Social Work Jobs

Fixed Term Until 30th June 2026

Ref SMM-241

Are you a proactive, empathetic and collaborative individual with a proven record of supporting young people involved in or at risk of entry into the Criminal Justice System?  Do you have a sound understanding of the challenges and issues facing vulnerable young people?

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a highly organised Embedded Mentor to work within education settings to deliver the St Giles SOS+ service as part of the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) Trusted Adult Project. Here, you will combine your lived experience of overcoming similar barriers to the client group of at-risk young people, already within or at high risk of entering the criminal justice system, with your professional experience to provide crucial guidance, support, and mentorship.

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

Our successful candidate will play an integral role in supporting vulnerable and at-risk young people to overcome challenges, set and achieve academic and personal goals, and make informed positive choices that reduce their risk of offending and entry into the criminal justice system.  Your main focus will be the delivery of the SOS+ Embedded Mentor Programme to targeted at risk students, however you will also be expected to establish and maintain positive relationships with students to provide emotional support, guidance, and mentorship and address individual student needs and challenges – utilising personal experiences, local knowledge, professional skills and SOS+ materials to offer support and intervention.

We will also rely on you collaborate with professionals to support and develop strategies to minimise the risk to students and to maintain a trauma informed approach at all times, while supporting or co-delivering whole school awareness sessions; professional sessions; and parent/carer sessions is also an essential element of the role.

What we are looking for

• Relevant direct or indirect experience of the criminal justice system

• Understanding and demonstration of professional standards and accountability

• Commitment to promoting inclusivity and equity

• Excellent record keeping and good technical literacy of Microsoft Applications

• Total commitment to excellent safeguarding practice and understanding of professional boundaries

• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, both verbal and written.

Please note this role requires that successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced Child Workforce With Child Barred List DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants and colleagues.

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: 28th April 2024. 11:00pm         Interview date: 06th May 2024.

A ydych chi'n unigolyn rhagweithiol, empathig a chydweithredol sydd â phrofiad o gefnogi pobl ifanc sydd wedi eu cynnwys yn System Cyfiawnder Troseddol neu sydd mewn perygl o gael eu cynnwys ynddi?  A oes gennych chi ddealltwriaeth gadarn o'r heriau a'r materion sy'n wynebu pobl ifanc sy'n agored i niwed?

Os felly, mae Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles yn chwilio am Fentor Mewnol trefnus iawn i weithio mewn lleoliadau addysg i ddarparu'r gwasanaeth St Giles SOS+ fel rhan o'r Prosiect Oedolyn Cymeradwy Cronfa Gwaddol Ieuenctid (YEF).  Yma, byddwch yn cyfuno eich profiad ymarferol o oresgyn rhwystrau tebyg i'r grŵp cleientiaid o bobl ifanc sydd mewn perygl, sydd eisoes wedi'u cynnwys neu sydd mewn perygl mawr o gael eu cynnwys yn y system cyfiawnder troseddol, gyda'ch profiad proffesiynol i ddarparu arweiniad, cefnogaeth a mentoriaeth hanfodol.

Ynghylch Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles

Elusen uchelgeisiol, wedi’i hen sefydlu sy’n helpu pobl sy’n wynebu helbulon i ddod o hyd i swyddi, cartrefi a’r gefnogaeth gywir y mae ei hangen arnynt yw Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles.  Yn ganolog i’n hethos yw ein cred bod pobl sydd â phrofiad uniongyrchol o oresgyn problemau megis cefndir troseddol, digartrefedd, dibyniaeth ar gyffuriau ac alcohol neu fod yn aelod o gang, yn allweddol i sicrhau newid positif mewn eraill.

