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Together Active is on the lookout for a passionate and proactive Development Officer to join our Health and Wellbeing team. This vital role is designed to revolutionise health initiatives by seamlessly integrating physical activity into clinical pathways, enhancing the lives of communities across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
What You'll Do:
Build Key Partnerships: Forge and maintain essential collaborations with healthcare providers and physical activity organisations to co-create services that amplify community health outcomes.
Lead Innovative Projects: Take the helm on health and wellbeing projects that meld physical activity with healthcare services, from concept through to execution.
Develop Tailored Health Programmes: Suport and refine health programmes that cater to the unique needs of local communities, ensuring responsiveness and relevance.
Ensure Quality Standards: Establish and uphold a quality assurance framework that guarantees the highest service standards, particularly for individuals with long-term health needs.
Who You Are:
- A community-focused individual with a flair for nurturing relationships and a strong belief in the power of physical activity to transform health.
- An advocate for quality and innovation, ready to engage with diverse groups to bring about positive health outcomes.
Why Join Us?
Impactful Work: Directly influence community health and wellbeing through innovative strategies and programmes.
Collaborative Environment: Work with a dynamic team under the guidance of the Development Lead - Health & Wellbeing, gaining expertise and sharing insights.
Community at Heart: Understand the needs of our communities and be their champion in creating better health practices.
We Value Diversity:
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you do not meet every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply if you're passionate about making a difference and believe you could bring something unique to the role. We value fresh perspectives and what you can bring to our team and community.
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Please submit your CV, along with a covering letter detailing your suitability for the post. Please note that this advert may close early should sufficient applications be received, so early application is advised.
Our team in Stoke in Trent are recruiting for an experienced Clinical Lead, to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse service user group. If you are an enthusiastic and creative registered nurse or pharmacist, passionate about changing people’s lives for the better, we’d love to hear from you.
CDAS (Stoke on Trent Community Drug and Alcohol Service) is a new, all age service supporting individuals, their families and communities. Our busy team currently helps around 1500 people at any one time and we want to help even more by transforming our service to deliver from multiple venues and make more effective use of the resources we have.
You will lead on and be responsible for the provision of clinical care in our service, ensuring that our standards of care allow clients to achieve their recovery goals. A dynamic leader, you will guide and support clinical staff working within the service, working hand in hand with the service manager to foster a continuous improvement mindset and ensuring that evidence based best clinical practice is delivered in line with national, organisational and local standards.Working in co-production with operational managers, you will lead the continuous development and governance of high quality, effective and safe services within the budget and the contract. You will also lead on building service accessibility and trauma informed care by delivery of culturally sensitive, safe clinical services that people trust and want to use.
It will be vital for you to develop strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders and commissioners for the continuity of service, as well as leading on delivering opioid substitution and detoxification treatment, alcohol detoxification and relapse prevention treatment and other clinical interventions.
This is a full time and permanent post. Working hours will cover Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm, late shifts from 12.00pm to 8.00pm and some Saturdays.
You will be a compassionate and motivated registered nurse or pharmacist who holds a prescribing qualification, with the ability to connect quickly with the people we support, treating them respectfully and with dignity. We’re looking for substantial experience working within the substance misuse arena, as well as experience working in a supervisory role within a multidisciplinary team. You will be highly organised, with excellent communication skills and able to manage your time effectively. Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our service users and staff. A full job description and person specification is available on request.
Please note that you must have current NMC or GPhC registration to be considered for this position.
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.
What we're looking for
- First level nurse registration or registered pharmacist (GPhC)
- Successful completion of a qualification to fulfil the role of supplementary/independent prescriber, holding appropriate entry on the NMC register or GPhC register
- Completion of a postgraduate course/study programme relevant to substance misuse
- Current annual appraisal and evidence of continuing professional development
- Demonstrable experience and successful track record of responsibility and development of others
- Experience of working in partnership with a range of statutory and non statutory agencies
- Experience of providing a supervisory role within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working with substance misuse clients and harm minimisation in drug treatment
- Experience and awareness of relationship between offending and substance misuse and need of special groups
- Demonstrable knowledge and understand of current health and social care issues
A full job description and person specification is available on request.
Should you be successful in your application, you will be required to provide 3 years worth of references and where applicable, will need to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
About Us
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.
At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
- Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
- We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period
Supported Housing Officer
Job type - Full time, permanent
Salary - £30,326 per annum
Hours - 35 hours per week (+ 5 hours paid lunch)
Location – HYBRID - Liverpool, North Wales, Stoke
We are a national social justice charity with more than 50 years’ experience of changing lives, building stronger communities and reducing crime. Last year alone we helped support, house, educate, advise and speak out for 38,000 disadvantaged young people and adults - and you could now help us make an even bigger impact going forward.
Who we are looking for?
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working in the social housing sector and would like a new challenge. You should have Knowledge of Housing Law in relation to housing management and understand Welfare Benefits, especially Housing Benefit and the current climate of how supported housing is funded via Housing Benefit and the scrutiny around evidence of the support offer.
You will be the main lead for housing management in your patch. Experience of managing income recovery, neighbour nuisance/conflict and estate management is essential, ideally this has been within a supported housing context.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Income Recovery
- Monitoring of all Nacro rent accounts both current and former arrears and credit accounts in patch.
- Taking direct action where arrears are accruing in line with Nacro’s Income Collection and Debt Management Policy and liaising with Support or Housing Management Worker when their support is needed.
- Engaging with HB to ensure correct levels of HB are in payment for the right dates and at the correct level, liaising with Nacro Welfare Benefit Advisor for any complex cases.
Legal Duties
- Preparing documentation, including notices, witness statements and court documents for any enforcement or to end a tenancy.
- Representing Nacro at court.
Income recovery you will be responsible for recovery of accommodation charges from beginning to the end of the process.
Tenancy Support
- You will ensure the Association’s conditions of tenancy and licences are enforced.
- You will provide training and induction support to new starters, so they understand their role around housing management and tenancy creation including dual visits to provide additional training where issues are highlighted, or new staff need it.
- Supporting and advising on less complex anti-social behaviour to promote prevention and early intervention, and the correct recording and monitoring of cases.
Estate Management/Property Standards
- Though the Occupancy Sustainment Programme (or similar) deliver training to local teams’ duties on property standards including documentation and recording in systems, to include reporting a repair, completing monthly fire and health and safety checks and support they need to provide around gas compliance.
Support the team through training to help workers know how to access our policies and procedures around property standards including knowing how to report and escalate issues.
A full driving license and access to a car for business use is essential for this role.
DBS check will be required for this role.
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