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As part of our family support service, The Joshua Tree provides opportunities for all members of our families to connect with and gain support from our team of support workers. This includes children and young people that are newly diagnosed with cancer, on treatment and post treatment, as well as siblings and wider young family members. By developing a positive, trusting and caring ongoing professional relationship with the children and their families, the families will feel comfortable and confident in visiting the centre on a regular basis.
The key purpose of this role is to plan and deliver a high quality, child focused programme of activities for children aged 0 to 18 affected by childhood cancer. Over the next 12 months the Support Centre will be utilised during the daytime, after school times, in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays, therefore flexibility on working days and times is essential. The role will also include delivering 1 to 1 support programmes to enhance emotional wellbeing with children in school or at their home. This means that there is an expectation for Family Support staff to travel and be willing to use their car for business purposes. Post holders must have a full driving licence and have access to a reliable vehicle. Mileage expenses will be covered by the employer.
It will be important to maintain the playroom, teenage areas and playground at the Support Centre, as well as planning, organising and implementing activities, programmes, groups and individual care plans to suit the needs of children and young people.
Strong communication in this role is key and this includes liaising with other members of the family support team to co-ordinate targeted interventions when required e.g. counselling, art therapy, nutrition advice, personal training, school support etc. This post also involves an element of administrative duties as well as monitoring the impact our work is having on our beneficiaries and regularly updating our new Lamplight Database system.
The nature of work is hugely rewarding it can also be emotionally demanding. A full induction programme and training will be provided and we are a very supportive team, offering regular supervision and reflection time to support emotional wellbeing. The post holder will follow The Joshua Tree's values and effectively communicate with service users, their families, colleagues and educational and healthcare professionals.
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Sessional Play Inclusion Worker
REQ001674
Varied/Flexible hours
£9.89 per hour
Leeds, West Yorkshire
This role is a flexible role and is not full time, it can fit around other studies or another job
Activities for All are recruiting to their team of Sessional Inclusion Workers. This role is 0 hour contract and would suit students or persons looking for casual work around another position. The role is mostly evenings and weekends and sometimes in the school holidays.
The role
It is working with our Activities for All team to promote the use of mainstream activities for families of disabled children in Leeds. You would be joining our bank of staff, be matched to a family and then work to support that young person to join an activity, helping them settle in and upskilling the activity staff until confidence is build for you to withdraw. Sports, dance, drama, gaming art and crafts there is no limit to types of activities so if you have a passion for inclusion, want to access free training to develop your experience then get in touch.
If you want to make a difference and become a Disability Gamechanger, we'd love to hear from you. Apply Today!
Close date: 22/05/2022
Disabled candidates
Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our mission. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential job criteria.
Please let us know if you are applying under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.
We encourage applications from underrepresented groups including people in BAME and LGBTQ+ communities.
If you would prefer an application form or need any of the job information in a different format such as large print or braille. Please contact us via our website.
Our Values - Pioneering, Courageous, Connected, Open, Fair
By living our values and trusting each other, we empower our colleagues to make decisions. By giving our colleagues freedom and space to spark creativity for innovation, we can push boundaries, change mindsets and be empowered to change the game with grit and determination and a sense of urgency.
Scope Benefits
We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work and embrace our values of being open and fair, courageous, connected and pioneering. We believe hard work deserves reward and recognition and offer a wide range of benefits including 35 days annual leave in Retail, 27 days plus Bank Holidays working in our Head Office, flexible working (where we can), company pension, excellent training and career development, strong colleague networks across disability, race and LGBTQ+, wellbeing incentives like a discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, and much more.
Who we are at Scope?
Scope is a disability equality charity in England and Wales. Together we are Disability Gamechangers. We belong to one team, dedicated to achieving a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness. Our mission is to achieve Everyday Equality for disabled people, and we campaign tirelessly to create change.
Responsible to: Lead Youth Worker
Responsible for: One-to-one and group work
Salary: £11:05 per hour
Hours: Sessional but must be available on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 4:45-8:15pm
Job Description
The purpose of the job is to deliver youth and community provision for Carney’s Community.
Specific duties of the Youth Worker and Mentor (session based):
- Support the weekly session of activities at Carney’s Community, such as boxing, bike maintenance, cooking classes, youth club and music studio sessions.
- Support the holiday activities provided by the organisation, such as trips or youth festivals.
- Be proactive and youth-led in coming up with ideas for how to better engage young people in the organisation, particularly the target group of young people the charity aims to support.
- Work collaboratively and supportively within a team of other mentors and coaches in order to bring a united front to sessions.
