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If you have natural enthusiasm for working with young people and are committed to working to improve their life chances, then Southover Partnership would like you to join our welcoming and passionate team.
We are an Independent Special Needs day school for pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties, Autistic Spectrum disorder and other complex needs. All pupils have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and are placed by a wide range of local authorities. Typically, the pupils placed at our school have had significantly disrupted educational journey's. Southover provides an education for KS3, KS4 and KS5 students.
Our work at Southover is underpinned by the principles of Attachment Theory. We follow a small school model because we believe it delivers the best outcomes for our students. This means each school community gets to deeply know and understand its students and gives them the opportunity to be more directly involved in their own education.
This is an exciting opportunity in an good school for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed person, who will continue to maintain the School high standards by providing abundant opportunities for all students to achieve.
Job Purpose:
To support the academic and behavioural needs of the students at Southover Partnership to enable them to develop personal, social and academic skills. To assist the staff team at Southover Partnership in enabling a calm and purposeful environment for education.
We are looking for:
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An all-round individual, who is able to inspire and motivate students
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Has a proven track record of high standards with pupils with challenging/complex behaviour within a SEHM or similar setting
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Has excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
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Has an interest in, and understanding of, the factors, which affect behaviour
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Is both flexible, a good team player and has a good sense of humour
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A positive attitude to hard work and challenging situations
We can offer you:
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A welcoming and positive working environment where the wellbeing of both students and staff is a high priority
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Students with whom you can make exceptional progress
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The opportunity to be part of a hard-working, supportive, solution focused team of professionals
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A highly rewarding job where you can make a difference to young people’s lives
Please note that we can only accept our standard application form and not CV’s.
Informal discussions are welcomed by contacting the School Office.
The Southover Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share the same commitment. The post is subject to an Enhanced Certificate of Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and a range of other recruitment checks. All adults employed by the school have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Southover Partnership welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation. All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this position.
PLEASE NOTE: We reserve the right depending on the number of applications received to shortlist and interview candidates prior to the closing date.
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We are looking for a Specialist Behavioural Support Worker to join a dedicated service supporting individuals with learning disabilities and behavioural needs.
This is a highly rewarding, hands-on role where you will provide person-centred support, helping people build independence, develop life skills, and live fulfilling, meaningful lives within the community.
About the Role
As a Specialist Behavioural Support Worker, you will work closely with individuals who may present behaviours of concern, autism, or complex learning disabilities. The role focuses on promoting wellbeing, encouraging positive outcomes, and supporting people to engage with activities they enjoy.
You will build trusting relationships, provide practical and emotional support, and work collaboratively with professionals and stakeholders to ensure safe, consistent, and high-quality support.
Key Responsibilities
- Support individuals to live active, fulfilling, and person-centred lives
- Encourage participation in hobbies, activities, and community engagement
- Provide respectful, dignified personal care where required
- Promote independence, confidence, and life skills development
- Monitor wellbeing and report any welfare or safeguarding concerns
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external professionals
- Consistently review and support progress towards individual goals
This role involves shift work and sleep-in duties.
About You
We are seeking someone who is warm, calm under pressure, and genuinely motivated to support others. You should be confident in supporting individuals with complex behavioural needs.
You will ideally be someone who:
- Enjoys meaningful interaction and relationship-building
- Demonstrates patience, empathy, and emotional resilience
- Is confident, proactive, and able to take positive risks
- Is comfortable participating in activities and community-based support
Requirements
- NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent) in Health & Social Care or related field
- Experience supporting individuals with learning disabilities, autism, or behaviours of concern
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to drive as part of duties
- Experience supporting individuals with complex or high-support needs
- Background in community-based or activity-focused support
- Knowledge of safeguarding and positive behaviour approaches
If you are compassionate, resilient, and motivated by making a real difference, we would love to hear from you.
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Are you passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of young people? Do you believe in early intervention, empowerment, and community‑based support? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Brent is launching an exciting opportunity for a Young People THRIVE Mental Health Youth Worker, supporting Children and Young People (CYP) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
About the Role
As a Brent YPT Mental Health Youth Worker, you will play a key part in delivering evidence‑based interventions, including mentoring, resilience‑building, and self‑esteem programmes. You’ll be working at the heart of a collaborative multi‑agency system—partnering with CNWL CAMHS and local services to ensure CYP receive the right support at the right time. This role is ideal for someone who is youth‑centred, creative in their approach, and committed to helping prevent escalation of mental health difficulties.
