Creative Support is a high quality provider of support to individuals with a wide range of care needs including learning disabilities, mental health and other needs. Employing over 5,000 staff members, we are continuing to grow at a fast pace nationally and are looking for dedicated, caring individuals to join our staff team in your local area.

We are looking for warm, flexible and experienced practitioners to provide person centred care and support in our Accrington Extra Care Service, which enables older people to enjoy an active and independent lifestyle. Your role will include:

• Providing respectful personal care, practical and emotional support to older people

• Maximising outcomes for clients by maintaining their independence and encouraging them to lead an active, fulfilling lifestyle

• Collaborating with clients, their families and involved professionals to ensure a coordinated and consistent service

Experience is essential for this role. You must have a warm, caring and respectful personality to succeed in this role.

It is expected that you will work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

This unique and challenging opportunity will provide you with an environment that encourages personal and professional development. We will provide you with on-going training to best meet the needs of the service users.

Creative Support is a high quality provider of support to individuals with a wide range of care needs including older people, individuals with a learning disability and other needs. Employing over 5,200 staff members, we are continuing to grow at a fast pace nationally and are looking for dedicated, caring individuals to join our staff team in your local area.

We are looking for warm, flexible and motivated individuals to provide person centered care and support in our Droylsden Extra Care Service, which enables older people to enjoy an active and independent lifestyle. Your role will include:

• Providing respectful personal care, practical and emotional support to older people

• Maximising outcomes for clients by maintaining their independence and encouraging them to lead an active, fulfilling lifestyle

• Collaborating with clients, their families and involved professionals to ensure a coordinated and consistent service

Experience is essential for this role.

Do you have the commitment, compassion and person-centred values to be able to make a real difference to the lives of older people with care and support needs? We have an exciting new role for a positive and professional individual who enjoys supervising and coaching staff alongside providing great care.

We are seeking an experienced care worker for the role of Team Leader with a strong work ethic who can share our vision of providing a person-centred, strengths-based service which promotes wellbeing, independence and community connections. You will lead the provision of care for a defined group of service users and staff working in our busy, locality-based home care service in the Droylsden area of Tameside, close to Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne.

You will ensure that the care and support delivered is truly personalised and provided in accordance with agreed care plans, enabling the achievement of planned outcomes.  In addition to providing direct care you will be responsible for:

• Quality visits to service user homes to assess their satisfaction and the quality of service provision
• Medication compliance checks
• Audits of care records in the home and office
• Direct observations of staff practice
• Staff supervision and appraisals
• Induction and coaching of staff
• Taking part in service user reviews
• Following up any concerns and reinforcing good practice

• Promoting excellent customer care to your service users, their families and other  stakeholders
• Ensuring that we provide reliable, consistent, high quality care which meets internal, commissioner and CQC quality standards

You must have prior experience of managing or coordinating care and support services for older people, gained in a home care or residential environment. You will be able to lead from the front and delegate effectively as well as working collaboratively with colleagues and contributing to a positive team atmosphere.

You will be a warm and kind person with the ability to build trusting, professional relationships with service users, their families, staff and partner agencies. You will be a role model for the people you supervise and be able to gain the respect of colleagues. You will support our commitment to creating an open, reflective and accountable culture which is underpinned by ethical practice, dignity and rights.

You will demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills. You must be reliable, well-organised and able to plan your own work as well as taking direction from the Registered Manager. As you will be providing direct care and support, including personal care, you must enjoy good health and be able to safely undertake moving and handling.  You will have an understanding of the principles of person-centred care and possess a relevant qualification (such as an NVQ or Health & Social Care Diploma).

As this position involves travel across the locality you must be a car owner/driver You will be expected to work flexibly according to the needs of the service and this will include evening and weekend working, including participating in an out of hours on-call rota, for which additional payments are made.

Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation which provides high quality, person-centred support to older people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism and people with physical disabilities and mental health needs. The support we offer is tailored to the individual and promotes their independence and community engagement. We are an Investor in People  employer of a diverse team of over 5,000 well supported staff across England. You will be joining a progressive charitable organisation, strongly committed to investing in your personal development through practice-based and accredited training.

Project Worker

Fixed term contract until 31st March 21

30 hours per week

£23388 per annum / pro rata (Actual £18963)

Location Wythenshawe/Oldham with travel across Greater Manchester

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our children and families directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. Your role will be to help us maintain and develop innovative practice to support our work in our services around the country.

We are currently looking for an experienced worker to join our dynamic, ambitious team.

A key part of this role will be your ability to engage with young people across 2 different services, one with young people who have been reported missing and secondly with young people who have experienced domestic violence.

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In order to be successful in this role, you must have:

- Experience of working directly with vulnerable children particularly who are missing and in care of local authorities

- Significant experience as a counselling practitioner or working directly and therapeutically with children and young people.

- A relevant professional qualification

- Accurate IT skills and case recording

-Knowledge of safeguarding and Child Protection

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The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is 29th July

Advocate

Following the recent award of a new contract VoiceAbility is recruiting for a part time advocate to join our Oldham team. VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantage or discrimination to have a voice that counts. Providing advocacy and user involvement services across England, VoiceAbility is a growing organisation working with people who are vulnerable or marginalised to raise their voices and have their rights respected.

About the role:

Advocates support people who may be marginalised or vulnerable to speak up and be heard. Their work strengthens voices, supports human rights and changes lives. Advocacy can be vital for people who cannot speak up for themselves, or people who feel they do not have the power to do so. Advocates work in the front line delivering positive outcomes for the people they support. Advocates will support and enable service users’ understanding of their options. Advocates empower individuals to communicate their views in decision making processes, supporting them to make challenges when necessary and asking pertinent questions on the person’s behalf where they are unable to do so for themselves.

Location: These roles will be home based. You will need to be able to travel around Oldham

Hours: 18.75 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays; 5% employer pension & 3% employee contribution; Salary sacrifice pension scheme; Separate Life Assurance Cover; Staff discount scheme including supermarkets, fashion, restaurants, cinemas, holidays and much more; Discounted Gym Membership; Cycle to Work; Employee Assistance programme; Supportive working environment fostering a good work/life balance; Support with professional development.

Closing date for applications: 5.00pm Friday 14th August

Interviews:  Date to be confirmed. Interviews will either be held online or at a safe social distance to be advised

About you:

• Be passionate about empowering and enabling individuals to have their wishes, feelings, beliefs, and needs taken into account when decisions are made about their care

• Demonstrate excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills

• Have the ability to engage with people with complex needs and communication difficulties

• Be experienced in influencing and working with health and social care professionals, legal services, care staff, family members etc.

• Be able to build good relationships with clients, health and social care professionals, legal professionals and carers

• Be able to identify and act appropriately where issues of safeguarding individuals arise

• Have strong IT skills to accurately record information in line with policy and current data standards

• Be experienced in working with marginalised and vulnerable adults and/or children

• Be able to research complex and sensitive issues independently, using case law, national policy and guidance for advocates to work for resolution of issues

• Be able to work to tight and changing deadlines

• Be able to work independently

• Hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have access to own transport. There is travel involved in the role.

Desirable skills or experience:

• Hold or be working towards Independent Advocacy Qualification.

• Knowledge and experience of the, Care Act (2014) and Mental Capacity Act (2007),The Principles of Human Rights and Advocacy, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Mental Health Act (1983, revised 2007).

NB If you don't already hold the Independent Advocacy Qualification, it is a requirement of that you complete this within 12 months of commencing employment.

You may have experience of the following: Advocate, Vulnerable Adults, Social Worker, Healthcare, Policy, Legislation, Support Worker, Charity, Third Sector etc. Advice & Guidance

How to Apply: To apply for this role, please complete the online application form using the criteria in the person specification and upload your CV detailing your work history. NB CV's will not be used to short list.