We are looking to recuit a Male Independent Sexual Violence Advisor who will support Male Survivors of Sexual Violence across Cheshire. You will be working with men who have either experienced sexual violence recently or who are reporting sexual abuse that happened as a child. 

If you have strong listening and advocacy skills and an interest in working with Male Surivors then we would really like to hear from you. This post is for a male worker and requires you to be a car owner/driver.

Location of office is flexible.

About our work and values

Do you have passion for your work, a commitment to excellence and a desire to support some of the most vulnerable and excluded people in our communities? Could you support us to make positive lasting changes in people’s lives?

Providence Row works with more than a thousand homeless and vulnerably housed people a year in East London, offering an integrated service of crisis support, advice, recovery and learning and training programmes.  Our aim is to ensure that people who are so often excluded from mainstream services gain the support and opportunities they need to create a safe, healthy and sustainable life away from the streets. Central to our work are our core values of Compassion, Respect, Inclusiveness, Empowerment and Justice.  These inform the content, style and delivery of all our services.

RESET Outreach and Referral Service

Providence Row has been successful in winning the new Reset Outreach & Referral Service contract.  Having successfully delivered the contract for 3 years Providence Row is now building on its success with engagement and minimising harms through outreach work in the vibrant yet complex Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Service is based at the central hub delivered by Providence Row and is commissioned by Tower Hamlets Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT).  The service works seamlessly with Reset Treatment and Reset Recovery Support Services providing residents of Tower Hamlets with the drug and alcohol support they need.

The Outreach team includes a needle exchange provision and onsite support at the hub.  The team works alongside other Outreach provisions within the Borough and partnership work is key.

The service is delivered through a “strengths based” approach.  This means that all staff involved in the delivery of the service must work with, rather than for clients to address their situation. This approach taken by Providence Row recognises that clients are people with problems, not problem people.  The service will engage clients in the development, delivery and evaluation of the work, working with a team of peer mentors with lived experience of substance misuse.

Your contribution to our work and values

• Passionate and have experience providing a quality Outreach Service.
• Experience working with people actively using drugs and alcohol and be understanding of their circumstance. 
• Drive and commitment to work with some of the most vulnerable and excluded people living in Tower Hamlets.
•  An excellent communicator, have the ability to lead a small team, able to coordinate partnership working and create positive working relationships with a wide range of people. 
• Creative, innovative and well organised.
• Experience managing a small team and an understanding of outreach work. 

Do you have experience of working with vulnerable people and/or people with multiple and complex needs within a safeguarding framework, possibly in an environment that involved giving specialist level debt advice? Then join Shelter as an Advice, Support and Guidance Worker - Debt and you could soon be playing an important role in an initiative aimed at supporting disadvantaged people overcome complex barriers and move towards work and training.

In response to growing needs, Shelter Lancashire is developing its service offer under the Building Better Opportunities programme to provide specialist level debt advice. Building Better Opportunities is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020, investing in local projects tackling the root causes of poverty, promoting social inclusion and driving local jobs and growth.

Three Building Better Opportunities (BBO) projects in Lancashire are being delivered by a partnership of 45 social enterprise and community organisations, led by Selnet (the Social Enterprise Lancashire Network).'Age of Opportunity' supports people over 50, 'Invest in Youth' supports 15-24-year olds and 'Changing Futures' supports people with multiple and complex barriers to employment. Over the lifetime of the programme, 6,230 disadvantaged people will be supported to overcome complex barriers and move towards work and training.

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.

About the Role
This particular post is designed to be flexible to reflect the needs of the service and involves working as part of a wider team on a project to deliver specialist debt advice and support to clients. This will include advice around income maximisation through to full debt advice and solutions, including insolvency options. Indeed, it could cover a range of activities, from providing advice to working closely with clients to help them achieve sustainability in the future, depending on the need in the local area. Inputting client data onto our case management system and providing ongoing casework are important aspects of the role too. And, when it comes to providing briefings and updates to other agencies or providing cover and/or taking on additional/alternative responsibilities when required, again, we'll count on you.

About you
To succeed, you'll need a proven track record of providing advice and support to vulnerable clients and operating within a safeguarding framework. You'll also need experience of managing your own caseload, providing quality casework and adhering to multiple deadlines. The ability to research caseload and legislation and to utilise that in your day to day role is important too, as is a flair for preparing, planning and delivering briefings and/or group work sessions. Self-motivated, results-driven and commercially aware, you have the communication skills it takes to work with a wide variety of statutory and non-statutory stakeholders and are proficient using office IT, including case management systems.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), 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 Shelter Lancashire 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.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and 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. In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes.

