Are you a warm, highly motivated person with person-centred values who can empower and support people with a learning disability to transform their lives?  Are you creative, proactive and willing to go the extra mile to enable people to achieve their aspirations?

We are recruiting Support Workers to support tenants with learning disabilities or autism to enjoy an excellent quality of life in a range of supported living services in the Tameside area.  You will work in collaboration with the service user, their family and wider support network to maximise their health and wellbeing and to promote their independence and community connections.

Our supported living services enable people to lead fulfilling and valued lives, maintain their tenancies, participate in their local community, develop independent living skills and achieve their desired outcomes.  As well as providing direct care and support, you will have the opportunity to act as a Key Worker supporting people to achieve their dreams and goals.

This rewarding role will require flexibility across the week and your working time will involve working shifts which include evenings, weekends and bank holidays. A high level of motivation and personal commitment is required along with demonstrable skills in engaging service users in their own support. You will also be expected to work professionally alongside Care Managers and health professionals and to communicate positively with the families of service users.

We value relevant experience of supporting people with a learning disability or autism. However, you do not need to have prior experience if you can demonstrate a ‘can-do approach’, person-centred values, energy and commitment. You will need good verbal and written communication skills and the ability to develop good quality support plans. You will have a strong work ethic and duty of care and be able to contribute to a positive, team approach.

If you do not already have a relevant vocational qualification in health or social care we will support you to complete the Care Certificate and an accredited Health & Social Care Diploma. In return we will offer you good conditions of service, supportive management and prospects for future career progression. Applications from graduates in any discipline are welcomed as are applications from people seeking a worthwhile career change. You must enjoy good health and be able to carry out all expected care and daily living tasks.

The services are located across Tameside and are easily accessible by public transport.

The services are currently offering full time contracts of 37.5 hours per week or part-time contracts, subject to a minimum of 15 hours per week.

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a motivated and talented Participant Support Manager to join our Participant Support team. The role will lead a multi-tiered team providing the interface between the organisation and our teachers and leaders on a range of our programmes and provide varied support to these participants. The expectation is that the Manager will also act as Business Partner across a number of programmes acting as the point of escalation for the programme externally ensuring we deliver a timely and high quality experience. This role will act as the point of escalation for the programme externally with our Partners ensuring we deliver a timely and high quality experience.

Internally, the Participant Support Manager will work collaboratively with the Programme Leader, providing advice and strategic support in regards to participants and partners and work in a matrix structure with other programme operations departments. The Manager will be responsible for overseeing the quality of engagement with their participants/partners and maintaining an excellent participant experience. They will lead on the development of participant/partner engagement and communication plans and ensure all programmes under their leadership are accurately tracking participant engagement.   

Based in one of our London, Manchester or Birmingham offices, and reporting to the Participant Support Associate Director, you will be an individual with experience of delivering excellent customer service. We are looking for someone who has previously managed multiple stakeholders, including the ability to deal with difficult conversations. The successful candidate will have excellent written and oral communication skills, good budgeting skills, and will be able to take a strategic approach to the end to end programme journey.

Who are Ambition Institute? 

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 

• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period 

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to apply 

All applications must be received by the closing date, 09:00am on 20th July 2020 

The expected timeline for interviews is as follows: 

• Interviews: w/c 27th July 2020 

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Be a Disability Gamechanger and join us as our Customer Coordinator as we expand our national employment service Support to Work.

This new role will support our new In Work Support Team by ensuring all customers have appointments booked to get ongoing employment support. You’ll be a main point of contact for disabled people who have been successful at getting a job through our service. You’ll allocate eligible customers to our team of Employment Advisors according to agreed criteria, current caseloads and any adviser specialisms.

As part of the role there will be some administrative duties required including:

• tracking all customers who leave our service
• organising team meetings and other events as required by the Programme Lead
• keeping rotas and adviser's information and diaries up to date
• moderating comments on our social media platforms.

The job is currently home-based due to coronavirus. When we return to our offices, you can do this job from either Leeds or Manchester.

About you

The Customer Coordinator is an important role in the Support to Work service. You will need to have excellent customer service skills and experience working in a telephone-based customer service environment. You will need to be comfortable using a range of IT packages and programs.

