This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking for a new challenge in the West Midlands.

Arden Place is a brand new supported living accommodation for adults with learning disabilities and autism in Tile Cross, Birmingham.  Arden Place is a Bromford My Place Service. My Place, is a unique Supported Living model created to provide appropriate accommodation for people with long term conditions such as learning disabilities or autism. Bethphage are the care provider, providing on site care and support for people living at Arden Place and helping them to connect with their community through meaningful activity.

These brand new purpose built flats are designed to meet people's current and future needs, providing a safe and secure long-term home in the heart of the community. The scheme has 14 purpose built self-contained one bedroom apartments.

Arden Place has a community hub with a lounge, meeting room and kitchen which not only provides a social area for people living in the scheme, but it also provides facilities to deliver training, employment advice and activities to both the people we support and the wider community.

This great opportunity has opened up for an Assistant Service Manager in our Supported living services in Birmingham.

As well as supporting the service manager in Arden Place, we require you to also support with our established supported living services for four adults with learning disabilities in North and South Birmingham. 

The people we support in all these areas have varying needs of support some of which require personal care. All services will be supporting people with Learning disabilities, Mental Health and Autism. The Assistant Service Manger will also be expected to support in all of these areas. 

Evening and Weekend Work may be required as part of the role and participating in our on-call rota.

All services will focus on a person centred approach and promoting people’s independence

About our organisation 

Bethphage is a registered charity which was established in 1994 and provides support to adults with learning and physical Disabilities in Shropshire and the West Midlands.
Everything we do is individually designed to enable people to achieve their potential and meet their objectives and need for support. The people that we support may live in their own home, a home that is shared with other people, their family home or a shared care home.
It is the aim of Bethphage to provide outstanding care and support throughout the organisation so it essential that you will be dedicated to providing the highest levels of care that you can.

You will be required to create a team that champions excellent support by actively coaching and modelling respectful positive approaches to achieve the greatest possible independence and quality of life for the people we support, based on an understanding of what is important to and for them.

If this opportunity sounds like you, and you can demonstrate the following attributes, please get in touch

• Open and Honest.
• Committed.
• Person Centred Approach.
• Proactive and innovative

Essential Requirements

• Level Three in Health and Social Care
• Previous Supervisory Experience
• Driver
• Car Owner

Desirable Requirements 

• Experience of developing new services for adults with a learning disability, Autism and/or Mental Health
• A good understanding of partnership working.

Benefits of Working for us

• Competitive pay
• Simply Health Cash Plan
• Long service rewards
• Contributory Pension scheme
• Development opportunities
• Recruitment awards
• Paid enhanced DBS certificate
• Paid training

*Please note, interested applicants must complete an application form

Closing date - 14th July (this may be extended) 

Interview Date - 22nd July - (this may change)

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Creative Support is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Manager to take the responsibility of managing our varied portfolio of social care services in the Sandwell and Dudley area. You will be responsible for maintaining an overview of all services, leading a highly motivated team of managers and contributing to the further development of services within the region. You must be an accomplished manager and have extensive experience and knowledge of working within the social care sector in support of people with learning disabilities and mental health needs. You must be highly proactive, resourceful and possess an analytical approach to problem solving.

You will be responsible for our current service provision of community based services which includes supported living services for people with a learning disability and people on the autistic spectrum, including people who have additional complex care and communication needs.

We are also keen to develop new services which meet local needs and promote opportunity, choice, health and wellbeing.

You will carry out the role demonstrating a person-centred approach with a warm, confident and professional manner. Experience of staff and service management is essential. We will expect you to have the vision, networking and organisational ability to deliver excellent outcomes for customers and to implement initiatives which connect service users to their local community and promote our reputation. A requirement of this role is that you will be the Registered Manager with CQC. You must have an excellent working knowledge of the CQC’s regulations and the key lines of enquiry. You must be a confident and accountable practitioner with the ability to put quality standards into practice.

You must have skills in positive communication and engagement and be able to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for the people we support. You must be able to write clear assessments, support plans and guidelines and work positively within a consistent, mutually supportive team ethos.

