We are recruiting maternity cover for a role delivering information and advice to older people (60+), their families and carers on matters including benefit entitlements, housing and community care.

Age UK Lewisham and Southwark (AUKLS) aims to empower and enable older people to lead fulfilled lives. We therefore provide services and support to:

• Address poverty and isolation
• Protect local older people’s human rights
• Promote health and wellbeing
• Connect older people with their communities
• Work positively with partners across all sectors

Key tasks and responsibilities

• To deliver a high-quality Advice Case Work service for older people and carers, in particular on housing, welfare rights and community care matters.
• To interview clients in a way which enables them to express their problem and set their own priorities, whether in person or over the phone.
• To find information relevant to the client’s situation, presenting and discussing it with the client in an accessible form.
• To assist clients by calculating benefit entitlement; form filling; advising on options; and representing their interests with third parties by letter, online, telephone or in person as required.
• Inform clients about appropriate services and how to access them, including AUKLS services and, where appropriate to refer clients to other sources of help.
• To liaise with the Information and Advice Manager and work as a team alongside other paid advisers and volunteers.
• To support service reporting by keeping accurate and up-to-date files and records of interviews on the charity’s database system in line with the Information and Advice Quality Programme benchmarks and the Advice Quality Standard.
• To work as part of, and respond to referrals from, our Community Connections service and other colleagues.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external organisations and bodies, working in partnership with both the voluntary and statutory sector to deliver excellent advice services for older people in both boroughs.

Emerging Futures’ greatest resource is its people, so we also offer our employees generous annual leave, pension, and other benefits.

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.

The Role

DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Supported Housing Team at DHI in Bath. This is an exciting, varied and rewarding role which involves supporting clients to achieve and maintain abstinence from problematic drug/alcohol use and supporting them to move onto live fulfilling and independent lives. As well as supporting individuals the role also includes aspects of housing management.

You will be joining an experienced and enthusiastic team that work hard to support each other, deliver an exceptional service to clients and meet our contract requirements.

If you’ve got experience of working in housing and share DHI’s values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life, we’d love to hear from you. DHI also welcomes applications from those with lived experience.

How To Apply

Please visit the DHI website to view the Job Description and Person Specification and complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday Tuesday 3rd November 2020

Our Partnerships and Development Manager will sit within the management team of High Trees, taking leadership to ensure the strategic ambitions of our existing partnerships (currently Building Young Brixton, Place for All and Lambeth Hubs) are realised, identifying and developing new partnerships and embedding these within High Trees.  They will also be responsible for developing our strategy and relationships across the board – producing and executing a strategy to grow, develop and identify new relationships with CSR partners, other Lambeth based organisations and other potential stakeholders.

They will line manage our Partnerships team; Monitoring and Evaluations Officer and Communications Officer – taking the lead over our internal and external stakeholder relationships, ensuring the High Trees voice reaches those it needs to and all our work and communications is underpinned by robust monitoring, evaluation and reporting. 

A key part of the role is focused on relationships – both external and internal – and the candidate will have the ability to communicate with ease with a wide and diverse range of individuals, easily building rapport and embodying High Trees ethos and values. The post holder will also play a key role in developing and implementing new fundraising strategies and sources for the organisation to support income diversification including traded services, sponsorship, and private donors, of both revenue and capital income streams.

Over the past 4 years each of the areas of responsibility (partnerships, monitoring and evaluation, communications and CSR) has had significant development and they all sit at the core of our 5 year organisational strategy. This post has been created, initially as a one year fixed term contract, to ensure these areas are now pulled together, have leadership at management level and can have an appropriate strategic and operational focus at this crucial time of organisational development. 

Our Women’s Therapy Service is an in-house therapy service that offers a range of therapeutic interventions including EMDR and integrative counselling. 

We are looking for an experienced Level 5 BACP accredited counsellor to deliver counselling and lead with referrals and assessment within this service.

Working 16 hours a week, you will hold a clinical case load (comprised predominantly of women who are residents at our mother and child rehab). You will also receive and record all referrals, assess all referrals for appropriate interventions, maintain up to date records of referrals and work alongside the Clinical Lead to monitor and evaluate outcomes.

We are looking for a candidate who understands women’s trauma and has experience of working with women with complex or multiple needs. We are looking for someone who is committed to working from a trauma informed perceptive.

This is a service is run by women for women, it will therefore be restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. 

Any offer of employment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure, costs of which will be met by Trevi.

Closing date is Friday 4th September at 4pm.

First round interviews will take place via Zoom / Skype on Friday 11th September.

Beyond the Streets is a small charity with a big determination to see routes out for women in prostitution in the UK. Taking a woman-centred approach, your role is to provide care co-ordination for women with complex needs who want support or to exit street-based prostitution. We are looking for people with energy, motivation and experience of working with vulnerable adults; people who have a highly developed sense of self-awareness who can work in a gender and trauma informed way. We have full- and part-time jobs available, based at the Door of Hope project, East London, which fulfils the London Borough of Tower Hamlets council funded ‘Prostitution Support Programme’.

*** This post is restricted to female applicants only under Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010 ***

Beyond the Streets is a charity inspired by Christian values. This belief inspires us to work with acceptance, value and mutual respect for all with a healthy work life balance. We genuinely seek to work as a team and ensure that no one is ‘rescuing’ or working outside their allocated hours. We regularly reflect on our boundaries and our strategy for the year.