We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and professional Finance Manager to join our busy but friendly team. We are a local independent charity who work passionately for the care and rights of older people within the Oldham borough, and offer a wide range of services and initiatives including traditional day care, lunch clubs, Handyvan & Shopping Services, as well as social and leisure projects.

As our Finance Manager you will:

1. Support the strategic management and effective deployment of the organisation’s resources.
2. Be responsible for the management of Age UK Oldham’s finance and accounting functions, working in collaboration with the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive and the organisation’s auditors.
3. Manage the finance team (2 finance assistants).
4. Be responsible for the organisation’s insurance requirements.
5. Be an active member of the senior management team and be involved in the strategic development of the organisation.

We would encourage those considering applying for the position to contact us to arrange an informal video ‘chat’ via Microsoft Teams or Zoom, where we can tell you more about who we are, what we do and what the role entails.

If you are interested in applying for this position please visit our website and download the application form and supporting documents.

Please email completed application forms to us by the closing date.  CV’s will not be accepted.

We seek to achieve a workforce representative of Oldham’s diverse society and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Registered Charity Number 1145196.

Would you like to make a difference to the lives of older people in Bolton? Age UK Bolton is looking to recruit a Home Services Manager for its relatively young but successful Home Services business.

Working directly to the charity’s Commercial Services Director, you will co-ordinate and support a small team of Home Services Assistants delivering cleaning, shopping and home support primarily to older people in their homes.

You will ensure the smooth running of the service including: the highest standards of professionalism and customer care; effective communication; staff wellbeing and sound financial and operational performance

This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and grow this vital paid for service within our charity, providing valuable support for those for whom day to day living has become increasingly challenging.

If you believe you have the skills along with a desire to be part of a caring and dynamic organisation then please submit your application to or call Pat Kitchen, Commercial Services Director.

Full details of the job description, person specification and application form are available on our website

Part-time hours: 25 per week

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £24,111.00 per year

COVID-19 considerations:
Our central office has protective measures in place with risk assessments, handwash stations, social distancing and PPE.

Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone. We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults.

Our work is guided by our values of:

Openness

Belonging

Strength

Collaboration

Manchester Mind is looking to recruit a Community Mental Health Practitioner to deliver one-to-one psychosocial support to young people in Manchester.

We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop and deliver accessible mental health support services for young people.

Position: Community Mental Health Practitioner

Salary: £27,905 (18 month contract)

Hours: 35 hours per week

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Ability to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way that builds kind relationships and is receptive to and appreciative of the skills and talents of everyone.
• Experience of delivering short and long term one-to-one support for young people.
• Experience of delivering and adapting services to ensure accessibility.

You can download all application documents from this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

All applications must be received by 9am, Monday 2nd November 2020.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

Are you interested in working within a vibrant social care sector ensuring service user finances are appropriately managed to allow for maximum quality of life?

Do you have an excellent eye for detail and a high level of competence in numeracy?

Are to you committed to preventing any finance abuse of vulnerable people in our community?

Creative Support is recruiting a team leader for our established Internal Compliance Team which fits within the Quality Department. The team leader will oversee a small team of auditors and promote good practice in managing client finances across our service user group. This is an exciting time to join the team with full training provided.

The Internal Compliance Team is responsible for the auditing of our services for finance policy compliance, providing good practice in dealing with Client (service user) finances and offering policy guidance.

The team also leads on policy and practice review for Client finances and the improvement of systems related to safeguarding service user finances and the security of cash held at services. Additionally, the team support our Head Office functions with some basic monthly auditing appropriately managing financial investigations should these be required. The Internal Compliance roles (finances) work within a larger Quality team and support our achievement of maintaining high quality standards.

We are looking for candidates who have a high level of self-motivation, numeracy, and an ability to carry out on site audits and also undertake remote (email) audits. You will have a sensitive approach to providing feedback and excellent organisational skills. The successful candidate will have good report writing skills and be able to carry out basic training to small groups. You will have skills in managing a small team. You will be flexible and have a willingness to undertake national travel essential.

Answer Cancer is not a traditional health promotion service; instead it takes a VCSE-led community development approach in addressing the imbalance in screening uptake amongst certain groups.

The Answer Cancer Programme aims to provide a co-ordinated cancer screening prevention and screening awareness engagement programme across Greater Manchester. We focus on priority areas and communities, using a diverse range of approaches and interventions using a community development and social movement approach. We have a primary focus of

Manchester and Salford; followed by Oldham; Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale (HMR); and Bolton. These are the geographical areas that have the poorest screening uptake and outcomes of breast, bowel and cervical screening in Greater Manchester. Within those geographical areas we aim to reach people and communities that traditional screening engagement struggles to connect with.

