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Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.
Support Worker Responsibilities:
At Alzheimer’s Society, we are passionately committed to creating a dementia movement that inspires people to take action and unite against the UK’s biggest killer.
The Dementia Navigator provides a highly responsive, individualised information and signposting service to people with a diagnosis of dementia and their Carers. It can feel daunting, frightening and challenging to receive a diagnosis of dementia, the Alzheimer’s Society provides information, emotional support and guidance to help people plan for their future and come to terms with their feelings and live well.
This service is extended to support immediate carers and families who are referred to the service.
Support Worker Requirements:
We are looking for someone who has an NVQ level 3 (or equivalent) qualification with an understanding of dementia. Your ability to assess a person with dementia along with the understanding of the need for client confidentially is essential to providing a valuable and worthwhile service. To be successful in this role you will have excellent non-judgmental communication skills as well as strong organisational and time management skills in order to manage a large caseload effectively. Experience of record keeping and report writing is required as well as good IT skills.
About Alzheimer’s Society:
Alzheimer’s Society embraces diversity, inclusion and accessibility for all of our people. We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do.
Position: Dementia Navigator
Location: Bristol
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £20,363 - £21,603 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience)
Closing Date: 22 April 2021
Interview Date: 29 April 2021
You may have experience of the following: Dementia Navigator, Care Assistant, Caseworker, Special Needs Assistant, Social Worker, Social Care, Community Care, Helpline Coordinator, Volunteering Officer, Support Worker, Dementia Adviser, Mental Health, Dementia, etc.
Ref: 98303
How you'll make a difference.
Every day, our client's Adult Social Workers are making a real difference to vulnerable people in their community, helping and supporting them to live their lives in the way they want to.
Social Worker (Safeguarding) Responsibilities:
The work is with people who require social care services, their families, and carers to ensure independence in maintained as much as possible and outcomes are clear, monitored and reviewed. You will be working in a small, supportive, and friendly adult safeguarding team.
- Deliver genuine people-centred, strengths-based support, with a focus on what those they work with tell them will make the biggest difference to them. Using your creativity to deliver the best outcomes for local people.
- You will complete section 42 safeguarding enquires and risk assessments, ensuring to keep people at the centre of their safeguarding.
- Implement, review and monitor actions and outcomes outlines in line with individual care plan.
- Make changes and amendments as the needs of the individual change and evolve.
- Work in line with best practice legislation, policy and guidance to promote the wellbeing and dignity of service users.
- Make recommendations for the implementation of reablement equipment.
Social Worker (Safeguarding) Requirements:
- You must have a degree in Social Work with relevant registration to practice or be in the final year of your Social Work studies.
- You should also understand asset and strength-based approaches to adult social care.
- You will be a problem solver, confident about making important decisions, underpinned by a genuine passion to work collaboratively with people to meet their goals and aspirations.
- You’ll welcome challenge and embrace change.??
Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.
How a career with our client is different:
What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos. They are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well. They can plan their services to ensure teams have manageable caseloads and have effective supervision so feel supported to make decisions which are right for the people they work with.
They know their team work best when they have balance in their lives and they offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance
They invest in the careers of their people and they are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of their training and development offer, which helps their people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all their staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
They recognise that their diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make them a great place to work. They welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Location: Yate, Gloucestershire
Salary: £29,577 to £32,234
Type: Full time, Permanent
You may have experience of the following: Qualified Social Worker, Social Work, Social Care, Young Peoples Social Worker, Child Development, Child Protection, Safeguarding, Local Authority, Local Government, Public Sector, etc.
Ref: 98307
Due to internal progression, our Local & Community Empowerment team are seeking to recruit a Project Worker to support a range of community groups, local authorities, town and parish councils, and voluntary sector organisations to take action on energy.
This is a job for an individual with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, and a passion for inclusive community-based action.
CSE is a Bristol-based national charity (#298740) founded in 1979 that helps people and organisations address the climate emergency and end the... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Do you have a good understanding of child development and the needs of homeless families and children plus proven experience of supporting parents and children with complex needs? Then join Shelter as a Children & Families Support Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role aimed at minimising the impact of bad housing, homelessness and exclusion in the Bristol area.
About Shelter
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.
At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
About the team
Our thriving Hub in Bristol is a place where people can access a range of advice and support provision. Integrated with our services we also undertake community organising; challenging the systemic barriers preventing access to housing and a home. The aim is to empower clients to make decisions and take action for themselves by providing advice, referrals and signposting, advocacy and practical support. There are currently around 16 people working in the Hub across services that include Legal, Advice Support DIY Skills Advice and volunteers. You could soon be joining them.
