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Are you passionate about the difference that chaplaincy can make to schools? Do you want to help reimagine chaplaincy for the modern age? Do you want to work with an amazing team who are doing life-changing work with children, young people and staff? And how about we throw in a fully-funded MA in Chaplaincy with Children and Young People with CYM? Well, look no further!

Check out this exciting post and the amazing work we do by visiting our website (blue button above) to find out more!

The Bridge Youth Project has been serving children and young people across Salisbury and wider Wiltshire since 1994 and we currently work across 25 primary and secondary schools. We are at an exciting stage in our development with a fresh vision to pioneer an innovative brand of chaplaincy across the schools and from September 2022, our Chaplaincy pilot will grow from 8 schools to 12 across Wiltshire. This exciting role of Chaplaincy Lead is absolutely crucial in helping us to imagine, shape and embed this pilot between now and the summer of 2024 and beyond.

Key aspects of this role will include:

• Working closely with senior management to establish a coherent, exciting and distinctive vision for chaplaincy and to embed this across the schools.

• Line management of the existing team of secondary school Chaplains, ensuring high-quality and impactful ministry in the schools.

• Working as a Bridge Chaplain 3-days a week across two schools; one primary and one secondary.

• Reviewing and developing our impact measurement and monitoring, ensuring that it is effective and captures the difference we’re making in the pilot.

• Co-leading our Chaplaincy learning group with the Deputy-Director, consisting of 7-8 members of staff, through theological reflection, mutual professional development and role-modelling effective practice.

• Working closely with the Bridge senior management to monitor progress and, if successful, develop this pilot further afield and across our network of schools.

NB: We anticipate and are confident that this pilot will demonstrate the effectiveness of the Bridge chaplaincy model in primary schools. Please note, however, that this is a pilot and the role might revert to being chaplaincy focused in secondary schools only by September 2024 (the end of the pilot).

Salary: £23,500-25,500 FTE (£20,023- £21,727 actual)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week- Term time only/permanent

Location: Our office/schools in Salisbury/some flexible home-working

Pension: 7.5% employer contributions

Additional benefits: Fully funded MA in Chaplaincy with Children and Young People with CYM and paid block study placements - 6 additional study days per annum for the duration of the MA - 3 retreat days every year - Ongoing reflective practice/supervisions with trained counsellor - Electric car salary sacrifice scheme/employee retail discount programme

Closing date: 15th July at midday. Interviews w/c 18th July

Start date: 1st September 2022 

How to Apply: Please send us a cover letter totalling no more than 2 sides, telling us how you meet the person spec and what makes you want to go for the role. Please also enclose your CV and send both to our email address listed on the job pack on our website by 13th July at midday. We would love to have an informal chat with you if that would help, so please do not hesitate to contact us and we can arrange something!

Please note: We take safeguarding very seriously at all stages and we are a safer recruitment employer. Recruitment will be subject to a full, enhanced DBS check and references will be taken. It is a genuine occupational requirement that the post-holder be a committed, practising Christian. 

Come and join our amazing team and make the biggest difference to young people and staff across two Salisbury-based secondary schools! We'll throw in a fully funded Certificate in Chaplaincy with Children and Young People as well as ongoing professional development and so much more...

Check out this exciting post and the amazing work we do by visiting our website (blue button above) to find out more!

The Bridge Youth Project has been serving children and young people across Salisbury and wider Wiltshire since 1994 and we currently work across 25 primary and secondary schools. We are at an exciting stage in our development with a fresh vision to pioneer an innovative brand of chaplaincy across the schools and from September 2022, our Chaplaincy pilot will grow from 8 schools to 12 across Wiltshire. The role of Bridge Chaplain is key in helping us to live out our emerging vision for chaplaincy across 2 local secondary schools in Salisbury, making the biggest difference to the lives of young people, staff and their community.

Key aspects of this role will include:

• Developing excellent relationships with staff and students at two secondary schools in Salisbury.

• Acting as an interruptible and incarnational presence in the heart of each school.

• Delivering targeted support through 1:1 sessions, early intervention and emotional literacy programmes, where appropriate.

• Championing spiritual development in the schools, through inspiring collective worships, prayer spaces and courses etc.

• Linking the schools with their local church(es) and community and possessing a keen eye to pin-point potential opportunities.

• Enabling staff in the development of their own Christian understanding and religious literacy.

• Joining in with our new Chaplaincy learning group, consisting of 7-8 members of staff, through theological reflection and mutual professional development.

• Collating ongoing monitoring and evaluation to demonstrate impact and effectiveness.

Salary: £21,000-22,500 FTE (£17,118- £18,340 actual)

Hours: 35 hours per week (would consider two part-time/job share roles)

Duration: Term time only/3-year term initially.

Location: Two Salisbury-based secondary schools/our office.