Through Answer Cancer we aim to help:

• Increase uptake of the breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening programmes within target communities. This will help reduce health inequalities in communities with the worst health outcomes.
• The Answer Cancer Champions social movement will continue to grow in reach, purpose, output and outcomes, which in turn will promote cancer prevention activity across GM.
• There will be better connectivity across cancer prevention and early detection activity in GM through networking and engagement.

Be a part of our Marketing and Communications team and deliver projects and campaigns that have a positive impact on students, staff and stakeholders.

Who are we?

Located in the heart of Manchester, The Union is part business, part charity, part membership body. Operating independently from Manchester Metropolitan University, our aim is to support and represent each one of our student members. Each year our growing team of over 70 full time and up to 150 part time staff, work alongside elected student leaders to make change, improve lives and help fulfil student potential.

Winner of the NUS Campaigning Award 2017, The Union is one of 550 students’ unions across the country. And we’re one of the most exciting - with over 38,000 student members and 150 student groups, a huge range of services and a bold strategy.

What’s the job?

Raises awareness of The Union and drives usage of its services, projects and events using a range of channels. Develops and delivers marketing campaigns and activity.

Coordinates day-to-day maintenance and development of The Union’s website and other digital platforms and assets, identifying opportunities to improve the user experience.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent organisation skills and an eye for detail to support all marketing campaigns and large projects.
• A flair for developing creative, appropriate and effective responses to marketing briefs. You will consistently strive to find the best solutions to existing problems, be able to review progress and regularly test new tactics.
• Someone who has excellent all round marketing and digital skills. You will work on projects and campaigns that drive customer engagement and sales in a student environment.

• A team orientated person who can build relationships and work successfully with people at all levels. With excellent interpersonal skills, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders with different needs.

Why apply?

There has never been a better time to work for The Union. Based just off Oxford Road, in the centre of vibrant Manchester, The Union will train you thoroughly, reward you well and encourage you to build a long-term career that inspires you.

The exact opposite of corporate, we’re progressive, creative individuals working to make a difference in unconventional workplaces. In return for your passion and experience, we offer the flexibility for work-life balance, a competitive salary for the non-profit sector and excellent holiday allowance. We’re absolutely open to considering requests for job-share or part-time working.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status.

We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values.

Apply: To apply please download the application form from the Union website.

Closing date: 23:00, Sunday 15th November 2020

If you’re successfully shortlisted, we’ll see you at an interview on week commencing 23rd November 2020. Please note interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams. Therefore, you will be required to use a laptop and camera for the video interview.

Please note we do not accept CV’s or cover letters for this role.

Work somewhere professional, but different. Build a career with students’ unions.

Disrupting Exploitation Worker (2 roles)

Permanent contract with provisional end date of May 2021 due to funding.

37 hours per week.

£23,388 per annum / pro rata (plus allowances)

Two roles are currently available in the following locations: Greater Manchester (Wythenshawe Office) & Birmingham (The Big Peg Office) Please specify the area you are applying for in your personal statement.

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our children and families directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. Your role will be part of our Disrupting Exploitation National Programme, working 1:1 with young people who are at risk of or experiencing exploitation, as well as to work in partnership across the local area to support young people, identifying patterns and problems in the system that responds to young people and action solutions to disrupt exploitation.

We are currently looking for a highly-skilled, young-person focused practitioner join our dynamic, ambitious team.

A key part of this role will be your ability to build relationships with young people and provide them with holistic support, as well as an ability to work in close partnership with other local agencies to tackle systemic issues that young people are facing.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

In order to be successful in this role, you must have:

-Significant experience of supporting young people facing complex safeguarding concerns

-Experience of partnership and multi-agency working, including delivering training to professionals

-Ability to work with young people displaying challenging behaviours in both 1:1 and group settings

-Working knowledge of relevant policy and practice relating to child protection and safeguarding of young people, in particular exploitation.

INFO ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is on 6th of November 2020.

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 16th of November 2020.

We are currently hiring two Regional Programme Officers to deliver our programme in the Midlands and the North West to support disadvantaged and underrepresented young people access STEM degrees and careers.

As a Regional Programme Officer, you will be responsible for supporting outreach and our programme activities in either Manchester and the North West, or Birmingham and the Midlands, and may be asked to support in other regions where required. 

