Activity Worker Jobs
Are you passionate about supporting older people with dementia and their carers to enage with activies across Lewisham? If so, we want to hear from you!
Age UK Lewisham and Southwark is looking for a part time coordiantor to deliver arts and crafts, physical exercise and singing groups for people with dementia in Lewisham. You will be delivering the programme with the support of our volunteers and working directly with freelance workers and community partners.
The successful candidate will have a good undersatnding of the needs and issues affecting older people including dementia awareness.
They will be able to work as part of a team and travel within Southwark and Lewisham. Great interpersonal skills required along with the ability to work to Age UK Lewisham and Southwark’s values to empower and enable older people to lead fulfilled lives.
Employee Benefits:
- 26 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata)
- Additional 1 day leave for Birthdays
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme including access to a helpline for partners and dependents
- Generous contractual sick pay scheme, allowing staff to recover without the worry of loss of income
- CycleScheme members – enabling employees to save 25-39% of the cost of a new bike & accessories whilst also spreading the cost
- TechScheme members – enabling employees to purchase tech and home furnishing through AUKLS and spread the cost from their salary
AUKLS is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
For full details, please download the Recruitment Pack which includes a Job Description and Person Specification.
Closing date for applications – 9am on Tuesday 24 September 2024.
Interviews will take place week commencing 19 August 2024 at Stones End Day Centre, Southwark.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Build flexibly on your Charity Career with this person-centred charity supporting unpaid carers
This is a full-time role in a well-established charity based in Twickenham. This role would suit someone who wants to have the opportunity to work flexibly and build their career in the Charity sector with experience of working in social care.
Richmond Carers Centre has the mission to help unpaid adult carers to live a full, active and meaningful life by providing them with advice, information, activities, breaks and emotional support either face to face, by phone or by email to enable them to live well.
As an Adult Carers Support Worker, you will be part of a small, dedicated team and take a lead on providing emotional support to adult carers and a commitment to enhancing their health and wellbeing. Much of your work will involve actively listening to carers, often via the phone support line, providing information, advice and support. As part of the Adult Carers Support Team, you will also be involved in organising breaks for carers, outreach activities and leisure events, as well as group work to help enhance carers’ health and wellbeing. Part of the role will also aim to improve the identification, recognition and understanding of the needs of adult carers, raise the profile of adult carers and ensure adult carers needs are met. You’ll also be expected to work with our volunteers and to use appropriate monitoring and evaluation reports to show our funders what we’ve achieved.
You will be someone:
- Who works in a person-centred way.
- Is enthusiastic, empathetic and detail conscious
- Communicates well by phone and in person
- Has an understanding of social care particularly in relation to carers
- Has experience of working with clients who have support needs
- Has experience of producing reports for monitoring and evaluation
- Is numerate and has knowledge of budgeting
- Is able to gather and assess information efficiently and think creatively to come up with solutions.
- Has good communication skills including spoken, written and presentational
Main Duties include:
- To provide a regular telephone support-line, face-to-face and email support, offering appropriate, generic advice
- To offer a range of service delivery options and be involved in providing those options e.g., breaks, group work, leisure activities or other outreach activities
- To encourage and assist carers and those they care for to access Care Needs Assessments and Carers Assessments and to take up services that will enhance their lives
- To complete individual grant applications with carers for respite or if they are experiencing financial hardship due to the cost-of-living crisis
- To work where appropriate with other service providers/agencies to promote the carer agenda or jointly deliver carer support issues
- To be proactive in the registration of carers living or caring for someone within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- To keep accurate records of group and individual carer engagement for monitoring and evaluation purposes
- To participate in key events organised by Richmond Carers Centre and other relevant partners to promote services to a wider public
What you are doing now:
- You might be working for or volunteering in a similar charity
- You may be working in social care for a local authority or district council
- You may have the skills we need from some other combination of work and volunteering
- Or you may be looking to return to the workforce after a timeout for personal reasons
In any event if you feel you meet the skills we need, we would like to hear from you!
