This Position has been upgraded to reflect the importance and growing need of the role within Gloucestershire Nightstop as we negotiate the next step of service delivery moving out of lockdown.

Gloucestershire Nightstop is seeing an upturn in young people needing support and volunteer hosts who are returning to the service as well as those wanting to join our service. We need an experienced self-starter to join us as the service comes through a difficult year and as we develop our responses to identified needs.

Our vision is that every young person has the resources they need to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

Are you passionate about transforming the lives of vulnerable or disadvantaged young people?

We have supported vulnerable young people aged 16-25 years old in Gloucestershire for the past 18 years.

Our purpose is to be there for and respond to vulnerable young people when they need us most. Offering emergency accommodation in the homes of trained and committed volunteers and developing wrap-around services to address needs.

You will be joining at an exciting time of development.

Caring Matters Now is a charity supporting children and adults across the UK and Ireland affected by Congenital Melanocytic Naevus (CMN).

We are looking to recruit a talented Fundraising & Communications Coordinator with a proven track record of success, to join our staff team.The person appointed will play a key role in significantly increasing our fundraising during our 25th Anniversary year and beyond.

You will be responsible for coordinating all fundraising activities for the charity.You will be a positive influencer and an engaging communicator. You must have the skills required to build successful partnerships with key stakeholders, in order to maximise fundraising opportunities and income generation for our charity.You will also be an empathetic individual in your communications with our members (those affected by CMN and their families) and supporters, ensuring sensitivity and maintaining confidentiality at all times.

You will be organised, decisive, and creative, working alongside colleagues to ensure that detailed innovative campaigns (including marketing & PR) are developed to maximise support and get the wider community excited about supporting Caring Matters Now.

We offer competitive rates of pay, flexible hours, and paid holidays.The successful candidate will be required to work from home, undertake DBS and reference checks.

All details about the position can be found on the Fundraising and Communications Coordinator job description.

Closing date: Monday 31st May 2021

Job Description 

Job Title:  Gleaning Co-Ordinator

Reporting To:  Supply Manager

Salary:  £22-24k Pro Rata 

Contract type: 12-month fixed term contract, 0.6 FTE (3 days a week)

About The Felix Project 

The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe.

Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted. 

We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, COVID food hubs and other organisations serving people in need. Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers.

We are a very ambitious and dynamic young charity, and we haven’t stopped growing since we were founded in 2016 in memory of Felix Byam Shaw, by his father, entrepreneur Justin Byam Shaw. We recently ran a very high-profile media campaign with the Evening Standard and Independent, raising £10million to feed London. We have celebrity endorsement from Reece James, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jack Whitehall, Stephen Fry, James May and many others.

Last year we delivered enough food for 21.1 million meals to help people in need. We have continuing major growth plans for the next 4 years, with a target of delivering enough food for 100 million meals by 2024. Because nearly all the food we receive is donated by the food industry and volunteers, every £1 of expenditure redistributes £10 worth of food.

Purpose of the Job 

The Gleaning Co-Ordinator is an important role in our rapidly growing charity. You will be required to oversee all gleaning activity, this involves contacting farms to understand opportunities available, preparing equipment and liaising with key stakeholders across the organisation and managing volunteers on the gleans. You will need to be able to attend the gleans when they occur and carry out risk assessments beforehand while managing the glean on the day.

Duties and Accountabilities 

• Lead all gleaning activities.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with farms.
• Manage the gleans, taking responsibility for each gleaning event.
• Be the first aid point of contact at each glean.

• Volunteer co-ordination, training and supervision
• Resource planning

• Acting as the gleaning ambassador for The Felix Project

• Regular reporting and measurement 
• Work within the parameters of the gleaning budget
• Flexible approach to be able to take advantage of all gleaning opportunities when they arise.
  • Document gleaning days through photos and video media

Person Specification 

You will have a passion for farming, be enthusiastic, organised and proactive, have a knowledge of seasonal produce and the ability to connect with numerous stakeholders including farmers and the volunteers that will support you on the gleans. Be flexible in the days you work - gleaning will peak in September & October but will see activity throughout the year.

