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Check my CVSufra NW London is a Community Hub that provides a lifeline to people in crisis – including families living in extreme poverty and people who are vulnerable, homeless or socially isolated. We provide them with the food and support they need to survive, empower them to learn new skills and improve their wellbeing, and help them to find work and become financially stable.
Our core work focuses on providing emergency food aid through our Food Bank and Community Kitchen, but these are gateway services that enable our service users (we call them guests) to access a wider range of services and activities designed to address the root causes of poverty and homelessness. Our services include:
- Food Bank: Last year, we provided emergency food aid to around 3,000 people who cannot afford the basic cost of living. Access is strictly by referral from one of our 60 registered local referral agencies and guests are typically limited to four food parcels a year.
- Community Kitchen: We serve a freshly cooked three-course vegetarian meal every Friday evening. (pre covid) Referrals are not required; the service is open to the community. Last year we served over 2,000 meals, mainly to people who are homeless, socially isolated, food bank users or those in debt or claiming benefits.
- Welfare Advice Service: Our Advice Worker helps people address the underlying problems that led them to our Food Bank – such as benefit disruptions, housing problems and other financial difficulties. The support we provide is ongoing and tailored to the needs of the individual – no matter how long it takes.
- Food Academy: This is an AQA accredited 6-week cookery course that teaches young people about nutrition and healthy eating as well as food preparation and kitchen skills. The course is designed to increase community cohesion, reduce social isolation and improve the health and wellbeing of the families we support.
- Refugee Support: Our Refugee Resettlement Programme helps newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers access the housing, healthcare, training and jobs they need to build a new life in the community. We offer cultural trips, access to ESOL classes, support groups, orientation classes and events to improve integration and independence.
- Employment Training: We regularly run programmes designed to empower the long-term unemployed to find work by gaining professional skills and experience. Our accredited courses also help with CV writing, work experience and finding work.
- St. Raphael’s Edible Garden: We’ve worked with local residents to turn an abandoned space on the estate into a Community Garden, where we offer horticulture courses and volunteering opportunities for local residents and people with additional mental/physical health needs. The space includes a teaching tipi, a wildlife pond, a chicken coop (with 20 egg-laying hens), an orchard and an abundance of raised beds for growing vegetables and fruit.
Each of these services is designed to lead vulnerable people on a personal journey from crisis to economic stability, social inclusion and active participation in the community. We rely heavily on our dedicated volunteers to ensure that we can deliver our services, and we work closely with faith groups, schools and voluntary sector organisations who provide a wide range of additional support.
About the Role
We are recruiting a Grant Writer & Fund Researcher to lead on sourcing and pursuing potential funding opportunities, as well as writing and submitting grant applications alongside any supporting documentation. This role is primarily focussed on raising funds from grant making bodies including trusts and foundations, corporations and other organisations.
The successful candidate will have excellent writing skills with a particular flair for writing persuasive bids, be a confident communicator and an organised self-starter, with 3 years’ experience in a fundraising role and a proven track record of securing high value, multiyear funds.
This is an immensely rewarding role working in a dynamic charity built on an ethos of sharing, hospitality, and inclusivity. We are looking for an exceptionally committed individual who is willing to go the extra mile and has flexibility to work to tight deadlines. Through your activities, you will be able to convey the charity’s passion and commitment to supporting vulnerable people and demonstrate the impact of our interventions in transforming the lives of beneficiaries.
Flexible working hours/days are available to fit around childcare or other needs, including some home working.
To apply for this role, please submit the following:
1. A CV and a short Covering Letter that is no more than 2 pages long.
2. A completed Equal Opportunities Form
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Job Summary
The Fundraising Officer is a key role for Trust House Lancashire and will lead on the generation of income with a particular focus on community, digital and corporate fundraising, and partnerships to support current and new projects. The right candidate will be a strong communicator who can engage effectively with different audiences and using different media to generate support for Trust House. The Fundraising Officer will increase awareness of our work in the local community and with local businesses and develop those relationships.
