Plan International UK is a global children’s charity with over 80 years’ experience working to deliver and protect children’ rights across the world and to address gender inequality; we are the global experts on girls’ rights.

The Health & Wellbeing Specialist will join the UK Programmes team to provide expert insight and leadership for Plan International UK’s work on UK girls’ health and wellbeing, influencing the strategic development of the organisation’s work in this area.

Building on the success of Plan UK’s previous work on period poverty and menstruation, relationships and sex education, and sexual and reproductive rights for UK girls, you will help Plan UK to develop a portfolio of programmes and broader approaches to ensure girls in the UK have the right to good health and wellbeing.

As part of this remit, you will oversee a brand-new five-year programme that will support young people in the UK to realise their right to good mental health and wellbeing, regardless of their gender, which will launch in September 2020.

The post holder will lead this exciting work, including:

• Management and oversight of the Young Health Programme UK including management of a UK health and wellbeing research project

• Stakeholder management and network building on health and wellbeing through a Community of Practice and wider networks

• Internal and external knowledge and insight building on adolescent health and wellbeing with a gender lens

• Supporting new programme development and opportunities for developing UK health and wellbeing programmes.

This job will involve regular travel across the UK.

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Plan International UK is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates, so that our workforce can be a good reflection of the world we live in and the children and communities we work with.

The deadline for applications is 9:00 am on 30 September 2020

Interviews will take place in the week beginning 5 October or 12 October 2020.

Due to the nature of our work with children and young people, we follow rigorous child safeguarding policies and procedures in our recruitment process. As a result, some of our roles are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure by the Disclosure and Barring Service. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from joining us as an employee or volunteer; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences.

Temp - Secretary - Not for Profit - ASAP Start

Your new company
Come join this large Not for Profit organisation working towards ensuring safety for the general pubic.

Your new role
- Being Involved in all hearings and meetings.
- Advising participants on the hearing process.
- Effectively manage the hearing process
- Ensure compliance with security and data security
- Constantly contribute towards improving processes and operations
- Demonstrate high levels of customer service both internally and externally
- Make accurate notes during proceedings, ensuring they are always accessible to panel
- Provide support through hearing processes
- Administer the oath or affirmation taken from witnesses
- Work closely with panel to ensure hearings run smooth.
- Log and record information at the end of each hearing and dispose of confidential information
- Ensure everything is set up before hearing. Including IT systems.
- Acting as a point of contact for all parties and being able to demonstrate a high level of customer service

What you'll need to succeed
You must be a self starter who can get on with tasks with minimal supervision. You must be highly organised and have a flexible approach with your work which will allow you to be organised, prioritise and solve problems. You will need to demonstrate a high level of integrity as you will need to follow all internal and external policies. You must a good communicator and be able to liaise with all parties with a high level of professionalism, all whilst demonstrating excellent customer care. You must be able to respect confidentiality as you will be dealing with private, sensitive information. You must be committed to the organisation and be able to contribute towards the improvement of organisational operations. You must be a good listener and have a high attention to detail as you will need to take accurate notes. You must be IT literate to be able to work with organisational softwares. You will need to be able to understand complex legislation and be able to apply it. You will need to adhere to all company policies.

What you'll get in return
Gain the chance to develop on your skills whilst working in a role which contributes to the greater good for the general public.

What you need to do now
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At Depaul UK we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Progression Coach to come and join our specialist supported accommodation service for young people in Camden. You will join us on a full-time basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £24,359 + pension & benefits including London Weighting.

Depaul UK delivers a range of support and housing services around the UK for young people and adults at risk of homelessness. We provide services that prevent homelessness, increase the resilience of those we work with and energise opportunities for employment, education, training & volunteering. We're dedicated to putting our values into action to achieve a society where everyone has a place to call home and a stake in their community.