Richmond Carers Centre welcomes and encourages applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.
Benefits of working for Richmond Carers Centre:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year (pro rata)
- Bonus 3 days of annual leave per year over the festive period (subject to Trustee approval)
- Workplace Pension Scheme with Peoples Pension
- Flexible working/option of working from home (subject to CEO approval)
- Equipment and support to be set up to work from home
- Paid time off for medical appointments
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Training and personal development opportunities
- Staff away days and socials
- Access to shared resources and training opportunities
- Supportive and friendly working environment
Closing date: Monday 9th September 2024
Shortlisting week commencing: Monday 9th September 2024
Interviews with Richmond Carers Centre scheduled: w/c 9th September and w/c 30th September 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a caring, skilled communicator looking for a rewarding role?
Join Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire as a Dementia Specialist Day Support Worker and make a meaningful impact.
Salary: £11.44 per hour
Job Type: Part Time, Permanent
Location: Sybil Levin Specialist Dementia Day Service, Nuthall Road, Nottingham, NG8 6AD
Schedule: Several posts 15-21 hours a week with additional paid hours cover as required
Application Deadline: 9am on Monday 16th September 2024
Dementia Specialist Day Support Worker – The Role & Responsibilities:
The Sybil Levin Day Service is a specialist day service supporting people with dementia using an innovative, person-centered approach.
In this role, you will provide compassionate and high-quality support to individuals with dementia by organising and facilitating various activities that promote mental as well as physical stimulation and well-being.
Activities you provide will include both one-to-one and group activities for service users, offering a vital respite break for carers. Additionally, you will assist with personal care.
Dementia Specialist Day Support Worker – You:
- Ability to interact with people with dementia in a friendly way is essential
- Strong communication skills are essential
- Ability to support people in a kind and caring way
- A flexible approach is essential including covering for staff absence as required
Dementia Specialist Day Support Worker – Benefits:
As an employee of Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire you will be eligible for our attractive package which includes:
- 24 days annual leave (Pro Rata), rising by 1 day a year, to a maximum of 32 days
- Additional 8 public holidays leave
- Flexible working options
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted tickets to the theatre, music venues, comedy and sporting events
- Exclusive Age UK Discounts for shopping, travel, home, technology, days out, holidays and much more.
- 4% employer contribution pension (in line with auto-enrolment rules)
- Blue Light card
Why Work for Us:
Situated just outside the centre of Nottingham, with excellent transport links, Age UK Nottingham has an excellent track record of long serving employees, some of those being with us for up to 25 years.
We enjoy enabling our employees to train and develop within their role and across the organisation by supporting both in-house and external training requests where possible.
Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire promotes equality and diversity.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 9am Monday 9th September 2024
Interviews w/c Monday 16th September 2024
To submit your application for this exciting Dementia Specialist Day Support Worker opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now.
Registered Charity Number: 1067881
We are looking for a highly motivated individual for the role of Lead Youth and Sport Activity Worker who understands and believes in the value that youth work, sport and positive activities can add to people and their communities.
You will play a crucial role in the implementation of Active Communities Network’s (ACN) delivery strategy. The central focus of the role includes co-ordinating and delivering a diverse range of youth projects which use sport and positive activities to engage young people. The projects work with children, young people, and young adults across Southwark and Lambeth.
The successful applicant will have key responsibilities around programme development and face to face delivery with children, young people and young adults whilst ensuring they are engaged in projects that are developmental, innovative and meaningful.
DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Develop relationships and communication channels with young people.
- Co-ordinate and deliver sports and positive activity-based youth sessions including programme planning, monitoring, and ensuring they are delivered to the highest standard.
- Deliver sessions/workshops aimed at improving young people's knowledge and understanding of relevant issues.
- Supervise a team of sessional coaches and volunteers ensuring all sessions are staffed appropriately and staff are supported to deliver needs led sessions.
