Does your Finance Business Partnering ability belong in an environment in which you're dealing with truly massive budgets? Do you want to work in a fascinating industry with a global reach? Do you feel at home in large, complex organisations where the challenges include building strong working relationships with a diverse team?

Based in Wiltshire, this Finance Business Partner role will offer you the opportunity to manage truly massive budgets - some of which are hundreds of millions, if not billions in value. Within the role's wide scope of influence, key responsibilities include:

• Taking the lead in business partnering with various budget holders and members of the Senior Management Team
• Being fully responsible for budgeting and forecasting for vital departments within the organisation
• Leading in the financial running of multiple company projects with multi-million-pound budgets and assisting in the production of business cases
• Playing a vital role in the five to ten-year financial plans of the organisation
• Being responsible for the preparation of multiple financial models across the organisation.

This will be a varied role with a strong focus on providing modern business partnering support to a range of stakeholders, some of whom may be unfamiliar with how much value a true business partner can add. There is also scope for this role to manage staff once your feet are under the desk, but initially, the reporting line can be diverted to offer some breathing space as you settle in.

To be considered for the Finance Business Partner vacancy, candidates will need to meet these minimum criteria:

• Be a qualified accountant, or truly QBE, with strong experience providing budget and forecasting support to challenging budget holders
• Have first class communication and human interaction skills and the proven ability to build strong working relationships.

The organisation is fully set up to conduct video interviews and remote onboarding, so this can easily be an opportunity to pursue despite the current global situation.

Applications are being reviewed constantly and with the option of video interviewing, the post may close early if the suitable candidate is found. Please apply now!

DHI is an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and well-being of their community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join DHI’s small but dynamic central services team as a Workforce Development Manager. Responsible and accountable for the leadership, delivery and development of a small team of staff covering the operational areas of HR, Workforce Development and Volunteers, the Workforce Development Manager will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer to ensure that staff are employed, deployed and developed in ways that are aligned to the organisation’s values. 

If you have demonstrable experience of providing effective, responsive, values-based HR support and staff development initiatives, within a small or medium-sized organisation, and share our passion for and commitment to supporting people to achieve their potential, we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please go to our website and complete the Application and Skills Forms by midday Thursday 16th April.

We have a rewarding opportunity available for a Female Crisis House Day Support Worker to join our team based in Bristol. You will join us on permanent full-time basis or a three month fixed- term contract basis, working 37.5 hours per week. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £21,166 per annum and benefits.

Would you like to join the largest provider of women-only services in Bristol bringing innovation, expertise and extensive experience? Established in 1983, BRISTOL MISSING LINK (incorporating Next Link and Safe Link) is a leading provider of women’s support services in Bristol.

In return for joining us, we will offer you:

- Up to 30 days annual leave (depending on length of service)

- 3 extra holidays including International Women’s Day

- Excellent development and training opportunities

- Employer pension contribution (minimum 5% of your gross salary)

- Mindful Employer Plus Scheme

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Long Service Awards

- Wellness Awards

About the role:

We are looking for a positive and dynamic Female Crisis House Day Support Worker who will work in our crisis house for women experiencing a mental health crisis and who are unable to cope in the community. The crisis house works to a social care model of recovery. Successful candidates will be responsible for the support and safety of our service users.

Key duties and responsibilities of our Female Crisis House Day Support Worker:

- Carry out assessments and take referrals in line with policy.

- Provide a package of practical and emotional support to women living in the Crisis House Service.

- Provide the highest possible standard of care and support to service users in accordance with the policies and procedures of Missing Link.

- Liaise with all appropriate agencies to ensure appropriate referrals and the best access to appropriate mental

health services.

- Contribute to the overall aims and objectives of the Crisis House and facilitate service users mental health recovery.

- Ensure the smooth running of the Crisis House.

This is not an exhaustive list of your duties and outlines the general ways in which it is expected you will meet the overall requirements of this post.

What we are looking for in our ideal Female Crisis House Day Support Worker:

- Experience of support planning and crisis prevention

- Experience of working in a support or care setting with people in mental health crisis

- Experience of managing emergency situations effectively

- The ability to work day shift pattern 7:00 – 15:00 and 14:00 – 22:00, including weekends on a rota basis.

Closing date: 9am Friday 17th April 2020

Interview date: Friday 24th April 2020

If you are motivated, resourceful and passionate about empowering and supporting women in crisis please apply now to join us as our Female Crisis House Day Support Worker and contribute to the valuable work Missing Link and its wider services do.

Please monitor your emails following your application.

Missing Link is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Missing Link is committed to Equal Opportunities. *Due to the specific requirements of this role, this post is exempt under the Equality Act (2010), Part 1, Schedule 9 (Genuine Occupational Requirement.)

Are you an effective and enthusiastic individual who is passionate about reducing the number of children being removed into care by supporting women to bring about change in their lives?

Pause is a national independent organisation seeking to prevent the damaging consequences of thousands more children being taken into care each year by working with women who have experienced – or are at risk of – repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause and take control over their lives, breaking a destructive cycle that causes both them and their children deep trauma, as well as reducing huge costs to society and the taxpayer.

