Thank you for your interest in the position of Training & Inclusion Manager at Switchboard.

Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ people looking for a sense of community, support or information.  We connect people and support them directly through specially developed Switchboard services or link them to other specialist organisations. Switchboard’s dedicated staff team run a number of services that offer information and support, for LGBTQ communities.

We are looking for an experienced facilitator with a passion for LGBTQ issues and the ability to bring people on a journey to understanding how they can improve inclusion, wherever or whoever they may be.

This brand new role is part of our Health & Inclusion Project, and is all about building relationships with other organisations and supporting clients to improve their inclusion knowledge and practice in an intersectional way, but with a focus on our expertise – LGBTQ communities. This role will involve building up a network of clients, designing and delivering a range of training packages, and supporting a pool of lived experience trainers and facilitators to be part of the work at every stage. We need someone with the interpersonal skills to build trusting relationships, and the organizational skills to manage multiple clients from a wide range of organisations.

If you are interested in applying, please read the application pack and return an application form to us by 5pm on Tuesday November 30th 2021.

For your information, interviews for this post will be held on Wednesday December 8th 2021.

Hampton Trust is a leading domestic abuse charity with a focus on tackling the root cause of domestic abuse and criminal behaviour.  We pride ourselves on being innovators in our field, highlighting gaps in service and testing new approaches.

In recent years we have expanded our reach from being a locally based Hampshire charity to now delivering across nine UK police forces. Earlier this year, our work featured in a BBC documentary called Home Truths, exploring Ian Wright’s experience of domestic abuse as child.

This is an exciting time for the organisation with potential to expand our interventions in other areas of the country.  As the Finance Manager you will lead on strategic and operational financial management of the charity.  A qualified accountant (or part-qualified with substantial, relevant experience) and inspiring leader, you will also contribute to the overall direction, planning and leadership of Hampton Trust.

Job title:                             Finance Manager

Working hours:                14 – 22.5 hours flexible on role requirements

Salary:                               £35-£40K pro-rata

Job Purpose:The purpose of this role is to lead on operational financial management of Hampton Trust. This includes financial analysis, preparing budgets/forecasts and compiling financial reports. You will provide support to the Chief Executive and Trustee board, enabling them to make informed financial decisions.  A member of the Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the Chief Executive the post holder shares responsibility for the Hampton Trust’s strategic development, financial and resource planning.

Applications close 9am on Monday 8th November 

Notification of shortlisting decisions by Friday 12th November

Stage one Interview Friday 26th November

Final stage Interview Thursday 2nd December 

Please note the successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check prior to starting employment.

Should you wish to discuss this role before application please contact Natalie Pearce. 

Next steps

Please submit your application via the Hampton Trust website by 9am on Monday 1st November 2021.  Don’t forget our offer of an informal chat prior to completing your applications is available if you think it would be helpful. Please also contact Natalie if you would like a copy of the draft financial statements for y/e 31Mar21 and the draft Achievement & Performance report.

In your application please include:

A cover letter explaining your motivation for applying and outlining how you meet the criteria detailed within the person specification

A full CV including education, professional qualifications and full employment history showing responsibilities and relevant achievements.

Hampton Trust is committed to improving and finding ways of creating a more diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Our Equal Opportunities Form will be processed for monitoring purposes only.  This information remains anonymised and will not be seen by the interview panel or used in any way for the purposes of selection. Completion of this form is voluntary and if you do not wish to answer any question(s), this will not affect your application in any way.

Hampton Trust is a leading domestic abuse charity with a focus on tackling the root cause of domestic abuse and criminal behaviour.  We pride ourselves on being innovators in our field, highlighting gaps in service and testing new approaches.

In recent years we have expanded our reach from being a locally based Hampshire charity to now delivering across nine UK police forces. Earlier this year, our work featured in a BBC documentary called Home Truths, exploring Ian Wright’s experience of domestic abuse as child.

This is an exciting time for the organisation with potential to expand our interventions in other areas of the country.

Job Title:                                        Training Administrator

Hours:                                            37.5 hours per week

Salary:                                            £18,000 per annum

Base:                                              Ashurst / remote working 

Contract:                                        Full time / Permanent 

The Training Administrator will complete all administrative tasks associated with delivery of Hampton Trust training locally and nationally. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a wider team, working with professionals as they embark on Hampton Trust (HT) training via various platforms. You will play a key role in coordinating bookings, delivery, and evaluation of courses.

In this role, you must have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, strong IT skills, including efficient in the use of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other software.

You should also be good with people and happy working as part of a team. Able to meet deadlines under pressure and be motivated and resilient with natural initiative. Above all, you’ll bring a range of skills and take pride in a job well done.