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

We’re looking for a customer-focused individual with considerable experience of homelessness, housing and related social welfare issues, including extensive knowledge/experience of housing law, to join us as a Telephone Housing Advisor and help us to help more people in housing need.

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. 

Funded by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, The National Homelessness Advice Service is a project delivered by Shelter. It’s purpose? To provide specialist support for housing advice providers and promote and support good practice in the provision of high quality housing advice, with a focus on preventing homelessness. As well as delivering free training in housing law to 4,500 advisers from the local authority and advice sectors, we handle over 10,000 calls per year on the NHAS Consultancy Line and promote joint working between voluntary and statutory agencies. In short, get ready for lots of challenge and variety.

About the role

You’ll be responsible for delivering a professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focused telephone and email 2nd tier advice to other agencies, including Local Authorities and advice agencies. This will involve using diagnostic questioning to assess and agree clients’ needs, giving full advice on different legal problems that include homelessness and housing issues, we’ll rely on you to undertake some of the more complex cases too (with the support of a senior colleague). And, when it comes to making sure all work meets quality, contractual, performance and professional targets and standards again, we’ll count on you to deliver.

About you

A proven track record in a related area is essential as is extensive knowledge/experience of housing law. We’ll also be looking for a commercially aware, results-driven and client focused approach that enables you to understand others’ needs and strive to deliver a prompt, effective and personalised service. Good listening skills are vital too, as is the ability to positively influence others and persuade them to change their views, intentions or actions for the good. Proficient using a case management system and Microsoft Office applications, the ability to type is also required in order to succeed.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, 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.

For further information about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website.  Apply to be part of our advice 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.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and 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. In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes.

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

The aim of the role is to ensure that every client can access their full range of rights through working effectively with other internal/external providers so that they can move to a more settled way of living.

The Project Worker role will be to support people experiencing marginalisation or disadvantage resulting from homelessness, poverty, substance misuse, mental health problems or social isolation to achieve settled and healthier lives. The role focuses on supporting clients to move on in a safe, sustainable and healthy way. The Project Worker reports directly to the Resettlement Manager and plays a key role in delivering SIFA Fireside’s vision.

A key aspect of this role is to work effectively in partnership with the wider team to help clients to access accommodation, training, education, and employment opportunities. You will be working with clients to remove any barriers to accessing these opportunities.

The Project Worker will contribute to the provision of our ‘Changing Lives’ Resettlement service which supports people experiencing marginalisation or disadvantage as a result of homelessness, poverty, substance misuse, mental health problems or social isolation, to help them achieve settled and healthier lives.

We are seeking a Supervisor to join our new call centre service which has been established in response to COVID-19 and local needs. You will be an excellent communicator and confident at engaging with staff, volunteers and service users. 

Your background will be in advice and informtion and you will need to be experienced at dealing with safeguarding.

You will be an experienced supervisor/manager and used to motivating, supporting and developing teams of staff and volunteers. 

As part of a dedicated team, you will ensure that all call centre functions are delivered effectively and to a high standard. 

The successful candidate will:

• Always put the service user at the heart of delivery.
• Have a good understanding of the health, social, communication and support needs of vulnerable families, adults, older people, and carers – including the legal and regulatory framework and current policy debates covering adult care, health and wellbeing, carers, advice and guidance, public health and primary and secondary care and standards relevant to this work.
• Have a good understanding of referral processes and the range of support services available locally.
• Have a good knowledge of safeguarding legislation and issues relating to vulnerable adults and children.
• Be experienced at producing risk assessments for different activities.
• Have a good understanding of the barriers that those in need might face in accessing support.
• Have an excellent understanding of quality assurance and customer service – including resolving complaints effectively. 
• Have a good understanding of the discipline and rigour needed to successfully record and report on data.​
• Have a high level of competency in ICT including for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
• Be able to work hours to meet the demands of the service across a 7 day rota. Our call centre opens 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 4pm on Saturday's, Sunday's and bank holidays. Your earliest shift will start at 8.30am and your latest shift will finish at 6.30pm. You will be required to work a significant number of weekends.

We have an exciting position of DayLight Worker in our crisis service.

Title: DayLight Worker
Salary Grade: £21,720 FTE per annum incl. Outer London Weighting (OLW)
Responsible to: Services Manager (Complex Needs & Crisis)
No. of Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Main Base/s: West Hertfordshire (Watford)

1. Expectation to work across Hertfordshire to exercise the duties of the role.

2. Due to social distancing and lockdown restrictions as a consequence of the Covid 19 Pandemic this post will require working from home until Government guidance enables us to return to office and community-based provision.

