Job Description
Job Title: Parent Adviser – SEND
Responsible To: Senior Parent Adviser - SEND
Team Membership: Helpline/IAS- (Information, Advice and Family Support Directorate)
Hours: 28 hours a week (4 days)
Salary:
Scale 26
£ 36,242.00 - FTE
£ 28,993.60 – actual salary including inner London weighting
Contract:
Fixed term – until 31 March 2027
Location:
Central London – Office N1 7EU.
(Hybrid working, 1 day working in office). Another working day in the office, will be needed during the induction and training period.
Job Purpose:
The post’s primary focus is to provide specialist education advice primarily by telephone and email, to parent carers with disabled children in the UK. The post holder will be working on the Contact national helpline service. Service hours are Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5pm.
Main Duties:
To respond professionally and with empathy to incoming calls, emails, web form and social media enquiries on SEND and related education issues.
To deal effectively with enquiries by offering specialist education advice, information and relevant signposting.
To provide, information and signposting on the wider concerns of families with disabled children including health and social care.
To build positive working relationships with colleagues, contributing to a culture of mutual respect, trust, and shared responsibility.
To work collaboratively as part of a team, sharing and supporting colleagues to deliver a reliable and responsive helpline service.
To respect diverse experiences and perspectives within the team and contribute constructively to problem‑solving and decision‑making.
To enter accurate enquiry data on the Contact database in a timely manner ensuring appropriate follow up actions to calls and accurate written notes.
To keep up to date on law and guidance relevant to education in England and to be aware of education law relating to Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
To communicate, be flexible and responsive, with team members, to ensure coverage of the helpline rota.
To ensure the helpline operates in accordance with confidentiality, safeguarding, privacy and data-protection policies and procedures.
To provide a high-quality service, with commitment to ongoing service development, improvement and good practice.
General duties
In common with all Contact staff, the post holder will be expected to work in accordance with the aims of Contact and to observe the policy and procedures set out by the directors of the charity.
The post holder will be expected to assist with any reasonable duty at the request of the line manager for the post.
Staff will be expected to attend and participate in Contact staff meetings and the staff annual conference.
Staff will be expected to attend training events relevant to their specific responsibilities.
Staff will be offered supervision, support and annual appraisal incorporating their training needs.
Registered Charity 
101 - 500
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Use your leadership abilities to strengthen and encourage the persecuted church around the world.
Today 388 million Christians experience high levels of violence and oppression for their faith. And the shocking thing is that most people in the UK don’t know about it. Open Doors UK and Ireland raises awareness about the growing levels of persecution and enables people to join a huge underground global network which is keeping the church alive in the most dangerous and difficult contexts - despite the determined efforts of extremists to eradicate Christianity.
As we identify with people suffering for their faith, through prayer, giving and taking action, we see our faith grow. We see the church here become the mature body that we are called, in Scripture, to be.
We are now seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead this work through a season of missional growth, opportunity and ambition. The CEO will be pivotal in raising the profile of the persecuted church, deepening connections with the church in the UK and Ireland and influencing Government to protect Christians around the world.
To that end, the CEO will be a strategic leader, highly relational in approach, agile and nimble in mindset, delivery-oriented and passionate about strengthening the church.
If that sounds like you please see the job pack attached and prayerfully consider applying. You can expect to have your own faith, reading of Scripture and prayer-life, transformed!
Closing date for applications is 8th May 2026.
Thank you!
Job Title: Multiple Disadvantaged Worker
Location: Derby City
Salary: £26,701.36 per annum
Contract type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Multiple Disadvantaged Worker to provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children living in Derby City.
The Multiple Disadvantaged outreach Worker will provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse, with additional complex support needs, in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles. The post holder will inform the survivor on the options and support available, empowering the survivor to make decisions and achieve their goals to increase their safety, confidence and independence. The role involves working with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies to advocate on behalf of survivors and promote access to services to meet their needs. The Multiple Disadvantaged Outreach worker will work within Derby City.
Please note that this post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 5 May 2026
Interview Date: 20 and 21 May 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.