Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
Title: Liaison and Diversion Coordinator
Salary: Starting at £29,636 per annum – NJC Scale Points 26 – 30
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: This role is fixed term until March 2022, with the possibility of being extended.
Base: This role will be based in Kirklees, with the requirement to work flexibly across West Yorkshire Liaison and Diversion team, as required.
About the Liaison and Diversion Service
The Liaison and Diversion (L&D) Service works with people of all ages (including children and young people) with a wide range of vulnerabilities including poor mental health and learning disabilities, who have offended or are at risk of offending. We support service users who have contact with police stations, the courts, prisons and probation. The Liaison and Diversion service is delivered by Wakefield Council across the West Yorkshire Police force area. The team is a multi-agency, multi skilled team. Touchstone is one of the partners in the service.
The aim is to work together to reduce the risk factors for reoffending by providing short-term support and signposting service users into longer-term support services.
About the role
Purpose of the role:
- To support the initial mobilisation/development of the expanding Liaison and Diversion service.
- To coordinate the day-to-day delivery of the Liaison and Diversion service including; ensuring there is staff cover in the office and custody suits, being able to answer queries from partner agencies such as the police and social care and to ensure staff are supported in decision making including relating to risk and safeguarding matters.
- To provide effective coordination of the L&D team comprising of Support Time Recovery workers, staff seconded from partner agencies, Peer support workers and Volunteers.
- To ensure that Touchstone and the L&D service develops positive relationships with partners in other agencies, including courts, mental health trusts, Community Rehabilitation Company, National Probation Service, community and voluntary sector partners.
- Working with vulnerable children, young people and adults who have contact with the criminal justice system. This involves working with people who use substances and people who self-harm.
The L&D service across West Yorkshire will operate 7 days per week from 08.00 to 18.00. Project Workers will be required to work shifts to ensure appropriate cover, this will include regular weekend and evening work.
Closing Date: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Interviews will be held on: Friday 31st July 2020
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.
Any job offer will be dependent on the outcome of police vetting at level 3, and reference checks.
Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.
No agencies please.
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Grade 2 (lower): £19,974 - £22,584 per annum
Fixed term 12 month contract
37 hours per week
Family Action is delighted to have been awarded grant funding from the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme to run the Bradford Energy Advice Service which will be launched on September 1st 2020.
The Bradford Energy Advice Service will:
- Work closely and link with our existing advice service in Bradford
- Deliver high quality energy, fuel poverty and income maximisation advice
- Support users to improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life
- Increase income and reduce debt
- Work as part of a whole systems approach and with key stakeholders in the field
In this exciting new role as Energy Advice Worker you will provide service users with support through one off advice or through case work as appropriate. In addition to working in the Advice Centre you will be required to deliver short workshops in community settings and deliver support in users’ homes and outreach community venues across Bradford. You must be able to travel across the Bradford district to outreach venues and home visits.
The successful candidates will need substantial experience of providing advice on welfare benefits and debt management and be experienced in working holistically with clients when tackling their issues. For one of the posts you must be able to speak Urdu and or Punjabi fluently.
The successful candidates will be motivated, passionate practitioners who strive for excellent standards and are committed to achieving National Energy Action City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Energy Efficiency.
Our Values: A people focus, Mutual Respect, Excellence in all we do and a Can Do attitude.
If you can relate to these and have the necessary skills and attitude, we can offer you:
- A competitive salary, leave entitlement and pension scheme
- Career development opportunities
- A full induction and on-going quality training
- The opportunity to become part of FA initiatives
- Flexible working hours
- Managed workloads with regular supportive and reflective supervision
For an application pack and further information, including the benefits we offer, please visit select the apply button and complete the application form.
Closing date: 15th July 2020, midnight
Interview date: 22nd July 2020
This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
Other organisations may call this role Support Worker, Welfare & Benefits Support Worker, Debt Management Advisor, Welfare & Benefits Advisor, Welfare Benefits Officer, Benefits Advice Officer, Welfare Support Officer, Welfare Advisor, Benefits Advisor Welfare Benefits Caseworker, or Welfare Benefits Advocate.
Touchstone is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
Live Well Leeds Mental Health Support Coordinator
Salary: Starting at £21,589 per annum – NJC Scale Points 12 – 17
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: This role is fixed term for 12 months, with the possibility of being extended
The aim of the Live Well Leeds service is to provide flexible and practical support to people (aged 18+) within the Leeds Metropolitan District. The service has been commissioned by Leeds City Council Adult Social Care for 5 years. The contract is delivered by a Strategic Partnership (comprising Touchstone as the lead, Community Links and Leeds Mind) and a Delivery Network (comprising of 16 different voluntary sector partners).
The service will be easy for diverse people to access, navigate and receive high quality support for everyone to improve and maintain their mental health.
Live Well Leeds offers a seven day service, including evenings and weekends according to community/individual needs and wishes.
About the role
You will work as part of the Live Well Leeds partnership to recognise individual service users’ strengths and assets, and then provide support to maintain and improve mental health.
You will provide flexible, supportive, caring and responsive interventions to and with service users. This will involve working one-to-one, facilitating groups, and enabling peers/volunteers to deliver group support.
You need to have substantial experience of working with people with mental health needs, a good knowledge of mental health interventions and their effectiveness and experience of building and maintaining positive links with a wide range of services and stakeholders.
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website to download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.
Closing Date: Sunday 19 July 2020
Interviews will be held on: Monday 3 August 2020 (via Zoom)
Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.
We are looking for a full time History Tutor and a part time Science Tutor to join our amazing team at Brian Jackson College.
At Brian Jackson college we support young people with Social, emotional and mental health providing an alternative and inclusive approach toeducation.Working in small groups you will provide appropriate lessons that are engaging and creative to support the progress of all our students.
Potential candidates must have an interest in working within a charity sector that supports dissafected and disadvantaged young people.
If you are interested in joining our team please email for more information including the job descritption.
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