35 hours per week
Based in Birmingham
Job Ref: 963

We are currently recruiting for Lead Workers for our Housing Support Teams.

Our Housing Support Lead Worker Service provides housing-related support for Vulnerable Families in temporary accommodation, Single Adults and Couples & Survivors of Domestic Abuse. We support people to prevent the loss of their accommodation if it is at risk, or help them find/settle into suitable alternative accommodation. We also work with key strategic partners to help address other social related issues, such as benefit/welfare reform processes, helping to maximise people’s incomes, signposting to relevant primary and secondary health care services and more.

As Lead Worker, you will be expected to:

• Be motivated, committed and confident at liaising with other professionals.
• Be able to work autonomously, and as part of a team.
• Possess some understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people and the difficulties they experience in accessing services.
• Have the ability to empower individuals to make positive changes and a willingness to develop these valuable skills.
• Effectively manage your own caseloads and time.
• Provide individual, tailored support, in accordance with the agreed support plan.
• Assess and manage risk.
• Maintain accurate records.
• Understand the importance of maintaining professional boundaries.
• Ensure safeguarding protocols are followed.

You will be part of a team reporting to a Team Leader and Service Manager. We will provide a supportive work environment and appropriate IT equipment, including a smart phone and laptop. You will have the freedom to manage your caseload as you see fit, supporting your service users to achieve the best outcomes for them. Working collaboratively with your colleagues and other agencies, you will receive regular supervision from your Team Leader who will be there to support and encourage you.

To download an application pack, visit our website via the apply link.

Unfortunately, we are unable to accept CVs.

Closing date: Rolling Recruitment

Interviews: TBC  

We are an inclusive employer, committed to promoting equality and diversity in all areas of our work

Registered Charity

No. 1061582.

We are recruiting a full time (35 hrs per week) Key Worker to lead on a new and exciting project working with people who’ve experienced homelessness and have been involved with the criminal justice system. The projects aim is to develop best practice, improve the local response and involve people with lived experience to create a service user led forum. The post holder will work with a small caseload of service users providing support to help them identify their strengths, goals, and aspirations.

NO CV'S, FULL APPLICATION PACK MUST BE COMPLETED.

Safe Haven Practitioner– Worcestershire 

1 x 14hrs per week (£11.17 per hour) 

Can you offer you a listening ear, support, and information to help others manage through the difficult times?

The Safe Haven is based in Redditch town centre and provides emotional support to individuals who are experiencing high levels of mental health distress. Support is delivered both over the phone and face-to-face so practitioners must have the skills and ability to switch between both methods.

In addition to providing that safe space to talk, we work with callers to create wellness plans that support them to identify triggers and coping mechanisms. We also provide tailored signposting information and onwards referrals where appropriate.

The Safe Haven operates Monday – Friday 6pm – 1am, Sat – Sun 9am – 1am 365 days of the year. Shifts are worked on a rota basis across the 7 days of the week. These two posts are to be worked 6pm-1am.

Further information about the Safe Haven can be found on our website.

Interviews are being arranged as suitable applications are received.

Previous applicants need not reapply.

The next step:

If you feel this position is right for you please complete the Application Form and Equality and Monitoring Form. 

BBO Progress Coach
37 hours per week
Salary £21,743. per annum  
Location: Bedworth (with travel around Coventry and Warwickshire)

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who has proven work experience with a range of unemployed young people and adults in a targeted environment.

This role involves working in a target driven environment so it is essential you can manage your time and prioritise your workload effectively in order to meet given targets.

As part of this role you will:

• Seek out employment opportunities at new and existing sites of employment;
• Identify and deal with complex customer barriers to employment;
• Identify training and ‘route ways’ to employment;
• Support and manage a caseload of customers;
• Engage customers in activities and help them progress into sustainable employment;
• Establish and maintain relationships with individuals referred, undertaking interviews, compiling CV’s, support with applications forms etc;
• Deliver relevant accredited and non-accredited training as required;
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with partner organisations, employers and funding bodies;
• Maintain accurate and up to date records;
• Report regularly to your line manager on your performance.

