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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
This is an exciting new leadership role within User Voice’s London team, responsible for delivering two major programmes at the intersection of Health Justice and forensic mental health services.
The Project Manager will lead the planning, delivery, and evaluation of these initiatives, ensuring they meet strategic objectives and deliver meaningful impact for participants and stakeholders.
This role is ideal for someone with lived experience of the criminal justice system who is already leading complex projects and managing teams and partnerships.
Alongside submitting your CV, please use your cover letter to answer the following questions:
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Your lived experience of the criminal justice system, how it informs your work at all levels & why you want this job.
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Your project management experience (minimum two years).
- Your experience supporting or leading volunteers, peer workers, or lived experience roles.
- Your skills in facilitation, co‑production, engagement, and working with vulnerable groups.
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You experience of working within complex systems such as prisons, NHS services, and/ or forensic mental health.
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Your experience of being a line manager.
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Your safeguarding and risk management experience.
Alongside submitting your CV, please use your cover letter to answer the following questions:
Your lived experience of the criminal justice system, how it informs your work at all levels & why you want this job.
Your project management experience (minimum two years).
Your experience supporting or leading volunteers, peer workers, or lived experience roles.
Your skills in facilitation, co-production, engagement, and working with vulnerable groups.
You experience of working within complex systems such as prisons, NHS services, and/ or forensic mental health.
Your experience of being a line manager.
Your safeguarding and risk management experience.
Justice should heal as much as it punishes, creating safer communities for all.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About You:
You are a reliable, compassionate and calm individual who is committed to supporting vulnerable people. You are able to work independently during night shifts while remaining a supportive member of the wider team.
You communicate well, build positive relationships with residents and colleagues, and handle challenging situations in a professional and respectful manner. You are organised, attentive to detail and comfortable completing records, handovers and routine checks.
Most importantly, you are motivated to create a safe, welcoming environment and to support residents in developing confidence and independent living skills.
Main Purpose Of The Job:
This role is responsible for delivering a safe and supportive service to all residents living at O’Hanlon House during the night. The post holder needs to work alongside the day and night teams to ensure the effective delivery of high quality care, support and housing management according to Homeless Oxfordshire Policies and Procedures.
Main Areas Of Responsibility:
- Ensure the effective delivery of high quality care, support and housing management according to Homeless Oxfordshire policies and procedures.
- To be a supportive and effective part of the team working as part of a rota including nights and weekends. Maintain positive relationships with clients, relatives, carers, professionals, commissioners, contractors and the local community.
- Maintain a safe, clean and welcoming environment.
- To support and encourage clients to care for themselves and develop independent living skills.
- To assess and manage risk for individuals and in the service, making use of emergency services as required.
- Report any safeguarding concerns without delay in line with the charity’s policies and procedures.
- Comply with the charity’s health and safety standards.
- Manage challenging situations in line with procedures and to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
- Actively ensure security of the building through regular checks and monitoring of CCTV system.
- To carry out designated cleaning and laundry duties (and any other housekeeping tasks).
- To participate in handovers at the beginning and end of shifts, ensuring that information is properly recorded and passed on where appropriate and relevant and in a timely fashion.
- Ensure that IT systems are updated as required and concise record keeping is completed promptly.
- Ensure clients are aware of and support them to maximise their opportunity to be involved in Client Participation.
- To participate in the induction of and support new team members.
- To undertake any other duties that can be reasonably required to meet the operational needs of Homeless Oxfordshire.
- To undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this position.
- To ensure that Homeless Oxfordshire’s Equal Opportunities Policies are complied promoted in carrying out duties of the post.
About Us:
We are an open door for people experiencing homelessness whose lives have been shaped by trauma and disadvantage; providing safety, stability and support when it is needed most. We deliver this support across Oxfordshire by providing a range of accommodation with access to high quality support, offering a safe and welcoming space for people to take control of their own lives. We are an accredited Oxford Living Wage employer, and benefits to the role include: annual leave starting at 26 days (excluding bank holidays), flexible working, enhanced benefits with qualifying service, retail discounts with our Homeless Oxfordshire Benefits Hub, and life assurance up to four times your salary and a £250 bonus if you successfully refer a someone as a new colleague through our Employee Referral Scheme as a thanks from us!
