Volunteer Co-ordinator (Contract)
The Peepul Centre, Leicester (office/field-based, with travel throughout Leicester)
£15,821 per annum Plus Mileage Allowance (reimbursed at 45p per mile)
If you have experience of working with volunteers and/or volunteer-led support groups, this is an incredible opportunity to take on a rewarding contract and make a positive impact in your community.
Royal Voluntary Service is an innovative charity that focuses on inspiring people to give the gift of voluntary service to support the NHS and older people at home and in the community. We are now seeking a Volunteer Co-ordinator to join us on a contract until the 31st March 2020. This role is available on a full or part time basis.
Within a welcoming and supportive environment, you will have the chance to help grow important services that are reducing isolation, enriching communities and enabling people to make a real difference through volunteering.
As a Volunteer Co-ordinator, you’ll support the volunteer recruitment and training processes for our services in the Leicester area.
Working alongside Service Managers and their teams, you will:
- Develop and implement a volunteer recruitment and retention plan
- Recruit, train and motivate volunteers
- Interview volunteers and ensure they are placed in the most appropriate volunteering role
- Co-ordinate and facilitate regular volunteer meetings and training sessions
- Liaise with other organisations to identify potential sources of volunteers
- Carry out a range of administrative tasks
To be considered, you will need:
- Previous experience of working with volunteers and/or volunteer-led support groups or similar experience
- The ability to proficiently use industry standard IT systems (e.g. Microsoft Office, email, the internet, etc.)
- A valid driving licence and access to your own vehicle
Organised and results-focused, as a Volunteer Co-ordinator, you’ll be an adept multi-tasker who can lead, inspire and engage others. You’ll also be enthusiastic and proactive with a collaborative approach to problem-solving.
This role is available on a full or part time basis, working up to 35 hours per week. This role may involve some evening and weekend working, so a flexible approach is key.
The closing date for applications is the 24th November 2019.
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Additional Keywords: Volunteer Co-ordinator, Contract, Service Co-ordinator, Service Delivery Co-ordinator, Community Services Co-ordinator, Community Support Co-ordinator, Charity.
Salary: £21,305 plus contributory stakeholder pension, pro rata
Hours: Part time (21 hours per week, 3 days a week, excluding an unpaid lunch hour) plus occasional evenings and weekends
Location: LCB Depot Leicester, with frequent regional/national travel
Permanent/fixed: Permanent
We are looking for a Coordinator to join our team. We want you to use your creativity to help children, young people and adults transform their lives, the services they use and the communities they live in.
This role will support the promotion, development and delivery of Artsmark in the East Midlands, providing co-ordination and administration support for the programme to support schools, colleges and other education settings.
Awarded by Arts Council England, designed by schools, the Artsmark award is a practical tool that helps schools and education settings to develop and deliver a high quality arts and cultural education and provides an excellent way for schools to demonstrate this to children and young people, parents, staff, governors and Ofsted.
We want you to use your creativity to unlock further innovation arising from this work, spotting opportunity to build new partnerships, products and programmes. We will support you to start something that you feel passionate about - something that delivers sustainable solutions for children and young people and for us.
For further information please visit our website.
Closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 18th November 2019
Interviews will be held in Leicester on Monday 25th November 2019.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Family Engagement Manager
Have you got what it takes to support prisoners and their families?
Our client is a highly respected independent charity, which together with its subsidiary, our client Futures, works across England and Wales to develop and deliver a range of innovative services, providing practical and emotional support to prisoners’ children and families, to prisoners, and to ex-offenders.
Position: Family Engagement Manager (Scale 2)
Location: HMP Onley, Rugby CV23 8AP
Job type: Part Time, Permanent
Hours: 22.5 hours per week, Monday to Sunday
Salary: £13,200 per annum (FTE £22,000 per annum)
Benefits: Generous holiday entitlement and other benefits
Closing date for applications: 13th November, 2019
Interviews commencing week beginning: 18th November 2019
About the role:
To lead and deliver the family services in HMP Onley in line with the establishment’s requirements, involving visitor centre services; play and children’s services; a social enterprise refreshment / catering service; complex family casework and support for family groupwork interventions.
