"Support Worker" Jobs
Reporting to: Senior Health and Welfare Officer
Location: London, Kings Cross. Hybrid-working offered with a minimum requirement of 2 days in the London office with flexibility to attend the office more regularly as the needs of the role dictate.
Contract and hours: Permanent contract – 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
About Us
Help Musicians and sister charity Music Minds Matter are powered by a love of music, which is why they empower and support those who create it and make it happen.
For over 100 years, Help Musicians has been working hard to make a meaningful difference to the lives of musicians across the UK. In a precarious profession often filled with ups and downs, opportunities are hard-won whilst challenges come along all too easily, with unsteady income and physical and mental health concerns common issues. Help Musicians offers a broad range of help to support music creators in times of crisis and opportunity — ensuring musicians across the UK can achieve their creative potential and sustain a career in music.
Sister charity, Music Minds Matter, puts mental wellbeing centre-stage in music. It works proactively to help prevent mental health crises, providing everybody who works in music with the early support, knowledge and tools they need, at exactly the time they need them.
Love Music; Help Musicians
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in London as a Health and Welfare Officer.
This role exists to provide high-quality support to musicians, ensuring every person who accesses our Health and Welfare service has an exceptional experience which is inclusive and empathetic. The postholder will directly contribute to our goal of delivering exemplary support to professional musicians from all backgrounds and genres, ensuring high quality and accessible help is provided when it’s needed the most.
As Health & Welfare Officer, you will be effectively managing your own caseload of musicians, ensuring the appropriate level of support is provided and creating a positive experience for those who come to us for support.
Please see the job description for a full list of objectives and main responsibilities.
About you
You will have experience of working in a direct support role with a varied caseload within a relevant context such as health, social care or the charity sector. You will bring skills to understand the diverse needs of individuals and build tailored packages of support.
This is a fantastic opportunity to help us achieve our ambitions to provide more support and reach more people than ever before.
How do I apply?
For full details of the role and how to apply please click ‘Apply' and visit our website. You will need to download our application forms and submit these to us by the deadline below.
Deadline for applications: Midday, Monday 1st July
Interview date: Week commencing 8th July
All enquiries and applications should be made to our HR team via the recruitment email on our website.
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Age UK Wandsworth is an independent local charity. We've been working in the local community to help older people for over 60 years. We have dedicated staff and over 300 volunteers helping us to deliver services and activities for older people in Wandsworth.
An opportunity has arisen to join our growing Community Engagement Team assisting older people and/or vulnerable adults to improve or maintain their overall wellbeing and stay independent for longer whilst enabling them to retain, gain or regain independence.
The Community Engagement Project Assistant role will include delivering groups and activities, hosting events and working with clients in their homes, within our day centre, and in community settings such as libraries, job centres, sheltered accommodation and other voluntary sector organisation hubs.
The service aspires to support, but is not limited to, older Wandsworth residents in the following groups: BAME; dementia; digitally isolated; financially isolated; LGBTQ; socially isolated; women; and those with, or at risk of, mental and/or physical ill health and disabilities.
What we can offer you:
· A vibrant workplace where no day is ever the same
· An experienced and supportive leadership team
· Kind and caring colleagues who work as a team
· A great employer’s pension contribution
· A cycle to work scheme
· An employee shopping benefits scheme
· An employee assistance programme (EAP)
· A friendly hypo-allergenic office dog to play with
Important notes:
Please note that CVs will not be accepted and only full application packs will be reviewed.
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We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient IDVA to join our homelessness service in Kent.
£26,330.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.
The role of an IDVA is to address the safety of victims and survivors at high risk of harm. IDVAs work with their customers from the point of crisis by safety planning and risk assessing using the DASH to ascertain the level of risk to the victim.
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
What you'll do:
Manage client referrals, completing Dash Risk Assessments and obtaining and maintaining all relevant paperwork.
Building supportive, trusting relationships with clients and creating a positive atmosphere.
Knowledge of the criminal justice system. Understanding of Marac protocols.
Regular attendance at Marac and completion of all Marac referrals.
Support Customers to obtain Non Molestation Orders where needed and any other civil remedies available to them.
Working proactively with other members of the team to handle the service caseload and administrative responsibilities.
Attending all court and Case Management hearings with or as a representative for clients.
Supporting clients to set personalised goals in the form of a Safety and Support Plan.
Assisting in the recording and reporting of customer incidents.
Creating a safety plan with clients.
Developing productive relationships with partner organisations to improve service outcomes.
Adhering to lone working protocols and maintaining high levels of awareness in relation to the health and safety of yourself and colleagues.
Encouraging customers to attend relevant programmes when appropriate i.e Own My Life.
