37.5 hours per week, permanent

Ref: 22270

Location: Home based with the potential to do some face-to-face activity post COVID-19

Working across – Home Counties geographical areas: (Hertfordshire), (Essex, Medway, Gravesend, Dartford) or (East Sussex, Kent)

The Shaw Trust, in tandem with government and the broader employment support community across the UK is working hard to make sure we support as many individuals as possible to get and keep a job. We believe that everyone who needs help and support to attain their employment goals should be able to access it as soon as possible and that support should reflect their individual needs.

To help us in this mission we are looking to expand our employability services and looking for Team Leaders to work on our DWP Work & Health Programme Job Entry – Targeted Support (WHP JETS) Programme.

The WHP JETS Team Leader role is integral to the success of our employment programmes, to ensure our staff integrate in multi-disciplinary teams and work together to provide regular, high quality support to participants. The role requires an engaging, empathetic and motivating individual, with the ability to support staff to achieve day-to-day performance. The Team Leaders will develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and ensure the effective management of staff caseloads.

This role is perfect for individuals with proven leadership skills and experience of leading and supporting customer focused teams. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, a solution-focussed approach, target driven and be highly organised.

Reporting to the Regional Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for managing and assisting the Regional Delivery Manager in the day to day management and support of the teams.

Shaw Trust operates on a national level with over 2,000 staff and 1,000 volunteers. We work with the government, local authorities, combined authorities, health service providers, employers, and other stakeholders – including the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Department for Work and Pensions, clinical commissioning groups and NHS Trusts.

The ideal candidate must have an understanding of the local and regional labour market and employment issues within Home Counties region of Hertfordshire and able to maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of the benefit system and entitlements.

The ideal candidate will need to be inclusive and embrace our culture and values, putting those we serve at the heart of everything we do. You will consistently deliver high quality services to support our communities and beneficiaries.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Enhanced Pension Scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance x 3 of your salary
• Enhanced annual leave

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

Shaw Trust is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity and inclusion. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format please contact our HRService Centre to make alternative arrangements.

Location: Tower Hamlets (initially remote working)

Salary Rate: Qualified applicants (with an accredited VAWG /domestic abuse qualification) dependent on experience: £27,000-£29,000 per annum. 

Hours: 22.5 hours split over 4 days (must cover Tuesday and Friday)

Unqualified applicants dependent on experience: £26,000-£27,000 per annum with the potential to gain a qualification and move to the qualified band.

Type of contract: Permanent

Job reference:SWA3047

Closing date: 10th March 2021 at 12pm (noon)

Estimated Interview date: 15th March 2021

Solace Women’s Aid exists to end the harm done through Violence Against Women and Girls. Our aim is to work to prevent violence and abuse as well as providing services to meet the needs of survivors particularly women and girls. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

About the Service

Tower Hamlets Solace Advocacy and Support Service (SASS) is a crisis intervention service, which provides advice and support to people aged 16+ in Tower Hamlets who are currently experiencing domestic abuse. Tower Hamlets SASS is a team made up of core and collocated IDVAs, a Housing floating support worker, IRIS Advocate Educators and a Duty IDVA. We work closely with our partner agencies to ensure survivors of domestic abuse receive a good standard of service.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Duty IDVA to join our team. The successful candidate will act as a first point of contact for incoming referrals to Tower Hamlets SASS. As the Duty IDVA you will triage referrals into the Tower Hamlets SASS team, responding to professionals and members of the public. In addition, you will risk and needs assess and safety plan with survivors of domestic abuse.

About You

You will need a passion for working with victim/survivors, a thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on women and their children, as well as experience of providing emotional support and initial advice to survivors.

You will have the skills to provide effective crisis intervention, carry out initial assessment of needs and allocate the case to an IDVA for ongoing support. 

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Specialist Support Officer

At One Housing, we don’t only believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. We also believe that everyone deserves to realise their full potential and lead a fulfilling life.

Our Mental Health team is vital to helping us deliver on this vision. We work to transform the life experience of people with mental health support needs. The support we provide is delivered in a range of settings (like supported housing, assessment centres and outreach) and our customers’ support needs can include psychosis, forensic and personality disorders.

