We are looking for a dedicated and experienced individual to join our Young Carers Service as part of our successful youth arm, Youth Action Wiltshire. We are seeking to recruit a well organised and motivated individual who is dedicated to the personal development of young people through the provision of 1:1 support, advocacy and positive activities.

The role focusses on providing practical and emotional support for Young Carers in Wiltshire aged 5-18 years. The post holder will be required to work with young people, understand their individual needs and develop a positive trust-based relationship with them and support them throughout their ‘journey’ with our service.

Ideally, you will have a relevant youth work qualification and/or two years of experience in delivering youth work and positive activities. You will hold a valid UK driving licence and will be prepared to drive a minibus and transport young people to and from activities and 1:1 meetings. There will be a need for regular evening, weekend and school holiday working.

Due to the nature of the work, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.

Closing date: Midday on Monday 29th March 2021

Interviews: w/c 5th April 2021

Application Forms or CVs, with a covering letter describing why you are applying and how your skills relate to the role, will be considered.  Please send to Bernadette Lowe, Business Support Manager.

Further information on the work our organisation does can we found on our website. 

Community First is an equal opportunities employer.

Support Worker (Full and Part Time)
Location: Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Salary: £9 to £9.50 per hour + excellent benefits, paid travel time and training
Contract Type: Permanent
Full and Part Time hours available - including days, evenings and weekend
Closing Date: 9th March 2021

Our client is looking to recruit a Support Worker on a permanent contract to deliver independent living care and support to their customers. This is a great opportunity to make a real positive difference to an individual’s life.

Our client prides themselves in their high quality delivery of support and care services, ensuring a positive and safe environment where each customer can maintain their independence in their own home.

What can you expect in the role?
Everyday is unique in our client’s services and the extraordinary support they offer to individuals is different everyday too. You will be responsible for supporting adults who have single or combined sight and hearing loss with daily living tasks, from shopping, household cleaning and dealing with correspondence, to going out to galleries or places of interest, lunch out with friends or assisting them to their appointments.

It’s important for you as a trusted support worker to build good relationships with customers, empowering individual’s independence and engage well in conversations. Within this contract you will be supporting both male and female customers.

Do you need experience?
Experience isn't always necessary, however, our client does ask all employees to demonstrate & share their care values and positive attitude to ensure they deliver high quality support. Similar experience within a Support Worker or Social Care role and a British Sign Language (BSL) Level 2 qualification would be advantageous.

The successful applicant will need to be able to travel independently, lone working but also happy to work within customers homes. You will need to complete employment checks and an enhanced DBS check (paid for by the client)

Benefits
Choosing to work within our client’s unique services you will not only be benefiting from a supportive network of colleagues, this will also be complimented by an excellent benefits package including, competitive annual leave allowance, opportunity to take part in bespoke training & gain qualifications relevant to your role, DBS Enhanced Check fully paid for by the company, inclusion in the pension scheme, Care Certificate training and discounts at major restaurants, hotels, shops and cinemas and Other benefits from the Perkbox employee benefits scheme.

So if you share our client’s passion and enthusiasm, click apply, simply complete the short application form, attach your CV and tell us why you’re ideal for this role and we’ll be back in touch. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Due to expansion, opportunities have arisen to join our team of passionate and dedicated Partner Support Worker to work alondside our experienced and established team. The posts will play a key role in working along-side the The Jenkins Centre interventions team accross Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to deliver long-term support to the partners of those referred to the Jenkins Centre's Intervention Programme..

Currently our support sessions is being delivered online due to COVID 19 restrictions, however once safe to do so face to face delivery of the programme will recommence and there will be a requirement to deliver from our city office base and accross the county.

Due to expansion, Freeva is recruiting for a project support worker to join our dynamic and committed team based in Lincolnshire.

Based at our office in the centre of Lincoln, the successful candidate will support the delivery of the adult interventions service for perpetrators of domestic abuse. The post will involve ensuring the day to day administrative procedures are completed; such as handling client and stake holder enquiries, processing referrals to the service and working with intervetions workers accross the project to keep administrative systems up to date. 

A job share and /or flexible working arrangements will be considered. 

Salary: £9.30 per hour during waking hours, some shifts includes an 8-hour 'sleep in' rest break                                        (dedicated staff sleeping facilities available and attracts a sleep-in payment of £30)

Hours: 24 hours per week with some flexibility available

Annual Leave:             144 hours including bank holidays

This role requires working on a rota basis with typical shifts including: 

- 1pm - 7.30pm (weekdays only); 

- 4.15pm - 9am including an 8-hour 'sleep in' rest break (attracts 'sleep in' payment of £30)

- 8.30am or 9am - 5pm (weekends only)

Application Deadline: 2nd March 2021 

Interview Date: As and when applications are recieved

Here at Mercy UK we have a passion for God, passion for people and passion for excellence – this means we are committed to becoming an organisation where team members feel supported, valued and challenged to deepen their personal and professional growth. As an agile and fast-moving team, we seek to give our very best to what we do in attitude and activity.