- Effectively monitor and evaluate activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.
- Develop and deliver community projects.
- Promote and encourage empowerment within all sessions.
- Promote and publicise the project to the community.
- Ensure the maintenance of internal electronic and hard copy information systems that record relevant outcomes and support the requirements of funders and partners.
- Ensure compliance with ACN policies in relation to safe-guarding, health and safety, equal opportunities, and working with volunteers and young people.
- Carry out all administrative tasks relating to delivery including provision of paperwork, monitoring and filing debriefs, reviewing and authorising timesheets as well as ensuring the ACN System is updated consistently and in a timely manner.
- To work with partners to identify and promote volunteering and development opportunities for participants and external volunteers and record progress of these developments. A culture of volunteering and project support should be encouraged with all participants.
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Women at the Well is a support service for women based in the King’s Cross area of central London. We provide practical support and advocacy to women facing a wide range of disadvantages, and we have a specialism in working with women whose lives have been affected by prostitution and/or sexual exploitation.
We run three inter-related services: (1) a women only drop-in service, where food, laundry, showers and gentle activities are available without any pressure to undertake anything else; (2) an advocacy service from our King’s Cross hub where assigned key workers support women to access their entitlements and more; and (3) an outreach service where we visit areas of London where women are rough sleeping as well as hostels and other settings. In everything we do we are trauma informed, holistic and woman-centred. We take referrals from many external partners and while we have a hub-centre in Kings Cross we are a pan-London service.
We are currently recruiting for two roles in our small and friendly support worker team doing vital and life-saving work with very marginalised women. We are seeking: an Outreach Support Worker (works shifts in the community, with some time spent at King’s Cross hub); and an Inhouse Support Worker(based at our King’s Cross hub), both on 9 months contracts with a possibility of extension.
There are separate job descriptions for each role, but applicants may fill in one application form and indicate at the top whether they wish to be considered for one of the posts only or for both of them.
These posts are currently vacant and we are considering applications on a rolling basis. We will begin interviews from Monday 12 August, and therefore these vacancies could close before the advertised closing date of Wednesday 11 September. If you are interested in either or both roles, please apply as soon as possible, even if you need to arrange a later potential interview date.
Women at the Well aims above all else to be responsive to the needs of the women who use our service, and we believe the best way of doing this is by building a specialist team of committed workers who want to make a difference to the lives of other women. We are looking for team members with knowledge and understanding of how women affected by childhood trauma, social exclusion, racism, disability, poor health, and other disadvantages are more likely to become marginalised and to be at risk of sexual exploitation and prostitution. We value lived experience as well as paid work experience and qualifications.
We are interested to meet and employ those who can demonstrate empathy with the women we are here for, and who have the aptitude for this work, even if you do not have the usual levels of paid experience. If you have a strong commitment to this work and to our values, but are not sure that your profile fits in a ‘traditional’ way, please do consider making an application, or get in touch to discuss your background and we will try to advise you on what the job entails and whether you might be a good candidate.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Our Emergency Winter Night Shelter Service is run seven nights a week in venues across west London including: Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith and Richmond.
In response to the increased needs, we are opening a women only shelter which will be staffed by women. With additional staff support, we will be providing a safe environment with additional support to guests who may have complex needs.
We are looking to recruit exceptional women with an open, collaborative style and a practical, can-do approach to provide a vital nightly service for our guests as Evening Project Workers.
About you
We value diversity and welcome all, in particular those with life experience and lived experience.
While experience of working within the homelessness sector or with similarly vulnerable people would be desirable, an understanding of the needs of people experiencing homelessness and working in a compassionate and flexible manner is more important and essential.
Flexibility is required, as you will be working a shift rota that will include weekends and public holidays. Due to the vulnerable group you will be working with, you will be asked to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our safeguarding measures prior to appointment.
Job spec
The Evening Project Worker is responsible for the following:
- Maintaining a friendly, supportive environment and cultivating positive relationships with guests, colleagues, and volunteers.