Ensuring Look Ahead Health and Safety policies and local protocols are adhered to at all times e.g. fire risk assessments, fire alarm checks etc.
Adhering to all other Look Ahead's policies and procedures.
Engaging in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills.
Undertaking any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as assigned by the Service Manager.
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
About you:
Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
Exudes a warm friendly presence 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 organized
Able to apply the right balance of care and support dependant on the needs of the customer
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 motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour
Ability to adhere to Look Ahead's professional boundaries policy
What you'll bring:
Essential:
Previous experience managing a caseload
Desirable:
IDVA qualification
About us:
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 120 services, providing support to around 6000 customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
We focus on Excellence and innovation.
We are Caring and Compassionate.
We are Inclusive and Trusted.
We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
Position: Safeguarding Outreach Worker
Location: Southampton
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: £24,969.60 - £25,614.24
About the Role:
We are seeking a dedicated Safeguarding Outreach Worker to join our multidisciplinary Family Safeguarding Team. This role involves working collaboratively with families to ensure the safety and well-being of children within their homes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take a whole-family approach to child protection to keep children safely at home.
- Publicise support available to those at risk of domestic abuse.
- Work with the Family Safeguarding Team to develop services for perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse.
- Empower and support victims and survivors to make positive choices and address the impact of abuse.
- Contribute to family plans through team discussions, managing and evaluating risks.
- Keep accurate records and update relevant workbooks, ensuring confidentiality and data protection.
- Provide advocacy, information, emotional, and practical support to those affected by domestic abuse, focusing on keeping victims and their children safe.
- Offer one-to-one services including safety planning, risk assessments, and support for victims and survivors.
- Provide parenting and family support, working with service users to identify their needs.
- Support victims in creating realistic safety plans, prioritising children's safety.
- Assess risks and needs using an evidence-based risk identification checklist.
- Provide proactive service through individual safety planning.
- Ensure children receive one-to-one services, including safety planning and risk assessments.
- Provide 1:1 support to help children come to terms with their experiences of domestic abuse.
- Work with alleged perpetrators to engage them in behaviour change programs.
- Collaborate with local agencies, including probation and mental health services, to manage risks.
- Establish and evaluate a "Caring Dads" Group to teach positive parenting skills.
Partnership and Community Response:
- Provide feedback to other agencies on client difficulties accessing services.
- Work with local agencies to develop a community response to domestic abuse.
- Attend multi-agency forums as appropriate.
Safeguarding and Compliance:
- Ensure client welfare according to safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Stay up-to-date and compliant with all organizational policies, procedures, and professional codes of conduct.
- Understand the legal framework relating to the protection of children and ensure records are kept securely.
- Escalate ongoing safeguarding or risk management concerns to management.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience in safeguarding, domestic abuse prevention, or related fields.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Commitment to professional development.
- Confidentiality and integrity in handling sensitive information.
How to Apply:
If you are passionate about making a difference, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your experience and why you are the ideal candidate for this position.
Application Deadline:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Join us in our mission to support and empower families and survivors of domestic abuse. Together, we can make a difference.
Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.
Full Time, 35 hours per week (occasional out of hours work may be required, flexible hours available)
Fixed Term Contract - funded until 31st March 2025 (With possible extension)
Swansea, Cardiff, or Newport - Interventions will be delivered across various locations in Wales.
Ref FWC-244
Are you a proactive, flexible, and target-driven individual with a proven record of working with male adults in the criminal justice system whether in the community or in prisons? Do you have extensive recent experience of providing specialist money and/or welfare benefit advice?
If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a collaborative Financial Wellbeing Coach to join our team, where you will be responsible for the delivery of Finance, Benefit and Debt services to referrals made by Wales Probation Service.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes, and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions, and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
As our Financial Wellbeing Coach, you will provide person-centred support to a caseload of service users who will either be serving community sentences or have been released from prison. This will involve undertaking assessment and action planning with individual service users and creating a safe and trusting environment, using trauma-informed practice to successfully facilitate a supportive and constructive relationship with service users.
We will also count on you to deliver a range of interventions to service users which contribute towards the achievement of prescribed outcomes, and to work with service users flexibly, meeting and undertaking interventions in a range of locations across a wide geographical area. Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with external agencies and working towards contractual targets and outcomes within agreed timescales and in line with specified quality standards are also vital aspects of the role.
The contract requires clearance through HMPPS vetting.
What we are looking for
• Experience of engaging successfully with challenging people, e.g. those with complex and multiple needs.
• Proven record of working with partner agencies.
• Evidence of training at specialist level in money and/or welfare benefits advice.
• Higher level certificate in money and/or welfare benefit advice from accreditation.
• The ability to assess clients’ needs and provide tailored, client-led support.
• Able to work sensitively with clients applying trauma informed strategies.