Essential skills/knowledge relevant to this role 

• The ability to attend gleaning days on farms and participate in demanding physical activity, sometimes negotiating difficult weather conditions.
• An understanding of the farming industry
• An excellent telephone manner and negotiation skills, particularly when dealing with farmers.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills

• Knowledge and experience of developing and implementing compliance policies.
• Meticulous organisation skills and attention to detail

• Full UK Driving Licence (with no more than 6 points) held for at least 1 year
  • First Aid knowledge or a willingness to train to full first aid requirements

Desirable skills/knowledge relevant to this role  

• Committed to reducing food waste and fighting food poverty.
• Flexibility in terms of working hours / days.
• Experience managing volunteers.
• Understanding of health and safety principles

What you’ll get in return 

You will be working in an upbeat, innovative charity with strong vision, ambition and a fantastic culture and leadership team. This role can be located across any of our sites including Park Royal, Deptford or soon to be opening Poplar but also at the farms that you glean on. 

The salary is c£22,000-£24,000 pro rata per annum (dependant on experience), 25 days annual leave (pro rated to 15 days) + bank holidays. 

Contract Type:  12-month fixed term contract, 0.6 FTE 

Hours:  22.5 hours per week – equivalent to 3 full days

Recruitment timeline 

Applications close: 17th May 2021

First interviews: 27th & 31st May

(if applicable) Second interviews: TBA

The Eikon Charity is a leading Surrey charity supporting children and young people to overcome difficulties, manage their wellbeing and become resilient, enabling them to develop into confident adults who contribute positively to their communities.

We are looking for people with passion and expertise to drive the charity forward.

Main purpose of Job

Consistently tell The Eikon Charity’s story in a clear, concise, compelling way, coordinating marketing and communications activity across the charity, advising and supporting colleagues in all teams, and creating high quality content and copy that gets results.

Key responsibilities:

• Research, coordinate, schedule and monitor an annual communications plan
• Oversee external communications, providing guidance to staff, setting and monitoring quality standards and ensuring consistent application of our brand
• Work across the charity to identify, create and publish content that is clear, concise and paints a compelling picture of why we exist, work we do and results we’re seeing
• Create social media, newsletter and web content, monitoring performance, learning and improving results, and reporting monthly on performance to the senior team
• Work closely with the Digital Marketing Executive to ensure we make effective, coordinated use of digital and that campaigns align with strategy and annual plan
• Write content for regular press releases and develop relationships with local media
• Edit and proofread key external communications and ensure all staff follow guidelines for writing published content
• Oversee subscriber lists in Mailchimp and our CRM, ensuring we comply with all legislation, follow best practice, and provide a rewarding experience for subscribers
• Ensure that we manage all marketing, fundraising and schools data in compliance with the GDPR, PECR, and DPA
• Manage external writers and designers as needed
• Lead on and manage key projects such as the charity’s Annual report and Accounts
• Ensure strict adherence to safeguarding policies and that we have full, informed, written consent when using a young person’s data in external communications

About Glitch

We're a UK charity committed to ending the abuse of women and marginalised people online. Through workshops, training, reports and programmes, we equip our intersectional community to become the digital citizens we need in the world today. From grassroots to systemic change, we advocate for an online world that is a safe space for all. Glitch was founded in 2017 by Seyi Akiwowo, a former politician and Digital Leader of The Year 2019.

The Role

We realise that we could miss out on incredible talent joining Glitch because someone might not see themselves in every single one of these criteria below. We know that women of colour are less likely to apply to a role if they don’t meet all criteria; if you think you could be great for this job, but aren’t entirely sure, please apply anyway.

The Senior Team Coordinator is a key role in supporting the Glitch team in achieving its development goals of 2021-22. This person will play a significant role in establishing Glitch as a sustainable charity. This role would suit someone able to multitask, have attention to details and is highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities. Glitch is an ambitious charity that is developing and growing. We’re looking for somebody innovative, agile, proactive, extremely strong on processes and systems and open to develop and learn with the organisation. 

The Senior Team Coordinator should have an understanding and passion for intersectional feminist values and be deeply committed to diversity and equality in society. 

Employment type: Fixed term contract 12 months (extension subject to funding)

Salary: £24,000-£26,000 (£19,200-£20-800 pro rata, based on a 4-day a week), depending on experience. We're open to discussing flexible arrangements that would give you a work-life balance. Please note Glitch is a 4-day (30 hours) a week organisation.

