Exciting New Housing First Support Service

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative new model to help the most vulnerable in their community. They are looking for the right people to start their new team delivering an innovative approach to support as part of the Housing First service. You will be part of a team of seven people shaping and designing the service alongside our clients to be delivering excellent support in this exciting new area.

Housing First is an innovating approach to supporting the most excluded and hard to reach clients. It focuses on supporting clients in their own accommodation to maintain tenancies and achieve individual goals and aspirations. You will be working with a caseload of 5-7 clients delivering this approach within office hours.

The Housing First team work together to provide a personalised, trauma informed support service to people with complex needs facing multiple exclusion in line with Housing First and Housing Led Principles. They will be required to provide a person centred, strength-based support service to support clients to create long term sustainable tenancies by increasing independence and maximising connectivity with the local community.

Our Housing first team support and empower homeless and vulnerable people to achieve sustainable independence and wellbeing and make positive changes in their lives. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the most vulnerable in their community. Rather than follow normal routes of hostels to supported housing to independent accommodation, this service offers clients who have been rough sleeping their own home and then gives them the intensive support needed to maintain their tenancies and lead functional lives where traditional service delivery has failed to engage and meet their needs.

The new team will be supporting approx. 30 clients in properties across all 7 boroughs. Staff will work on a team basis covering and supporting colleagues and clients.

They are looking for people who, not only have relevant skills and experience, but also have the passion, commitment, enthusiasm and vision to enable Transform to help homeless and vulnerable people transform their lives.

It is essential that you have a full valid driving licence and use of your own car for business purposes.

Enhanced DBS clearance will also be required.

They review CV’s when they receive them and interview as soon as they have applications that look like a good match, so apply as soon as you can to avoid missing out.

Position: Housing First Officers
Location: Multiple locations in Surrey around their head office in Leatherhead
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 39 hours Monday to Friday flexible working
Salary: £21,500 to £24,250 dependent on experience (pro rata for part time)

You may also have experience in the following: Support Worker, Housing, Vulnerable People, Charities, Social Worker, Community Development, Volunteer, Housing Support Worker, Challenging Behaviour, Third Sector, Residential Care Worker, Charity, Voluntary Sector, etc.

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Support Housing Officer

Do you have experience supporting vulnerable adults in accommodation, with varying needs?

Would you like to provide accommodation support to 18-59 year old UK residents? 

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in an ambitious, sector-leading organisation where your contributions will be valued.

Please don't delay applying since our client may interview on a rolling basis.

Benefits: As well as fulfilling work and lots of support from your Manager, they offer a health cash plan covering medical, dental and optician costs, a 24/7 unlimited GP adviceline (including video advice), discounted gym membership, an employee assistance programme and life cover.

Location and travel: This position will be based in High Wycombe. A driving license and access to your own transport would be beneficial due to public transport issues to the site. 

Hours: You will initially work Monday-Friday, 7.5 hours per day working one weekend shift in four. You will also be rostered to work on public holidays. Occasional unsocial hours based on the needs of the service.

About the role:

Our client runs high quality housing services. This opportunity is part of a small and committed team supporting 18-59 year old individuals with the transition into independence. You will support clients to adjust to living in shared accommodation, and work with external services to support them to identify move on accommodation. The service provides intensive wrap-around 24 hour support.

You will have experience supporting vulnerable adults with varying needs. You'll also be committed to providing tailored individual support plans to help clients realise their full potential.

This role may involve occasional lone working as well as working as part of a team. You will be required to assist clients to attend appointments within the community, encourage and oversee that the accommodation is kept clean and tidy, facilitate budgeting, cooking and life skill sessions and meet frequently with the caseload to provide support.

An Enhanced Disclosure check is required for this role.

Background information:

This is an exciting time to be joining our client as they embark on an ambitious plan to grow their housing service and double the impact they have across all their accommodation sites.

