equates to 163 per month)
Location: Shefford, Bedfordshire
What we Offer
Apprenticeships - gain a fully funded Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care whilst earning. Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also, an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options. Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status. Annual staff award scheme – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme. 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays). A contributory pension scheme & life assurance. Free DBS check.
You need good IT skills and experience of maintaining records to be a success in this role. You also need to be willing to work towards a Diploma in Health & Social Care Level 3 (or equivalent). But above all, if you have the passion for delivering high quality care and support services to people with learning disabilities and you want to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life – then this is the role for you.
As a senior support worker, flexibility is important for both you and for the service. We provide 24/7 support to some people, so you will need to have flexibility to work shifts on a rota basis, including nights, weekends and Bank Holidays.
A full clean UK/EU driving licence and access to a car is essential for this role.
Closing date: Friday 18th December 2020
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
You may have experience or an interest in the following: Senior Support Worker, Support Worker, Senior Social Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP etc.
We are looking for an Operations Manager to join our East of England management team based in our delivery hub in Luton. We are currently working from home which will feature for the foreseeable period. This is a leadership role managing a small team of Operational delivery colleagues to support caseloads of Young People into Employment, Education, Enterprise or Engagement with us. You will help to deliver our ambitious plans to provide the very best support to young people across the area. Your responsibilities include direct line management of the team of executives who work directly with our young people, partners and volunteer colleagues. This role will have main focus on volunteers and employability/ development awards. The role holder will work closely within the area and regional Management team.
We have the ambition to become the very best organisation within the sector. You will be required to continually innovate, review and adapt our operations to ensure we deliver the very best for young people across the area. You will effectively manage those areas of operations assigned to you and support and develop our executives to do their best work.
You will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders (internal and external) and ensure that our delivery plans are achieved, and the quality and impact is high. There are a range of KPIs relevant to the delivery team which you will be responsible for.
You will be responsible for the accurate planning, phasing and resourcing of our delivery, you will manage budgets and support the effective delivery of funding contracts. You will work alongside fundraising colleagues with the development of bids, reporting and attending meetings and events.
The Trust has a behavioural framework which informs all our work with colleagues, young people and partners. Through the process, the successful candidate will demonstrate their ability to lead by example, communicate effectively, continually improve themselves and others and by working as one team deliver results for the benefit of young people.
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The Citizens Advice Witness Service provides a vital service offering free and independent support for witnesses in every criminal court across England and Wales.
The Witness Service has over 260 staff and 3000 volunteers and offers free, independent, impartial and confidential support and information to 15,000 witnesses each month to give evidence in every criminal court in England and Wales.
Last year, Citizens Advice helped 2.6 million people face-to-face, by phone, email and webchat, and we received 25 million visits to our digital advice content. We solve 7 in 10 clients' problems, and 4 in 5 tell us that advice improved their lives.
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.
Do you have experience of working as or alongside volunteers?
Are you looking to develop your management skills or for a new challenge?
We are looking for someone who is a great motivator who thrives on leading teams to deliver positive outcomes.
The Role
As the Deputy Team Leader (Court Services), working alongside Team Leaders you will be responsible for the delivery of the Witness Service within your court/s.
You will share responsibility for the effective coordination and development of volunteers who support witnesses in their journey through the criminal justice system.
You will be responsible for general service administrative tasks within the courts, as well as inputting service data.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, who can adapt to and manage change. Someone who has administrative skills and is computer literate to a high standard.
We welcome applications from diverse candidates who can demonstrate transferable skills.
This post is subject to enhanced vetting and barring check.
- You will love working with us because:
- We value diversity and equity
- You will be a part of a fantastic team who works collaboratively and inclusively, using cutting edge IT solutions to help us work better together
- You will be making a positive difference in people’s lives
- Your health and wellbeing is important to us, we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, including access to counselling sessions, both online and on the phone support.
- Your future financial health is helped by a generous pension scheme
- You can further your career with training and development tailored to you
- You will have access to an online employee support networks and forums
- Generous annual leave allowance starting at 26 days plus bank holidays with an additional 4 days off at the end of the year
- Opportunity to buy additional annual leave
- Generous maternity pay and shared parental leave
- 3 days paid volunteering each year
- Discount scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Inhouse mentoring scheme
We look for people to help us improve and transform our organisation. We can offer you the opportunity to make a genuine impact and create lasting change within an organisation that makes a difference in the lives of millions of people every year.
Buckinghamshire
40,000 p.a.
Permanent
Harris Hill is working with a medical charity to recruit a Registered Manager to work in partnership with the staff, families, support services, internal and external professionals and regulatory bodies to support people with epilepsy, autism and learning disabilities to live as full and rich a life as possible.
The position will offer leadership, direction and management to a large, diverse staff team that includes registered nurses.
The role will be reporting to the Head of Care Services. The expectation is that the registered manager will ensure a good quality service through effective quality assurance; achieve high standards within the CQC framework; and have a sound understanding of areas affecting outcomes for people.
The registered manager will have a person centred approach supporting adults with complex care needs and will provide clinical support for a team of nurses.
You will have the following skills and experience:
- Professional qualification in nursing that is current.
- Significant experience working at a manager level.