- Attend briefings, de-briefings and ongoing meetings to improve practice and allow space for discussion of sessions.
- Be consistent in imposing the Carney’s Community Code of Conduct within sessions and setting clear boundaries and expectations to young people during sessions.
- Take registers during sessions, complete contact sheets following sessions and a timesheet each month. Ensure all paperwork is completed on time and sent digitally to the Admin team.
General duties
- Attend regular supervision and team meetings as agreed with line manager.
- Carry out all duties in accordance with Carney’s Community’s policies, actively safeguarding and promoting equality and seeking to prevent and overcome disadvantage, discrimination and bullying.
- Ensure that legislation relating to the health safety and protection of young people, staff and the general public is complied with at all times.
- Maintain appropriate boundaries and confidentiality with young people, staff and volunteers.
- Attend training events and undertake other professional development.
- Be fully aware of and understand the duties and responsibilities arising from your role in the organisation with regard to Child Protection procedures and the Safeguarding policies of the organisation to keep young people safe and protected from harm.
- To be fully aware of the principles of safeguarding as they apply to vulnerable adults in relation to your work role.
- To ensure that your line manager is made aware and kept fully informed of any concerns which you may have in relation to safeguarding and/or child protection
- Be a positive role model to young people during all work done at Carney’s Community and behave appropriately when out in the community in order to uphold the positive reputation of the centre.
- Complete the relevant training and development to fulfil statutory and Carney’s Community requirements (e.g. first aid and safeguarding) and be open to ongoing professional development.
- Take an active role in monitoring and evaluation activities including focus groups, questionnaires and case studies with young people.
- Carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the overall function, commensurate with the grading and level of responsibilities of the post.
If you progress towards Keywork, your role would involve:
- Develop effective one-to-one working relationships with an identified group of young people at risk and their families/carers. To provide them with intensive, individual support and mentoring. This may involve outreach, home visits and a range of other youth work strategies to engage the interest of young people and their families.
- Structure your work with each young person and develop Personal Development Plans to identify barriers to their progress. Set bespoke goals to support learning or personal development targets and action plans and conduct regular reviews with them.
- Keep in regular contact with the identified young people, through arranged appointments and informally at sessions or as and when you are able to connect with them.
- Provide them with ongoing advice, practical support and encouragement to enable them to participate in positive and constructive activities and a range of informal learning and personal development opportunities.
- Research and provide young people with basic information on the range of learning, training and career options and support services available to them, referring to specialists where necessary.
- Work proactively with other professionals in the team around the child in order to promote good outcomes for the young person.
- Support young people as they move between school and college/employer-based placements and be proactive rather than reactive to their ongoing needs.
- Advocate for the young person in order for them to stay enrolled in education or training and work as best you can to ensure they avoid becoming out of education for a long period.
- Carry out home visits and provide information and advice to the families of the identified young people.
- Maintain accurate, up to date records of case work and record with a keen eye for detail.
- Monitor young people’s progress and outcomes and supply information to relevant partners if appropriate.
Working hours may be subject to change and are based around the sometimes changing requirements and functions of Carney’s Community’s work. Reasonable notice will be given for any such changes.
Application Deadline: please submit a completed application pack by 5pm on Friday the 15th of July.
All applicants must complete this pack, CVs alone will not be accepted.
Please note that due to the volume of applications expected, only applicants who are invited to interview will be contacted.
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KIDS are recruiting for a Coordinator for the delivery of services for disabled children and young people living in Bracknell and Oxford.
Play Scheme Coordinator - Disabled Children and Young People Services
Location: Bracknell Forest
Salary: £24,865 FTE Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
About KIDS
Passionate, caring and trusted since 1970, KIDS is a national charity that provides more than 120 different services and works with around 60 Local Authorities across England in order to help disabled children and young people develop independence and achieve their aspirations.
As well as working with individuals from birth through to age 25, we offer invaluable support and practical help for their families too, in environments where there’s a real sense of achievement. The work can be challenging, and humbling at times, but it’s also hugely rewarding and meaningful.
About The Role
The Bracknell play scheme delivers a holiday play scheme and a Saturday service (during term time).
The service uses community facilities as a base, but also delivers a range of outings from farm trips to specialist adventure playgrounds. You will be supported by a senior support worker.
As the service coordinator you will be the registered manager for Ofsted early years.
The role also involves supporting our small after school and play scheme service in Oxford. This will involve weekly catch up support for the local Senior Practitioner leading the service. This will be via telephone and video call support with occasional meetings in person. In person support may be once a month depending on circumstances.
