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We are recruiting an Area Manager who will be forward-thinking and values-driven and will lead the strategic development and delivery of PAPYRUS’ Community Services across England South and East.
What you will do:
- Effective leadership of PAPYRUS strategy in your Area
- Ensure that PAPYRUS is represented in your Area at appropriate local and regional Suicide Prevention groups and bodies
- Manage Service Delivery in your area
- Ensure data is collected and recorded properly to enable impact demonstration and business development
- Develop and deliver a strategic plan for Community Services in your Area
- Build and sustain good relationships with commissioning bodies in respect of your Area
- Drive the effective performance of the Area by providing leadership which sets high expectations for staff, addresses development needs and tackles any poor performance effectively.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent professional qualification in Leadership, Management, Health, Social Care, Social Sciences, Education, Business Development, Community Work, or Public Health
- Proven experience of building, managing and enabling a successful team, supporting their development, and managing their performance.
- Experience of identifying new approaches to underpin strategy and progressing new opportunities and translating these into sustainable, funded projects in the community
- Previous experience of preparing a budget, securing funding for projects/ programmes and having financial accountability for successful implementation
- Foster and cultivate opportunities for funded work on a sustainable footing
- Awareness of the issues around safeguarding and how these can affect young people and adults at risk.
- Ability to consider equality, diversity and inclusivity in all your decisions and actions
Please visit the careers site for the full job description and person specification for the role.
Salary: £48,226 per annum (SCP 37) progressing by increments to £52,413 per annum (SCP 41)
Hours: 36 hours per week
Location: Home based in South and East England
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: You will receive 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time workers), hybrid and flexible working arrangements, an attractive pension scheme, Simply Health membership, enhanced sick pay and enhanced parental pay. Please visit our website for more details.
Closing date: 7th December 2025
We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier if we receive sufficient applications so, please submit your application as soon as possible.
PAPYRUS is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its recruitment policies are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
PAPYRUS is committed to safeguarding all children, young people and adults at risk that interact with the organisation. The organisation recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The charity expects all staff and volunteers to fully support and promote these commitments.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
FACILITIES MANAGER
Closing Date: 28 November 2025
Interviews: 5 December 2025
Location: Erdington or Selly Park Hospice *
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 per annum
DBS Requirement: Standard
Are you a seasoned Facilities Manager ready for your next challenge? Do you want to work for an organisation where your expertise directly enhances patient care and supports families during life’s most difficult moments?
At Birmingham Hospice, we are passionate about improving the quality of life for people living with life-limiting conditions. Our dedicated teams provide exceptional care and support across two welcoming sites in Erdington and Selly Park – and we need an outstanding Facilities Manager to help us deliver this mission.
About the Role
As our Facilities Manager, you’ll lead a unified facilities and housekeeping service, ensuring our environments are safe, efficient, and truly patient-focused. Reporting to the Finance Director, you will:
· Oversee day-to-day operations for facilities, maintenance, and housekeeping. * You will oversee one Hospice site in Birmingham (Erdington or Selly Park) and oversee or provide cover at the other hospice on occasions where needed.
· Ensure compliance with estates, facilities, and health & safety legislation.
· Drive continuous improvement so our spaces remain fit for purpose and enhance patient experience.
· Provide assurance to the Board on compliance and operational excellence.
What you will bring:
We’re looking for someone who is not just experienced but is proactive and adaptable. You will bring:
· IOSH qualification and demonstrable knowledge of Health & Safety and current legislation
· Strong organisational, people management and project management skills.
· Excellent communication, IT proficiency and experience in managing budgets.
· The ability to work flexibly and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
· A commitment to high standards and a passion for making a difference.
Why Birmingham Hospice?
· Be part of a supportive, inclusive values-driven, charity where your ideas are valued
· Enjoy a generous benefit package
· You will receive comprehensive training and the opportunity to develop your career in Facilities Management
· Make a real difference in people’s lives
To find out more about this exciting opportunity and to apply please visit the jobs portal on our website.
A UK driver’s licence, business insurance cover, and access to a car for work purposes is essential to this role.
The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim. We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters.
We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.
We believe that anyone with a terminal diagnosis deserves to live well and make the very most of the time that remains.