In 2020/21 they provided over 185,030 nights of safe and secure accommodation to those most in need. Providing considerably more than just accommodation their highly experienced support and complex-needs team deliver over 23,000 housing related support sessions each year through which the housing team were able to support a total of 992 vulnerable individuals to escape homelessness and rough sleeping with 463 of their residents being helped to move-on positively into their own long term settled accommodation.

If you feel that you have the necessary skills and experience to foster a culture of excellent customer service, genuine care for residents, a strong sense of team spirit to maximise outcomes / increase the impact for residents our client would welcome your application.

How to apply:

You need to complete your application on our clients website (you will be redirected by clicking apply).

Before completing your application, please read the attached job description.

Please state your notice period (or the earliest date you can start) in the "Supporting Information" box on the application form.

Please remember to submit your application once you have finished (by pressing the "Complete" button on the final page) or it will be marked as incomplete.

One full-time and one part-time (18.75 hours a week) position available 
Fixed term contract until 31 March 2023
Dorset Hub – Weymouth Office

Closing date: 31 May 2022 at 11.30 pm

Are you a client-focused, proactive and compassionate individual with a proven track record of working with vulnerable people with multiple and complex needs?  If so, Shelter has a highly rewarding and exciting opportunities for two posts - Intensive Floating Support Worker and Housing First Support Worker to join our team and play a central role in delivering our vital support projects.
 
This role is being advertised as an Intensive Floating Support Worker but on appointment, for the full-time position, your job title will be Housing First Support Worker.

About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare.  Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction.  So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home.  We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time.  This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Part of the Dorset hub, the Intensive Floating Support service will be based in Weymouth and work with people who have multiple and complex needs who have been temporarily accommodated by Dorset Council or have been identified as rough sleeping.  It will link in with the work being done by other Shelter teams, especially the ‘Housing First’ team, and will take a multi-agency approach, working closely with other organisations such as health, social care and substance misuse services, including the new rough sleeper drug and alcohol support service (Reach Out). 

The purpose of this project is to support clients to maintain their home and build their confidence and self-esteem to be able move forward with their life. It operates on the principle that if a person has a safe, secure home they are in the best position to address any other challenges they may have.

About the roles
Working closely with the Housing First team and colleagues and accommodation providers, this role will see you place clients directly into homes in areas they choose and then work to develop co-produced, outcome-focused support plans support plans that reflect each service user’s personal strengths and goals to ensure that they can sustain their accommodation and thrive in their community.
 
You will also be expected to coordinate support around the person and act as a key worker to help them sustain their accommodation and move forward with their recovery and co-ordinate interventions provided by other agencies to ensure that the right support is provided at the right time to enable the service user to progress on their journey to recovery.  Giving full advice on different issues such as homelessness and housing options, tenancy issues e.g. dampness and disrepair, welfare and housing benefits, debt and employment is also a key aspect of the role.

About you
Forward-thinking, flexible and open-minded, you will have extensive experience of supporting vulnerable people with multiple and complex needs and actively support the introduction of new ideas, methods and processes.  You will also have a sound understanding of homelessness, housing legislation and welfare benefits, as well as experience of working within a safeguarding framework.  Proficiency using a range of IT tools to carry out your work, including case management systems and Microsoft Office applications, excellent interpersonal skills and a full UK driving license are also essential.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata for part-time), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own. 

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities),gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.
 
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Tenancy Sustainment Officer – Homeless Services

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: Starting at £24,303 (this includes £1,000 enhancement for participating in the organisation’s out of hours on-call on a rota basis)

Action Homeless is looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to join a small team in supporting clients to sustain their own tenancies.  This is an ideal role for someone who has a passion to make a difference and help individuals to regain their independence.

You will be responsible for overseeing tenant’s journeys from temporary accommodation into their own tenancy, providing advice on their rights and obligations including entitlements to welfare benefits and dealing with any breaches in tenancies.

We are seeking an individual that can either demonstrate experiences according to the person specification or can show the willingness and drive to undertake training to succeed in the role. The ability to prioritise workloads, motivate people to engage, work flexibly with a “can do” attitude, and be a team player are essential.

To apply please visit our website actionhomeless. org. uk where details about the role, the job description, person specification and application form can be found. 