Ynghylch y rôl allweddol hon

Bydd ein hymgeisydd llwyddiannus yn chwarae rhan annatod wrth gefnogi pobl ifanc agored i niwed ac mewn perygl i oresgyn heriau, gosod a chyflawni nodau academaidd a phersonol, a gwneud dewisiadau cadarnhaol gwybodus sy'n lleihau eu risg o droseddu a chael eu cynnwys yn y system cyfiawnder troseddol.  Eich prif ffocws fydd cyflwyno'r Rhaglen Fentoriaid Mewnol SOS + i fyfyrwyr a dargedwyd sydd mewn perygl, ond bydd disgwyl i chi hefyd sefydlu a chynnal perthnasoedd cadarnhaol â myfyrwyr i ddarparu cefnogaeth emosiynol, arweiniad a mentoriaeth a mynd i'r afael ag anghenion a heriau myfyrwyr unigol – gan ddefnyddio profiadau personol, gwybodaeth leol, sgiliau proffesiynol a deunyddiau SOS + i gynnig cefnogaeth ac ymyrraeth.

Byddwch hefyd yn cydweithredu â gweithwyr proffesiynol i gefnogi a datblygu strategaethau i leihau'r risg i fyfyrwyr ac i gynnal dull sy'n seiliedig ar drawma, gan gefnogi neu gyd-gyflwyno sesiynau ymwybyddiaeth ysgol gyfan a sesiynau proffesiynol. Bydd sesiynau rhiant/gofalwr hefyd yn rhan hanfodol o'r gwaith.

Yr hyn rydym yn chwilio amdano

• Profiad uniongyrchol neu anuniongyrchol perthnasol o'r system cyfiawnder troseddol

• Deall ac arddangos safonau proffesiynol ac atebolrwydd

• Ymrwymiad i hyrwyddo cynwysoldeb ac ecwiti

• Cadw cofnodion yn drylwyr a bod â gwybodaeth fanwl o raglenni Microsoft

• Ymrwymiad llwyr i ymarfer diogelu rhagorol a dealltwriaeth o ffiniau proffesiynol

• Sgiliau rhyngbersonol, meithrin-perthynas a chyfathrebu rhagorol, ar lafar ac yn ysgrifenedig.

Sylwch fod y rôl hon yn gofyn bod yn rhaid i ymgeiswyr llwyddiannus gael gwiriad DBS Rhestr Gwaharddedig Plant, ar y sail bod y swydd yn cynnwys cyswllt â chyfranogwyr a chydweithwyr bregus.

Yn gyfnewid am hyn, gallwch ddisgwyl cyflog cystadleuol, lwfans gwyliau hael, pensiwn staff,

gweithio hyblyg, rhaglen fentora, gwasanaeth cyngor a chwnsela, sesiynau therapyddion clinigol,

yswiriant bywyd (4x cyflog blynyddol), dyddiau 'duvet', benthyciad tocyn tymor,

rhaglen fanteision gweithwyr, taleb gofal llygaid a llawer mwy.

Rydym yn gyflogwr ecwiti a chynhwysol. Rydym yn croesawu pob cais, ac yn arbennig yn annog ceisiadau gan bobl o'r mwyafrif byd-eang (du, brown, aml-dreftadaeth) a'r rhai sy'n uniaethu fel anabl, niwro-eang, neu niwro-amrywiol, gydag unrhyw nodweddion gwarchodedig a/neu rwystrau neu heriau cymdeithasol. Rydym yn gwerthfawrogi'r effaith rymusol ac addysgiadol y gall pob profiad ymarferol ac amrywiaeth meddwl ei gynnig i'r sefydliad.

Bydd St Giles yn gwarantu cyfweliad i bob ymgeisydd anabl sy'n bodloni'r meini prawf gofynnol a nodir yn y Disgrifiad Swydd ar gyfer y swydd hon.

Dyddiad cau: 28 Ebrill 2024. 11:00pm         Dyddiad cyfweliad: 06 Mai 2024.

• £30,396 per year
• 37.5 hours per week
• Permanent contract
• Based in London Borough of Lewisham, with travel across the borough
• Hybrid working considered in line with policy

South East London Mind is working in partnership with South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) to deliver integrated support within the Trust’s Community Mental Health Teams. You will be part of a brand new integrated sub-team working specifically with service users who struggle to engage with mental health services, resulting in them experiencing multiple and long psychiatric admissions.

We are looking for a Mental Health Advisor who is compassionate, proactive and can work flexibly to offer safe, problem-solving engagement and support. Alongside working with service users, you will contribute to the evaluation, supporting with collecting outcomes data and shaping the service.