We encourage growth and self-awareness within this post.

Should you wish to discuss this role before application contact: Helen Downey 

Closing date: 9am Friday 5th November 2021

Interview dates: Wednesday 10th November 2021

All posts are subject to Enhanced DBS checks & satisfactory references.

Next steps 

Please submit your application via email to Hampton Trust by 9am on Friday 5th November 2021.  Don’t forget our offer of an informal chat prior to completing your applications is available if you think it would be helpful.

In your application please include:

A cover letter explaining your motivation for applying and outlining how you meet the criteria detailed within the person specification

A full CV including education, professional qualifications and full employment history showing responsibilities and relevant achievements.

Hampton Trust is committed to improving and finding ways of creating a more diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Our Equal Opportunities Form will be processed for monitoring purposes only.  This information remains anonymised and will not be seen by the interview panel or used in any way for the purposes of selection. Completion of this form is voluntary and if you do not wish to answer any question(s), this will not affect your application in any way.

Lifecentre is a Christian Charity providing counselling services to survivors of rape and sexual abuse.

We are looking for an enthusiastic education and training facilitator to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead on developing and delivering a range of specialist sexual violence training to staff, partner agencies and clients. The candidate is not expected to have knowledge of the subject area, as they will learn from and work closely with an experienced counselling team.

The successful candidate will be highly organised and an experienced communicator, confident in creating, delivering and reviewing training materials.

The Learning offer at Harewood spans over 20 years and is a current Sandford Award Holder (2018). In early 2020 we reviewed our Learning Strategy to ensure a joined up and inclusive approach to learning at Harewood. Learning plays a key role in Harewood’s ambition to re-imagine the country house for the 21st century by reinvigorating how audiences connect with us.

Our Learning Strategy is inspired by our brand values of working together to be caring of our collections, people, our community and planet, being adventurous in our aims to inspire curiosity and challenging all we do with rigour and imagination. It focuses on Tackling Inequalities, Connecting narratives, Responsive Programming, Access to Expertise and Collaboration.

This role will:

• Take responsibility for and realise Harewood’s strategic objectives for formal education, families and communities as set out in ‘A Shared Vision for Learning’, reporting to the Director of Collections, Programme & Learning and collaborating with key internal stakeholders
• Ensure learning is at the heart of all we do and part of future recruitment across the Trust, to grow audiences and embed Learning in all departments for the future to create greater resilience of Learning at Harewood
• Provide a seamless, innovative Learning offer that is sector-leading and unique to Harewood, rooted in our House, Plant and Living collections, underpinned with rigour and identifiable learning outcomes
• Create a sense of community through Learning at Harewood, underpinned by consultation, co-creation and representation of existing and under-represented audiences, so everyone feels Harewood is for them
• Work closely with the Development Manager to fundraise for projects identified in ‘A Shared Vision for Learning’ and to grow resource
• Identify and pursue opportunities for maximising Harewood’s assets and use of resources for Learning audiences through partnerships, fundraising and income generation
• Play a key part in Master Planning at Harewood including new physical spaces to improve our learning offer across the site
• Provide effective, empathetic and inspiring management of a growing team including freelance facilitators and volunteers; enabling colleagues to develop their skills and expertise in unison with Harewood’s values and objectives
• Update the learning offer to reflect changes in the curriculum and wider local learning offer, incorporating opportunities identified in recent research by Harewood House Trust funded by the Culture Recovery Fund
• Be part of Harewood’s ‘Digital Transformation’, harnessing the potential for virtual or blended learning through digital resources for schools and other audiences
• Position Harewood in the regional and national learning landscape from Early Years to post-graduate. Be a visible stakeholder in the region for Learning, building key relationships and ensuring Harewood consistently evolves with the wider offer e.g. Leeds Cultural Education Partnership, Leeds 2023, GEM (Group for Education in Museums)
• Regularly evaluate and review Harewood’s Learning Strategy and offer, proactively seeking ways to lead the sector and create inclusive, memorable learning experiences for existing and potential audiences
• Liaise across departments to provide skills development and career insight opportunities for young people and under-represented audiences.

For full information and to make an application, please click Apply and you will be redirected to our website.

About us

As one of the few registered charities devoted to addressing the most important gaps in research funding and professional education in bone, joint and muscle wellbeing, Orthopaedic Research UK are investing in our future movement. The need is greater than ever: 19m people suffer from musculoskeletal problems in the UK, costing the NHS £5bn per year, resulting in ever-lengthening NHS waiting lists, and the loss of 30m working days to the UK economy. We use our funding to deliver research and education programmes in musculoskeletal health to reduce the burden on individuals, on workplaces, and our health system.