Purpose of Post
The purpose of this post is to be a key member of staff delivering the DayLight Mental Health Crisis Service, complementing our out of hours NightLight provision. 

Services

• To play an integral role in instilling HMN’s values through the DayLight Mental Health Crisis Service.
• To provide short-term crisis resolution support to clients who are in crisis and experiencing emotional distress.
• To provide a prompt, effective response to anyone experiencing a mental health crisis and/or emotional distress during normal daytime opening hours when NightLight isn’t operational.
• To play a key part in the development and delivery of quality crisis support services.
• To provide consistent and clear line management and leadership to a diverse team.
• To work with the NightLight Services Manager and Services Manager (Complex Needs & Crisis) to generate new approaches to crisis support services in line with identified need.
• Ensure the delivery of quality services at all times.

The objectives of Hertfordshire Mind Network’s DayLight Mental Health Crisis Service are:

• To improve the mental wellbeing of people experiencing mental health crisis in Hertfordshire.
• To increase early access to help for people experiencing mental health crisis in Hertfordshire, by providing a clear and effective pathway to services provided by Herts Mind Network and other third sector and statutory providers.
• To contribute to an improvement in individual mental wellbeing.
• To remain a source of independent support for all clients.
• To reduce the use of police, ambulance and statutory mental health services whilst experiencing crisis.
• To reduce the use of statutory crisis services by people experiencing mental ill health without positive outcomes for the individual.

Closing date for receipt of applications is Thursday 11th June 2020 by 10am.
Interviews shall take place on Tuesday 23rd June 2020 using Microsoft Teams.

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Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

Solace provides a wide range of services to victim/survivors of domestic and sexual abuse in Islington. These include a large advocacy and support service with specialist roles co-located in several services throughout Islington borough. A new opportunity has arisen within the Islington team to work as a Senior IDVA co-located in Islington Children’s Social Care (CSC) to ensure that victim/survivors of domestic abuse working with CSC are able to access the best support. This role will be based three or four days at Islington CSC and the remaining days will be spent with the Islington Advocacy team at their main office. 

About the Role

As the Senior CSC IDVA you will be co-located alongside CSC, Early Help and Family Support Services in Islington. You will provide immediate support for victim/survivors of abuse working with any of the above service; you will carry out risk and needs assessments, safety plan and provide short-term support and onward referral. In addition, you will act as the CSC lead for Solace in Islington, providing advice and guidance to Islington professionals. The Senior CSC IDVA will also hold a smaller caseload of complex cases. 

The Senior CSC IDVA will hold management responsibility for three team members (comprising of IDVAs and caseworkers) and will also be responsible for assisting their manager with monitoring the performance of the service.

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team and collaborating extensively with external agencies in your work.

About You

We're looking for highly organised and self-motivated applicants who are passionate about ending VAWG and have a solid understanding of how domestic or sexual violence against a parent can impact children. You will have a “can-do‟ approach and demonstrable commitment to Solace’s feminist approach to supporting women and their children to be safer. 

Successful applicants will have in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse and its impact on women and children, extensive experience of providing emotional and practical support to victims of VAWG. Having a strong understanding of Social Care legislation and how services within social care and early help function are a key part of this role. 

A relevant qualification in VAWG or Social Care is desirable. 

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.
 

Solace is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

Solace provides a wide range of services to victim/survivors of domestic and sexual abuse in Islington. These include a large advocacy and support service with specialist roles co-located in several services throughout Islington borough. A new and unique opportunity has arisen within the Islington team to work as an IDVA co-located in Islington Housing to ensure that victim/survivors of domestic abuse presenting at housing or working with housing are able to access the best support. This role will be based three or four days at Islington Housing and the remaining days will be spent with the Islington Advocacy team at their main office. 

About the Role

As the Solace Housing IDVA you will provide immediate support for victim/survivors of abuse attending housing including carrying out risk and needs assessments, safety planning and providing short-term support and onward referral. In addition, you will act as the housing lead for Solace in Islington, providing advice and guidance to Islington housing professionals and other Islington services.

The Housing IDVA will also hold a small caseload of cases with complex housing issues. 

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team and collaborating extensively with external agencies in your work.