As part of an effective Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) team, you will have the caseload management experience and skills to deliver focused, person-centred, individual support and IAG on a wide range of social issues including housing, employment, developing independence, self-management skills and recovery goals. You will liaise appropriately with specialists and professionals.

Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Closing date: Sunday 28th April (11:59pm)

Likely interview date:  Week beginning 6th May

SEL Mind supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support.

SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that’s part of who you are.

Read more about staff benefits and why staff love working here on our website.

Salary: £25,000 per annum

Location: Essex and South East

Hours: Full time 36.5 hours per week working Monday to Friday, flexible to cover work outside of core hours

Contract type: Permanent

Introduction to the role

As a Bid writer your role will be to help develop and sustain new and exciting projects that promote community wellbeing and tackle inequality. Working as part of the funding team you will be responsible for identifying and researching new opportunities, building strategic partnerships and writing strong funding applications

Main duties

1. Work with colleagues to scope new funding opportunities by scanning and cataloguing opportunity portals in line with our strategic aims and objectives
2. Identify suitable opportunities for bidding,
3. Produce high quality funding bids including writing and editing copy, collating case studies and other response material as appropriate
4. Ensure that deadlines are met and that submissions are managed in a timely way
5. Work as part of the funding team to regularly review and continuously improve processes around fundraising in the organisation
6. Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external)
7. Keep abreast of new and emergent thinking across wellbeing, community development and tackling inequalities
8. Support our staff and communities to develop skills in fundraising

Knowledge, skills and experience

1. Track record of working autonomously and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast paced and challenging environment
2. Experience of carrying out research-based tasks
3. Strong written and communication skills, ability to write, review and edit copy to a high standard
4. Skilled at summarising complex ideas in writing
5. Evidence of being creative and entrepreneurial in approach
6. A good understanding of the political and social landscape of wellbeing finding in Essex, the South East and nationally
7. Ability to plan, prioritise, achieve targets and deliver to deadlines
8. Experience of strong partnership working, interpersonal and negotiation skills
9. Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Word and Excel
10. Passionate about tackling inequality and community wellbeing.

Staff benefits

We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include:

• Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days.
• Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3% employee contribution.
• Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
•  Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day).
• Life Assurance – x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
• Flexible working.
• Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month.

Application details

Please submit a Cover Letter and CV addressing the experience you have had relevant to the 'Main Duties' and the 'Knowledge & Skills' sections of the advert, but as a minimum please address how you meet the the following criteria which will be weighted highly in the first sift of shortlisting:

1. Track record of working autonomously and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast paced and challenging environment
2. Strong written and communication skills, ability to write, review and edit copy to a high standard
3. A good understanding of the political and social landscape of wellbeing finding in Essex, the South East and nationally
4. Experience of strong partnership working, interpersonal and negotiation skills
5. Evidence of being creative and entrepreneurial in approach

Closing date: Sunday 21st April 2024 at midnight

Interview date: TBC

Due to the high numbers of applications we received for our job vacancies, we may close application windows early, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP

We will provide all applicants with an outcome on your application, this will usually be within 1 week of the application window closing.

Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked prior to starting.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we, in recruiting for our team we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring. The Active Wellbeing Society is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, we recruit based upon capability and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. At The Active Wellbeing Society we are searching for people who share the passion for what we do with different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, collectively making a difference.

If there is anything we can do to assist you in your application or preparations to be interviewed for one of our job vacancies please let us know and we can ensure you have a positive and comfortable experience.

Thank you for your interest in working for The Active Wellbeing Society, we look forward to receiving your application.

Night Assessment Worker Rough - Sleeping Services London 

£31,703 - £35,578

Are you looking to start your career supporting vulnerable adults; working for a charity who makes a real difference to the lives of people who are homeless every day?

Our client has roles available in Hackney, Brent, Southwark and Lewisham.

The teams provide a rapid response service, intervening to ensure no one needs to sleep rough. They are currently looking for people to join their teams as Night Assessment Workers in our No Second Night Out Assessment Hubs. In these roles you will: 

• Work as part of a busy team environment working closely with those affected by rough sleeping. 

• Provide a safe and supportive environment at night to clients; carrying out assessment when clients first arrive out the service.  