As a Pastoral Support Worker, you carry heart and passion for the emotional, mental and spiritual health of the incredible women who are residents of the Mercy UK home. You have a unique set of skills; bringing together keen organisational and administrative skills with pastoral people skills. You are a cheerleader and at times, a coach to a diverse set of residents, all of whom are wired differently, with different learning styles, outlooks and life experiences but all of whom are united in their pursuit for freedom from life-controlling issues and into intimacy in their relationship with God, self and others.

You are safe hands as the primary point of contact and support for residents during evenings and weekends and your experience and abilities in pastoral support and communication equips you to deliver a fun yet informative schedule. You are able to perceive the needs of the group as well as the individual resident and you can hold these in tension. You are confident in your judgement and decision-making and understand the importance of working as a team and seeking guidance, where needed.

As residents wrestle through their own healing journey and put into practice all they are learning, you can prayerfully direct them, support and signpost them towards healthy choices and ways in which they can strengthen themselves in their own relationship with God, understanding that your best days are when you are in overflow in your own discipleship journey.

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about enabling and supporting Carers?

If so this is your opportunity to join a dynamic team that provides a range of support services to unpaid Carers in Wandsworth.  We require creative and proactive self-starters to support Carers in Wandsworth.

Carers Support and Development Worker – Support and Information service

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Full time (35 hours per week)

The successful applicant will excellent communication and organisational skills.  They will have experience of providing information and advice in a busy setting with competing priorities, and a commitment to working with Carers and volunteers. They will be able to adapt to providing services both face to face and via virtual platforms whilst maintaining a consistent service for Carers.

About us

Wandsworth Carers’ Centre is a well-established Carers support service in Wandsworth since 1995.  We provide a range of services to unpaid Carers including, Information, Advice and Advocacy, Peer Support, Training, Counselling and Complementary Therapies.  Our work is supported by volunteers.

Wandsworth Carers’ Centre is an inclusive employer, committed to the continued development of a diverse workforce.

Looking for a new challenge?

Do you believe that all women, children and families deserve the very best opportunity to achieve their dreams and aspirations? Are you passionate about playing a part in helping people to achieve their goals and reach their potential? Are you creative, dynamic and can think outside the box? Then you may just be the person that we have been searching for!

YWCA Yorkshire is looking for a very special individual who can contribute towards the outstanding service delivery at our Doncaster Service (Green Gables). Green Gables is our Supported Housing and Tenancy Support Service that provides support to young women with children, and families across the Doncaster area. The right candidate will have the skills to provide professional support to clients within a dedicated team but will also have the enthusiasm and creativity to support our commercial enterprises and fundraising initiatives.

The person that we are looking for will be resilient, highly practical and able to form positive relationships with staff, volunteers and clients. You will have a “can do” attitude and thrive in a high challenge environment. You will be persistent and committed to ensuring that clients and volunteers are supported, and able to meet their potential.

In return, we offer a competitive remuneration package within an organisation that has a strong commitment to staff training and personal development and a proven track record in, and commitment to, employee wellbeing. You will be valued for the work that you do, involved in the decisions that we make as an organisation and form part of a dedicated team of people who will support and encourage you to achieve your own goals and aspirations.
Interested?

The opportunity:
Project Worker - Doncaster (Ref: PW/GG/2021)
Salary £21734 - £23945 (pro-rata)

A permanent, part-time role, 25 hours per week, supporting vulnerable young women with children, and families within a supported housing setting and also within their own tenancies. The hours will be worked over 3 days per week on a rota which will include some Saturdays. A copy of the rota is provided with the application pack.

All applications should be submitted on a YWCA application form. 

Closing date for applications is: Friday 5th March 2021 at 12.00pm

Interviews will take place on: Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd March 2021

YWCA Yorkshire is an equal opportunities employer as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and as such, welcomes applications from all of the diverse sections of the community.

YWCA Yorkshire is fully committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and will require full Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks as part of our recruitment process. A copy of our safeguarding policy will be provided with the application pack.