This role is a full time role mainly based in Bracknell from our local office.
About You
A person centred individual committed to supporting quality outcomes for children and young people with disabilities.
We are looking for someone with the skills to deliver planned group support to disabled children and young people and manage a small team of sessional workers in the delivery of good outcomes.
You will need to have good communication skills as you will be communicating with a range of stakeholders (parents, social workers, health professionals). You will also need to have good report writing skills.
Ideally the successful applicant will be a Bracknell resident, or live local to the Bracknell area.
Closing Date: 11 July 2022
Interested?
If you would like find out more about this position, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website where you can download the job description and complete the online application process.
KIDS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All children and young people we work with must, at all times, feel safe. KIDS practices safer recruitment. For certain roles successful applicants will be required to carry out a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
KIDS is a disability Confident Committed Employer and an equal opportunities employer. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
No agencies please.
MISSION OBJECTIVE
The Community Support and Insight (CSI) Team puts the 38 Degrees community of supporters in focus, by listening to and understanding their views, priorities and experiences, so that 38 Degrees can better reach and mobilise a powerful, broad community to create change and tell a compelling, story about the fairer, more respectful and sustainable country we want to become.
We lead on representing the views and real life experiences of our audiences so that supporters can be front and centre of our campaigns, and we deeply understand who is part of our community - bringing data that makes our campaigns more impactful and supporter-driven, and ensuring campaigns better resonate with our broad, representative community and beyond. We amplify these findings for use internally and externally.
The CSI Officer, reporting to the Head of CSI, delivers a full-range of activities, from providing a high quality service and experience to 38 Degrees' community of supporters and stakeholders, to collecting and reporting on relevant data and information and providing analysis of what we hear from the community of supporters and target audiences
The Officer role is responsible for making recommendations that contribute to ongoing CSI analysis and campaign decisions, using a variety of data points and channels, supporting the wider team to utilise community insights to make 38 Degrees more impactful and engaging, and to empower the 38 Degrees community. The role is also responsible for implementing relevant recommendations when required.
This job describes the role of the Community Support and Insight Officer. The 38 Degrees team works in a culture of togetherness and passion for our issues and determination to win, so from time to time, the team will be expected to perform activities outside of their normal role.
Commitment
All 38 Degrees staff should have a deep commitment to our mission of empowering our supporters to win campaigns on the issues they care most about.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
MANAGE INTEGRATED PROCESSES
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Analyse and report on CSI data, in line with 38 Degrees' data handling and security guidelines, in support of campaign design and delivery as well as data-driven strategic decision-making.
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Responsible for resolving queries from a variety of communication channels from our community of supporters and the public,while consistently meeting agreed response timelines and overseeing the timely resolution of urgent queries.
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Provide high quality service standards and supporter experience, based on established guidelines. Continue to develop, update, and implement these guidelines and best practices, and lead relevant staff training.
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Contribute to maintaining a culture that understands the priorities and experiences of the 38 Degrees community of supporters whilst challenging the perspectives of the wider team.
ALIGN
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Advise cross functional teams on community insights by utilising all available data sources and channels to understand our community of supporters and target audiences
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Bring timely analysis and recommendations to relevant teams from insights on a regular basis, which support the implementation of change and improves our campaigns and communities experience, and puts supporters front and centre
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Identify issues which promote/impede delivery of information critical to campaigns and supporter engagement activities and work to swiftly resolve these
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Create a range of work products to support and deliver on CSI and campaign priorities including content creation
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Proactively identify gaps that may affect our community or service, and collaboratively deliver agreed projects to ensure the views of supporters and our target audience is heard and embedded.
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Proactively support and guide petition starters to run their campaigns, and moderate, scope and share incoming campaigns with the CBY team, and then work closely with them to decide next steps, ensuring petition starters have consistent support and CSI better understand our community
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Collaboratively create work products, including questionnaires, and utilise other research methods, to enable 38 Degrees to deeply understand its community and their lived experiences and put real lives front and centre
SUSTAIN SERVICE
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Anticipate operational and systematic issues affecting timely delivery of information and CSI services to sustain continuity in the provision of the CSI service.
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Contribute to evaluating and improving 38 Degrees services to represent our communities perspectives, including testing as needed.
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Deliver insights which can be integrated with the priorities and work of the campaigns team
TARGET SKILLS PROFILE
Demonstrable significant experience of gathering information and providing recommendations based on insights and data, particularly qualitative data, and of delivering high quality support to stakeholders ensuring consistency in quality and conformity with CSI standards, and establishing ongoing guidelines / best practice.
