Wellbeing Enterprises (WE) has received funding from the Future Innovation Fund to develop a Social Prescribing Training Academy for the Liverpool City Region (LCR). The Academy’s aim is to bolster the capacity and develop the skills and competencies of the social prescribing workforce in the LCR. It will also provide pathways to volunteering, work experience and employment for local people.

Social prescribing links patients to non-medical sources of support in the community as a way of responding to the wider biopsychosocial needs of patients. This approach is typically facilitated with the support of a Social Prescribing Link Worker / Wellbeing Officer.

As the Project Lead, you will drive forward the development of the Academy, having a key role in its design, implementation, and delivery of training. This is an excellent opportunity for a focused and creative individual who is looking to take ownership of a project and drive it from a concept to a reality. We are looking for candidates who place emphasis on quality of provision and long-term sustainability.

Right to Succeed is a fast-growing national charity, working to deliver place-based and educational change in the most disadvantaged communities. Together, alongside their local and national partners, Right to Succeed delivers coordinated, impactful programmes aimed at improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people, their families and wider communities. We are now recruiting an inspiring new Programme Director to oversee and manage the discovery phase of a whole system improvement programme in two of Liverpool City Region’s most left behind communities.

As a Programme Director in the Liverpool City Region, you will lead the initial discovery phase of the programme, working alongside multiple agencies, research professionals and stakeholder groups to create and maintain the conditions required for an effective, collective place-based change approach. You will support and build the capacity of residents in selected communities, in order to develop a long-term, place-based vision designed to improve children’s capability, wellbeing and access to opportunities. You will represent the programme externally, and will provide key programmatic insight to the wider Senior Executive team in order to shape broader organisational strategy, and ultimately lead to effective, tailored programmatic delivery across the wide range of communities that we serve.

To apply for this pivotal role, you must have significant experience of building, developing and delivering impactful programmes and interventions, ideally working collectively with colleagues in the community and public sector spaces. You must be an exceptional communicator, skilled at conveying strategic vision, and building and maintaining relationships with a range of stakeholders, including those at a senior level. You must have experience of monitoring and evaluating complex programmes, and reporting on key outcomes for funders. Overall, you will be an ambassadorial, participative, values-led leader, passionate about ensuring high quality programmes to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, young people, families and communities.

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please initially submit a word-formatted version of your CV and a 2-page maximum supporting statement outlining your interest in the role and how your skills and experience meet the requirements on the Person Specification in the Recruitment Pack.

Please note this is initially a 12 month fixed term contract, subject to funding.

Depending on Covid-19 restrictions, this role may initially need to be home-based but will be based with the team in the Merseyside area, location to be confirmed.

Job Title: Project Co-ordinator
Salary: £23,271 (Pro rata, actual £12,579), pa plus competitive pension

Holidays: 25 days per year (Pro rata, actual 15 days), plus bank holidays
Hours: 20 hours per week (hours negotiable over 3-4 days)
Location: Hoole, Chester
 

The Bren Project provides high quality, supported work experiences for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. At the Bren Project we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to experience the world of work and enjoy all the benefits it brings. Since 2007 we have facilitated over 300 bespoke work placements for people with learning disabilities and autism. We are a small, but enthusiastic and committed team, and this is an exciting time to join us!

We are now seeking to appoint a Project Coordinator, who will play a critical role in our service delivery. The Project Coordinator will engage beneficiaries, building a personal profile with them that reflects their individual skills, ability, and ambition. The role will also liaise with employers, brokering suitable opportunities and nurturing successful placements through building good relationships with everyone involved.

Closing date is noon on Monday 15th Feb 2021.  If you have not heard back from us by this date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and satisfactory references.

Are you a customer-focused individual with credible experience  gained in a health and safety role, including operations? Then join Shelter as Health, Safety and Safeguarding Manager and you could soon be taking on a high profile role that will give you just the challenge you need.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our Property and Facilities Team is responsible for the estate and facilities for Shelter’s staff volunteers and clients. That means ensuring that the estate is fit for purpose, delivers our purpose and is compliant with regulations.  A varied portfolio currently comprises one freehold property in London, 24 leased offices across England and Scotland and around 94 leasehold shops. The Team provides a full range of professional services, including facilities management, rent and lease negotiations, budget advice, strategic planning, estate management, building surveying, planned and reactive maintenance and crucially, health and safety and safeguarding expertise, That’s where you come in.

