Join our dynamic team and you will be at the heart of delivering first class support to rare disease patients as part of an innovative third-sector Charity/NHS partnership.  Working from home and within NHS specialised multi-disciplinary clinics held in Birmingham, the successful candidate will assist our Patient Liaison Officer within our patient support team to provide information, support and advocacy services to those living with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.  This exciting role offers excellent learning and development opportunities for anyone looking to work within health and social care.

This is a permanent, part-time position commencing at 10hrs per week.

The successful candidate will live within 1 hours commuting distance of central Birmingham

Oxfordshire Youth and Response have a bold new vision for the Young People’s Supported Accommodation in Oxfordshire, a brand new service model combining the power of youth work with safe and quality homes; where young people, aged between 18 and 24, are supported to develop healthy and positive bonds with their housemates and communities.

The Positive Activities Youth Worker will play an essential role within this new ground-breaking service in Oxfordshire. You will passionately believe in the potential of all young people to achieve their goals and provide positive activities which motivate, inspire and engage young people living in supported accommodation. For these young people, the weekends can be a time of uncertainty, lack of structure and support, which can lead to engaging in risky activity. Your job will be to organise and deliver a group activity that appeals to young people and encourages them to build on their strengths and strengthen relationships with their housemates. Young people will be based in Witney, Bicester, Banbury, Oxford City, Didcot and Abingdon.

We are currently seeking Positive Activities Youth Worker across our Oxford City and South, West and Vale hubs.

Our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity
OY is striving to build a team that is truly inclusive. We warmly welcome applications from marginalised groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so even if you don’t have 100% of what we are asking for, we want to hear from you. Appointment will be made on merit alone.

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Title: Community Support Team Worker
Salary: NJC Scale Points 18-23, starting at £24,982 pa
Hours: 37 hours per week
This role is fixed term until February 2022 to cover a period of maternity leave.

The Community Support Team supports people with mental health problems who have been excluded from other services due to difficult or challenging behaviour and/or lack of suitable resources to meet their needs.

Working in the community with a flexible approach, the Team provides individual and group support to service users living in their own home, or with carers, and those who are homeless.

You will need to have experience of mental health work, in a residential, day care, nursing or community setting. A relevant qualification is also desirable.

Closing Date:  29 November 2020
Interviews will be held on: 11 December 2020

To apply and for more information:

Please click 'Apply' to be redirected to our website, where you can view further details about the role and download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. Further information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy.

Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Title: Community Support Team Worker
Salary: NJC Scale Points 18-23, starting at £24,982 pa/pro rata
Hours: 30 hours per week
Based: Leeds
This role is fixed term until August 2021 to cover a period of maternity leave.

The Community Support Team supports people with mental health problems who have been excluded from other services due to difficult or challenging behaviour and/or lack of suitable resources to meet their needs.

Working in the community with a flexible approach, the Team provides individual and group support to service users living in their own home, or with carers, and those who are homeless.

You will need to have experience of mental health work, in a residential, day care, nursing or community setting. A relevant qualification is also desirable.

Closing Date:  29 November 2020
Interviews will be held on: 11 December 2020

To apply and for more information:

Please click 'Apply' to be redirected to our website, where you can find further details about the role and download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. Further information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy.

Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.

We are looking for a motivated and well-organised individual to join our Advice Team on a six month contract, and support our mission to enable homeless and young vulnerable people to achieve independence and positive futures.

The post-holder should have the skills to effectively support and progress a caseload of young people who are currently homeless or at risk. A broad knowledge of housing and homelessness as well as experience in delivering specialist advice services is critical to this role.

Oxfordshire Youth and Response have a bold new vision for the Young People’s Supported Accommodation in Oxfordshire, a brand new service model combining the power of youth work with safe and quality homes; where young people, aged between 18 and 24, are supported to develop healthy and positive bonds with their housemates and communities.

The Progression Coach is one of the most important roles within this new service in Oxfordshire. There will be 3 Night Worker Progression Coaches based in the new YPSA Service, providing essential overnight sup-port. Whilst all progression coaches will passionately believe in the potential of all young people to achieve their goals, it is the job of the Night Worker to build meaningful relationships with the young peo-ple and provide a reassuring, consistent and supportive presence over the nighttime period. Night Workers will be confident at de-escalating crisis and will work with a solutions-focused mindset to helping the young people address any challenges they may have faced in their day or evening, reinforcing the positive pro-gress they are making in their work with their day time Progression Coach.