- Following best practice procedures for the security and safety of the guests and volunteers.
- Diffusing difficult or dangerous situations and summon assistance when necessary. Training will be provided. Writing regular shift reports using the In-Form client relationship platform.
- Carrying out regular checks around the shelter, checking conditions of all areas.
- Adhering to Glass Door’s operational and health & safety policies in all aspects of your work. Maintaining clear lines of communication with your colleagues including the Night Shelter Manager, Caseworkers, and the Operations Manager.
- Ensuring cleaning protocols are followed and implemented.
- Undertaking any other duties to aid the good running of the project, as required by the Shelter Manager or Operations Manager.
- Accurately reporting observations, interactions, concerns and actions with guests to their caseworker using written reports.
- Flexibility is required, as you will be working a shift rota that includes weekends and public holidays.
- On occasions you will also be expected to attend training, team meetings and other activities as required.
Person spec
Essential
- Commitment to providing an excellent service and to interact with shelter guests in a positive and respectful manner.
- An understanding of and empathy towards the challenges women may experience. Ability to work as part of a team and be a supportive team member.
- Confidence in dealing with challenging behaviour. Good written and verbal communications skills. Ability to carry out manual handling tasks.
- Understanding of and commitment to Equal Opportunities.
Desirable
- Experience working within the homelessness sector or with similarly vulnerable people.
- Ability to speak additional languages including but not limited to Polish, Romanian, Arabic, Spanish, French, Bulgarian, Russian or Tigrinya.
- Lived experience of homelessness.
- An understanding and value of trauma informed care.
- Relevant training certificates (First aid, health & safety, fire Safety, conflict de-escalation).
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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HMP Wealstun, West Yorkshire
Internally your job title will be CFO Evolution Support Worker
Are you a target-driven, highly motivated and empathetic individual with a proven record of working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression? Do you have high level guidance skills and the ability to deliver effective one-to-one and group sessions?
If so, join St Giles where you will be dual-trained as a Support Worker and Activity Facilitator working on our CFO Evolution programme, which will see you provide support to a caseload of participants in custody to prepare for release and successfully resettle into their local communities by providing practical help, advice and guidance, as well as motivation and understanding.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
Our successful candidate will carry out initial and ongoing assessments of the support needs of individual participants, before providing them with essential advocacy, mentoring, guidance and training interventions that meet their needs, plus engage and case-manage eligible participants on the CFO Evolution programme by providing ongoing resettlement support. You will be expected to create an Action Plan, plan and design appropriate activities, training programmes and interventions, and establish and deliver high-quality, engaging one-to-one and group sessions, while also monitoring participants’ progress and providing timely monthly reports.
We will also rely on you to develop strong relationships with HMPPS/agencies offering support, where appropriate provide holistic wrap-around with general elements of resettlement support and working collaboratively plan for and facilitate effective Through the Gate and warm handover to the relevant Support Worker in Community.
What we are looking for
- Working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression
- Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments would be advantageous
- High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions
- Knowledge of the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders and desistance theory
- Knowledge of HM Prison environments and/or training, education and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance
- Demonstrable ability to support and motivate learners with multiple complex needs
- The ability to effectively assess evidence and identify assessment criteria using a range of assessment methods
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.
Please note this role requires an Enhanced Adult and Children with the Child Barred list DBS checks.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion-confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi-heritage) and those who identify as disabled, nonresponsive, or neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
To apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button.
Closing date: 11 p.m. on 2nd September 2024Interview date: 10th September 2024.
Please email us to request an application pack.
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We are looking for an individual who will thrive in a fast-paced, rewarding role helping to change the lives of young people by taking up a fixed-term role as a part-time Project Worker in our IntoUniversity centre in North Islington. You will work closely with our existing team, supporting the delivery and organisation of the IntoUniversity programme in the centre.
Contract: Fixed term until July 2025, part-time 7.5hrs per week
Start date: As soon as possible, as agreed with the candidate and subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check, and right to work checks.