Location: Remote working

Report to: Director of Operations

Manages: Occasionally manage volunteers

What you can expect:  Our team’s mental health and wellbeing is a top priority. We aim to support creating an environment where everyone can bring their best selves by creating an open culture through regular check-ins, group meditation sessions and complimentary access to the She can. She did. benefits programme, including Vala Health support. You’ll also receive 28 days holiday pro-rata.

With our ambitious plans taking shape, it’s a very exciting time to join Glitch. You’ll be part of an organisation with national and international acclaim, helping support us in our future developments towards a safe internet for all. 

Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK.

Please attach your CV and 1 page cover letter along with answers to the 3 application questions below on page 2 of your cover letter.

Job Application Questions

1. What is your understanding of intersectionality and how it could shape team administration for a charity like Glitch?  (250 words)

2. How did you determine the best way to delegate tasks in your last coordinator job? (200 words)

3. Provide an experience that demonstrates your ability to take initiative. What were the results? (250 words)

For successful applications, the first round of interviews will take place on 7th June 2021
The second round of interviews with a short  interview task will take place on 9th June 2021

Dual Diagnosis Coordinator

Location: Camden/ Islington

Salary: £24,627 - £29,000 annum

Application Deadline: 23 May 2021

Job Summary 

The Service

We have exciting new Rough Sleeper Projects launching in Camden & Islington.  The project will provide coordinated and wrap around care to rough sleepers/street active individuals with substance misuse issues. 

We are looking for an individual who is self-motivated, caring, person centred and passionate about supporting people with multiple needs. Essential to this role is the drive to support individuals to navigate often complex systems to get the support they need for substance misuse and their mental health condition.

The successful candidate will develop a new and exciting partnerships with mental health services, outreach/housing service to support those service users with a dual diagnosis and housing needs, bringing together the key aspects of housing, stability and mental wellness.

The Role

• Conduct street outreach to engage/reengage homeless individuals misusing substances. 
• Deliver street-based interventions. 
• Engage and build relationships with individuals who are rough sleepers/street active.
• Street-based needs assessments/harm reduction advice – including Naloxone distribution.
• Develop robust pathways between mental health and outreach/housing services. 
• Support access/re-engagement with local treatment provider.
• Support Opiate users with rapid prescribing access with use of virtual prescribing clinics.
• Manage a case load of service users with complex needs, including substance misuse and mental health conditions, working with partner agencies to support them to become stable and ready to engage with local treatment providers.
• Work in collaboration with Housing teams, local authority, and other treatment agencies to minimise the prevalence of street drinking and anti-social behaviour by supporting people into treatment

 Conditions

• Salary band of £24,627 - £29,000 annum
• Fixed Term- 31st March 2022
• 37.5 hours per week

Location

The job is outreach based. There are projects will be based in the boroughs of Camden & Islington.

Why Should You Apply? 

• Exciting and innovative field
• Excellent training opportunities
• Strong performance culture

Interested?

For an informal chat about the role, contact, Eleanor Lyden-Vieten, Service Development Manager. (please see contact details on our website).

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 23rd May 2021 at 00:00am 

Interviews are likely to take place via Zoom, to support social distancing.

WDP and Our Values

WDP is an innovative behaviour change charity.  We facilitate long-lasting transformation in people’s lives to improve health, wellbeing and social integration.  We work across the fields of substance misuse, young person’s support, employability, sexual health and inpatient services.

All staff are required to work to WDP’s four values:

●Entrepreneurial

●In partnership

●Strong belief in service users

●Community focused

• Diversity and Equality 
  • WDP are a committed equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from disabled candidates, and those form minority ethnic backgrounds.
• Safeguarding 
  • WDP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• DBS 
  • All posts are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check prior to the confirmation of any job offer.

Mentoring Coordinator (Part-time 20 hours per week) – Fixed Term Contract

Salary £16,505 for 20 hours per week

Kingston Carers’ Network is a thriving carers’ charity providing a wide range of services to adult and young carers in the Royal Borough of Kingston. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivational person with excellent IT skills to join the YCP team in recruiting and supporting mentors for our amazing young carers, aged 5-18, who all have a caring responsibility for a family member. The ability and willingness to work flexible hours is essential, in order to see young carers after school and to link with professionals.