To develop and maintain positive relationships between prisoners and their loved ones, with the aim of reducing the likelihood of prisoners reoffending through supporting and maintaining family contact. The service will provide support to ensure that children, families and prisoners are treated with respect and dignity. The service will also help ensure families are able to gain greater access to support and early help within their local community and services and families work together to decrease the chance of intergenerational crime.
To manage the Visitors’ Centre providing support for the visitors before and after visiting; ensuring the centre is open and staffed at the agreed times throughout the year, and that accurate and up-to-date information (in appropriate formats) about the prison, the assisted visits scheme and other relevant agencies is available to visitors. To oversee Catering as a Social Enterprise and Play / Family days, supervise a small team of volunteers and student placements delivering casework.
About you:
To be successful in this role you will ideally be knowledgeable of the criminal justice system and have an aware of the impact of custody on prisoners and on their children and families. You will lead and deliver a service that ensures prisoners, their children, carers and other relatives have access to appropriate advice, guidance, learning opportunities, care and support to better enable them to maintain or enhance positive relationships.
Furthermore, you will have the skills to advocate for families dealing with imprisonment, promoting their human rights and ensuring their needs are considered, and views are heard at all levels.
Other information:
This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3 year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting and a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.
Our client is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds including those with previous convictions (appointment to post is subject to a satisfactory risk assessment).
You may have experience of the following: Family Engagement Manager, Social Worker, Charity, Family Support, Volunteer, Social Services, Volunteering, Support Worker, etc.
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Interested in joining the next big thing within the midlands education sector? Does a recently created, strategically focused Finance Director role sound of interest? Would you enjoy joining an organisation on their journey to grow and expand?
My client, who is a newly formed education organisation based in Nottinghamshire are going through a huge growth period and as such are searching for a new Finance Director to head up the finance team. This role is a genuine development opportunity as well as being a key member in the senior leadership team.
Responsibilities
- Being the driving force behind producing investment strategies and lead on maximizing the revenue generated by the organisation, working to find new and profitable income streams for the business to grow and thrive.
- Manage and grow the bright, forward thinking finance team to collectively operate a smooth-running unit.
- Taking complete ownership of year end reporting, achieving consistently high standards and being the key liaison for external auditors, making you the face of the organisation for all things finance
- Planning and enacting the budget setting process with key stakeholders as well as leading on financial reporting and business partnering.
- Centralising the Procurement process, looking at spend and adjusting accordingly to benefit the organisation.
This post will allow the successful candidate to develop the role to how they choose because of it being a brand new role. With two direct reports, this role would suit a previous line manager, as this post also includes growing the team, including the recruitment of a management accountant within the first six months of landing.
The successful candidate will be:
- A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc.)
- From an education background (Desirable)
- Either:
- a) A proven Finance Director looking for their next challenge.
- b) Someone looking for a step-up in their Finance career.
- Bright, ambitious, driven.
If this role is of interest, please get in touch as soon as possible as this is expected to have a high volume of applications.
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Brain Tumour Research is an exciting, innovative and ambitious charity with a fantastic supporter base across the South East of England, where this role is based. Brain Tumour Research is one of the fastest growing national charities in the UK. We are passionate about finding a cure for brain tumours through the establishment of dedicated Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence around the UK.
Our vision is to find a cure for brain tumours. Our mission is to build a network of experts in sustainable brain tumour research whilst influencing the Government and larger cancer charities to invest more nationally.
Community Fundraising Manager - Midlands & Wales
Salary - c. £30,000 dependent on experience with a generous holiday allowance
This is a full-time, home-based role would suit someone who lives in Birmingham, Solihull, Nottingham, Leicester or based around Milton Keynes. If based in the region, the successful candidate will undertake occasional duties at the Brain Tumour Research Head Office in Milton Keynes.