Pension: 7.5% employer contributions

Additional benefits: Fully funded Certificate in Chaplaincy with Children & Young People (CYM) - Ongoing professional development through our partnership with CYM - 3 paid retreat days every year - Ongoing reflective practice/supervisions with trained counsellor - Electric car salary sacrifice scheme/employee retail discount programme

Closing date: 13th July at midday. Interviews w/c 18th July

Start date: 1st September 2022

How to Apply: Please send us a cover letter totalling no more than 2 sides, telling us how you meet the person spec and what makes you want to go for the role. Please also enclose your CV and send both to our email address listed on the job pack on our website by 15th July at midday. We would love to have an informal chat with you if that would help, so please do not hesitate to contact us and we can arrange something!

Please note: We take safeguarding very seriously at all stages and we are a safer recruitment employer. Recruitment will be subject to a full, enhanced DBS check and references will be taken. It is a genuine occupational requirement that the post-holder be a committed, practising Christian. 

Job Title: Training Coordinator

Salary: £24,649 pro rata, subject to qualifications and experience. 

Benefits include a generous annual leave allowance that increases in line with service. If required, OY provides fair company sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave and compassionate leave. In addition, all staff are offered a pension scheme and life insurance policy. OY offers an ‘Employment Assistance Program’ to support staff mental health and well-being by providing practical support for issues at work and home.

Location: Based in Headington, Oxford (Some home working is possible. Travel throughout Oxfordshire and further afield may be required.)

Hours of work: 26 hours per week

Oxfordshire Youth

Oxfordshire Youth is a boundary-breaking organisation, passionate about creating a future for and with young people that offers them the best possible opportunity to realise their potential. Our staff are redefining the youth sector in Oxfordshire and we envisage a world in which young people have the tools they need to approach life with creativity, resilience and brilliant mental health.

OY culture revolves around our core values of being:

Trustworthy, inclusive, innovative, ambitious, reflective and self-nurturing.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity

OY warmly welcomes applications from the global majority, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so we want to hear from you even if your CV isn’t a 100% match with a job description. We nurture our community, creating an open, inclusive and diverse organisation where all team members feel a sense of belonging.

Job purpose

To lead on the Mental Health training contracts managed by Oxfordshire Youth, being the first point of contact for mental health training and providing administration to effectively meet the training targets.

We are looking for someone who has excellent communication, organisational and IT skills. You will have exceptional attention to detail and be accurate and meticulous in your work.

You will bring an enthusiastic and proactive approach to teamwork; the ability to prioritise your workload and having a flexible, adaptable attitude will be needed in this busy role.

Passionate about quality and always organised in your approach, you will be eager to make a lasting contribution to this dynamic and forward-thinking team.

The three key objectives are:

1. A passion for delivering high quality training and ensuring consistency across delivery

2. To lead on the coordination and administration of the all current and future Mental Health training contracts answering any queries relating to these areas.

3. To provide excellent organisational and administrative skills to deliver the mental health training contracts ensuring all targets are met.

Duties and responsibilities

Coordinate existing Mental Health Training Programmes

This role seeks a passionate person to support a pool of trainers and to coordinate the training across the county. Good organisational and analytical skills are essential. A strong ability to work in partnership with a range of partners is a key element of this role. The three existing training contracts are:

1. CAMHS Partnership: In partnership with Response, Oxford Health NHS Trust and other third sector organisations have come together to create a CAMHS Partnership. Oxford’s approach to this model has now been working very successfully for 3 years; this post offers an exciting opportunity to be a part of something innovative.

This partnership supports young people who are experiencing mental health illness, delivering fresh approaches, offering consistent support and holistic interventions. Oxfordshire Youth has a key training role in this partnership. Utilising our network of members we coordinate the roll-out of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Awareness Training, for teachers and practitioners working with children and young people in the county.  

1. Mental Wealth Academy: The Mental Wealth Academy is a vital new partnership offering a proactive and preventative programme of non-clinical mental health services for 18-25 year-olds across Oxfordshire. As a partner in the Mental Wealth Academy, Oxfordshire Youth plays an integral role in providing mental health awareness sessions for parents and carers of young people experiencing mental health issues.
2. Senior Mental Health Lead training: A new partnership project working with Safe4Schools; the post holder will promote the Senior Mental Health Lead training package, provided by Safe4Schools, encouraging school contacts to undertake the training as part of the DFE grant programme.

Key responsibilities

• Promoting the training to Schools, Colleges and partner organisations in Oxfordshire and liaise directly with them to organise training sessions.

• Working in partnership with key partners including, but not limited to, Oxford Health, CAMHS, Response, OSCB, Safe4Schools and the OY Youth Partnerships Team to promote the training to the identified beneficiaries
• Coordinating and supporting the pool of Trainers
• Meeting the training target as set out in the sub-contracts
• Managing trainers through regular (quarterly) network meetings
• Support trainers with resources and printing
• Liaising with partner organisations to coordinate booking systems
• Identify and book venues for training when required
• Identify and confirm dates for training with Schools / colleges and other organisations
• Informing trainers of training bookings
• Book trainers and participants onto training
• Manage bookings for training sessions through Eventbrite
• Managing administration of all sessions, ensuring all information is sent to participants before and after the sessions
• Cascading training information to staff, volunteers, hosts and external organisations
• Promoting training and sending out reminders
• Keeping a record of information about our trainers and ensuring the trainers are able to fulfill their requirement to train
• Creating training reports and keeping records of attendees/feedback
• Measure impact through survey and evaluations

General

• To attend team meetings and regular supervision with line manager.
• To work toward all KPIs as agreed with the line manager.
• To ensure all DBS procedures are carried out in accordance with Oxfordshire Youth’s guidelines, policies and procedures.
• To undergo training  enabling personal and professional development.
• To undertake other relevant duties related to the further development, promotion and sustainability of the charity.

