At Depaul UK we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Progression Coach to come and join our Stockport team. You will join us on a part-time basis (22.50 hours) and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £11,764.80 pa pro rata (£19,608 pa FTE) + pension & other benefits

Depaul UK delivers a wide range of support and housing services for young people and adults at risk of homelessness. We specialise in the provision of services that: prevent homelessness, increase the resilience of those we work with and energise opportunities for employment, education, training and volunteering in the communities we work within.

In return as our Progression Coach, you'll be joining a friendly, flexible and values-led organisation, and will receive:

- Competitive salary

- 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)

- Contributory pension scheme

- Life assurance

- Cycle to work scheme

- Interest free Annual Season Ticket Loan

- Four Weeks Paternity Leave

The Progression Coach role:

We are recruiting for three full time Progression Coaches for an exciting new service in the Stockport area, working with young people who are leaving the care system. This supported accommodation provision will equip young care leavers to make the move towards independence, increasing their resilience and helping them realise their full potential.

What makes this role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills required’

- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model

- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner

What will ideally support your success in the Progression Coach role?

- Experience of working with young people with high levels of need

- A knowledge and understanding of Risk Assessments and Support Planning

- Able to demonstrate clear understanding of Safeguarding requirements and procedures

- High level understanding of professional boundaries and ability to maintain them

Closing Date: Monday 18 November 2019

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Progression Coach then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

School-Home Support is a dynamic charity with proven impact. For over 30 years it has been working with children and young people struggling to stay in school due to a wide range of complex family issues. We get children and young people back into school ready to learn, whatever it takes.

E14 - School-Home Support Practitioner
Starting salary: from £12,344 to £ 13,047 per annum
Based: Harbinger Primary School, Isle of Dogs, E14 3QR
Total of 3 days a week, term time only

This is a varied role and the post-holder will be based within the school. The post-holder will work in close partnership with school staff to deliver a programme of casework and other activities to promote educational outcomes for disadvantaged children and families. The post-holder will need to be persistent, resilient and tenacious along with having the experience of working with hard to engage parents.

This is an exciting opportunity and successful candidates will have good experience of working effectively with social and emotional factors affecting a child’s capacity to learn, strong abilities in engaging challenging children and their families, and a confident ability to form professional partnerships with children and their families along with experience of transition work

The post-holder will work alongside key school staff in school to promote excellent attendance, reduce levels of absence and work with children and families to promote high levels of attendance and punctuality.

Closing date for applications: 23:59pm Monday 24 November 2019
First stage interviews: 29 November 2019 (at SHS Central Office)
Second stage interviews: TBC (at the school)

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply on Website' button to be directed to the School-Home Support website where you can download the relevant information pack and application form. 

School-Home Support takes very seriously the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and is committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. Our safeguarding policy recognises that the welfare and interests of children are paramount in all circumstances.

All roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

No agencies please.

Activity Co-ordinator – Adult Learning
Calne, Wiltshire

About Us

We are Family Action, a national charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives by delivering innovative and effective services and support that reaches out to many of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We seek to empower people and communities to address their issues and challenges through practical, financial and emotional help. Our work is wide-ranging and includes help for parents-to-be, the provision of many Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, support in schools and financial grants programmes. Family Action is also recognised as a leading provider of training and consultancy.

We are now seeking an Activity Co-ordinator to join our team in Wiltshire to work with Mill Race Community Support Service and support activities for those with learning disabilities and autism.

This initial 12 month contract is offered on a part time basis working 26 hours per week and has the potential to extend to two years.

The Rewards

- Salary of £12,214 - £13,547 per annum (£17,381 - £19,278 FTE)
- Pension scheme
- Cycle scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Eyecare vouchers
- A full induction and ongoing quality training
- 23 days’ annual leave pro rata

This is the ideal role for an individual with a QCS Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or similar) to take on an engaging role supporting adults who need assistance with an exciting range of activities.

You’ll be playing a vital role in service users’ lives ensuring they have the skills they need whilst you build a career to be proud of.