In return as our Specialist Progression Coach, we can offer you:

- Competitive salary
- 26 days of annual holiday plus bank holidays pro rata
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance

The Specialist Progression Coach role:

The Specialist Progression Coach is responsible for a small caseload of complex needs clients and shares responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of all clients, volunteers and staff in the service. You will also be responsible for maintaining the accommodation and supporting clients to sustain their tenancy and participate in a positive and successful move on.

What makes this role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills required’.
- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model.
- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner.
- Access to a total rewards package including a health plan and generous pension contributions.

What will ideally support your success in the Specialist Progression Coach role?

- A relevant qualification, for example in psychology, social work, and/or significant experience of working with young people with complex needs.
- An understanding and commitment to working in an assets based way.
- Ability to work with children and young people whose behaviour is personally challenging.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with young people.
- Experience working in partnership with multi agency teams.

Closing date: Monday 5th October 12:00

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Specialist Progression Coach then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

The Role

Acting in a ‘lead professional’ capacity, you will provide support to enable service users to move to longer-term appropriate accommodation. In this important role you will deliver support to service users with complex needs who have experienced domestic abuse and been provided with short term, emergency refuge accommodation in Bath & North East Somerset.

We are looking for individuals who have experience of working with people who have experienced domestic abuse and possess a sound understanding of domestic abuse and associated issues.

Experience of working with people who may also have more complex needs such as substance misuse or mental health difficulties is also key, as is a good level of understanding of the Benefits system, including Universal Credit.

Naturally, you should have an excellent level of IT literacy in MS Office products and case management systems and be comfortable communicating with people at all levels.

If you feel you have the experience we would love to hear from you.

Your new company
An international charity is looking for a Finance Officer their Central London office.

Your new role
You will be reporting to the Financial Controller in a Finance Officer role. You will be responsible for managing all income of the charity, processing donations and funds received for the charity, raising invoices, completing bank and balance sheet reconciliations, processing foreign payments and supporting the wider finance team. You will be responsible for dealing with donor queries and working closely with the finance committee in acknowledging donors.

What you'll need to succeed
You will need:

• Previous experience working in a finance role
• Charity experience is preferred
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Working towards an accounting qualification or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills is essential

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.

What you need to do now
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Child Escort Worker Job, Up to £10.50 per hour.

Your new role
As a Child Escort Worker your main purpose will be the safeguarding of and taking a child to and from school. You will essentially be accompanying the child and making them feel at ease throughout the journey.
You will plan after school activities for the child when the school day has ended and help them settle in at home.

What you'll need to succeed
For this role it is essential that you have prior experience in working with children with learning difficulties.
You will need a loving personality but also be able to be firm and direct when needed.

What you'll get in return
You will earn a competitive salary of up to £10.50.
You will also have the stability of having guaranteed work during term time.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV
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Senior Estimator - Multi disciplinary consultancy - £60,000

Your new company
I am recruiting for an international company with great strength and a culture of progression, who are looking for Senior Estimators and Estimators to support Infrastructure project teams and post Covid 19 restrictions, based in the client's support offices across London.

Your new role
Your main responsibilities will be:

* Support implementation of accurate Cost measurement processes including progress and performance measurement;
* Provide professional advice covering the Clients' infrastructure costs to stakeholders (including but not limited to Procurement Specialists, Cost / Contract Management Personnel, Estimators and Project Controls);
* Ensure continuous development and improvement of Client's policies, procedures and resources
* for all cost and related controls services;
* Work closely with the Scheduling Team to ensure integration and alignment of cost models and schedules; and
* Aid in the development of benchmarking database and reporting process to provide timely and accurate advice to inform decision making.

What you'll need to succeed

* Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, ACostE, ICES or similar relevant professional association and NVQ Level 3 in Project Controls;
* Degree or equivalent experience or achieved NVQ Level 2 in Project Controls;
* Quantity surveying skills and comprehensive understanding of the construction industry;
* Familiarity of government initiatives and policies.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Substance misuse, drug & alcohol worker

Your new company

You will be joining an established organisation which places the service user at the heart of everything they do. This organisation is focused on supporting vulnerable people in the community. This organisation primarily supports service users are whose lives have been held back by a range of social deprivation, poverty and addictions.