About the Role
Essentially, this strategically vital role is about ensuring Shelter has robust processes and controls in place for the management and oversight of workplace health and safety and the safeguarding of staff, volunteers, clients and all who come into contact with Shelter. As well as delivering expertise around workplace health and safety and the safeguarding of adults and children, we’ll count on you to provide compliance guidance and oversight across all of our activities. You’ll also be responsible for raising the profile of health, safety and safeguarding throughout Shelter and leading the development and delivery of relevant policies and procedures. Along the way, you’ll get to work with colleagues to formulate appropriate action plans to ensure compliance, provide advice, implement a health & safety improvement plan and help develop a positive culture that fosters open and transparent conversation.

About you
As well as an industry recognised qualification such as the NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent), you’ll need to either hold, or be close to obtaining, Chartered Membership of IOSH. A track record of delivering training is important too, as are top-notch project management skills, a flexible approach to working hours and an innate ability to organise and prioritise your workload. The written and verbal communication skills it takes to work with, provide advice to, train, and promote excellence in Health and Safety to all staff are essential too, together with commercial awareness, lots of creativity and the ability to lead change and help improve performance.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities),gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

WHO WE ARE

City Hearts was founded in 2005, beginning with a single home to help women with life controlling issues, shortly after we welcomed our first survivor of modern slavery. Since then, we have expanded across multiple regions and now provide accommodation and outreach support to hundreds of survivors of modern slavery every year, as well as continuing to house and support women with life controlling issues. Our work has since expanded to address the cycle of crime, by offering support programmes to those who commit, as well as those who are victims of criminality. We are passionate about restoring the lives of those we support, and it would not be possible without our dedicated team of staff and volunteers.

ROLE SUMMARY

How this role fits into the vision and objectives of City Hearts

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Equality and Diversity Officer within City Hearts. Reporting directly to the Head of Human Resources, the role of this individual would be to champion and embed equality and diversity practices, and to help foster an inclusive culture that represents the charities values. The individual would also work closely with Senior Management to develop initiatives to promote diversity, and play an essential role in in shaping and enhancing policies and operational plans in relation to both staff and service delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To raise awareness and understanding of equality and diversity amongst staff, clients and stakeholders, interacting with people at all levels and from a range of backgrounds

• To research, apply and promote change, sharing best practice and promoting diversity initiatives.

• To promote allyship through employee diversity initiatives and events

• To assess the charity's needs and promote charity cohesion

• To work with the Head of Human Resources on ensuring compliance with and promotion of anti-discriminatory legislation in order to ensure the charity meets statutory requirements

• To work with Senior Management to write, implement and review policy and procedures at a strategic  level, with a particular focus on, but not limited to; The Safer Recruitment Policy and Procedures, Anti-Racism Policy, Equality and Diversity Policy, Grievance and Disciplinary Policies, and developing factsheets

• To be responsible for preparing and delivering Equality & Diversity Training, presentations and workshops to staff and other stakeholders

• To liaise with the Head of HR to identify and arrange external delivery of Equality and Diversity training, as and when appropriate

• To provide advice, guidance and support to staff at all levels on issues relating to equality and diversity.

• To work in partnership with the Head of HR to develop recruitment processes to maintain and encourage equal opportunities across recruitment, including internal promotional opportunities.

• To input into the appointment of all staff, including managers, through the development of assessment methods relating to equality and diversity.

• To regular attend and input into Senior Management strategic meetings

• To promote and carry out change within the charity and wider community

• To monitor data and gather feedback of a quantitative and qualitative nature, including via surveys or staff focus groups

• To develop an annual report on diversity statistics within the charity and formulate recommendations for improvement

• To input into concerns or grievances related to incidents of discrimination

• To be available as a point of contact for employees wanting to raise a query, provide feedback or raise a concern in relation to equality and diversity

• To investigate incidents alongside HR, particularly in relation to matters of discrimination

City Hearts is fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in our organisation. Therefore, it's important to us that this is reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities.  We particularly welcome and encourage applications where we are under-represented in our workforce, particularly at management level. Currently, this includes people with disability, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups and those who identify as LGBTQ+.

Wellbeing Enterprises (WE) has received funding from the Future Innovation Fund to develop a Social Prescribing Training Academy for the Liverpool City Region (LCR). The Academy’s aim is to bolster the capacity and develop the skills and competencies of the social prescribing workforce in the LCR. It will also provide pathways to volunteering, work experience and employment for local people.

