Carer Services Manager: This is a Senior Management role which will hold overall responsibility for the effective delivery, monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance of our Carer Support Services across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. The Carers Centre LLR has recently recieved 5 years of National Lottery funding and is moving to new city centre premises which offers much opportunity for development.
It's an exciting time for this small but well respected charity and an excellent time for an experienced and ambitious manager to take on a new opportunity to help shape the charity for it's long term future.
The post-holder will be expected to have significant experience in a managerial role and an excellent working knowledge of what it means to be an unpaid carer, the challenges carers face and the impacts caring has. They will also have a good understanding of Health and Social Care services, the support that is available for carers and their legal rights under the Care Act and the Children & Families Act.
The Carer Services Manager will line manage a team of staff and volunteers and provide ongoing support for our Board of Trustees, acting as Company Secretary to ensure Charity Commission compliance.
Working in partnership with the Development & Funding Manager, the Carer Services Manager will work to develop carer involvement and coproduction of service delivery plans, ensuring The Carers Centre support offer continues to meet the needs of local carers.
Our services are currently being delivered virtually and by phone however we will be returning to a hybrid combination of face to face and virtual services when circumstances allow with a great new 'virtual' space enabling this.
20 hours a week – days/times to be agreed with some flexibility required to provide staff cover. This post can be a combination of office based and homeworking.
This is a fixed term post until March 31st 2025 with extension dependant on funding.
CV's will not be accepted for this post and an Application Form will need to be completed
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Home based with the potential to do some face-to-face activity post COVID-19
This is an exciting time to join Shaw Trust, to help us in this mission we are looking to expand our employability services within Shaw Trust and looking for Continuous Improvement Officers to join us.
The Shaw Trust, in tandem with government and the broader employment support community across the UK is working hard to make sure we support as many individuals as possible to get and keep a job. We believe that everyone who needs help and support to attain their employment goals should be able to access it as soon as possible and that support should reflect their individual needs.
Reporting directly to Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager. For this post holder the primary focus of the role is to ensure the continuous improvement of employability contract delivery including the achievement of outcomes and correct use of processes and systems in order to ensure full quality compliance with contractual obligations.
The secondary focus of the role is the optimisation of the beneficiary experience and service delivery within designated contracts and their supply chains to ensure a high quality experience at all times.
Shaw Trust operates on a national level with over 2,000 staff and 1,000 volunteers. We work with the government, local authorities, combined authorities, health service providers, employers, and other stakeholders – including the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Department for Work and Pensions, clinical commissioning groups and NHS Trusts.
The ideal candidate must have an understanding of the local and regional labour market and employment issues within one of two geographical areas – Central England and Home Counties and able to maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of the benefit system and entitlements.
The ideal candidate will need to be inclusive and embrace our culture and values, putting those we support at the heart of everything we do. You will consistently deliver high quality services to support our communities and beneficiaries.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Enhanced Pension Scheme after 6 months
- Life Assurance x 3 of your salary
- Enhanced annual leave
Shaw Trust is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity and inclusion. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format, contact HR Services to make alternative arrangements.
Job Description - Service Director
Responsible to: Chief Executive
Responsible for: Management Team
Location: Main base Loughborough, England but travel will be required across the country.
Salary: £30,000 to £35000 per annum
Hours: Full Time at Leadership level
Start Date: Early November at the latest
Overall Purpose
- To provide leadership to serve the young asylum seeking people, enabling them to become positive and empowered individuals able to live independently as net contributors to society.
- To ensure our service is of the highest quality, meeting young people and local authorities’ needs, in line with Baca’s vision, mission and values.
- To lead a learning culture, ensuring we are continually learning from the young people, stakeholders and other wider opportunities.
- To identify and develop opportunities and partnerships with local authority placement teams to allow Baca to work with more young people for a wider impact.
Please read attached Job description in detail before applying. Once an expression of interest has been made, an email with an application form will be sent and this needs to returned completed for the interest to be taken forward.
Interviews will be week commencing the 5th of October 2020.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
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