Location: Bristol, UK – office-based 
Salary: £21,905 p.a
Duration: permanent
35 hours/week • Benefits • Pension

This is a great opportunity to join a professional fundraising team in a dynamic international development charity. Our goal is to reduce poverty and protect the environment in the drylands of Africa – helping some of the poorest communities in the world to grow a way out of poverty.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, personable and conscientious individual with a passion for providing excellent supporter care for Tree Aid’s donors. Your role will be to support all areas of administration for the Supporter Fundraising department, primarily through the administration of donations, donor correspondence and database analysis.

Key objectives are to:

1. To support all areas of administration for the fundraising department
2. Process donations and respond to enquiries, maintaining a high level of donor service
3. Work with the Finance Department to ensure accuracy of donations reporting
4. Assist with income generating activities and provide support to the Fundraising Officers

Who we are looking for:

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, friendly and organised administrator to join our professional fundraising team.

You will be confident in communicating with our supporters on the telephone and by email, have excellent written communication skills and be familiar with using databases for inputting and analysing data. 

You will be responsible for a variety of administrative tasks, have excellent organisation skills and will be expected to play a vital role within the fundraising team. 

Our approach to recruitment:

We value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background.

We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for. We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.

How to apply:

To apply, please visit the Tree Aid website. Please send us your CV, together with a Supporting Statement (max. 2 pages) explaining how you meet the person specification, plus equal opportunities form. See Tree Aid website for details. 

Key dates:

Closing date: 9am Monday 15th March
Online task submission: Tuesday 16th March
Interviews: Friday 19th March
Start date: Monday 19th April or as soon as possible thereafter

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK at time of application.

As a charity with limited resources we can only respond to successful applicants.

Independence Development Worker

Ealing

£20,220 per annum

Ealing Mencap

Exciting opportunity to use your skills, creativity and enthusiasm to enable disabled people to improve their recreational life skills and enhance their quality of life. 

This is a newly created role, that will help our charity deliver a new style of service to ensure disabled people have every opportunity in life to achieve their full potential. Successful candidates will work across our range of support services delivering person-centred training and supported activities on both a 1:1 and group basis.

You will be personally motivated and rewarded to see others overcoming their challenges and enjoying success and progression in achieving their goals.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for a change in career path whose skills will add real value to our charity and the lives of those we support. Regardless of your specific career background/qualifications you will need to be enthusiastic, confident, IT literate and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

In line with the Equality Act 2010 there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement to appoint a male to this specific post due to the needs of the individuals who will be accessing the service.

Closing date for applications is 20th January 2021

Barnardo's National Counter Trafficking Service encompasses four distinct services operating in various geographical areas across England and Wales. This includes the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service (ICTG Service). The ICTG Service is expanding and developing in 2021/2022 and we are pleased to announce some exciting opportunities to join a passionate and experienced national team.

Would you like to make a difference in children's' lives, be part of our dynamic team and embark on a learning journey with a service that is passionate about seeing positive change in the fight against trafficking and modern slavery in the UK?

We are advertising various different and varied roles working with children and young people and/or with professionals that work directly with children.

This role is a Support Line Worker

Purpose:

Support Line workers provide a crucial function in the ICTG Service, ensuring professionals are able to access prompt advice, guidance and support for trafficked children. Ensuring children are referred into the service swiftly, safety advice provided alongside practice advice and guidance to prevent children going missing and being re-trafficked.

Posts Available: multiple

Full time - 37 hours per week

Location of Post : Home Based

We need people...

* To be the initial point of contact for all general enquiries & referrals into the service.
* Providing telephone advice and support for professionals who have concerns about potential victims of child trafficking or wish to make a referral into the service.
* To make initial telephone/email contact with foster carers and/or families to offer support and advice.
* Multi agency working through remote case consultations and attendance at multi agency meetings to provide emergency advice and guidance from a trafficking/modern slavery perspective.
* To offer phone consultations with professionals to support them in submitting NRM referral
* NRM work including completion of NRM checks, NRM submissions in conjunction with partner agencies & follow up of SCA notifications where capacity allows
* To compile tailored safety guidance plans specific to the needs of each young person referred.

* To undertake initial assessments of children referred into the service and where appropriate, offering immediate advice and support directly to children and young people to minimise missing episodes and re-trafficking.
* To be an active part of a thriving and growing team with a commitment to continuous professional development and learning.

Additional Information

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to continued funding, currently until 31st December 2022, and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Job Description/Person Specification and Additional Information Sheet. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements.