Safeguarding

• Understanding that safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyone’s business and accessing training and supervision appropriate to the role.
• To ensure concerns are responded to appropriately in line with the OY's Safeguarding Adults Policy and the Child Protection Policy and interagency safeguarding procedures.
• To comply with recruitment and other checks as requested by the organisation including undertaking a DBS check.

This job description is subject to amendment following discussion with the post holder.

Person specification

Expertise and qualifications

Essential

• Experience of managing relationships with external partners
• Experience of coordinating a project with multiple stakeholders and beneficiaries
• Practical experience of managing databases and spreadsheets
• Experience of booking and organising training and events
• Experience of monitoring and evaluation, being able to measure and show impact through reporting and evaluation

Desirable

• An understanding of work with young people in a range of settings
• An understanding of youth work
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people at all levels
• Ability to determine priorities and targets and achieve them
• Extremely organised  and meticulous attention to detail is required
• IT skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and CRM systems
• A flexible approach to work, including a willingness to take on tasks outside the usual remit and to work irregular hours
• The ability to solve problems and think creatively

Desirable

• Experience of promoting training related to young people
• Proficiency in a range of online digital tools for project management such as Monday boards. Slack and others
• Previous experience working in the not-for-profit sector

Personal qualities

Essential

• An unwavering commitment to Oxfordshire Youth’s vision, mission and values
• The ability to relate to and empathise with young people
• Integrity and discretion when dealing with sensitive information
• A committment to treating people equally, being aware of unconscious bias and working proactively and openly to challenge it within your own and within others practice
• Respecting differences and challenging prejudice and discrimination
• A positive, enthusiastic and can-do approach that demonstrates the attributes of a growth mindset
• Committment to your own learning and development
• Accountability for the quality of your work and responsibility for maintaining and improving your knowledge and skills

Applications and interviews will be reviewed as and when they are received.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV accompanied by an application form to our recruitment team, details of which can be found on our website.

Are you…

• Dedicated to working with vulnerable people?
• Looking for a varied and people focused role?
• Motivated by working as part of a team?
• Passionate about doing a job that makes a difference?

The Marylebone Project is one of the largest women’s hostels in the UK for women affected by homelessness. Those we support are often affected by substance misuse, unemployment, domestic violence and mental health issues. Whatever their story, we aim for the same ending, self-esteem, employment and independent living. We do this by providing shelter, education opportunities, spiritual space and events in a welcoming and secure environment.

The Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity within the Project, your role will be based within our newly refurbished Centre where you will manage a caseload of service users who may have complex needs and challenging behaviour. You will provide Advice, Guidance and information (IAG) to vulnerable adults and holistic support to address their needs within a psychologically informed environment.

Part of your role will also include Coordinating and facilitating our Drop-in Service for rough sleepers, providing them with a range of services including food provision; laundry; showers; clothing and nurses clinics.

You will have the opportunity to be part of a service which will really make a difference to women’s lives and have the privilege to see them grow in confidence and skills.

Must have: 1-year minimum paid experience of working with vulnerable people and those with complex needs in an Advice and Guidance or Support Worker role. (or equivalent)

Salary

£29,237 per annum

Hours

Average 40 hours per week across Monday to Sunday. Working on shift-based rota which includes early, late, night, and weekends.

Pension

Church Army is an auto enrolment employer. If you are eligible for pension contributions, you will be enrolled in to a qualifying scheme and minimum pension contributions will be made by the employer.

Annual Leave

28 days per annum, rising by 1 day per year to a maximum of 33 days, inclusive of 8 bank holidays. As the project works on a 24/7 basis, you will be required to work some bank holidays.

Contract

Open-Ended, Full-Time

DBS

An enhanced DBS check required and compliance with Church Army’s safeguarding policies. Safeguarding training will be required.

Occupational Requirement

*Positions are exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1.

Physical requirement: The Marylebone Project is based over two sites, 100m apart, and the job regularly involves walking throughout and between both sites. The Bradbury House site is a listed building, over six floors, with only five having lift access. The postholder must be able to access all areas of the Project, and may be required to do so quickly in the event of an emergency. There is also a requirement to travel across London for work related purposes. The ability to undertake these physical aspects of the role and to carry smaller items are required as essential.

Closing Date

Monday 11th July 2022 at 8am

Interviews

Friday 22nd July 2022.

More info

For more information on the role, please see attached the Job Description and Application form.

Please note that we do not accepct CVs, an application form will need to be filled.