Your new role

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey;
• Managing large caseloads in excess of 60
• Must have experience working within a prescribing service with clients addicted to Opiate Substances.
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral;
• Must have worked and have experience with prescribing practices and clients addicted to opiate substances;
• Managing large caseload of clients who are addicted to opiate substances;
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community;
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement;
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services;
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self determination

What you'll need to succeed

• Must have experience working within substance misuse services
• Must have Hays Enhanced DBS or registered on the Update Portal
• Available within a weeks notice

What you'll get in return

Full time hours
Weekly pay

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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Social Worker - CHC Assessor - Busy Local Authority

Your new company
An exciting new opportunity has risen in North London for a large local authority.

Your new role
As the new CHC Assessor, you will undertake assessment/reviews in a person centred and holistic manner that has a focus on both the individuals strengths and preventative options that enable us to maximise the independence of an individual. You will also need to assess, review and provide support to carers and/or families.Your new role will mean you need to ensure that all assessments/reviews are in line with the Mental Capacity Act and that workers make judgements on where a service user may have significant difficulty engaging in te process, and i those instances that they have suitable advocacy support. You will be carrying out Mental Capacity Assessments and make Best Interest Decisions where appropriate.

You will be ensuring that any changes to support arrangements are actioned and that cases are presented to panel where additional funding is required. Where reductions in packages are appropriate, social workers are to work with brokerage to make the required changes. Social Workers will also be responsible for pulling back unspent personal budgets and to ensure that care packages are value for money. You will be working within the framework and principles of the Care Act 2014 in making sure that the assessments/reviews are accessible, person centred, holistic with a focus on wellbeing and prevention.

As a new member of this team, you will need to understand and work to the legislative and organisational frameworks to ensure discharge of statutory duties while maintaining best practice standards through all contacts.

What you'll need to succeed
In order to be a successful candidate for this role, you will need:
- Degree or Diploma in Social Work
- A working knowledge of key legislations within the health and social care sector
- Robust knowledge of social and health groups and ways in which to positively engage with them
- Strong written work which is outcome focused and provides both analysis and solutions
- Strong organisational Skills and time management

What you'll get in return
The opportunity to work alongside Hays who will supply you with your own personal recruitment consultant who specialises in your field of work. A full time, permanent role paying a competitive rate. You will receive support throughout your employment and a full time work pattern.

What you need to do now
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We're looking for a great communicator who is highly organised to provide administrative support to the clinical team and liaison with the young people and the network of support around them in order to facilitate their attendance at Baobab.

The role includes facilitating the work of Baobab’s staff and volunteer team by organising clinical and casework sessions and multi-disciplinary meetings with support networks, liaising with referrers, lawyers, foster carers, social workers and key workers and occasionally with the Home Office and Social Services managers. The role also includes administrative management of clinical files, supporting staff to access and manage their notes and filing using the online database, and coordinating the referral and assessment process.

The Baobab Centre works with young asylum seekers and refugees the significant majority of whom arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors. All have experienced either or both organized and inter-personal violence and most have experienced a very difficult journey into exile in the UK . All experience significant difficulties in the UK in accessing care and destitution, housing education, adequate health care and asylum. All, as a consequence suffer specific and particular vulnerabilities including the cluster of symptoms referred to as complex post- traumatic stress disorder, as a consequence of the interaction of their overwhelming experiences, in their home countries, on their journeys into exile and in exile in the UK. Most also have significant strengths and resiliencies and the capacity to develop new resiliencies. Our aim as an organisation is to address and work through their vulnerabilities and to enable them to access old resiliencies that have been suppressed by their traumatic experiences and to enable them to develop new resiliencies and strengths through participating as fully as they are able in the life of the Baobab Non-Residential Therapeutic Community.