You must have proven experience of developing productive relationships with partners and external agencies and are able to provide high quality employability focused assessment.

This role will require regular travel across the region so you must have a full driving licence and access to your own vehicle.

Closing date: 26th February 2021

An Enhanced DBS check will be carried out for this post.

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the job description and application. 

At Groundwork West Midlands we pride ourselves in being a family friendly organisation and offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, a health cash plan scheme, a generous workplace pension and free refreshments. We are committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce.

This post is funded through the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund Charity No. 1128858.

No agencies please. 

Context of role

Citizens Advice Birmingham is partnered with Macmillan Cancer Support to deliver Welfare Benefit Advice across Birmingham and Solihull.

We are looking for enthusiastic caseworkers who will join an existing team to ensure delivery of service specifications, targets and quality standards for the Macmillan Service.

"Under normal circumstances your place of work will be our City Centre Birmingham Office with attendance at outreach locations in the Birmingham and Solihull areas. At present your duties will be undertaken mainly via home working due to government advice."

Annual Leave: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays pro rata per annum from 1st January to 31st December. This rises to 30 days pro rata over the next 5 years

Role purpose

The Welfare Benefit caseworkers will provide a high quality advice service for people affected by cancer.

The post holders will provide this service in hospital settings across Birmingham and Solihull. Delivery will be integrated with cancer care teams to provide seamless referral pathways that complement the assessment and care planning process of patients. 

You will undertake casework, assisting clients to access their entitlement to welfare benefits and other sources of financial help, up to and including tribunal representation. The post holder will also attend events to promote the service and provide support and training to volunteers and health care professionals.

For a job pack visit our website via the apply button. 

CV’s not accepted.

Closing Date: Monday 8th March 2021 at midday

Assessment Date: TBC

Interview Date: TBC

Independent Advocacy is an organisation whose vision is to “Empower People to Live Fulfilling Lives”.

We are looking for an individual who shares our passion to give vulnerable people a voice in expressing the outcomes they wish to achieve in their daily life. 

We now have the following exciting opportunity:

Independent Peer Advocate, 37 hours maternity cover until 30th July 2021 and then 22.5 hours permanent post.

Starting Salary:

Unqualified - Tier 6 - Scale SCP 12, Salary £21,589 (FTE) (prorated to hours contracted), rising to £23,836 upon qualification

Qualified - Tier 5 - Scale SCP 17, Salary £23,836 (FTE) (prorated to hours contracted)

37 hours per week

Location: Working from home with travel throughout Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire*

As an Independent Peer Advocate, you will undertake a variety of work across different areas of advocacy. This will include supporting clients at meetings in hospitals and in the community. You will hold your own caseload as part of an experienced team of advocates and contribute to the development of our services.

This role is for someone who has used mental health services.

Interested?

To obtain an application form, including full role descriptions and person specifications, please download an application pack from our website.  

Please note:

CVs will not be accepted.

The closing date for applications is Monday 1st March 2021

Shortlisting will take place on Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Interviews for the post will be held via video conference on Monday 8th March 2021

These roles are subject to a Disclosure and Barring check.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to equality of opportunity as an employer. 

*Due to Covid 19 most of our meetings are being delivered remotely currently, for example via video conferencing.

Independent Advocacy is the trading name of Warwickshire Independent Advocacy Alliance

Registered Charity No. 1082961, Company Limited by Guarantee No. 3942462.

You have experience of delivering training products and working with young people, or in a youth setting.  All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Aquarius as a Trainer.

Aquarius work closely with individuals, families and friends to lessen the impact caused by alcohol, drugs and gambling, while GamCare is the leading provider of support for anyone affected by problem gambling in Great Britain. And, right now, we’re working in partnership and looking for a self-motivated individual with a genuine interest in working with young people and making positive change in a community to join us. Your challenge?