We are looking for a passionate, motivated and organised individual, that is an excellent communicator with proven experience of fundraising, to recruit, steward and retain our extremely dedicated #fightingforce of supporters, donors, local corporates and fundraising groups.
The individual will be based either in the Midlands or at our Head Office in Milton Keynes.
Reporting to Head of Community Fundraising, you will be responsible for:
- Generating income and fundraising leads in one of our most established regions to hit key targets
- Organising and delivering a number of exciting fundraising challenge events, including our Walks of Hope and Wear A Hat day as well as the chance to develop your own fundraising initiatives
- Providing detailed and illuminating reports, tracking and predicting vital income in the Midlands
- Recruit, manage and develop fundraising volunteers and provide appropriate support to their fundraising activities
- Work with the Regional PR team to ensure appropriate media coverage for fundraising activities being undertaken by volunteer network
- Work with members of the wider Fundraising Team, including Corporate, Trusts & Foundations, Major Donors and Legacy & In mem as and when necessary
The closing date for this vacancy is Sunday 17th November 2019, but early applications are encouraged and interviews will commence before the closing date if and when suitable candidates are identified.
If you would like to apply for this position, please read the attached Job Description before clicking the apply button and attaching your CV and covering letter demonstrating why you are a suitable candidate, how you could add value to our organisation and detailing your current salary, it will be sent automatically to us.
No agencies please.
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Quality Assurance Officer (Social Care)
Hft is one of the leading learning disability charities in the country, providing support for 3,000 people with a learning disability and employing around 3000 staff. Operationally, we have been and continue to be innovative in recognising and championing good support, whilst taking an alternative view at how support is provided. Our efforts are sector leading and recognised and observed by CQC and local authorities who provide most of the funding for care packages.
Working within the Quality & Improvement Team the Quality Assurance & Improvement Auditor will be responsible for driving quality as set out in the Quality Strategy to support services.
Position: Quality Assurance & Improvement Auditor
Location: National Role, Home based
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £31,122 per annum + company car
Benefits: Hft Plus benefits package (discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out), 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) increasing to 25 days after first year, contributory pension scheme and life assurance, an Employee Assistance Programme, annual staff award schemes, access to award winning training and development.
Closing date: Tuesday 12 November 2019
About the role:
Supporting the Quality & Improvement Manager, the post holder is part of a team to ensure all services are safe and compliant in line with regulatory & contractual requirements while supporting the regions to achieve great outcomes for the people we support.
The Quality Assurance and Improvement Auditor will work closely with all operational Managers to assess the risk and lead on the development and implementation plan as required.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting good governance and continuous improvement across the organisation.
You will carry out an annual programme of Compliance audits and be involved in assessing, monitoring and reporting on operational delivery of Services. This will include working with services across all regions and will involve regular travel and overnight stays
About you:
You will have an understanding or background in quality assurance and/or audit processes within a Social Care setting with the ability to analyse data and produce written reports, enabling you to make improvements and support managers with SMART action planning.
Experience of managing the operational delivery of services, an understanding of the Quality Care Commission, Registered Services and Registered Managers requirements and current legislation are essential requirements.
You will need to hold full, current UK/EU driving licence.
Having a management qualification and previous audit experience are both desirable.
Interview date to be confirmed
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Hft's usual terms and conditions apply.
Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do.
You may have experience of the following: Quality Assurance Officer, Quality Assurance Officer, Quality Assurance & Improvement Auditor, Quality Assurance Auditor, Quality Assurance Inspector, QA Inspector, QA Auditor, Quality and Assurance, QC Auditor, Quality and Control, QA, Quality Assurance, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Not for Profit, NFP, Social Care, Quality Care Commission, Registered Services etc.
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