Coordinator Role

As a Pause Practice Coordinator, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive and confidential assistance and administrative support to Pause Bristol to enable staff to perform their duties effectively and efficiently. You will need to be well organised and enthusiastic, and pay close attention to detail to support the fast paced and busy assertive outreach team.

In addition you will act as a key liaison for partner agencies and Pause Bristol, as well as being a direct point of contact for the women themselves.

You’ll be a big part of a small team, where everyone takes a flexible and collaborative approach to work, and is committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable and marginalised groups.

Benefits: Generous leave (33 days including bank holidays pro rata) plus up to 13 additional days’ time off in lieu; flexible working hours; and great job satisfaction.

Hours: 15 hours a week over 2 days, Monday and Tuesday (including occasional evening and weekend commitments)

Interviews: 17 April 2020

Expected start date:  Flexible

A leading women’s charity in central Bristol is seeking a Head of Finance & Operations for a maternity cover position.

The position is due to start in May 2020 and is likely to be for a fixed period of 9-12 months. The ideal candidate will be able to work 4 or 4.5 days per week, but applicants wishing to work 3 days per week will also be considered.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with understanding of charity finance (SORP accounting and restricted and unrestricted income) although this is not essential.

The role will be largely strategic in nature, delivering financial information, strategy and advice to the board and to the CEO. The role will also involve production of the year-end statutory accounts, and assisting with the migration to a new cloud-based finance system.

You will manage a team of 4 staff, covering the hands-on finance work and HR & Operations.

The organisation has recently recorded a surplus around funding, which had previously been in deficit – so a strong understanding of funding is required.

The organisation is a very flexible and friendly employer.

Due to the nature of the charity, it is a special dispensation that applicants for this post must be female.

Salary is £44,500 pro-rata / FTE

Closing date: Ongoing

Interviews: ASAP

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.

My client is looking for a Head of Finance for a period of 12 months.
Ideally you will have experience of working in the Charity sector at this level and be able to hit the ground running immediately.
The role will cover a vast amounts of duties and projects from getting involved  in accounts preparation and detailed management accounts to also attending Board meetings and the SMT forum on a weekly basis

Reporting into the CEO of the group you will have a lot of autonomy to run the finance team as you see fit contributing fully to all financial performance and financial control issues and helping the CEO on any high level strategic plans and developments

Any experiences of systems implementation would also be of great value

Large NHS Organisation in Bristol is currently looking to recruit an experienced, professional and motivated Finance Business Partner to join the finance team.

This post is an integral part of the Trust’s Divisional Senior Management Team and will lead on all aspects of financial management within available budget to ensure best patient care is delivered.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Management, you will work closely with the wider senior finance team and divisional management team providing and developing timely and accurate financial management information.

You will be expected to influence and shape all financial decisions in the Division in order to deliver efficient and effective working practices, maximise business opportunities and ultimately deliver an excellent patience experience.

The post holder will also be expected to use high level technical, analytical, presentational, interpersonal and negotiating skills to develop excellent working relationships with a range of internal and external senior managers across the organisation.

To be accountable for the application of learning methods used to teach the Frontline programme, making sure we successfully incorporate current evidence and maintain our exceptionally high quality.

To review and revise the structure, approach to teaching and pacing of the Frontline programme and ensure participants are given the essential tools and knowledge to become excellent practitioners. You will work closely with the curriculum and teaching teams to ensure the programme equips participants to effectively apply the tools taught on the programme in their work with children and families.

Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams. As a Social Care provider we are facing challenging times. In response to the changing landscape across the learning disability sector, we have developed our business strategy, which provides a framework detailing how we run our business support activities, processes and systems across the organisation. We are recruiting skilled and enthusiastic finance professionals to help us enhance and deliver the vision.

You will provide timely and effective support, with challenge where necessary, whilst also maintaining responsibility for a robust financial controls and compliance framework. A key element of the role for your team will be to support Operations with process development, commercial support and business cases which necessitates a complete understanding of how service operations works.

Main duties

- Provide high level analysis and interpretation of operational performance, building on trends, analyses and interpretation, highlighting deviations to expected trends, and evaluate potential impact.

- Provide regular re-forecast of financial performance, including balance sheet, capital projects and cash flow.

- Develop insight and analysis into financial trends and performance, feeding into the ongoing development of operational and business strategy.

- Develop “what if” and scenario modelling through the creation of an organisation wide modelling tool based on financial, and non financial parameters, in order to highlight financial and operational risks and opportunities.

Salary: Up to £55k per annum (dependent on experience)

Hours: Full Time, Permanent, 35 hours

Location: Emersons Green, Bristol

What we Offer

Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also, an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options. Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status. Annual staff award scheme – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme. 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays). A contributory pension scheme & life assurance.

You must be a credible and persuasive qualified accountant with experience of financial control, budgeting, forecasting, modelling and financial analysis techniques.You will need to be a strong leader, and be able to manage competing priorities and thrive in a period of change and ambiguity, whilst providing sound support for your team.