Working hours
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EITHER 7.5 hours per week across two afternoons: between Monday and Thursday 14:00-18:00 and between Tuesday and Wednesday 13:30-17:3
- OR 7.5 hours one day a week (between Monday and Thursday. The hours would be 9:30am - 6:00pm if you were employed on a Monday or Thursday and 9.00am - 5:30pm if you are employed on a Tuesday or a Wednesday.
Salary
Starting salary is £30,000 (pro-rata)
Pro-rated salary is £6,000 per annum
Location
IntoUniversity North Islington
29 Marriott Road, Finsbury Park
London N4 3QN
Main duties of the role
To deliver the IntoUniversity programmem effectively to children and young people in different settings, including schools-based workshops, Academic Support sessions and educational visits. This includes positive behaviour management and adherence to the IntoUniversity safeguarding policy.
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To assist with the organisation and delivery of the Academic Support, FOCUS and Mentoring Programmes.
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To assist the IntoUniversity Centre Leader in liaising with schools and other partner bodies, in organising the classroom and resources and in planning project delivery.
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To update and maintain IntoUniversity displays, publicity and resources.
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To work with the IntoUniversity Centre Leader to recruit children and young people to the programme, including after-school Academic Support and FOCUS Weeks.
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To develop educational resources and worksheets for use across all IntoUniversity programmes.
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To ensure compliance with all necessary regulations and legal requirements, including the Children’s Act, Children and Young People (Scotland) Act, Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act, Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, and legislation and policies related to Equal Opportunities and Health & Safety.
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To champion diversity and inclusion in your role at all times, referring to the Diversity and Inclusion Staff Responsibilities Guide.
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To undertake any task that may be requested from time to time that may be consistent with the nature and scope of this post.
Staff benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme including access to wellbeing and legal support
- Life Assurance scheme with AIG including SmartHealth service with access to 24/7 online GP appointments
- Staff in FOCUS – rewards, competitions and prizes across the year
- Interest-free new starter loans of up to £1,000
- Cycle to Work Scheme and Travelcard Loan Scheme
- Employer pension contributions of 6%
- Staff in FOCUS – rewards, competitions and prizes across the year
We’re an award-winning charity that runs local learning centres in the heart of communities where the young people we support live. Our centres provide an innovative education programme which includes practical learning support and motivational and confidence-building activities for children and young people aged 7-18. Our aim is to inspire students from the least advantaged neighbourhoods to broaden their horizons and achieve their full potential.
As the UK’s leading university access organisation, our staff team is helping thousands of young people each year. We have forty-one centres and extension projects across England and Scotland, with ambitious plans to scale-up our provision further over the coming years.
Full time, permanent appointment
Based in Vauxhall, London with hybrid flexible working arrangements
Salary range for Social Worker: £32,743 to £40,019 per annum. Senior Social Worker: £37,780 to £46,175 per annum
Plus £3,299 per annum location allowance
Are you a skilled and dedicated social worker eager to apply your expertise and experience to a new role? Could you become a vital part of the supportive and collaborative team at one of the UK’s most successful adoption charities, rated outstanding by Ofsted since 2014?
At Parents And Children Together (PACT) we are genuinely passionate about helping families thrive. We believe that every child deserves a loving and supportive home and we are committed to providing the highest quality services to help make that a reality.
We have been at the forefront of adoption services for more than 60 years, working with local authorities across the country. We offer a flexible and innovative work environment, and we are proud of our three successive outstanding ratings with Ofsted.
We support children and families from diverse backgrounds. With access to our specialist therapeutic support services, we are proud to provide excellent lifetime support for our families’ adoption journeys.
Our adoption teams focus on assessing prospective adopters who can consider early permanence and/or adopting a wide range of children of all ages, sibling groups of two or more children, children from diverse ethnicities and children who may have physical or learning disabilities.