• A full driver’s licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Welsh language desirable but not a necessity.
Please note this role requires: Enhanced Adult Workforce DBS.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
Closing date: 11pm, Monday 8th July 2024
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Join a team with a bold mission – at Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind, we are dedicated to reshaping the landscape of mental health and emotional wellbeing in our community. The Rough Sleeper Practitioner will be the forefront of a critical support system for people experiencing homelessness. You will be working with people with mental health needs, offering wellbeing support to rough sleepers identified in the borough.
What You'll Do:
- Collaboration and Efficiency: Work hand-in-hand with existing Mental Health Provision. well as other local agencies/organisations to effectively support young people transitioning from services.
- Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, elevating the mental health and emotional well-being of the people we serve, while opening doors to life's possibilities.
Why Join Us:
• Impact Matters: Join a team where your work directly transforms lives and contributes to a healthier community.
• Personal Growth: We offer professional development opportunities that will enrich your career and help shape the future of mental health services in Swindon.
• Collaborative Culture: Work alongside like-minded individuals who share your passion for making a meaningful impact.
Together, we can build a brighter, healthier future for Swindon. Your contribution can make all the difference.
We provide advice and support to empower anyone in our local communities experiencing a mental health problem.
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Ref SOC-241
Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of working and engaging positively with young people involved in or at risk of serious youth violence and exploitation? Do you have sound experience of providing support, advice and advocacy and have the ability to assess a client’s needs?
If so, St Giles is looking for Caseworkers to work on our pioneering SOS project where, as part of a high-performing team, you will work with both victims and perpetrators of serious youth violence, exploitation and other gang-related offences and help them to be safe, move away from offending and take positive choices.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About SOS+
Working with young people in a variety of educational settings, St. Giles’ SOS+ Service delivers early intervention work, through one-to-one mentoring and preventative sessions on violence, vulnerability and exploitation. The mission of SOS+ is to prevent children and young people becoming involved in gangs and youth violence by equipping them with tools, knowledge and support delivered by experts with lived experience.
About this key role
Our successful candidate will assess referred clients, with reference to St Giles Trust assessment practices, offering support to up to 20 young people per year, who are identified by local partners as most at need of support. You will produce support and risk management plans based on these assessments, plus deliver a holistic support service, working independently or with colleagues as the situation dictates, which will involve providing practical guidance on areas such social and housing support, education, training and employment options, and benefits work.
We will count on you to develop and maintain strong relationships with referral and partner agencies, including police, Youth Offending Teams, Probation, local authorities and social services, while closing cases efficiently and positively, identifying a survival plan for the client that will identify agencies that can be used for on-going support is also a key aspect of this role.
What we are looking for
- To have worked on an offender-led support project, had personal experience of the criminal justice system, served a prison sentence, or still be serving a prison sentence in a prison within reach of Greater Manchester
- Experience in negotiation with partner agencies to establish links to further aims of the project
- Experience of engaging successfully with challenging people
- To have a relevant qualification to a good standard or be working towards one
- Knowledge of the local community, its projects and services available to young people
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.
Please note this role requires an Enhanced Children with the Child Barred list checks.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
To apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button.
Closing date: 11 p.m. on 09 July 2024 Interview date: 19 July 2024
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This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Wellbeing Advisor Assistant with experience of working within a children and young people, to work within a multi-disciplinary wellbeing advice services team to increase and improve emotional and mental health provision within local communities for 11–24-year-olds in the West London CCG area.
The Senior Wellbeing Adviser will be a part of our Youth Services team and will work to deliver mental health services for young people and the adults who support them. The Senior Wellbeing Adviser will co-ordinate and deliver a diverse portfolio of wellbeing services including the provision of 1:1 practical wellbeing advice and support to young people (mainly aged 16-25), facilitation of peer support groups, delivery of workshops and trainings and co-ordinate awareness-raising campaigns on occasion.
This post will enable the post-holder to develop a wide range of project coordination and evaluation skills. The position will suit an individual who is self-motivated, an excellent communicator and data competent, with an interest in quality improvement, line management, an understanding of child development and mental health, as well as a passion to support services for children, young people and their families.
The post holder will also work alongside colleagues and partners in the Local Authority, CAMHS, educational settings where interventions are being delivered and other relevant mental health providers.
Key Responsibilities
- To provide practical mental health focused short term casework to young people through 1:1 face to face appointments
- To develop, co-ordinate and deliver workshops and training to groups of children and young people
- To raise and escalate safeguarding concerns effectively with partners to ensure children and young people are effectively safeguarded
- Signpost referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
- Coordinate referrals and booking in sessions
- Conduct regular line management with one Wellbeing Advisor working closely with them as a team.
