Sessional Activity Workers Jobs in Greater London
The Youth and Community Programmes team are looking for a Community Programmes Lead worker to support a broad range of activities aimed mainly at young people and over 50’s. Activities are delivered mainly over evenings and weekends aimed at making our community an inspirational place.
You will lead on session delivery and support the planning of programmes. You will manage and coordinate sessional workers, volunteers and workshop leaders working in sessions.
About Coin Street Community Builders
Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) is a social enterprise responsible for developing and managing a significant part of London’s South Bank. We have transformed a largely derelict area into a thriving place for people to live, work and visit.
Our 13-acre estate includes:
- the iconic Oxo Tower Wharf, home to designer-maker studios, exhibition and gallery spaces
- a successful conference centre
- cafes, bars and restaurants
- parks and the riverside walkway
- award winning co-operative housing
- an Ofsted Outstanding family and children’s centre providing a nursery and family support
As a social enterprise income we generate stays in the neighbourhood. It’s used to improve and maintain our site which includes Bernie Spain Gardens and the riverside walkway, and to provide a range of free and affordable programmes and activities for families, children, young people, adults and older people in Waterloo and North Southwark.
Contract
Permanent, 20 hours per week.
Salary
£16,224 per annum
Extras
In return we can offer you:
- 27 days’ annual leave (pro rata for part timers)
- 8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)
- Income Protection, Death in Service and Critical Illness cover
- Season ticket loan on completion of probation
- Health and wellbeing package including a confidential employee assistance programme and online therapy sessions
- Commitment to training and development
Location: Haringey
Salary: Band 1 - £25642.50 - £26521.88 per annum, £6,154.20- £6,365.25 pro rata
(Please note, successful candidates are usually appointed at bottom of relevant band).
Hours: 9 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2025
Closing Date: 12th April 2024 at 12 noon
Interview Date: 22nd April 2024
Are you looking for a rewarding role working for an intersectional feminist organisation? If so, we have an incredible opportunity for you to join our team as Children and Young People Sessional Play Worker at Solace Women's Aid.
We exist to end the harm done through gender-based violence. Our aim is to work to prevent violence and abuse, as well as providing services to meet the individual needs of survivors, particularly women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives, free from abuse.
Our core values reflect our history and were developed in consultation with staff and service users. Feminism and intersectionality are key to our work and we are committed to the principles of being survivor-led, trauma-informed, empowering, diverse, anti-racist and anti-discriminatory.
About the Service
The Haringey Generic Refuges provide emergency accommodation to women and children fleeing domestic abuse and sexual violence. We are there for women in a time of crisis and help families take their first steps to freedom and recovery
About the Role - This is an in-service Role.
As a Sessional Play Worker you will be involved in the planning and delivery of a variety of sessions and activities for children and young people at the refuge. This includes listening to children’s ideas to design services around their needs, choices, and aspirations. You will support and involve children in activities which are playful, stimulating, and enjoyable, while promoting their wellbeing and encouraging them to take an active role during the play sessions.
You will work alongside the Family Support Worker - encouraging all children to take part and have as much fun as possible whilst helping to develop children's learning, well-being, and social skills. To be an effective member of our wonderful team the successful applicant will possess excellent communication skills, be enthusiastic and creative
About You
The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse and its We are looking for individuals with experience of working with children and who are passionate about play and dedicated to providing a welcoming and safe space for all children - supervising the children and always ensuring their safety.
The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse and its impact on children as well as practical experience of working with children and within a team. You will also need demonstrate proven ability to work on own initiative and under supervision. A minimum NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in childcare/play/youthwork/sports/coaching or creative arts is desirable. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
We understand that you may not have all the knowledge, experience, and skills mentioned in the Job Profile Document. However, your interpersonal skills, passion to have a positive impact, commitment to our purpose, and ability to learn quickly and collaborate effectively will be equally important. If you wish to learn more about the role or if you are unsure about whether to apply, we encourage you to contact our recruitment team.