Our office in Calne is a hive of enthusiastic, dedicated professionals all working towards the same goal of providing outstanding support and services to people with learning difficulties and autism.

Your Role

As an Activity Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for promoting independence and choice for adults with learning disabilities or autism through a range of engaging activities.

Researching and implementing activities, you will support service users to get involved and take trips within the local community and beyond.

Additionally, you will:

- Encourage and promote an environment of mutual respect and peer confidentiality
- Play an active role in safeguarding activities
- Remain alert and aware of issues and incidents concerning service users
- Ensure you actively participate in staff meetings, appraisals and training
- Support and assist service users to maintain their health and hygiene
- Collate payments

About You

To be considered as an Activity Co-ordinator, you will need:

- A QCS level 3 in Health and Social Care, or a suitable qualification in education/health or support care or equivalent life skills/experience
- The ability to set up and run activities for adults with learning disabilities and autism
- IT skills

Some experience, either paid or voluntary, of working with adults or children with a learning disability and/or autism would be advantageous, however this is not essential.

Other organisations may call this role SEND Activities Co-ordinator, Project Assistant, Activities Assistant, Support Assistant, Social Care Assistant, Health and Social Care Assistant, Care Assistant, or Adult Social Care Assistant.

This is a part time role, working 26 hours per week working Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

The closing date for this role is the 26th November 2019 with interviews scheduled to be held on the 9th December 2019.

Webrecruit and Family Action are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you are ready to develop your career as an Activity Co-ordinator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Are you a people person who wants to empower others to live more independently? Then join our Team…

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

We are looking for an organised and outgoing person to be the first point of contact for our East Sussex Service based in Lewes. You will promote Direct Payments, support people to responsibly recruit and employ their own staff and lead on the local coordination of our online Personal Assistant Register (LinkMeUp).

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

To be successful in this role you must be able to demonstrate good interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, as well as strong organisational skills and the ability to work with accuracy and to deadlines. Personal and/or professional experience of supporting disabled children and adults, and older people is desirable.

We are looking for individuals with a passion for improving children’s outcomes and want to use their skills and expertise or lived experiences to strengthen our Trustee Board.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Board of Trustees at School-Home Support (SHS) at an exciting time as we continue to grow our reach nationally.

Trustees
Unpaid post
Half-day per month commitment
Our Board of Trustees meets four times a year, usually at the central office in Stratford, London.

We are an innovative charity committed to breaking down the barriers that prevent disadvantaged children from thriving in education, by tackling the underlying issues affecting a child’s learning. We work with families, schools, local services, and corporate partners to break intergenerational cycles of poverty and make a real, positive difference to vulnerable children across the UK. 

SHS is looking to welcome new trustees to our talented team and strengthen our innovative organisation at governance level. We are seeking dynamic, engaged individuals who demonstrate leadership abilities but above all are passionate about seeing children reach their full potential. We are ambitious about expanding the national reach of SHS and want new trustees on board who are committed to improving children’s life chances.

We are looking to strengthen the board with a range of skills and experience including:

• Lived experiences – We are looking for candidates who have similar lived experiences to our beneficiaries. They will bring shared experience and empathy to support us to ensure our services offer practical support to those facing similar challenges. They will also support us to improve co-production across everything we do, involving our beneficiaries in the development and implementation of all our services.   
• Safeguarding – extensive experience and expertise at a senior and strategic level. We are looking for candidates who would be willing to progress to the role of Safeguarding Lead trustee in due course.
• Financial – extensive experience and expertise (experience in the voluntary sector would be advantageous). We are looking for candidates who would consider progressing to role of Chair of the Finance committee in due course

SHS values equality and diversity. Our staff and the people supported by SHS are from very diverse communities and we want our Board to reflect this. As we expand to new communities across the UK, we are also keen to include regional diversity on the Board.

You can expect a strong induction and there is a buddy system in place for new trustees to support them in their role.

Closing date: 23:59pm Monday 18 November 2019
Interviews: TBC (at SHS central office in Stratford, London)

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply on Website' button to be directed to the School-Home Support website where you can download the relevant information pack and application form. 

No agencies please.