You will provide the FD, the Exec team and Trustees with budgets and re-forecasts looking out 3 years, provide the organisation’s long-term financial dashboard, and providing the assurance that it will continue to be a viable financial going concern into the foreseeable future. You will provide insight and analysis into financial trends and performance, identifying strengths and weaknesses, which will feed back into operational short-term and long-term strategy. You will also develop links between financial MI and non-financial MI/KPI’s

In addition, the job holder will perform scenario modelling on future financial performance, looking at how internal and external sensitivities might impact our business model and financial viability together with significant non Core or developmental activity.

Closing date: Monday 13th April 2020

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Head of Finance, Head of Financial Planning, Business Services, Strategic Director, Head of Business Services, Senior Finance Manager, Director of Services, Head of Services, Operations Manager, Project Manager, Head of Operations, Operations Director, Strategy Manager, Continuous Improvement, Finance, Qualified Accountant, Charity, Third Sector, Social Care, Not for Profit, NFP etc.

Ref: 92790

To help us achieve our mission, we are recruiting qualified social workers with direct experience of working with children and families and knowledge and experience of supporting social work students. We are looking for candidates who can lead the delivery of teaching across the year, support participants in their local authority units and supervise participants during the 2nd year of the Frontline programme.

Practice Tutors (PTs) work closely as a peer group to share effective ways of working across participant units, local authorities and regions. They play a key role within the development and delivery of our social work curriculum, contributing knowledge and expertise to create a culture that promotes outstanding social work education and that enables teams to do their best work in order to achieve our mission to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families.

PTs are responsible for teaching and developing participants at the five-week summer institute, regional recall days and, in the participant units within local authorities. PTs support a number of participant units, based within statutory children’s social care services. Each unit is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW).  Core to the Practice Tutor role is the ability to provide support, challenge and guidance to participants and CSWs to ensure a high quality practice learning experience.

Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and have the ability to make links with adults’ and children’s services. To apply you need excellent social work practice skills, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory. In doing so you to be a committed to evidence informed practice models and have an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models. PTs are supported to gain fellowship status with the HEA if not already held.

Relief Support Worker

We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.

Covering leave, training and sickness with hours that fit in with life's other commitments, a relief support worker role is an ideal way of discovering that this could be the career for you.

Salary: £8.21 per hour (plus 12.07% in lieu of holiday pay)

Hours: Permanent, Casual hours/flexible hours with work patterns to fit around your work/life commitments
Location: Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5ER

What we Offer

We offer a range of benefits and career development opportunities. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in our teams to ensure they have the specialist skills they need.

You don’t need experience of support work or any special qualifications for this job - you’ll get plenty of training along the way. Having the right values and wanting to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life is what matters most. You will need to have good listening skills and a practical, caring approach. You also need to have basic level IT skills to be able to use a computer to record information about people you will be supporting.

A full, current UK/EU driving licence would be desirable but not essential (restricted bus services from local towns).

Join us and help change lives.

Closing date: Sunday 26th April 2020

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Relief Support Worker, Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Relief Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP, Flexible Working etc.

Ref: 92787

Support Worker

We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.

As a support worker at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible. In this caring and creative role, everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, creating flexible services that meet people’s needs and always looking for the best way of doing things.

Salary: Up to £19,946

Hours: Full Time, Permanent, 37.5 hour per week
Location: Bath, BA2
What we Offer

Apprenticeships - gain a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care whilst earning. Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also, an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options. Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status. Annual staff award scheme – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme. 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays). A contributory pension scheme & life assurance. Free DBS Check.

You don’t need experience of support work or any special qualifications for this job - you’ll get plenty of training along the way. It’s great if you already have experience of learning disabilities and supporting people with complex needs, but this is by no means essential. What matters most is your positive attitude to life and your desire to support people to live theirs with as much independence, choice, dignity and control as possible.

Closing date: Sunday 5th April 2020

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Support Worker, Support Work, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP etc.

Ref: 92788

We are looking for a Deputy Head of the England team to be at the heart of helping to shape the people-powered focus of Friends of the Earth’s grassroots campaigns.

In this newly created role, you’ll help ensure that our campaigns achieve real impact, diversifying at a grassroots level and building our movement-powered organisation. 

To be successful you will need demonstrable experience in delivering campaigns, particularly at a grass-roots level; using your knowledge of social and political change to utilise cutting-edge campaign strategies and tools. It is also essential that you are a strong people manager who is comfortable leading a geographically dispersed team.

Closing date: Monday 13th April 2020 (23:59)

In return we offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Are you a chartered planner, concerned about the climate crisis? Do you want to put your planning skills and knowledge to use in solving it?

We are now looking to recruit an experienced and confident senior planning policy officer to support the practical delivery of CSE’s planning support work, including Neighbourhood Planning, Local Authority policy support, and public advisory work.

Candidates will already have an RTPI accredited degree or postgraduate qualification in Town Planning and front line experience in a policy and plan-making function.

We are especially keen to hear from applicants with a detailed understanding of the local plan examination and neighbourhood planning processes.