• Work on a 7 day weekly night rota pattern with an average of 3 waking night shifts in a row (for example 8pm–8.30am or 9pm–8am) 

About you 

These crucial roles will suit people with an interest in in developing key skills to build a career working in a support role, as well as:

• Some experience of dealing directly with the public and/or customers in a busy service environment. 

• Good communication skills and the ability to work with others effectively to get things done.

• Some understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people and the difficulties they experience in accessing services.

• You don’t need to have direct experience, above all we are looking for inspirational, committed individuals who have a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives. 

Flexibly is essential as the Pan London teams continue to work in different settings and locations across the city at the current time to support clients where they need our client the most.

Closing date: 10am on 25 April 2024 

Interview and assessments on: w/c 13 May 2024

Assessment and Reconnection Worker - Rough Sleeping Services 

London 

£35,578 - £39,227 

Are you interested in supporting people at immediate risk of rough sleeping and making a real difference to the lives of people who are homeless?

Our client provides a rapid response service, intervening to ensure no one needs to sleep rough, their work is ongoing and they are currently looking for people to join their services across London. 

As an Assessment and Reconnection Worker, you will: 

• Be part of a busy team environment working closely with people new to, or at risk of rough sleeping. 

• Provide a personalised case management service to clients, turning assessment recommendations into practical action plans which fully involves the client.

• Build and maintain effective relationships to support clients throughout their recovery.

• Develop a knowledge of relevant legislation such as, welfare benefit and housing legislation.

• Work on a weekly rota including early, mid and late shifts (some evening and weekend work may be required). 

About you

They are always on the lookout for enthusiastic people to join them. If you have a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives then this could be the role for you, you don’t need to have direct experience to succeed in these roles. Why not give it a go by joining the team to support our clients on their recovery journey.    

• If you have good interpersonal and listening skills, patience and resilience and the ability to adapt to new situations they will provide you with the rest through their training and development programs where you will develop the skills to provide high-quality person-centred support to clients.

• If you have a good understanding of the complex issues faced by homeless people and the ability to manage complex behaviours and to deal with people who may be in a difficult personal or emotional situation, we encourage you to apply!

Closing date: 10am on 25 April 2024 

Interview and assessments on: w/c 13 May 2024 

Support Worker 

Hackney - London 

£32,301 - £35,950

Do you have great listening and communication skills and an interest in supporting vulnerable people in Hackney?

Our client is recruiting for Support Workers for across their Hackney services (1 of which is a women only service). 

Their services (one being a specific women only service) provide accommodation and additional emergency bed spaces to people with a Hackney connection, who are at risk of homelessness or rough sleeping, and also have additional support needs which include; substance use, mental health or longer term complex needs.

Their hostels offer a range of services to clients at different stages in the process of change and works closely with an adjacent health and advice centre operated by partner agencies. Operationally, the service focuses on promoting recovery, providing assessment, support and resettlement services within a framework of active engagement and person-centred planning. The project is committed to supporting continued client participation in all aspects of its work. 

About you 

Above all they are looking for enthusiastic people who have a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives. We want to hear from you:

• If you have good interpersonal and listening skills; patience and resilience. They will provide you with the knowledge and training you need to work with clients in a holistic and person-centred way. 

• If you have a good understanding of the complex issues faced by homeless people; personal experience of homelessness yourself and some experience of supporting vulnerable people through a process of change.

• For their women only roles you will have particular understanding of  the issues faced by women experiencing multiple disadvantages, including homelessness and abuse and the difficulties they experience in accessing services.

Closing date: 10am on Wednesday 24 April 2024 

Interviews: Wednesday 8 May 2024

360 Support Coach (Budgeting) 

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 

£35,690.20 

Full Time, Permanent 

Closing Date: Monday 6th May 2024 @ 9am 

Interview Dates: Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May 2024 – in person

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Support Coach to join their team.  They believe that empowering people to create vibrant communities themselves is the best option, sometimes they just need a helping hand and support. They are looking for the person that can provide that.