- To undertake data collection, analysis and monitoring to evaluate the effectiveness of service provision
- To produce impact reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programs
- Routinely measure clinical outcomes, in line with the CYP-IAPT program.
- Maintain comprehensive records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision-making.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection and report clinical outcomes and service access data into the digital patient record system, CYP IAPTUS.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery low-intensity psychological treatments based on evidence-based literature and research to support best practice in clinical work. Interventions may include guided self-help, and treatment might be individual or in psychoeducational groups. This work includes delivery face to face, virtual and Telephone.
- Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post-holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
- Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, and to provide direct assistance.
- Work in collaboration with school staff, parents, children, young people, and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
- Degree level qualification in Health/Social Care/teaching/ psychology or equivalent
Knowledge & Experience
- 3 years’ experience working with children and young people with mental health challenges
- Experience in delivering 1:1 practical support sessions, group facilitation and producing and delivering presentations, workshops and training
- Experience managing a complex case load
- 2 years’ experience project planning and management experience
- Working knowledge of child and adult safeguarding
- Understanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality
- Experience of data collection, analysis and reporting
- Knowledge of mental health and/or social care services
Skills
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to distil complex issues in clear language for a wide range of audiences
- Commitment to working innovatively and always seeking to evaluate and improve all areas of practice
- Ability to work productively as part of a team
- An authentic regard of client’s experience and knowledge as equally valuable as that of clinicians/practitioners
- Attention to detail
- Data literate
- Ability to keep accurate notes and records
- Ability to prioritise and work on a number of tasks in parallel
- Good time management and organisational skills
- Excellent problem-solver
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to convey ideas clearly
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of audiences
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary £45,000 per annum | 35 hours per week (Full-time) | Permanent
This role will involve hybrid working from home and WGN offices, as well as occasional travel across London. This may evolve over time in line with Service User, service delivery and organisational requirements
About us
Women and Girls Network (WGN) was established in 1987 and has spent over 30 years supporting women and girls across London affected by gendered violence. This includes childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, prostitution (including trafficking and sexual exploitation), female genital mutilation (FGM), and so-called 'honour' based crimes such as forced marriage.
Our goal is to promote, preserve, and restore the mental health and wellbeing of women and girls, to empower them to make a total and sustainable recovery from the experiences of violence. To support this work, we are looking for an experienced and dynamic individual to lead and manage our multidisciplinary Rape Crisis Services.
About you
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working at senior leadership level and of managing a range of services as well as a multidisciplinary staff team. The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of the issues facing women and girls affected by sexual violence in the context of their lives, the criminal justice system, safeguarding, support services and policy frameworks.
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated and dynamic individual to lead one of our flagship services and to work alongside a highly skilled staff and senior leadership team. We are looking for someone who is able to offer strategic insight and direction and support the future development and consolidation of rape crisis services across West London.
If you have the passion, skills and vision for this role and are looking to make impact within a feminist organisation then we would welcome your application.
Further Information
This post is subject to satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS check.
Employee benefits include 3% pension contribution, enhanced leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Programme.
We welcome and encourage applications from women of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic communities.
WGN is an equal opportunities employer.
Posts are exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1.
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Hybrid - Cheltenham (St Pauls and Moors Estates primarily)
Ref ESC-241
We are seeking a highly organised Children and Young Person’s Specialist Exploitation Caseworker to work in the St Pauls and Moors Estates in Cheltenham.
The postholders will combine their lived experience of overcoming similar barriers to the client group and their professional experience to provide crucial guidance, support, and mentorship to children and young people who are being, or at high risk of being exploited.
Through 1:1 mentoring, you will ensure children and young people are equipped to think critically, assess risk, and make better life choices. You will also support them to overcome personal challenges and achieve personal goals. The resulting mindset shift and confidence makes them more resilient to the risks of becoming involved with substance misuse and/or supply; gangs; exploitation and violence
We positively encourage applications if you have had personal adverse experiences that make you and ‘expert by experience’. This could include experience of the criminal justice system, having served a prison sentence, experience of gang involvement, county lines and criminal exploitation. You will need to demonstrate how your lived experience supports your ability to carry out the role to the benefit of the clients we work with.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Delivery specialist Exploitation 1 to 1 casework and mentoring to identified at risk young people up to the age of 25 years and their families.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with children and young people to provide emotional support, guidance, and mentorship.
- Address individual needs and challenges, utilising personal experiences, local knowledge, professional skills and St Giles casework and mentoring materials to offer support and intervention.
- Assist children and young people in setting and achieving personal life goals.
- Woking alongside statutory organisations such as YST and Collaborate with professionals to support and develop strategies to minimise the risk to young people.
- Support client’s attendance to youth court as and when required.