ESCAPE-pain, Enabling Self-management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise, is a group rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain that integrates educational self-management and coping strategies with an exercise regimen. It helps people understand their condition, teaches them simple things they can help themselves with, and takes them through a progressive exercise programme so they learn how to cope with pain better. ESCAPE-pain can be delivered by trained physiotherapists, exercise instructors or other health professionals in a wide range of settings including hospital outpatients’ departments and leisure/community spaces. ESCAPE-pain delivers the NICE core recommendations of exercise and education for the management of osteoarthritis. It is recognised by the NHS Innovation Accelerator and has received awards from the Royal Society of Public Health and the British Society of Rheumatology amongst others. For more details about the programme see our website.

ESCAPE-pain is delivered by Orthopaedic Research UK under license from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It was created by Professor Michael Hurley and has been developed within the NHS by the Health Innovation Network and the AHSN Network. ESCAPE-pain is a UK registered trademark of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Job Summary

The post-holder will be expected to provide all aspects of project support for the ESCAPE-pain programme. This will involve working closely with the ESCAPE-pain team and other members of ORUK. The post-holder will help to ensure that ESCAPE-pain projects are adequately planned and resourced, supporting the team to continue to deliver the programme to high standards.

The post-holder will be expected to undertake a wide variety of tasks including communicating with stakeholders, coordinating the ESCAPE-pain training courses, organising meetings, preparing agendas, minutes, reports, and presentations. As well as contributing to regular newsletters and communications to ESCAPE-pain stakeholders and ensuring all records and databases are up-to-date.

Unless working remotely as advised, the post will be based at the Orthopaedic Research UK offices in London.

The post holder will have the following key responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality administrative support to the ESCAPE-pain programme.
• Provide project support to ESCAPE-pain Managers and Clinical Director.
• Manage and maintain various databases and provide project updates and reports via Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, etc.
• Carry out meeting administration, including booking rooms, venues, equipment, preparing agendas and taking minutes.
• Assist in the coordination and management of the ESCAPE-pain training programmes.
• Be responsible for collating and updating the programme content on two websites.

Key Relationships

• Core ESCAPE-pain team (within ORUK) and wider ESCAPE-pain team, trainers, facilitators (healthcare professionals and fitness instructors) and providers across the UK
• ORUK Executive team 
• Health Care Professionals in acute and community services across the UK
• Commissioners
• GPs and Practice staff
• Service User Groups
• Leisure Providers
• Information Governance team
• Key members from partnership organisations

Key Responsibilities

Communications & events

• Work with colleagues to provide high quality administrative support for the ESCAPE-pain programme.
• Arrange meetings, liaising with the ESCAPE-pain team and stakeholders.
• Coordinate and support the management of ESCAPE-pain training sessions and oversee all elements of event organisation, including booking trainers, ensuring that trainers have all the resources & IT required to deliver, developing materials, room/venue booking, and equipment/resource set up.
• Help prepare ESCAPE-pain presentations with team members.
• Take formal minutes of meetings for the ESCAPE-pain programme, forming part of the audit trail, chasing action owners where relevant.
• Build and maintain working relationships with internal and external stakeholders relevant to this role, communicating accurately and diplomatically.
• Work with ESCAPE-pain team to produce quarterly newsletters and written communications as required.
• Ensure the ESCAPE-pain pages across two websites are kept up-to-date and accurate.
• Provide timely information and updates to the team and external collaborators.
• Work on own initiative on a day-to-day basis, autonomously, escalating any issues that may arise to the appropriate person.
• Regularly review procedures to identify where improvements and/or streamlining can be implemented to ensure that ESCAPE-pain runs effectively and efficiently.
• Co-manage two inboxes and help answer general enquiries from existing and potential participants (patients/clients/service users), providers and members of the public.
• Deal with sensitive and contentious issues and ensure these are dealt with in an appropriate manner.
• Respond to any requests and enquiries relating to the various ESCAPE-pain digital tools. Problem solve and trouble shoot before escalating to the relevant external development agency.
• Ensure that post-course information is sent to all trained facilitators and database of course attendance is kept up-to-date.

Financial and physical resources

• Work with ESCAPE-pain team to ensure that trainers are paid promptly and correctly.
• Maintain up-to-date database/records of income and expenditure for all ESCAPE-pain training courses and flag any projected deviations from targets outlined in strategic plans.

