PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR X4, OPPORTUNITY NOTTINGHAM, 37HPW, FRWK08 £21,150 - £22,831 FTE, FIXED-TERM TILL JUNE 2022 (WHEN THE PROJECT IS DUE TO END)

Opportunity Nottingham is part of the National Fulfilling Lives Programme and Big Lottery Funded until 2022. We exist to improve the lives of people with multiple and complex needs in Nottingham City, and deliver our work through a partnership of local agencies, of which Framework is the lead.

Beneficiaries of Opportunity Nottingham need to be experiencing at least three out of the following four complex needs; homelessness, substance misuse, offending, or mental ill health and may have had poor experiences of engaging with mainstream services. We are recruiting for: Personal Development Coordinators x 4 Full time 37 hours per week.

The main purpose of the job will be to coordinate delivery of services to individual beneficiaries and directly support a beneficiary caseload. The successful candidate will also work with beneficiaries to create Personal Development Plans and liaise with referring & partner provider agencies.

This group of beneficiaries present challenges, therefore the team and its members need to be resilient, creative, flexible, patient, and persistent and, where required, assertive in their approach.

We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate:

• Experience of working with vulnerable people, particularly those with multiple needs

• Understanding of partnership working with external agencies

• Understanding of the range of services available to vulnerable people

• Understanding of the issues faced by people who are affected by: homelessness, substance misuse, mental ill health, and offending

• Ability to accurately plan and record work with beneficiaries

• Commitment with tolerance and flexibility.

• Excellent communication, liaison and negotiation skills

  Opportunity Nottingham has a diverse team and we positively encourage applications from all communities. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

For more information please contact Scott Pickard

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

CVs will not be accepted

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

Are you a confident communicator who enjoys working with a wide range people?

Do you see the potential in ideas as well as the challenges?

Are you passionate about your community? 

The National Lottery Community is looking for a Funding Officer to join our Midlands regional team and work in across an area covering the City of Nottingham to ensure that our funding responds to what matters to our local communities. You will build long-term relationships with people and organisations, talk about their ideas and ambitions and assess funding requests providing useful feedback and support.

About the Role

Funding Officers are responsible for our grant-making activity, including pre-application support, assessment, grant management and shared learning. You will ensure that our funding responds to the local context as well as challenging yourself and colleagues to continually improve the way we work across the Midlands region.

You will build long term relationships with people and organisations in the area you cover. This will include reaching out to new groups, supporting people who are applying, and continuing the relationship after a grant has been awarded.

You will be responsible for understanding how an organisation’s ideas align with our funding priorities and making good judgements about when to take an application further or when to signpost to other opportunities.

You will combine local knowledge, understanding of best practice and the experience of grant holders to make informed recommendations about who and what we fund.

You will represent the Fund within your local area including at funding fairs and external meetings and create opportunities for people to come together. You will share learning from your conversations, events, grant holder reports and evaluations with other colleagues so that we can maximise our impact (COVID-19 dependant).

You’ll be part of a team of Funding Officers, led by a Funding Manager.

Contract: Permanent

Hours per week: 37 hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview date: 7 September

Essential Criteria

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and confidence to operate in a wide range of environments
• Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships at a number of different levels
• Ability to manage your own time and workload with minimal supervision
• Confidence to use your judgement, take initiative and challenge when appropriate

Desirable Criteria

• Assessment and reporting writing
• Demonstrate sound IT skills and the ability to learn detailed processes

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

How to Apply

Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.

Equal Opportunities

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum (NNRF) is a vibrant local charity, working with and for asylum seekers and refugees. We operate a busy Centre in Nottingham, providing advice, advocacy, practical support, and social and educational activities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced VPRS Team Leader with excellent management and leadership skills. You will have a proven track record of leading a team and excellent safeguarding knowledge. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of caseworkers contributing working with refugees resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and helping them to rebuild their lives.

You will be a people person, who is passionate about social justice and ensuring our residents receive the best quality support whilst they live in our housing. You will have demonstratable skills in advocacy ensuring our residents are able to access all the services they need and are entitled to. This sometimes will mean pushing people to help, sometimes when they don’t want to, but should. Fighting for the rights of our residents is a key part of who we are and you will be supported through your journey with us.

Support Planner / ASYE

1 year fixed term contract, from September 2020

Various locations across Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City, Lincolnshire and Sheffield

Salary: £17,729

37 hpw (shift and weekends work to be expected)

Are you a Newly Qualified Social Worker interested in working in the voluntary sector?