The post-holder will become part of our multi-professional team and the expectation is that s/he will participate fully in the life of the Baobab community.

Day rate: £150 - 200 PAYE
Organisation: Local Authority
Contract length: 3 months
Start date: ASAP
Location: London

Your new role
This role requires you to have broad communications experience - at officer level to help the council with some COVID-19 work but mostly to back fill on other campaigns. The campaigns will include a wide range of projects such as electoral, education and Send, general health communications, registrars, housing, transformation etc.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience working in Local Government as a Communications Officer
• Good writing skills required - absolutely essential
• Project management
• Campaign planning
• Social media expertise
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call me on the details below. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please feel free to contact me for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Domestic Violence; IRIS; IDVA

Part Time Domestic Violence IRIS Advocate Educator Bromley

Your new company

Opportunity to work for a leading UK charity who support survivors and their families of domestic violence

Your new role

The main purpose of the job is to effectively manage and develop a high quality, innovative and pro-active IRIS domestic abuse service for victims and their children, including those at highest risk as well as effectively motivate, develop, and performance manage a team of IDVA's across the borough of Bromley.

The project works to link primary health care professionals with their local domestic abuse service, by offering a free and in-depth training package to GP surgeries. The team works closely with the trained practices to offer ongoing support and guidance and support any patients experiencing domestic abuse who are referred to the team.

What you'll need to succeed

• You will need to have an excellent understanding of domestic abuse, including the impact on victims and their children, and the legal and practical remedies available to these clients.
• Experience managing the delivery of domestic abuse services and managerial experience is necessary as well as having a thorough understanding of IDVA work.
• Experience of working in partnership with CJS and Health organisations will be beneficial.
• You would also need to hold a SafeLives IDVA training certificate, a relevant degree, a vocational qualification or have equivalent experience.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive Salary
• Excellent package

What you need to do now

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Your new company
You will be working for a social welfare charity based all over the country but this position is based in London.

Your new role
You will be working with the Strategic communications team to enhance and protect this charity's reputation and stature within the sector. Your main role will be to proactively and reactively gain positive Press and PR coverage for the charities through building relationship with key journalists and media outlets. This role is an integrated communications position and you will also be expected to help to develop and maintain a strong presence through over digital channels and social media.

What you'll need to succeed

• At least two years of experience of working in a PR agency, in-house communications, or Press Office function
• Enthusiasm for current news issues and the media, with a positive self-starter attitude to building relationships in the media and with excellent written skills and the ability to influence and convince others
• Highly organised - with an ability to think on your feet and work at pace - while being a supportive team player who shows interest in others and develops a range of contacts outside your own team to get the job done
• Ideally experience within the third sector or wider public sector
• An understanding of complex organisations and managing senior stakeholders

What you'll get in return
- Generous annual leave and company pension scheme - Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals - Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave - Season ticket and cycle to work loans - Paid volunteering leave

A competitive salary and the opportunity to work with a well known brand and organisation that supports under privileged communities

What you need to do now
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Substance misuse job; drug & alcohol; Recovery Worker

Your new company

You will be joining an established organisation which places the service user at the heart of everything they do. This organisation is focused on supporting vulnerable people in the community. This organisation primarily supports service users are whose lives have been held back by a range of social deprivation, poverty and addictions.

Your new role

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey;
• Managing large caseloads in excess of 60
• Must have experience working within a prescribing service with clients addicted to Opiate Substances.
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral;
• Must have worked and have experience with prescribing practices and clients addicted to opiate substances;
• Managing large caseload of clients who are addicted to opiate substances;
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community;
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement;
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services;
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self determination

What you'll need to succeed

• Must have experience working within substance misuse services
• Must have Hays Enhanced DBS or registered on the Update Portal
• Available within a weeks notice

What you'll get in return

Full time hours
Weekly pay

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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