Holidays: 25 days pro rata + 8 Bank Holidays + a discretionary 3 days over Christmas + additional length-of-service entitlement; we also offer a generous pension scheme, an Employee Assistance Porgramme, and travelcard loan and cycle to work schemes
Start date: 7th September 2020 (negotiable)
Location: 95 Sirdar Road, London W11 4EQ
Deadline for applications: 9am, Monday 17th August 2020
Selection day: Tuesday, 25th August 2020 (via Zoom video call)

Dear Candidate,
 

We are looking for a high-calibre candidate to join our staff team as a Community Development Worker with the aptitude and ability to learn on the job. 

The ClementJames Centre is an award-winning charity that provides programmes that address underachievement and social exclusion.  We support over 2,900 children, young people and adults each year, most at risk of failing to meet their potential to go onto higher education or employment, due to disadvantage. 

We have four main programmes:

• Adult Learning - supporting adults to improve their English, Maths and ICT skills. We offer a wide range of Functional Skills courses and intensive literacy & numeracy support.
• Employment Support - helping people to gain meaningful and sustainable employment. We offer tailored advice and support, mentoring and work skills activities
• Wellbeing & Support - empowering people to overcome barriers and challenges and to engage with their own wellbeing. We do this through the provision of Information, Advice and Guidance, and wellbeing support and activities
• Children & Young People’s Education - helping young people to learn, flourish and achieve their potential. We provide academic support, mentoring, intensive literacy & numeracy support and aspirational activities

The role of the Community Development Worker is a varied one and includes delivering our bespoke Employment Programme to local adults and young people, supporting with a range of health and wellbeing projects and providing at least one element of either, Advice and Guidance on a range of issues, or literacy and numeracy support to children and adults.

Our dedicated staff team is essential to the success of everything we do. Together, we work towards a fairer society where everyone is empowered to release their potential and live fulfilled lives. As a Community Development Worker you will be at the forefront of positive social change, helping local children and adults to grow and succeed.

This exciting training scheme will not only give you a real insight into the charity sector, but also provide you with the skills and hands-on experience required to excel as a charity professional. The scheme offers full training, development and support, and you will have the opportunity to work with driven and compassionate colleagues within a vibrant community.

If you believe that everyone should have the opportunity to release their potential and live fulfilled lives and you would like to join a dynamic, innovative organisation, then The ClementJames Centre could be the perfect career choice for you.

The ClementJames Centre is a welcoming and unique place to work and if you would like to speak to a member of staff prior to submitting your application please email us to arrange a phone call.

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At ClementJames, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. If you require the application documents in a different format please do not hesitate to contact us.

Black and Minority Ethnic people are currently under-represented in The ClementJames Centre’s workforce and also within the charity sector. The ClementJames Centre particularly welcomes applications from Black and Minority Ethnic people.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. The ClementJames Centre is committed to protecting the health and wellbeing of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff are required to have an enhanced DBS check and will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Caseworker

Region: White City, London

Reports to: Training and Delivery Director (TDD)

Responsible for: N/A

Job Description

You will be responsible for managing a caseload of 18-30-year-old young male participants who have been to prison or are at risk of going to prison, supporting them through the innovative Key4Life 7-step programme. You will use all your local Bristol, North Somerset and BAME community knowledge, business connections and agency networks to create real practical opportunities for these men to thrive.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential:

• Relevant level 3 or 4 qualification in youth work, social work, health and wellbeing or similar

Desirable:

• Information, Advice and Guidance

• Counselling

• NLP

• PTLLS/ Certificate of Education and Development

• Training/group work – information education delivery.

• Relevant qualification in substance misuse studies

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Significant experience of working with 18-25-year olds

• Experience of managing a caseload

• Experience of working with ex-offenders/ young offenders

• Working with young people in group and one-to-one settings.

• Experience of mentoring a caseload

• Knowledge of issues around risk and vulnerability amongst young people.

• An awareness of the current issues relating to at risk and vulnerable young people.

• Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies.

• Knowledge of appropriate youth policies.

• Understanding and experience of Performance Management of practices, procedures and target achievement.

• Experience of using recording and data collation systems

Desirable:

• Knowledge of support and referral agencies within West London

• Experience of intervention work in prisons

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Essential:

• Clear risk assessment skills, particularly when working with young people with complex needs.

• Ability to maintain positive relationships with key partner agencies.

• Ability to manage conflict & negotiation skills.

• The ability to contribute to ongoing service evaluation and review

• Communicate well in a range of settings, with different people.

• Good organisational skills (for self and others).

• Work effectively in a team.

• Manage conflicting demands.

• To be able to adopt a flexible approach to all aspects of work.