You will use coaching and support skills to help sustain tenancies and prevent the risk of homelessness. This is a customer centric role in which you will demonstrate a compassionate and open-minded approach to all customers, from all backgrounds.  You will be assisting customers to maintain their home by giving advice and support on setting up their home, welfare benefits, budgeting, health issues and independent living skills.

About you 

With experience of working in a customer-based environment that acknowledges and understands differences, they are looking for someone with experience of using a coaching model to engage, encourage and enable customers to achieve their potential. 

With good communication skills, you will have experience of building relationships with both customer and other professionals.

You will be able to work independently as well as in a team and you will have the ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities. 

Experience of providing support / coaching to enable others to maximise their income and effectively budget would be beneficial for this role. 

Due to the nature of the role, you will hold a current full driving licence and have access to an insured vehicle.

What they can offer in return:

• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays and holiday buy back scheme

• Pension Scheme - they offer a Defined Contribution pension, administered by the Social Housing Pension Scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Mental Health First Aiders

• Healthcare Cash Back Scheme

• Retail Discounts

• Free Parking and Free Refreshments

• Life insurance is also available to members of the pension scheme

Our client reserves the right to close vacancies before the stated closing date where the volume of applications is extremely high.

Our Aims:

At Age UK Kensington & Chelsea, we promote the wellbeing of older people through:

· Providing services which support independence

· Learning from this experience to inform our understanding of older people's needs

· Ensuring the voice of older people in Kensington & Chelsea is heard

· Working in close collaboration with other organisations to achieve these aims

Our Values:

· Collective – working in partnership with Older People and our community

· Responsive – to the needs of Older People and our community

· Respectful – in our service to Older People and our community

· Inclusive – in our approach to older people and our staff and volunteers

AUKC employs over 85 staff and our work is supported by many wonderful volunteers. Our culture is one that puts people first in everything we do.

Staff benefits:

As an employee of AUKC you will benefit from:

· 4% employer pension, up to 6% employee contribution

· Cycle to work scheme

· Season ticket loan

· Employee Assistance Program

· 6 free counselling sessions

· Annual leave purchase scheme

Age UK Kensington & Chelsea offers dementia services which make a real difference to residents affected by the condition living in the Borough. Those services include advice, practical help, befriending, social activities and emotional support. The Dementia Support Worker is responsible for managing a caseload of individual clients, providing practical and emotional support to the most isolated and vulnerable in our community. The support takes the form of weekly or bi-weekly visits to the client’s home, as well as contact by phone and email and liaising with social care and health professionals as directed by the client’s wishes or needs.

This role requires the worker to work independently and manage their own caseload. With other members of the Dementia Services team, the Dementia Support Worker will also help with transport, group activities, trips, events, training and local forums.

We are seeking a Part Time Dementia Support Worker (up to 21 hours per week)

We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Service Manager to join our Young People Mental Health service in Ealing.

£48,000.00 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.

Oaklands & St Kilda is a pair of 6 unit supported accommodation mental health rehab services working with young people between the ages of 18-25 who may have experienced a mental health-related hospital admission to gain and develop skills for future independent living. The service will support individuals transitioning from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to Adult services.

The service forms part of a pair of services supporting up to 12 individuals at any one time across the sites, providing a welcoming and supportive environment for young people across London on a spot purchase basis.

The service aims to support young people to achieve greater independence, manage symptoms of mental health and engage in their local communities.

This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.

What you'll do:

As the Service Manager you will be responsible for the effective management of all aspects of service delivery, including line managing the relevant front line staff as well as effectively managing all stakeholder relationships in partnership with the Head of Service.

Drive business planning activities within your contract, ensuring relevant and challenging objective setting and ongoing performance tracking, developing turn around action plans as may be necessary
Using sound financial and accounting principles, manage contract budgets to deliver on corporate and local contract financial targets
Successfully lead and motivate your team to ensure the championing of and maintenance of a positive local culture within your service
Work to continuously improve staff competence, ensure ownership of all staff issues and speedy and effective conflict resolution
Responsible for reporting all staff changes to HR and Payroll departments, as appropriate e.g. starters, leavers, additional hours etc.
Responsible for maintaining quarterly staff succession plans
Deliver effective, professional and commercially focused briefings and supervision meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting & communications flow up/down is effective
Responsible for managing and allocating ??customers to support staff (casework management)
Develop key business relationships with all relevant customers/external parties to ensure service delivery excellence and maximise new business opportunities in own patch

For the full list please see our website.