This role will include: 

• Conducting student and volunteer recruitment activities. 
• Supporting in conducting student interviews and placement activities. 
• Support with the delivery of skills days and workshops, in person and/or digitally.
• Supporting the development and delivery of our online digital platform and programme. 
• Supporting the logistics of a 1 day in person visit for all students.
• Managing relationships with teachers, placement hosts and other programming contacts. 
• Supporting administrative and reporting activities. 

Duties and Responsibilities

As the In2scienceUK programme officer you will be someone who enjoys working with young people and has an understanding of the barriers facing young people from low socio-economic backgrounds access higher education. Your specific areas of responsibility will include but are not limited to: 

• Student and volunteer recruitment 
• Conducting student recruitment and placement activities, which may include school visits, where possible, working closely with organisations and academic institutions who also work with students, supporting them to promote this opportunity to students they work with.
• Conducting volunteer recruitment activities, which includes both outreach to potential workshop leaders, mentors and other partnerships.
• Monitoring applications to ensure all targets and milestones are met.
• Developing and maintaining close relationships with schools, teachers, and other student-related, programming and recruitment partners.
• Working with University PhD students to support volunteer recruitment.
• Supporting central & regional In2scienceUK staff in their recruitment efforts where necessary. 

Programme Delivery

• Coordinate regional volunteers and work with our volunteer coordinator to support on the development and delivery of our online courses and mentoring. 
• Facilitating the delivery of skills and knowledge-focused online workshops delivered by our partners. 
• Coordinating one-day visits and supporting students and volunteer hosts during their visit.
• Delivering host, mentor and student training and inductions.
• Ensuring students participation in programme evaluation processes. 
• Providing support functions for students to help them navigate our online platform. 

Administrative Activities

• Maintaining up to date records through the programme’s database, supporting evaluation and research needs and ensuring data protection.
• Organising interviews and placement matches. 
• Supporting team members to create reports and other student data related activities. As duties and responsibilities change, the job description will be reviewed and amended in consultation with the post holder. 
• The post holder will carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by their manager. 

Person Specification

Knowledge - Desirable

• Holds a science related degree.
• An understanding of social and economic barriers that prevent some young people from progressing to higher education.
• An understanding of schools and university application processes. 
• Knowledge and understanding of STEM sector, including higher education and industry operating in your region. 

Skills

• IT skills: competent user of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Gmail and relevant database experience.
• Ability to write clear, accurate and appealing text for different audiences.
• Excellent presentation skills. 

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with young people, universities and/or STEM employers.
• Experience supporting and delivering events and workshops.
• Experience developing and maintaining strong working relationships with internal and external partners. 

Desirable

• Experience of coordinating people focused projects.
• Experience in volunteer management.
• Experience of delivering an online educational programme, using an online Learning Management System e.g. Canvas, Google Classrooms. 

Personal Qualities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills that adapt to a range of audiences.
• Highly organised and efficient, able to prioritise tasks and be persistent. 
• Show respect, humility and discretion in working with others.
• Responds to situations calmly, flexibly and appropriately, displaying resilience particularly when faced with challenges.
• Can work to a deadline.

About in2scienceUK 

Our mission is to support young people from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their potential and progress to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees and careers to become the innovators and pioneers of the future. 

To date the charity has supported over 2000 young people from low income backgrounds through an impactful programme involving STEM work placements and skills days. Based primarily in London and Oxford, over the next two years we have ambitious aims to grow the programme throughout London, the South East, South West, East of England, the Midlands and the North West.

Job title: Case Officer

Region: Cheshire & Merseyside

Directorate: Operations

Contract: FTC to 28 February 2021

 25 Hours per week

Salary: £24,816 per annum – pro rata (£17,726)

About The Royal British Legion

The Legion is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forces community through thick and thin – ensuring their unique contribution is never forgotten. We’ve been here since 1921 and we’ll be here as long as they need us.

Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

• A desire to provide a great customer service and support
• Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others
• Passionate about supporting the Armed Forces community and honouring their contribution
• Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop
• An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others

If so then we would like to hear from you ….

The Role

An opportunity has arisen to join the Cheshire & Merseyside Area Team as a Case Officer on a part time basis (we require someone who is able to work full days on both Monday and Friday with a flexible approach across the remaining 11 hours).

As a Case Officer, you will work with individuals eligible for Legion assistance to help them to access the right support in a timely and seamless way in areas such as finance, employment, health, housing advice or overcoming temporary crisis. You will also support the work of our volunteer caseworkers.