Join our Mental Health team as a Specialist Support Officer

We have spent the last 10 years designing our services to be fully psychologically informed. Most of our services have specialist therapeutic input and colleagues have access to specialised mental health training delivered by MH professionals. All our services provide regular reflective practice spaces to our colleagues to formulate complex cases and find constructive ways forward. All these measures make us the ideal partner for NHS trusts across London with whom we deliver several integrated services.

We believe in providing care and support to our clients that will enable them to make informed decisions about their life that will increase their sense of wellbeing: this might be greater independence, better coping strategies or a richer network and sense of self achievement.

We offer you the chance to develop your own skills through regular line management supervision, reflective practice, access to a ten-day course on relevant mental health topics and working together with your specialist colleagues.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Support Officer to join us in our Camden based intensive supported housing service for individuals with long term complex Mental Health support needs. This scheme works in partnership with the NHS, giving you a great opportunity to work closely with professionals such as Psychologist’s and Occupational Therapists, as well as the close-knit, friendly team of 5 Support Officers.

• Location: Camden Tile House.
• Salary: £25,500 per annum.
• Working hours: 37.5 hours per week. Shift work from 8:00am – 16:00pm and 13:00pm – 21:00pm. Ongoing rolling rota – required to work every other weekend.

Your responsibilities will include:

• SMART goal planning to provide needs led holistic support.
• Carrying out assessments to identify and prioritise needs.
• Create an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence.
• Undertake group and 1-1 interventions with clients of a specialist nature.
• Provide support to customers through a key-worker system.

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers. The successful candidate will have:

• A minimum qualification level of NVQ level 3 or equivalent in subjects such as therapeutic studies, psychology, counselling, CBT or dialectical behavioural therapy.
• A minimum of 1 years work experience in mental health.
• Knowledge and experience of using specialist assessment tools, methods and case formulation.
• Knowledge of evidence based specialist interventions.
• Experience of undertaking customer assessments, support planning and key-working with a clear outcome focus.
• Knowledge about recovery model, peer support and coproduction procedures.
• Experience working in community settings therapeutically, including assessments, designing interventions and demonstrating outcomes.
• Experience running therapeutic groups.
• Must have hands on working experience of providing therapy lead services with a similar clientele.

The offer

Our [email protected] benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.
• Salary: £25,500 per annum
• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme, you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

About us

 As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.

Our Mission at Age UK Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent is to make later life better in Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent. Our values underpin everything we do and our desire is to highlight what is positive about age. We are passionate about making Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent great places to grow old in.

We are looking to recruit an experienced person-centred leader who is passionate about delivering services that make a difference to older people’s lives. You will have responsibility of maintaining a high level of service delivery with impressive outcomes. You will lead a team of staff with oversight of each service area, will be highly organised and able to make decisions and use your initiative. The role will also involve monitoring service processes, systems, and workforce capacity to enable us to identify areas for change and improvement.

The purpose of the role is to manage and deliver the day to day operations. Operating across three London boroughs, the team has had to adapt to challenging conditions over the course of the pandemic and is now working to transition back to a new but different ‘normal’. Now we want to go further: to reach more people, to help them to connect with others and build new opportunities, to be even more personalised in our approach, achieving better outcomes whilst also improving quality and user experience.

Areas of delivery currently provided by the service include: Befriending; Good Neighbours service; Clubs, groups and activities; Dementia /CST activities, Community Connect project (including School pen pal scheme); Digital Inclusion.

In the year prior to the pandemic the team supported more than 300 befriending clients, undertook more than 400 Good Neighbour tasks and had more than 10,000 individual attendances at clubs or activities. Since the pandemic the team have adapted to provide not only greater input for shopping and prescriptions in the early stages but also more than 300 monthly activity packs by post and online virtual physical activity and social sessions. This work is supported by more than 200 volunteers.

The opportunities to make a difference are huge. If you think so too and think you have what it takes to be successful as Community & Social Wellbeing Services Manager, we are keen to hear from you.

Age UK HHB is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. 

