Are you confident, approachable, self-motivated and have a flexible attitude?

Then join our team supporting Young Carers, aged 5-24 years, who have caring responsibilities for someone in their family due to disability, long-term illness, mental health, or drug or alcohol misuse.

You will be responsible for delivering the service across Dartford and Southwark so having your own car is essential. You will manage an existing caseload and new referrals, meeting will meet with families and Young Carers to complete statutory assessments, and providing short-term interventions that support Young Carers to improve their resilience, educational chances and wellbeing. This might be signposting to local services, action planning, one-to-one support, or our workshop programme.

Working closely with schools and Childrens Services, you will make referrals to a range of professionals and community services, ensuring whole family needs are met and thereby reducing the impact of caring on the Young Carer.

As a CYP Coordinator, you will plan and deliver workshop sessions and respite activities, providing opportunities for Young Carers to spend time with their peers and recognise that they are not alone.

You can make the difference and give a Young Carer their childhood back.  

Imago (formerly Voluntary Action within Kent) is a long established, well respected and effective charity working across Kent, London, Medway and East Sussex to deliver a range of services to individuals, voluntary and community organisations, the public and private sector.

Our mission is to promote, develop and facilitate social action, support independence and empower communities. User and volunteer engagement, leadership and involvement in decision making are core principles.

We deliver a wide range of services in partnership with funders, public sector commissioners and private sector sponsors to children and young people, older people, carers, and volunteers.

Underpinning our work is a commitment to excellence, evidencing impact and safeguarding vulnerable people.

Imago offers a competitive remuneration package consisting of salary, contributory pension, healthcare benefits and 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.

Are you passionate about children reaching their full potential?

Are you confident, self-motivated, flexible, and have a ‘can do’ attitude?

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team delivering Young Carer services. Imago is a leading charity providing support and opportunities to people across the South East. You will be responsible for a dedicated area, and following training, will manage an existing caseload, new referrals and deliver a programme of monthly themed workshops. In this role, you will assess Young Carers in schools and meet with families in their own homes.

Using the Young Carer service toolkit, you will provide short-term interventions that support Young Carers to improve their resilience, educational chances and wellbeing. This might be signposting to local services, action planning, one-to-one support, or our 12-month workshop programme.

You will build trusted relationships to make referrals to a range of professionals, including health and social care, ensuring whole family needs are met and reducing the impact of caring on the young person. You will respond to challenging and complex situations with a measured response, in line with Imago Safeguarding and Lone Working Policies.

A key aspect of this role is to raise awareness and identify hidden Young Carers. You will have the opportunity to work with schools to train staff and develop a support programme for students, as well as developing wider networks. 
You can make the difference and give a Young Carer their childhood back.

Please either submit your CV with a short covering note outlining your CURRENT SALARY.

Post is subject to references and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check

Imago recognises that many people in our society experience discrimination or lack of opportunity for reasons that are not fair. These include: race, religion, creed, colour, national and ethnic origin, political beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability (including mental illness), HIV status, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity status, responsibility for dependants, appearance,  geographical area, social class, income level or criminal record.

Imago aims to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences. Imago sees these differences as an asset to our work as they improve our ability to meet the needs of the organisations and people we serve. We proactively seek to increase opportunities for inclusion, and celebrate diversity across our organisation and within the communities we serve.

Reporting to the CEO

Additional days to be offered in accordance with future funding

As the Sophie Hayes Foundation embarks on an exciting phase of growth and development, supporting more women survivors of Human Trafficking, this role will be a valued member of the organisation’s Birmingham & West Midlands Team

The right candidate will focus on delivering our programme Workshops across Birmingham and the West Midlands, through effective and productive collaborations.

Detailed Role Description

1. Manage and deliver Workshops across the West Midlands, by building partnerships with other NGO’s and referral partners, resourcing, equipping and training facilitators and co-ordinating programmes
2. Effectively and efficiently manage local Workshop budgets 
3. Manage all KPI’s, ensuring correct reporting of programme outputs and outcomes. 
4. Continuously improve the Workshops programme through learning from feedback. 
5. Ensure our survivors, partners and volunteers are engaged, motivated and ‘have a voice’ to influence and shape our programme design. 
6. Build relationships and source long term, broad impacting relationships with businesses and training institutions, in partnership with the Birmingham and West Midlands Coaching Coordinator
7. Supervise and manage Workshop volunteers, with the objective of growing individual and group capabilities, skills and resources.
8. Consistently work with and encourage the growth of leadership volunteers in order to increase organisation capacity and capabilities