You will bring drive and enthusiasm to your role and demonstrate that you care passionately about improving disabled people's lives.

Skills and experience

• Excellent Customer service skills, especially over the phone
• Experience working in a team.
• Previous experience working in a contact centre environment or a telephone-based role.
• Excellent written skills.
• Digitally confident- knowledge of CRM systems, especially Microsoft Dynamics, Skype for Business and Call Handling .
• Agreement with ‘Social model of disability’ approach

Disabled candidates

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of Scope’s mission and we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace with equality of opportunity for everyone.

We welcome applications from disabled people and guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum job criteria. Please let us know in your application if you would like to be considered for this.

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

Due to continued growth we are now recruiting for an experienced Payroll Officer to join our fast paced Payroll team based in our friendly, busy office in the town center of Stockport, 5 minutes walk from the train station. This would be a great opportunity for someone who has a passion or interest in working in Payroll for a not-for-profit organisation and is looking for a long-term role where they can be part of a team.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Processing paperwork for starters, leavers and changes.
• Processing payroll each week/month to tight deadlines
• Receiving and verifying timesheets, inputting and calculating gross pay
• Processing of all statutory payments, alongside company payments where applicable
• Inputting all third party and additional payments and deductions
• Recording holidays in line with terms and conditions
• Processing all other pay related data
• Dealing with staff queries
• Keeping up-to-date with relevant changes in payroll legislation
• Updating pension information where required
• Preparing and checking reports
• Filing and administration of all payroll documentation
• Liaising with HMRC on payroll matters

The Experience required - Payroll Officer

The ideal candidate will have a strong background working as a Payroll Officer.  Experience working with timesheets would be desirable. You must be comfortable with confidential information and data protection as applicable to payroll and be familiar with HMRC and Auto-Enrolment legislation, and able to process the payroll in accordance with this. You must have excellent IT skills, especially within MS Word, MS Excel, MS Office and Payroll and Pension modules. You must be dedicated, hardworking and comfortable working to tight timescales. Please note: A Payroll Test will be part of the shortlisting process for this role.

Love meeting new people and passionate about fundraising in a fast paced environment?

Join us!  We are looking for a Fundraising Champion to join our expanding team here at Reuben’s Retreat.

This is an exciting new role and will be an amazing opportunity for the successful candidate with room for progression.

OVERVIEW

Reuben's Retreat was founded in August 2012 just 2 days after 23-month old Reuben moved to heaven. His legacy “Reuben's Retreat” will be a home from home for children with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses to spend time with their family, to relax and recharge.  It already serves as a bereavement counselling support centre for families that have lost a child and for parents whose children may not reach adulthood.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

The postholder will be responsible for creating fundraising events/activities that have a positive impact on the income to the charity. In addition, the postholder will work closely with the Senior Fundraiser, Operations Manager and Chief Executive to achieve Reuben’s Retreat’s wider fundraising aims.

Job Specification & Person Spec are attached

All criteria is desirable, not essential, however we would expect your experience to meet a good proportion of these and have the ability to perform well in other areas quickly and efficiently.

You must hold a full UK Driving License and have access to a car.

To apply, please send:

– A copy of your CV with a covering letter (1000 words) explaining why you want the job and outlining how you meet the criteria for the role

– A personal statement (1000 words) with examples of how you meet our charity core values as outlined in the job specification

If you have any questions about this exciting role, please call 01457-680023 and ask for Stacey.

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Together Trust

We are one of the North West’s leading disability charities, offering individual care, support and education to thousands of people each year.

Our work is made possible with our incredible team of staff and volunteers who are positive role models to the people we support.

You will be joining an organisation driven by its values and desire to see meaningful change - the people we support really are at the heart of everything we do.

We want you to grow and develop - so we will support you to shape the career that you want to have.

A job with us can be challenging. But what we can promise is that your role will be incredibly rewarding and filled with meaning.

A job at the Together Trust is more than just a job - together we’ll change lives.

Are you a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist looking to develop your skills as part of a multidisciplinary team?

We are looking for an experienced clinician to lead our Occupational Therapy Team of up to six staff and manage a small caseload of students with complex presentations at Inscape House School. We are one of the Together Trust’s non-maintained specialist schools for over 100 students aged 5 to 19 all with autism as their primary need.