What we can offer you
We provide a comprehensive benefits package to all our employees, including:
- Flexible working
- Focus on learning and development (internal career progression and training)
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Employer pension contribution
- Family-friendly leave and enhanced maternity pay
- Access to Inclusion Networks
- Daily clinical debriefing
- Employee Assistance Programme providing free 24/7 support and advice
- Employee Benefits Platform offering staff discounts, benefits and savings
- Flow & Restore yoga classes
- Meditation sessions
- Cycle to Work Scheme
How to apply
Please submit your CV and Supporting Statement through the recruitment portal. When applying for this role, kindly highlight in your Supporting Statement how your values, knowledge, transferrable skills, and experience align with each point within the following sections of the Job Profile Document:
- Values, Behaviours & Competencies
- Knowledge, Experience and Skills
Solace Women's Aid values diversity, promotes equity, and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, abilities, perspectives, and lived experiences. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay, and benefits. Our Inclusion Networks support staff with protected characteristics and offer inclusive spaces to connect.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as needed and support employees who acquire a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work. If you require any support to apply for this role, please email us.
This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
As part of safer recruitment practices, we carry out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and right to work in the UK checks.
No agencies.
You’ll have an active role providing LGBTQ+ affirmative support and empowering LGBTQ+ community members with the opportunity to work innovatively & responsively to current issues & concerns impacting theLGBTQ+ community. You will raise the visibilty and inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in local decision making and enhance thier voice.You will have the opportunity to work with other organisations and lead the work of our LGBTQ+ community forum. You will work within our LGBTQ+ community events, forum and group support services. In this role you will have opportunity to develop, support & deliver community activities & events; design, administer, & facilitate group programmes, sessions and workshops; provide LGBTQ+ affirmative support & awareness raising; support & empower LGBTQ+ community members; promote, market & administer services & events; plus support & supervise sessional staff & volunteers.
Full time: between 30-37 hours a week subject to successful applicants’ preference
You must be available to work a Tuesday evening, plus occasional other evening and/ or weekends, if required.
N.B. Initially you will work remotely, via online home-based working whilst we relocate to new premises in East London
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Main Purpose of the Job
- To design, deliver and manage a structured education programme to schools, alternative education settings, youth organisations, corporate volunteers and our community.
- To engage with the local community by providing outdoor and indoor learning and environmental events and activities for children and young people.
- To market the educational opportunities of Vauxhall City Farm to schools and organisations in Lambeth and targeted London Boroughs and to maintain strong working relationships with schools and partners.
Main Responsibilities:
- To promote, deliver and staff a range of educational programmes at Vauxhall City Farm around the areas of farming, animal care, food production, wellbeing and environmental and sustainability themes.
- To develop and run programmes in line with the National Curriculum that meet the needs of specific audiences with a focus on under-represented audiences and those with complex needs.
- To lead on the facilitation of inclusive, interactive and engaging workshops.
- To design and conduct formative and summative assessment to measure the impact of our educational programmes.
- To use assessment and data to report on the impact of programmes for funders and trustees. - To recruit and manage educational staff and sessional workers.
- To build and maintain relationships with schools, educational organisations and community groups in Lambeth and the surrounding boroughs.
- To create educational resources for programmes at Vauxhall City Farm.
- To manage the administration of educational programmes and bookings.
- To design, develop and manage outreach programmes to schools and organisations.
- To attend education related meetings representing Vauxhall City Farm with or in lieu of Deputy CEO.
- To work closely with the Events and Marketing team on publicity and marketing of education programmes, events and activities.
- To work with other staff to improve and maintain the interpretation of the farm, to enable a wide audience.
- To follow all Vauxhall City Farm policies and procedures, especially equal opportunities, health and safety and child protection.
- To ensure that all Health and Safety requirements visiting groups are implemented and adhered to.
- To ensure high levels of Safeguarding of children and young people in accordance with our safeguarding policy.
- To work flexible hours, including some evenings and weekends.