IT and information resources

• Enter data (clinical and non-clinical) on electronic systems and provide updates and summaries as required.
• Support the development of ESCAPE-pain project schedules and overall strategy.
• Help prepare, format, and disseminate progress reports.

Research and Development

• Support the other key strands of ESCAPE-pain as required (e.g., updating content for the web, basic online research, new resource development, scoping new partnerships and activities).

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Benefits of joining the ORUK team

• 8% annual bonus based on performance (discretionary)
• Annual cost of living review 
• Flexible working hours in core business hours (8am – 6pm)
• TOIL for overtime during weekdays and weekends
• Pension 8% (employers’ contribution 7.5% + 0.5% employees’ contribution)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by 1 day per year after 5 years up to a maximum of 30 days
• Enhanced maternity/paternity package
• Interest-free travel loan
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Private Medical Health Insurance (and reduced family rates)
• Bike to work scheme 
• Death in service (x4 basic salary)
• Opportunity to grow within the organisation

This is an exciting role for an experienced person to manage and develop a portfolio of therapeutic services and interventions, supporting people in their recovery from mental health problems. 

This includes the oversight and development of West Kent Mind’s therapeutic services; counselling - consisting of a mixture of one-to-one talking therapies, art therapy, and group psychoeducational courses and workshops.

The role will also oversee our Crisis Café offering out of hours support and early interventions, and our hoarding provisions which offers training to professionals as well as individual support to clients.

The role will manage our supported housing scheme which consists of two houses comprising of 15 residents, where we provide key working and therapeutic interventions with the aim to live independently within 2-3 years.

The role will be vital to ensure all services aspire to high standards of competency, efficacy, client satisfaction, risk management, and outcome measurement. 

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, we would love to hear from you.

VOLUNTEER TREASURER & TRUSTEE

A professional Finance person who understands accounts and business planning, you are used to contributing at a strategic level and seeking an opportunity to give something back to the local community whilst learning a tremendous amount along the way. A team player capable of working in a small team that is the functioning heart of a small/medium sized organisation, you are prepared to roll up your sleeves when required and, preferably but not necessarily, familiar with the VCSE sector.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES mostly working from home for around 2/3 hours per week:

• Liaising with and supporting the Bookkeeper (who is self-employed), supervising financial accounting and reporting to ensure compliance with the Charity Commission, Companies House and HMRC regulations.

• Ensuring controls are in place on income and expenditure, and financial regulatory compliance

• Overseeing income, expenditure and cash flow and minimising BADT’s exposure to VAT and tax etc.

• Liaising with the Chair on Grant, Council and other funding applications requiring financial information and with external auditors/examiners as required.

Bridport Area Development Trust (BADT) is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee established in 2009 and currently run mainly by a team of 8 experienced and highly motivated Volunteer Trustees. The Trust works in partnership to identify, plan and deliver regenerative projects that meet local need and provide long term economic, educational and community benefit to the town and beyond with the one key criteria for BADT support being that of sustainability. 

And in relation to sustainability a spokesman for BADT said “the Trust’s finances are currently stable and the projections are for a sustainable level of income over the next 3 years”.

BADT’s most recent successes are two major renovation and refurbishment projects. The Georgian style, Literary and Scientific Institute a historic Grade 2* listed building in the centre of Bridport built in 1834, has been brought back into use after lying empty since 1997 and becoming derelict, saving the public purse around £1million in the process. Another Jewel in BADT’s Crown is the West Bay Discovery Centre a former Methodist Chapel and now an award-winning visitor centre providing an insight into the hidden history of West Bay and the Jurassic coast by bringing to life local stories and fascinating facts about the natural, using interactive experiences that make learning fun for all ages.

If you are interested in applying for the role and finding out more then please send BADT a copy of your CV with a covering email explaining why and what you have to offer.

Prevention & Engagement Worker - Choices

£22,183 - £24,491

40 hours per week

Fixed Term, 31st March 2023

Location North of County, North Yorkshire

Ref: INSJV676871

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about preventing domestic abuse to join us as a Prevention & Engagement Worker.

Our +Choice’s service works with perpetrators of domestic abuse through an evidence-based programme, designed to address abusive behaviour.

We are the only service of its kind in North Yorkshire, and you could be a part of it.

We are able to offer this new and exciting opportunity to deliver early intervention and identification workshops and awareness raising campaigns across North Yorkshire, helping people recognise the signs of a domestic abuse perpetrator.

This role will be based in the north of the County and can be located in our Scarborough, Richmond, Harrogate or York offices.

This role requires travel and so you must have access to a car for work purposes and hold a full current UK driving licence. Hybrid working arrangements are on offer for this role, meaning a mix of office and home working will be considered for the successful applicant.