Closing date: Monday 30th May 2022

Homeless Services Officer

37 Hours per week

Starting salary - £22,478 (11.68 per hour) salary includes £1000 enhancement for participation in on-call duties on a rota basis.

An exciting new opportunity!

Action Homeless are committed to ending the cycle of homelessness and ensuring everyone has a decent and safe place to call home. Our mission is to ensure that no one has to sleep rough on the street in our City. We are passionate about ending street homelessness, and empowering people to achieve higher living standards and quality of life. 

We are looking for people with experience of working with vulnerable adults, you may already be in the homeless sector, or have experience working with adults in challenging situations, and have transferable skills and competencies we are looking for.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a service working towards reducing rough sleeping in Leicester, supporting people to access suitable crisis and longer-term accommodation.

As a Homeless Service Officer you will:

• Work within one of our low, medium or high support services
• You will be responsible for delivering housing related support
• Working with clients to help transition into end stage accommodation
• Work with a strength based approach to help overcome complex issues and create tailored support packages.
• Conduct regular health and safety checks
• Be responsible for rent collection and void management.

A lot of our services operate 7 days per week which may include some evening work or weekend work to ensure that the needs of our clients are fully met.

The job description, person specification and application form can be downloaded from our website actionhomeless. org. uk . The post will come with development and training over the next 2 years to support the complexity of the client group and role.

Closing date: 8th June 2022.

Ryedale Court is a 40 bed complex needs service based in Redbridge (Ilford, Essex). We support people who have a number of needs based around their mental health, substance use, physical health, offending behaviour and homelessness. We take a trauma informed approach to our work and provide intensive 24/7 support to our residents, believing in an approach centered around each individual.

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life. We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

In the new post of Senior Specialist Worker, you will be responsible for working and supporting the team and residents, during an exciting period of expansion, as Ryedale Court increases from an 18 to 40-bed service. We are looking for someone who will be able to hit the ground running, taking on a small caseload of clients and line management of our new Day Concierge, alongside supporting management in the day-to-day running of the service.

Closing date: 25th May 2022 (at Midnight)

Interviews to be held: During June 2022 

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant. 

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six months.
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited. 

Are you committed to supporting young people into independence? Do you have the drive, creativity and personal qualities which will encourage and coach our clients into developing life skills; supporting them to manage living independently? Then read on. 

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life. We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

We currently have an opportunity for you to join our intensive floating support service for care leavers in Lambeth. The service supports care leavers who have experienced multiple disadvantages as they transition to independent living. As a Floating Support Worker, you will work with a small caseload of care leavers, supporting them to sustain their tenancies, access mental and physical health services and engage with Education, Training and Employment (ETE) whilst promoting independence and social inclusion.

We run services that are creative, responsive and that provide a foundation which empowers our young people to achieve their aspirations and make positive and sustainable life changes. You will be crucial to making that happen. 

In return, we will provide you with a diverse range of work experiences within the role, excellent training opportunities, and the opportunity for progression within an organisation with a history of internal staff moving into more senior positions.   

If you think you have what it takes, then we would love to hear from you. We welcome applications from those with lived experience or who have transferable skills. 

Closing date: 5th June 2022 (at Midnight)

Interviews to be held: 14th June 2022 

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant. 

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six months.
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited.

Hours: 34.5 hours, 39 weeks

Pro Rated Salary: £17,114.41

Location: Cheadle

Job Purpose

In addition to supporting the general learning and care of pupils across the school, the postholder will provide cover for absent staff, including teachers. The postholder will also assume a lead practitioner and mentoring role for other assistants within the school. They will have some responsibility for ensuring tier one strategies are implemented consistently in the classroom and pupil’s therapy targets are transferred and embedded.

About you

Do you want to break down barriers to learning for children with autism? Looking to further your Educational Assistant Career?

