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.
Job Summary
GMYN have been helping care experienced young people aged 13-25 since 2012 through fun but challenging weekly activities to build social skills, encourage health and positive wellbeing, develop self-esteem and provide skills for the future. We also match care experienced young people with volunteering and development opportunities for employment.
We have recently been successful in securing 12 months of funding from The Prince’s Trust Future Workforce Fund to expand our Care Experienced Programme into Tameside to support looked after children and care leavers aged 16-25 develop vital life skills, positive wellbeing and employability skills. We are therefore looking to recruit a skilled and passionate Programme Coordinator to join our Care Experienced Team and deliver this piece of work in Tameside through a mixture of weekly 1:1 support sessions, skills and wellbeing group activities, and employability workshops.
Key responsibilities
- To create an effective relationship with care leavers as well as young people who are in care; identifying their needs and help them to overcome barriers to participation.
- Deliver positive life skills, wellbeing and employability focussed activities enabling young people to develop key skills, build confidence and gain the knowledge they need to support a positive future.
- To provide appropriate group and 1:1 support with a flexible approach to encourage participation.
- To enable participants to clarify their learning and development needs and draw up individual action plans.
- To support young people to participate in learning activities including training and volunteering.
- To work alongside Tameside partners, building and maintaining referral pathways in order to support CEYP access education, volunteering, training and employment opportunities.
- To be led by and focussed on the aspirations of the young person, in order to offer the most effective support.
- To ensure that in the project all participants are safeguarded and that good safe practice is followed in all project activities.
- Ensure that provision is of the highest quality and achieves positive outcomes for children and young people.
- To monitor and evaluate the project/programme outputs and outcomes using GMYN’s data collection tools and report these to management and the funder.
- To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities that contribute to the organisations overall aims and objectives.
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.
Apply: Please send your CV and cover letter (no more than two sides of A4) showing how you meet the person specification using this site by 12pm Weds 14th Oct.
Interviews: Interviews will be held on Weds 21st Oct in person, subject to government guidance, however we are able to conduct video interviews where needed. We can also offer reasonable travel expenses to shortlisted candidates if required.
Further information can be found in the attached job pack.
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We are a long established Supported Housing Service that is contracted to deliver our specialist mental health housing provision in the Borough of Lewisham. This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and innovative team, utilizing the Recovery Model and a Trauma Informed Approach to support service users into independent living within a period of 2 years. We are creative in responding to local challenges and changing needs and are committed to service user involvement and co-production in all that we do.
We are looking for two enthusiastic and proactive individuals to join our service. You will have the opportunity to manage your own caseload with support and supervision and to work as part of a team. The successful candidates will utilise the Recovery Star tools and a strength based, Trauma Informed model to promote independence and plan resettlement into the community. You will ensure action Plans are formulated with clear objectives and SMART outcomes, agreed jointly with service users and reviewed regularly in liaison with relatives, care co-ordinators and relevant others. We are committed to the principles of Co-Production and there is an expectation to encourage and support service users to be fully involved in all aspects of service delivery. You will be expected to carry out full risk assessments of service users, incorporating the views of any other agencies involved and of the service users themselves. We have a successful volunteer programme to support delivery of action plans and you will have the opportunity to supervise a volunteer for which full training and support will be given. As part of our commitment to developing the skills of service users we deliver a comprehensive workshop programme which all staff are given training and support to co-deliver.
The successful post holders will be qualified to at least NVQ level 3 Health and Social Care or equivalent, with a minimum of 2 year’s experience in mental health work, either as a member of staff or as a volunteer. You will have knowledge of the recovery model and principles of co-production and be willing to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis
Our Values: People focus, Mutual Respect, Excellence-in-all-we do and a Can-Do attitude.
If you can relate to these and have the necessary skills and attitude we can offer you:
- A competitive salary, leave entitlement and pension scheme
- Career development opportunities
- A full induction and on going quality training
- The opportunity to become part of Family Action initiatives
- Flexible working hours
- Managed work loads with regular supportive and reflective supervision
To download the documents to apply and for further information, inlcuding the benefits we offer, please visit our current vacancies page.