- Maintain a trauma informed approach, that recognises and responds to trauma and amplifies the voices and experiences of children and young people.
- Develop positive, pro-social attitudes, behaviour and social skills with children and young people.
- Safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children and young people.
- Provide guidance on resolving interpersonal issues.
- Maintain open and effective communication with mentees, professionals, parents/carers and partners.
- Maintain accurate records (including case notes and engagement data) of interactions, progress, and outcomes in line with St Giles delivery protocols.
- Use data to assess the effectiveness of interventions and make adjustments as needed.
- Support in the collation of evaluative data (in line with project protocols).
- Promote inclusivity and equity in your role.
- Attend relevant training and workshops to enhance mentoring skills and professional knowledge.
Person Specification:
In your application, please demonstrate how you meet the person specification criteria marked with (A)
- Relevant direct or indirect experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing the client group (i.e. involved in gangs, county lines and/or knife crime). (A)
- Experience of working positively with socially excluded children, young people or adults and able to engage successfully despite ‘challenging’ behaviour. (A)
- Knowledge of the challenges and issues facing vulnerable young people. (A)
- Understanding and demonstration of professional standards and accountability.
- Empathetic and understanding attitude toward young peoples' needs. (A)
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and active listening skills.
- Experience of working collaboratively with multi-agency partners. (A)
- Commitment to promoting inclusivity and equity.
- Excellent record keeping and experience of using case management databases. (A)
- Outstanding organisational skills.
- Total commitment to excellent safeguarding practice and understanding of professional boundaries. (A)
- · Emotionally resilient.
- · Commitment to upholding St Giles core values.
Please note you must have a full UK driving license.
To Apply:
St Giles is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all. We prohibit discrimination throughout all stages of the recruitment and compliance with this policy should be aligned with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients. For this role, successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced DBS check with Adult/child barred list, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable Children and Adults, in accordance with Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974).
Closing date: 11p.m. Thursday 4th July 2024
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This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to contribute to increasing and improving emotional and mental health provision within education settings for 5–18-yearolds, young adults (15 - 18), families, and other professionals within the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The "Be Kind to Your Mind (BK2YM)" service provides evidence-based mental health support to school- and college-aged Children and Young People, staff, young adults, families, and other professionals within the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham.
Be Kind to Your Mind (BK2YM) is a non-clinical, mental health and wellbeing offer delivered by HFEH MIND Youth Services. BK2YM’s non-clinical interventions and psychoeducation programme (Learn Well) offers a multitiered level of support:
- Preventative and early intervention for children and young people aged 5 – 25 through HFEH Mind Psychoeducation Workshops and assemblies.
- Training for school staff and other professionals.
- Therapeutic Arts intervention (x6 sessions) for students.
- Access to a digital support tool (self-help): WYSA.
- Access to wider digital/online support tolls (Including My Mind TV).
Key Responsibilities
- Delivery of Be Kind to Your Mind interventions across schools, colleagues and alternative education.
- Delivering whole school/year group assemblies and ‘drop-down days’ to educational establishments within the defined area(s) of operation.
- Facilitation with targeted outreach to H&F SENCO's/AP's, adapting content for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in collaboration with Educational Psychologists.
- Ad-hoc creation of bespoke content to complement existing materials.
- Creation and delivery of education staff workshops based on provided training needs assessment form submissions.
- Outreach to schools/organisations, maintenance of Learn Well bookings.
- Maintaining rapport with education/community youth provisions to ensure continuation of delivery across the academic year.
- Co-ordination of targeted outreach/promotion on universal days related to Children and Young People’s Mental Health and issues impacting their mental health and wellbeing generally. (E.g. world mental health day, stress awareness week etc.)
- Evaluation and Impact Reporting:
- Composition of internal, bi-borough, and education/youth settings impact reporting.
- Support data analysis for routine reporting, service evaluation, research, and improvement.
- Completing pre-and post-evaluation of interventions to ensure delivery is reviewed and meeting objectives.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
- An undergraduate Psychology degree (or equivalent) that confers British Psychological Society’s Graduate Basis for Chartered membership (GBC).
- Understanding of the impact of social inequalities and how this relates to mental health.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of the key socioeconomic and systemic factors that contribute to poor mental health of children, young people, and parents/carers from Black, Asian, and other Ethnic Minority groups.
- Understanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality.
- Experience of literature reviews, data collection, and analysis.
- Knowledge of mental health and/or social care services.
Skills
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to distil complex issues in clear language for a wide range of audiences.
- Commitment to working innovatively and always seeking to evaluate and improve all areas of practice.
- Ability to work productively as part of a team.
- An authentic regard for the client’s experience and knowledge as equally valuable as that of clinicians/practitioners.