- Other duties as require
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Community Programmes Coordinator
Grade & Salary: WM6(Sc6) £28,310 (£22,648 Pro rata)
Hours of work: 30 hours per week
With occasional evening and weekend work in line with service demands.
Contract: 2 years fixed term contract
Accountable to: Community Lead – Brent & Westminster
Line reports: Sessional staff, group facilitators, wellbeing support workers
Functional Responsibility: To take an active role in supporting and advancing the Brent and Westminster community wellbeing programme.
Job Purpose:
To enrich our community wellbeing programme by providing flexible and responsive community-based support to individuals and groups who have experience of mental health conditions.
This entails conducting service user inductions, assessing risk management, fulfilling line management duties, and innovating new wellbeing activities and support groups that foster service user development, social integration, and recovery. Simultaneously, aid us in upholding compliance with monitoring, statutory, and funding requirements.
Based at:
The role will be based at our community hub in the Great Western Studios but will require you to support a number of our community wellbeing projects hosted at various venues across Brent and Westminster.
We are looking for:
An ambitious and compassionate community programmes coordinator who is passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of our local community. You will work with a proactive approach to deliver high quality and accessible community wellbeing programmes that meet the needs of our community.
You will be joining a small but growing team and will need to be someone who can hit the ground running to coordinate our busy programme of activities, whilst developing new and innovative programmes with the support of the community lead. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and enjoy working with autonomy. You will also be confident working in a fast-paced environment and will have efficient administrative and time management skills.
You will:
- To oversee the implementation and expansion of the community wellbeing programme, encompassing physical wellbeing, eco-therapy, psychoeducation, creative arts, as well as employment and volunteer support initiatives.
- To foster service user engagement, enhance social inclusion, and facilitate the journey towards improved wellbeing and recovery.
- To collaboratively identify and assist service users in achieving their individual goals.
- To carry out the enrolment and onboarding of new service users by providing inductions, risk assessments and facilitating taster sessions.
- To provide effective line management and supervision of sessional staff, group facilitators, wellbeing support workers, and volunteers.
- To research and proactively develop the activities programme to ensure it is responsive to service user needs.
- To develop and deliver innovative wellbeing activities and support groups that support service user growth and recovery.
- To provide group facilitation cover as and when needed.
- To promote and market the community wellbeing programme and support our digital marketing strategy with social media content creation.
- To support service users to identify move-on opportunities to progress growth and recovery.
- To provide signposting support to relevant organisations, groups, and services where necessary.
- To establish and cultivate dynamic relationships with corporate partners and community organisations, while enhancing both new and established referral pathways and partnerships.
- To represent Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster at community networking events and foster meaningful connections with individuals, businesses, and community organisations.
- To maintain accurate and current records of activities, encompassing attendance, impact metrics, and outcome evaluation data and generate comprehensive monitoring and evaluation reports based on gathered information.
- To contribute to service monitoring, evaluation and ongoing development/shaping of the service.
- To be aware of, and follow the procedures of, Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster Mind’s Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults.
- To ensure records are maintained and updated within the guideline of the appropriate policies.
About us:
We’re a leading community-based organisation dedicated to providing outstanding mental health support and clinical interventions across London. Our experienced clinically led teams are focused on directly addressing a range of mental health needs in our communities. We combine innovative solutions with decades of local community knowledge to empower people to live the life they choose. We partner with the NHS and local authorities to deliver clinically driven frontline services with fantastic outcomes. We focus on early intervention and prevention, targeting mental health conditions at the most cost-effective stage, while also supporting people with moderate to severe mental health needs across our communities.
Why work for us?
- Hybrid-working.
- Life-changing work.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Passionate and professional workforce.
- Diversity and Inclusion.
- Flexi time.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
- Birthday leave.
Application process
Please check Job description to ensure that you meet the requirements of the role.
Deadline for submission of application is: 8th April 2024
Please note, we may close applications early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £40,067 to £47,225 per annum, dependent on skills and experience.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave which increase with length of service, plus bank holidays, 5% employer contribution pension, generous sick leave provision, BUPA EAP scheme, BUPA Health Insurance cash plan, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.