With your social work experience with children and families, you will manage all aspects of work with our valued applicants from the early stages of recruitment, information sharing meetings, assessment, preparation and training, through to successful placement and post placement support up to the making of the adoption order.
Ideally, you will have previous experience of completing Prospective Adopter’s Reports, or similar reports such as Form Fs, and/or experience in family finding activity for children requiring permanence.
or further information and details on how to apply, please visit our website, where you will also find contact details for an informal discussion about the role or for a visit to meet a member of the management team.
Closing date: Tuesday, 3rd September 2024 at 9am
Interview date: Wednesday, 11th September 2024
We look forward to hearing from you!
Please note that previous applicants need not apply.
PACT is a supportive and respectful place where people are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of women, children and families from many different backgrounds. We continuously look to progress the ways in which we create families and bring people together and encourage applications from people across all communities. We are committed to ensuring that our people and our services reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and applications from people from under-represented groups are particularly welcomed.
PACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Anyone joining our team is subject to PACT’s Safer Recruitment pre-appointment enquiries. These include the provision of documentation of the right to work in the UK, Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, overseas police check where applicable and references covering a minimum 5 year period. All opportunities are based in the UK.
an adoption charity and family support provider helping hundreds of families every year through outstanding adoption and adoption support services
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Operations
On-site at Glass Door Night shelter venues in the boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham or Wandsworth
20 October 2024 to late April 2025
Shifts from 6:45pm or 9:45pm to 7.15am (plus additional time if allocated driver). Hours and days of work will vary according to the needs of the service.
We are looking to recruit exceptional individuals with an open, collaborative style and a practical, can-do approach to provide a vital nightly service for our guests as Overnight Project Workers.
We value diversity and welcome all, in particular those with life experience and lived experience.
While experience of working within the homelessness sector or with similarly vulnerable people would be desirable, an understanding of the needs of people experiencing homelessness and working in a compassionate and flexible manner is more important and essential.
Flexibility is required, as you will be working a shift rota that will include weekends and public holidays. Due to the vulnerable group you will be working with, you will be asked to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our safeguarding measures prior to appointment.
Please note:
Some of our Overnight Project Workers are required to have a driving licence and be able to drive a manual vehicle.
However, this post also is still suitable for those that want a non-driving role.
On each shift, one of the two Overnight Project Workers will be an allocated driver and is expected to drive the van back to its local base in Fulham or Wandsworth, depending on the shelter circuit. The allocated driver for the shift will receive an additional hour of pay for this task.
What you will do as part of our team
The Overnight Project Worker is responsible for the following:
Job spec
- Maintaining a friendly, supportive environment and cultivating positive relationships with guests, colleagues, and volunteers.
- Following best practice procedures for the security and safety of the guests and volunteers.
- Diffusing difficult or dangerous situations and summon assistance when necessary. Training will be provided. Writing regular shift reports using the In-Form client relationship platform.
- Carrying out regular checks around the shelter, checking conditions of all areas.
- Ensuring that the van is loaded correctly with shelter provisions and that no Glass Door belongings are left on site.
- Adhering to Glass Door’s operational and health & safety policies in all aspects of your work. Maintaining clear lines of communication with your colleagues including the Night Shelter Manager, Caseworkers, and the Operations Manager.
- Ensuring cleaning protocols are followed and implemented.
- Undertaking any other duties to aid the good running of the project, as required by the Shelter Manager or Operations Manager.
- Accurately reporting observations, interactions, concerns and actions with guests to their caseworker using written reports.
- Setting up and help serve a simple breakfast for guests in the morning
- Ensuring all guests are woken from 6am onwards and leave the building by 7am
- Flexibility is required, as you will be working a shift rota that includes weekends and public holidays.
On occasions you will also be expected to attend training, team meetings and other activities as required. The allocated driver is expected to drive the van back to its allocated base at the end of the shift to which an additional hour of pay applies for this task.
Person Spec
Essential
- Commitment to providing an excellent service and to interact with shelter guests in a positive and respectful manner.