• Problem solving and a “can do” attitude.

• Basic ICT skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Attention to detail.

• Understanding of spreadsheets and importance of monitoring

Desirable:

• Experience of, and commitment to, involving service users in the development of the service

OTHER

Personal Qualities

• A high level of communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

• Ability to liaise and work collaboratively with professionals from other agencies

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and with minimal supervision.

• Honest and reliable.

• Commitment to implementing equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices

Who we are

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose.  ‘We call these our 3Ps’.

We achieve this in two ways. First we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change ‘the system’, to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

Our Merton Risk and Resilience Service is a borough wide, community engagement based service. The Detached Youth Team supports young people under the age of 25 by integrating substance misuse, sexual health and detached work built around its service users. We assess young people’s needs, provide brief interventions (alcohol, cannabis and sexual health) and help them access services to get them back into education and employment. We also organise activities that divert young people away from anti-social behaviour and deliver services across the borough via an ‘Urbie’ Bus.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Senior Risk and Resilience Practitioner to have the responsibility for the operational oversight of the following elements of Catch22’s Risk and Resilience service in the London Borough of Merton:

• Specialist Substance Misuse
•  Return Home Interviews
• Child exploitation services

Our current service contracts consist of:

Merton Risk and Resilience - an integrated service focused on mitigating risks and promoting resilience in young people.

The service aims to reduce harm through supporting the prevention and identification of need and to provide targeted and specialist, evidence-based interventions for young people aged 24 and under who are at significant risk of harm from, or are experiencing, or have been:

• Using substances.
• Reported missing from home or care.
•  Exploited.

Main Duties & Accountabilitie

•  To recruit, manage, motivate, coach and develop a staff team including carrying out annual appraisals and regular supervision meetings.  To manage their health, safety and wellbeing.
• To promote and embed Catch22’s vision and values in local service delivery
•  To ensure all service user information, interventions and other data as required by the contract are recorded on the relevant data management system in line with Catch22’s policy. 
•  To be the designated safeguarding lead in the service and ensure that all safeguarding processes are followed.
• To manage operational risk, health and safety, governance and safeguarding issues in line with Catch22 and Commissioner policies.
•  Carry out regular case file audits as per the Audit Policy and Procedure
•  Be responsible for the allocation of referrals and ensure caseload management structures are in place

What you will need to succeed in this role  

You will need the following knowledge & experience;

• Significant experience of working with young people in a treatment and/or prescribing setting for substance use/misuse.
• Experience of Inter-agency working. Work within/ in partnership with Children’s and Family Services/ Youth Justice Services/ Youth services.
• Experience of delivering training to young people/professionals
• Working with young people in group and one-to-one settings.
• Knowledge of issues around risk and vulnerability amongst young people.
• Knowledge of substance misuse treatment, CE and Missing from home guidance methodology and relevant policies and practice
• An awareness of the current issues relating to at risk and vulnerable young people.
• Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies.
• Knowledge of Children Act/LSCB Procedures and other appropriate youth policies.
• Understanding and experience of Performance Management with regard to practice and target achievement.
• Experience of using recording and data collation systems

Other skills/qualities include;

• A high level of communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to liaise and work collaboratively with professionals from other agencies including commissioners, managers and key service stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and with minimal supervision.
• Creative, flexible and able to work well with others in a team.
• Honest and reliable.
• Problem solving and a “can do” attitude.
• Basic ICT skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.

The Fairtrade Foundation is recruiting for a Senior Partnership Manager to drive forward Fairtrade’s work with our commercial partners. As a key member of the Commercial Partnerships team you will be responsible for working with businesses in the UK and globally to drive more impact for Fairtrade producers and workers. You’ll be working on a daily basis with Fairtrade’s strategic partners in the FMCG sector to develop new and exciting impact-led initiatives, helping contribute to the improved livelihoods of farmers and workers across the world. You’ll also be helping Fairtrade develop new commercial partnerships, proactively networking and prospecting to grow business support for Fairtrade in the UK.

You’ll need to be confident and tenacious, with experience of key account management/ partnership development in the FMCG sector, a good understanding of sustainability, and excellent influencing or sales skills. You will have a proven track record in project management and internal cross functional working. If you have experience of ethical trade and certification, that’s great, but it’s not essential.

Fairtrade is a movement for change that works directly with businesses, consumers and campaigners to make trade deliver for farmers and workers. Fairtrade is a global movement with a strong and active presence in the UK, represented by the Fairtrade Foundation.

The international Fairtrade system (of which the Fairtrade Foundation is a member) works on behalf of farmers and workers to drive sustainable livelihoods, empower producers and workers, and make trade fair.