About the role
As a Support Worker we’ll rely on you to deliver professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focused support for a caseload of families. You’ll also act as a key worker and help families either resettle or prevent homelessness. Your primary focus will be on households where some tailored interventions are required around the needs of the children in order to stabilise their housing situation and enable the family to thrive. Accordingly, you’ll need to provide intensive, tailored support as part of a whole family approach in a 1-2-1 setting and via group work. On any given day you could be advising on techniques and approaches to ease pressures on vulnerable families or advocating on behalf of a family so that they’re able to access support that meets their needs. Along the way, you’ll need to regularly visits clients’ homes and schools across the city and liaise with other agencies in the community in order to provide a co-ordinated service.
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.
About you
We believe that people with lived experience are often best placed to use this to shape the way they work with the people who use our services. Therefore, we would specifically like to hear from people with personal experience of homelessness. If you are also familiar with housing, homelessness and ASB legislation and welfare benefits that affect families, that would be great, but we are more interested in your ability to work with families and children, who are sometimes in great distress due to their circumstances. You’ll need to be able to demonstrate that you have worked within, or understand, a safeguarding framework, that you can balance competing priorities and that you are proactive in the way that you work.
You’ll need to be able to use a range of IT tools to carry out your work, including case management systems, Microsoft Office applications, internet and email etc., and be able to type. You must also possess a valid driving licence and be willing to use your vehicle for work purposes, for which an essential car allowance will be paid.
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.
Please note that due to the nature of the work, this post is exempt from the provisions of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 by virtue of The Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exemptions) Order 1975.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
POST 1 + 2 - 2 x Maternity posts. Both starting July 2021, 1 year fixed term contract. Either 4 day/week each or 1 FT and 1 x three day/week.
POST 3 - 1 x FT post, part time hours considered.
2 year fixed term contract.
CCS Adoption is a Voluntary Adoption Agency and registered charity. Continuously Rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted (for over 10 years), we find permanent, loving homes for children who are waiting to be adopted. We also offer a wide range of post-adoption support services for adoptive families in the region through The Centre for Adoption Support & Education. We are committed to maintaining this high level of performance and developing further the innovative services we provide for children and adoptive families.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 maternity cover posts and a 2 year fixed term contract as an Adoption Social Worker at CCS. The posts are based in our Bristol office, covering Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bath, Bristol, Swindon and South Wales.
The post holder will ideally be 3 years qualified Social Worker preferably with adoption experience, who will be undertaking adoption assessment and making and supporting placements as well as contributing to all aspects of the Agency’s adoption service. This will include recruitment activities, family finding, Post adoption Support, assisting on training.
Opportunity for creativity and innovative practice is encouraged and welcomed.
We provide a range of generous staff benefits:
25 annual leave days (On a Full Time basis), statutory bank holidays plus additional 2 days over Easter, an additional day in May and the office is closed between Christmas and New Year. As an employer we take the Well-being of our staff seriously, we also provide access to the Cycle to Work, Eye care schemes and an Employee Assistance Programme.
CCS is an equal opportunities employer and is keen to receive applications from individuals representing all demographics of society and would particularly welcome applications from individuals from BAME & LGBTQIA+ communities.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a full time Casework Administrator to join the Wales Region at SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity.
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, supports the person behind the uniform; any time they need us, in any way they need us, for as long as they need us. Every year, SSAFA helps more than 82,000 people from the Forces family to get back on their feet: those currently serving, reserves, veterans, and their families. Support is there for people at any stage in their military career; from the youngest recruit to the oldest veteran – no one’s service is ever forgotten. We give hope, help and personal support for as long as it takes to get that person’s life back to where they want it to be.
About the role
You will be providing specialist administrative support, working closely with branch volunteers in order to ensure a consistent, timely, quality service is provided to SSAFA beneficiaries. This will include supporting volunteer caseworkers, call handling, signposting, and triaging initial enquiries. The post is home-based, but you will need to be able to travel around South Wales once COVID restrictions are lifted.
Please wait until the job offer stage before asking about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible for the role.
About the team
In this new role you will initially be working closely with volunteers from SSAFA branches in South Wales, supporting them to administer casework for SSAFA beneficiaries. As the role develops, we anticipate that the successful candidate will work as part of a larger support team in the future All Wales Regional Office.
About you
To carry out this role successfully you will have a track record of:
- Providing excellent customer service by phone, e-mail, and face to face.
- Using Microsoft Office 365 to a high standard.
- Planning and managing your own workload with minimal supervision.
- Recruiting and supporting volunteers.
- Understanding of the way of life for today’s Armed Forces, veterans, and their families.
- Understand the voluntary sector and preferably the military charity sector landscape in Wales.
SSAFA is an employer that values the diversity of its workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
No agencies please. Any unsolicited submissions from agencies will be accepted as a direct application from the candidate and no fees will be payable.
Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 25th April 2021
Interviews: Tuesday 4th May 2021
SSAFA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to using the Disclosure & Barring Service.