Age UK HHB is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

We offer a range of benefits including 26 days annual holiday plus bank holidays, a competitive pension with employer contribution of 5%, a health plan and 5 days per year commitment to learning and development.

Please Note: We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible. IRMO reserves the right to close the Job-Ad as soon as a suitable candidate is found. Please do not send CVs as we do not shortlist from CVs. The role is temporarily home-based due to Covid-19, we require candidates to be available to work from an office-based location at any time. 

The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality advice and coaching services to support participants to secure and/or progress in employment and for developing relationships with local partners to enable participants to access employment, training, and volunteering opportunities.

• Hours: Part-time, 22.5 hours per week
• Contract: Fixed-term until September 2021
• Pay band: £25,052 (pro-rata)
• Annual leave: 30 days per year (pro-rata)
• Deadline to apply: Rolling 

Support Officer

At One Housing, we don’t only believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. We also believe that everyone deserves to realise their full potential and lead a fulfilling life.

Our Mental Health team is vital to helping us deliver on this vision. We work to transform the life experience of people with mental health support needs. The support we provide is delivered in a range of settings (like supported housing, assessment centres and outreach) and our customers’ support needs can include psychosis, forensic and personality disorders.

Join our team as a Support Officer

We have spent the last 10 years designing our services to be fully psychologically informed. Most of our services have specialist therapeutic input and colleagues have access to specialised mental health training delivered by MH professionals. All our services provide regular reflective practice spaces to our colleagues to formulate complex cases and find constructive ways forward. All these measures make us the ideal partner for NHS trusts across London with whom we deliver several integrated services.

We believe in providing care and support to our clients that will enable them to make informed decisions about their life that will increase their sense of wellbeing: this might be greater independence, better coping strategies or a richer network and sense of self achievement.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated, flexible and committed Support Officer to join us at our exceptional self-contained accommodation for young parents with complex needs in Camden. 

• Location: Lithos Road, Camden

• Salary: £23,001 per annum

• Contract: Full time, permanent 

• Shifts: Midweek: 08:00-16:30 or 13:00-21:00 and Weekend: 08:00-21:00. You would be required to work roughly every other weekend.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensure the service is running at exceptionally high standard and meeting all the service specification outlined by commissioners

• Undertaking keywork sessions, support planning, completing risk assessments and needs reviews

• Undertaking parenting assessments and providing support to the parents

• Prepare clear and concise reports for meetings related to the welfare of the child 

• Facilitate and encourage effective customer participation, consultation and feedback within the service.

• Assisting with applications for housing, benefits etc.

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers. The successful candidate will have:

• You will have an in-depth knowledge of child development and the impact of abuse on a child’s wellbeing.

• You will have experience of planning 1-1 work with hard to engage parents and undertaking observations as part of the assessment process.

• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding legislation

• Completing reports for statutory meetings (child protection/professionals’ meetings etc)

• Knowledge of the Housing Sector and benefit applications

• A good understanding of issues faced by young parents that live in supported accommodation and have statutory services involvement

• A good understanding of steps required before moving on to independent living.

The offer

Our [email protected] benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

• Salary: £23,001 per annum

• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave

• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues

• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.

• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.

• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme, you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob

• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.

• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.

• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.

• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

About us

 As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Amnesty International UK are looking for a Global Benefits and Mobility Coordinator to assist the International Pay and Reward Manager on a 6-month Fixed Term Contract.

You will be working remotely initially, once working from the office is permitted you will be based within our London office.

JOB PURPOSE

• The purpose of this role is to manage all the global benefits enrolment for Pensions, Medical Insurance, Life Insurance.
• Coordinate global mobility. Ensure a positive relocation experience for employees and their families by proactively managing all aspects of relocation
• Manage third-party Benefit brokers and relocation suppliers to ensure employees get the best service and AI gets value for money
• Supporting reward projects as needed

ABOUT YOU

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Global Benefits
• Pensions
• Life and Medical Insurance
• Mobility: Relocation, Tax, and Immigration
• Invoices and Budget Tracking
• Process Map

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Knowledge and experience:

• Demonstrates excellent analytical skills and ability to create useful and actionable reports from data.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Products, (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - Excel - Has knowledge of excel - can download/ upload reports, conduct audits, using various spreadsheets from System and payroll

Personal style and attributes:

• Personally credible, with a professional demeanor that generates the trust and confidence
• Excellent attention to detail
• Possesses a high level of resilience and drive
• Ability to respond quickly and accurately to requests for data, takes pride in providing excellent customer service

ABOUT US

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We reach almost every country in the world and have:

• more than 2 million members and supporters who drive forward our fight for rights
• more than 5 million activists who strengthen our calls for justice

Our aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they're denied. And whether we're applying pressure through powerful research or direct lobbying, mass demonstrations or online campaigning, we're all inspired by hope for a better world. One where human rights are respected and protected by everyone, everywhere.

At Amnesty International, we are passionate about what we do and we are proud of our achievements as a movement. To compensate our employees for the critical work they do, we reward them through a combination of an attractive and sector competitive salary and benefits package, high levels of engagement and involvement, and a commitment to employee development.

Benefits include 37 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays and grace days), pension scheme, employee assistance programme, life assurance and many more benefits designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. All of this, in a professional, engaging environment.

For further information on our benefits, please visit

WHAT WE HOPE YOU WILL DO NEXT

If you are talented, passionate about human rights and want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to change the world then we would encourage you to click 'Apply for this Role' below.

Freedom, Justice, Equality. Let's get to work.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for you to join our adult complex needs pathway services, as a Specialist Complex Needs Worker in a new supported housing provision in the borough of Redbridge (Ilford).

Redbridge Accommodation Services consists of 4 hostels specialising in supporting people with a history of rough sleeping and homelessness and two homeless shelters that support people off the streets. The service provides temporary and longer-term supported accommodation, to people who may have associated difficulties relating to mental health, substance and alcohol use and trauma and domestic abuse.

SHP (Single Homeless Project) is one of London’s leading homelessness prevention charities and a dynamic and growing organisation changing 8,000 lives every year across London - from supporting people in crisis, to helping them take the final steps towards independence and employment.

As the post-holder, you will provide specialist interventions for a designated caseload and also to the wider client group, via our in-house recovery programme. You will also be responsible for promoting multi-agency partnerships; including forming new partnerships with NHS, mental health and specialist substance use services.

For this role is it essential that you have experience of working with vulnerable people and your work should be trauma-informed with a strengths-based approach. You will also be skilled in managing complex caseloads, facilitating and growing multi-agency partnerships and managing risk and safeguarding concerns. You will also have experience or the abilities to set up group work, workshops or harm minimisation and recovery support. 

Closing date: 6th March 2021 (at Midnight)

Interviews to be held on: 18th March 2021

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six months.
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: SHP will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

SHP is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and are IIP Silver accredited.

Recruiting Enhanced Support Workers to join our Young People's Service in Hounslow!

GBP 11,600 - 23,200 per annum, 20 - 40 hours per week plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Hounslow Young People is Supported Accommodation Service for young people and young parents aged 16-25 in Hounslow. The service encompasses a mix of units across 6 sites supporting 57 vulnerable young people and 19 teen parents.

Job Overview:

We are recruiting for Enhanced Support Workers to join our dynamic service and team. You will be able to be creatively engage young people in order to minimise risks and increase their independence. Partnership working is the heart of supporting our young people, you will be required to build and maintain relationships to coordinate the young person's support.

This role requires working on a rota pattern encompassing mix of shifts between 7:45am and 10pm including weekends.

