Community Coordinator

ECHO is seeking a new community-building superstar to join our small but hardworking charity supporting children and young people with heart conditions and their families.

You will play a major role in developing a new community forum on the ECHO website, reaching out to families and professionals across the paediatric cardiology community.

You will act as a link between parents, medical professionals and information providers and be of assistance to them all.

The day-to-day job of Community Coordinator will be to build and improve the way parents/carers can ask questions, find information, and get support from the moment of diagnosis right through to adulthood.

This job will suit someone who wants to make a difference to families, someone who understands the value of high quality and reliable information and someone who can take the time to make someone else smile.

The Job Description gives you an idea of what we are looking for - what we would love is someone who can bring ideas and see them through to delivery on a small budget and in a small team. Someone who values volunteers and who can get things done.

Setting up a new online forum might not be easy, we have some technical support, but you will work with volunteers and partners to get it working and moderated safely, within necessary guidelines and policies. When monitoring and replying to forum posts, you will need to be knowledgeable and professional in your signposting ability.

Much of your work will be online but some will be face to face meeting parents, children, doctors, psychologists, administrators, and charity professionals - you will need to be open-minded and have a positive attitude.

Supporting families as they experience their heart journey can be tough; we support you with a fun and friendly team, regular wellbeing activities and monthly external supervision. As a thank you we gift staff some extra holiday days, and we encourage personal development and training.

We are a small team, there may at times be a need for help with a children’s party, a fundraising letter to a company or presenting to a medical team about the work we do. Our work is based mainly from the ECHO office, but we are flexible and ad-hoc travel to events and activities will be necessary.

ECHO seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious belief, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. ECHO welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK. ECHO will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job function if appointed to the role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week.

Salary: £27,000 (pro-rata)

Contract: 12 months (potential to extend, based on funding)

Application process: through Charity Job website only

Closing date: 10am Friday 14th May

Interviews: 8/9th June 2021

Our vision is that every young person has the resources they need to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

Are you passionate about transforming the lives of vulnerable or disadvantaged young people?

We have supported vulnerable young people aged 16-25 years old in Gloucestershire for the past 18 years.

Our purpose is to be there for and respond to vulnerable young people when they need us most. Offering emergency accommodation in the homes of trained and committed volunteers and developing wrap around services to adress need.

You will be joinning at an exciting timne of development.

The Islington BAMER Advice Alliance (IBAA) is a refugee and migrant-led partnership organisation at the forefront of delivering Advice and support services to BAMER Communities in Islington.  The IBAA is passionate about the values of gender equality, cultural diversity, community leadership and creating a step change towards more inclusive services for refugee and migrant clients. 

We are looking for an energetic, dedicated and organised Advice Services Co-ordinator who is highly passionate in working with BAMER organisations and other mainstream organisations.

We are looking for an experienced link worker to take on this exciting new role that will design and pilot a joint programme between Manor Gardens and selected elements of universal services in Islington to achieve equality of access for all families, regardless of language, culture or abilities. The focus will be on building bridges and development of best practice with professionals working in maternity and early years services.

You will form a vital part of our Starting Well team which works with mums, dads, carers and families during the first 1,001 days of their baby’s lives and beyond, supporting mental and physical health and wellbeing, relationships and development, and the resilience, self-esteem and confidence of new families.

Much of our work is done bilingually within our local communities, providing support to those that experience barriers and difficulties in accessing support and services, in particular those from refugee and migrant communities.

This role will help us promote a better understanding of cultural barriers and ensure universal services are better informed and trained around best practice in this area.

Ideally candidates will have either a good working knowledge of Early Years services within Islington or a good understanding of communities and barriers in maternity.

Closing date for applications: 13th May (Midday) 

Interviews: TBC

For a recruitment pack please click apply to visit our website.

Manor Gardens Welfare Trust is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities with which we work. We value our staff greatly, and respect and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months

At Thames Reach we are committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards of effectiveness in delivering services to vulnerable people.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new project funded by the GLA’s Immigration Advice for Rough Sleepers Fund (IARSF).

We are recruiting a lead immigration navigator to support people sleeping rough in London to prove or obtain secure immigration status and enable them to positively move-on from the streets or temporary emergency accommodation.