Endorsed by Skills for care to assess within the Professional Capabilities Framework and Adult Social Work Knowledge and skills statement. Framework has a number of temporary one year posts available to Newly Qualified Social Workers wishing to undertake a meaningful ASYE experience.

Successful candidates would be employed as an ASYE Support Planner for 80% of their ASYE year, 20% is reserved for ASYE learning and development. This will be a non-statutory role providing many opportunities for skilful social work to be undertaken.

You will be supported by an experienced and qualified registered social worker working at Practice Development Educator Level or higher.

What's in it for you?

Framework's weekly teaching programme will offer a range of learning and development activities. You will also receive regular reflective supervision with a qualified social work mentor and support of in service line management and a generous HR support package. There will be the opportunity for training alongside statutory sector ASYE candidates.

In return, Framework seeks candidates;

• Who are Newly Qualified Social Worker (Qualified within 2 years)

• That are HCPC (Health & Care Professions Council) registered

• Committed to working in the voluntary sector

• Who recognise the benefits this opportunity will bring to their career development

Framework was shortlisted for a 2014/15 Skills for Care Accolade - Best employer support for the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE).

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

SUPPORT PLANNER, STEP UP, EREWASH AND AMBER VALLEY, Permanent, Frwk06 £19,095 - £21,150 Fte, 37hpw

Do you want to join an organisation that employs remarkable people to do a remarkable job?  Do you have commitment to reach out, even to the most challenging young people?

We are looking for a Support Planners who would thrive in a service providing housing related support to young people across Erewash and Amber Valley.

You will work alongside other Support Planners across Erewash and Amber Valley to support young people aged 16-21, including Children in Care and Care Leavers, living in our move on properties and providing floating support to young people aged 16-24 to access and maintain suitable accommodation.  The office base for the role is in Long Eaton in Erewash but requires travel across Erewash and Amber Valley, therefore the successful applicant will need a full driving licence and a car for work purposes. 

You will:

• Assess, young people’s skills and needs and work positively with risk

• Develop and review support plans and deliver support directly to young people

• Have excellent communication skills and be able to build rapport with young people

• Be dynamic and enthusiastic

• Build the skills and confidence of young people to empower them in maximising

• their independence

• Built the skills of young people to find and maintain suitable accommodation

• Contribute to the achievement of contractual service obligations

• Work in partnership with other agencies and closely with social care

  For more information please contact Alison Legg at

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

CVs will not be accepted

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

SUPPORT WORKER X2, TARGETED SUPPORT, NOTTINGHAM, FRWK03 £16,915- £18,430 FTE, 1 POSITION X TEMPORARY FOR A YEAR & 1 POSITION X PERMANENT, 37HPW

Do you…?

• I have-a driving licence and a car or have access to one? (IF NO YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED SO PLEASE DO NOT APPLY )

• I am confident with these statements describe an ability to get on well with people?

• I am calm and a good listener?

• I have good IT skills?

• I am able to learn quickly?

  A Support worker is responsible for providing support to an allocated number of tenants by following an agreed plan completed by a Support planner, Primary Reviews are carried out every six months and interim reviews every 3 months are also carried out in partnership with the Support planner.

  The workload can be up to 40 residents in mixed Tenure and at different addresses at any one time so the ability to prioritise and team work is a must as we are very busy team, a can do attitude and a common sense approach is essential in this role.

  We work from a Team office Base and visit tenants in there flats or shared accommodation where they live, our service is only for Tenants in the Housing units that we deal with and these Tenants have an obligation to engage with us as part of their Tenancy Agreement.

  We provide:

• Benefits Checks (is a person on the correct benefits)

• Employment ,training and volunteering advice

• Tenancy related advice and information

• Help creating links with other networks

• Debt Management

• Move on / Resettlement

Our primary focus is to get tenants into a position where they feel able to move on into general needs accommodation without the need for support, when tenants do this the unit is re-let by the Housing management team and we start support all over again with the new tenant.

We work very closely with the Housing Management team, so an ability to foster good working and positive relationships with another team is very important as is an understanding of their role as well as your own.

Successful applicants will be subject to a 6 month initial induction / probation period in which both formal (classroom training) and on the job training will be provided to ensure you gain all the basic skills you need.

If you have some experience in this or in a different role with transferable skills and want a chat please feel free to call the Targeted Support Team.

Interviews for the Posts will be Friday 14th August 2020 via Microsoft Teams  

For more information please contact Jon Wood

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

CVs will not be accepted

NO AGENCIES PLEASE