Inscape House are looking for Senior Educational Assistants.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Level 3 or higher Teaching Assistant qualification or commitment to obtain such qualification within a given period of time.
• Minimum of two year’s experience of working with children with autistic spectrum disorders within a school setting.
• Experience of successful work with pupils who present with behaviours that concern.
• Awareness of current developments in supporting pupils with autism.
• Knowledge of specific approaches to working with people with autism both structured and unstructured, ie. TEACCH, PECS, intensive interaction etc.

Hours: 34.5 hours, 39 weeks (Term Time Only)

Pro Rated Salary: £17,114.41

Location: Cheadle

Job Purpose

In addition to supporting the general learning and care of pupils across the school, the postholder will provide cover for absent staff, including teachers. The postholder will also assume a lead practitioner and mentoring role for other assistants within the school. They will have some responsibility for ensuring tier one strategies are implemented consistently in the classroom and pupil’s therapy targets are transferred and embedded.

About you

Do you want to break down barriers to learning for children with autism? Looking to further your Educational Assistant Career?

Inscape House are looking for Senior Educational Assistants.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Level 3 or higher Teaching Assistant qualification or commitment to obtain such qualification within a given period of time.

• Minimum of two year’s experience of working with children with autistic spectrum disorders within a school setting.

• Experience of successful work with pupils who present with behaviours that concern.
• Awareness of current developments in supporting pupils with autism.

• Knowledge of specific approaches to working with people with autism both structured and unstructured, ie. TEACCH, PECS, intensive interaction etc.

SENIOR SUBSTANCE MISUSE PRACTITIONER, NOTTINGHAM RECOVERY NETWORK ROUGH SLEEPER DRUG AND ALCOHOL TREATMENT TEAM, PERMANENT, 37 HPW, A4C BAND 5 £25,655- 31,534

The Nottingham Recovery Network is the single point of advice, support and treatment to anybody in Nottingham City who wishes to change their relationship with alcohol or drugs.

An exciting opportunity to help develop the Nottingham City Drug and Alcohol treatment pathway. NRN is creating a service to prioritise the substance misuse treatment needs of rough sleepers in Nottingham City. The service will be a dynamic team of professionals delivering an intensive outreach provision to rough sleepers and those at greatest risk of becoming rough sleepers.

The post holder will:

• be part of a team that provides high quality substance misuse interventions to complex severe multiple disadvantage individuals. Offering an exclusive pathway into treatment for people are sleeping rough, or at risk of rough sleeping.
• be committed to addressing the challenges faced by rough sleepers, maximising the potential for rough sleepers to remain engaged in substance misuse treatment.
• establish working relations with partner agencies. This will include developing outreach clinics at Hostel and Accommodation services across Nottingham City.
• have experience of delivering brief and extended Alcohol advice and treatment.
• have experience working with people who have substance misuse issues.
• have knowledge of harm reduction and recovery interventions.
• be able to demonstrate flexibility in their working practices.
• be able to demonstrate good team working.
• have good communication skills.

Occasional weekend and late-night Wednesday may be required.

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Role Overview

Job Title: Floating Support Workers

Location: Various locations in London

Salary: £27,948 per annum

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services, and we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. 

We are recruiting for motivated, driven floating support workers (FSW) who are passionate about supporting women and children who are affected by domestic violence. These roles are part of a partnership for the Ascent Pan London Floating Support Service (FSS), which will provide high-quality domestic abuse support, ‘by-and-for’ services and counselling. This partnership will deliver trauma-informed, wrap-around, client-led support for those in safe accommodation, across London.

Referrals to the FSS will come through a single-point-of-access Freephone telephone number, or secure email operated by Refuge duty-workers. This will operate from Refuge’s Head Office in London. The duty line will operate Monday to Friday 09.30 am to 05.30 pm.

Referrals can come through any agency, or self-referral, but initially pathways will be established with all borough housing teams by FSWs working within tri-borough clusters who will build relationships within their localities. The FSS will accept referrals for any survivor living in safe accommodation except refuge, at any level of risk, on a needs-led basis.

Refuge, along with Advance and Solace Women’s Aid, will provide the ‘general needs’ support provision in the partnership. The support will be divided into geographical clusters of maximum three boroughs (shown below), with a Refuge floating support worker allocated to each cluster.