You will:

• Work with existing Pan London Thames Reach services to identify eligible clients
• Contact and support vulnerable migrant clients living in London
• Identify and work closely with immigration lawyers and law centres across London
• Learn and understand the Government’s digital application process to support clients with applications for the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Support people to prove or obtain UK immigration status
• Record support delivered and outcomes achieved

As Lead Worker you will have:

• The ability to provide a flexible and responsive service to meet the needs of rough sleepers across London.
• Excellent planning and organization skills
• Excellent communication and creative problem solving skills and be able to create options for people where these may be hard to find.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and commitment to work with rough sleepers.
• The flexibility to work some late and early shifts and weekends if required.
• The enthusiasm and ability to manage a case load of clients and be outcome focused.
• The ability to carry out assessments and oversee a multi-agency problem solving approach with people who may have a history of challenging behaviour.
• An ability to work both autonomously and within the team; ensure health and safety requirements are followed and manage risk to ensure the safety of all parties involved.

The working hours:  37.5 hours per week. Mostly regular office hours Monday-Friday with some hours outside of this as required. Your main  base of work will be our Hackney office in E2 with regular travel to a number of Pan London Thames Reach’s projects.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:

• 6.5% employer pension contribution.
• Development opportunities
• 29 days annual leave plus bank holiday
• Reimbursement of the cost of annual  eye test
• Season ticket/cycle loan
• Flexible Working
• EAP services

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Working within local communities across Oxfordshire you will be joining our successful Community Information Network Team as we work to further improve access to information, support, activities and opportunities for all those with a health, care or support need. You will be working with individuals, families and groups both in the community and in their own homes. In addition you will be working closely with local GP surgeries to provide the new social prescribing element into the support they offer to their patients. You will also have the opportunity to join our hospital discharge support team working across various settings including the John Radcliffe, Horton Hospital and community hospitals. We work with local communities to further build upon and support what is being offered as well as working with individuals and their families to connect them with the support and opportunities that exist. We are passionate about supporting and empowering people so that they can maintain their independence, health, wellbeing and ‘live life to the full’

Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN) and Citizens Advice Wandsworth (CAW) work in partnership to deliver the Help Through Hardship Crisis Project. This award-winning project has been funded by the National Lottery Community Fund since 2016, three years’ continuation funding has now been agreed from 2020 to 2023.

As part of this project CAW and WCEN have developed an Advice First Aid training programme which provides a two-day course for community and faith groups, alongside voluntary sector and statutory agencies. The sessions provide an introduction to key advice issues; how to spot problems, and signpost and refer people to local services for support. Following the training programme participants are encouraged to use their new skills within their community setting. This exciting new role will support community and faith groups to do this.

We are recruiting an Advice First Aid Community Worker to support key community and faith partners to co-produce Advice First Aid delivery within their community setting. When Covid-19 allows, the postholder will be based mainly in community settings and the WCEN offices, and 1 days a week based at CAW offices and training as a telephone assessor.

Role purpose:

1. To co-produce Advice First Aid sessions with a variety of community and faith groups
2. To develop a model of Advice First Aid in Community settings
3. To provide capacity building support to the Advice First Aid partners to enable them to effectively implement Advice First Aid, make appropriate referrals to CAW, and monitor and report on their work
4. To support Advice First Aid partners to develop as a network, sharing experience, learning and best practice
5. To provide the key link between Citizens Advice Wandsworth, WCEN and the Advice First Aid partners

Justlife Brighton are excited to announce a new role within our team of Engagement Workers. This role will mainly be based in the community with some work based at the Royal Sussex hospital, identifying rough sleepers attending A & E and support them to engage with services such as street outreach services, rough sleeper accommodation providers and Arch Healthcare, the homeless GP surgery. This role will play a key role in reducing the number of rough sleepers attending A & E.

The role is a 1 year contract (based on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government current funding) for 12 months, with the possibility of extended funding. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join this team who has experience working with a similar client group, some understanding of the services for homeless people in Brighton & Hove and who demonstrates a commitment to our organisational values.

Job Summary: A & E Health Engagement Worker (Brighton) The A&E Health Engagement Worker will support a caseload of clients who regularly present at A & E. The support will be short to medium term, to ensure they have practical items needed such as clothes and food. This role will support and signpost clients towards accommodation, health providers and support clients to attend appointments, referring onto relevant services if needed.