- Data Literacy and Attention to detail – especially in relation to compiling activity and impact reports for the service(s)
- Ability to keep accurate notes and records.
- Ability to prioritise and work on a number of tasks in parallel.
- Good time management and organisational skills.
- Excellent problem-solver.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to convey ideas clearly.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of audiences.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £35,692 - £38,143 per annum
Location: Stoke Newington, London
Start date: June 2024
Our client Peter Bedford Housing Association (PBHA) is a housing association with charitable aims that create positive change in people’s lives. As well as homes and support, PBHA empowers people to learn, access work and discover their creative talents. Based in Hackney, Islington and Newham, PBHA work with people who are homeless, have mental ill health, learning difficulties and multiple needs. PBHA’s work enables people to move on and lead independent lives.
PBHA are committed to an asset based and psychologically informed approach to their work. Mutual support, participation and personal development for both staff and service users is key to this.
The role:
The Housing Coordinator (Supported Housing) leads PBHA’s Housing Team to provide a quality housing management service to tenants with additional tenancy sustainment needs. They will provide day to day supervision to other members of the Housing Team. The post holder will work from local offices, with access to PBHA’s main office in Haggerston where appropriate, however some of the work will be in tenants’ homes in the community. The post holder will be issued the IT equipment necessary to facilitate mobile working.
Aims of the post
The Housing team provide work with vulnerable tenants, helping them to sustain their tenancy and participate in their community. The Housing Coordinator (Supported Housing) carries a small caseload, whilst managing a team of Housing Officers.
Specific Responsibilities
Staff Resources
• Supervising staff and volunteers in line with PBHA policies and procedures.
• Completing annual appraisals, sickness absence reviews and performance management.
• Representing PBHA at internal and external meetings as agreed with the Housing Services Manager.
• Ensuring quality service delivery via staff supervision and auditing.
Tenancy Sustainment
• To be responsible for working with a small caseload of tenants within a locality.
• Identifying individual tenancy needs through assessment and an identified Housing Plan which details risks, needs and move on plans.
• Regular contact with tenants as per plan.
• Provide a weekly housing management drop in at PBHA’s hubs.
• Ensure that tenants apply for benefits where eligible, and signpost tenants to information on how to maximise income.
• Record and monitor any breaches of tenancy agreement and work proactively and within procedures to resolve them.
• Liaise with the ASB lead, Income Officer, the Finance and Enterprises and Training departments to provide effective prevention and management of rent arrears, escalating where necessary in accordance with policy and procedure.
• Liaise with colleagues to ensure void targets are met and properties are let within agreed timescales.
• Arrange viewings and carry out sign ups of occupancy agreements and assist in the moving in/out process.
• Ensure tenants understand their rights and responsibilities in their occupancy agreements.
• Deal with complaints, nuisance and tenancy disputes as they arise.
• Work with tenants to promote self-help and mediation approaches to dispute resolution and address and escalate in line with procedure.
• Carry out regular building inspections, helping tenants to report repairs.
• Take pride in PBHA’s property and assets and encourage tenants to do so.
• Enforce the conditions of tenancy that enable PBHA to undertake urgent works such as gas servicing.
• Carry out H&S and fire checks and assessment, liaising closely with others to ensure that follow up actions are completed.
• Report safeguarding concerns as appropriate.
Team Responsibilities
• Be part of the Operational Leadership Team
• Providing a drop-in service at the Hub
• Responsibility for authorising expenditure
• Involvement in the selection and induction of new workers and volunteers.
• Taking part in planning the team’s work and the annual plan
• Ensuring that proper records are kept, and information is passed to other team members as necessary.
• Ensure that PBHA’s systems are accurately updated specifically in relation to contact with tenants and service users.
Customer focused services
• Lead your team in promoting participation and co-production opportunities so that tenants/participants have maximum influence over the development of PBHA.
• Participate in a rota to provide cover for emergency situations outside of regular working hours. The Rota is additional to the 37.5-hour work week.
• Adhere to lone-working procedures.
• To positively respond to, promote and signpost tenants and participants to report complaints in line with PBHA’s practice.
• To have a collaborative and co-operative approach towards resolving complaints, working with colleagues across teams and departments.
• To take collective responsibility for any shortfalls identified through complaints rather than blaming others.
• To act within the Professional Standards for engaging with complaints as set by the Chartered Institute of Housing.
General Responsibilities
• Participate in key meetings.
• Contribute to policy development, income generation, strategic and annual planning, corporate and cross-team activities, external partnerships and promotional activities as required.
• Promote, develop and support PBHA’s ethos, values and impact.
• Provide cover for other managers and workers.
All staff are expected to:
• Work co-operatively as part of a team and with other teams.
• Be involved in the selection and training of new workers and volunteers.
• Participate in staff training and development activities, one to ones and all relevant meetings.