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nationally (7%). At Trust House Lancashire (THL) we have seen almost a year on year increase in
requests for support since we commenced service delivery in April 2014. We worked with 411
individuals over the 12 month period from 1 st A pril 2018 to 31 st March 2019 and received 361
new requests for support. 35% of new requests for support came in relation to children under 18
years.
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Key Relationships
Internal Chief Executive officer, Operations Manager, Administration Officer, Volunteer Coordinator
External Corporate Partners, Community Members, Friends of Trust House Group.
Main Role and Priority Responsibilities
To be responsible for leading on the development and growth of Trust House Lancashire’s income from Community and Corporate Fundraising.
• Leading on Corporate Events, Corporate Support and Partnerships, and Community Fundraising both digitally and face to face.
• Identifying opportunities and ideas for fundraising activities and events.
• Matching projects to potential funding opportunities.
• Developing and building on long-term relationships with corporate partners and community members to secure ongoing additional funding.
• Applying for awards, prizes, and other forms of recognition for Trust House Lancashire’s work.
• Write and submit regular updates to the CEO, Operations Manager and Trustees on plans and including progress reports, evaluations, and end-of-project reports.
• Keeping track of supporters, events, activities, and income.
• Feeding back on progress against set targets and budgets to CEO, Operations Manager and Trustees.
• Maintaining an up to date understanding on developments in fundraising and third sector funding and new opportunities
• Contributing to the development and delivery of the organisation’s strategy and working with the CEO/Operations Manager to support the implementation of the service delivery plan.
• Working with the CEO/Operations Manager to develop realistic costings and budgets to organise events.
• Contributing to, supporting, and where appropriate leading on additional and developing aspects of Trust House Lancashire’s broader income generation work.
• Managing your own workload to meet priorities, deadlines, and targets.
• Providing management and support to team members and volunteers as appropriate.
General
Trust House Lancashire has a flexible approach to working arrangements. The office base is in Preston, but the role may require travel to events in and around Lancashire and working outside of normal office hours.
Carry out from time to time and as directed, any other duties as required in addition to the above that will be both reasonable and within your capabilities.
Ensure that at all times you take care of your health and safety and that of others by complying with health and safety obligations, particularly by reporting promptly any defects, risks or potential hazards.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job title: Fundraising Manager
Responsible to: Director of Business Development
Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 per annum
Location: Penygraig, South Wales / Home Working
Hours: Full-time
As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities and we would be open to those interested in applying as a jobshare.
Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Employer pension contributions of 3%
Introduction
Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
Key Responsibilities
Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a consultant who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising.
Management & Leadership
• To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.
• Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.
• Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met
• Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.
• Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.
Income generation
• Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets
• Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.
• Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.
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Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.
• Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.
• Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.
• Review grant agreements
• Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.
• Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.
• Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.
• Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved
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Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support.
Compliance
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To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation.
Person Specification
- At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector
- Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
- Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
- A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
- Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
- Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
- A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
- An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well.
- Experience of budget and financial management
- An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
- Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
- Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
- Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are seeking a passionate, innovative, flexible, and dedicated fundraiser to join us as our charity starts to grow. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their skills in fundraising and communications as we expand our reach as a charity. We are looking to employ a Fundraising Officer who will be committed to supporting Reedham Children’s Trust at a key development phase.
Reedham Children’s Trust provides support for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and has done so for 175 years. We believe every child deserves the chance to thrive and to look forward to a healthy, happy, and fulfilling adult life. We adapt our services as social needs change, always seeking the most innovative and effective ways to help. Collaborating with grassroots organisations and schools we offer practical, emotional, and inspirational support, helping to raise aspirations and transform the lives of vulnerable children.
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Are you confident and creative with excellent communication skills? Are you able to plan effectively, manage relationships with supporters and develop new fundraising opportunities, particularly in the digital realm?
If so, we want to hear from you! WWA is expanding our fundraising team to enable us to develop our fundraising function, fully implement our fundraising action plan, and nurture and grow our community of individual & community-based supporters. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to undertake a Chartered Institute of Fundraising qualification as part of the role, if not already held.