The role requires the use of specialist knowledge and relationship skills to influence clients with varying degrees of mental health, addiction and trauma related issues to engage with health services. This will include advocacy in registering them for medical services and accompanying them to appointments; assisting them in addressing all aspects of physical and mental health or substance addiction needs, as well as advocating for them to get access to suitable housing, welfare benefits and practical supplies. Working collaboratively with our partners Arch Healthcare and street outreach services, the role is dependent on good communication and joint working with a variety of partners and professionals. The role requires a high degree of motivation to support complex and vulnerable clients, often in a lone-working situation. With a passion to work collaboratively with others for the good of our service users, and with some experience of working in a related field and understanding of services in Brighton & Hove.

A high degree of emotional intelligence is required to support service users, many of whom have complex emotional needs, with backgrounds of trauma, neglect, abuse, crime and low self-worth. A role of this nature will experience a range of emotions from joy to grief and as such requires a high degree of resilience and self-awareness to cope with the emotional demands of the role.

We are Hiring for a Specialist Development Officer - Part time 30 Hours per week - Salary £23400

Title:                                              Specialist Development Officer

Responsible to:Chief Executive

Accountable to: Chief Executive,
with final accountability to the Viewpoint Trustee Board

Location: hours/salary: 30 hours per week – annual Salary £23,400

Pension: Following a three-month period of employment, Viewpoint will contribute a sum equal to 5% of your annual salary to a pension provided that you contribute at least 3% of your annual salary to the pension scheme.

Annual leave: Annual leave will commence following six months probationary period and will rise to 25 days plus 8 Bank holidays – Pro Rota.

Other benefits: Training, Development and Supervision

Length of contract: 12 months fixed term contract

Overview of the role

Specialist Development Officer will lead the small team of Peer Facilitators and support people with mental health and/or addiction challenges by offering peer led sessions to support their personal recovery, based on the person’s individualised person centre approach.

Together the Specialist Development Officer and Peer Facilitators will provide closed peer support groups about specific wellbeing subjects together with practical assistance to individuals to support them to regain control over their lives and their own unique personal recovery journey.

Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience of recovery, the Specialist Development Officer will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, they will facilitate and promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

About Viewpoint

Viewpoint develops innovative ways that support people with a lived experience of mental health issues and/or addiction challenges—working with 1000 experts by experience, putting them at the centre of all everything we do. We support people to be independent, have their say and influence change to services. Working across the whole of Hertfordshire.

Our support is flexible and needs-led, delivered by outreach group-based activity, one to one or remotely. Staff or members who have a lived experience facilitate our programmes. We offer educational sessions that enhance wellbeing and equip individuals with the skills and self-belief to aid their recovery personal journey.

Our goals
Improving services: Make sure people are involved in the planning, developing, delivering and evaluation of services to gain equality of support and treatment.
Staying well: Support people to stay well.
Supporting choice: Supporting people to make informed choices about services and their mental wellbeing.
Reducing inequality: People’s involvement from all backgrounds is essential to gain equality of support and treatment.
Organisationally: Use all of our organisational excellence to enhance quality and develop the right resources.

Main duties and responsibilities

To support people who are experiencing mental health challenges to:

• Maintain and develop their independence within their local community.
• Build life skills, confidence, resilience and self-esteem.
• Build social networks and reduce isolation.
• Engage in peer support sessions and offer holistic support, advice, information, and if necessary onward referral to other support.
• Opportunities to direct their own recovery process through self-management and choice.

To use personal recovery to

• Model and mentor recovery and demonstrate coping skills.

• Embed a person-centred and recovery-orientated approach in all aspects of the work.
• Inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learnt.

Responsible to the Housing Advice Specialist Caseworker and Project Leader for the provision of a housing advocacy and advice service to members of the public experiencing housing difficulties as a result of Covid 19.

Please note this Temporary Post is funded by the National Lottery for 6 months only.

Client Advice Duties

Providing information, advice, advocacy, and assistance to clients with housing, and housing related problems.

Acting as a lay advocate for SHARP clients, when appropriate in the courts and at Tribunals.

Maintaining accurate client files and casework monitoring records using the Advice-Pro casework recording system.

External Liaison

To negotiate regularly with Local Authorities, the DWP, Housing Associations, Solicitors, and other bodies, deciding the relevant level of officer to contact.

To provide advice, information, and guidance on housing related matters to other workers within statutory or voluntary agencies.

Training and Information

To offer appropriate training either alone, or in conjunction with other members of staff to external agencies to promote a better understanding of housing legislation, policy, and practice.