• Ensure the observation of all PBHA’s policies and practices, including those relating to equality and diversity, data, health and safety, financial control, standing orders, sustainability, recruitment, supervision, appraisals, sickness and disciplinary.
• Plan and organise own work with a minimum of day-to-day supervision.
• Undertake all other reasonable duties.
General Information
Please note that:
• Postholders must recognise the needs of the organisation to adapt the role and responsibilities of the postholder as is necessary.
• All PBHA work premises are non-smoking.
Access Information
The post is based at our Hubs. The Kingsland Hub site has one level and is accessible to wheelchair users. Clissold and Isledon Hubs have step-only access. The role involves travel within Hackney and Islington and working in tenants’ homes.
Main Conditions of Service
This is a full-time position. The post is for 37.5 hours per week, 5 days per week, Monday – Friday, 7.5 hours per day. Duties will occasionally be carried out over evenings and some public holidays.
Overtime is not paid but in line with Agile working, hours can be averaged out over a 2-week period.
Annual leave entitlement is 26 days per year plus normal bank holidays pro rata (inclusive of bank holidays). This will rise after each completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
Salaries are revised each year. The starting salary for this post is £35,692 (SCP 18 – 22). We will usually appoint at the start of the scale.
The post holder will be auto enrolled to be a member of the organisation's contributory pension scheme if eligible.
In common with all posts at PBHA, confirmation of appointment is subject to a probationary period (6 months).
PBHA is committed to equality and diversity, anti-discriminatory practice and is striving to be an anti-racist organisation.
Role Requirements:
Although we are keeping direct experience/knowledge requirements to a minimum, we do need you to use the application form or covering letter to demonstrate your capabilities, in relation to each point listed under essential requirements in the role requirements. Where relevant use your answers to illustrate how your competences have helped you achieve positive results.
The minimum experience required for the post is:
• To have worked in a paid or voluntary capacity with at least one of the following groups: people who have mental ill health; learning difficulties; people who have been homeless and rootless; or people who have alcohol-related problems.
• To have an understanding of the particular wellbeing needs of minority ethnic groups.
• Good computer literacy including the ability to use Windows applications, database systems and MS office packages.
• Experience of forging working relationships as part of a team and in partnership with external statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Experience of working in an outcome focused way.
The competencies required for the post are the ability to:
• Can positively contribute and take initiative, good negotiation skills
• To be positive, resourceful and resilient when working in a challenging environment
• Understanding and ability to manage boundaries effectively, including awareness of limits of own competence, role and responsibilities
• Good verbal, written and positive interpersonal communication skills, ensuring that stakeholders are treated with respect and dignity and are not judged
• Ability to manage, plan and take responsibility for your own caseload
• Effectively support PBHA’s tenants to progress to more independent accommodation through the acquisition of skills, confidence and supportive relationships
• Establish productive partnerships with a range of key stakeholders, internal and external, to ensure that project targets are met
• Organise work effectively by prioritising, planning and excellent time management
• Meet demanding targets in a difficult climate
• Be a self-starter, demonstrating initiative and a pro-active approach to meeting goals and targets
• Use IT effectively to prepare reports, marketing materials etc.
The successful candidate will need to be committed to:
• Improving quality and raising standards of service
• Enabling participants in the project to take control of their own lives and become involved in the overall running of the project
• PBHA’s Diversity and Equal Opportunities policy
• Co-operative team working
• Having the flexibility to accommodate work responsibilities that occasionally extend beyond normal working hours at short notice
It is desirable that the candidate will have:
• An understanding of peer support and the value of lived experience
• Supervisory experience
• A management qualification
PBHA offers in return:
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days with service
• Company pension scheme with employer matching up to 5% of contributions
• Agile working
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced company sick pay
To apply, please register your interest and we will send you an application form to complete. Using an application form supports equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices.
Peter Bedford Housing Association is an Equal Opportunities employer who support an inclusive culture and diversity for their staff and those they represent. They are committed to encouraging further growth from diverse groups, and welcome applications from people of all abilities and under-represented groups. Currently, PBHA have an underrepresentation from men and disabled communities. As such, they particularly welcome applicants from these groups.
Homeless Hostel Project Worker
A leading homelessness charity in London have approached Morgan Hunt to recruit a Homeless Hostel Project Worker to work in their complex needs homeless hostel in west London. The service provides support to both men and women experiencing homelessness requiring support around their housing, mental health, drug and or alcohol dependency and physical health issues. You will be supporting clients that have recently been rough sleeping with a range of complex support needs assisting them in their progression to independent living.