Our well-resourced and supportive team work closely together to deliver a high quality therapy service. You will offer clinical supervision and management of professional colleagues contributing to their development.

At the forefront of this role will be your knowledge of autism along with an understanding of the fundamentals and governance of a school.

Our multi-disciplinary team includes Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, teaching staff, school counsellors, positive behaviour support colleagues, psychologists and other support team members.

We have a culture of joint responsibility to embed therapy approaches, strategies and interventions. This is a great opportunity to help shape service delivery and contribute to school wide projects.

This is a truly rewarding role as you will get to track student progress and their journey to independence in a way you might not necessarily experience within an NHS setting.

We would consider both full-time and part-time applicants for this post.

Benefits

You will get to help the people we support celebrate along the road to a brighter future and be part of an incredible team of like-minded peers. Together we work hard, enjoy our jobs, and support each other. We also have a range of rewards and benefits for our staff:

• Follow your ambitions and progress your career through on-the-job training, apprenticeships and qualifications
• 25 days annual leave rising to 27 after 5 years
• A company pension plan with 7% employer contribution
• Opportunity to purchase a health plan to claim towards therapy, dental and more
• Unlimited access to our employee assistance programme for advice and support
• Support from mental health first aiders

Who are GMYN?

For many young people, the transition to adulthood isn’t easy. In the UK, one third of young people are lonely, half feel unready for work and half feel like they don’t belong to their community.

At GMYN, our vision is #YoungPeopleCan and we help young people in Greater Manchester overcome this. We deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive.

Founded in 2007 by our Chief Executive, Alex Fairweather, we have grown from a single volunteering project to a registered charity and have helped over 10,000 young people.

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join GMYN’s operations team, providing strategic and operational financial support and advice. The role holder will provide day to day management and reporting of the charity’s income and expenditure as well as responsibility for preparation of GMYN’s annual budget and accounts.

You will have experience of working within a financial environment ideally in a management/leading role within a charity. You will have the AAT or similar qualification, or substantial equivalent experience. You will also have strong numeracy and communication skills and the ability to provide accurate and timely information.

In addition, you will have the ability to work flexibly as part of a team and on your own initiative working independently when required.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will also work alongside GMYN’s Operations Lead and work closely with the Business and Finance Administrator.

Joining #TeamGMYN: Our Offer

At GMYN, we strive to be inclusive. Every member of #TeamGMYN is involved in all aspects of decision making, from strategic planning, setting the organisational values through to basic everyday practices to give everyone an active voice. We are responsive to the needs of the team and all support available is designed through consultation.

We are regularly reviewing our practices to create a safe, welcoming and supportive environment and encourage suggestions and feedback from staff to improve our offer.

Our offer currently includes access to

• The Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days annual leave, including 5 ‘no-questions-asked’ ad-hoc wellbeing days
• Flexible working hours, including working from home options
• Childcare vouchers for those already accessing the scheme
• Accessible, ethical and gender-neutral office space
• Living wage, with processes to request performance-based payrises
• An 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contribution

Whilst our staff team is diverse in many ways, people from BAME backgrounds and people with disabilities are currently under-represented, therefore applications from candidates who identify with these characteristics are welcomed and encouraged.

For full details on the role and the #TeamGMYN offer can be found in the job pack attached.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter (no more than two sides of A4) showing how you meet the attached personal specification via the link on this page by Monday 20th July. 

Due to an internal promotion, we are excited to be recruiting another Programme Officer to build on the great work the charity is doing and to help us achieve more. Right to Succeed is all about bringing the community together to transform outcomes for children. Why? Because we believe every child deserves the right to succeed, no matter where they live.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent organisational and people skills who will be the reliable, positive, “go-to” person for a number of our programme teams. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting our high quality local and national Programme Delivery. This role provides an exciting opportunity to be part of an ambitious, passionate team committed to overcoming inequity and improving outcomes for children and young people.

We are keen to encourage applications from those with lived experience of overcoming one or more of the issues our programmes seek to address, as we understand the extra value that this brings to our programme delivery.