What You’ll Do - Deliver structured interventions that build resilience, emotional wellbeing, and self‑esteem. - Support CYP in navigating and accessing appropriate services following triage. - Work closely with CAMHS and other partners, contributing to triage discussions and multi‑agency panels. - Facilitate youth peer‑support groups and wellbeing circles covering topics like stress, bullying, school pressures, and emotional wellbeing. - Offer information, guidance, and signposting to digital wellbeing tools, local services, and parent/carer resources. - Provide parents/carers with access to workshops, coaching, and practical tools to support emotional wellbeing at home. - Collect and share anonymised data to support service evaluation and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Achieve Your work will help ensure children and young people experience:
- Improved mental health and emotional wellbeing through early intervention support.
- Timely access to help without long waits for support.
- A voice in their care, through collaborative, shared decision-making.
- Reduced escalation to specialist services and fewer crises.
- Improved daily functioning at school, in relationships, and at home.
- A positive experience of mental health support that feels timely, respectful, and person‑centred.
Who We’re Looking For Someone who is:
- Passionate about youth wellbeing
- Skilled at building trust with young people
- Confident facilitating groups and delivering interventions
- Comfortable working collaboratively across services - Organised, with strong data quality and digital skills
What we offer:
- Generous annual leave entitlement - 28 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Flexible and hybrid working (dependent on role) to ensure you enjoy a good work-life balance.
- Christmas office closure
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Pension scheme – 5% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
Promoting a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
At CB Plus, we promote a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can all be ourselves. Everyone is treated fairly, individual differences are celebrated, and all employees are valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from disabled applicants, including those with mental health conditions, people from Global Majority and minoritised communities, and those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the Disability Confident Scheme. However, in the event of a high number of applicants, it may not be possible to interview all candidates who meet these criteria, and we reserve the right to limit interviews to a manageable number.
We also have experience supporting Access to Work applications to ensure that employees who need adjustments have the support they need to feel confident and do their best in their roles.
If you need adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.
Please see job description for further details about the role
Application Instructions
Please send a CV and covering letter setting out your interest in and suitability for the role:
- The CV should clearly state the names and periods/dates the candidate worked or volunteered for each organisation under their employment history and explain any gaps.
- The covering letter should address each point under the person specification showing how the candidate meets the person specification with examples from previous work or volunteering.
Please note we will only consider applications with both a CV and covering letter.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Domestic Abuse Service Manager is responsible for the operational delivery of the Domestic Abuse Emergency, Safe & Supported Accommodation, to providing safe, trauma-informed, survivor-led accommodation and support to victims of domestic abuse including children.
The Domestic Abuse Service Manager will lead a team, ensuring high-quality, person-centred support, safe housing management, and compliance with contractual, safeguarding, and regulatory requirements. The role will work closely with external partners to ensure victims are supported to remain safe, recover, and move towards longer-term housing stability.
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Web Optimisation Manager
Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week). Hybrid working (minimum of 2 days per office in one of our UK offices)
Location: This role can be based in any of our UK offices - Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, or Warrington
Salary: Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Warrington - £50,199 per year. London - £55,000 per year (inclusive of London allowance)
If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience.
About us
Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues.
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About the role
The Web Optimisation Manager plays an important role in improving the performance of Christian Aid’s website and digital platforms, helping ensure our digital experiences effectively attract, engage and inspire supporters to take action. With a strong focus on digital fundraising, you will use data and insight to understand how people interact with our website and identify opportunities to strengthen supporter journeys and increase engagement.
Working with analytics tools and behavioural insight platforms, you will explore how users navigate our website and help identify areas where we can improve the experience. You will plan and deliver A/B and multivariate tests to better understand what works for our audiences and support ongoing improvements to user experience and conversion.
You will develop our technical SEO approach, contributing to web audits, keyword analysis and site performance improvements that help ensure Christian Aid’s content is visible and accessible to the people who need it most.
Working closely with our Digital Development Team, you will contribute to improvements and new features that enhance supporter journeys and campaign performance. You will also collaborate with the Senior Digital Content Editor and colleagues across teams to ensure content aligns with SEO best practice and supports the organisation’s content plans.
As our web performance specialist, you will help translate website data into clear insights that colleagues can act on, using dashboards and reporting to support data-informed decision making and continuous improvement across the organisation.
About you
You are a digitally curious and analytical professional who enjoys improving online experiences. You have experience analysing user journeys and website performance, using tools such as GA4, Tag Manager and SEO platforms to understand how people interact with digital content. You are comfortable identifying friction in user journeys, developing practical recommendations to improve engagement and conversion, and working collaboratively with developers and content teams to implement improvements.
Experience with CRO testing, GA4, CMS platforms such as Drupal, and technical SEO will help you succeed in this role, alongside strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Further information
At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.
We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams.
We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity.
All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.