Social prescribing links patients to non-medical sources of support in the community as a way of responding to the wider biopsychosocial needs of patients. This approach is typically facilitated with the support of a Social Prescribing Link Worker / Wellbeing Officer.

As the Academy Tutor, you will play a pivotal role operationalising the Academy, delivering interactive teaching and ongoing learner support. This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and creative individual who is looking to play a key role developing this innovation from a concept to a reality working with the Project Lead. We are looking for candidates who place emphasis on quality of provision, preparation, and learner wellbeing.

Head of Engagement Planning
Ref: HoEP(2021)/CN
Location: Flexible - regular attendance required at WWT sites and post will need to be based at either Slimbridge, London (Barnes) or Burscough (Martin Mere)
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £36,496 per annum

Do you have a track record of designing experiences for visitors to an attraction, museum or similar? Want to help an established charity captivate their audiences as a Head of Engagement Planning? If so, read on.

This is a brilliant opportunity to use your creativity, act as a voice for audiences, support and evolve the success of a charity that is passionate about protecting wildlife and people.

You will have the chance to make a difference to all of our wetland sites and create innovative ways to inspire, people across the UK whilst creating some of the best visitor experiences available in the country.

The Role

As the Head of Engagement Planning, you will work to ensure a consistently excellent visitor experience is delivered across our ten wetland sites in the UK.

In this exciting role, you’ll provide strategic direction and oversee the delivery of engaging, on-brand experiences that make people love and care about the natural world and wetlands in particular.

Your duties will involve:

• Line managing and supporting two experienced designers to help create beautiful and engaging events, activities and displays
• Identifying how we can build experiences that create deep emotional connections with our audiences and communicate our conservation message through our people, fixed exhibits, events and digital channels
• Helping to shape and deliver a national programme of commercially successful and authentic events
• Ensuring the organisation focuses on understanding what our visitors want and need from their experiences
• Helping to maintain and raise excellent standards of presentation and customer care across our portfolio
• Working with, building relationships and influencing experienced colleagues spread across the UK, at all levels of the business and in a range of different roles to achieve your aims

About You

To join us as the Head of Engagement Planning you’ll need:

• Extensive experience gained in an organisation where visitors come to enjoy a day out as well as engaging with informative, emotive and cause related messaging, such as a Zoo, heritage site or museum.
• A track record of designing and delivering experiences that inspire visitors to engage with your organisation and cause with demonstrable ability in excellent project management as well as achieving amazing emotive outcomes for visitors
• Very strong commercial understanding and experience
• Previous experience of promoting a culture of viewing things from a visitor’s perspective
• Brilliant influencing and communication skills

About Us

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is the UK’s leading wetland conservation charity. We are pioneers in saving threatened wetland wildlife, a centre for excellence in conservation science and experts in wetland management and creation. Around a million visitors a year engage with wetland nature at our ten sites around the UK, and we work nationally and internationally in key locations to balance conservation with sustainable livelihoods.

We have recently completed a review of our strategic priorities which includes ambitious targets for developing bigger and better wetlands, encouraging more people to take direct action for these unique places, and ensuring key decision makers around the world realise the essential role wetlands play in restoring nature, combating climate change and enhancing health and wellbeing.

In return for your hard work and dedication you’ll enjoy a wide range of benefits including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Contributory pension scheme (conditions apply)
• Life assurance
• Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free entry to all our centres

Closing date: 25th January 2021
Interview date: 3rd February 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the Job Description and complete your application.

WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit. ​

Registered Charity Number England & Wales, no 1030884 and Scotland, no SC039410.

No agencies please.

• £31-35,000 (dependent on experience)
• 24-month initial contract (with possibility of renewal)
• Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
• 26 days’ holiday per year
• Fully remote during the pandemic, then based in London, Liverpool or Manchester, though we have flexible and remote working arrangements in place

The Cares Family is an anti-racist organisation committed to advancing anti-racism. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, who are under-represented in our organisation. We are an equal opportunities employer.

ABOUT THE CARES FAMILY

The Cares Family’s mission is to help people find connection in a disconnected age. Our objectives are to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst younger and older people alike; improve people’s connection, belonging, purpose and power in a rapidly changing world; and bring people together to reduce social, generational, digital, cultural and attitudinal divides.

