This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that develops new products and provides innovative services which deliver greater choice for disabled people. We are a creative and inspiring team, operating with the freedom to explore and deliver exciting new ways of working, beyond statutory provision.

We are seeking a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to play a vital role in the delivery of Designability’s clinical services, primarily the Wizzybug Loan Scheme.

You will have:

• Experience of delivering occupational therapy services, understanding and exceeding client expectations
• Clinical knowledge of a wide range of disabilities, with both theoretical and practical experience
• Excellent communication skills in working with service users, putting them at ease, building rapport and trust.

The number of disabled people in the UK is growing each year and our products are
now needed more than ever. We deliver choice by involving disabled people across
our organisation and throughout the design process to create innovative product solutions not available elsewhere.

You will be joining a team which includes mechanical and electronics engineers, workshop technicians, product designers, occupational therapists, fundraisers, researchers and administrators. Our team is led by strong values: we are creative, inclusive and practical, with our vision being to create a future where every person with a disability has the products they want to live the life they choose.

Designability is in a strong financial position, with healthy reserves to support our ambitious plans to expand our charitable operations.

Designability was recently awarded second place in the ‘Best Charities to Work For 2020’ list by Third Sector which is a reflection of our team highly rating the fact that we encourage activities that create strong teams and foster good personal relationships. Our staff also stated their confidence in Designability’s leadership and strategic planning.  Please see Job Description for more details.

There is one position available however we are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, all applications will receive a response.

Job title

Occupational Therapist

Qualification

In addition to qualified applicants, we will consider applicants who can evidence that they are due to receive their qualification imminently. 

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Up to 37.5 hours per week – Due to our growing demand for an evening provision, the successful candidate will be required to either work 11-7 two days per week or 12-8 one day per week

Salary

£25,000 - £30,000

Service setting

Jami resources, local communities, and virtual support

Organisation

Jami was established in 1989 by parents, relatives and friends of people who experienced mental health difficulties. In 2013 Jami became responsible for the community’s non-residential mental health provision, creating a single mental health service for the Jewish community.

Job purpose

You will be working as part of our core services teams, creating links with primary care and voluntary sector organisations to support people. You will carry out initial assessments and short-term interventions, enabling people to identify their needs and work towards their goals. You will meet people in person and use video conferencing technology to support people through 1:1 and group work. Due to the hybrid of virtual and in person support, we will consider applicants who are able to work from London 5 days per month

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that develops new products and provides innovative services which deliver greater choice for disabled people. We are a creative and inspiring team, operating with the freedom to explore and deliver exciting new ways of working, beyond statutory provision.

We’re seeking a Lead Occupational Therapist to provide clinical leadership for Designability, with responsibility for the delivery of therapy services, as well as leading and contributing to research projects, and providing knowledge and insight to product development projects.

You will have:

• Experience of managing occupational therapy service delivery, understanding and meeting client expectations.
• Clinical knowledge of a wide range of disabilities with both theoretical and practical experience.
• Experience of leading and supporting innovation and change.
• Experience of leading quality improvement and service developments.

The number of disabled people in the UK is growing each year and our products are
now needed more than ever. We deliver choice by involving disabled people across
our organisation and throughout the design process to create innovative product solutions not available elsewhere.

You will be joining a small team which includes mechanical and electronics engineers, workshop technicians, product designers, occupational therapists, fundraisers, researchers and administrators. Our team is led by strong values: we are creative, inclusive and practical, with our vision being to create a future where every person with a disability has the products they want to live the life they choose.

Designability is in a strong financial position, with healthy reserves to support our ambitious plans to expand our charitable operations.

Designability was recently awarded second place in the ‘Best Charities to Work For 2020’ list by Third Sector which is a reflection of our team highly rating the fact that we encourage activities that create strong teams and foster good personal relationships. Our staff also stated their confidence in Designability’s leadership and strategic planning.

The University of Bath provide us with recruitment support and applications are made through the University of Bath Jobs website. We choose to follow many of the University of Bath’s human resources policies. However, Designability is a fully independent charity and our staff contracts are not with the University.

There is one position available however we are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, all applications will receive a response.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

Job title

Occupational Therapist (Vocation and Young Adults Services)

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Up to 37.5 hours per week

Salary

£25,000 to £30,000, dependent on experience

Service setting

Jami resources, local communities, and virtual support

Responsible to

Vocational Initiatives Manager/ Y.ROC Lead

Organisation

Jami is a mental health charity committed to providing practical and emotional support to the Jewish community, delivering services that educate, support and facilitate recovery.