The Fairtrade Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community

Closing date: 14 August 2020 (10am)

First round interviews: wc 24 August 2020

We’re looking for Senior Practitioner/Leader to join our growing team. We want someone to take the lead on complex cases, inspire our team by example and help us design our new health and social care services.

Place of Work: Office and home-based

Contract: Six months’ fixed-term; expected start September 2020. One month’s probationary period, one month’s notice required.

Hours of work: Full-time 40 hours a week

Salary range: £27,500-£29,500

Enhanced DBS required

Who we are

Support When It Matters (SWIM) is a Hackney-based Community Interest Company that empowers people of African, Caribbean, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds to improve their health, well-being and life chances.  SWIM is commissioned by healthcare trusts and London councils to help people from seldom heard communities to stabilise their health, housing, finances and relationships with others. We give them support, mentoring and signposting to wrap around services so they can play a full part in society as a valued contributor. We also run other targeted outreach programmes on the public health issues disproportionately affect our communities, which currently include COVID-19.

We positively celebrate diversity and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

What we want you to do

We’re looking for Senior Practitioner/Leader to join our growing team. You’ll take the lead on complex cases, providing advice and support to clients so they improve their health and wellbeing. The focus will be on psychosocial interventions as well as linking clients to specialist agencies, such as substance misuse, mental health services, welfare rights, advocacy, medical and legal services as appropriate. You’ll be able to work flexibly (including some weekend and evening work when necessary) to meet the needs of our clients.

You’ll be a team leader, providing regular supervision and guidance to SWIM’s other mental health and substance misuse staff.

And you’ll be a service designer, working with our Chief Executive to develop programmes that directly address the health and social care needs of our communities.

Who you are

You’ll have 7-10 years of significant work in a mental health and/or substance misuse setting. You’ll also be up to date on mental health, substance misuse and dual diagnosis policy and best practice guidance. Most importantly, you’ll be looking for a fresh challenge: we’re asking you to co-design and lead our targeted programmes to support the health and well being of people in London’s African, Caribbean, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities.

Essential Qualifications

NVQ3 Health & Social Care

Relevant professional qualifications in substance misuse/mental health studies.

Motivational interviewing/Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Desirable Qualifications

Leadership/management

Project management

Detailed role description

As SWIM’s Senior Support Practitioner/Leader, you will:

• Take the lead in providing outreach activities and mental health and substance misuse treatment interventions for people referred to SWIM, under the supervision of the Chief Executive.
• Provide line management support & supervision to SWIM practitioners within the service.
• Take the lead on complex cases and ensure co-ordination and links are made with the safeguarding lead– SWIM’s Chief Executive – for ‘at risk’ groups
• Support the engagement and development of volunteers and apprentices to deliver purposeful activities
• Be actively involved in the management team and help deliver/develop SWIM’s services to achieve the service outcomes and outputs.

Main duties and accountabilities

Your main duties will include:

Staff management:

• Co-ordinate the work of staff, volunteers and apprentices and activities within the service
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of staff. Support staff to achieve individual performance targets and outcomes. 
• Provide staff with regular one-to-one line management and co-facilitate group supervision
• Facilitate team meetings and staff training as required
• Be responsible for the allocation of staff, referrals and ensure caseload management structures are in place.
• Carry out regular audits

Service delivery:

• Organise, design and deliver a range of evidence-based targeted and specialist interventions, based on the clients identified needs
• Provide one-to-one sessions as part of targeted and structured treatment in a range of settings.
• Carry out effective assessment of needs and liaise with appropriate agencies/ organisations to facilitate effective referral, communication and support with other appropriate services.
• Support clients where required through referral and support to access:

• Appropriate health services including: mental health, sexual health and BBV services and to facilitate the offer of personalised Hep B/C tests for certain clients.
• Any other service to meet individual needs and achieve positive outcomes.

• Provide satellite services away from our central office base where required, to offer clients a wider choice of accessing services and to enable those with specialist requirements to have their needs met in appropriate settings.