Those relationships have had a dramatic impact. 98% of young people involved say they have a stronger connection to the community. 73% of older neighbours involved say their isolation is reduced; 86% are better able to appreciate the changing world; and 77% say their relations with young people have improved. Neighbours report feeling reduced loneliness, improved understanding across generations, a deeper sense of belonging, and “part of something bigger”.

But as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, loneliness is not just a personal crisis for younger and older people; it’s also a broader public health crisis and a national political crisis. So, as well as improving individual lives and community togetherness, The Cares Family has started to have an impact at the systemic and cultural levels too – through storytelling and campaigning work that are rapidly increasing our profile and making an even bigger difference.

We are therefore at a moment of opportunity to make an even bigger difference in the year ahead. We plan to do that with our ‘Action, Voice, Power’ strategy – increasing our local action with new projects, raising up the voices of human experience through new communications and campaigns, and working to ensure national and local government make new investments to reduce loneliness, and build connections across perceived divides.

ABOUT OUR IMPACT AND LEARNING

The Cares Family has undergone four external evaluations which demonstrate the impact of our work. However, measuring the value of human relationships, which are necessarily subjective, in a way that is simultaneously scientific, community-led and respectful of people’s full stories, is challenging.

We are therefore seeking to build on the learning from our four evaluations, to embed impact evaluation techniques that are consistent with our community-first philosophy, and to do so in a way that challenges top-down evaluation approaches which can be reductive and isolating.

To do so, we need to raise the bar on our monitoring and evaluation, data capture and analysis; to set up better processes to analyse and evaluate that data for learning purposes; and to put in place an organisational Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework to enable us to better measure our outcomes.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We are therefore seeking a Head of Impact and Learning with a solid understanding of monitoring and evaluation approaches as well as systems, data, analysis and, crucially, people.

This is a new role and an exceptional opportunity for an innovative social researcher to design and develop simultaneously values-led and robust evaluation. Working closely with our delivery teams and with input from our neighbours, you will embed outcomes monitoring into our day-to-day activities, and evaluate our programmes and projects in a meaningful way.

TO READ THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND FIND OUT HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT THE CARES FAMILY'S WEBSITE. 

• £40,000-£43,000 (FTE; dependent on experience; contract or day rates will be considered)
• 12-month contract
• Based in London (currently working from home; other locations will be considered, but when possible, the ability to work from London on a regular basis is essential).

The Cares Family is an anti-racist organisation committed to advancing anti-racism. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, who are under-represented in our organisation. We are an equal opportunities employer.

ABOUT THE CARES FAMILY

The Cares Family’s mission is to help people find connection in a disconnected age. Our objectives are to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst younger and older people alike; improve people’s connection, belonging, purpose and power in a rapidly changing world; and bring people together to reduce social, generational, digital, cultural and attitudinal divides.

Those relationships have had a dramatic impact. 98% of young people involved say they have a stronger connection to the community. 73% of older neighbours involved say their isolation is reduced; 86% are better able to appreciate the changing world; and 77% say their relations with young people have improved. Neighbours report feeling reduced loneliness, improved understanding across generations, a deeper sense of belonging, and “part of something bigger”.

But as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, loneliness is not just a personal crisis for younger and older people; it’s also a broader public health crisis and a national political crisis. It affects millions of people – from people newly working from home or cooped up in university halls, to new parents; middle aged men to digitally savvy teenagers; LGBT+ people to new migrants. In fact, those who are already marginalised in society experience its consequences the most.

So, as well as improving individual lives and community togetherness, The Cares Family has started to have an impact at the systemic and cultural levels too – through storytelling and campaigning work that are rapidly increasing our profile and making an even bigger difference.

In 2018, the then Prime Minister launched the government’s first ever loneliness strategy (which we lobbied for and helped shape) at a Cares Family social club. We have received coverage in The Economist, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and on BBC1’s News at Ten and Channel 4 News, as well as support from Russell Howard and Florence and the Machine. And in 2018, our Founder and CEO was appointed one of 20 inaugural Obama Fellows, bringing new attention to our issues and work.

We are therefore at a moment of opportunity to make an even bigger difference in the year ahead. We plan to do that with our ‘Action, Voice, Power’ strategy – increasing our local action with new projects, raising up the voices of human experience through new campaigns, and working to ensure national and local government make new investments to reduce loneliness, and build connections across perceived divides.

ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGNS PLANS

That’s why we are looking for a Campaigns Lead to put rocket boosters under our systemic and cultural impact. Specifically, you will work with our CEO to develop and execute a cross-party, public-facing campaign coalition, which is already in development, to rally public and political support for a major government investment in building connection over the next generation; with our creative Programmes teams to enable local intergenerational activism in London, Liverpool, Manchester and other places to help build togetherness and change systems locally; and with our innovative Projects team to guide national campaigns like Intergenerational Week.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We are looking for someone who:

• Has significant and proven experience driving change at the national level – and knows how to build the campaign architecture, narratives, relationships, coalitions and media coverage to affect national policy change in Westminster.
• Is collaborative – and knows how to bring together and coordinate a coalition of organisations with their own distinct goals to create a coherent, powerful message that will achieve its goal.
• Knows how to mobilise people – through clear, actionable ‘asks’ of the public, online and offline, and by bringing our neighbours, teams, partners and politicians with them.
• Has the expertise to appraise data, create targeted emails and social media content that motivate people to take action, and tell beautiful stories that inspire change.

TO READ THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND FIND OUT HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT THE CARES FAMILY'S WEBSITE. 

Chapter, a Cheshire based mental health charity, is looking for an experienced and proven Grants Fundraiser to join its dedicated team.

Chapter promotes the mental health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and workplaces through the provision of education and training services that adopt preventative and/or therapeutic approaches.

With an exciting strategic plan in place and a solid track record of securing funding from grants over the last 30 years, we’re looking for someone able to capture the imagination of funders and secure the monies needed for our core costs as well as a range of new projects.

This post offers the flexibility of home-based working, however you will be required to work a minimum of one day a week based in our Ellesmere Port office. Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic the successful candidate may be required to work largely from home in line with Government guidelines.

We have a strong commitment to promote equality and equal opportunities. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental ill-health. 

Closing date for applications is Sunday 14th February 2021.

Interviews will be held Thursday 25th February 2021. Due to current Government guidelines, it is expected that initial interviews will take place virtually. 

OB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Operations Director Service Delivery

No of Posts: 1

Salary: £31,546- £34,999 plus Pension and Health Benefits

Status: Full Time, Substantive

Hours: 37.5 per week

Holidays: 26 days plus Bank Holidays per annum (increasing after 2 year’s service to max 31 days)

Based at: Wigan and Leigh

Responsible to: CEO

Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees

Closing Date: 12 noon, Friday 29th January 2021

Possible Interview days: 3rd and 4th February 2021

Please see full job specification attached

To Apply: Please enclose your CV along with a brief overview of why you feel you are perfect for this role in no more than 500 words

Please apply early as we reserve the right to bring forward or extend the deadline for applications, so please get your applications in as soon as possible

SUMMARY
The Brick is a growing Charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering a personal transitions service, unique to every person because every individual is at the heart of their own transition. This is an exciting opening for an exceptional leader to join the Charity in a role that will truly provide opportunities for people to make their own changes. Your role will be to enhance, integrate and develop all aspects of personal transitions services within the Charity. You will need to be as committed as we are to equip people from diverse backgrounds for self-sustaining and independent living. You will have an understanding about the need to ensure people have a safe, nurturing environment to thrive in, which is the first step into transition.

To be successful, you will be a person who has
• high integrity,
• commitment to organisational development, and good governance,
• excellent communication skills
• the ability to work at pace in a complex context,
• the ability to work in a team in a practical, flexible and cooperative way
• passionate about people having a right to choice
• passionate about an asset based approach to all service delivery
• a thorough background and knowledge surrounding safeguarding
• robust and in depth experience in complex issues which may prevent people from transitioning

This role can be based at any of our 9 offices; Croydon, Central London, Brent, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Rotherham, Liverpool or Newcastle.

About us
Crisis is the UK’s national homelessness charity. We work side-by-side with people to help them rebuild their lives. Through decades of experience of working with people who are homeless, we know what’s needed to leave homelessness behind for good. We use this experience to shape the services we provide and the changes we campaign for. 

The News and Media team play a central role in building Crisis’ public profile, awareness of our year-round services and securing the changes we need to ensure everyone has a safe and stable place to call home. We tell compelling stories of people who’ve experienced homelessness, support our fundraising efforts on a national and regional level and highlight our work at Christmas and throughout the year in new and creative ways. 