To engage young people and youth-facing professionals in your region on the topic of problem gambling and harm prevention through the promotion, arrangement and delivery of GamCare’s young people’s workshops and staff training sessions.

A great opportunity to contribute to an enthusiastic local and national team of training facilitators working across the country, you’ll need a proven background in a training related role. You’ll also need experience of promoting services, championing training programmes and engaging specific audiences. The ability to take a non-judgmental approach to gambling, problem gambling and problem gamblers is essential too, as are excellent facilitation, public speaking and presentation skills. A proven self-starter, you have a flair for developing, assessing and evaluating different project options and the presence to act as ambassador for the programme across different settings and stakeholders. A youth work or training qualification and/or an understanding of problem gambling, while useful, are not essential.

This is a full-time role offered at 37 hours per week.

The salary for this role is £20,015.00 per annum with potential progression up to £23,420.00 per annum.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.

Closing Date for applications is 25th February 20201. (We reserve the right to close vacancies before the specified closing date, should a large number of applications be received).

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits? Apply now via our website. 

Aquarius is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

Support Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to join the service in Sandwell. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and well organised individual to join the team in leading and delivering a Stroke Recovery Service across the region.

Position: Stroke Association Support Coordinator

Location: Home based, Sandwell with extensive travel across the area

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £23,100 per annum

Contract: Our services are contracted; we currently have funding for this contract until 30 June 2021.

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, season ticket loan, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 12 March 2021

Interview Date: 26 March 2021

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application

The Role

Reporting to the Stroke Association Support Manager, the Stroke Association Support Coordinator will work with the local Health and Social Care services to receive referrals and support stroke survivors and their carers. You’ll provide personalised information, advice and support with regular reviews throughout.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with the local Health and Social services to receive referrals to support stroke survivors and their careers
• Providing personalised information, advice and support
• Completing Needs Assessments with stroke survivors and supporting them to develop a stroke recovery plan
• Providing regular reviews to support people in establishing and achieving their own personal goals

About You

As Support Coordinator you will:

• Have a background in a caring and/or charity profession supporting people with disabilities.
• Be able to demonstrate previous experience of working collaboratively with other organisations to achieve joint ambitions.
• Have experience being solely responsible for the delivery of a project or service.
• Have the ability to use basic Microsoft system.

This role is home based, but extensive travel is required across the local area and occasionally further afield.

The use of a car with business use cover and the ability to drive is essential to be able to fulfil the requirements of the role.

You will be asked to submit your CV and a Covering Letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice.

Registered Residential Care Home Manager / Mental Health

Location: Bartley Green, Birmingham

Salary: £30,191 plus additional on- call allowance and sleep in allowance.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

 

Are you a natural leader, able to facilitate recovery activities, passionate about mental health and able to motivate others?

Do you have an interest in working with those who experience mental health distress who are living in a Residential Care Home?

Our client is a leading provider of mental health services in Birmingham and the West Midlands.  They are currently looking for an experienced Residential Care Home Manager to join their forward thinking and innovative team.

At their registered residential care home in Bartley Green, our client provides a high level of support for up to seven adults who are experiencing mental health problems. Here they support people who have more complex mental health needs, including people with dual diagnoses.

In this post, you will be responsible for the day to day management of the Registered Care Home, in line with the standards set by the Care Quality Commission, and our client’s funders.

You will ensure that the appropriate level of provision of services to service users is maintained. Leading a skilled team, you will take responsibility for the assessment of peoples’ skills, needs and wishes, and the coordination of support packages, with the twin objectives of creating conditions conducive to recovery, and improving service user’s ability to lead an ordinary life and to be part of their community.

The successful candidate will have previous management / supervisory experience in the care field and an NVQ Level 3 in Care and an equivalent Management qualification.  You must be committed to recovery based practice and able to demonstrate a positive and enabling attitude towards people recovering from severe mental distress.

If you wish to apply please provide a detailed explanation of how you feel that you meet each of the values, attributes and experience required for these positions.

Benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, Paycare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme which includes free counselling and a comprehensive training programme.

