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Alive is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of older people and training their carers. We believe passionately that all older people should feel connected to the world around them, and our highly successful and innovative engagement work make this possible, alongside the training we deliver to care staff to equip them to engage more meaningfully.
This job is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Alive’s growing community work. This new role has the potential to support hundreds of older people to manage their mental health more effectively, while exploring different wellbeing practices. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and ambitious charity in a sector with huge need. You will become part of a highly motivated group of staff keen to make a difference to the lives of older people.
You will:
- coordinate the ‘Building Mental Health Resilience’ Project and see through from beginning to end.
- work with community groups to develop training courses that help them understand how to manage and improve their own mental health.
- work with wellbeing practitioners to test and trial therapies popular with older people.
- work with our internal videography and design teams to produce training resources.
- work with our Volunteer Co-Ordinator to train volunteers to deliver this training past project end.
You will be a great communicator, a dynamic trainer, an empathetic creative thinker. We are a great team to work with, with a supportive and creative ethos, but overall we are passionate about improving and changing lives.
To apply, please complete the application form, making a compelling case for why you would be the best candidate for this role. No CV'S will be accepted.
Closing date for applications is 12 noon on the 29th October.
Interviews will be held in person on the 2nd of November at the Create Centre, Bristol.
Alive is the UK’s leading charity enriching the lives of older people in care and training their carers.
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Do you have experience in the care sector and the passion and drive to set up a community business in Southmead, Bristol?
In this exciting new role you will have the opportunity to develop and deliver our new Care Connect service, matching care-seekers with carers/support workers.
About you
- You are looking for a new role which is exciting and innovative, helping to improve the care system in Bristol to give people more choice
- You will have experience of working holistically, on a one-to-one basis, with individuals with biopsychosocial health problems.
- Whilst we aim to recruit a candidate with experience of line management, we would consider applicants with a strong background in 1:1 support work with the skills, aptitude and potential to step up to management.
- You will have exceptional inter-personal skills, with experience of and enthusiasm for supporting people using a person-centred approach
- You will have experience of successfully developing and managing collaborative community-based health and wellbeing interventions, including successfully achieving targets, producing reports and working to deadlines
- You will have excellent IT, organisation, problem solving and project management skills
- You will embody our values of: Positivity – Integrity – Excellence – Welcoming – Entrepreneurial
About us
We’re Southmead Development Trust, a charity made up of staff, volunteers and residents who work together to achieve our vision of a thriving community. We improve health, wellbeing, local pride, and employment. We bring business and investment to the area.
We partner with many, influence the future, and deliver world class services. We have a number of significant partnerships within our delivery of Health & Wellbeing services. We are piloting an innovative project with Adult Social Care which seeks to provide an individualised service by using our social prescribing and volunteer coordination expertise. This new Care Connect Southmead service will carefully match people in need of care and support with people who can provide this support, working on a self-employed or directly employed basis. This model increases the capacity of the community to meet care needs in a person-centred way, so individuals can feel their needs are being met safely and comfortably. The development of Introductory Services is part of a larger, city-wide strategic approach to developing community-owned and led services that help to fill care gaps, relieve pressure on the regulated care market and create new, local employment opportunities. This role will work pro-actively with the partnership group to further this approach.
CCS Adoption is a Voluntary Adoption Agency and registered charity. Continuously Rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted (for over 10 years), we find permanent, loving homes for children who are waiting to be adopted. We also offer a wide range of post-adoption support services for adoptive families in the region through The Centre for Adoption Support & Education. We are committed to maintaining this high level of performance and developing further the innovative services we provide for children and adoptive families.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Adoption Social Worker at CCS. The posts are based in our Bristol office, covering Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bath, Bristol, Swindon and South Wales.
The post holder will be 3 years qualified Social Worker preferably with adoption experience, who will be undertaking adoption assessment and making and supporting placements as well as contributing to all aspects of the Agency’s adoption service. This will include recruitment activities, family finding, Post adoption Support, assisting on training.
Opportunity for creativity and innovative practice is encouraged and welcomed.
We provide a range of generous staff benefits:
25 annual leave days, statutory bank holidays plus additional 2 days over Easter, an additional day in May and the office is closed between Christmas and New Year. As an employer we take the Well-being of our staff seriously, we also provide access to the Cycle to Work, Eye care schemes and an Employee Assistance Programme.
CCS values itself on being an inclusive employer, committed to developing a diverse workforce and looking for people who can demonstrate dedication to our cause and core organisational values.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and continue to celebrate the diverse community that different individuals create.
You can find the full CCS Equal Opportunities policy on our website
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Join a team of nurses for a rewarding career – 98% of staff agree that they are proud to work with the client.
“Happy, amazing, special and fun” are perhaps not the first thoughts that you might think about but this is exactly what the families think. Matched by their staff feeling “proud, rewarding and making a difference” by working in this special setting; this is a very different Nurse role.
Do you have experience in caring for children with life-limiting conditions, complex needs or chronic illnesses? Are you looking for a nursing role that will enable you to develop your skills but also gives space and time to build personal relationships with the children and young adults you care for? Do you want to work in team environment but know you are directly helping to make a difference?
If so, this incredibly fulfilling role is for you. A position where you can directly support putting children and families at the centre of all they do and directly help make the most of short and precious lives.
Children’s Nurse Requirements:
They provide respite, palliative and bereavement care for children living with life-limiting conditions. Their small, experienced care teams work on a one-to-one basis, having the time to build very special relationships and the unique opportunity to help families create lasting memories whilst they are at the hospice and between visits.
The children and young people you will care for have very complex health needs, enabling you to not only develop your clinical skills, including for example long-term ventilation and provide hands on clinical care but there is also plenty time for lots of fun! In fact, they encourage it - such as splashing and laughing in the hydrotherapy pool, playing ball games in the soft play, being creative in messy play, helping the children experience the wonders of the sensory room and going on fun days out.
Hours are worked on rotating shifts (up to 12.5 hours) including nights, weekends and bank holidays, with enhancements for night, weekend and bank holiday working. Although they are unable to provide fixed shifts, they aim to be as flexible as possible in shift patterns to enable staff to have a good work/life balance.
Location: Charlton Farm - Bristol
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 28 - 40 hours per week (dependent on preference), worked on rotating shifts including nights, weekends and bank holidays. Relocation package may be available.
Salary: £26,141 - £33,124 per annum, pro-rata - plus enhancements for night, weekend and bank holiday working
Benefits include: ability to continue your NHS pension, free onsite parking, generous holiday entitlement which increases with service, enhanced sick pay scheme, family friendly policies, occupational health, wellbeing and counselling services, group life insurance scheme, training and development opportunities, a chance to make a real difference, green agenda, meals whilst on shift.
Closing Date: 24 October 2021
They reserve the right to close the vacancy early should they receive sufficient applications.
You may have experience of the following: Registered General Nurse, RGN, Children’s Nurse, Staff Nurse, Hospital, Nursing, Nurse, NMC, General Nurse, Paediatric Nurse, RSCN, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, Third Sector, etc.
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