Jami help people with mental illness build resilience, achieve their goals and have control over their life through Community Hubs and outreach; education and training; and bespoke recovery support plans.

Jami currently:

• Supports around 1,300 service users at any one time living with mental ill health
• Delivers approximately 27,000 separate provisions of service annually
• Operates programmes from four Community Hubs and two Enterprise Hubs across London
• Reaches thousands more people each year through education, seminars, work in schools and other organisations, and through our social enterprises.

Job purpose

• You will be working across Jami’s Vocational and Young Adults Services with the aim of delivering services to young adults and those requiring support to access vocational activity (volunteering, education/ training, paid employment).
• Establish a network of relationships with educational, vocational and leisure facilities.
• Provide outreach support to Young Adults in line with a “whole team approach” working with key individuals in mutually agreed settings.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of a high quality, needs led, innovative mental health service for Young Adults and those using our Vocational Service.
• Be involved in carrying out initial assessments, short-term interventions, enabling people to identify their needs and service evaluation.
• You will meet people in person and use video conferencing technology to support people through 1:1 and group work. Due to the hybrid of virtual and in person support, we will consider applicants who are able to work from London 5 days per month

Responsibilities

• Work as a member of the developing Young Adults and Vocational Services. Supporting members of the Jewish Community experiencing issues with their mental health, in collaboration with key individuals such as families, carers, teachers as appropriate.
• Manage a 1:1 caseload.
• Support (young) adults with their recovery journey enabling them to identify their goals and work towards them.
• Provide a service, which promotes recovery, identifies people’s needs and strengths, is user centered, holistic, and promotes safety and positive risk taking.
• Work in collaboration with other community partners (e.g. Resource, Work Avenue, JVN) to find suitable employment, education and volunteering opportunities
• Participate in the setting up and running of service user groups.
• To maintain up to date and accurate electronic records as required by existing procedures 
• Liaise with appropriate statutory and non-statutory organisations and signpost where appropriate.
• Provide specialist assessments and holistic interventions, using tools such as I.ROC/Y.ROC, to inform a meaningful support plan in line with the service user involvement strategy.
• Re-assess using I.ROC/ Y-ROC on a three-monthly basis to evaluate progress and re-evaluate the support offered.
• Work effectively using a whole team approach as required.
• Create and maintain local partnerships and relationships within the Jewish community and beyond, supporting the development of resilient communities and an environment that enables and supports mental health recovery, and identifies and implements preventative strategies.
• Maintain own personal development and keep up to date with current knowledge and health and social care agenda.
• Maintain awareness of current thinking and new developments in mental health care of (young) adults
• Work within Health and Safety guidelines, with reference to the Lone Worker Policy and individual risk assessments.
• Compliance with the Equality Act, and health and safety legislation.
• Provide a service which adheres to policies and procedures including following safeguarding and rise assessment practice.
• To utilise video conferencing in order to support clients.
• Attend regular supervision with a named supervisor, incorporating this into practice.
• Attend relevant meetings.
• Participate in the organisation’s appraisal process.
• Ensure that all activities are operated consistent with the values of Jami and the Jewish Community with which you serve.
• Carry out any other necessary duties or tasks as requested by your line manager or another designated senior manager.

Supervision

The post holder will be expected to: - 

• Attend regular supervision with named supervisor.

 • Incorporate feedback from supervision into practice.

 • Participate in a programme of continued personal development. 

• Attend relevant meetings 

see attached JD for more details To apply for the role, please send your CV and covering letter to . Closing date for applications Sunday 11th  of October 2020.

Psychological Wellbeing Therapist

Closing date: Monday 28th September 2020

Aim of the role: To support and empower our customers to increase their life skills

Salary: £28,840 per annum

Location:  South Wimbledon & working across our services in South London.

Contract: Fixed term until 31st September 2021

Hours:   37.5 per week

Benefits:

As part of your employment package with us, we offer:

• a competitive salary, comprehensive training and development programme, 
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing each year to 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays after 5 years 
• option to buy or sell annual leave up to one week’s annual leave
• a health cash plan providing cash back towards healthcare bills and other wellbeing benefits
• occupational sick pay
• contributory group pension scheme
• free life assurance
• cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans

About You

We are looking for a full time Psychological Wellbeing Therapist to work alongside 2 other therapists to help those experiencing homelessness with their Mental Health concerns. We are looking for someone who can work generically across our services in South London, or have a speciality in working with either young people, women or those in gangs. This one year contract will help support some of the most vulnerable to live independently, while being connected to the right support.