Our client’s people are key to the success of the organisation and they are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. They welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

 

The closing date for applications is 21st February 2021 

Interviews will take place on 2nd and 5th March 2021

Do you have experience working within a domestic abuse setting? Do you have experience delivering psycho-social interventions with vulnerable people who have complex mental health needs?

Drive Project is service providing intensive intervention with high-harm and serial domestic abuse perpetrators to challenge behaviour, to disrupt and prevent abuse. Right now we are looking for someone new to join us in a new role – this is a chance to make a real difference.

The Specialist Case Manager (domestic abuse with mental health specialism) is an integral role providing one-to-one mental health interventions to support the service user to embark on their recovery journey, and to then safely introduce domestic abuse intervention alongside ongoing mental health support to meet the dual need. You will also offer advice to other Case Managers from your area of specialism in mental health.

You must have experience delivering mental health interventions, not just triaging. Experience working within a Mental Health Team or other frontline mental health service is desired.

You will receive 12 days High Harm Domestic Abuse training and an opportunity to complete an OCN qualification, fully funded by Drive Project, if in post before the training dates (April and May).

This is an exciting and innovative role that will provide an enhanced level of case intervention to overcome barriers to engagement so that we can meet dual needs and improve victim and child safety and welfare through working in an integrative approach with perpetrators. The Specialist Case Manager role is a new role, created in response to identified need. As such, this opportunity will offer the successful candidate a chance to be involved in developing this post and assessing how it supports the delivery of the Drive Project model.

If you have delivered mental health support and domestic abuse support and want to join a growing and developing project to improve the lives of vulnerable persons apply now by submitting your CV and Supporting Statement – you may not be considered without attaching both of these documents. Previous applicants need not apply.

This is a full time post for 37.5 hours per week.

This is a fixed term post until 31st December 2021, with potential for a permanent position to follow.

The salary for this post is £26,639 per annum, pro rata.

This is a rolling recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply.

So, get inspired today and visit our website and take the first steps towards a more fulfilling career.

Apply now via our website.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

Barnardo's National Counter Trafficking Service encompasses four distinct services operating in various geographical areas across England and Wales. This includes the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Servicae (ICTG Service). The ICTG Service is expanding and developing in 2021/2022 and we are pleased to announce some exciting opportunities to join a passionate and experienced national team. We are advertising various different and varied roles working with children and young people and/or with professionals that work directly with children.

Would you like to make a difference in children's' lives, be part of our dynamic team and embark on a learning journey with a service that is passionate about seeing positive change in the fight against trafficking and modern slavery in the UK?

This role is an Independent Child Trafficking Guardian.

Purpose:

Guardians work in the best interests of children to be an independent source of advice for children who have been trafficked, to speak up on their behalf and help them orientate around social welfare, immigration and criminal justice systems.

Posts Available:

* Midlands - covering East and West Midlands, Gloucestershire, Bedfordshire and Bristol
* Wales
* London - covering all London boroughs
* South - covering Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Kent, Surrey and Essex
* North - covering Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, West and North Yorkshire

Location of Post : Home Based with extensive travel around the regions

Independent Child Trafficking Guardians work to...

* Support children through direct work; enabling them to navigate complex systems, such as social care, immigration and criminal justice as well as health and education
* Support professionals in identification and appropriate safeguarding of children and young people who have experienced exploitation including knowledge around the NRM.
* Act as an independent advocate working at all times in the child's best interest and promoting their well-being.
* Build relationships of trust with children and support them and the professionals working with them to keep them safe and reduce the risk of missing and re-trafficking.
* Ensure that every child in the service has been referred into the National Referral Mechanism.
* Assist (where appropriate) in enabling the child to obtain legal or other advice, assistance and representation, including (where necessary) by appointing and instructing legal representatives to act on the child's behalf.
* Enable children to safely access education, training and growth opportunities.
* Support children to engage in therapeutic direct work sessions to promote their recovery and social and emotional literacy.