The role is subject to Enhanced DBS and Police Vetting.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Laura Buchan

Foundation’s core values are: People, Passion, Collaboration and Integrity.

Closing date Sunday 14th November 2021

Interview date 6th December 2021

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diverse and exciting region we serve. We want you to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.

Faculty Planning and Assessment Associate

Full Time 37.5 hours per week 

Birmingham, London or Manchester

£20,000 per annum

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for 3 motivated and talented individuals to join our Faculty Planning & Assessment team as Faculty Planning & Assessment Associates.

1 role will be on a permanent basis and 2 are on a 12 month FTC basis.

These roles will work across the Facilitation, Coaching and Assessment strands to liaise with faculty, support assessment delivery and process. The roles are responsible for delivering outstanding support to all faculty members, and providing financial and other administrative support.

The roles are also responsible for handling queries and complaints/compliments from external faculty, ensuring a timely response and that feedback/issues are escalated appropriately. This is also a fantastic opportunity to support matching of facilitators/coaches/assessors to events/participants/candidates.

Based in either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office, and reporting to the Faculty Planning & Assessment Senior Associate, you’ll maintain excellent databases on shared systems, including qualifications and expertise, geography, conflict of interests, school fit, QA scores and availability etc.

This exciting role will require someone with experience of delivering excellent customer service and experience of working with a variety of stakeholders.  It is essential that you have good organisation, planning and prioritisation skills with excellent attention to detail. You must be a strong team player with the ability to work independently and seek advice where required.  

Who are Ambition Institute? 

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better, and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive.
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice.
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement. 

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply 

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 27 October 2021. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 1 November 2021.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

Resurgo Consulting is in a time of exciting and significant growth, having already exceeded its targets for 2021, and ambitious goals to both expand its client base and strengthen and build on the unique impact consultancy work we do in 2022. This maternity cover role will be central to the fulfilment of our goals, leading a growing and envisioned team through this key time.

As a confident executive coach, facilitator and communicator with excellent organisational capabilities, you will lead the team as you both generate and implement our business plan – both bringing change directly through the work of Resurgo Consulting, and additionally as any income generated goes into funding our charitable programmes including Spear and Re-Work. 

Under your leadership, the team will liaise with a range of corporate clients, manage existing client relationships and explore new referrals. You will also have oversight of all marketing and systems implementation and the design, resourcing, impact and delivery of programmes.

Please see attached role description for full details of responsibilities and person specification.

In 2016 we were listed as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in the ‘Great Place to Work’ Awards. In 2017 we won the Princess Royal Training Awards which honours employers that have created outstanding training and skills development programmes.

Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence need to stop. Help us make it happen.

We are recruiting a Phoenix Administrator to join our team within the Wiltshire Phoenix Project.

The Phoenix Project is an exciting and innovative service, delivering sexual violence and domestic abuse services across Wiltshire and Swindon. Join us at a time of growth and development to support victims and children and help perpetrators change their behaviour.

As we grow our service, we are seeking a talented and organised administrator to support managers and improve our processes. This post is fixed term for one year, 25-37 hours per week.

We welcome applications from dedicated, passionate individuals, who are motivated to help change lives for the better.

Please go to our website for the full job description, person specification and application from for the role. We do not accept CVs and only accept application forms.

Closing Date: Midnight on 21st November 2021

Family Support and Community Manager

The workforce at Loughborough Community Centre is growing.

Our current services include: Preschool, Family Support and Holiday Play with Meals Provision.

We work with all members of the community. Parents, children and young people  (0 – 18 years) are our primary beneficiaries.

We have a rapidly developing, small and dynamic team, that deliver a range of innovative early intervention, targeted services and family support provision from our centre at Max Roach in Brixton London.

We seek a self motivated and confident individual that can apply a professional approach and has a solid grounding in Family Support and Community Work. LCC’s applies a collaborative approach to service delivery, we work closely with local partners, stakeholders and local groups in order to provide the services needed in our locality.

You will be skilled at; leading a team, engaging parents, creating links between a range of stakeholders and hands on service delivery, whilst also possessing the administrative and organisational skills to ensure all work is clearly tracked, monitored and evaluated as per our standardised online software and individual funders requirements.

You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing children, young people, families. Being flexible in adjusting your practice and the practice of colleagues to meet these needs.

Your work within our workforce will contribute to ensuring LCCs meets its aim of providing the highest quality provision and continually strives to improve and expand its services that are vitally needed by the community.

Hours will include some out of hours, evenings and weekends.