Monitoring and auditing:

• Maintain effective administrative and reporting processes, keeping case files up to date in line with SWIM case recording guidance
• Carry out regular auditing of case files and ensure learning from them is implemented throughout the team
• Develop, monitor, evaluate and report on care plans, and risk assessments throughout the client’s treatment journey
• Monitor and support staff in delivery of safe effective care and support of service users and others accessing the service to achieve positive outcomes required in accordance with SWIM service standards, requirements, and outcomes
• Manage collate and evaluate, performance information and data, providing written reports when required

Partnership work, promotion and training:

• Manage service user groups and activities and support volunteers’ participation.
• Represent and promote where appropriate, the service and SWIM at local to other agencies and establishment events and meetings, delivering training and presentations on behalf of the service.
• Facilitate and supervise staff, service users and volunteers in the delivery of activities including; one-to one interventions, group work, events, presentations and training.
• Provide consultation, information and where required, training and presentations, to other professionals and service stakeholders
• Liaise effectively with local partner organisations and other relevant agencies to ensure effective referrals, care and risk management
• Promote continued joint working with other partners

Other:

• Maintain and update professional knowledge and competencies ensuring that you  and staff you manage are up-to date on all relevant SWIM policies and procedures and are working in line with local and governmental frameworks such as Public Health England, Safeguarding etc. ensuring these are implemented in the service
• Manage your time and activities safely and effectively, to meet with the priorities and delivery requirements of SWIM; contributing to achieving the standards of care, quality and positive outcomes required
• Ensure that all records and activities are documented and maintained accurately, in a timely manner to meet with SWIM service standards and requirements
• Contribute to management meetings and training events
• Promote equality of opportunities and diversity at all levels
• Comply with SWIM Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Any other reasonable tasks that support the objectives of this role

Person specification

Senior Support Practitioner/Leader

Personal effectiveness:  essential

• Understanding of the challenges experienced by people with challenges caused by their mental health or drug and/or alcohol use)
• Ability to work in a recovery orientated, person centred, non-judgemental manner
• Ability to provide calm, consistent support to those experiencing a mental health crisis
• Experience of working towards achieving individual and team objectives
• Good time management and able to work to deadlines
• Confident and effective communicator
• A good listener
• Understanding of the importance of professional boundaries working with vulnerable people
• Collaborative team working skills
• Adaptable and able to work in a challenging and changeable environment
• Proven track record in managing incidents of verbal and physical aggression

Technical effectiveness: essential

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the complex and multiple needs faced by the service user group
• Numeracy, literacy and IT skills
• Committed problem solver

Acquired experience & qualifications: essential

• A demonstrable belief in a values-led approach to working with service users with a Mental Health issue.
• Holds qualification appropriate to the sector e.g. NVQ 3 or willingness to study towards same
• Working knowledge of Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults framework, the ability to follow procedure and development of a culture of safe practice

Other requirements

• Work flexibly, which may include occasional out of hours and weekend work

We have been commissioned by Wandsworth Council to run a new Age Well Programme in Battersea for older people. The vision is to enable older people in Battersea to continue living as independently as possible with the support of their community. This support includes the development and delivery of preventative services. This is a new programme driven-by local older people, the shape and contents of the services determined by them.

This is a new and exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic organisational development worker, with fundraising experience, to join our Elders team. The Age Well programme will be delivered in part by local community partners, some of whom are small and (un)funded. They will need additional capacity building support so that they can work with more older people in Battersea. You will have experience of working with charities and community organisations to develop their infrastructure and increase their skills and capacity including governance, strategy, funding, staffing and volunteers, communications and more. 

LifeLine Projects are recruiting for a dynamic business development manager to expand our range of exciting work with young people in East London and with faith and community groups, nationally. We are looking for someone who can drive, develop, and oversee the organisation’s income generation, focussing on grant and trust-funding proposals, catalysing corporate funding partnerships, and advancing opportunities and tenders with existing and new commissioners. The successful candidate will be a good team-worker, who will support a close-knit senior management team to mature existing funding-streams, discover new opportunities and advance the organisation’s business and fundraising strategy.

LifeLine Projects has a strong values-based work ethic, which flourishes because of our faith-inspired roots. We are all about impacting individuals and influencing systems:  Our vision is to build thriving communities, where no-one is isolated or lonely and everyone can contribute. Our values pervade all areas of work and are the drivers behind the way our programmes support people to become agents of change within their communities.

The creative individual will be hungry to build on our heritage that has seen the charity grow from its seed-bed grant of £20,000 to one of the largest charities in east London, with a  multi-million pound annual turnover, bringing over £60m to the region in its 20 year lifespan.

