Recruiting a Team Leader to join our Young Peoples service in Milton Keynes!
GBP £25,475 per annum, 40 hours per week plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.
Milton Keynes Young Peoples Service is for people aged 16 - 21 with the capacity to support 58 customers at any one time. The service provides a high level of support to young people with a variety of complex support needs and backgrounds including being care leavers, looked after children, unaccompanied asylum seeking children's as well as those that have had previous placement or family breakdowns. The service is compiled of 5 properties, the largest capacity at one site being 16 units
Job Overview:
The post holder will be fully involved in all aspects of the day to day management of their designated services, including line managing the relevant front line staff. You will lead and develop competence of direct reports as well as carry caseloads of customers requiring support. You will work closely with the Contract Manager to ensure that the service delivers on all targets, both financial and those around the quality of the service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and motivate your team to ensure the championing of and maintenance of a positive local culture within your service
- Deliver effective supervision and team meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting and communication
- Responsible for the personal development of staff, identifying high performers and feeding into the organisations succession plans
- Ensure that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) required as part of the Contract are met and recorded correctly
- Develop key business relationships with all appropriate relevant customers/external parties to ensure service delivery excellence and maximise new business opportunities in own patch
- Participate in and monitor the initial and continuous assessment of needs and ensure that support planning is carried out in line with assessed needs of the customer
- Carry out other administrative tasks as relevant to the service and directed by the Contract/Heads of Operations
- Deliver an out of hours on-call service for region, where required
- Ensure that all safeguarding cases are managed in line with safeguarding protocols and are reported to Contract Manager/Head of Operations, as appropriate
- Ensure Look Ahead Health and Safety policies are adhered to at all times and to uphold all health and safety responsibilities within relevant policies and local protocols
- Adhere to all the policies and procedures of Look Ahead Care, Support & Housing plus those specific to the project including any statutory requirements
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead.
Person Specification:
- Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, networks in local business community
- Approachable and open behaviour
- Prefers working as part of a group or team
- Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
- Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
- Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
- Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
- Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
- Is passionate and enthusiastic about his/her career and job experiences
- Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:
- Experience of working in a young persons supported housing scheme or similar service.
Desirable:
- Other relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications are desirable
Please note that we have the right to close any vacancy before the advertised closing date if we have received a high number of applications.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
Look Ahead supports around 8,000 people across London and the South East each year. People who for a variety of reasons may need some extra suppor... Read more
As we continue to invest in our online experiences, and pursue a new model of “digital church”, we are opening the search for a Video Producer to our join our Communications and Creative Arts team. This role is essential to making our overall online strategy a reality every week.
The tasks performed by the Video Producer will involve a high level of technical expertise, creativity, and attention to detail. The Video Producer will be responsible for creating video, both original and acquired, for Church Online, other ministries and departments, social media, and other platforms.
Candidates are required to have extensive working knowledge of editing software, such as Premiere Pro, and ideally After Effects, and will also be proficient with professional photo / video cameras.
Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Manage all technical aspects of video, including cameras, sound, lighting, design, etc.
- Handle all aspects of post-production processes.
- Produce creative video content including animation and motion graphics.
- Work with the Director of Communications and Creative Arts to implement the vision for online services.
- Plan, direct, and shoot video content for Church Online.
- Direct camera crews and set up multiple cameras for live broadcast and pre-recorded content.
- Work with and direct on-camera talent, including service Leaders / Hosts, Teaching Team, Staff, Musicians and other service components.
- Assemble all raw footage, and edit / upload videos for all Church Online services as well as social media, including Facebook / Instagram.
- Recruit, train, and develop a team of volunteers to facilitate and oversee all aspects of video, including a schedule of video shoots throughout the week.
- Experiment with techniques including the design of graphic elements, voiceover on video, etc.
- Ensure all content is produced within brand guidelines.
It is intended that the post holder will take up the post as soon as possible, ideally by no later than Monday 5th October 2020. As such, candidates are invited to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Please note that all applicants will be required to submit work samples to include a demo reel and/or website.
Application process: A CV and letter of application (in which you specifically state how you meet the requirements of the role) should be submitted with work samples.
Health Programmes Adviser (maternity cover)
Salary: £30,763 (pro rata) per annum, depending on experience + good range of benefits
Contract: Up to 12 months fixed-term contract (maternity cover) – 18.25 hours per week (50% FTE)
Based: Flexible location with travel to Milton Keynes / London
World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.
Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.
Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.
Job Purpose
The Health Programmes Adviser helps transform the health and well-being of extremely vulnerable children and their carers through providing high quality technical support to our Maternal, Newborn and Child Health programmes in some of the world’s toughest places. You will support innovative bids for new health project funding and systematically collect evidence of impact from our programmes to improve learning and enlist donors, partners and decision-makers to join our cause.
You will be engaged externally for policy influence and support health related advocacy alongside other civil society organisations; disseminate evidence of our programmes to relevant audiences and explore strategic health partnerships. The role requires a highly motivated professional with a public health related degree and experience in designing, monitoring and supporting community-based health programmes in low income countries. You will work closely with our Senior Nutrition Programmes Adviser and other team members in the UK to coordinate the provision of quality technical support and learning. The role requires international travel to support and monitor key projects around twice a year. Due to current restrictions, international travel will not be taking place, however upon changes in government advice, this will be reviewed and could change during this contract. As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.
In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK).
Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.
Closing Date for applications: 19th August 2020
Interview Dates: w/c 24th August 2020
World Vision UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people representing all sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.
As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.
No agencies please.