Open To: People wanting to work weekends. This role is a shift and rota'd role that includes weekends, bank holidays, early and late days.
What’s Next: Have a look at the job description to find out more about the role and apply on our website. Please be aware that this role is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure check and will be undertaken for the successful candidate .
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we identify a suitable candidate before the advertised closing date.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
This role are central to ensuring that the voices of people in the justice system shape the services that affect them. You’ll work directly across our Prison Councils in HMP Altcourse and HMP Forest Bank, as well as a range of community‑based projects regionally, and occasionally national. Some projects will require significant travel, so flexibility is essential.
- Full-time
- Permanent
- £25k- £30k depending on experience
- Bank holidays plus 25 days holiday
- You must be off community order / prison license
- Probationary period: Six months
Please submit your CV and cover letter by Friday, 27th March 2026.
Justice should heal as much as it punishes, creating safer communities for all.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you passionate about working 1-to-1 with young prison-leavers from a variety of backgrounds; many of whom are from marginalised communities, to help them lead more stable, rewarding lives?
As a Switchback Mentor, you will play a vital role in transforming the lives of young prison-leavers, helping them break free from the justice system and build stable, rewarding futures. You will be responsible for building your own caseload by engaging directly with young men in prison and providing intensive support after their release. In addition to working with those you meet in prison; you will also support Trainees referred to the programme after they have already been released.
Once on the programme, you will maintain regular contact with Trainees, meeting face-to-face at least once a week to help them navigate the challenges of being recently released from prison and work towards their goals. Most importantly, you will do this in a way that reflects Switchback’s core values: putting Trainees at the heart of everything we do, setting high expectations, and building authentic, supportive relationships that enable lasting change.
It is essential that Mentors can confidently and professionally engage with all Trainees who meet the eligibility criteria for the Switchback programme, providing them with the support and guidance needed to move forward positively.
What you’ll get when you work for us:
Switchback takes the development of Mentors very seriously. Switchback Mentors are the drivers of our impact, and we will help to build your expertise as a practitioner through our in-house training in our unique change model. This is complemented by a comprehensive training and supervision package including: regular psychologically informed 1:1 clinical supervision and group reflective practice sessions and an annual, individualised training budget. You will also join a structured progression pathway which can provide opportunities to further develop management skills and technical expertise, informed by your own learning goals.
Switchback understands the challenges and complexities faced by the young people we work with. To ensure Mentors can provide the highest level of support, we intentionally keep caseloads low. This allows Mentors to dedicate the time and resources needed to build strong, meaningful relationships and offer Trainees the intensive, tailored support they need to make lasting change.
We support young men to find a way out of the justice system and build a stable, rewarding life they can be proud of.


The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a good communicator who is excited by God‘s generosity and provision, and keen to encourage and support our diverse parishes as they embed digital giving in an ever changing digital landscape. Digital giving is an increasingly important income stream for churches. Hear from one of our vicars about the success of their Give to go 'Green digital fundraising'
We have a strong partnership with our parishes with a positive culture of generosity and commitment to each other. Our parish share scheme, the Parish Support Fund, is a generosity-based offering scheme with collection rates of 99+%.
This role is currently a full-time role, focusing on supporting parishes with digital giving, helping with technical issues as well as encouraging best fundraising practice. It might suit someone who is a recent graduate and who is interested in technology, and developing their experience in digital fundraising, training and communication. A part-time could be accommodated.. Many of our staff work flexibly. Please indicate in your application and talk to us at the interview about the flexibility and work hours you would prefer.
Are you interested in church or charity fundraising and looking for a new challenge?
No prior knowledge of digital giving mechanisms is needed – full training will be given. Would you like to join us, be willing to learn and work with us as we seek to be a Diocese that is Christ- centred and outward focused? If so, please read on in the information pack.
Welcome to the Diocese of Southwark, where we seek to be Christ Centered Outward Focused in all we do.