A proactive approach, ability to take initiative and willingness to contribute new ideas are essential, as is a commitment to working towards the vision and value of Welsh Women’s Aid.
Closing date: 12 noon Monday 26th April 2021
Interviews: Tuesday 4th May 2021
This post is open to women only under the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.
We value diversity and are committed to promoting equality. We encourage applications from women from all backgrounds and communities - applicants from Black, Asian or other ethnic minority backgrounds and people with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Funded from the Third Sector Resilience Fund for Wales Phase 2 Scheme, administered by WCVA.
Registered charity number: 1140962
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We value diversity, and warmly welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Slade Gardens Community Play Association CIO (SGCPA) is a small children’s charity based in Stockwell, Lambeth, open to all children, free to use, and offering safe, supervised play, activities and opportunities.
Situated in one of the most densely populated areas of the UK, the SGCPA is a much loved community run charity, which benefits from over an acre of outside space including an adventure playground, garden area and games pitch as well as indoor facilities. We have planning permission to rebuild our main building and have been supported with a £1million match funding grant from Lambeth Council.
This exciting new position comes at a pivotal time in the SGCPA’s development. You will be responsible for our fundraising strategy and implementation as the SGCPA pursues its redevelopment plans. You will have particular responsibility for project management and developing existing governance, including taking on responsibility for some core functions from the trustee board.
You will work with our small part-time team including the Playground Manager, Playworkers and other support staff and volunteers, to develop our work with local children, and ensure use of the site is maximised and our charitable objectives achieved.
The role is wide ranging and challenging, but has the opportunity to ensure that this small community charity makes a big difference to the lives of local children and the wider community. We are happy to consider job sharing applications.
You will be dynamic and efficient, with a passion for supporting children and young people. You will be a strategic thinker, experienced in fundraising and skilled in planning and delivering major projects, as well as being able to demonstrate a people-focussed and collaborative approach.
Closing Date: Friday 26 March by no later than 12:00.
Interviews: Will take place between 9 – 14 April 2021
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Young People at The Limes are looking for an inspirational leader for the Youth projects. These including preparing for adulthood and a burgeoning Enterpise called Creative Journeys.You will be creative and ready to adapt quickly to changing need. You will be responsible for ensuring the evaluation of Youth services is both robust and user-led allowing for monitoring and reporting to Limes’ funders and donors.
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Charity People are pleased to be partnering Khulisa to find a fantastic Trusts and Major Grants Lead (10 months) in a pivotal role, that will focus on securing high value income through trusts, foundations and institutional/government funders. The role is on an interim basis, to support the team as the Director of Fundraising steps into the interim CEO role.
Job Title: Trusts and Major Grants Lead
Organisation: Khulisa
Salary: £40,000 (circa)
Contract: Fixed Term (10 months+)/ 2.5 days a week
Location: Mix of WFH and working from the new premises in South/Central London (expected move in date: August - TBC) Applications from those living outside of London, welcome.
Benefits: Flexible working options; access to generous wellbeing allowance plus 25 days holiday per year (pro rata) on top of bank holidays and closure over the Christmas period at the discretion of the CEO.
Closing Date: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Required: CV and Cover Letter
About the Charity
Khulisa (meaning 'to nurture' in Zulu) is an award-winning national charity with South African roots. Their programmes have been successful in reducing violence and conflict in post-apartheid South African communities since 1997 and was first piloted in the UK in 2007.
Since then, Khulisa has developed a reputation as experts in reducing reoffending and crime by supporting young people and prisoners to explore the root causes of their disruptive or violent behavior. Often this behaviour is symptomatic of experiences of trauma, abuse and neglect.
Khulisa have worked in prisons since 2007 and in schools and pupil referral units (PRUs) since 2011, delivering SEL (social and emotional learning) programmes. It is now widely accepted that children's social skills (such as conscientiousness, self-discipline and perseverance) are more accurate predictors of their health, wealth and criminal history in later life than IQ or social background.