Person Specification:

Essential

1. Minimum 3 years’ experience of successful programme delivery in the UK charity sector
2. Educated to degree level or equivalent, or the ability to demonstrate competence through experience
3. Experience of working to, and meeting KPI’s
4. Experience of proactively researching and engaging current and prospective partners
5. Knowledge of best practice in programme delivery
6. Outstanding communication skills and the ability to tailor written and verbal content and style to a range of audiences.
7. Ability to work under pressure and deliver outcomes to tight deadlines
8. Strong IT skills (Blackbaud Etapestry or similar CRM systems etc. Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,)
9. Ability to work on own initiative as well as a key member of a team
10. Flexible and proactive approach and attitude
11. Enthusiasm and drive to make things happen
12. Ability to work occasionally outside of normal office working hours
13. Supportive of a small but fast paced team 
14. Supportive of non-Birmingham locations
15. Driving licence

Desirable

1. Knowledge and understanding of the human trafficking and modern-day slavery sector
2. Experience of using social media and digital communication tools

APPLICATION PROCESS AND CRITERIA:

1. Applications without a covering letter will not be progressed to the next stage
2. Selected candidate will be required to complete a DBS and must have the right to work in the UK
3. As a provider of programmes for women survivors of human trafficking, we are seeking female candidates only.

The role:

We know that high-quality patient engagement helps to ensure that our work and the research we fund meets the needs of patients and their families living with Crohn’s and Colitis.

We are recruiting a Health Service Development Co-ordinator who will play a pivotal role in our directorate as we expand our current patient engagement activity.  The role is to provide efficient administrative and operational back up to key stakeholder meetings and events in the Health Service Development Team and provide support to develop and co-ordinate patient engagement work.

You will act as the first point of contact for general correspondence or queries to the Health Service Development Team, provide administrative support to the Director and Health Service Development Meetings, organise internal and external meetings or telephone conferences and provide administrative support for patient engagement activities and operational back up to the Patient Engagement Team.

This is a truly exciting time in the team as we look to expand and develop our services and the Patient Engagement team will play a vital role in making this a reality.

Our office is informal, open plan and designed to create a vibrant and productive workspacefor all our staff. Less than a 30-minute train ride from London King’s Cross and with easy access by car, cycle or bus. Free car parking.

About you:

You'll be an enthusiastic, organized person with a practical problem-solving approach and a positive attitude. You will have strong interpersonal and communications skills and be confident with business IT tools (cloud-based, Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.) with an understanding of data protection. You’ll enjoy variety, working with people and an interest in healthcare and improving services for patients.

If you like the sound of our role, please get in touch.

Key Responsibilities:

Act as the first point of contact for general correspondence or queries to the Health Service Development Team and IBDUK team and facilitating effective responses by:

• Handling incoming mail and correspondence coming into 2 mailboxes; answering standard queries (by letter or email) or referring on as appropriate.

Provide administrative support to the Director and Health Service Development (HSD) Meetings by:

• Assisting with the preparation of reports, newsletters and presentations, taking minutes and producing action points as agreed using appropriate Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Booking meeting rooms, travel and accommodation for Director as requested.

Organising internal and external high team stakeholders’ meetings with NHSE, IBDUK, Welsh and Scottish government, telephone conferences or digital events held by the Director and other members of the HSD Team by:

• Communicating effectively with a wide range of specialists such as government ministers, professional bodies, politicians, senior health care professionals and patient advocates to confirm dates, venues and availability of invitees.
• Identifying and booking venues or meeting rooms, refreshments, equipment etc.
• Circulating relevant papers/correspondence.
• Develop effective website administration and marketing skills and input updates onto the IBD UKand the Health Service Development pages of the Crohn’s and Colitis UK website.
• Collating/preparing materials and arranging for these to be couriered to external venues.
• Attending external events to provide administrative or general support.
• Taking minutes and producing reports from stakeholder meetings or action points as required.

Developing systematic, logical coordination and reporting of Health Service Development Team contacts and insights from key stakeholders, bodies and health service development operational back up to team colleagues:

• Inputting and maintaining data, contacts and circulation lists on the One CRM database.
• Processing applications for patient voices applying consistent assessment criteria and, in accordance with good practice guidelines.
• Facilitating the review process for the Patient Voices Network.
• Assisting with the preparation of reports and presentations, such as the telephone research survey of Patient Panels across the UK; evaluations of interviews and focus groups with IBDUK professional bodies from transcriptions or notes.
• Assuring adherence to Data Protection processes across all areas of work and advising team members of potential risks.