The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About us
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF) is a UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’re here for everyone who needs us. We protect children by working with people who pose a risk and diverting them from causing harm. We support individuals and families who have been affected by abuse. And we help professionals who work with families to create safer environments for children through delivering risk assessments, interventions, training and consultancy. We run the confidential Stop It Now helpline and Shore, a website and chat service for teenagers.
About the role and you
We are recruiting for a skilled and experienced manager to join the Helpline team. You will support the Head of Stop It Now, working alongside our Helpline Managers and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Manager in the day to day running of the helpline and provide support and advice to Helpline Advisors. You will have direct client contact via telephone, a secure message service and online chat. You will also support with the training of staff and promotion of the work of the helpline.
This is a highly rewarding role within a friendly, supportive and hardworking team which is committed to keeping children safe from harm.
You will have experience in working directly with one or more of our key target groups: - for example adults and/or children and young people who have sexually harmful behaviours, or child victims of sexual abuse, or family members of these individuals. Our ideal candidate will be an energetic professional, who is proactive and outcome focused with exceptional communication and relationship skills. You will be able to evidence a successful track record of working with individuals and families impacted by child sexual abuse. You will be able to demonstrate confidence in translating the charity’s mission into direct child protection practice and equipping other professionals in tackling child sexual abuse.
Key attributes we are seeking include:
- A confident manager with good staff supervision and support skills, and an enthusiasm for supporting colleagues to work within organisational guidelines as well as to develop new skills
- An ability to provide confidential advice to callers through the Stop It Now helpline, including abusers/potential abusers; friends and family of abusers/potential abusers; parents worried about the sexual interests and behaviour of their children
- A team player working with colleagues to prevent child sexual abuse
- Confidence and good ability in the use of modern technologies for effective discharge of many day to day tasks
- Maintaining effective records in line with charity policy and practice
- A flexible approach with an ability to network with internal and external colleagues to ensure deadlines are met and quality work is delivered
- Skills in delivering training to groups of professionals
For a more detailed job description, please request a job pack.
What you’ll get from us
We offer the following benefits:
- Hybrid working (with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week; we ask for 3 days in the office per week for the first month)
- NEST pension
- 33 days’ annual leave rising to 38 days (inclusive of statutory bank holidays following qualifying period)
- Up to 5 days’ learning and development per year
- Flu jabs & eye tests
- Season ticket loans
- Charity discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Option of private healthcare with Benenden
How to apply
We really welcome informal conversations with prospective candidates about the role and the charity in advance of the deadline.
To apply, please download the job pack and return your completed documents by Tuesday 25th November. In person interviews are scheduled to take place on Wednesday 10th December for shortlisted candidates.
If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful with your application. Please note the successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS check for this position.
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To prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is a fundamental role within our South East regional team, internally the role is known as Local Community Officer.
The future of CCT’s outstanding collection of historic churches depends on communities supporting their local CCT church with funds, events, inspiring interpretation, visitor services and preventive conservation. The Local Community Officer will engage and support communities and volunteers to care for 26 historic churches across Northamptonshire, West Norfolk, and parts of North Bedfordshire and Western Cambridgeshire, including areas around Northampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, and King’s Lynn.
We have recently published our TRUST values, which outline the behaviours and expectations that act as our foundations at CCT. We have attached the pack, outlining each value, which we will also be using as part of our shortlisting and interview process to find the right candidates that align with our values.
If you would like to apply for this role, please visit our recruitment portal to begin your application. You will be asked to submit a CV and a short supporting statement (max 2 sides A4) outlining why you’d like to apply and how you fulfil the person specification for this post, so you’ll need to refer to the job description.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 8am on Monday 24th November 2025.
The interviews will take place in Northampton on Wednesday 10th December 2025. Please note that the interview date and location have been specifically chosen according to the availability of the panel.
Please note: As part of our recruitment process, we undertake candidate psychometric testing, you will receive an email following your application submission asking you to complete a series of activities.
All successful applicants will be subject to a basic DBS, references and right to work checks.
We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We are not a licensed sponsor at this time. Any offer of employment will be made subject to valid right to work in the UK being provided.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