Closing date: 5:00pm Wednesday 19th May 2021

Interviews: Week Commencing 24th May 2021

You must complete an application form to apply for this role.

Kingston Carers’ Network, registered charity number 1151456

Home-Start Barnet is committed to promoting the welfare of families with young children to ensure that they have the best start in life. Our team of volunteers support families experiencing difficulties by visiting them regularly in their own homes and offering them friendship, emotional and practical help.

We are recruiting a Family Health Coordinator to deliver a volunteer-led home-visiting service and related activities to families in the London Borough of Barnet. The post holder will ensure that Home-Start BBEH provides targeted, specialised support to families with children aged 0-19, who have multiple and complex needs. The post carries a high level of responsibility in ensuring that we offer a quality service to families through our team of trained volunteers.

The postholder will follow a “Whole Family Approach” to assess the needs and strengths of the referred child or young person and help them identify individual goals to achieve desired change. They will be required to design, deliver and evaluate interventions which aim to improve mental health and well-being, build on existing strengths and increase levels of resilience

Community Coordinator

ECHO is seeking a new community-building superstar to join our small but hardworking charity supporting children and young people with heart conditions and their families.

You will play a major role in developing a new community forum on the ECHO website, reaching out to families and professionals across the paediatric cardiology community.

You will act as a link between parents, medical professionals and information providers and be of assistance to them all.

The day-to-day job of Community Coordinator will be to build and improve the way parents/carers can ask questions, find information, and get support from the moment of diagnosis right through to adulthood.

This job will suit someone who wants to make a difference to families, someone who understands the value of high quality and reliable information and someone who can take the time to make someone else smile.

The Job Description gives you an idea of what we are looking for - what we would love is someone who can bring ideas and see them through to delivery on a small budget and in a small team. Someone who values volunteers and who can get things done.

Setting up a new online forum might not be easy, we have some technical support, but you will work with volunteers and partners to get it working and moderated safely, within necessary guidelines and policies. When monitoring and replying to forum posts, you will need to be knowledgeable and professional in your signposting ability.

Much of your work will be online but some will be face to face meeting parents, children, doctors, psychologists, administrators, and charity professionals - you will need to be open-minded and have a positive attitude.

Supporting families as they experience their heart journey can be tough; we support you with a fun and friendly team, regular wellbeing activities and monthly external supervision. As a thank you we gift staff some extra holiday days, and we encourage personal development and training.

We are a small team, there may at times be a need for help with a children’s party, a fundraising letter to a company or presenting to a medical team about the work we do. Our work is based mainly from the ECHO office, but we are flexible and ad-hoc travel to events and activities will be necessary.

ECHO seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious belief, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. ECHO welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK. ECHO will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job function if appointed to the role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week.

Salary: £27,000 (pro-rata)

Contract: 12 months (potential to extend, based on funding)

Application process: through Charity Job website only

Closing date: 10am Friday 14th May

Interviews: 8/9th June 2021

Do you have a strong desire to support and empower people who may be going through a hard time? Are you empathetic, caring and able to listen and help without judgement?

Wimbledon Guild is a community charity in the London Borough of Merton providing a hand-up, not a hand-out. We want our customers to feel valued, respected and empowered to live life their way. Whether someone needs emotional, financial or practical support, they can turn to us for help getting back on track.Wimbledon Guild is more than just a place, it is a real community where everyone belongs.

Our Befriending Programme supports vulnerable and isolated clients, providing a listening ear and companionship. Due to the pandemic, we are seeing an increase in requests for a befriender and more clients with complex physical and/or mental health issues. Our service is currently telephone based and we hope to resume home visits in the future.

We are looking for someone with:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to support individuals using a person-centred approach
• Strong interpersonal skills to be able to build relationships, and work collaboratively with clients, volunteers, internal colleagues and external organisations
• Excellent computer literacy skills and experience of using databases to keep records and report on outcomes by collating case records
• Ability to use judgement to assess complex situations, assess risk and provide appropriate responses and solutions for clients who are experiencing isolation and/or distress
• Ability to travel throughout Merton
• Able to work flexibly including occasional evening hours, 

If you think this sounds like you, please complete your application by sending a CV and supporting statement explaining how you meet the person specification criteria and why you would like this job, along with our short application form.