With 10 staff (including therapists and worker), they support 1,000 young people and train over 3,000 professionals each year. Khulisa's key partners include local authorities, schools and prisons. They are also members of London Youth, Clinks, the SCYJ and various other community groups that promote the wellbeing of vulnerable young people.
The Role
This role is instrumental to the growth and success of Khulisa as it enters its first year of its new strategy. Its purpose is to develop the charity's fundraising activities in sourcing small, medium and major (six figures) grants from trusts, foundations and institutional/government funders.
We are keen to speak to those candidates who can demonstrable experience of closing successful bids on values over £20,000and meeting fundraising targets, with experience of managing relationships with funders from initial meeting through to impact and financial reporting and ongoing engagement.
This person will have responsibility of a £850,000 target with a large portion already committed to the target. To make this target, we need someone who has the clear ability to produce professionally written fundraising proposals that articulates the charity's cause, demand for services and the organisation's impact and effectiveness. You need the awareness of the key major trust and grant fundraising prospects, relevant to Khulisa's work and the ability to quickly assess funders priorities and fit to Khulisa's values and cause.
This is a fantastic role for an experienced Trusts Manager who can come into a contract role and make a huge difference.
To find out more, please contact Stuart Milliner at Charity People.
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Front-line role working directly within our LGBT+ community events, forum and group support services. You will have opportunity to develop, support & deliver community activities & events; design and administrate group programmes; facilitate & run group sessions & workshops, provide LGBT+ affirmative support & awareness raising; support & empower LGBT+ community members; promote, market & administer services & events; plus recruit, induct, support & supervise sessional staff & volunteers. This is an exciting job opportunity to join a dynamic and committed team at ELOP:a London based thriving community-led LGBT+ mental health & wellbeing charity offering a range of support, advice, information, counselling and group support services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) communities.
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We are looking for an Adviser to join our Help to Claim team and undertake the provision of a high quality support service for new Universal Credit claimants. The post holder will provide advice, information and digital support via telephone and webchat. The service is aimed at helping claimants through to the first payment of Universal Credit.
As the successful candidate, you will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be self-motivated and have strong IT skills. Full training will be given however previous experience as an adviser with Citizens Advice would be a distinct advantage.
Citizens Advice Waverley is a local independent charity providing free, impartial confidential advice to people across the borough of Waverley. It runs advice offices in Cranleigh, Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you an experienced relationships manager looking for the next step? Would you relish the chance to identify, build and maintain high-quality relationships with key delivery partners to enable young prison-leavers in London to build stable, rewarding lives they can be proud of?
Then join Switchback as our new Partnerships Manager.
Switchback is an award-winning charity supporting young men to find a way out of the justice system and build stable, rewarding lives. Building on 13 years of impact, Switchback is growing fast and setting our sights higher than ever, aiming to reach even more prison-leavers while inspiring change across the system. The pandemic has created an even greater challenge in relation to supporting Trainees into meaningful training and employment. To achieve our goal of reaching more prison-leavers we need excellent relationships with real-work training partners and employers to support our Trainees on release. That is where you will come in.
We are determined to ensure that Switchback’s team is more representative of the young men we support, so we’re especially keen to hear from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds or with lived experience of the criminal justice system or poverty.
About the role
You will take ownership of identifying, maintaining and nurturing long-lasting relationships with training organisations and employers. This will involve reinvigorating existing relationships alongside developing a limited range of new ones. Working alongside the Head of Delivery and the CEO, you will ensure all our partner interactions are consistent with Switchback’s values and strategic aims to reach more young men and drive change across the justice system. You will effectively organise information about our partners to enable our Switchback Mentors to connect our Trainees with meaningful opportunities.
We have built a fantastic reputation for strong relationship-building with partners across different sectors. Now we need someone to take this to the next level as we grow and become a bigger organisation providing more opportunities to more young prison-leavers.
About you
You’ll be an outgoing individual with at least two years experience of working in a relationship-building role, and a strong understanding of the enablers of great partnerships. You will be organised with excellent attention to detail. You will also have experience of business/contracts and making the most of every partnership opportunity. Knowledge of the justice system or the catering industry would be a plus but is not essential.
