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Hours: 21 hours per week. All hours to be worked between 9 – 5 Monday – Friday. We will consider full days or shorter days to meet personal commitments.
Contract: Permanent
Responsible to: Information & Advice Manager
Location: White House Community Centre, Hampton and at community locations / homes across the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Some home working is also possible in line with Hybrid Working Policy.
Salary: £30 – 32,000 FTE DOE plus 5% pension contribution pension contribution. Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Blue Light card and Age UK discount schemes.
Work as part of a team giving great support to local older people
Age UK Richmond upon Thames is a local independent charity supporting older people across the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. We provide a wide range of useful and well utilised local services in Richmond upon Thames designed to improve wellbeing and enhance independence – including information & advice; a wide range of social & wellbeing centres and sessions; support after hospital discharge; digital skills development; Dementia Friendly Richmond; mental health peer support and home services such as handyperson, housekeeping and gardening. Partnership is a core part of our work – we work in close collaboration with other voluntary sector partners and wider organisations to maximise our impact and reach. Our friendly and committed team of 50 staff and 100+ volunteers support over 4,000 local older people each year.
Our Information & Advice service is a central part of our organisation. Our small team of staff supported by excellent volunteers provide free and confidential Information & Advice to older people across the borough on a range of topics. The main area of support is to claim welfare benefits and other forms of financial support – but also includes a range of other topics such as accessing care & support; independent living; sorting out paperwork and housing.
We currently have an excellent opportunity for a Welfare Benefits Advisor to join the team. The role will include:
· Providing welfare benefits & financial advice, including advising older people on the financial support available, making applications on their behalf and following through applications to result.
· Providing Information & Advice on other topics older people require support with.
· Providing support via home visits, over the phone and in community settings.
We are looking for:
- Experience of giving information & advice.
- Experience of welfare benefits advice work and completing benefit forms.
- Good understanding of the welfare benefits system for older people.
Access to a car is required.
Click on apply to be taken to our website for full information, and how to apply. We are interviewing as suitable applications are received.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Provide support to help local older people to live healthier, happier and more independent lives.
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We are looking for an experienced Manager to start as soon as possible. The appointee will manage two training Hubs which deliver skills development sessions for adults with intellectual (learning) disability.
We invite applications from qualified an experienced trainers/teachers who have worked with young adults (16 – 24) and/or adults (25+), and who have at least 2 years’ experience of managing Staff teams. This post involves the management of a dual Staff team of up to 16 incorporating employees, volunteers and students on practice-based placement (graduate and undergraduate). We are not shortlisting applicants with backgrounds in care services e.g. domiciliary, PAs, independent living, residential, nursing or wider healthcare because we do not deliver any personal care services.
Journey Enterprises is an award-winning regional charity providing training services for adults with intellectual (learning disability). These services develop work skills, our principal focus, and independent living skills. We have four sites in the north east and the Post Holder will be responsible for our Acomb and Blyth sites. He/she will be overseeing the relocation of our Acomb site over the coming 18 -24 months.
Our service hosts 160 adults weekly aged 18 – 84 years, 60 of these at our Acomb and Blyth sites. All the adults we support have conditions from birth impacting cognitive development e.g. Down’s Syndrome, Williams, Prader-Willi, Sotos and Smith Magenis.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
- Training/teaching qualification and experience (young adults or adults): please note that we are not recruiting primary or lower secondary practitioners
- Willingness to work towards NVQ5 in Health & Social Care as required by the Health & Social Care Act and our local authority contracts
- 2+ years’ experience managing Staff Teams including delivery of Support/Supervision, Appraisal, Disciplinaries/Grievances and Practice-Based Observations
- Experience delivering Staff training sessions (in service)
- Experience managing a devolved budget and understanding of basic management accounting
- Enhanced DBS with full barring check (Adult Services): applicants must be on the DBS Update Service
Desirable Qualifications & Experience
- Disability-specialist training
- Experience delivering grant-aided programmes
- Experience working with volunteers or volunteering
- Experience supervising undergraduate or graduate students
Terms and Conditions
Contracts are offered on a permanent basis.
Employees are provided with 36 days leave/annum pro rata, a contributory pension scheme, a healthcare package, holiday buy-back scheme, length of service holiday accrual scheme, Cycle2Work Scheme, Salary and a Journey promotional items welcome pack. Staff are also offered discounted lunches and free refreshments.
We recommend that you read our Annual Report and Accounts at the Charity Commission, and review our website, social media and coverage in areas such as the Parliamentary Review. These will give you a good understanding of our organisational structure and Staffing, commissioned and grant-aided work and Client outcomes.
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