This role is a unique opportunity to be part of growing the charity to the next level by:

• Identifying relevant funders and funding opportunities to support continued growth and evolution of LifeLine’s core activities in public health, community programming and young people’s services
• Generating new business leads through relationships with a range of funders and partners, including corporate contacts
• Managing an active bid pipeline to ensure an efficient and effective work rate across the team, with a focus on quality, consistency and impact of submissions
• Producing high quality, competitive funding proposals and tender submissions (typical values range from approximately £25,000 to £2 million)
• Overseeing the bid production process, supervising the work of internal and external bid writers, and ensuring input from relevant operational and technical managers
• Supporting, through guidance and insight, the application of evidence and relevant project evaluation to the bid writing process and to organisational knowledge and expertise
• Managing relationships with funding partners, delivery partners, stakeholders and external consultants to ensure LifeLine’s business interests and objectives are achieved and that we continue to build on our strong reputation for approachability, positivity, and being practically minded
• Identifying and managing risk during the tender process to support successful project implementations and handover to operational leads
• Working with project managers and operational leads to develop implementation plans to ensure management and resourcing requirements are met and key milestones achieved
• Working closely with the SMT to develop LifeLine’s business and fundraising strategies
• Contributing to the vision and values of LifeLine as a community-focused organisation

Applicants must have a proven track record of effective bid-management and administration at a senior level, and management of multi-disciplinary teams. This must include a proven track-record of successfully securing significant funding. You will also need to have a thorough understanding and experience of the voluntary sector’s business development world, along with experience of community and trust or grant fundraising. You will also be:

• Highly articulate with excellent writing and communication skills
• Highly analytical with the ability to distil and summarise information clearly and engagingly.
• An excellent researcher, including into Government Policy with the ability to obtain and update varied demographic information
• Commercially astute and detail focused with negotiation skills
• Resilient with the ability to manage multiple initiatives
• Self-motivated, solutions-oriented and flexible
• Able to manage staff, associates and the business development process including finance and operations

For full details of salary, benefits, role requirements and features, please refer to the job description.

Please note that in the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, all employees are working remotely, and all interviews will be conducted virtually for the foreseeable future. This guidance is subject to change as government guidelines are updated.

• Closing date: 9am 7th September
• Shortlisting date: 7th & 8th September
• Interview dates: 14th & 15th September

We are looking to fill 3 posts in three areas of Surrey. 2 will be based with Catalyst Support and 1 with Mary Frances Trust.

This role is a fix term 12-month contract, which may be extended.

The role will involve traveling within Surrey area to deliver groups.

Please note: Interviews will be held on 19th and 20th August.

Background to role

NHS England recently announced a new transformation fund to be allocated to pilot sites within 12 Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships / Integrated Care Systems across the country to test new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care. Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership is one of these successful pilot sites.

One of the elements of this new approach to supporting people in their communities is focused on people with some of the difficulties associated with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and includes close partnership working between Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and a specialist mental health third sector organisation.

The Peer Support Worker will be working closely with a mental health practitioner to deliver regular Service User Network (SUN) groups in different community-based locations across Surrey.

The SUN (Service User Network) is an initiative aimed at improving services for people with personality disorders.

The SUN provides community-based, open access peer support groups and aims to help people develop effective ways of coping, reduce emergencies, and improve access to appropriate services. 

Those accessing the SUN may or may not have a formal diagnosis of personality disorder however, all members will have experienced longstanding emotional difficulties, isolation and are very likely to demonstrate unhelpful patterns of behaviour.

Fundamental to creating empowerment and engagement in the SUN Project is the therapeutic community principle, that the effectiveness of the service depends upon engaging group members in the task of running, delivery, development, and evaluation of the service. The utilisation of SUN members’ own resources and expertise is integral to the model of peer support upon which the SUN groups are based.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• To work alongside a Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) and deliver regular SUN groups in the community.
• To work in collaboration with the MHP and the SUN members to:
  • promote peer support and reduce isolation;
  • improve coping skills of its members;
  • reduce the number of crises that require urgent and unplanned responses from services;
  • facilitate access to other services and sources of support.
• To use own wisdom of lived experience of mental health problems to support the development and knowledge of people using the service.
• To follow the protocols and guidelines for effective working. 
• To take full responsibility for understanding and applying professional boundaries.
• To ensure that any potential risk is being constantly assessed within a culture of positive risk taking.
• To contribute information regarding the safety and wellbeing of the people who access the service.
• To assist people in understanding their rights and choices within the service.
• To encourage and motivate people to take an active role in their own recovery.

• To positively promote and support independence for people in the community.

• To actively contribute towards the evaluation of the service.

• To keep up to date documentation and take on all the necessary administrative duties.

• To report any areas of concern to the senior team, in line with Risk Management Policy.

• To actively engage in clinical and managerial supervisions.

• To undertake all the required training in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the manager.

• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to Personality Disorder, peer support and mental health.

• To attend clinical, business and service development meetings as required.

• To assist in the promotion of the service through active liaison, meetings, and presentations with people who access services, staff and other organisations.

• To comply with all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.

• To undertake any relevant duties as requested.

• To attend any relevant training as and when required.

Please download the full Job description and person specification.