Keen to work in a small team, you will be excited about the chance to nurture existing relationships and develop new ones to achieve Switchback aims. Above all, you’ll have a passion for Switchback’s ambition and purpose as a charity and a good understanding of the challenges and barriers faced by prison-leavers or people in poverty.
About Switchback
You will be joining a small, dynamic team at an exciting time of growth and development for Switchback. We put our Trainees at the heart of everything we do and every role here is closely connected to our frontline work. In the world our Trainees live in, relationships come and go, but at Switchback we are proud to offer support that is both intensive and long term, enabling the potential for real, lasting change. In 2019, Switchback was the proud winner of the Longford Prize, recognised by the judges as “a focussed, inspiring resettlement charity that is a beacon of hope at a time of chaos”. Find out more on our website.
How to apply:
Please download both the full Job Description and the Equal Opportunities form. Then email the following with the subject Partnerships Manager
- Your CV
- Cover letter (max 600 words)
- A completed Equal Opportunities Form (this will be treated anonymously and separated from your application entirely).
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This is a really exciting time to join Girlguiding. We are on a mission to amplify the voices of girls and young women, so they can champion change in their own lives and the wider world; to build strong partnerships that can increase our reach and impact; and to increase the support we offer our amazing adult volunteers who deliver incredible experiences to young people across the UK every week. We have recently agreed our 2020+ strategy and begun a process of significant change: transforming the organisation so it can meet the challenges of the future by putting young people and volunteers at the heart of our organisation.
Girlguiding is a UK-wide network of groups and organisations who together provide great experiences for girls and young women. At the highest level the UK is split into nine countries and regions, plus British Girlguiding Overseas.
Over the past year countries and regions and Girlguiding UK have reviewed and clarified our roles and responsibilities, and principles for partnership working. We call this our ‘Ways of Working Together’. This fixed term role will play a key role in making the Ways of Working Together come to life during the first year of implementation.
The role-holder will do this by facilitating increased networking and collaboration between Girlguiding UK and countries and regions; developing and embedding new tools and processes to enable this; and supporting all teams to build their skills and confidence to work in this way on an ongoing basis
This is a fixed term position initially to the end of December 2021. The post is part of our delivery partnerships team who are based in our London office but we are open to the role holder being based elsewhere with regular travel to London and around the UK, subject to Covid restrictions lifting.
Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve a good work-life balance and offer flexible working options wherever we reasonably can. Girlguiding is a COVID secure employer, providing support for all employees during the current pandemic. All staff are required to carry out our online health and safety training and complete a DSE risk assessment to ensure we can provide the support you require.
We ask that you submit your CV and supporting information as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close vacancies at any time, when we have received sufficient applications.
It is important that you submit all of the above documents with your CV, including the declaration form, supporting statement and diversity questionnaire. We will consider only those applications that include these completed documents.
Interviews will be held remotely during the pandemic.
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This is a really exciting time to join Girlguiding. We are on a mission to amplify the voices of girls and young women, so they can champion change in their own lives and the wider world; to build strong partnerships that can increase our reach and impact; and to increase the support we offer our amazing adult volunteers who deliver incredible experiences to young people across the UK every week. We have recently agreed our 2020+ strategy and begun a process of significant change: transforming the organisation so it can meet the challenges of the future by putting young people and volunteers at the heart of our organisation.
The Strategy & Transformation team is looking for a great individual to oversee, implement and manage a portfolio of externally funded development and outreach projects. You will play a key role in ensuring that outputs, successes and learnings are captured and inform future projects.
The directorate has projects already underway and others in the pipeline for 2021/22, and we need an experienced manager to manage a team of project delivery managers.
You will be someone who is able to build rapport with staff, work collaboratively with country and region teams, volunteers, partners and funders really quickly and manage complex relationships.