A self-starter, confident working independently and within a great team, you will be responsible for forging successful relationships with statutory bodies and other agencies to maximise our reach and impact. An experienced and customer focused case manager, assured in advocating on behalf of clients, you will have a good understanding of the Social Welfare system and be used to working across multiple agencies. You’ll also need to be a strong team player, with excellent communication, planning and organisational skills.

Although predominantly home based due to Covid-19 currently, this role will involve significant travel throughout the area so a Driving license and use of a car would be desirable.

How to Apply

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply online’

Closing date for this role is: Sunday 1st November 2020 with interviews scheduled for 9th November 2020

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a motivated and talented Sales Operations Manager to join our School Partnerships team. This role will be responsible for project managing the go-to-market process from end-to-end, as well as making strategic recommendations based on forecast and performance metrics.This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of, and be responsible for, driving real change across the whole of Ambition Institute. 

Based our London, Manchester or Birmingham office, and reporting to the Operations Director, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that any bottlenecks and inconsistencies are eliminated through the development of sales incentive programs and strategic planning. You will require a detailed skillset and will be involved from business case inception to ongoing post implementation support. The role will engage directly with internal teams and external vendors to ensure smooth delivery against constantly evolving requirements. You will be responsible for the administration of our CRM system, ensuring that optimal performance is achieved, and technology is being utilized to maximize productivity and efficiency.

This exciting role is varied and complex, and will require a robust, agile and creative project manager to fulfil the needs of the organisation. It is essential that you have leadership experience and robust comprehension of high-level sales strategy. You must drive and adhere to best practice, whilst being innovative and collaborative in your approach. The ideal candidate will be at the forefront of advances in process design and implementation and must also be a passionate advocate of change and advancement in the organisation. 

Who are Ambition Institute? 

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period 
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to apply 

We will be assessing applications on an ongoing basis, and will end the advert early if we receive a large number of applications. We recommend all interested candidates to apply for the role as soon as possible.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a motivated and talented Operations Director to oversee, manage, and deliver the operational strategy for School Partnerships. This role is responsible for providing line management and development of the two Associate Directors that head up the Enquiries and Applications & Operations Teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of, and be responsible for, the B2B and B2C strategy across the whole of Ambition Institute.

Based in one of our London, Birmingham, or Manchester offices, and reporting to the Chief Recruitment Director, you’ll be responsible for delivering operational strategic direction and support to the School Partnerships department. You will lead the Sales Operations and Enquiries teams to achieve against their strategic priorities for improving our operational efficiency, converting all interested applicants into a sale, and ensuring an overall excellent applicant experience.  You will work collaboratively with our School Partnerships area teams to meet stretching recruitment targets, and to continually improve our practise across the department. You’ll need to match a keen eye for operational effectiveness delivering business as usual, with a clear vision for future direction and the strategic insight to deliver it.

This exciting role is varied and complex, and will require a robust, agile, and strategic individual to fulfil the needs of the organisation. It is essential that you have a strong commitment to education and extensive experience in sales/partnerships environment. You must drive and adhere to best practice, whilst being innovative and collaborative in your approach. The person in this role should be at the forefront of driving the Sales strategy and must be a passionate advocate of change and advancement in the organisation.

Who are Ambition Institute?

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, midnight on 1st November 2020. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 9th November 2020.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

We are looking for a motivated, energetic and caring individual who can provide excellent customer care to our reception team within our vibrant national Head office. The successful post holders will form part of a team to provide an efficient and responsive administration and reception service. The job will be based in Stockport town centre and supports a range of departments and key staff.

Our work requires regular liaison with service users, employees of the organisation, senior management, stakeholders and the general public in a professional manner delivering the highest standards of customer service.  A high standard of professionalism and customer care is required at all times. Some experience of social care would benefit the role however, training can be provided.

This role is part time (mornings) and will be based within an experienced team of six team members. The post holder will have excellent customer care skills, be well organised, an excellent communicator both verbally and through email. They will be a supportive team player, flexible, responsive and timely in their approach.

Scope of the role…

Creative Support is an established not for profit social care provider with nearly 30 years’ experience of supporting vulnerable adults nationally. We work in 65 local authorities supporting over 8,000 service users and employ 5,000 staff. Our busy Head Office is based in Stockport town centre and we have 19 head office departments. When fully staffed we can have over 200 staff working through these departments.

We have a key focus on promoting excellent customer care and a personalised approach to our service user who we welcome to volunteer and get involved in the organisation as a whole.

