Receptionist Jobs in Milton Keynes
HMP Bullingdon, Oxfordshire
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Are you a dynamic and collaborative individual who wants to support people entering prison to gain the skills and tools to develop their emotional resilience? Looking for an exciting and highly rewarding new career opportunity?
If so, join St Giles as our Settling in Facilitator, where you will provide vital classroom sessions on emotional resilience to all new prison receptions and deliver tailored one-to-one support to people in prison who are not able to access the classroom sessions.
About St Giles
St Giles is an award-winning social justice charity using expertise and real-life past experiences to empower people who are not getting the help they need. People held back by poverty, exploited, abused, dealing with addiction or mental health problems, caught up in crime or a combination of these issues and others. We show people there is a way to build a better future for themselves and those they care about and help them create this through support, advice, and training. Our peer-led services form the backbone of our work, putting people with lived experience at the centre of delivery, design, and evaluation of support and services across the UK.
About this key role
As a Settling in Facilitator, you will be embedded within a prison-based setting and provide a quality service to people first entering prison. We will count on you to prepare, plan, and deliver the emotional resilience interactive sessions to individuals in prison, ensuring all sessions are appropriate and contextualised to reflect the local needs of the prison and its changing population and utilising expertise around lived experience and local knowledge to empower people in prison.
You will also be expected to deliver additional tailored sessions to individuals who are unable to attend the group sessions or require additional support and to use a trauma-informed approach to build trust and create a safe space for people in prison to explore challenging and potentially traumatic issues and topics.
What we are looking for
• Personal experience of the social care system; criminal justice system; or lived experience of the issues facing this client group. However, we also encourage applications from those without lived experience.
• The ability to build positive relationships with people in prison and be comfortable and confident working in the prison environment.
• A professionally competent approach and confidence facilitating group sessions, as well as being able to tailor the support given to meet the needs of people in prison.
• An invested interest in supporting people in prison to develop healthy coping strategies.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written.
What we will do to support you in this role
We will provide the following resources to assist in the successful achievement of the responsibilities outlined above:
• A full induction.
• On-going and targeted learning and development will support and enable you to deliver the role to a high standard.
• Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, 4x Group Life Insurance, season ticket loan, eyecare scheme and much more.
Due to the nature of this role, we are looking for male applicants only. The Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1 applies to this post.
For further details on how to apply, click on the apply button.
Closing date: 02 June 2024 11:45pm.
We are actively reviewing applications week-to-week and encourage you to apply as soon possible.
As an equity and inclusive employer, we welcome all applications, but we would particularly welcome applications from Global Majority People (Black, Asian, Brown, Dual Heritage), those living with a disability, those from a neurodiverse group, or have another protected characteristic. We value the positive impact and diversity that your lived experience can bring to our organisation.
As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients. Successful applicants must therefore submit an Enhanced Adult Workforce with Adult Barred List DBS DBS Check. Prison vetting is also a requirement for the role.
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Trusts Fundraising Manager to join our dynamic fundraising team.
You will be responsible for overseeing and supporting with applications to our warm portfolio of charitable trusts as well as writing compelling bids to attract new funders. Working closely with the Trusts Fundraiser you will manage the reporting schedule and ensure excellent stewardship of funders through face to face meetings and annual receptions.
We would love to hear from you if you have existing grant management experience, or transferable skills, and are looking to be part of motivated, fun team which loves to succeed.
Applications for full time (37.5 hours) although 30 hours per week (0.80FTE) would be considered for the right candidate
We can offer:
- a supportive environment
- personal development
- flexible working
- opportunities to volunteer
- generous annual leave entitlement
- opportunity to sustain your pension matching contributions up to 7%
- employee assistance programme
- passionate team with quality at the heart of what we do.
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness and those who care for them, to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease of access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across West Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It’s important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.
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If successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.
Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
Our commitment to Equality and Diversity
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection processes and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
Interview Date: 8th or 13th May
Size: 101 - 500
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Facilities Assistant Manager
We’re looking for an experienced Facilities Assistant Manager to join World Vision, an important charity helping vulnerable children across the world.
Position: Facilities Assistant Manager
Location: Milton Keynes
Hours: Full-time - 36.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term for 5 months (1 May 2024 until 30 Sept 2024)
Salary: £30,874 per annum FTE + good range of benefits
Closing date: 19th April 2024
About the role:
As Facilities Assistant Manager, you will deliver the day-to-day provision of quality support services at World Vision UK, ensuring excellence and the best value to the organisation. You will ensure Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Compliance in our activities, training, and empowering colleagues as necessary. You will support remote workers and those at Hubs as per service standards. You will also provide full cover for the Central Services Manager in his/her absence (Operations and People).
The position is varied and interesting and, at any time during your working day you could be involved in duties from maintaining, checking, and receipting deliveries, ordering stock and stationery, managing meeting room and common area requirements, to supporting relationships with external users of our facilities and providing occasional admin support in respect of budgeting and invoice processing. You will also be expected to provide occasional reception cover. Overall, you will ensure that the support capacity you offer is well-organised, efficient, and delivered in a timely and professional way.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Ensure day-to-day activities pertaining to the building and building services including routine maintenance, fault reporting and rectification if appropriate, are carried out.
- Undertake reviews of key suppliers and contractors to ensure WV are getting the best value, negotiating terms where necessary and making recommendations to the Central Services Manager.
- Manage regular and ad hoc external contractors such as security, cleaning, and maintenance, including scope and timing of work, quality control and change requests, within our Safeguarding protocols.
- Monitor, review, and administer Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental systems to maintain and improve (through training, policy change and empowerment) our performance and to ensure all legal requirements are met. provide staff training and investigate accidents and incidents when required. providing regular reports.
Key skills required for this role:
· A level of education, or equivalent
· Good organisational and administrative skills. Track record of successful staff supervision/management.
· A practical, solution and service focused approach to problem solving. Knowing what can be done internally, and which contractors need to be brought in when.
· Good interpersonal skills with the ability to multi-task, manage contractors and respond positively to changing priorities.
· Communicates clearly and consistently to multiple audiences.
· Knowledge and experience of current FM best practices, Building Management, physical security etc.
· The ability to effect minor repairs within the building in an efficient manner.
About the organisation:
World Vision UK is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries. Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. As a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.
As a child-focused organisation, we are committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.
We are a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be requesting you to complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see: The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Please note we can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture, and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.
You may also have experience in areas such as: Facilities, Facilities Officer, Facilities Assistant, Facilities Manager, Facilities Executive, Facilities Coordinator, Facilities Admin, Facilities Administrator, Facilities Administration, Onsite Assistant, Estates, Estates Assistant, Estates Officer.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.