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:

Ability to lead and motivate staff ? ?
??H?as experience supporting team members through emotionally challenging situations, and knows when to access available tools for themselves to remain resilient.
Excellent organisation skills
Confident in adapting to a changing environment and capable of dynamically assessing and taking actions to mitigate risk.

For the full list please see our website.

What you'll bring:

Essential:

?Educated to degree level or equivalent
Experience of managing contracts and resources, delivering to budget and performance targets
Experience of delivering to housing management performance targets
Experience of effectively managing and developing staff to ensure delivery of services performance targets within contract
Experience of successfully managing external partnerships to ensure successful delivery of services
Holds relevant CMI/NVQ Level 4 or other Business/Management Qualification
Capable of learning and demonstrating proficiency with a variety of digital systems.

Desirable:

Other relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications

About us:

Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year. 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.

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.

Advocate

After a strong period of growth and additional funding, we now have an opportunity for an experienced Advocate to join team!

You will focus on carrying regular outreach across Leeds, along with working with local partners, services and third sector projects to find Gypsies and Travellers in the Leeds area. Outreach will cover roadside camps, private yards and people in homes.

This role and project represent the first step in working with Gypsies and Travellers in Leeds.

Position: Advocate

Location: Leeds/hybrid (work will include delivering outreach across Leeds)

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £24,829 per annum pro rata

Contract: initial 12-month contract with possibility to extend subject to funding

Benefits: The provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities, hybrid working where the role allows, flexible working and a range of family friendly policies and free parking.

Closing Date: 17th May 2024

The Role

You will be working holistically to support the community with a wide range of needs having a focus on members with complex needs and with families who require educational support. You will be helping members to develop the necessary skills to self-advocate through providing information, signposting and support.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Advocacy - to provide members with daily accessible and equitable advocacy appointments. Topics may include welfare rights and entitlement, housing rights and support, health and wellbeing including mental health and equalities and justice
• Project and administration management
• Risk Management, to ensure good management within all the work particularly that all activities are risk assessed, safe and inclusive and follow processes and policies
• Partnerships, including building and maintaining a wide network of partner and services in support of advocacy delivery and community development

About You

We are looking for someone with knowledge of relevant legislation and rights, for example in relation to housing, welfare, family, health and equalities

You will have experience of working with:

• Groups or individuals experiencing exclusion and the barriers they face when accessing services
• Vulnerable people
• Safeguarding frameworks – making decisions and sharing information

About the Organisation

You will be joining a vibrant and brave grassroots organisation led by Gypsy and Traveller people in West Yorkshire. This is an established and award-winning civil society organisation with a national profile.  Recognised as being innovative, brave and creative.  The overall aim of the charity is to improve the quality of life for Gypsies and Travellers through addressing inequalities in homes, health, education, and employment, financial and social inclusion. There are a number of community-facing and strategic projects to achieve aims including advocacy, community development and youth work.

You may also have experience in areas such as Outreach, Community Outreach, Community Outreach Worker, Community Outreach Advocate, Community Outreach Support Worker, Community Outreach Support, Community Advocate, Advocate, Advocacy, Advocacy Worker.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

Youth Worker (Qualified)
Reports to: Project Manager
Location: County Durham
Hours: Full Time & Part Time Hours Available (Fixed Term to March 2025)
Salary: £25,965 – £28,847 per annum, pro rata

About us

Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential.

About the role

Working as a member of our dedicated Youth Team you will engage with targeted communities to provide and promote inclusive opportunities for young people and young adults to develop positive working relationships that will enable them to achieve their potential.

You will provide a valuable resource for Groundwork NE & Cumbria to enable it to achieve the Trust objectives. Dealing with a variety of Youth project delivery tasks in a diverse and busy internal and external environment, ensuring deadlines are met whilst maintaining quality.