You will be experienced and confident in overseeing large budgets and supporting the preparation of future funding bids for strategic growth projects. Working collaboratively with the fundraising team, you will shape projects from the outset against our new Girlguiding strategy 2020.
Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve a good work-life balance and offer flexible working options wherever we reasonably can. Girlguiding is a COVID secure employer, providing support for all employees during the current pandemic. All staff are required to carry out our online health and safety training and complete a DSE risk assessment to ensure we can provide the support you require.
We ask that you submit your CV and supporting information as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close vacancies at any time, when we have received sufficient applications.
It is important that you submit all of the above documents with your CV, including the declaration form, supporting statement and diversity questionnaire. We will consider only those applications that include these completed documents.
Interviews will be held remotely during the pandemic.
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AIMS / PURPOSE OF THE POST
Trust House Lancashire is a Rape and Sexual Assault Support Centre and provides a range of services for individuals of all ages and genders affected by rape or sexual abuse. The service currently provides specialist counselling for adults, and therapy; art and play therapy as well as talking therapies for children and young people. We have a Therapeutic Wellbeing Programme that’s works with individuals to support their wellbeing and recovery by providing practical and holistic support and self-help strategies to empower recovery. Our Specialist Family Support Project works with children and families where a child in the family has been subjected to sexual abuse. We also have group provision, and a comprehensive training programme for working effectively with victims of sexual violence.
The service is undergoing a period of significant growth across both our adults and children’s services. We’re looking for someone that can support the development and growth of our Children, Young People and Families services (24years and under). The Children, Young People and Families Service Manager will be based at our centre in Preston and the post-holder will be prepared to travel county wide as we deliver counselling at a range of satellite spaces across the county. There is currently some office based working but this is subject to change as we respond to the current pandemic situation. Going forward we would expect that some level of home working would be maintained so that time would be split across office and home working. You will work with individuals who have been affected by sexual abuse or assault at any time in their lives.
You’ll be responsible for carrying out and co-ordinating the assessments of children and young people (24 years and under) referred into Trust House. You’ll do this in partnership with our Senior Children and Young People’s Therapists and other team members. You will deliver counselling to a small caseload of clients, and co-ordinate the allocation and delivery of counselling and support work by a committed group of staff, volunteer and sessional counsellors working alongside other team members. You will also be pro-active in working alongside our CEO to drive the development of our service offer to children and young people who are survivors of rape and sexual abuse. Your clinical experience as a therapist, and within the sector will be essential in guiding the growth of the organisation to ensure our services are shaped in best consideration of client’s needs, remaining trauma informed and enabling the trustees and CEO to make sound judgements and decisions regarding service growth and development.
You will work alongside our Adult Service Manager, Volunteer Coordinator and Senior Therapists to support our volunteer, student and sessional counsellors and therapists, providing individual case management supervision and group supervision to counsellors at Trust House. You will contribute to, and support the development of policies and procedures that underpin our Children, Young People and Families working. You will develop and promote robust and appropriate clinical practice, providing clinical guidance to our CEO to support best decision making in regard to all aspects of our frontline service delivery and development for Children, Young People and Families affected by sexual violence or abuse. Working alongside colleagues you will take a leading role in the development of our outreach provision and our digital offer to support service accessibility and your knowledge and expertise will play an important part in raising awareness of the service, enhancing our training offer and developing effective referral pathways for counselling. 3 You will ensure that services are delivered in accordance with Trust House Lancashire’s policies, procedures and service standards and enable and support the service to meet with any specific requirements from the board of trustees, funders and commissioners.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Children, Young People and Families Services Manager has responsibility for:
Overseeing the day to day practice across the Children, Young People and Families services team to ensure effective and efficient operations.
Planning, co-ordination, delivery and development of Trust House Lancashire’s Children, Young People and Families services enabling us to deliver a holistic and high quality counselling and therapeutic service to clients.
To provide clinical guidance and development support across the range of services delivered at Trust House for children and young people survivors.
Assessment including risk and needs of individuals accessing the service, and following up with appropriate support action and recommending appropriate treatment, support and adjustments for clients including timely referrals and signposting out to meet wider support needs and effective exit planning.