• Havering, Bexley, Bromley 
• Richmond, Wandsworth, Kingston 

The floating support workers will work closely with the central duty team (3 duty workers). Each service in the partnership has dedicated management to provide support and oversight for staff, and lead on safeguarding and project management. Refuge’s floating support service manager will manage the floating support workers and duty teams, taking overall responsibility for monitoring, reporting, and meeting outcomes across the floating support service.

These are new and exciting roles in Refuge, with opportunities for everyone in the new service to work across the partnership (and therefore the sector) providing high quality support to victims of domestic violence. 

The floating support worker will carry a smaller caseload of survivors and their children to enable them to provide a more holistic and intensive support package. They will work closely with victims of domestic abuse from the point of crisis, to provide high quality support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children.

The job involves informing survivors of the full range of civil, criminal and practical options that might increase their safety. There is an expectation that the FSWs will work in partnership with both statutory and voluntary sector partners to ensure that the whole range of survivors’ needs are met.

Benefits

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.

Other information

Closing Date: Tuesday 07 June 2022 at 09.00 am

Interview Date: Tuesday 14 June 2022

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. However, these posts are restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Thank you for considering a Youth Intervention Practitioner role with Redthread. We are a team of compassionate, collaborative and courageous professionals, committed to empowering young people to change their lives. 

We are looking to recruit dynamic team members across all of our London Hospital sites, listed below. During the application process, you will be asked to list your location preference in order. If successful, this will be discussed with you during the recruitment stages.

As a Youth Intervention Practitioner working on our Youth Violence Intervention Programme, you will primarily be based in the A&E department of a hospital, supporting young people who are experiencing trauma or tragedy and their families. You’ll be part of a team that is fully embedded in the hospital and that is highly valued by clinicians and community partners alike.

To do this well you need to be a people person; passionate about supporting young people, and excited at the prospect of working in a fast-paced and exceptionally busy environment. You’ll need a proven ability to work with high risk, vulnerable young people and an understanding of the impact intense, short term work can have.

You must be a strong communicator: as comfortable building a relationship with a young person as you are liaising with our clinical colleagues. You’ll be keen to keep learning, seizing training opportunities at Redthread and continuously reflecting upon and improving your practice.

During the Covid-19 outbreak, our teams are still working from the hospitals as we are classed as essential workers. You will need to do shifts at the hospital, as well as working some days from home, depending on the needs of the team and the service.

In return, the successful candidates will receive a competitive salary, a supportive and flexible working environment, excellent staff training and development package and access to a range of employee benefits including; access to enhanced employee assistance programme services, employer pension scheme contribution, enhanced annual leave and family leave entitlements and more.

If this sounds like it could be the role for you, please download the full Job Description and Person Specification from our website via the yellow 'Apply on Website' button at the top of this page. 

Closing date: 10 am, Monday 6th June.

We would like this role to start as soon as possible and we will provide comprehensive training and induction.

Please note: If we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the closing date. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

Positions are available at all locations listed below:

Local A&E's:

1) Homerton Hospital, Hackney

2) Croydon University Hospital, Croydon

3) University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham

4) Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich

Major Trauma Centres:

5) King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill

6) St Marys Hospital, Paddington

7) St Georges Hospital, Tooting

What do our Youth Intervention team do?

Redthread empowers young people to thrive as they navigate the challenging transition to adulthood by integrating trauma-informed youth work into the health sector. Whether a young person has been the victim of a stabbing, is seeking support for anxiety, has suffered a sexual assault, or wants to find a new home beyond the reach of a gang, we support them to overcome the challenges they face through our dynamic youth work programmes.

Every year thousands of young people find themselves in hospital A&E departments as the victim of serious youth violence. Redthread’s Youth Violence Intervention Programme embeds youth workers in hospitals to intervene with these young people. The teams meet the young patients as soon as they can: in the A&E waiting room, on the ward, or even in the resuscitation bay. We believe that this moment of intense crisis, when the young person is nursing a serious injury in the daunting environment of a busy hospital, often alone, can be a catalyst for pursuing positive change – a ‘teachable moment’.