You must be able to lead a team with confidence and provide clear guidance, supervision and support to your team members. You will be able to communicate positively and professionally with the families of the people we support, their advocates and other agencies.

You will be expected to have regular direct contact with service users and attend person-centred reviews. You will be required to oversee staff deployment and rotas and to work in a flexible manner yourself including working evenings and weekends. You will develop a clear understanding of the commissioned hours for the services in your remit and areas financial performance based on a knowledge of budgets.

This role offers unique and challenging opportunities bringing great job satisfaction and career development opportunities. We provide accredited management training and health and social care diplomas through our own training academy as well as local coaching and mentoring by experienced qualified social care practitioners. We may support you with advanced practitioner training opportunities in relevant areas. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

HR Shared Services Manager (Transformation Change)

Birmingham

To £650 (Inside IR35)

• Do you have HR Shared Services Experience?
• Are you an experienced change expert?
• Do you have payroll experience?
• Are you available immediately?

If so, our Client may be interested in speaking with you?

The role:

• Shared Services Management including coaching, and development of the team
• Ensure Hr policies, procedures and advice is provided in a timely way meeting internal SLA's
• Operational Management including leading on change projects
• Support and develop the roll out of transformation project work including a new Oracle ERP system
• Lead on all audits both internal and external
• Payroll oversee all payroll processes
• Ownership of the HR and payroll Oracle system
• Leading and devising the payroll strategy

Essential Criteria

• Strong experience of OD and transformation
• Strong HR Shared Services experience
• Knowledge of payroll managing a gross risk of £100 million
• Knowledge of tax policy, tax regulations and employment regulations
• Advanced HR Operations experience including ER, policy and procedures and projects
• Advanced HR systems knowledge ideally Oracle
• Public sector/NFP experience would be preferred

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As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

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Facilities Manager for International Children’s Shoebox Project

based at our West Midlands Processing Centre (Oldbury)

Six-month temporary position –September 2020 to end of February 2021

For this year in the run up to Christmas join our logistics team and thousands of volunteers in gathering in half a million boxes from across the UK, processing and then sending them to children all around the world.

Become part of the world’s largest shoebox appeal where Samaritan’s Purse, together with local churches here and overseas, distributes gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need overseas and in so doing demonstrates God’s love in a tangible way whilst sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.

We are seeking a facilities manager to set up and manage the temporary and permanent warehouse facilities utilised for OCC during the 2020 processing season.  This role will ensure the facilities and equipment are operationally effective and fully compliant with Health & Safety, and Covid-19 Secure workplace best practices. 

 You will need to:

• be quick to learn
• be a good planner and project manager who is good with details
• be happy to work independently
• be comfortable working in a very busy environment
• have a positive, ‘can do’ attitude
• be flexible regarding the tasks you may be given
• have experience of working in an operations, warehouse or logistics environment

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV and Cover Letter. If you would like more information about the Operation Christmas Child campaign, please visit our website

All applicants must be willing to work within a Christian framework and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations. All applicants should be in sympathy with the evangelical Christian beliefs held by the organisation.

Our network of charity shops plays a significant role in raising funds for the services we provide for the people across Coventry and Warwickshire. We have an exciting opportunity for a number of Relief Shop Manager roles to support our network of shops, both full-time and 3 days per week.

Working across our 25 shops throughout Coventry and Warwickshire you will experience all aspects of charity retail that enables us to continue to support patients and families.

This role requires being responsible for managing charity shops across Myton’s estate with the support of our valued volunteers. This role is physically demanding requiring flexibility, self-motivation and a determination to achieve targets so that The Myton Hospices can continue to provide high quality services. A generous holiday allowance is included with the opportunity to have a good work life balance and most importantly; the chance for you to make a difference for a respected local charity.

As this is a mobile role a driving license and vehicle for work are essential.

LionHeart is in the second year of an ambitious 5 year strategy to deliver more services to even more members of the RICS community. As part of this strategy we are stepping up our volunteering programme and we are now seeking a Volunteering Manager to kick start this work.