Key Responsibilities:

- Responsible for key-working a caseload assigned by line Manager
- Undertake initial and continuous assessment of needs, potential risks and agree levels of support and actions to professional standards
- Co-develop a positive behaviour support plan with the individual that identifies triggers and actions required to enable positive risk taking through reduced risks
- Support customers to claim and receive eligible benefits, deal with relevant agencies to develop life skills, budgeting, financial literacy, and managing finances effectively
- Encourage tenants to pay their rent and to ensure that rent accounts are managed effectively
- Motivate individuals to prepare and cook healthy meals safely, going shopping and offering guidance on buying balanced nutritious food
- Enable customers to improve their skills to manage their day-to-day activities such a making telephone calls, dealing with correspondence, attending appointments and form filling
- Support customers to access other services including CMHT, substance misuse agencies and/or work in partnership with other agencies as part of the support planning process
- Develop and maintain links with key agencies and service providers in the local community
- Lead on an area of specialism e.g. ETE, Mental health and build partnerships and develop internal and external opportunities for service-users in this area
- Support customers to maintain activities including but not limited to education, employment, training, informal accreditation and volunteering opportunities
- Promote customers to develop social skills, positive and healthy relationships and keep safe in a variety of settings
- Engage customers to place their voice, aspirations, and interests at the heart of service delivery Promoting inclusion, equality, diversity, and community cohesion
- Positively support customers to understand their child's development in line with best practice guidance
- Adhere to Look Ahead's Policies and Procedures and undertake any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as may be reasonably assigned

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead.

Successful candidates will have:

- An understanding of the difficulties Young People, Care Leavers and Young Parents face and the skills to empower them to achieve their ambitions
- An awareness and understanding of the social, emotional and wellbeing needs and mental health in relation to young people and different agencies involved in their care and support
- An understanding of the challenges young parents face and the skills to enable them to pursue their aspirations while parenting effectively
- An understanding of the difficulties NEET young people face and the skills to enable them to develop a sense of responsibility and independence in the community
- An understanding of the challenges young offenders face and the skills to facilitate positive behaviour change and reintegration in the community
- An understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures

Please note that we have the right to close any vacancy before the advertised closing date if we have received a high number of applications.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos? Do you believe in our values; to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaborate, innovate, and take accountability?

Then Advance could be the career choice for you!

Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women and girls who are survivors of domestic abuse and supporting women with short-term sentences to reduce offending.  We believe in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community. 

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A SOCIAL CARE IDVA (INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE ADVISOR) TO JOIN OUR TEAM WORKING IN A CO-LOCATED WESTMINSTER SETTING.

Salary: £26,000 - £30,5000 per annum dependent on experience;
£26,000 - £28,000 for an IDVA looking to gain experience in a co-located setting
£28,500 - £30,500 for experienced co-located IDVAs looking for a new challenge. 

Location:  Westminster/Hammersmith

Hours:Full time; 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent with Advance, the current funding for this role is for 12 months.

Start date: By 1st April 2021

What we do:

Advance delivers nationally accredited, quality marked services in Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Brent. We work within a coordinated partnership response to domestic violence to provide independent domestic violence advocacy and support for women, children and young people and women’s community services for women who are involved in the criminal justice system, in anti-social behaviour or are at risk of breaking the law.

The project:

The Social Care domestic violence project is a partnership project between Advance, Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, aiming to embed early intervention and domestic violence homicide prevention best practice into a multi-agency whole family approach response to lead to better outcomes for families. The purpose of the Social Care IDVA role is to work closely with Family and Children’s Services and to support women who have children and who have needs relating to domestic violence.

What you will bring:

The successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of domestic abuse and its effects on women and children, and an understanding of children’s social care and care proceedings. As an experienced domestic violence advocate who has worked with complex and multiple needs, you will be skilled in risk management and safety planning, remaining calm in a crisis and in handling sensitive information daily.

In short, you will:

• Provide high-quality crisis intervention, information, advocacy, and proactive support to women referred to the service, in respect to risk management and safety planning, criminal and civil remedies, housing, health, welfare rights, and children’s legislation.
• Assess the needs and risks of survivors, carry out short and longer-term risk management, safety planning and support and identify and refer to services appropriate to their needs.
• Advise women of their rights and options for seeking help and support from other agencies and proactively advocate to ensure barriers to accessing support and protection are reduced.
• Work proactively and in cooperation with social care and DVIP to keep the client’s perspective and safety at the centre of proceedings, maintain referral routes and increase access and earlier intervention resulting in better results for the family.
• Work as an advocate to raise awareness and upskill professionals within social care plus work with colleagues to successfully develop and deliver training.