The succesful candidate will play an integral role in supporting staff across multiple programmes with a core focus on ensuring the programmes have the administrative support to enable them to effectively deliver high quality programmes that deliver maximum impact within their respective areas. 

The core objectives of the role include, but are not limited to: 

1. Supporting high quality programme delivery 

2. Supporting strategic and operational relationships 

3. Robust programme administration

4. Supporting programme related external and internal communications activity

The role will initially be a 12-month fixed term contract, but will ideally be extended/become permanent subject to funding.

Please note, due to Covid-19s, we will be carrying out interviews by video-call and the successful candidate will initially be required to work from home (home working equipment provided). 

Freedom for Animals' campaign, ‘Rudolph’s Christmas Wish’, aims to tackle the growing problem of animals such as reindeer and penguins being exploited in festive events. Freedom for Animals carries out annual monitoring of events and supports the actions of local groups to raise awareness of this widely overlooked area of animal use.

You will help us deliver this campaign over the busiest months - September to January. In this role you will work alongside the Director carrying out research, liaising with event organisers including local authorities and supporting grassroots campaigners, as well as attending and documenting festive events that use animals.

In return you will be given the chance to develop a range of skills in campaigning and lobbying, as well as gaining experience of working in a team for a national, animal rights organisation, in a friendly and supportive environment.

Research, Policy and Communications Team
The aim of the Research, Policy and Communications Team is to influence the housing and homelessness sector to ensure stays in unsupported temporary accommodation (UTA) are as short, safe and healthy as possible.

Since 2013 Justlife has carried out research and produced reports ranging from a review of the effects on the health and wellbeing of people placed in UTA, recommendations of solutions to the challenges faced by local authorities, landlords and support services, and mapping the provision of UTA across England.

The research, policy and communications work build on local frontline services in Brighton and Manchester that support adults experiencing housing vulnerability, many of whom face complex and multiple disadvantage. It uses learning from the services and from the wider research that it carries out to influence policy and systems change for residents of UTA on a local and national level, as well as within the Justlife services.

The role will build on our communications strategy and drive improvement in our ability to tell our story through promoting the work of Justlife, with the aim of building brand awareness and increasing fundraising, as well as highlighting the issues and solutions we develop locally and nationally. The role will include some travel between Justlife’s two projects based in Brighton & Manchester.

Accountant
Full Time - 3 to 6 Months
Remote Working

Eden Brown is working in partnership with a Local Council, to recruit for a Accountant based in Bury.

This is a excellent opportunity for a Accountant to embark onto the organisation and join a successful team and assist in the financial transformation by supporting the Senior Managers with high quality financial advice.

Key responsibilities:

• General management and financial control of revenue and capital budgets.
• To improve forecasting provided by services through challenge and assurance
• Modelling and financial analysis
• To close accounts and set budgets
• To report possible financial risks

Candidate requirements:

• Local Government experience is essential for this role
• Experience of pooled funds

If you feel that you meet the above criteria, pleased apply now.

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

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society – do you share our passion to live in a world free from slavery?

We are seeking an experienced and well-qualified HR Adviser to join the team at Hope for Justice, with a primary focus on recruitment, staff development and well-being.

Overview

Main Purpose

To provide advice and assistance to line managers in relation to a broad range of HR matters with a main focus on recruitment, staff development and well-being.

Department: Operations/HR

Location: Head Office

Reporting To: HR Manager

Main Duties

• Deliver high quality HR advice to staff and managers in relation to all aspects of the employee lifecycle ensuring compliance with policies, employment law and regulations
• Provide HR support on all aspects of operational HR including recruitment across Head Office and the wider group.
• Assist with the management of all core Employee Relations cases (incl sickness, performance management, grievance and disciplinary processes)
• Liaise with the HR Manager to ensure appropriate support provided on complex ER issues
• Champion the development of people management skills within the group
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR systems and practices
• Manage the dedicated HR mail accounts

Key Result Areas

• All HR enquiries responded to promptly and with accuracy
• HR systems and practices developed for efficiency
• People Management development

Soft Skills

• Excellent organisational/prioritisation skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to identify staff development needs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Technical Skills

• Ability to write and present information
• Generalist HR experience
• Experience with HRIS (desired)

