ABOUT THE LIC

The London Irish Centre is the Irish Heart of London. Our Mission is to empower and enrich lives through Irish community and culture.

For over sixty years, we’ve been proud to provide vital frontline welfare services to multi-generational Irish diaspora in London, whilst instilling positive impact within local communities through education, entertainment and cultural awareness. Our commitment lies in meeting the wants and needs of our shared communities, now and for the future.

JOB BRIEF

The postholder will be responsible for managing a team of Advice Volunteers and Information Volunteers to deliver first point of contact support and information, as well as basic advice to people with complex needs using a strengths-based approach, empowering people in a range of areas, including passport applications, returning to Ireland, moving to London, and linking with other services. 

The postholder will be responsible for engaging volunteers including inducting, training, supervising and supporting volunteers in becoming competent and efficient in their roles.

The deadline for applications is Monday 12th July 2021, 9:00am.

The London Irish Centre is a London Living Wage and Equal Opportunities employer.

We actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We encourage BAME and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and all opportunities provided by the LIC. Whilst our offices have some barriers to access, we are taking steps to resolve these, and in the meantime continue to encourage interest from applicants who require reasonable adjustments within the workplace.

Do you want to raise vital funds to help deaf people leave loneliness behind and reconnect with life? Are you an expert in Individual Giving and growing income using digital and direct marketing? Do you want to work for a charity that prioritises the supporter experience across all our fundraising and marketing? If so, this is a great opportunity to join Hearing Dogs and help deliver against our new five-year strategy which aims to significantly increase the number of deaf people, and people with hearing loss, that we help.

This role is responsible for delivering against an Individual Giving target of £1.5m in 21/22, and growing income year-on-year throughout the five-year strategy. A key focus will be recurring income through our Puppy Sponsorship and Lottery products.

As part of the Fundraising and Communication leadership team, you will also be the direct and digital marketing lead across the department, helping to build and scale marketing systems and supporter journeys that deliver against fundraising and lead generation targets.

Digital has been a key driver of our recent growth and all digital activity is managed in-house. You will add to our digital skill set and have hands-on experience of delivering acquisition campaigns at scale across paid social channels including Facebook. This role will also have line management responsibility for two direct reports, our Digital & Direct Marketing Fundraiser and our Digital & Website Executive.

The successful candidate will have:

• A proven track record of income generation against agreed financial targets and other KPIs
• Hands on experience of creating and running Facebook Ads at scale, successfully using at least one other paid digital marketing channel, and delivering traditional direct marketing campaigns
• Extensive experience of developing and scaling individual giving or direct marketing programmes – ideally in the charity sector – across a range of channels including paid social, direct mail and email
• A good understanding of UX and conversion lead web design to deliver landing pages against strategic goals

How to apply

• Request an application from, as detailed on our vacancy page via the Apply button
• Please can you also email three examples of creative that you have used to scale income

Closing date

• Closing date 14 July

Interviews

• First interviews will take place over Microsoft Teams from 23 July
• Second interviews will take place in person at The Grange, Saunderton and will include a short presentation

Work location

Please note this role is currently home-based due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, however we will be returning to the office when government guidelines indicate it is safe to do so. This role is based at The Grange (Saunderton) and will require to work a mix of office and home-based working.

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Are you a qualified Clinical Psychologist who likes the idea of working for a leading specialist service providing NHS funded intensive mental health packages and residential placements for complex young people?

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist based in their Cheshire Hub, located in Warrington. You will join their team of 7 Clinical Psychologists, working as part of a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team providing direct clinical input for young people with complex mental health difficulties, including emerging personality disorder, complex trauma and eating disorders. The role will also involve systemic work with residential staff teams and offer opportunities to gain skills in supervision, consultation, teaching and clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary setting.

Company Benefits

- £37,570 - £43,772 or £44,606 - £50,819 (Band 7 Preceptorship / 8a Salary - Dependant on experience)
- 27 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (Rising to 31 days + 8 bank holidays with service)
- Enhanced Superior company pension
- Paid Induction (Running over 7 days)
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Free on-site parking
- Paid Enhanced DBS check
- Employee Assistance Programme / 24-hour Counselling Service
- Online shopping discounts, free eye tests and various other benefits
- Excellent Learning, Development & CPD opportunities (Schema therapy etc)
- The opportunity for internal promotions & progression
- Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
- Regular social events and recognition schemes (‘Employee of the year awards’, Summer & Christmas parties)

As a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist you will:

- Provide clinical psychological assessment and treatment to young people with severe and enduring mental health disorders.
- Work within and contribute to the therapeutic service model.
- Provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on young people’s psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
- Work closely within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service policies and procedures.
- Utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development.

As a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, you will have (As a minimum):

- Doctoral level training in clinical Psychology, including two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Current registration with HCPC
- Minimum of twelve months post qualification experience or appropriate experience in training to join them at a preceptorship level.
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including at least six months clinical experience working in child and adolescent mental health.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups
- Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental well-being.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one evidence based psychological therapy relevant to the treatment of adolescents with complex problems and their families.

Desirable Criteria:

- Additional specialist knowledge or training in psychological therapies including models i.e., CAT, CBT, ST
- Experience working in an inpatient mental health setting.
- Experience in workign with clients with eating disorders.
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision
- Experience of working in a community based mental health setting

If you are interested in joining an enthusiastic, motivated business who thrive in developing and rebuilding young people and young adults with complex difficulties then please apply today.

Please note that they do not accept CV’s and the application must be completed in full.

To support their commitment as a COVID-19 Secure employer, all of their interviews will be held over video platform.

Our client operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

They are an equal opportunities employer who values diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.

They reserve the right to close the advert early, should they appoint a suitable candidate.

Ref: 99630

We have an exciting opportunity for someone committed to working with community members and people with lived experience to support their initiatives and ideas related to death dying and loss.

Based in the Community Action Team at St Christopher’s Hospice, the Community Practice Development Lead will be a key part of our work on societal change, developing community-based projects which explore new modes of care for others and ourselves at the end of life, and build confidence for a range of community members in end of life processes and planning.

To succeed in this role, you will:

• Ensure that the way we do things is participatory, shares leadership and looks for opportunities across all our work to enable community members and citizens in End of Life issues.
• Have a passion for working with people to support their initiatives and ideas and build strong relationships with them.
• Support people with lived experience to address their own ambitions for helping themselves and each other.
• Be committed to societal change and of working together to take new approaches to seemingly entrenched challenges.
• Comfortable and reflexive about changing power and leadership in healthcare and keen to learn and help others understand the potential of these approaches.
• Able to explore and work with people at the end of life and death, dying and loss, and appreciate intersectional experiences of life, death and loss. 

About us

We are a world-leading hospice aspiring to a world in which all dying people and those close to them have access to care and support, whenever and wherever they need it. St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating over 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 7,500 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We seek to work in partnership with communities to find ways to respond to societal need and create change, and to develop a mutual response to a population which is living with growing challenges.

Please note that this post is being offered on a 3-year Fixed Term Contract, and there will be an opportunity for flexibility regarding work hours.

St Christopher’s is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, faith and religion, disability and age, although we are underrepresented across the organisation with BAME and LGBT employees, and thus we encourage applications from these groups.

Benefits of joining St Christopher’s

• You will gain a stimulating and rewarding role with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community
• Access to excellent training and development opportunities
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A number of health and wellbeing schemes
• A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan
• An onsite staff canteen
• Access to plenty of free local street parking

Closing Date:  4th July 2021 at Midnight

Interview Date: TBC  

In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.