What we offer:

• 30 days holiday plus public holidays, and a day off for International Women’s Day
• Pension scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Various forms of wellbeing support ranging from meditation to self-journaling
• Organisation wide away days
• The opportunity to work in a flexible, supportive environment with a team of committed, inspiring women and we will support you as you to continue to build your skills and experience and grow your career

Please find the job description attached.

The closing date for applications is Friday 26th February.

Shortlisting will occur week beginning 1st March with interviews to take place week beginning 8th March.

To apply: Please send your CV with a supporting statement setting out how you meet the criteria for the role and details of your notice period, salary expectations and where you first heard of this vacancy

Please note that any offer of employment will be made subject to references and confirmation of the right to work in the UK and satisfactory enhanced DBS check

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010. 

Advance is committed to equality and diversity and strongly encourages applications from women with disabilities, from BME backgrounds and the LBT community, and with personal experience of the criminal justice system.

We are seeking candidates with a strong background in safeguarding, with a focus on gender equality and inclusion to join our team at SDDirect.

Department: Technical Team

Location: Remote working – Consultancy contract option for candidates based outside of the UK.

Reports to: Senior Technical Expert, Safeguarding Sub-portfolio Lead

Appointment term: Part time (50%) one-year contract, with possibility for extension.

Salary:  Competitive package between £50-70k in line with experience(pro-rata)

Closing Date:                         7th March 2021

Social Development Direct (SDDirect) is a leading provider of high-quality, innovative social development expertise, consultancy and research services. As a medium-sized, specialist firm, we  offer in-depth thematic expertise in safeguarding and gender-based violence; governance and inclusive services; security, justice & peace-building; and inclusive economic empowerment.

We have a strong track record, over 20 years, of providing high quality services that include technical advice and support, research, development assistance programme design, delivery and management, monitoring and evaluation. Our clients are leading international development agencies, international NGOs and Foundations. 
 

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Plan International UK, a leader in gender-based programming for children. 
 

Your CV and cover letter should be tailored for this job application and should clearly demonstrate how you fit the person specification outlined below, and why you are applying for this role. The CV should be no longer than 3 pages, and the cover letter no longer than 1 page. In your cover letter, please also clearly specify:

• Your ability to travel overseas
• The names of two referees who may be contacted
   

Interviews will be held in March 2021. SDDirect strives to be an inclusive organisation and encourages applications from underrepresented groups. Please let us know if you would require any assistance in order to attend the interview, which will be held virtually via Skype, Zoom or Teams.  

Due to the high volume of applications, we are only able to respond to shortlisted candidates.

Please note that this role will initially start off on full time working hours basis. It will then drop down to 15 hours per week after 9 months of employment. Please see details below.

Location: Islington

Salary: £27,000-£29,000 per anum as the full-time salary which will be in place for first 9 months of employment. Followed by a drop to 0.4 FTE pro rata (£10,800-£11,600 per anum) after initial 9 months of employment until end of fixed term contract.

Hours: 37.5 hours (full time) for the first 9 months of employment, then a drop to 15 hours a week (working Thursday and Friday) for the remainder of the contract.

Contract: Fix term contract until Nov 2022
Vacancy Reference: SWA3041

Closing Date: 14 March 2021
Interview Date: 22 March 2021

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.
 
About the Service
The Creative Art and Drama therapies service is short-term intervention providing support to children and young people that have been effected by domestic abuse. It is a Pan-London service but primarily based in Islington. The service helps children and young people begin to process their experience of domestic abuse in a safe and creative environment.

About the Role
The Creative Therapist will be responsible for delivery of a therapeutic service to children and young people 2-18 using art therapy or dramatherapy approach.   They will be ensuring high quality, effective and safe service provision in accordance with contract specifications.

About You
We are looking for a qualified Art Psychotherapist or Dramatherapist registered with British Association of Art Therapists or the British Association of Drama Therapists; in addition we would expect you to have a Health and Care Professions Council Qualification and Registration or equivalent.  You will have a minimum of three years’ post qualification experience and extensive experience of working with children and young people who have been through or have witnessed trauma.  They will be reporting to the Services Manager and attending regular supervision, use administrative systems including outcome measures and contribute to the funder reports. 
The work takes place in the community and is occasionally based in schools and Children Centres.