About the role
As Crisis’ Senior Media Officer specialising in services, engagement and fundraising, you will play a key role helping us plan and deliver creative media campaigns that bring our work to life, demonstrating how we end peoples’ homelessness for good through education, training and support with housing, employment and health. You will also help raise the profile of our range of fundraising events, campaigns and corporate partnerships with key target audiences.  

Your role will be stimulating and varied. You’ll work with our frontline staff to identify people facing homelessness who want to share their stories and empower them to do so. You’ll also work alongside our Artist Liaison Manager to devise creative ways for our high-profile supporters and ambassadors to engage with the cause publicly and play a crucial role in some of our biggest organisational campaigns, like our annual Christmas campaign. You will also help make the most of reactive opportunities that come through to our press office and help build relationships with key journalists. 

About you
You’ll be a skilled communicator with experience of working within a busy press office environment/PR agency or as a journalist. 
You’ll have a track record of delivering high-profile, integrated media strategies that secure quality coverage in national, regional and consumer outlets. 
A passion for writing, and experience of working with and interviewing case studies, will mean you know how to tell a compelling story that will capture the attention of journalists and build public support for our goal of ending homelessness for good.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8% 
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Wednesday 27th January 2021 
Interviews will be held from w/c 8th February

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Can you help us make Wales a great place to grow older? For most people, making their own decisions and choices is a matter of considerable importance. Being part of decision-making processes is not only where self-identity is expressed but it is also an important aspect of personal freedom. This principle is at the heart of advocacy services for people living with dementia.
Age Cymru are recruiting for a full-time Dementia Advocate promote and deliver independent advocacy to people with dementia or their carers in the Wrexham and Flintshire area. During the current Covid-19 pandemic all Age Cymru staff will be working from home until it is safe to work from an office base and in line with Welsh Government Guidance.

This post is a fixed term contract ending 31/03/22 working full time - 35 hours per week. The office base is Flint but the post covers Wrexham and Flintshire.

All applications MUST be accompanied by a full supporting letter, stating your transferrable skills and experience and why you would like to work for Age Cymru, supporting older people with dementia.

You will:

* Have experience and working knowledge of advocacy (instructed and non-instructed)
* Undertaken individual casework
* Have worked with others on successful projects and services (including statutory and voluntary organisations)
* Have an understanding of dementia and the rights of people with dementia and their carers
* Have an awareness of safeguarding legislation and procedures in Wales
* Use creative communication strategies for facilitating communication with people with dementia
* Be highly organised, positive and outgoing
* Be proficient in all MS office packages, including Excel and Powerpoint
* Be confident delivering promotional and awareness raising sessions
* Speak Welsh (desirable but not essential)

What we offer in return:

In return we can offer a generous holiday allowance of 27 days, made up of 24 choice days and 3 days to be used between Christmas & New Year - Including carry forward, Flexible Hours Working Scheme, Competitive Employer pension, Life assurance up to 4 times your annual salary, Healthcare cashback plan.

Additional Information

Age UK and Age Cymru is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.
Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are currently looking to add a proactive, dedicated Support Coordinator to join our Whitfield Lodge service in St Helens.

We are looking for an experienced practitioner to work with people with learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs at Whitfield Lodge based in St Helens. The ideal candidate will be a warm, organised, caring and flexible individual and able to provide practical and emotional support to staff and service users. You will be responsible for promoting independence of service users by working in a person-centred way, conducting risk and support assessments and supporting the supervision of staff and service coordination.  You will ensure effective management of rotas and staff allocations to meet individual needs in a large service.

Support Coordinator Duties:

• Providing practical and emotional support to people with learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs

• Collaborating with service users, families and involved professionals to provide a consistent and coordinated service

• Assisting the operational management of one service, which is a supported accomoodation.

• Coordinate and deploy staff resources efficiently to meet the needs of the service

• Flexible to work hours according to the needs of the service, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

Whitfield Lodge based in St Helens is only 22 minute bus journey from the centre of St Helens and a short walk from Lea Green train station.

At least 2 years’ experience of working with people with learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs is essential for this role as well as excellent excel knowledge and good computer skills. Managerial experience is desired but not essential. You will have achieved a higher professional qualification – NVQ 3/4 Health and Social Care or equivalent.

You will be based at this service and have a flexible approach to work and have access to a car and a clean driving licence.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

• Free 24/7 counselling and employee support programme,

• Support to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate,

• Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 28 days annual leave,

• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff,

• All our staff are supported 24/7 by our out of hour’s teams.