Our teams build rapport with the young people, mentor and advise them, and support them to make long-term positive plans to break away from cycles of violence and offending. Problems include exclusion from education, employment or training, a lack of stability in housing, mental health concerns, unstable relationships and reprimands due to criminal activity. Redthread capitalise on our partnerships to ensure long-term work and change is possible for each young person. The teams make well-judged referrals on their behalf and accompany them to initial meetings to ensure transition is smooth. This work disrupts the cycle that can too easily lead to devastated communities and an exhausted healthcare and justice system.

Splitz Support Service’s Phoenix Project has recently received new funding, which has allowed us to continue to grow and expand the services we offer. This is an exciting new post, joining our IDVA Team, which operates across Wiltshire.

This role is part of the Phoenix Project which provides individual and family support to domestic abuse and sexual violence victims and their children. The IDVA Team work within a multi-agency system to provide a proactive, person centered independent service for victims of domestic abuse, empowering choice through informed decision making.

Key elements of the role include:

• Providing priority support to service users, with a focus on supporting men and complex cases.
• Risk assessing and helping to keep service users safe, through robust safety planning.
• Enabling victims to access statutory and other services.
• Engaging with and supporting the MARAC process, to ensure that the voice of the victim is heard.
• Managing a caseload of high risk victims and working proactively to support them and their families.

This role will be based in our Trowbridge office, with a requirement to travel across Wiltshire. Splitz supports staff to work flexibly, with an ability to work in a hybrid fashion, both at home and in the office.

Grants Manager 

We are seeking a Grants Manager to take lead responsibility for individual grant programmes for a leading health charity at an exciting time of growth. 

Position: Grants Manager 

Location: Homebased with occasional travel to Warwick

Salary: £42,000 - £48,000 per annum 

Hours: Full time – 35 hours 

About the role:

As Grants Manager you will be responsible for managing a small team within a geographical portfolio reporting to the Senior Grants Manager/Head of Grants to leading the delivery of the grant making and grant management process, awarding funding to Member Charities.

In addition to line management, you will manage a more complex portfolio of grants, taking a relational approach to grant making and acting as a key contact point for internal and external stakeholders. You will take lead responsibility for individual grant programmes and ensure consistency in interpretation of programme criteria and assessments across the grants team engagement. The experience level of this post means that the role will hold higher responsibility in terms of delegated decision making and escalation of more complex issues across grants management functions and provide line management the Senior Grants Officers and coaching and support for team members. 

The role is an integral part of the Grants Team which collectively delivers the grants programmes of the Charity to further the organisational impact strategy. 

About You:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the ability to work at a strategic level, be excellent at building relationships and strong leadership and management skills.

You will also bring with you the following experience:

• Significant knowledge of grant making and grant programmes in excess of £1million 

• Strong knowledge of grant making processes and systems, ideally gained from a variety of sources

• Strong experience of relational grant management 

• Good understanding of the landscape of grant making, ideally within the voluntary sector, health sector or NHS 

• Good experience of grant management systems, e.g. Salesforce 

• Strong understanding of charities and charity governance 

• Experience of monitoring, evaluation, and impact measurement 

• Significant leadership and  people management experience, could be gained through leading staff or volunteers. 

• Strong reporting and analytical skills. Evidence of creative thinking and problem-solving skills. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Able to assimilate information clearly and prepare appropriate, clear, and concise content. 

• Strong presentation skills, confidence to deliver presentations, training, or grants + support 

• Experience of co-production, collaboration and partnership working 

• Self starter with ability to work remotely with a UK wide team 

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Grants Manager, Grant Programmes Manager, Grants and Programmes Manager, Grant Scheme Manager, Charitable Grants Manager, Head of Grants Management, Grants Operation Lead, Grants Director, Trusts and Grants Manager, Senior Grants & Programmes Manager, Programme Funding Manager, etc.