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Depaul UK are currently looking for a Family Support and Mediation Coordinator to join us in London. You will join us on a full time, fixed term basis (with possibility of extension), and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £27,674 pa + pension & other benefits.

Depaul UK works with some of the most disadvantaged young people in the UK. We specialise in working in communities where poverty and long-term unemployment have resulted in generations of social exclusion and high rates of homelessness.

The Family Support and Mediation Coordinator role:

We are currently looking for an experienced and empathetic Family Support and Mediation Coordinator who will take a leading role in the development of our Reconnect Services around the UK, and be responsible for running a new small-scale service specifically aimed at young people in London who are under 16.

This will be a busy and exciting new role, providing you with a unique opportunity to work directly with young people and their families in London, as well as contributing to the strategic development of our work across the organization. Specifically, you will provide peer support to family workers in other regions and lead on the development of a toolkit of resources to use to support families.

This role is also known as a Reconnect Worker.

Benefits of joining us as our Family Support and Mediation Coordinator:

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

What makes the Family Support and Mediation Coordinator role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the skills required
- Training in interpersonal mediation with an accredited provider
- Regular peer support with other Depaul Mediators/Family Workers, either via Skype or in person
- External Clinical Supervision
- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model
- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner

What will ideally support your success as our Family Support and Mediation Coordinator?

- Demonstrable experience providing mediation services; Accredited Interpersonal Mediation Certificate is desirable
- Experience of designing and creating, high quality, professional resources for use with young people and families
- Significant experience working with young people and families
- Experience of carrying out risk and needs assessments and support planning for clients

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

Closing Date: 1st March 2021 at 12:00 pm

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

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Amnesty International UK are looking for a Global Benefits and Mobility Coordinator to assist the International Pay and Reward Manager on a 6-month Fixed Term Contract.

You will be working remotely initially, once working from the office is permitted you will be based within our London office.

JOB PURPOSE

• The purpose of this role is to manage all the global benefits enrolment for Pensions, Medical Insurance, Life Insurance.
• Coordinate global mobility. Ensure a positive relocation experience for employees and their families by proactively managing all aspects of relocation
• Manage third-party Benefit brokers and relocation suppliers to ensure employees get the best service and AI gets value for money
• Supporting reward projects as needed

ABOUT YOU

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Global Benefits
• Pensions
• Life and Medical Insurance
• Mobility: Relocation, Tax, and Immigration
• Invoices and Budget Tracking
• Process Map

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Knowledge and experience:

• Demonstrates excellent analytical skills and ability to create useful and actionable reports from data.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Products, (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - Excel - Has knowledge of excel - can download/ upload reports, conduct audits, using various spreadsheets from System and payroll

Personal style and attributes:

• Personally credible, with a professional demeanor that generates the trust and confidence
• Excellent attention to detail
• Possesses a high level of resilience and drive
• Ability to respond quickly and accurately to requests for data, takes pride in providing excellent customer service

ABOUT US

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We reach almost every country in the world and have:

• more than 2 million members and supporters who drive forward our fight for rights
• more than 5 million activists who strengthen our calls for justice

Our aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they're denied. And whether we're applying pressure through powerful research or direct lobbying, mass demonstrations or online campaigning, we're all inspired by hope for a better world. One where human rights are respected and protected by everyone, everywhere.

At Amnesty International, we are passionate about what we do and we are proud of our achievements as a movement. To compensate our employees for the critical work they do, we reward them through a combination of an attractive and sector competitive salary and benefits package, high levels of engagement and involvement, and a commitment to employee development.

Benefits include 37 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays and grace days), pension scheme, employee assistance programme, life assurance and many more benefits designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. All of this, in a professional, engaging environment.

For further information on our benefits, please visit

WHAT WE HOPE YOU WILL DO NEXT

If you are talented, passionate about human rights and want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to change the world then we would encourage you to click 'Apply for this Role' below.

Freedom, Justice, Equality. Let's get to work.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.