Creative Support is also a registered social landlord with over 1,000 tenants. We have a proactive and flexible approach and we respond to local and national needs for social housing as well as the social care services for vulnerable adults.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys synthesising information and can use their influence and professional authority in varied situations. The Participant Suitability Manager will ensure we provide high quality guidance and support to participants on the Frontline programme, working closely with Frontline’s Programme Management team and Manager to ensure a smooth process. The role comprises three core areas:

Chairing panels

The participant suitability manager will chair participant suitability panels; fitness to practice panels and learning reviews. This vital role requires a social work qualification and experience of chairing complex meetings with a range of partners and professionals.

Managing 2 Selection Advisors and 1 Disability Selection Advisor

You will manage Frontline’s selection advisors who are based in various locations and hold accountability for advising teams on participants suitability for the Frontline programme.

Investigating participant complaints

Carry out investigations for complaints from or relating to participants. Speak to relevant parties, working alongside the compliance team to ensure timescales and process are followed.

Emerging Futures’ greatest resource is its people, so we also offer our employees generous annual leave, pension, and other benefits.

Emerging Futures has secured a 3-5-year contract to deliver substance misuse and housing support services across Cheshire East. Our Housing Related Support is informed by both harm reduction and ‘Housing First’ principles and is driven operationally via a culture of values based, passionate leadership.

We are extremely proud of our services and are looking to recruit passionate and enthusiastic Housing Project Workers who are able to engage and offer support to people who present with a range of complex needs, including poor health & wellbeing, low self-esteem, low levels of literacy, substance misuse issues, non-existent family relationships and who have difficulty forming and sustaining new relationships.

If you thrive on working in a challenging but rewarding environment and have a real desire to make a difference to people’s lives, this role could be for you!

This requires the ability to work on a rolling rota basis covering days, evenings and weekend across our Housing Related Support provision in Crewe or Macclesfield, Cheshire East.

Our Passion Statement

At Emerging Futures, we believe that everyone has the potential to change, grow and learn and to achieve the best they can in everything they do. We know it takes courage and commitment to change, which is why we have a passion statement, rather than a mission statement. To us, being passionate means:

• celebrating success and achievement
• creative and daring enough to innovate
• determined to persist when things get tough
• brave enough to say when something isn’t good enough
• humble enough to accept and learn from criticism
• willing to take responsibility for making things better

Above all, being passionate means having the desire to nurture, facilitate and empower others to reach out with hope to achieve their full potential.

This job is for you if…

• You are someone who is committed to our passion statement and shares in our belief in the potential of all individuals, and that empowering individuals to support each other leads to positive change; not only for themselves, but also for their communities
• You are passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping and can support complex individuals from first point of contact to resettling in their own home.
• You are fun, approachable, energetic, confident, warm, empathetic, ambitious, flexible, resilient, discreet, organised, and professional.
• You are passionate about promoting recovery, tackling homelessness, and working in collaboratively with partner agencies.

What you will be doing

• Supporting tenants to maintain their tenancy by providing hands on, practical help and advice across our network of shared, supported housing.
• Working with the Local Authority and other agencies to create move-on options and improve the health and wellbeing of tenants through direct 1-1 work.
• Supporting the development of recovery and employment initiatives for tenants across Cheshire East, working with local third sector and grass roots organisations, associations, and individuals.
• Supporting residents in financial planning and providing debt counselling and support where appropriate.
• Ensuring residents understand their tenancy agreement and their rights and obligations.
• Managing accommodation for individuals, enabling residents to access pathways to meet their more immediate needs before moving on to full independence, their own tenancies and meaningful activity.

Some of the skills, knowledge and experience you will have

• A keen and comprehensive awareness of homelessness issues, interventions and understanding specific ways to support tenants with ingrained and entrenched negative behaviours.
• Excellent all-round communication skills and the ability to manage relationships.
• An ability to undertake accurate and comprehensive assessments of need, identifying levels of risk, recovery potential and establishing immediate and longer-term recovery goals.
• An ability to work effectively with groups using a structured planned approach.
• Experience of working in or with adult social care services within the charitable, third or public sector.
• A flexible attitude towards your work and a knowledge of local services and geography in Cheshire East.
• Flexibility and access to transport as you may be required to visit other sites across Cheshire East.
• We welcome applications from people with lived experience; however, all employees are required to have an enhanced DBS.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for either of these new and exciting roles within Emerging Futures, please send your Application Form or CV along with a covering letter detailing why you are suitable for the role to Victoria Duncan on the email provided.