Candidate requirements:
- Previous experience working within a hostel or supported housing setting ideally with clients who have a history of homelessness
- Keyworking experience with clients who have a variety of support needs including homelessness, drug and or alcohol abuse, mental health and offending histories
- Ability and knowledge around housing and welfare benefits and income maximisation
- An enhanced DBS certificate issued within the last 12 months or registered to the online update service
Responsibilities Include:
- Keyworking a caseload of up to 8 clients with high support needs including substance misuse, mental health, dual diagnosis, physical health issues and offending histories
- Updating and creating well-being plans
- Providing tenancy sustainment and housing and welfare benefit advice
- Liaising with a range of specialist agencies on behalf of clients around a range of support issues
If you are interested in this position, please contact us immediately.
Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.
ActionSpace, the sector-leading charity working with learning disabled artists across London is seeking an exceptional individual to join the team as Pastoral Care Co-ordinator.
The Pastoral Care Co-ordinator ensures all artists and project participants are able to maximise the benefits of participating in ActionSpace activities and supports them in realising their personal potential by ensuring accessibility and co-ordinating support needs.
The ideal candidate will have at least five years experience of working with learning disabled adults, particularly those with high support needs, and experience of developing and implementing access and behaviour support plans. They will have a comprehensive working knowledge of the needs and rights of learning disabled people, the relevant statutory authorities, legislation and public policy around accessibility and social care, be committed toworking in an anti-discriminatory way, with a positive view of learning disabled people. They will enjoy working as part of a team but also be able to work independently, managing their own workload.
This is an exciting time to be joining ActionSpace as we embark on ambitious period of growth and development. You will be working as part of a unique creative team and for a small but highly respected, impactful and influential charity that achieves a lot and punches well-above above its weight.
We are looking for an expert who can bring their enthusiasm and knowledge of autistic learners with complex needs to join our team as our resident complex needs expert.
You will work with a group of learners who have a combination of conditions and differences that make learning more challenging in all areas of life. It may be ADHD, Down’s syndrome, OCD or a genetic difference, but all our learners have the opportunity to make their life into what they want it to be. Your role will be to enable this and remove the barriers. Do you want to be an enabler of independence, work skills and functional skills?
This role reports to the Aspirations Manager, and you will be responsible for the necessary work for your small group of learners. None of our groups are above 7 learners, all groups have support workers, and some have 1:1 support. There will be a team with you leading and working to celebrate the achievements and find solutions to the barriers our learners face.
Who we are:
At Red2Green, we have a vision that everyone should be confident in their own ability, be part of a community, enjoy their life, have the best possible access to independence, and, if they desire to, should be able to work. We offer a range of opportunities to support and promote adults with autism and/or learning disabilities in Cambridgeshire to learn new skills, enjoy lots of different leisure activities, make new friends, gain confidence, and prepare themselves for employment where possible. We also work to raise awareness of the potential of people with disabilities to make a positive and valuable contribution to society.
Our Aspirations Service supports autistic clients to:
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gain maximum benefit from meaningful activities
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integrate with their peer group and encourage social inclusion
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increase independent living skills
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reach their targets and outcomes in accordance with their Educational Health Care Plan (EHCP) and annual reviews
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feel supported in the workplace in regard to their autism
Key duties and responsibilities of the role:
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Tutors Aspirations learners, leads the complex needs group and manages the staff within their group
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Supports learners needs and behaviours by creating and utilising positive behaviour support plans, risk assessments and staff’s knowledge of individuals within the group
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Organises, attends and takes a lead at EHCP reviews for their group, writes EHCP offers and provides professional reports when needed
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To promote good practice to upskill all relevant staff by using own training and knowledge, and is the resident complex needs expert
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Works as Deputy Designated Safeguard Lead (DDSL) for the complex needs group and stand in DDSL for Aspirations service when the Aspirations manager is absent
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Builds professional relationships with other agencies, provisions and professionals
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Builds good relationships with learners’ families/carers to make sure that they are involved (as appropriate) in developing learners’ skills and abilities
Person specification:
You will have:
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Experience with autistic learners and a good understanding of the complexities that come from having more than one diagnosis
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Experience of working with people with learning disabilities
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Experience of working with those who may display challenging behaviours
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Experience of leading support staff
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Understanding of Education Health Care Plans
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Understanding of safeguarding duty
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Qualification for teaching (adults or QTS)
Benefits:
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Red2Green is located in a beautiful rural environment, with free and ample parking,
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We contribute 4% employer pension contributions
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Paid 20-minute break
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As a member of our support staff, you are provided with Red2Green T-shirts and hoodies.
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Training is provided and undertaken during working hours.
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We make staff wellbeing a priority, with 3 Mental Health First Aiders, and regular supervision sessions with managers.
It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
We support and promote people aged 16+ in Cambridgeshire and the surrounding areas who are autistic and/or have learning disabilities.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.