Provide administrative support for patient engagement activities and operational back up to the Patient Engagement Team, including:

• being first point of contact for queries from patients or healthcare professionals, including:
  • Monitoring, responding to and escalating emails in the patient engagement inbox
  • Dealing with phone calls to the Patient Engagement number
  • Sending out standard information to patients (e.g. when they sign up or take part in an event) or in response to general enquiries
• Collating information on patients, Patient Panels and Healthcare Professionals, ensuring this is up to date, accurate and stored in the CRM.
• Supporting regular communication with Patient Voices Network, Patient Panels and Healthcare Professionals to update and maintain relationships.
• Developing engaging marketing materials, articles, newsletters.
• Liaising with Marketing and Comms team to post opportunities for patient engagement and updates of our work.
• Supporting event organisations and meeting administration. 

Are you organised, outgoing, and have a ‘can do’ attitude?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Social Prescribing team working with older people and adults with complex needs. The service offers short-term intensive support with the aim of reducing hospital readmissions and improving health and wellbeing. As a Volunteer Coordinator, you will recruit, train and manage local volunteers to work directly with clients in their homes or the community.

You will work alongside Social Prescribing colleagues to co-produce support plans, identify the role of the volunteer and match individual volunteers with appropriate attributes. Volunteers will support clients to retain their independence, re-engage in social activities, meet new friends or perhaps try something new.

You will have opportunities to plan, organise and deliver volunteer recruitment campaigns, attending events and using social and other media platforms to develop wider networks. You will ensure volunteers receive appropriate training and supervision, and stay in regular communication to make sure they feel supported and fulfilled in their role. 

In this role, you will ensure that volunteers understand how to respond to challenging and complex situations with a sensitive and measured response, ensuring that safeguarding and lone working measures are followed. You will maintain up-to-date records using our bespoke database.

The service is currently delivered across Kent and Medway. The post holder will be based in North Kent and must be able to travel to other areas, so a car driver is essential.

Help people reach their full potential.

PWYP is seeking a dynamic learning professional, with a commitment to social and economic justice and the fight against inequality, to fill a newly created position. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator will help to deliver stories and evidence of impact as we implement our new, global five-year strategy – Vision 2025 – which lays out the roadmap to a world where everyone benefits from their natural resources.

Location: Anywhere - location is flexible as we are a decentralised team working across multiple countries. 

Salary and Benefits: £47,000 plus generous pension scheme and other benefits; generous training budget and leave policies 

Start date: As soon as possible

How to apply: send a CV and cover letter outlining your experience and suitability for the role, as per the role description below, with “MEL Coordinator” in the subject line. 

Closing Date: Friday, 20 March 2020 (midnight). Interviews are expected to be carried out the week of 30 March 2020.

THE ORGANISATION 

Publish What You Pay is the world’s largest network of civil society organisations working to promote transparency, citizen participation and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sectors. We work with communities and civil society organisations in more than 50 countries, to ensure that the revenues generated by natural resource exploitation benefit all citizens, rather than a small elite. 

PWYP was established more than fifteen years ago and we have come a long way. From a handful of organisations in 2002, the network has grown to include more than 700 member organisations across the world. We are a founding member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the first global standard for good natural resource governance. Our advocacy has led to milestones in accountability, such as legislation that requires major extractive companies like BP and Total to publish what they pay to governments for their natural resources. Combined, these successes have led to billions of dollars of extractive revenues being publicly disclosed, a level of transparency that seemed unachievable just a few years ago. 

Our global strategy, Vision 2025: A people centred agenda for the extractive sector, builds on our success in securing unprecedented levels of transparency from the extractive industry, while placing more emphasis on making sure that transparency leads to broader changes that improve the lives of citizens in resource-rich countries. It prioritises greater citizen participation in the governance of oil, gas and mineral extraction so that people can exercise their right to take part in decisions that affect them and can hold the powerful to account. It also aims to connect to international efforts to curb poverty and promote sustainable development, redress inequality and prevent disastrous climate change. 

We are a small, fun and dynamic team located across seven countries and we work with some of the most courageous transparency activists in the world. We offer an amazing working environment and the flexibility to work from home as needed with a focus on personal development. 

For more information, please visit our website.

THE POSITION 

The MEL Coordinator will contribute to PWYP’s culture of learning and its focus on impact and effectiveness, by embedding monitoring, evaluation and learning practices into the work of the organisation. Through the design, development and implementation of a MEL system, and in collaboration with programme and fundraising staff, the coordinator will enable PWYP to identify, document and evidence the progress and impact of its advocacy; understand where and how PWYP is being effective; learn from the implementation of its Vision 2025 strategy; and strengthen its ability to be accountable to donors and governance bodies. The MEL Coordinator will lead in identifying and meeting MEL capacity building needs of PWYP staff and members. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Result Area #1: Strategic & Project Planning

Participate in the development of PWYP’s strategy and annual workplan, as well as the design of specific donor-funded projects; ensuring that learning from previous work is incorporated into the design and that effective MEL is built into these initiatives.  Consolidate MEL data to capture advocacy’s impact and contributions to PWYP’s strategic goals for reporting purposes and to inform strategy review.

Performance indicators:

• PWYP’s strategic and project planning is informed by learning from previous activities

• PWYP’s strategic and project planning articulates how the secretariat will achieve its outcomes as well as the clear purpose of activities, so that this will make MEL possible

• Expectations of donors in relation to MEL are clarified and communicated clearly to staff and project stakeholders

• MEL frameworks are in place for each donor-funded project and for PWYP’s annual workplans and multi-year operational plans

• Appropriate project, campaign and strategy evaluations and reviews are conducted or commissioned.

• Organisational reviews of progress against the operational plan outcomes are facilitated and documented, so that PWYP staff have the means to hold themselves accountable to the operational plan

Key Result Area #2: MEL System & Resources

Lead the development and implementation of PWYP's MEL systems and resources, ensuring that they support the efficient collection, analysis and dissemination of data and information.

Performance indicators:

• Relevant, useable MEL systems are in place and reflect best practice in the development sector

• PWYP members being funded via PWYP are supported to develop and implement appropriate MEL processes as part of project design and implementation

• Logframe data required by donors is collected.

• PWYP’s learning from its advocacy work and projects is documented and shared appropriately with relevant stakeholders (members, donors, staff)

• Feedback from the team and stakeholders indicates that data collection and management tools are user-friendly, time-efficient and generate relevant learning

Key Result Area #3: Monitoring & Data Collection

Coordinate and support the collection, analysis, recording and reporting of all required M&E data by staff and project stakeholders. Support the wider organisation to identify stories of change and to harvest outcomes.  Help to identify where good practice can be documented and shared.

Performance indicators:

• Data required for PWYP’s MEL system, including baseline data, is collected in a timely manner and presented to staff in a meaningful format for analysis and reflection

• Proactivity in supporting programme staff in learning, monitoring and data collection by agreeing monitoring plans, providing tools and guidance.

• Evidence is gathered in real-time to demonstrate whether key planned activities were effective and whether they achieved their impact. 

• Outcome harvesting takes place and stories of change are generated that enable PWYP to identify its impacts and contribution

Key Result Area #4: Capacity Building

Build the capacity of staff and project stakeholders to implement best practice in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.

Performance indicators:

• Staff are equipped to utilise and implement MEL tools and techniques, including regular learning reviews of PWYP’s strategy implementation

• Members are supported to collect, evaluate and report on baseline and other MEL data for funded projects, including via recruitment of in-country consultants

Key Result Area #5: Learning & Knowledge Management

Review and analyse the learning from PWYP advocacy and other activities in order to drive continuous improvement of strategies and dissemination of knowledge, and thereby maximise our impact; facilitate, conduct or commission after-action reviews. 

Performance indicators:

• Regular learning reviews conducted with departmental project teams; key learnings are reported and reflected upon and incorporated into strategic and tactical decision-making

• Successes and failures reported, reflected on and contribute to changes in working practices and strategies

• Suggestions for consequent action/project redesign shared with colleagues

• Learning resources are stored and catalogued for easy retrieval / dissemination

• Campaigning / advocacy efforts are informed by relevant and accessible data & reporting

REQUIREMENTS 

Qualifications: 

● Bachelor’s degree (international development, social sciences or other related field)

Technical Experience & Knowledge:

• A MEL professional with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in MEL in a complex organisation, preferably involving evaluating advocacy

• Demonstrable knowledge of the particular demands and challenges of conducting MEL for advocacy

• Experience in (or knowledge of) advocacy evaluation methods including outcome harvesting, contribution analysis, and other qualitative methods

• Experience in running after-action and learning reviews

• Experience of working with management information systems and the design of data collection tools that are user friendly and effective

• Experience of building capacity of non-experts to implement effective M&E and Learning

• Knowledge of computer software; Google Suites and other information systems (e.g., MS Word, Excel, Power Point, statistical packages, etc.

• Added advantage to have an understanding of the transparency and accountability field in general, and of the extractives in particular

Skills and abilities

• Strong qualitative and quantitative skills, including understanding the value of anecdotal data and stories of change

• Excellent analytical, written, oral communication, and digital skills (English essential; French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish desirable); especially the ability to present data in a manner that will support evidence-based advocacy / campaigning

• Demonstrable project management skills

• Ability to function in complex, changing environments, and to work with diverse and remote staff as well as independently

• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and sense of initiative 

Personal style and behavior: 

• Actively encourages and feels at home in a diverse and inclusive working environment 

• A sense of humor, humility, and collegiality 

• Capacity for self-reflection and a commitment to learning and growth

This is a part time role of 3 days a week

London Mining Network works with communities harmed by London-linked companies. We work at the interface of mining, climate change and a just transition from fossil fuels. Our communications and media work plays a vital role in supporting these communities, increasing pressure on mining companies to clean up their act, and in raising awareness among the general public in the UK and beyond.

If you have the skills and experience as indicated in the person specification, and a passion for working in solidarity with mining-affected communities, then we’d love to hear from you.

To apply

Please apply online or to contact(at)londonminingnetwork(dot)org with your CV, contact details of two referees, and a covering letter explaining how you meet the person specification, giving examples of your experience, and why you would like to work for London Mining Network.

We particularly encourage people from minority ethnic and refugee backgrounds and people with disabilities to apply. Please contact us if you have questions regarding accessibility or about other aspects of the job advert, the interview or the role, prior to the closing date. Do let us know if you have accessibility requirements that affect your application for the job or the interview.

Unfortunately we can only employ people who are eligible to work in the UK.

Your application must reach us by 5pm BST on Tuesday 3 March. Interviews will be held at the London Mining Network office in north London on Tuesday 10 March.

Job description

Role purpose:

Planning, coordinating and delivering communications to key groups, such as LMN’s network, supporters, and members of the public. The post holder will write, edit, co-ordinate and publish content across various channels, including the website, social media, and print and online materials. They will also plan and implement communications and campaigns to raise awareness or funds, while progressively improving organisational understanding of what works for different audiences.

Key responsibilities

Press

* Writing press releases related to visits, events and reports with which LMN is involved.
* Establishing and building on existing media relationships.
* Fielding inquiries from stakeholders including journalists, politicians and service users.

Digital

* Creating posts and basic visual social media content for social media platforms.
* Producing live social media content from LMN events and demonstrations.
* Developing and regularly updating content for the website.
* Managing social media accounts

Communications 

* Implementing a media strategy, with the aims of increasing the visibility of frontline community voices and concerns, widening interest in issues relevant to LMN and our partners, and applying public pressure to London-listed companies and stakeholders.
* Developing media/social media strategies for overseas visits and public events.
* Coordinating media activities during visits, including joint media work with other organisations.
* Conducting media monitoring, logging and reporting on media and social media metrics.
* Commissioning and liaising with freelancers and contractors relevant to communications work (web designers, graphic designers, filmmakers, photographers, researchers).
* Maintaining archives of media mentions, photos and videos, and maintaining press contacts list.

Branding

* Developing a uniform style across LMN materials.
* Helping maintain and build LMN’s reputation nationally and internationally.
* Planning/creating multimedia communications materials.

Publications

* Leading on writing and production of key publications, including LMN’s Annual Review.
* Writing regular email newsletters to promote publications, programme activities, events and other key information.

Organisational

* Contributing to and editing organisational documents such as funding proposals, governance reports and policies.
* Note-taking and facilitating meetings.
* Updating and liaising with LMN’s trustees on communications work via email and quarterly meetings.
* Organising and co-organising LMN events.
* Supervising and working with communications and outreach volunteers.
* Identifying issues that could potentially damage the organisation’s reputation and recommend actions to mitigate this risk.

Finances

* Working with finance officer to prepare and monitor communications budget

Person specification

The experience, knowledge and skills that we are looking for can have been gained in a paid or voluntary capacity.

Essential 

– Experience of media work (building relationships with journalists; pitching stories to editors; briefing and liaising with producers, photographers, reporters, etc).
– Social media skills (live posting from events; scheduling posts; conveying key messages succinctly; post promotion).
– Experience of using CMS, including uploading and basic web maintenance.
– Communication skills, including the ability to write, copy-edit and proofread using clear, simple and powerful language.
– Experience of solidarity work (e.g. campaigning, activism, advocacy frontline or behind the scenes in the UK or abroad).
– Experience of managing or liaising with volunteers and contract workers, e.g. designers, filmmakers.
– Ability to work as part of a team, within LMN and across organisations.
– Ability to manage your own workload, work unsupervised and use your initiative.
– Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends.
– Ability to work in a non-hierarchical structure.
– Sympathy for our aims and mission, and agreement with our values, including equality and diversity (See below for details).
– Ability to learn and grasp the issues around extractivism.

Desirable 

– Experience of overseas work with local communities.
– Prior knowledge of mining-related issues.
– Understanding of the financing of the mining industry.
– Experience of fundraising or online fundraising.
– Language skills, particularly Spanish or Portuguese.
– InDesign or PhotoShop skills.
– Photography and filmmaking skills.

About LMN

Vision

A just future based on a lower demand for mining and on respect for human rights and ecological justice (including the rights of nature) where mining does take place.

Mission

We undertake research and action for human rights and environmental justice in partnership with communities resisting, or affected by, the operations of London-based or London-financed mining companies around the world. We aim to tackle impunity and hold the mining industry to account, end unethical corporate practice, and to create an alternative narrative which respects the diverse cultures and cosmologies of the people with whom we work.

Values

Frontline voices: Our work is led by the needs and concerns of the people affected by or potentially affected by the activities of mining companies. We work to strengthen their capacity to amplify their voices and to place their needs and concerns centre stage.

Solidarity: We are committed to facilitating the development and strengthening of networks of solidarity with and between people whose land, cultures, livelihoods, health and wellbeing, workplace and other rights are threatened by the activities of mining companies.

Collaboration and teamwork: We work collaboratively as part of a formal network and also as part of several dynamic and changing informal networks of NGOs, community organisations, voluntary groups, concerned individuals, and others.

Environmental Stewardship and Just Transition: We understand that we are part of nature and that we must live within the ecological limits of our planet. We seek to promote a just transition to a sustainable and fair post-extractivist society that ensures that future generations will benefit, not suffer, from the practices of our generation.

Personal and planet: We encourage everyone involved with LMN to consider their well-being and support each other, and to consider the well-being of the planet and others with whom we share it.

Respectful: We value the opinions, expertise and diversity that people bring to LMN, and treat each other with respect, dignity and common courtesy regardless of background, culture, lifestyle or position.

Empowerment: We encourage everyone involved with LMN, whether they be workers, consultants, volunteers, supporters or representatives of communities with whom we are working, to share ideas, gain skills and knowledge and to involve themselves in our decision-making processes and to feel they are part of making change happen.

Honesty and transparency: We are accountable at all levels of our work, to ensure that we are effective in our actions and open in our communications with others. We regularly evaluate our activities and welcome dialogue and constructive criticism.

With these values, we  have supported communities to say ‘no’ to mining projects and hold companies accountable, and we coordinate a network of mining justice organisations, playing an integral role in extractives campaigning.

LMN believes that the people  who should have the  decisive voice with regard  to mining projects are the people  most directly impacted by them – yet  their voices are often ignored. One of our most  important tasks, therefore, is to ensure that the  voices of communities resisting mining, communities seeking  justice from companies for the consequences of existing projects,  communities developing alternatives to mining, and mining workers in dispute  with companies, are heard by the boards, shareholders, investors and insurers of the companies and by members of the public in Britain.

We seek to promote and share communities’ ways of understanding the world and support their development models.

As part of our plan for continued growth we are recruiting an experienced co-ordinator to establish and lead a specialist Dementia support service for people living with Dementia in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

The aim of the service is to support people living with dementia to engage in social activities of their choice to reduce isolation.  Also to help people with dementia access support to ensure they remain safe within their own homes and the community.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Liaising and working with a wide range of other health and social care professionals and agencies to promote awareness of the service

• Recruiting, training, supporting and leading a team of volunteers, ensuring that the delivery of services meets the required standards and targets.

• Monitoring the ongoing support being provided, the welfare of both volunteers and service-users and evaluating the service against agreed outcomes.

The ability to travel and navigate independently and to work efficiently without direct supervision is required. The successful candidate will have a good understanding of how to support and work with people living with dementia and their carers, family and circles of support.

• Sessional Dementia Support Workers
• £9.80 per hour
• Location: Orpington and surrounding areas (London Borough of Bromley)

Help people with dementia to live well in their homes and communities, in a rewarding job with a local charity, supporting local people. MindCare Dementia Support is looking for Dementia Support Workers to support people living with dementia across Bromley borough, with a particular need in Orpington and surrounding areas.

You will be required to work in people’s homes for sessions of 3-4 hours at a time. This may involve:

• engaging clients in activities to help them maintain everyday skills
• support with daily living activities

You will be spending quality time, building trusting relationships, providing one-to-one support to people with dementia and, in many cases, giving family carers a much needed break.

We provide a respite service 7 days a week from 8:00 am – 11:00 pm.

What We Need From You

The qualities we are looking for include:

• good communication skills
• patience
• sensitivity
• reliability
• flexibility
• ability to use initiative

You will have an interest, and perhaps some personal or work experience, in supporting older people. A full driving licence, use of a car and knowledge of the local areas are desirable.

Successful applicants will be expected to:

• undergo an Enhanced level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• attend a 3-day induction

We Can Offer You

• Regular work depending on your availability
• Mileage costs and holiday pay
• A full induction and ongoing training and regular supervision
• High level of job satisfaction, working as part of a committed team.

Deadline for applications:

9:00am on Monday 9th March 2020

Likely interview dates:

Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd April 2020

Summary

Make a difference to people with arthritis in Yorkshire and the Humber as our local Living Well with Arthritis Service Coordinator. You will be joining a supportive team from across England, working closely with volunteers, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders in your area.

About the role

The role of Living Well with Arthritis Service Coordinator for the Yorkshire and the Humber is rewarding, challenging and flexible, enabling you to use a range of skills and experience to support people with arthritis to live well. Every week is different; you may be delivering talks or workshops, recruiting and supporting volunteers, supporting people one on one, helping to set up new peer support groups or setting up information stands in hospitals across your area.

Key requirements

You will need to be comfortable with homeworking and being part of a remote team, able to organize your own time effectively and communicate well with internal and external stakeholders.

The Living Well with Arthritis team in England currently uses Excel to record service data, Microsoft Teams for meetings and Outlook for emails and calendar management, so you will need to be competent in these programs.

Experience with long-term health conditions would be valuable.

You will need to able to travel independently across Yorkshire and the Humber and occasionally to other locations such as the London or Chesterfield offices.

The role of Service Coordinator combines volunteer management with local stakeholder engagement and some direct support to people with arthritis. It is an amazing opportunity to shape local services and really make a difference in your area.

Join our award-winning Youth Empowerment team at the pioneering Cambridge House charity. 

The Youth Empowerment Coordinator will provide long-term, holistic support to at-risk 16-21-year olds living in Southwark and surrounding boroughs.

Through the delivery of weekly group workshops, personal mentoring, liaising and referring to specialist services, providing employment and life skills support, and facilitating trips and events, the Youth Empowerment Coordinator will help young people to find out what they want in life, overcome barriers, and support them to achieve their goals.

You will need to be confident working one-to-one with young people as well as delivering group workshops and activities over a range of topics. Using your initiative, you will be able to engage participants, adapt to their individual support needs and nurture their development, health and wellbeing.

Strong organisational skills are required in this multifaceted role and the post-holder must be reliable and patient, with the ability to build trust and establish positive working relationships.

Working as part of a newly expanding team, your contribution will be pivotal to the ongoing evaluation and development of the project.

Our ideal candidate will have previous relevant experience (in a paid or voluntary capacity) and:

• Be positive, enthusiastic and friendly
• Be self-motivated
• Share our commitment to our vision of a society without poverty where all people are valued, treated equally and lead fulfilling and productive lives

As an organisation we are particularly keen to ensure that our staff reflect the diverse nature of the community in which we work.

We value diversity and warmly welcome applications from disabled people, the LGBTQ+ communities and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

We are a Disability Confident employer and will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by person specification.

To apply, email your CV and cover letter (see Recruitment Pack attached)

We are Bloodwise (Becoming Blood Cancer UK on 31 March), and we want to change the world for all blood cancer patients. Every year we stop more people dying of blood cancer and our researchers are even working to stop people developing blood cancer in the first place. 

We are looking for a highly organised communications professional to join the team as Communications Coordinator.

You will be responsible for ensuring our communications are coordinated and planned to maximise their effectiveness in helping people affected by blood cancer.

If you are an articulate communicator who is able to effectively co-ordinate crossorganisational communications activity, then this could be the role for you.

This is an exciting opportunity to utilise your transferable skills and experience within the charity sector and make a difference to the lives of people affected by blood cancer.

The closing date for this exciting opportunity is:

9am on Monday 16 March 2020

Please note that all applications will be reviewed on receipt and if we appoint a successful canddidate we may bring forward the closing date of this role at our discretion

Duration: 35hrs per week

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About our work and values

Do you have passion for your work, a commitment to excellence and a desire to support some of the most vulnerable and excluded people in our communities? Could you support us to make positive lasting changes in people’s lives?

Providence Row works with more than a thousand homeless and vulnerably housed people a year in East London, offering an integrated service of crisis support, advice, recovery and learning and training programmes.  Our aim is to ensure that people who are so often excluded from mainstream services gain the support and opportunities they need to create a safe, healthy and sustainable life away from the streets. Central to our work are our core values of Compassion, Respect, Inclusiveness, Empowerment and Justice.  These inform the content, style and delivery of all our services.

We support clients in addressing their mental health, substance misuse needs and general wellbeing by building a positive relationship with the person, not just focusing on their problems, but by exploring their potential using a strength based approach. Providence Row works with people to improve their self-esteem and confidence, helping them rediscover their skills, get back into work and training and build stronger support networks.

Your contribution to our work and values

Passionate about providing quality support to some of the most vulnerable and excluded people in East London. You will have the drive and ambition to support your team to make positive lasting changes in people’s lives.

You will have experience in delivering a needle exchange service as well as an excellent knowledge of substance misuse support services.  Expert in engaging through a low threshold service and a strong understanding of how other factors such as rough sleeping and mental health issues can impact a person’s health and wellbeing. You will live out our values in your approach to your work.

For an application pack, please visit our website.

The deadline for applications is midnight on Monday, 9 March 2020.

Providence Row is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales; company number 07452798 registered charity number 1140192.

Sense has a great opportunity to join our team at our Sense College and Centre is Dereham. This is a 12 month fixed term position working 35 hours per week, being a college you would work 45 weeks of the year.

Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. In addition we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement

As an Education Support Worker you will support people who have dual or single sensory impairment, learning disability and / or autism, to be as involved as possible in every part of their day to day lives so that they can be full and active members of society. You will work closely with learners to achieve the long term goals identified in their Individual Learning Plans through a range of activities.

You will support and enable people to live the life they choose: to make choices, to express themselves and live as independently as possible. Your support and encouragement will assist individuals to run their own lives as much as possible – helping with personal care, supporting someone to engage with Sense activities, or enabling individuals to access their local community.

About you

Experience is not necessarily required as we are able to support you and provide you with an excellent induction. However, it is really important that you are able to demonstrate the right values and behaviours to enable you to make a difference to people’s lives.

About us

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Sense has a proven record of offering high quality, pioneering services

No agencies please.

To apply

Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your application to shortlist candidates in relation to the Personal Specification; therefore it is very important you complete this section thoroughly.  We would recommend that you read the candidate guidelines and job description (found at the base of this advert) before applying.

Sense is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring that all staff are motivated, skilled and rewarded by their work.  Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment are subject to a number of checks including an enhanced DBS check where appropriate.

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Do you want to make a positive difference to people’s lives?

If yes, then our Support Worker job vacancies in Holbeach may be perfect for you!

Sense has a great opportunity to join our team as a Support Worker in Holbeach. We have a number of flexible, and permanent part time and full time roles available working 7.5 to 37.5 hours per week. Just let us know what hours you are looking for! Flexibility is needed as working times do vary and will include evenings, weekends and sleep-ins; we will however provide you with a rota in advance so you can plan your life accordingly.

In return you will receive......

You do not need previous experience to become part of our team as we provide you with full training.
You will work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment.
Excellent training and development opportunities
Group Personal Pension scheme
Generous annual leave entitlement
Discount scheme plus many more

Here at Holbeach......

We are a brand new service supporting 6 adults in a supported living environment with a range of multi sensory impairments. We get involved in lots of activities including swimming, going to local fairs, shopping, waterparks, arts and crafts, music events and going on holiday.

As a Support Worker you will support and enable people to live the life they choose: to make choices, to express themselves and live as independently as possible. 

Being a Sense Support Worker can be the springboard to your future career - and to all sorts of opportunities and management roles.

About us

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Sense has a proven record of offering high quality, pioneering services.

No agencies please.

To apply

Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your application to shortlist candidates in relation to the Personal Specification; therefore it is very important you complete this section thoroughly.  We would recommend that you read the candidate guidelines and job description (found at the base of this advert) before applying.

Sense is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring that all staff are motivated, skilled and rewarded by their work.  Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment are subject to a number of checks including an enhanced DBS check where appropriate.