I am delighted to be recruiting for a locally based charity that truly has it's services at the heart of everything it does. This organisation is looking for a Head of Fundraising to join the team on a maternity cover capacity, to oversee their fundraising operations at a truly exciting time, as the charity approaches their upcoming anniversary.
As Head of Fundraising you will be responsible for managing the fundraising function of the charity and will support and motivate the fundraising team in the delivery of all income streams, with specific responsibility for major giving. You will develop, manage and report regularly on the progress of the fundraising strategy and development plan, as well as developing and working towards agreed KPI's and targets. You will be tasked with implementing effective stewardship across all fundraising techniques, ensuring supporters are kept engaged and inspired and ensure effective stewardship by the wider FR team.
To be considered for this role, you will be an experienced fundraiser with demonstrable success in generating funds across a variety of income streams, ideally with trust and foundations fundraising experience. You will have a strong track record of achieving against targets and KPI's and be confident motivating others to do the same. You will come to us with previous experience of managing a team, as well as experience of developing and delivering a fundraising strategy. A natural relationship builder, you will have excellent communication skills and easily be able to build rapport with colleagues, supporters and beneficiaries alike.
The position comes with a unique opportunity to really see the impact that your fundraising has on service users and to be inspired in your day to day work! With a wonderful flexible working policy, a significant investment in personal development and training and lovely suburban offices this really is a role not to be missed! To register your interest, or find out more, contact Vicky/ 0113 2207 540 or Charlie on [email protected] / 0161 2331600.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Job description

Part Time Activity & Training Co-Ordinator

2 x Part Time roles

Salary: £22,178 pro rata for Part Time,

18-20 hours per week

Wigan location – 18 hours over 4 days (11-3.30pm)

Leigh Location – 20 hours over 4 days ( 10.30 – 3.30pm)

(flexible working may be required between sites to cover leave and sickness)

Contract Length: Fixed Term until 31st March 2021, though funding will be sought to extend the post

Holidays: 22 Days plus Bank Holidays pro rate for PT

Base: Will be expected to work across all Wigan and Leigh sites deemed appropriate by management.

Responsible to: Training and Resource Manager

Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees

Summary:

The Brick is a small charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering tailored support, hope, and opportunity to those looking to improve their quality of life.

About you

We are now looking for 2 enthusiastic, resilient, proactive and inspirational Activity and Training Co-ordinators to join our team. You should be a believer in the right to equal life chances with a passion to improve lives through collaboration and innovation.

You’ll be a confident self-starter, motivated, committed to the job and inspiring. You should be flexible and not be afraid to try something different.

As you may be working with challenging behaviour you’ll be confident in your ability to inspire and drive the right engagement and commitment. It’s key that you are brilliant at encouraging people to join in on activities and sessions and to engage in meaningful activities. You must believe in what we do and to succeed you must go above and beyond in your approach to your job which can be really challenging at times.

A driving licence is essential as you will be working across Wigan and Leigh; and in some instances you could be taking the people that we work with to attend sessions and activities across the Borough.

Closing Date 5pm 30th November

Interviews to take place 6th December

To Apply , please view the job description and submit a completed application form.

Only completed application forms will be accepted

Sessional Shop Assistant - Zero Hours Contract

Hours will be as and when required by the needs of the business, and could be over a cluster of shops.

Hours

£9..00 per hour

Location:

We are looking for a dedicated Shop Assistant in our Heaton Moor Clothes shop, to ensure that the shop stay's open full trading hours in the absence of the Shop Manager or the Assistant Shop Manager. You will also be driving productivity and leading on key shop tasks, like advertising items for sale on eBay, shop displays and working the Till.

We are looking for someone who has ideally worked in the Retail environment before and can bring new ideas to the table. Ideally, computer literate to enable quick upskilling on shops eBay advertising requirements.

You will be working closely with your Shop Manager and Assistant Shop Manager to make the shop a success, and build links in the local community. You will need to be confident at working with people from different backgrounds creating a welcoming and positive experience for all of our staff, volunteers and supporters.

If you have what it takes to work hard but have some fun along the way, and support your Shop Management team to be the best it can be, then this is the place for you!

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Vacancy closes midnight: 27/11/2019

Interviews will be held on: TBA

City Hearts are currently recruiting for an Outreach Caseworker to work within the Anti-Trafficking Team of the organisation. This role will require the successful candidate to casework the Survivors of Modern Slavery in the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and women with life-controlling issues in their rest and reflection period before moving on to support the Staff of City Hearts; to ensure all standards for City Hearts are upheld to a high standard.

City Hearts was founded in 2005 with a mandate to fully restore those with a history of vulnerability and exploitation. We began with a single home to help women with life controlling issues and shortly after welcomed our first survivor of Modern Slavery. Since then we have expanded dramatically across multiple regions and now provide accommodation and outreach support to hundreds of survivors of modern slavery every year, as well as continuing to house and support women with life-controlling issues.

The Role:

• Caseworking individual PVOHT (Potential Victims of Human Trafficking);
• Regular feedback and review meetings with Outreach Coordinator;
• Arranging and attending appointments for individual;
• Following up all the paperwork and details of VOHT in adherence to the terms of the contract; including on line reporting. Including, weekly reviews, daily logs and inductions.
• Shift flexibility to include some evenings and, weekends and sleeps on a rota basis at safehouse,
• Ensuring that volunteers who work with you on shift have the proper level of support and adhere to policies and procedures;
• Ensuring that all Key Performance Indicators are met;
• Ensuring progression of VOHT through system;
• Liaising with organisations and individuals regarding PVOHT and CH in a professional manner –
• Identifying support hours and ensuring accurate logging of all hours;
• Ensuring paperwork is being completed correctly and in a timely fashion;
• Ensuring Exit Strategies are being prepared in a timely fashion;
• Dealing with out of hour crisis in accordance with standby rota;
• Receiving out of hours referrals, carrying out inductions, weekly reviews, updating IT system.
• Ensuring adherence to all internal procedures regarding City Hearts, the Safe Houses and any legislation;
• Promoting CH in adherence to the terms of the contract – this may include attending events on behalf of CH as a whole.
• Please note that there is an occupational requirement due to the nature of this role for the post holder to be female.

Any other duties that are commensurate with the role;

The Candidate:

• Ability to work in a team
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to liaise with other agencies in a professional manner
• Good communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• High level of emotional resilience
• Good IT skills and the ability to accurately record keep
• Ability to be flexible to needs of the service and clients
• Ability to manage time around shift work to enable adequate self-care and rest

Benefits:

30 Days Holiday (based on 40 hour working week)

Sleep shift pay supplement

Perkbox - local / national discount scheme + app

Training / Career Progression

Various courses - personal and professional development

On-going support

Group supervision regularly - share best practice

Closing date for the role is midnight on 25th November.

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are committed to providing responsive, person centred care which promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support.

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruitment Administrator to join our Recruitment team based in our friendly, busy Head Office near the town center of Stockport, 5 minutes’ walk from the train station. This would be a great opportunity for a graduate who has interest in developing a career in Recruitment for a not-for-profit organisation.

For this interesting and varied role you will be responsible for proofing and advertising recruitment focused job advertisements online, in addition to the production and review of associated job descriptions and interview question sets. Additionally, you will provide first class customer service to applicants and managers and will support the wider Recruitment department with other functions such as the processing of applications, maintaining department records, Probationary Review paperwork and dealing with applicant queries.

As part of a central department of the organisation, other duties central to this role will include providing supporting with scheduled CQC inspection requests and the maintenance of related systems and records.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work flexibly under pressure in order to meet deadlines. You will have proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel and will have a confident but polite telephone manner. Additionally you will have strong administration skills and an excellent standard of English to proof read text for inaccuracies and create high standard role specific texts.

Our range of employee benefits includes:

• Guaranteed Contracted Hours, 37.5 hours per week

• Free life assurance

• Pension with company contribution

• A range of employee discounts

This is a full time role over five days with occasional weekend shift support for our Out of Hours On-Call desk. Interviews will take place week ending 08 December 2019

Shop Assistant

Hours 20 per week also to be flexible to work additional hours to suit the needs of the business (including weekends)

£17,316 pro rata (20hrs £9,360 +additional hours if required at £9 per hour)

We offer many enhanced benefits including; 28 days holiday a year - plus Bank Holidays and stakeholder pension scheme with matching contributions up to 8%. Full details about our benefits can be found on our website.

Location:

We are looking for a dedicated Shop Assistant in our Chorley shop, to ensure that the shop stay's open full trading hours in the absence of the Shop Manager or the Assistant Shop Manager. You will also be driving productivity and leading on key shop tasks, like shop displays and working the Till.

We are looking for someone who has ideally worked in the Retail environment before and can bring new ideas to the table.

You will be working closely with your Shop Manager and Assistant Shop Manager to make the shop a success, and build links in the local community. You will need to be confident at working with people from different backgrounds creating a welcoming and positive experience for all of our staff, volunteers and supporters.

If you have what it takes to work hard but have some fun along the way, and support your Shop Management team to be the best it can be, then this is the place for you!

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Vacancy closes midnight: 24th November

Interviews will be held on: 5th December

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs and is committed to providing responsive, person centred care which promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support. We are looking for a temporary Recruitment Administrator (Caseloads) to join our friendly, proactive and supportive team based at our Head Office located in Stockport Town Centre - with easy access to transport and shopping links. We are recruiting for two posts, the first is a full time permanent role, the second to provide maternity leave cover with a potential view to become permanent at the end of the temporary period based on a review of the role and employee performance.

You will be responsible for pre-employment checks including references, DBS checks, health screening. You will be part of a highly motivated successful team to ensure we process all new starters efficiently to ensure that candidates may begin their role with Creative Support as soon as possible. You will liaise with Managers and other members of the team to ensure that files are processed as efficiently as possible and that candidates have a good experience throughout the recruitment process. We need individuals to be highly motivated, have excellent communication skills, be organised and able to work to tight deadlines with a can-do attitude.

This would be an excellent opportunity for those who have the right skills and attitude to work for a highly dynamic organisation. You will promote the highest levels of internal and external customer care, positive person-centred values and a respectful, confidential approach. This job will offer great job satisfaction to people who enjoy hard work and achieving great outcomes for our business and our people.

You will be an experienced administrator with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Word & Excel) and a strong attention to detail though this role would also be a valuable opportunity for a graduate looking to begin a successful career within a not-for-profit organisation.

This role is recruiting on a rolling basis and may be withdrawn if appointed to before the closing date. This is a full time role over five days with occasional weekend shift support for our Out of Hours On-Call desk.

Bank Support Worker

You will join our client as a Bank Support Worker to support the young people using a therapeutic approach to live in a non-secure community setting and to achieve their individual goals in preparation for transition to adult life.

Bank Support Worker Responsibilities:

As part of their bank team you will work on a zero hours contract supporting their residential houses across numerous locations in the Cheshire area. Your role will be to provide the highest standard of care to their young people following individual care plans and programmes. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and as a bank worker you will have the opportunity to apply for permanent internal roles as they arise.

Bank Support Worker Requirements:

Experience is not essential as full training will be provided however you will need to have a good understanding of the issues young people face and the desire to make a real difference. You will need to be flexible in your approach and have the ability to work shifts including nights and weekends. Access to a car is desirable.

About Our Client:

Our client provides residential services for young people and young adults aged 16-30 years old who have been discharged from psychiatric inpatient stays or secure children’s homes. Their aim is to support the young people using an innovative therapeutic approach and least restrictive practice to enable them to live in a non-secure community setting and to achieve their individual goals in preparation for transition to adult life. Their “no restraint” policy allows for more respectful and thoughtful relationships with young people and avoids traumatisation and consequent escalations in risk.

“Pay, work life balance, mix of staff, professional organisation and fantastic management and processes.” – Glassdoor Review.

Location: Cheshire (Stockport, Warrington, Neston, West Kirby)

Job type: Bank, Part Time; Zero Hours Contract

Salary: £9 per hour

Benefits: 22-27 holidays per year (plus bank holidays), Free training and professional development programme, Paid induction, training and enhanced DBS check, Company Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Free onsite parking, Life Assurance.

Closing date for applications: 30th November, 2019

You may have experience of the following: Bank Support Worker, Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Care Assistant, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP etc.

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