We are initially seeking an experienced volunteering manager for a six month contract which will focus on getting the right framework in place for our volunteering programme. At that point the role may become permanent and would move on to lead all aspects of our work with volunteers. Currently this comprises mental health and APC (the assessment for chartered status) ambassadors but we hope to extend this to cover fundraising and awareness raising ambassador opportunities.

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for a minimum of two years’ experience of managing volunteers and experience of developing and delivering project plans. In addition, we need excellent engagement, networking and public speaking skills coupled with the ability to own your own project whilst functioning well as part of our amazing team.

You’ll need to be confident using Excel, Powerpoint and Word and it would be an advantage to have experience with Microsoft dynamics and PowerBi, but training can be provided if necessary. Other desirable skills include experience of developing training events and materials for volunteers, managing senior level partnerships with external stakeholders, the ability to demonstrate project impact and an understanding of mental health issues.

This role may include some travel and occasional overnight stays but these are booked well in advance to enable you to plan your life in line with our commitment to good work / life balance.

In return we offer:

A salary of £29,000 per annum (pro-rata) plus pension contributions of up to 10% and the chance to be part of a friendly, enthusiastic team who really care about what they do.  We offer flexible working with the opportunity to work from home for part of your week. There are also regular team development days and training opportunities, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and a warm and inclusive culture.

How to apply:

If you like what you’ve heard please visit our website for further details and apply by 24th August 2020. Please note we do not accept CVs - we ask you to fill in our application form, paying particular attention to the personal statement.

Interviews will be held on 3rd September 2020.

You can find out more about us on our website but if you’d like to know more about the role please call and ask for Parita Mardania, Partnerships and Engagement Manager.

Clinical Manager (Psychotherapy)  £38,000 pro rata, 28 hours per week

We invite applications for an exciting opportunity to join a new and developing service at our office in central Birmingham and working from home until our current Covid-19 policy changes.

The Clinical Manager will be a member of Respond’s Midlands team delivering therapeutic trauma informed services across the region. You will support Midlands Transforming Care Partnerships to enable people with learning disabilities, autism or both subject to long-stay hospitalisation under the Mental Health Act to return to their local community.

Line managing  therapists, you will undertake a range of clinical work including case management and provide clinical supervision, reflective practice groups, consultation and training for a wide range of clinicians, professionals and care staff externally. 

This unique opportunity may well be the next step in your career advancement with a commitment from Respond to support and develop your skills in all areas of the role, including your knowledge of trauma and its impact of people with a learning disability, autism or both.

About us: Respond is a small national charity with offices in London and Birmingham providing specialised community support for children and adults with learning disabilities, autism or both who have experienced abuse or trauma. 

The heart of our work is psychotherapy and through the many years of our development we have become experts in understanding and working with trauma. This guides the range of services we provide.

To apply: Via CharityJob with a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification criteria. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date: 23rd August 2020

Interviews (by Zoom): 1st or 2nd September 2020

Head of Development

Rate: £500-600 a day (dependant on experience)

Location: West Midlands (plus travel to strategic sites)

Principle Activity:

• You will initially be reporting to the Director of Development in the delivery of high quality, design focused, mixed use and large scale development schemes.

Job Description:

• Work on all elements of the new and current schemes including land sale, contract negotiation, appraisals, planning, feasibility, delivery and handover.
• Manage contract negotiations with house builders and commercial occupiers.
• Overseeing projects from the design, planning and construction phases from inception to completion.
• Add value by coordinating design team meetings to secure outline and detailed planning consents.
• Manage external consultants to ensure they are delivering on programme and budget.
• Liaise, influence and negotiate with house builders and affordable housing delivery partners to ensure house building, sales and affordable housing delivery are on track.
• Ensure commercial land is marketed fully and that commercial deals are smooth and professional.
• Meet with potential commercial tenants covering retail, industrial, leisure and office sectors.
• Prepare development appraisals ensuring profitable residential and commercial schemes.
• Monitor progress and manage governance of projects by undertaking budgeting, financial forecasting and cash flow forecasting in coordination with the project finance team.
• Research into the house builder market predominantly at a regional level.
• Ensure that section 106 obligations are met on time and within budget
• Present a positive attitude when dealing with members of the public and other stakeholders.

Experience Required:

• Acquisition or disposal of property / land
• Planning and development experience
• Significant post university relevant experience from a house builder, developer or agency environment
• Educated to degree level or above
• MRICS qualified or demonstrable experience
• Strong financial and business awareness

Enterprise Manager

You will join us as an Enterprise Manager to support the growth, development and sustainability of their organisation by developing new business ventures to generate income whilst incorporating a social outcome.

Enterprise Manager Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Development Manager, CEO and CIC Directors whilst leading on the scoping and development of profitable business opportunities
• Keep the values of their organisation at the heart of your work ensuring that new projects have both a social and financial benefit
• Develop new business from inception through to launch and marketing/sales
• Work closely with their PR function to ensure high quality marketing and promotion
• Design tailored campaigns involving emails, phone calls, webinars and social media to target an area in a smart, engaging way.
• Research and identify new companies to sell our services to, including working with their Fundraising Manager to identify existing donors/sponsors to approach
• Develop comprehensive business plans and income projections for each new business opportunity
• Effectively manage multiple business ventures at once
• Take personal responsibility for ensuring compliance and regulatory requirements are met

Enterprise Manager Requirements:

• Experience in business development or a commercial role
• Demonstrable experience of high-quality customer relationship management
• Experience of leading on the development of business proposals
• A strong ability to understand and develop budgets
• Excellent organisation skills including an ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively manage a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment.
• A great team player with the capacity to lead
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively.
• Confident to champion the projects you manage with conviction
• Good selling and negation skills
• Good track record of building customer and supplier relationships
• Demonstrate a passion for their cause and motivation to make a change
• Proactive in highlighting opportunities for development.

About the organisation:

Our client was established in 1973 provides safe, temporary accommodation for women and children who are homeless for reasons such as Domestic Violence and who seek emergency accommodation. Applications are invited for the following post, from women who have a strong commitment to working with women and children.

Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands

Hours: Full Time, Permanent, 30 to 37.5 hours per week (negotiable)

Salary: up to £27,500 per annum (FTE)

You may have experience of the following: Enterprise Manager, Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Client Relationship Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Business Development Executive, Key Account Manager, etc.

Ref: 93622

About Citizens Advice

Last year, Citizens Advice helped 2.6 million people face-to-face, by phone, email and webchat, and we received 25 million visits to our digital advice content. We solve 7 in 10 clients' problems, and 4 in 5 tell us that advice improved their lives. We look for people to help us improve and transform our organisation. We can offer you the opportunity to make a genuine impact and create lasting change within an organisation that makes a difference in the lives of millions of people every year

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Service Designer to join our service design team working on services that deliver support to people and communities across the country. You’ll work in multi-disciplinary teams, leading the service design process, ensuring our approach is appropriate and user-centered and our services inclusive and impactful. As a senior service designer, you'll contribute to the growth of our service design practice and play a key role in the support and development of other designers. 

You’ll be:

• working to understand what our users need and the strategic direction of our services 
• generating service concepts and propositions that build strong cases for commissioning
• planning and facilitating co-design workshops that engage a range of people in the design process 
• actively prototyping and testing design ideas​​​​​​ supporting colleagues take a design-led approach 
• Developing and coaching designers, contributing to the overall effectiveness of the service design team 

You’ll need extensive and practical experience applying the service design process in a complex and iterative environment.

We’re interested in people who can see the bigger picture able to work strategically, and lead the design of projects with confidence and empathy. 

Diversity + Incusion

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates. 

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

Interviews:

Online Interviews are planned to take place on 27th + 28th August. 

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early. 

The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 5 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Liverpool, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.

Housing Case Management Coordinator (6 month FTC)
Location: Worcester/Birmingham
Salary: £24,067 per annum

Are you a people person?

About the role

An exciting new opportunity is available to join our client’s Communities and Neighbourhoods Team; and play a crucial role in developing the delivery module for the future of the business. Consistently improving the service provided to their customers is hugely important to them, and this role will be the first point of contact into the Communities & Neighbourhoods Team where queries are not fully resolved by the Contact Centre or other teams. 