Location: SCT Head Office (Haggerston, E8) and other SCT sites in East London with the ability to work from home for up to 2 days per week
Start date: April 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter
Summary:
Our client Spitalfields Crypt Trust (SCT) is an East London charity embedded in the local community, providing practical help, support and training to people affected by homelessness or suffering from addiction. They are passionate about the people and communities they support and embrace creative, innovative and inclusive ways of working that build on their collective strengths. They provide a Recovery Hub (including an abstinence-based residential recovery facility, an addictions counselling programme and a Training & Development Programme), supported houses, a Housing First service, community supports, charity shops and two social enterprises supporting people in recovery from addictions to rebuild their lives.
As SCT’s HR and Quality Manager you will report to the CEO and work closely with the SMT and wider management team, including SCT’s Co-Production worker and external HR Consultancy. You will be responsible for leading, directing and delivering a comprehensive generalist HR service across the whole of SCT and providing the organisational lead on health, safety and wellbeing, data protection and quality improvement systems; developing and promoting best practice and taking a hands-on role as and when necessary and according to SCT’s inclusive, integrated, innovative and participatory culture. You will also line manage HR Volunteers and a Head Office Administrator.
You will ensure SCT works to a consistently high standard across all areas in the recruitment, support, engagement, management and development of high calibre staff and volunteers; leading, promoting and implementing key HR initiatives across the organisation and providing SCT managers with expert advice, coaching and support in consultation with SCT’s external HR consultancy provider, in the areas of:
- Employee and volunteer human resources and people management (circa 70% of time)
- Continuous quality improvement (e.g. development of policies and procedures and coordination of corporate function accreditation review) – circa 10% of time
- Health, Safety and Wellbeing – circa 10% of time
- GDPR – circa 5% of time
- Head office Administration – circa 5% of time
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
Expected experience and competencies we would like to see from you:
- CIPD qualified to level 5 or significant HR management experience will also be considered
- 4+ years demonstrable generalist HR Management experience or similar role types
- Demonstrable experience of working across multiple sites
- Excellent communication skills both in the written form and in person with the ability to adapt to all audiences
- Experience of presenting material to a range of audiences and report writing
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise own workload, deal with conflicting demands and work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- The ability to work to a schedule of deliverables where requirements can change
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and methodical research skills with the ability to think creatively and strategically
- Excellent IT skills including MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint with HRIS system experience
- A willingness to work flexibly and proactively and respond to the emerging needs of the charity and our supporters
- Ability to work across teams and departments in a collaborative manner and to proactively engage colleagues on projects and initiatives
- A creative, enthusiastic and motivated ‘can-do’ approach
- Sensitivity to the complexities of cross-cultural communication and able to sustain good working relationships across multiple sites and in person
- An empathy with the aims, objectives and activities of SCT.
The following additional competencies would also be valuable but are not essential
- Health & Safety qualified such as NEBOSH
- Previous experience in managing third party relationships
- Charity / third sector experience
- Experience of using Breathe HR
- CIPD qualified to level 7
This is a full-time permanent role working 35 hours per week, usual working hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm with an unpaid hour for lunch. You will be based at the SCT Head Office in Haggerston (E8) and other SCT sites in East London, with the ability to work from home up to 2 days per week.
We seek to recruit people with a good combination of talent, skills and potential, promoting equality for all, and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates. We select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and commitment to the values and purposes of SCT.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without the requirement for visa sponsorship or funded relocation.
Application Process:
Please apply with your CV and a personal statement, giving an indication of your current remuneration and explaining your suitability for the role.
Closing date: 2nd April 2024
Interview dates: From w/c 11th March 2024 onwards
Start date: April 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter
The organisation reserves the right to conduct interviews and appoint prior to the closing date dependent on the calibre of applications received. If you do not hear from us within 14 days of our closing date, you may assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.