Policy and Development

To participate in meetings relevant to the running and development of SHARP.

To maintain an up to date knowledge of housing law and an awareness of current legal issues.

To implement and develop the SHARP's Equal Opportunities Policy.

To observe the SHARP's Health and Safety policy and procedures.

To report to the Board on the operation of the service as appropriate.

Financial Duties

Is a signatory to the SHARP office cheque account.

Makes decisions regarding payments to clients from this account and ensures that all such payments are properly recorded.

Makes petty cash payments in accordance with guidelines established by the Board and ensures that all such payments are properly recorded.

Other Duties

The post holder will be self-servicing in the production of letters and reports.

To undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required.

The  World  Community  for  Christian  Meditation,  a  UK  based  charity,  is  looking  for  an
experienced, reliable and organised grant manager with solid previous grant management/fundraising experienceservice in a UK charity. We are looking for a highly motivated and resourceful individual with a 
genuine interest in Christian meditation and spirituality and the individual and societal benefitsit can bring.

Working  to  the  Head  of  Operations,  the  Grant  Manager  will  be  responsible  foroverseeing  current  grants and preparing timely and excellent quality financial and narrativereports for our grant donors. There will be potential also for exploring future grant applications for new and existing donors. The work will fall into the following main categories:

▪    Coordination of WCCM’s existing grants
▪    Checking expenditure on donor budgets in consultation with budget holders
▪    Preparing appropriate financial reports for donors in consultation with WCCM’s accountants.
▪    Collating monitoring and evaluation information using WCCM’s new M&E framework
▪    Project development for new bids in collaboration with other WCCM staff and volunteers

The  successful candidate  may work from  home, or,  when  COVID-19  restrictions   ease,workfrom WCCM’s London office in Islington by hot desking arrangement if they so wish. The responsibilities associated with the post may in the future require the occasional trip toFrance. In this eventuality, WCCM will cover all travel expenses.

We are looking for an innovative and experienced individual to join us as Senior Practitioner, managing a busy, high profile service at the frontline of efforts to reduce rough sleeping in London. Your innovative management of this service will influence the future of service provision across London.

The Rapid Response team is a service funded by the Mayor of London to provide an emergency response to people sleeping rough in up to 25 London boroughs. The team plays a pivotal part in supporting the Mayor’s work to help homeless people get off the streets, back on to their feet and looking forward to a brighter future.

Thames Reach are committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in service delivery to vulnerable people.

About the role
As a Senior Practitioner you will supervise and support night outreach workers and volunteers. You will ensure that we meet our targets of fast response times to those on these streets and that we deliver a high-quality service to rough sleepers.

You will work evenings and into the night on a rota that will include some weekends and bank holidays. You will accompany workers on shift to offer support and guidance as well as working remotely and from our office in Hackney.

You’ll need to be outcome focused and able to foster a culture of high performance and continual striving to improve upon successes throughout your team.

You will be:

• Organised and able organise the operations of a complex, busy service.
• A decisive and effective leader.
• An excellent communicator able to form and maintain effective working relationships.
• Able to recognise and confidently talk about best practise and its results to funders and other stakeholders.
• Able to directly manage staff and ensure the services finances are well managed.
• Confident in working with enforcement agencies such as the Police and local authority civil enforcement teams and be able to speak to others about the benefits of this joint working approach.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:

• 6.5% employer pension contribution.
• Development opportunities.
• 29 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays.
• Reimbursement of the cost of annual eye test
• Season ticket/cycle loan
• Flexible Working
• EAP services

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

We have an exciting opportunity for a role based within our London MARAC Team, that requires knowledge and experience working within the domestic abuse sector, as well as strong administrative, interpersonal and stakeholder liaison skills.

 Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences are regular meetings where information is shared by a variety of key organisations both statutory and non-statutory on the highest risk domestic abuse cases in order to create safety/ action plans that help reduce and manage risk to victim/ survivors.

This position will require you to work closely with the MARAC Team Manager, MARAC Team, MARAC Chair and partner agencies to ensure referral thresholds are met, meetings are well organised, effectively coordinated, and accurate recordings of the meetings are taken and distributed following planned delivery requirements.

We are looking for a highly organised individual with the passion to make a difference, you will need proficient I.T. skills particularly in Word, Excel and case recording database systems.

We welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates.