Support Worker
Location: Fife Service, Scotland
Job Type: Full time & Part time
Salary: £9.02 per hour
Closing Date: 15th December 2019
Want to be part of a leading organisation which positively impacts on the lives of disabled people across the world?
We are seeking full and part time Support Workers to join our residential and supported living services in Glenrothes, Fife.
As a Support Worker with Leonard Cheshire you’ll provide a high level of care and support to people with disabilities, enabling them to live the life they choose. You’ll assist with daily tasks including personal care, medication and assistance at mealtimes, motivating and encouraging choice and participation.
Experience as a Support Worker, Care Assistant or Healthcare Assistant is desirable but not essential as we offer an excellent training and induction programme to get you fully trained in your new role! You must be compassionate, creative and love working with people.
In return we offer a great range of employee schemes and benefits, including generous annual leave, discounts for high street retailers, contributory pension scheme and so much more!
Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability, supporting where possible, your requirements for reasonable adjustments.
A satisfactory PVG check is required for this post.
Experience of driving and holding a clean driver's licence is desirable.
Shortlisting for this role will take place as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy once suitable candidates have been appointed.
You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Assistant, Care Provider, Personal Support Worker, Support at Home, Domiciliary Care, charity, not for profit, etc.
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This role in The Prince’s Trust is known as Prince’s Trust Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 35 hours a week
Location: You will be based in our Edinburgh hub but will have flexibility to travel across the region
The Prince’s Trust specialises in helping young people develop the confidence and skills to live, learn and earn, and has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth worker to join our dynamic team. This permanent position is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace and is as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.
Objectives:
You will work directly with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 11-30 year olds. Working as part of a team within Edinburgh, you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.
- Supporting young people into positive outcomes including education, training and employment.
- Delivery of Prince’s Trust programmes.
- Planning, organising and budgeting.
Requirements:
To support our delivery requirements across Edinburgh, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals with some of the following:
- To be able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience.
- To be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation.
- Experienced in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums including adventurous activities.
- Natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people.
Perks of working at The Trust:
- 25 days annual leave entitlement rising by 1 day per year to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
- Interest free season ticket loans
- A contribution of 5% of your salary by The Trust to the Trust Pension Scheme
- Flexible, family-friendly policies (maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental leave)
- Opportunities to volunteer for and/or attend events e.g. music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
- In-house and external training opportunities available throughout the year
- You will be supporting young people to develop skills for life – confidence, communication, teamwork.
- You will be supporting young people to gain qualifications
- You will be supporting young people to set and achieve their goals
- You will be supporting young people to move into positive destinations – employment, education, diversionary activities or further development opportunities
- Work in a challenging, fast-paced but fun and supportive environment
- Working with a diverse team of people.
The Prince’s Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince’s Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.
To apply for this vacancy please go to our website and complete the online application. To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince’s Trust Behavioural Framework.
About The Prince’s Trust youth charity
This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome.
We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years. Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.
We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world. We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.
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Location: Any Crisis Skylight – Birmingham B9, Brent NW10, Coventry CV1, Croydon CR0, Edinburgh EH8, London E1, Liverpool L1, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1, Oxford OX1, South Yorkshire S63, South Wales SA1.
About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
About the role
As Client Information Systems Consultant, you will help to support and further develop our newly introduced case management system MAPS (Member Achievement and Progression System). MAPS is built on MS Dynamics 365 and SharePoint, and uses Power BI as a reporting tool. MAPS enables our staff to fully support the homeless people they work with while also providing data for service management and research.
Your role will be to provide support to our 400+ users in our 11 Skylight Centres around the UK and to continue to develop the solution in line with their requirements and the evolving needs of Crisis as an organisation. You will be developing and implementing new customisations in Dynamics 365 and also developing reporting solutions and dashboards using Power BI. When new functionality is developed you will be involved in delivering training to end-users.
The role can be based in any of our 11 Skylight Centres around the UK and will require some travel to all 11 Skylight Centres and occasional overnight stays.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have:
· demonstrable experience of developing solutions in Dynamics 365 and Power BI
· strong knowledge of MS Office and SharePoint
· experience of working in a cloud-based environment
· ability to communicate with many different types of audience
· the ability to manage your own time
Above all this, you will share our organisational values, which are central to all that we do.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
To apply, please complete the online application form by clicking 'Apply Now'. In your application please provide answers to points 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 from the person specification.
Closing date: 10 December 2019 (11.59pm)
Interview date: w/c 13 January 2020
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
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Scotland Country Manager - ambassador for Eden Project Communities
An exciting opportunity to lead a positive change for communities and neighbourhoods.
Fixed term contract up to December 2021*
Eden Project Communities has UK wide reach and delivers initiatives that encourage public engagement and participation in positive action and create real social capital on a mass scale. Since it began in 2009, participation in The Big Lunch, the UK’s annual get-together for neighbours, has grown continually with the average number of people taking part over 6 million a year. Alongside this we deliver initiatives that encourage connections, engage the public and help people across the UK build the skills and confidence to drive positive social action where it is needed most.
We are looking for a Scotland Country Manager who is experienced in devising and developing Country wide strategies and who will be able to embed Eden Project Communities in the hearts and minds of the public, media, partners and leaders in the community sector to support increased participation year on year in our flagship initiative The Big Lunch.
Over the coming years we are growing participation in the programme to new heights and aim to increase the social impact we have on communities and neighbourhoods all over the UK. As a front line ambassador in nation, we want you to lead the development and delivery of Eden Project Communities within a nation. You’ll help us plan, delivery and evaluate Eden Project Communities initiatives working closely with the UK Delivery Manager and Scotland Campaign Manager as well as line managing the Scotland based Community Network Developers.
Our ideal candidate will have gained a minimum of three years’ experience in a similar role, where they will have managed delivery of a Scotland wide community programme or movement. Experience of working on behaviour change or movement building campaigns is desirable. You’ll be a strategic thinker with strong relationship management abilities, creatively and innovatively solving problems and identify new approaches to deliver a continually evolving programme within Scotland. A thorough knowledge of the specific challenges affecting local communities and an understanding of the political, cultural and societal issues affecting Scotland is essential.
Working for the Eden Project (Charity number 1093070), roles within the programme are funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund. This is a fixed term contract for until December 2021 subject to funding. The post holder will be based within the region (Scotland), and will be required to travel across the territory, the UK and to the Eden Project in Cornwall for key events and meetings.
The closing date for all applications is Monday 9th December. We aim to hold interviews in Scotland on the Monday 16th December.
*subject to funding
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