At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

Our basis and values

Documents

* Project Worker 2 - Job Description & Person Profile.pdf (78.57 KB)
* Read about our commitment to safeguarding and our pre-employment checks.pdf (59.64 KB)
* Recruitment of Ex-offenders Policy (Oct 2018).pdf (0.56 MB)
* Additional Information Sheet - ICTG Service - Support Line Worker (Project Worker2).pdf (151.20 KB)
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Emergency Hotel Project Worker

Morgan Hunt, working in partnership with one of the leading homelessness charities in London, have an excellent opportunity for a Project Worker working within an emergency hotel setup to combat the spread of Covid-19 amongst some of the capitals most vulnerable people. Our client is looking for an experienced, proactive individual to join their vibrant team offering support to vulnerable male and female clients with complex support needs in East London.

Candidate requirements:

• Previous experience working within a hostel setting with a high needs client group
• Keyworking experience with clients with a variety of issues including homelessness, drug and or alcohol abuse, mental health, offending histories and a history of domestic abuse
• Ability to work on a rota including weekends, early and late shifts
• An enhanced DBS check issued within the last 12 months or registered to the online update service

Responsibilities Include:

• Keyworking a caseload of clients with complex support needs
• Updating and creating needs and risk assessments and well-being plans
• Providing advice on move-on options to hostel, supported, private rented and rough sleeper initiative accommodation
• 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.

10 x Children's Care Home Worker (7803)

Children's Care Home Workers

Summerfield is a 6-bedded residential home in Abingdon, Oxfordshire which supports children with significant disabilities ranging from physical health needs to autistic spectrum condition.

We are seeking caring and fun filled staff who will be passionate about the children we care for, showing understanding and patience in your approach.

Ideally, you will hold an NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification in a relevant field however substantial experience of working with children with disabilities in the community or in a care setting may be considered adequate.

Due to the needs of our children the role will include providing personal care and supporting those who experience challenging behaviour and advocating for their needs. We liaise daily with external agencies including Social Workers and Schools. A comprehensive Induction and Training program will be given to enable you to support them to a high standard.

Our staff team work flexibly around a 24 hour day. These shifts are mornings, afternoons, overnights and weekends. Long shifts will be considered reducing the number a week to three.

We have the facility of parking onsite and meals alongside the young people which are included within the terms of employment as well as staff discount availability within the organisation .

We will hold virtual interviews as we shortlist so please apply straight away!

Please contact Michelle Kukielka on 07956428319 if you would like an informal conversation

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

Our basis and values

Documents

* Project Worker 1 - Job Description & Person Profile.pdf (76.34 KB)
* Read about our commitment to safeguarding and our pre-employment checks.pdf (59.64 KB)
* Recruitment of Ex-offenders Policy (Oct 2018).pdf (0.56 MB)

Goldsmiths Community Association has a great new opportunity for an experienced Community Development Worker to join our team and help realise our vision.

This post will lead our exciting and ambitious Community Development strategy that puts health, wellbeing and connection at the forefront; empowering local people to help shape community life and play an active role in our pandemic recovery.

The successful Community Development Worker will play a dynamic, agile and creative role with strong cross-functional collaboration. They will be experienced in asset-based community development and community-led theory.

Please note: We have a legal responsibility to ensure that all our employees have the legal right to live and work in the UK. If we make an offer of employment, we will need to check that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.​​

We are committed to offering equitable opportunities. Our recruitment process is comprehensive and rigorous to ensure that all applicants receive fair treatment. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) who are currently under-represented.

We are committed to provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum job criteria, and we are flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job. We aim to make reasonable adjustments as required.

Our staff share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups.

We are delighted to be advertising an exciting new role at MASH.

MASH is a busy city-centre based charity working with women who sex work to help keep them safe and more empowered to make decisions about their lives. Our small and dedicated staff team, supported by volunteers, work with more than 600 women every year and we are the only agency in Manchester working specifically with women with complex needs. In 2018, MASH was awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the equivalent of an MBE, which recognises exceptional work done by volunteer groups in their communities. All our staff benefit from regular development opportunities including trauma-informed training.

We are recruiting a new Tenancy Support Officer to join our team for 21 hours per week.

Using a gender and trauma-informed approach, the Tenancy Support Officer will support women with multiple complex needs to create long term sustainable tenancies by increasing independence and maximising connectivity with the local community.

We are looking for an experienced individual who has an understanding of complex needs including, homelessness, mental health, substance misuse and offending behaviour.

It is an occupational requirement under the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, part 1) for this post to be filled only by a woman.

This role is fixed term until 31st March 2023.

The closing date is Sunday 7th March. Interviews will be held on the 9th and 10th of March and will be conducted via zoom.

The post is subject to DBS checks, suitable references, and completion of a 6-month probation period.