About Evolve Housing + Support

Evolve is a leading homelessness charity in London, providing housing and support to over 2,000 people each year.

We believe in building on people’s strengths, aspirations and goals to help break the cycle of homelessness and help them move forward with their lives.

We offer a programme of support tailored to meet people’s individual needs, including housing, employment and skills training, mentoring and counselling. We work with young parents and children at risk of exclusion to build the skills and resilience that can help prevent homelessness. We campaign to end street homelessness. We build affordable homes to help people move on to an independent life.

Our mission is to help children, young people and adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness reach their potential, and move on to live happy, fulfilled lives.

Your application

Evolve Housing + Support is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including people who have experienced homelessness themselves.

If you are interested in this position, please complete no more than 2 pages setting out how you meet the criteria and detailing your experience by 9am Monday 21st September.

Please ensure that your answers give a clear outline of how your application meets the criteria for this job.

Care Coordinator

Contract: Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) up to 12 months, Part Time.
Hours: 17.5 hours (days can be agreed,  although the successful candidate must be able to work Tuesday am)
Location: Manchester, ( currently working remotely)
Salary: £30,746 pro rata per annum (actual salary £15,373 pa) Grade 18R
Job Ref: VA380
Closing Date for applications: 4 October 2020

We have an exciting opportunity for a Care Coordinator to join our team to support the clinical service delivery. Many of our clients have complex needs and this role ensures that clients are supported to access and engage in multi-agency services.

The role involves assessment, care planning and provision of stabilisation support to our most complex clients. The role involves working alongside Therapists,  Legal and Welfare staff as part of a truly multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have prior experience of working in mental health / social care settings, and be committed to a human rights approach in working with asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of torture.

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30 day annual leave entitlement, and 6% pension contribution.

To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click the link provided. 

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work. 

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure,  as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

Freedom from Torture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy ealy if high volumes of applications are received. 

Ambitious College is London's first specialist Day College for young people aged 16-25 with a primary diagnosis of autism, some of whom have additional disabilities. We believe that every young person attending Ambitious College deserves a fulfilling, happy and rewarding life. Our educational approach focuses on the individual at all times.

We were recently awarded the ‘Natspec 2020 award' for ‘Wellbeing and mental health' and also hold a ‘Good' Ofsted rating.

We are looking to recruit a qualified Lecturer to join us on our ambitious journey. Your day to day role will include delivering creative and person centred functional life lessons to up to 10 learners. Our learners are mostly pre-verbal or use assistive communication systems to make their needs understood. All learners are working on the pre-entry national curriculum framework with functional Maths and English embedded throughout the curriculum.

Lecturers at Ambitious College are part of a wider Transdisciplinary Team that includes full-time Occupational and Speech and Language Therapists as well as BCBA qualified Behaviour Analysts. Each class is also supported by a dedicated team of Learning and Behaviour Specialists to support learners.

Your role as a Lecturer:

• Provide excellent delivery, teaching and course leadership to learners across Ambitious College
• Safeguard and promote the welfare of the young people we support
• Work with learners to ensure they receive a service that delivers the outcomes specified in their individualised learning, person-centred plans
• Prepare and deliver schemes of work, lesson plans, assignments and assessments in line with departmental and awarding body requirements
• Work collaboratively with allied health professionals as part of a trans-disciplinary team

Why join us?

• The role itself is very rewarding both through the freedom of creativity and seeing first hand, our learners develop and progress through their goals and aspirations.
• Excellent CPD including a wide-range of in house and external training courses.
• Competitive annual salary paid over 52 weeks and excellent salary progression within the role.
• Annual staff recognition awards.
• Cycle to work scheme up to £5000.
• Season ticket loans.
• A wide range of wellness programmes including: virtual yoga & zumba classes, running club, art & cooking classes and pets cafe online.
• Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.
• Access to physiotherapy.

We are committed to investing in our people and their talent.  We make sure every single person is clear about their role, and has the tools, knowledge and learning they need to perform well and make a difference. 

For an informal discussion about this exciting position please follow the link to our website to find our contact details. Our team would be delighted to discuss the role further with you.

Closing date for applications: 12 noon, Sunday 18th October 2020

Candidates informed of outcome of application: Monday 19th October 2020

Interview date: Thursday 22nd October 2020 

Start date: As soon as possible.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.