Experience & Education

• Minimum level 5 CIPD qualified or equivalent
• Proven experience facilitating, advising, guiding and supporting line managers on a range of ER issues
• Demonstrable understanding of HR compliance with legislation
• In depth knowledge of best practice HR operations & processes

Are you looking for a challenge? Then Yes is your answer

Salary : £47,500 per annum

Benefits : circa. 17.6% local government pension scheme employer contribution; 27 days holiday;

Location : North Manchester

Yes is a community interest company, launched to help north Manchester residents find local jobs and take advantage of great training and volunteering opportunities. A local organisation with a big ambition our aim is to deliver a sustainable employability service to everyone who lives in north Manchester and make a difference to families and communities.

Yes are going through a period of significant change and whilst this will be challenging, it is also a massive opportunity to re-shape the organisation and make us even more effective.

Our Vision

We will build confidence, drive ambition and inspire people to be the best they can be.

We are a relatively young organisation, and our current CEO has spent the last seven years growing us from a small office location in Newton Heath to having three community-based enterprise hubs and supporting over 8000 clients to enter into the local job market.

We are looking for a new inspirational leader to replace our outgoing CEO. As CEO of Yes you will be the public face of the organisation and will set the strategic direction to ensure financial sustainability and safeguard our future whilst preserving and maintaining the strong integrity and identity of the Yes brand.

You must have substantial experience of working in a leadership role with evidence of an entrepreneurial mind-set and a positive ‘can-do’ attitude to work. You will have excellent people skills, able to develop and maintain relationships with key partners and senior level leaders across sectors.

We will need you to identify new funding opportunities; you will be expected to raise our profile and take ownership of our business, governance and risk management.

Ideally you will have insight and knowledge of the employability skills and economic regeneration programmes in Manchester. We require someone with experience and understanding of working in neighbourhoods where there is a high proportion of lower income households against a challenging political and economic backdrop.

Key strengths:

• A strategic leader, used to working with a Voluntary Board, or equivalent;

• Experience of running an organisation particularly through a period of change;

• Delivered client led services that clearly demonstrate community empathy;

• Proven experience of funding strategies;

• Open transparent and effective communication skills;

• An appreciation of collaboration and partnership working with other organisations;

• Strong financial and business acumen;

• Coach, manage, motivate and develop team members

Applicants will be required to undergo DBS check.

Closing date for applications: Friday 31st July 2020 at 12:00 midday.

Initial Interview date: Wednesday 12th August 2020

Please complete the online application process and upload your CV.

We are looking for an individual that lives and breathes digital media

Salary: £37,249p.a. (Wigan)/£39,249p.a. (London)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, permanent

Location: Wigan or London

Keep Britain Tidy is an iconic charity providing first-class solutions to the environmental challenges we face. We have a heritage stretching back more than 60 years, but we are as relevant today as we have always been, campaigning for a cleaner, greener environment for everyone. As the country’s leading anti-litter charity, we work tirelessly to combat waste and neglect and using our world-class research we develop game-changing campaigns and programmes.

We are looking for an individual that lives and breathes digital media to help build our supporter base, increase our income and showcase our work – by developing, implementing, optimising and tracking the digital marketing of our campaigns, programmes and services across all our digital channels. Working as part of the marketing and communications team you will play a key role in driving forward our marketing strategy and help us build the tools that will transform our digital presence, including leading on the development of our new website.

The successful will be an expert in digital and social media marketing, with a track record of delivering growth and demonstrating impact through effective tracking and analysis. They will have at least five years of ‘hands-on’ digital marketing experience, including developing digital marketing strategies and creating effective and impactful content, along with technical and project management skills.

This is an exciting role for someone who is passionate about digital marketing but also interested in making a difference to the world around them.

If you are interested in applying, please download the full job description before completing the application form and equal opportunities monitoring form found on our website. Completed applications should be sent to the email address held.

The deadline for applications is 09:00, Monday 20 July 2020.

First interviews will be held remotely on 23 or 27 July 2020.

Second interviews will be held on 29 July in Wigan and 30 July 2020 in our London offices.

The successful candidate must be available to start the role no later than 31 August 2020.

Please note we will only be able to contact successful candidates.  Thank you for your interest in our vacancy.

No CVs or agencies please.