We may close the role early if we receive a large number of applications so please do not wait until the closing date to apply.

Role based in Essex, Hertfordshire,bedforshirebut currently working remotley

About FareShare

FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups. We support 10,962 local charities and community groups. Over the past year 24,074 tonnes of food were redistributed by FareShare. Our charity network serves 933,578 people every week.

Hunger is a growing issue in the UK and while there is surplus food that is otherwise going to waste, we believe that this food should be used to feed people first.

About FareShare Go

FareShare and the Irish social enterprise FoodCloud have been working together since 2016 in a partnership designed to help UK retailers address the issue of edible surplus food they may have within their stores. This innovative partnership, known as FareShare Go, brings together a technology platform and FareShare’s knowledge of the UK charity food redistribution market. Using this App we are connecting charities with edible surplus foods.

The Role

As Community Coordinator, your role will focus on the growth and sustainability of the FareShare Go programme; through maximising relationships and adding value to create the best experience for our charity community. The successful candidate will be an exceptional communicator, with an approachable nature who will play a vital role in developing and maintaining charity and retailer relationships, plus raising awareness of FareShare Go across your local area

• Charity Welcoming and Engagement: You will carry out Welcome Visits to new charities and be responsible for ensuring that coverage KPIs are reached and maintained for both new and existing retailers. Using your analysis of charity needs, plus your knowledge of retailer and store profiles, you will use these visits to maximise the offer to charities, ensuring the service meets their requirements.

• Community Capacity Building: As part of the Building of relationships with charities, you will seek opportunities to enable and empower charities to increase their capacity and ability to take more food, to ultimately increase the redistribution of surplus food to those in need.
   
• Sustainability and Compliance: You will work with your Regional Manager and team to identify stores where re-engagement activities are needed to improve charity coverage and charity compliance. Liaising with the Central Team, you will work to maximise the amount of food collected by charities with lower levels of compliance. You will also be responsible for undertaking annual food safety checks within the agreed timeframe.

• Retailer Engagement: You will play a key role in maintaining strong retailer relationships across your region. You will take an active role in any meet and greets with retailers, where required. Plus you will be responsible for maintaining regular contact with the relevant retail stakeholders in your region, sensitively dealing with any issues in a professional manner, as and when they arise.
   
• FareShare Network Engagement: We aim to become 'oneFareShare’. These roles are an integral part of our FareShare network and you will partner closely with the Regional Centre(s) in your areas. You will work on joint initiatives which improve and grow the FareShare community, ensuring that charities have access to the FareShare service which best meet their needs.

Specification

Essential

• Have exceptional relationship building skills with a range of stakeholders
• Be a strong communicator who is able to engage with a variety of audiences.
• Be confident and assertive in handling difficult situations, whilst demonstrating calmness and professionalism
• Strong problem solving skills
• Self-manage your own performance and workload.
• Have initiative and innovative thinking, in order to shape new/different ways of working
• Have strong IT skills
• Be flexible with working arrangements as the role may involve high levels of travel to areas of the UK.
• Have a valid driver’s licence for the UK, access to a car and can undertake extensive travel across your region.

Desirable

• Level 2/3 Food Safety training is desirable, but training will be provided.
• Have previous experience working with constituent relationship management (CRM) software. Salesforce experience is advantageous.
• Some experience in data analysis and project planning
• Be degree educated or have a strong career history doing

About Us

Elays Network is a multi-faceted community organisation that aims to engage, educate and empower communities who have become disengaged and marginalised from accessing the help and support they need. We support our local community through our three main focus; 

1. Education & Training 

2. Health & Wellbeing and,

3. Advice & Advocacy 

Elays Network is seeking a Community Engagement Coordinator to work closely with our team to facilitate the Health & Wellbeing programme among our community, specifically supporting adults and elderly members. Reporting to the director, the Community Engagement Coordinator will support achieving the outcomes of the externally funded Health & Wellbeing programme through the coordination and delivery of Elays Adult projects that consist of education and training, health and well-being and advice and advocacy - with specific focus on the impact of Covid- 19 and vaccination uptake. 