- Ability to work as part of a team and be a supportive team member. Confidence in dealing with challenging behaviour.
- Good written and verbal communications skills. Ability to carry out manual handling tasks.
- Understanding of and commitment to Equal Opportunities.
- Driver shifts only: Valid driver’s license and willingness to driver the shelter van
Desirable
- Experience working within the homelessness sector or with similarly vulnerable people.
- Ability to speak additional languages including but not limited to Polish, Romanian, Arabic, Spanish, French, Bulgarian, Russian or Tigrinya.
- Lived experience of homelessness.
- An understanding and value of trauma informed care.
- Relevant training certificates (First aid, health & safety, fire Safety, conflict de-escalation).
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Together Active is on the lookout for a passionate and proactive Health and Wellbeing Officer. This vital role will advocate for the physical activity needs of people with health conditions and ensure their voices are heard within healthcare systems, helping with the creation of pathways which design in physical activity, and build and strengthen links between healthcare and our communities, improving access and opportunities for everyone.
What You'll Do:
- Build Key Partnerships: collaborate with healthcare sectors and physical activity providers to integrate services.
- Project Leadership: lead on health and wellbeing projects, particularly those that require
innovative approaches to integrate physical activity with health services - Advocate for Community-Centric Health Programmes:
- Quality Assurance: create a quality assurance framework to ensure the highest standards of service for individuals with long-term health conditions.
Who You Are:
- Passionate about supporting underserved populations
- Energetic and driven with a genuine belief in the positive impact of physical activity
- A keen collaborator who relishes creating key partnerships allowing the sharing of best practice and experiences.
We Value Diversity:
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you do not meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply if you're passionate about making a difference and believe you could bring something unique to the role. We value fresh perspectives and what you can bring to our team and community.
How We Value you
At Together Active we know that our people are our most valuable asset. We have recently launched our People Plan that sets out how we put the welfare and wellbeing of our staff at the heart of the organisation. In addition to fair salaries with clear opportunities for pay progression, we offer the following benefits:
· Generous annual leave allowance: 27.5 days upon commencement of
employment plus bank holidays. This rises by an additional 1 day of leave per
year after 2 years of continuous employment, up to an additional 5 days leave
in total. (Pro rata for part time staff).
· Three concessionary days leave over Christmas and New Year (pro rata for part
time staff).
· Death in service scheme up to the value of three times actual salary.
· Wellbeing Grant - £50 voucher per year to spend on health and wellbeing.
· Volunteer day to spend either as a team or individual helping out with an
organisation or cause you select.
· Up to 8% employer contribution to pension scheme.
· Reimbursement of the cost of a standard eye test as a user of visual display
equipment.
· Access to Cycle scheme
· Annual CPD courses offered by Staffordshire University
· Online skills training platform - for employees to use to broaden their
professional and personal development across a range of online courses.
· We are currently developing a scheme with staff to ongoing costs related to
staying well/being active.
· Access to counselling service.
We are committed to working flexibly and we mean it. Most people in our team are hybrid workers and we tend to congregate in the office approximately twice per week. We are focused on outcomes and the impact that we make, not counting the minutes you’re sat at your desk. We believe this role needs to be undertaken on a part time basis, but we are genuinely open to discussing working options with candidates including hours.
Our office is based at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent which is a short walk from Stoke-on-Trent train station. There are electric charging points on campus for electric vehicles and parking permits can be purchased to minimise costs.
We may close this advert earlier should we have sufficient quality of applications and would encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
We exist to design out inactivity across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We’re looking for a freelance youth worker to lead our weekly educational youth club programme in Bournemouth. Delivered in partnership with International Care Network (ICN), sessions take place on a weekly basis between 4.30pm-7.30pm throughout the year including school holidays.
The youth worker is responsible for planning, delivering and facilitating educational and cultural Club Class activities for separated children aged 16-21 years old. The youth worker is supported during the session by our youth support worker plus one support worker from ICN and one staff member from Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole local authority (BCP LA) – usually a personal advisor or social worker.