- Knowledge, understanding and experience of the public and/or voluntary sectors.
- Thorough knowledge of current policy in health & social care issues.
- A proven track record of strong leadership and people management ability.
- Skilled at building motivated teams committed to the aims and objectives of the organisation.
Looking for an exciting Trustee role where you can make a real difference?
At Talkback we enable everyone with autism or a learning disability to lead the fulfilling lives that they want and to actively contribute to their local community.
Our organisation began 22 years ago to provide people with a learning disability with a voice that was listened to. Now we are a highly successful organisation that delivers a wide range of projects, diversifying and developing over the years in response to the changing needs of people with a learning disability as well as the requirements of local and national government and legislation. We work primarily across Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Reading.
Talkback has adapted and survived through difficult financial times and through the current pandemic, ensuring that the people we work with continue to be supported using new and innovative ways to offer services.
We are now looking for new trustees from a business and a social care background with skills in risk management, marketing and/or technology. Board meetings are held 4 times per year with an additional session to review our strategy. Most Board members will also be members of one of our sub-committees and all Board members are invited to attend activities like our drama productions or sports sessions. You will be offered a full Induction into the organisation and appropriate training.
If you are interested in this voluntary role, please contact Monica Vicol by following the 'Apply here' button.
Closing date: Wednesday 9th December
Interviews to be arranged at a mutually convenient time
Safeguarding Statements
‘Talkback is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults with care and support needs and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.’
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check (DBS) and references. Successful applicants will also have to complete a Fit and Proper Person’s Declaration.
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An exciting opportunity for an experienced housing solicitor to join Central and East Northamptonshire Citizens Advice (CENCA), delivering housing advice, advocacy and court representation.
Housing Law Supervisor
£29,500 - £32,000 (negotiable)
Full time, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Fixed term contract to 30th September 2021 (with possibility of extension)
Responsible to Head of Service
Northampton
About the role
As Housing Law Supervisor, you will be responsible interviewing clients using sensitive listening in order to get to the root of the issues. This is a key role, in which you will be expected to empower clients and provide high quality advice, whilst maintaining the structure of meetings and delivering great customer service.
About you
We are seeking an individual with a strong passion for housing law and who shares our core values. As the ideal candidate, you will have:
- 3 year post qualified solicitor certificate
- Met the Legal Aid Agency Supervisor Standard
- Ability to use IT systems and packages, with knowledge of AdvicePro and resources in the provision of advice, record keeping and document production
- Knowledge of the benefits systems including Legal Aid Agency income thresholds
About us
CENCA has a vision for a fair society for all, with lives well lived. A key aspect of this is for people to be able to improve their lives because they know and understand their rights and responsibilities. We deliver Citizens Advice services to over 8,000 people a year in Northants, via 10 projects and services and we are on target to deliver £6million of income gains for our clients in 2020/2021.
At CENCA, we expect our staff to stand up for equalities, communicate for impact and strive to make a personal difference.
Benefits
- 25 day’s annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 5% Employers Contributory Pension Scheme
- Enhanced sickness benefit after one-years’ service
- Flexible working hours to the requirement of the role
- Comprehensive training and Ongoing Development
- Free parking for agreed roles
How to apply
If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to find out more, please visit our website via the Apply button, where you can download a job and application pack.
Please note, CVs will not be accepted.
To arrange an informal telephone discussion about the role, please contact: Carole Cooper - PA to Chief Officer
Closing date: Monday 9th November 2020
Shortlisting: Weds 11th November 2020
Online interviews are expected to take place week commencing Monday 16th November 2020.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join a forward-thinking charity and help achieve our exciting growth ambitions. We are looking for someone who lives, breathes, and sleeps data analysis along with strong experience of delivering reports, analysis and insight that drives change within a digital marketing function.
Brain Tumour Research is an influential, game changing, intelligent and focused charity embracing its fantastic supporter base across the South East of England, where this role is based. Brain Tumour Research is determined to continue its growth trajectory in the UK. We are passionate about finding a cure for brain tumours through the establishment of dedicated Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence around the UK
Digital Marketing Analyst
Location: Head Office in Milton Keynes (or remote working in line with government guidelines)
Salary: C. £32k
Full Time – Permanent
Reporting to the Head of Digital Marketing, you will be responsible for:
- Managing, developing and enhancing KPIs and reporting on all digital marketing goals using Google Analytics, CRM data and other tools where applicable
- Tracking, monitoring and analysing specific data sets that support the digital marketing function.
- Making recommendations and identifying opportunities across all digital marketing activities including audiences, targeting, messaging, channels, content and journey.
- Driving efficiencies in reporting to ensure time is used effectively to focus on analysis and insight that deliver gains in performance.
- Conducting regular competitor and sector analysis to help inform our strategy and tactics
- Managing the tracking capture strategy ensuring tracking is comprehensive and accurate
- Determining the most effective digital infrastructure to maximise analysis, insights, and performance.
Closing date: 6th December 2020
Please click the apply button and send your CV with a covering letter, demonstrating why you are a suitable candidate, how you could add value to our organisation and detailing your current salary.
Early applications are encouraged and interviews will commence before the closing date if and when suitable candidates are identified.
No agencies, please.