CONCEPTUAL
Understand the priorities of 38 Degrees' supporters and target audiences, and make recommendations about how to better serve them.
APPLIED
Deliver timely production of CSI deliverables, including weekly/monthly reporting, qualitative research, training/briefing sessions on service processes and outputs working collaboratively with colleagues.
Significant demonstrated skill in developing and sharing best practice.
INTERNAL
Advise cross functional team members on how to effectively engage with our community of supporters and identify opportunities for further engagement and how to embed.
EXTERNAL
Deliver an excellent service to our community of supporters and target audiences, ensuring they have an excellent experience of the CSI service. Engage with stakeholders to improve supporter services.
Demonstrable significant experience of planning, evaluating, and delivering processes, producing recommendations, qualitative research/analysis, and providing excellent support services,
TIMELINESS
Complete projects, research, share/embed information and feedback and respond to supporter queries in a timely manner to ensure service standards are maintained.
QUALITY
Identify/implement/recommend improvements and enhancements to processes which improve team consistency, delivery, and quality.
TARGETED SPECIALISED KNOWLEDGE
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Significant experience in delivering a high quality support service to stakeholders, research, analysis and reporting on data from stakeholder engagement to inform organisational decision making.
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Significant experience in the use of CRM tools and databases.
You can apply for this role by emailing your CV and the answers to the questions below (of no more than 2 pages) to the recruitment email address as stated in the advert
1) Having read this advert, what appeals to you about the role and 38 Degrees?
2) What do you think makes you a good fit for this role, particularly thinking about your communication skills and
your experience?
3) What do you think would be the most important things to consider when representing the views, priorities and experiences of millions of people from different backgrounds all across the country?
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Deputy Hub Leader, Oasis Hub Hull
Hours: 3.5 days per week- 3 flexible days plus Sunday mornings
Salary: £16,955 to £20,628, dependent on experience for 3.5 days per week (£24,221 to £29,469 FTE).
We're looking for the right person to work with our friendly and supportive team to focus on our Sunday church community and activities
We’re really excited to be able to recruit to this new post. We hope it will be a fulfilling role for someone who would like the opportunity to work with a team to further develop our inclusive church community. There is plenty of flexibility, with the opportunity for the right person to shape the role, input into our vision for the future, and make the vision a reality.
We are a friendly and supportive team comprising of staff, a leadership team (which we call our core team), trustees and many other people who give their time voluntarily to create our community together. The Deputy Hub Leader will become a part of the core team, and play a full role in our planning, leadership, and developing our strategy for the future, with a particular focus on our Church congregation and activity.
At Oasis Hub Hull we create space for community to thrive- with our church at the centre of all we do, we welcome everyone to join with us, participate, and make us their second home. Our heart is for everyone to feel they belong, are valued, and to be able to both give and receive support.
We are looking for a Deputy Hub Leader who is fully committed to creating an inclusive church community (including all areas of inclusivity such as LGBTQ+, ethnicity, economic power, disability).
The role will focus on our church activity such as Sunday services and pastoral support and we are looking for someone with training and/or experience in these areas, as well as someone who can bring creativity and new ideas across all our hub activity.
If you have leadership skills, a desire to serve and support others, and a passion for developing and growing a local inclusive church community, then we would love to hear from you.
We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups. We see people who speak many different languages so the ability to speak other languages is an advantage (although not essential).
For more information and to request an application pack, please visit the Oasis Jobs Website.
*This role has an occupational requirement for applicants to actively embrace the Christian ethos and values of Oasis
Deadline for applications: 9am, Monday 18th July
Interviews: Sunday, 31st July
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Do you want to be part of making a positive difference to the health & wellbeing of people in our local community? Are you passionate about driving service improvement, innovation and change? KHL are looking for a Project Lead for Healthy Lifestyles projects at our community centre in Keighley. You will work with the KHL team to develop and implement lifestyle change projects.
Keighley Healthy Living (KHL) is a charity based in Keighley, West Yorkshire which aims to support the health and wellbeing of the diverse local population and combat health inequalities through the work we do.
KHL offer a wide range of health-focused activities based around social, physical and mental wellbeing, including diet, nutrition, healthy lifestyles and physical activity projects.
We offer a flexible and supportive work environment with staff benefits including enhanced leave, pension contribution, plus professional development opportunities.
To apply please send your CV and up to two pages of supporting documents to outline why you are suitable for this role.
Closing date: Sunday 17th July
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.