Closing date: 19th October 2020, 9am
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Emerging Futures has secured a 3-5-year contract to deliver substance misuse and housing support services across Cheshire East. Our Housing Related Support is informed by both harm reduction and ‘Housing First’ principles and is driven operationally via a culture of values based, passionate leadership.
We are extremely proud of our services and are looking to recruit passionate and enthusiastic Housing Project Workers who are able to engage and offer support to people who present with a range of complex needs, including poor health & wellbeing, low self-esteem, low levels of literacy, substance misuse issues, non-existent family relationships and who have difficulty forming and sustaining new relationships.
If you thrive on working in a challenging but rewarding environment and have a real desire to make a difference to people’s lives, this role could be for you!
This requires the ability to work on a rolling rota basis covering days, evenings and weekend across our Housing Related Support provision in Crewe or Macclesfield, Cheshire East.
Our Passion Statement
At Emerging Futures, we believe that everyone has the potential to change, grow and learn and to achieve the best they can in everything they do. We know it takes courage and commitment to change, which is why we have a passion statement, rather than a mission statement. To us, being passionate means:
- celebrating success and achievement
- creative and daring enough to innovate
- determined to persist when things get tough
- brave enough to say when something isn’t good enough
- humble enough to accept and learn from criticism
- willing to take responsibility for making things better
Above all, being passionate means having the desire to nurture, facilitate and empower others to reach out with hope to achieve their full potential.
This job is for you if…
- You are someone who is committed to our passion statement and shares in our belief in the potential of all individuals, and that empowering individuals to support each other leads to positive change; not only for themselves, but also for their communities
- You are passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping and can support complex individuals from first point of contact to resettling in their own home.
- You are fun, approachable, energetic, confident, warm, empathetic, ambitious, flexible, resilient, discreet, organised, and professional.
- You are passionate about promoting recovery, tackling homelessness, and working in collaboratively with partner agencies.
What you will be doing
- Supporting tenants to maintain their tenancy by providing hands on, practical help and advice across our network of shared, supported housing.
- Working with the Local Authority and other agencies to create move-on options and improve the health and wellbeing of tenants through direct 1-1 work.
- Supporting the development of recovery and employment initiatives for tenants across Cheshire East, working with local third sector and grass roots organisations, associations, and individuals.
- Supporting residents in financial planning and providing debt counselling and support where appropriate.
- Ensuring residents understand their tenancy agreement and their rights and obligations.
- Managing accommodation for individuals, enabling residents to access pathways to meet their more immediate needs before moving on to full independence, their own tenancies and meaningful activity.
Some of the skills, knowledge and experience you will have
- A keen and comprehensive awareness of homelessness issues, interventions and understanding specific ways to support tenants with ingrained and entrenched negative behaviours.
- Excellent all-round communication skills and the ability to manage relationships.
- An ability to undertake accurate and comprehensive assessments of need, identifying levels of risk, recovery potential and establishing immediate and longer-term recovery goals.
- An ability to work effectively with groups using a structured planned approach.
- Experience of working in or with adult social care services within the charitable, third or public sector.
- A flexible attitude towards your work and a knowledge of local services and geography in Cheshire East.
- Flexibility and access to transport as you may be required to visit other sites across Cheshire East.
- We welcome applications from people with lived experience; however, all employees are required to have an enhanced DBS.
How to apply
If you are interested in applying for either of these new and exciting roles within Emerging Futures, please send your Application Form or CV along with a covering letter detailing why you are suitable for the role to Victoria Duncan on the email provided.
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Principal Practice Tutor (PPT) is an exciting role for someone who wishes to combine management and leadership responsibilities whilst keeping a close connection to the work of their team by working directly with participants on the Frontline Programme. You will join a team of Principal Practice Tutors who provide programme leadership and team management that is central to effective delivery of the Frontline programme. You will ensure a high quality teaching experience, resolve escalated participant issues and support Consultant Social Workers to provide an excellent practice learning experience to participants.
There are 4 roles available: 1 based in North East and North Yorkshire, 1 in West Midlands, 1 in East Midlands and 1 in South West with regular travel across your geographical area.
The role comprises of 6 core areas of responsibility;
- Programme leadership and team management
- Resolve escalated participant issues
- Practice learning of participants
- Consultant Social Workers
- Teaching
- Supporting wider organisational objectives
We are actively seeking applicants from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
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