To apply please follow the link and apply on Mary Frances Trust Online Application Form

Founded in 1967 by Lord Longford to address the needs of young people who were involved in drug abuse in the West End of London, New Horizon Youth Centre continues today to work with the most vulnerable and at risk young people.

In the autumn of 1994, we moved from Covent Garden to our current premises in the Somers Town area. We are ideally situated between the mainline stations of Kings Cross and Euston to meet both the needs of Londoners and of those coming into the capital from the UK and beyond. Over the past 20 years in this location we have empowered and enabled 20,000 young people to address their multiple issues and to move on in their lives. 

Our Mission  

To enable homeless and young vulnerable people to achieve independence and positive futures

We deliver this mission through four strategic objectives:

• Provision: offering a high quality, one stop shop of services at our drop in centre and through our outreach team
• Places: brokering places for young people to stay in the short term or call home in the long term
• Partnerships: working with funders, policy makers and sector partners to raise awareness of and investment in homeless young people
• Platform: sustaining a well-run organisation that is a great place to work.

Our values

• Starting with strengths – we trust and see the best in each other 
• Collaboration – because we are all stronger when we work together with diverse people and organisations
• Responsiveness – because the world changes, we change and what young people need and want changes
• Being our word – we do what we say we will because the young people we support, our team and our partners deserve nothing less.

The key objectives of the post are:

• To increase accommodation options for young people through NHYC’s own accommodation projects
• To support homeless young people in maintaining their accommodation and into successful and timely move-on
• To provide housing management expertise and resettlement support across NHYC accommodation projects

Full time 37.5 per week (Mon-Sun shifts)
Newham
Fixed term contract for 9 Months

Closing Date: 17/08/2020 Midnight
Interviews: W/C 24/08/2020

We are looking for two Lead Workers to join our Newham Rough Sleeper team. 

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 deliver high standard and effective services to vulnerable people.

Our Newham Rough Sleeper team works with Newham council and other stakeholders to:
– Reduce the number of people rough sleeping in the borough by quickly identifying the most appropriate route off the streets for entrenched rough sleepers with complex needs and devising and sharing a plan for achieving this.
– Reduce the number of long term rough sleepers in Newham by directly case working a small number of individuals with complex needs and case histories, supporting them to leave the streets and move into long term accommodation.
– Support people who have been placed in temporary accommodation to sustain and successfully move on from this.

Clients we support present with a variety of support needs including substance misuse, poor mental health, poor physical health and immigration issues.

We are looking for Lead Workers to support rough sleepers to move away from the streets and access and maintain sustainable accommodation and support. You’ll be assertive and persistent, able to give difficult messages and still get positive outcomes for our clients.

With the help of our experienced senior staff and management, you will be supported and trained to use your strong communication and creative problem-solving skills. You will receive regular supervision from experienced staff who will both guide your work and encourage and facilitate your personal development.

This post will consist of office work, street based outreach shifts and visits to accommodation. You’ll be based in Newham.

We need Lead Workers to:
– Support rough sleepers to rapidly identify and access accommodation outside of London.
– Assist hostels to quickly move their residents on to more suitable and independent accommodation.
– Assertively identify routes away from the streets for rough sleepers and then continue to work with them in short stay accommodation to put together a more detailed long term plan.

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 communication and creative problem solving skills enabling you 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 late and early shifts and weekends as required.
– The enthusiasm and ability to manage a case load of complex clients.
– The ability to carry out assessments and oversee a multi-agency problem solving approach with people who may have a history of challenging services.
– The confidence and knowledge to supervise volunteers and interns.
– 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.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:
– 6.5% employer & 1.5% employee contributory pension
– Development opportunities
– 29 days annual leave plus 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.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Full time 37.5 per week (Mon-Sun shifts)
Lambeth
Fixed term contract for 8 months 
Closing Date: 17/08/2020 Midnight
Interviews:  TBC

We are recruiting for two Lead Workers to join our Lambeth Rough Sleeper Outreach Team. Lambeth Outreach Team forms a significant part of the boroughs complement of services working to reduce rough sleeping. Lambeth Outreach Team works to rapidly reduce the number of people rough sleeping in the borough, by providing short sharp interventions to support them to access accommodation, and ensure that the appropriate support is in place to sustain this.

This team works with a number of rough sleepers across the borough, working in this team will give you an opportunity to make a real difference to rough sleeping. This role will enable you to use your existing knowledge and experience to move into a role where you will have more influence and responsibility within a team, to work towards quick outcomes, to support rough sleepers off the streets.

As part of this role you will be responsible and expected to work closely with our partners across Lambeth ensuring that good collaborative working strategies are used as part of a joint up way of working.

You will be responsible for:
– Overseeing the caseload of support workers in the team; working closely with them to identify the quickest and most appropriate route off the street for their clients, and devising a plan to achieve this, while holding a caseload of your own.
– Conducting regular outreach shifts with partnership agencies.
– Focusing on improving the local response to rough sleeping by coordinating joint working and collaboration between agencies.
– Representing the team at multi-agency meetings such as Task & Targeting meetings.
– Identifying gaps in local provision and researching new pathways off of the streets for a variety of rough sleepers, including those with no recourse to public funds.
– Accurately recording all work done.

At Thames Reach we are driven and 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.

With the help of our experienced senior staff and management, you will be supported and trained to use your strong communication and creative problem-solving skills, to enable you to create and deliver options for people where these may be hard to find. You will receive regular supervision from experienced staff who will both guide your work and encourage and facilitate your personal development.

To be successful you’ll need to have:
– Experience in working with rough sleepers or vulnerable adults and supporting them to access services.
– Excellent organisation and time management skills in order to remain strongly outcome focused, with the ability to coordinate a high number of cases and complete tasks promptly and efficiently.
– Commitment to working in a challenging environment with the ability to be highly flexible throughout the working day.
– Good communication skills and confidence in public speaking when representing Thames Reach to external organisations and forming strong working relationships with partners; being able to challenge them when required.
– Strong IT skills with the ability use Outlook, online recording systems, Excel, and Word, using a tablet and a smart phone.

The role will involve office and street-based work in Lambeth. While some of your time will be spent working day time shifts, Monday-Friday, the role includes some early morning and late night outreach shifts. This will also include some weekend working.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:
– 6.5% employer & 1.5% employee contributory pension
– Development opportunities
– 29 days annual leave plus 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.
For more information and to apply please visit our website. 

Head of Quality and Service Development
Home Based (with travel to sites across the UK)

About Us

Perennial is the nation's only charity dedicated to helping people in horticulture. Together with our network of partners, we provide free support, information, advice, financial assistance and services for horticulturalists and their loved ones experiencing illness, disability, bereavement, family breakdown and financial difficulties.

Our support services put individual needs, interests and voices at the heart of life-changing outcomes, providing the scale and reach needed to meet the increasing number of individuals and their families experiencing challenging times.

We are now looking for a talented and inspirational Head of Quality and Service Development to join us and oversee the quality and development of our ‘help’ and ‘prevent’ services. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £36,000 per annum
- 25 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
- DIS benefit
- Sickness pay
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme
- Well-established family friendly policies, including the ability to have extra unpaid leave
- Time off for dependants

If you have experience of delivering services for adults, families or young people with complex needs, this is an amazing opportunity to make a real difference at a strategic level.

We are in a uniquely powerful position to deliver high-quality support for all horticulturists in need and their families. We are well established, well managed and well resourced. While we deliver exceptional services, we are still eager to do more – that’s where you come in.

You will have the chance to build on our previous successes, help us to continually develop the quality of our services and grow our solutions so that they can continue to build better futures for horticulturists.

The Role

As the Head of Quality and Development, you will oversee the quality and service development of our ‘help’ and ‘prevent’ programmes across the UK.  

In this integral role, you will develop and deliver outcomes that make a real and lasting difference to people’s lives. Working with our Director of Services, you’ll influence and lead the development of our services strategy, including the delivery of key sub-strategies, and ensure service sustainability.

Additionally, you will: 

- Implement an assessment and theory of change methodology to meet the needs of people working across horticulture
- Ensure that lived experiences, including experiences of those from diverse and disadvantaged communities, both inform and guide service development
- Regularly review performance against operational goals and budgets
- Develop and implement effective outcome and measurement frameworks
- Maintain your understanding of the latest developments in social policy

About You

To join us as our Head of Quality and Service Development, you will need: 

- At least five years’ post-qualified experience in a service delivery environment, with significant experience of working with adults, families or young people with complex needs and providing outcome-focused interventions that support resilience and achieve long-term change 
- Significant experience of strategic planning and operational management at a service manager level and developing and delivering services at senior service management level
- Experience of developing processes and procedures for an organisation and monitoring the compliance of an organisation or service against an agreed set of standards
- Previous experience of managing services which work successfully to deliver positive outcomes for adults/children
- A track record of leading service developments for adults and their families, often with complex needs
- Experience of working on implementing quality frameworks, assessment and case audit tools and embedding practice across remote workers
- A good understanding of organisational systems and frameworks, line management and project management
- Knowledge of risk and needs assessment, safeguarding and support planning procedures as well as how this is delivered in practice
- Knowledge of adult and children safeguarding principles, child abuse and child protection issues and MARAC, with the ability to effectively manage all safeguarding policies and procedures

Other organisations may call this role Head of Support Services, Head of Social Services, Health and Social Care Project Manager, Care Project Manager, Service Delivery Manager, or Head of Health and Social Care Services.