In the new model each Progression Coach Night Worker will be based within one of the homes across the County. This office and rest space will be secure. Night Workers will be able to access the on-call support of YPSA Managers, and other night workers throughout their shift should it be required.

We are currently seeking Night Progression Coaches across all our areas: Oxford City, Cherwell (Banbury/Bicester), and South, Vale and West (Abingdon/ Didcot/Witney)

Our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity
Oxfordshire Youth is striving to build a team that is truly inclusive. We warmly welcome applications from marginalised groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so even if you don’t have 100% of what we are asking for, we want to hear from you. Appointment will be made on merit alone.

We have an exciting opportunity to join Free2B and help deliver our growing services for LGBTQ+ young people aged 13+ (as well as some pre-teens).

• 21 hours per week - 1 year fixed term contract
• Salary scale re qualifications and experience: £14742 - £16380 plus pension
• Based in Wandsworth borough with flexible locations including our offices at 108 Battersea High Street, various secondary schools and community settings

We are looking for a community support worker to contribute to the delivery of our LGBTQ+ youth provision. 
Supporting young people aged 13+, through 1:1 targeted intensive support and some group provisions, offering a safe space for young people to explore their situations and develop the necessary skills, strategies and resilience to manage the difficulties they face.

Please note we have recently reviewed and updated our recruitment procedures and have introduced approaches that aim to minimise barriers for applicants and reduce bias in the selection process.

We particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented groups, including people of colour or people from BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) communities, trans and non-binary people.

Person Specification: Essential Skills and Experience 

1. Essential: At least 2 years’ experience of providing 1:1 intensive targeted support to young people, including undertaking assessments, planning, target setting and review (preferably in education settings)
2. Essential: Knowledge & experience of the key issues impacting on LGBTQ+ young people (including trans and non-binary young people).
3. Essential: Experience of working across multiple settings including within secondary schools
4. Essential: Ability to set and work within clear and appropriate professional boundaries including challenging negative behaviours
5. Essential: Knowledge & experience of child protection and vulnerable adult safeguarding issues, policies and procedures
6. Essential: Strong communication skills (both verbal and written), including the ability to adapt to meet different communication systems and needs
7. Essential: Ability to work as part of a small team, whilst also working independently managing time and tasks effectively
8. Essential: IT skills and experience of using applications such as Word, Excel and email
9. Desirable: Qualification in a relevant area such as youth work, social work, community work, gender studies or teaching, psychology etc

Applications close: Monday 7th December 12pm

Interviews: Tuesday 15th December

The Sexual Violence Wellbeing Practitioner will be based at our centre in Preston but there may be a requirement to travel county wide as we deliver support at a range of satellite spaces across the county.  There is currently some home based working but this is subject to change as we respond to the current pandemic situation.

As a Wellbeing Practitioner you will work with individuals aged 18 and over who have been affected by sexual abuse or sexual assault at any time in their lives. You’ll carry out assessments and provide practical support, advice and guidance including; psycho-educational support, self-help strategies and practical techniques to manage the impact of their abuse.  You will also sign-post and refer on to other specialist and non-specialist services to ensure service users wider support needs are met.  You will work with a caseload of clients and alongside volunteer wellbeing workers to empower clients to move beyond their experiences of abuse.  You’ll be working alongside a really committed team and alongside our counselling and other team members will work to drive the development of our service offer to adult survivors of rape and sexual abuse.

You will support our volunteer wellbeing workers, providing individual case management supervision and support our group work offer through directly facilitating or co-facilitating groups, and working with other team members you’ll actively develop group engagement opportunities that reflect the needs of our clients.

Support will be delivered both face to face and digitally, dependent on the needs and wishes of clients and to best enable service accessibility.   You will play an important part in enabling service user recovery, ensuring service user involvement and raising awareness in the community of the work that we do.

You will ensure that services are delivered in accordance with Trust House Lancashire’s policies, procedures and service standards and enable and support the service to meet with any specific requirements from the board of trustees, funders and commissioners.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Sexual Violence Wellbeing Practitioner will;

• Work with clients, as directed by the Clinical Leads to assess their risk, needs and strengths.
• Plan, co-ordinate and deliver our Wellbeing Service enabling us to deliver a tailored holistic and high quality response to client’s needs.
• Support clients to access community support services relevant to their needs
• Manage a caseload of clients driven by our ethos of empowerment.
• Maintain records in line with Trust House Lancashire’s standard operating procedures.
• Work collaboratively with a range of other services and organisations in the best interests of the client and to support their recovery.