It will involve scheduling and planning in person and digital conversations with customers and other agencies regarding all case management appointments.  The Case Management Coordinator will be the key contact and lead for Customers and Neighbourhood and Specialist Case Officers in relation to the management of tenancy breaches.

They want somebody who has:

Excellent customer service skills, is calm and resilient with the ability to manage customer’s expectations. You will be able to work effectively with other teams, and alongside team members to ensure that queries are resolved to a high standard. You will need first class organisational skills, including the ability to schedule and allocate work to the team, meet deadlines and quickly re-prioritise in a reactive environment.

Who they are

Our client owns and manages 45,000 homes across the Midlands, with a portfolio that includes social and affordable rent and shared ownership houses. The group has G1 governance and V1 financial viability ratings from the Regulator of Social Housing and was the second largest housing association builder completing 1,598 new homes in 2018/19. They are committed to making a real and positive difference to the lives of local customers and the communities they live in.

Working with them is more than just a job. They value the contribution that their colleagues make to their business and offer lots of opportunities for you to get involved - from networking groups through to fun community and social events.

They aim to attract, develop and retain the best people so, along with your generous salary they also offer a great range of benefits. 

The Group is committed to their employees working flexibly where they can and they are keen to attract talent from diverse backgrounds.  If you are interested in this role but would like to explore a different way of working to the standard Monday to Friday, 9-5 approach, then please highlight this on your application or discuss it with them at the interview stage.  After all, they want to attract the best people to work for them and they know that one size does not fit all.

The Group are currently reviewing all terms and conditions of employment and harmonising salary structures, therefore these may be subject to change. Please note should this become a permanent role it will not be re advertised.

If this sounds like the place for you then they’d love to hear from you. 

If they receive a high number of applications, this vacancy may expire prior to the closing date. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Our client is committed to building a healthy, vibrant and inclusive organisation that treats people with respect and creates opportunities for all.

RSVP is expanding the Children's and Young Person's (CYP) Counselling and Wellbeing Services for children subjected to all forms of sexual violence, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, and for their parents and carers too. To lead these exciting new developments a new part time (32 hours/week) Head of CYP Counselling and Wellbeing Services will be recruited into the Leadership Team. This is a brand new role to ensure that the expansion of the CYP counselling and wellbeing services runs smoothly. Your role will be to look at the strategic direction of the service, ensure that positive outcomes and differences for the CYP we support are met, and to work closely with the CEO and wider Leadership Team. You will ensure that RSVP continues to offer CYP centred, safe, effective and trauma informed specialist support services to CYP and the people who support them. 

Fundraising and Development Manager (20hr per week)

£35k per annum pro rata, initial 12-month contract

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to join YMCA Sutton Coldfield as a Fundraising and Development Manager.

This role is subject to enhanced DBS check.

Send your CV with contact details for 2 referees and a short supporting statement (max 2 sides A4) outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this by 12noon on Monday 24th August 2020.

Interviews on Thursday 3rd September 2020.

RSVP is expanding the Children's and Young Person's (CYP) Counselling and Wellbeing Services for children subjected to all forms of sexual violence, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, and for their parents and carers too.

To work with our new Head of CYP Counselling and Wellbeing Services, we need a new CYP Team Leader to help support these exciting new developments. This will be a new part time role (19 hours/week). You will report to the new Head of CYP Counselling and Wellbeing Services and work closely with them to ensure that the expansion of the CYP counselling and wellbeing services runs smoothly. You will also continue and stand in for the work of the Head of CYP Counselling Service when they are unavailable. 

Your role will be to support the CYP Senior Counsellors and CYP Counsellors, including supporting other members of our counselling team. You will also be responsible for allocation, matching CYP and the people supporting them to a member of our CYP counselling team, ensuring that services are offered as quickly as possible to minimise waiting times for CYP. You will also ensure that positive outcomes and differences for the CYP we support are met, and will work closely with the whole CYP team, including our CYP Independent Sexual Violence Advocates (ISVAs). Alongside the Head of CYP Counselling and Wellbeing Services you will ensure that RSVP continues to offer CYP centred, safe, effective and trauma informed specialist support services to CYP and the people who support them.