Webrecruit and Perennial are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. 

So, if you are seeking your next challenge as our Head of Quality and Service Development, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week (including some weekends and overnight stays)

Full time 37.5 per week (Mon-Sun shifts)
Newham
Fixed term contract for 9 months

Closing Date: 17/08/2020 Midnight
Interviews: W/C 24/08/2020
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 deliver high standard and effective services to vulnerable people.
Our Newham Rough Sleeper team works with Newham council and other stakeholders to:
– Reduce the number of people rough sleeping in the borough by quickly identifying the most appropriate route off the streets for entrenched rough sleepers with complex needs and devising and sharing a plan for achieving this.
– Reduce the number of long term rough sleepers in Newham by directly case working a small number of individuals with complex needs and case histories, supporting them to leave the streets and move into long term accommodation.
– Support people who have been placed in temporary accommodation to sustain and successfully move on from this.
Clients we support present with a variety of support needs including substance misuse, poor mental health, poor physical health and immigration issues.
We are looking for Support workers to assist our Lead workers to accommodate people living on the street and in temporary accommodation, supporting clients to access services and begin making changes to their lives and liaising with other agencies.
With the help of our experienced senior staff and management, you will be supported and trained to use your strong communication and creative problem-solving skills. You will receive regular supervision from experienced staff who will both guide your work and encourage and facilitate your personal development.
This post will consist of office work, street based outreach shifts and visits to accommodation. You’ll be based in Newham.
We need Support Workers to:
– Support rough sleepers to rapidly identify and access accommodation outside of London.
– Assist hostels to quickly move their residents on to more suitable and independent accommodation.
– Assertively identify routes away from the streets for rough sleepers and then continue to work with them in short stay accommodation to put together a more detailed long term plan.

As Support Worker you will have:
– The flexibility to work late and early shifts and weekends as required.
– The ability to provide a flexible and responsive service to meet the needs of rough sleepers across Newham.
– Excellent communication and creative problem solving skills enabling you to create options for people where these may be hard to find.
– Excellent interpersonal skills and commitment to work with rough sleepers.
– The enthusiasm and ability to manage a case load of complex clients.
– The necessary I.T skills to collect, collate and interpret information and statistics on rough sleeping and present these in external meetings.
– Sufficient confidence in public speaking to enable you to represent Thames Reach to statutory and voluntary organisations.
– Confidence in working with enforcement agencies such as the Police, Home Office 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 & 1.5% employee pension contribution.

-Development opportunities.

-29 days annual leave plus 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.
For more information and to apply please visit our website. 

We are looking for a Link Worker to work in a primary/secondary school in West London. 

We are looking for highly motivated individual with a passion for providing young people and families with the opportunities and relationships to enable them to flourish in life. Applicants will be highly proactive, professional, meticulous in their attention to detail and able to recognise the rigour required in reporting and data collection so as to evidence their own and other organisations’ work. WLZ Link Workers are individuals who are creative, constantly looking for new situations and solutions to improve the lives of young people and families, and who have great energy and enthusiasm for this work.

Link Workers work with families, WLZ colleagues, teachers and partner organisations to plan, co-ordinate and deliver a two year programme of support for children and young people. WLZ aims for every child to achieve good wellbeing, confidence and aspiration, positive relationships and improved academic achievement.

Responsibilities include:

● Act as a trusted adult and role model in the lives of the children, young people and families

● Engage with children/young people in order to build and maintain trusted relationships

● Motivate and inspire children and young people to engage positively with additional support as part of the WLZ programme

● Accurately assess the strengths and needs for each individual on the WLZ programme informed by work with children, young people, parents and professionals

● Create robust individual support plans to meet the needs of children and young people, using a Skills Framework and SMART goals to monitor and review progress

● Deliver 1:1 and small group engagement sessions to children and young people, which support their progress towards goals, consistent with WLZ policies and procedures

● Support school classroom delivery through one to one support with certain children

● Plan and participate in a range of educational trips and visits for children and young people in the school holidays

● Maintain regular communication with parents and provide opportunities for home learning where appropriate.

● Follow WLZ’s policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding

Applications received before:  11:30pm on Sunday 23rd August 2020 will be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 5:00pm on Tuesday 25th August 2020. Interviews to follow later that week and early the following week.

Interviews would either be Face to Face or via video call but will be in-line with the most up to date government guidance.

If you would like an informal conversation with one of our existing Link Workers please contact us and we will arrange a telephone call.

You can also apply for this position by going to West London Zone’s website.