Supervising and monitoring the allocation of new referrals to counsellors, therapists and project workers in line with their current caseload numbers and complexity and skills/experience.
Building team working, trust and transparency through regular 1-1 meetings with Children, Young People and Families services staff team, and supporting team members as required.
Taking responsibility for sessional and employed induction processes in partnership with our CEO and Office Administrator for employed staff, and our Volunteer Coordinator for volunteer and sessional staff and for their probation, performance and development.
Working with a small caseload of clients, and managing and supporting others with their own caseload of clients.
Working within Trust House Lancashire’s policies and procedures in relation to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults, children and young people, ensuring the escalation of concerns or issues that might arise in the course of our work.
Ensuring the CEO is kept informed of any trends or themes in presenting issues for service users and any practice issues for Trust House Lancashire in relation to our work with stakeholder agencies.
Working with our Volunteer Co-ordinator to support development of volunteer and staff induction and training relevant to our work. Identifying gaps in training delivery and leading the development of our internal CPD training opportunities to meet the needs of the service and the team
Working closely with all team members to support seamless service delivery.
Working and liaising with other professionals to address wider client needs.
Engaging with wider services design and development activities including fundraising, awareness, networking events research opportunities, and social media participation and supporting the CEO through contribution to funding applications.
Participating in opportunities to influence the design and development of services nationally for those affected by rape and sexual abuse.
Ensuring team use of systems (Lamplight CMS) in accordance with procedures, facilitating consistency of service quality.
Overseeing and reporting to the CEO on the provision of clinical assessments, waiting times of clients.
Managing project monitoring, reporting and outcome evaluation procedures in line with Trust House Lancashire’s established protocols and providing activity reports for the CEO for contract monitoring and reporting.
Providing clinical oversight of Trust House Lancashire’s introductory training, CPD content, and external training offer and where appropriate contributing to delivery.
Managing counselling project budgets in partnership with the CEO.
Participating in monthly line management, clinical supervision and team meetings.
Maintaining client confidentiality, upholding data protection and equal opportunities principles.
Working according to relevant practice guidelines; The Survivors Trust National Service Standards and the BACP and UKPT Ethical Framework.
Representing Trust House Lancashire in meetings with stakeholder agencies deputising for the CEO as required.
This job description is guide to the tasks of the Children, Young People and Families Services Manager at Trust House Lancashire, and the post-holder is required to undertake other tasks as reasonably requested by the CEO.
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An exciting opportunity to work with one of the largest Law Centres in the country. South West London Law Centres is seeking an experienced Community Engagement Manager who can continue to develop our relationship with the organisations that refer to us and who can help us to develop new projects in accordance with the needs of the community.
Our Law Centre helps local people across south-west London to access justice and uphold their everyday rights, by providing specialist legal advice on social justice issues including housing, employment, debt, benefits, asylum and immigration.
The Covid-19 pandemic has increased our awareness of the need for the Law Centre to be rooted in the community we serve, in order that we can be certain that we are reaching all those who need our assistance and to be sure that our services meet the needs of our community.
Thanks to additional funding, we are able to recruit a Community Engagement Manager to help to develop our relationship with the community and to ensure that we are able to reach those in most need of our essential services.
The post is full time.
- Salary: £26,000 - £28,000, with an employee pension contribution of 4% salary
- Term: Initially for a 12-month period, with the potential to become permanent, subject to funding
- Reports to: Senior Management Team
- Based at: Initially remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but then at our Croydon office, with travel to our other offices and locations
The Community Engagement Manager will be supported by Senior Management Team, but will also need to be a self-starter who has autonomy to think creatively, and the confidence and experience to lead our community work, and collaborate with our team of expert advisers and support staff. If you share our commitment to addressing injustice, discrimination, inequality and poverty, then this could be an exciting opportunity for you.
Please apply by completing the attached application form.
South West London Law Centres is a community based Law Centre and registered charity that was established in 1974. We work across six Sout... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.