• Maintain client confidentiality, uphold data protection and equal opportunities principles in line with Trust House Lancashire’s policies.

• Develop and support our group offer to clients

• Work collaboratively with the wider team at Trust House supporting team members as required, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Taking joint responsibility for our Volunteer Wellbeing Workers in partnership with our Volunteer Coordinator, for their case management, performance and development.
• Working within Trust House Lancashire’s policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults, children and young people, ensuring the escalation of concerns or issues that might arise in the course of your work.
• Ensuring the Clinical Leads and CEO are kept informed of any trends or themes in presenting issues for service users and any practice issues for Trust House Lancashire in relation to our work with stakeholder agencies.
• Supporting the development of our CPD training opportunities to meet the needs of the service.
• Working closely with all team members to support seamless service delivery.
• Engaging with wider services design and development activities including fundraising events, awareness and networking events as well as social media participation.
• Managing project monitoring, reporting and outcome evaluation procedures in line with Trust House Lancashire’s established protocols and providing activity reports for the CEO for contract and grant monitoring and reporting.
• Participating in monthly line management, clinical supervision and team meetings.
• Representing Trust House Lancashire in meetings with stakeholder agencies.
• This job description is guide to the tasks of the Sexual Violence Wellbeing Worker at Trust House, and the post-holder is required to undertake other tasks as reasonably requested by their Line Manager

This is an exciting job opportunity to join a dynamic and committed team in a senior role .  You will be responsible for overseeing and leading our wellbeing services, managing our wellbeing staff  and ensuring quality of service positively impacts and makes a genuine difference to those using them. You will be part of the senior team supporting and driving forward the organisation’s future service development

This will also include: monitoring and evaluation of direct work, ensuring impact and outcomes are demonstrated; maintaining & developing new cross-sector partnerships and collaborative relationships; advancing, developing & delivering training; and designing, developing & securing future funding for service activities to meet emerging needs.

ELOP – is a London based thriving community-led LGBT+ mental health & wellbeing charity offering a range of support, advice, information, counselling and group support services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) communities. 

Initially this work will take place remotely via home based working whilst we are facing COVID-19 restrictions. 

Full time: 37 hours a week.  Initially this post is funded for 3 years.  

You must be available to work occasional evenings and weekends.

Closing deadline for submission of application:

10am on Monday 7th December 

Interviews will take place during office hours on:

Friday 11th December 2020

TreeHouse School is a specialist school for children and young adults aged 4-19 with a primary diagnosis of autism, some of whom have additional learning disabilities. We believe that every young person attending TreeHouse School deserves a fulfilling, happy and rewarding life. Our educational approach focuses on the individual at all times.

We are very proud of our school and our pupils' achievements. Our ‘Outstanding' judgements from Ofsted quoting ‘‘The school's culture puts no ceiling on pupils' reflects our efforts and commitment to make the everyday possible for our pupils.

To continue our development, we are looking to recruit a qualified Teacher to join us on our ambitious journey. Your day to day role will include delivering creative and person-centred functional life lessons to up to 8 learners. Our learners are mostly pre-verbal or use assistive communication systems to make their needs understood. All learners are working on the pre-entry national curriculum framework with functional Maths and English embedded throughout the curriculum.

Your role as a Teacher:

• Provide excellent delivery, teaching and course leadership to learners across TreeHouse School
• Safeguard and promote the welfare of the children and young adults people we support
• Work with learners to ensure they receive a service that delivers the outcomes specified in their individualised learning, person-centred plans
• Prepare and deliver schemes of work, lesson plans, assignments and assessments in line with departmental and awarding body requirements
• Work collaboratively with allied health professionals as part of a trans-disciplinary team

Why join us?

• The role itself is very rewarding both through the freedom of creativity and seeing first hand, our learners develop and progress through their goals and aspirations.
• Excellent CPD including a wide-range of in house and external training courses.
• Competitive annual salary.
• Annual staff recognition awards.
• Cycle to work scheme up to £5000.
• Season ticket loans.
• A wide range of wellness programmes both in person and online including: virtual yoga & zumba classes, running club, art & cooking classes.
• Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.
• Access to physiotherapy.

We are committed to investing in our people and their talent.  We make sure every single person is clear about their role, and has the tools, knowledge and learning they need to perform well and make a difference. 

Closing Date: Sunday 6th December 2020, 12 noon

Interview Date: W/C 7th December 2020

Start date: Monday 4th January 2021

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.