The aim of this post will be to support our director in building work that:

• Improves the engagement with public health and local authority initiatives, by setting up workshops with the public health and community both involved in the design of the project. 

• Keeps the community involved - this work will be focusing on creating written and visual materials that will benefit the community and dispel myths about Covid- 19 and vaccines.

• Reflects on the pandemic - we want to gather stories and experiences from the community about the impact of covid-19 on them and create bridges between the community and public health on how they can best be supported. 

• Keeps the community informed by creating platforms for communities to get the right information about Covid-19, new restrictions and most importantly Covid-19 vaccination related topics. 

• improves the lives of our local community through health and wellbeing workshops and campaigns  to help families stay healthy and fit. Advocacy and advice support, by creating useful materials alongside our advisor which will support families who are really struggling throughout this pandemic. 

The project will offer:

• an opportunity to be involved in becoming ambassadors within the community- ensuring our community stays supported throughout the pandemic and its aftermath. 

• an opportunity to work alongside the public health and Elays Network in building projects for their needs with their voices in the fabric of the project plan. 

• an opportunity to learn about the facts about the virus and vaccine and to be able to identify myths.

• Workshops, materials and support provided for the communities that need them the most keeping them digitally connected, informed and involved with how information is spread and created in the local community. 

This a very proactive and balanced role, aiding both delivered at our centre and in local restaurants, coffee shops, masjids/mosques - spaces the community have created and manage themselves. This programme will be supporting our Health & Wellbeing objectives and will work in partnership with Wandsworth Council, the NHS and other agencies. Elays Network  particularly welcomes applications from individuals who speak somali as a first/second language.

Hours:                20 hours per week, 11:30am - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday

Salary:              £11,312 per annum (based on £21,210 pro rata)

Reporting to:     Home Operations Manager

Location:            Mercy UK, Oxenhope, BD22 9JE

Interview Date:   Interviews will happen as and when applications are received 

Please note: This position carries an Occupational Requirement (OR) on the grounds of gender, religion and belief in keeping with current guidance. The post holder must identify as, and be biologically female, and be able to demonstrate a Christian belief and value system in line with Mercy UK’s core objectives, statement of faith and values.

Here at Mercy UK we have a passion for God, passion for people and passion for excellence – this means we

are committed to becoming an organisation where team members feel supported, valued and challenged to

deepen their personal and professional growth. As an agile and fast-moving team, we seek to give our very

best in attitude and activity in seeing hope restored and lives transformed.

As the Fitness Coordinator, your experience and your natural talent for seeing the individual person – their needs, desires, personality type and learning style – allows you to engage each individual participant online and onsite, in fitness strategies which complement and contribute to their individual freedom journeys.

Through innovative and creative development and delivery of training plans, workshops, goal-setting and new experiences, you create safe and enjoyable access for all participants to engage in a fitness programme that is right for them; helping them to set healthy goals and a healthy balance. Your organisation skills means that balanced meals are prepared on time and are well-portioned, and you see all these things as key life-skills towards maintaining life-long freedom.

Your experience in areas such as personal training or physiotherapy, enables you to identify deeper needs, seeing where participants require more focussed or even pastoral / spiritual support in the areas of physical wellbeing and you work collaboratively with the Mercy programme team and a network of professionals to deliver this support. 

We are seeking someone with a passion for working with people and excellent project delivery skills to support LGBTQ communities in Sussex who are experiencing dementia or memory loss through our Rainbow Café project.

Switchboard’s Rainbow Café has been delivering a vital service for the past 4 years, and we are looking for someone who can join this team at an exciting time of growth and development. You will be working with LGBTQ people living with dementia, their friends, families and carers in a range of creative ways.

The project will involve engaging with LGBTQ individuals, building trust and supporting people to attend group sessions. The Rainbow Cafe is all about ensuring LGBTQ people can access a space where they can be their whole selves. Often this involves reflecting on LGBTQ lives and histories, connecting people with shared experiences, and providing signposting, advice or support around memory loss to LGBTQ+ people who need it.