A bit about you

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Youth Work Qualification at Level 3 or above
• Proven experience of working with either children and young people or other vulnerable groups.
• An ability to set up and run groups and to record the progress of individuals within the groups.
• Some understanding of, and a sensitive approach towards the situations, needs and difficulties faced by young people and particularly by young carers.
• An ability to work positively as part of a team and independently, seeking support from colleagues where required
• Excellent communication skills

Closing date: Noon on Friday 26th April 2024

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home 
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

No agencies please.

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, Greater London, SE18 6HQ

Ref CFC-241

Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of supporting and engaging positively with vulnerable adults and young people in a community setting? Do you have sound experience of working with Children and Family Services and supporting volunteers in a community setting?

If so, join St Giles Trust as our Children and Families Caseworker where, as part of our Greenwich Gangs team, you will provide both face-to-face and virtual/remote one-to-one case working to children and families at risk or on the periphery of gangs and serious youth violence, plus play a central role in deterring young people from offending and safeguarding families who may be at risk.

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 Children and Families Caseworker, you will support individuals who are affected by domestic violence, C.S.E, Mental health, grooming and exploitation, and gang and serious youth violence, all of which will include working with both victims and perpetrators.  You will carry and review thorough risk management plans with young people and their family, ensuring each family member has an age-appropriate safety plan, and provide a client-led support service that responds to each individual’s needs, including supporting with housing, finances, schooling, parenting, health, ETE and criminal justice. We will rely on you to deliver the service in a timely and targeted manner and to close cases effectively and positively, identifying a survival plan for the client that can be used for ongoing support and agencies that can be used if serious problems develop in the future.  Providing social support to children and family members, including identification of need, liaison and referral to specialist agencies, is also a key element of this role.

What we are looking for

• To have lived experience similar to that of the client group or to have worked on an offender-led/ social care service with a commitment to utilising a peer-led approach
• Proven record of working with and supporting volunteers in a community setting
• The ability to recruit, engage and keep the target client group motivated
• Experience of calculating risk and implementing safety procedures for vulnerable clients
• Experience of supporting and mentoring young people and adults, including socially excluded children
• Mentoring Level 3 qualification (or be willing to work towards this)
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, both verbal and written.

Please note this role requires that successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants and colleagues.

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.

To apply please visit our website via the apply button. 

Closing date: 25th April 2024 23:45pm      Interview date: 30th April 2024   

We are growing our counselling service and we will be offering more generalised counselling as well as our Self Harmony service which specialises in self-harm and self-injury reduction.

What You'll Do:

- 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.

- Effective Partnerships:  Ensure effective and appropriate communication with all individuals, staff, community agencies and partner organisations.

Leeds Media Centre - Travel across Bradford

Ref SOW-241

Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of working and engaging positively with people who have a history of social exclusion, youth offending or other vulnerable groups?  Do you have strong experience of providing support, advice and advocacy and the ability to assess client’s needs? 

If so, St Giles has an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join us an Assertive Outreach Worker, where you will work as part of a high-quality and client-focused team that oversees a vital lived experience-led project that works across Bradford. 

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

Our successful candidate will assess referred clients, with reference to St Giles Trust assessment practices, and produce support and risk management plans based on these assessments, promoting inter-agency collaboration in the assessment and planning process.  You will be expected to deliver a holistic support service, working independently or with colleagues as the situation dictates, providing practical help such as social and housing support, education, training and employment options, benefits work and debt advice. 

We will also rely on you to develop and maintain relationships with referral agencies, ensuring a steady flow of appropriate referrals onto the scheme, and with regional agencies, including police and social services.  Closing cases efficiently and positively, identifying a survival plan for the client that will identify agencies that can be used for on-going support and agencies that can be used if serious problems develop in the future, is also an essential 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 Bradford
• Experience in negotiation with partner agencies to establish links to further aims of the project
• Experience of engaging successfully with people with challenging or complex needs
• To have a relevant qualification to a good standard, or be working towards one
• Sound knowledge of ‘County Lines’ and the Government’s Prevent programme 
• Knowledge of services for offenders and patterns of offending in Leeds borough/s
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work. 

Please note this role requires an Enhanced Adult and Children DBS with Children Barred list.

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.  22 April 2024     
Interview date: 30 April 2024 Leeds Media Centre