About You

We're looking for highly organised and self-motivated applicants who are passionate about ending VAWG. You will have a “can-do‟ approach and demonstrable commitment to Solace’s feminist approach to supporting women and their children to be safer. 
Successful applicants will have in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse and the intersecting issues between VAWG and housing. You will also have an excellent understanding of the impact of VAWG on women and children, experience of providing emotional and practical support to victims of VAWG, and a strong understanding of housing options and legislation.

A relevant qualification in either VAWG or housing is desirable. 

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.
 

This role will be working within our Services team delivering effective Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) services to Deaf people in line with quality standards, contractual requirements and organisational values, empowering Deaf people to live independently. We offer training and generous pension contributions to the right candidate.

Essential skills required for the post are;

• Deaf or fluent in British Sign Language (minimum BSL level 3 equivalent)
• Advice qualification - IAG Level 2 (or equivalent)
• Safeguarding Adults training
• Experience of working in deaf adult services
• Experience of delivery advice services/projects across a regional geographical area
• Experience of working toward performance related outcomes/targets
• Working within advice quality standard framework e.g AQS
• Promoting Services through strong links with the Deaf community and an understanding of marketing
• Effective communication skills
• Diplomacy and sensitivity in handling difficult situations and conflict
• IT skills involving MS Office and databases
• Ability to tailor communication to meet the needs of the audience
• Knowledge of difficulties and barriers facing deaf people

This post is subjecty to two references and an enhanced DBS check. Both have to be satisfactory to RAD.

Closing date for applications: 23rd June 2020

Interviews to be held on: 2nd July 2020 (first stage interviews may take place on Zoom).

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), a London-based international federation of around 700 transport trade unions in 150 countries representing over 20 million transport workers, is looking for three Strategic Researchers (C3) Office of the General Secretary to be based in London

Duties and responsibilities

These are challenging roles working within the Office of the General Secretary on higher level research to support the development and leverage phases of ITF priority projects, including Sustainable Transport and the ITF’s strategy to build stronger unions following the Covid-19 pandemic. The research particularly focuses on analysing industry power structures, defining the market and contributing to target identification, identifying leverage opportunities, and assessing the capacity of affiliated unions in engage in ITF projects.

Experience required

Relevant experience in conducting research in an applied context, such as union campaigns or policy work is essential. In addition, skills in data scraping and data analytics are desirable. It is also essential to be able to make effective arguments to campaign leads about strategies and tactics, as well as being able to present research orally in front of ITF internal stakeholders.

Excellent conditions accompany a starting salary of £46,724.00 per annum plus an annual bonus of 1/12 of the annual salary.  Annual leave will start at 22 days per annum pro-rata in the year of joining. Other details of the conditions applicable are available on request including a relocation package.

It is anticipated that interviews for this position will take place from London via video conference only on the 2nd and 3rd July 2020. Candidates should apply with a letter of application detailing their interest in the position and how it is felt their existing competencies meet those in the person specification of the job description together with their curriculum vitae, to: the, Human Resources

Closing date: 23 June 2020

The ITF is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered on merit alone.

Do you want to empower people to have choice and control over their support and the way they live their lives? Then join our team...

Vibrance Self Directed Support Services provide information, advice and guidance, payroll and managed account services to enable people to have choice and control over how their health and social care needs are met. 

We are looking for a good communicator with strong interpersonal skills to join our new scheme in Barking & Dagenham. Working in the community, you will be part of our team promoting the uptake of Direct Payments by providing information, advice and guidance, and coordinating our online Personal Assistant Register.

You will be required to work in partnership with service users, personal assistants, local authorities, and other voluntary sector organisations to support the successful delivery of the Personalisation agenda.   

For more information, please see job description and person specification.

30 hours per week
£18,100 per annum
6 month contract (potential to be extended)

Citizens Advice Bury & Bolton (CABB) is recognised as one of the most progressive and dynamic advice services in the North West. Our approach is client centred and focused on a commitment to quality and diversity. 

We are seeking a committed and outgoing individual to join our established money advice team.

This role involves enabling clients to access quality, impartial advice, information and guidance associated with all matters connected with money advice, debt and financial inclusion.  

The post holder will be required to work across the Bury and Bolton districts, ensuring a dynamic and client focused money advice service is provided. The successful candidate will hold a caseload of clients, deliver one off pieces of advice/ information through our busy drop-in sessions and engage with clients via telephone and webchat. 

Are you:

• An experienced an experienced money adviser?
• Client focused and impartial?
• Open to learning and receiving balanced feedback?

If so, we are keen to hear from you!

We will also accept applications from non-experienced candidates, who can demonstrate transferable skills as a trainee.