This is a fantastic opportunity to help in improving the lives and life chances of young refugees arriving in the UK alone.
Main duties:
• Research, plan and devise educational activities/classes for the weekly sessions based on our Club Class framework
• Deliver and facilitate the weekly Club Class with the support of our youth support worker and the ICN support worker
• Source outside facilitators (volunteers) on occasion to deliver specialist sessions
• Ensure sessions are young people-led and participants have an opportunity to input into future Club Class sessions using our participatory feedback mechanism
• Provide emotional support and guidance to the group (please note this is not a casework role), referring individual young people to their case worker where one-to-one support is required
• Ensure the highest level of safeguarding for the young people attending with adherence to The Separated Child Foundation’s safeguarding policy
• Work with the Programme Manager to evaluate Club Class with participants to ensure the sessions are appropriate and relevant to their needs, and propose amendments and improvements to the Club Class framework as required
• Gather feedback (anonymised where necessary) from participants to populate social media, support funding bids and include in programme management reporting
• Provide line manager with regular feedback on the sessions and future plans during routine catch up calls and Programme Manager in-person visits
For more information and the person spec, please refer to the full candidate pack.
Please apply by sending your CV with a supporting statement and the details of two referees to our Programme Manager. References will not be taken up unless the successful candidate accepts a verbal role offer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Carers Services Worker – Money and More Project Lead
Fixed term to March 2026 (in the first instance)
Salary: £26,421
Hours: 35 hours per week, usually 9am – 4.30pm with flexibility
Holidays: 27 days plus public holidays and length of service days
Pension: 7.5%
Great learning, development and training opportunities
ü Could you lead our Money and More service to help unpaid Carers with caring costs and financial issues?
ü Do you want to make a difference to Carers and their families struggling with poverty and growing costs?
ü Have you an interest or experience with benefits advice, debt advice, energy efficiency and concessions and savings for families?
ü Are you enthusiastic, self-motivated, highly organised with excellent communication skills?
ü Would you relish working for a well respected local charity in the City of Manchester who holds the Trusted Charity Quality Mark?
ü Can you be an effective Ambassador for a great Carers organisation with a supportive and encouraging small team?
We can offer you a fantastic learning experience to develop your skills and competencies in new areas. We offer a competitive salary with a good pension, 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and flexible working conditions. You will be mainly based in our Centre in a sustainable mill in Ancoats within a great community of Changemakers. You will work to deliver outreach across a range of venues in Manchester as required. This post is part of a programme funded from the Gas Distribution Networks’ Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance (VCMA), via Carers Trust.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Thursday 12th September 2024, however, we may close applications before this deadline if we receive a large volume, so you are advised to apply early.
If you think this is the role for you we would love to hear from you!
Interview date: Thursday 26th September 2024
To download an application pack please go to: Work With Us - Manchester Carers Centre
Manchester Carers Centre is committed to achieving equality, inclusion and diversity in employment.
We identify, respect, support and provide services to unpaid Carers, so that no Carer feels alone or unsupported.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual who understands the value that youth work, sport and positive activities can add to people and their communities. The role of the Youth Worker will be an important addition to the London team and provide programme support to ensure that young people who are engaged in these programmes are supported.
The role of the Youth Worker plays an important role in the planning and delivery of weekly sessions to ensure they are needs led and are supporting the young people who are engaged to achieve their outcomes. The Youth Worker will play a crucial role by supporting the wider team when required to deliver sessions, support with administrative tasks and build relationships with community partners to ensure the young people have access to as many opportunities as possible.
DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Develop relationships and communication channels with young people.
- To support with the delivery of ACN youth programmes in London.
- To support the wider staff team in the development and execution of session plans to include workshops and sessions that are needs led to aid with improving young people’s knowledge and understanding of relevant issues e.g. sexual health, employability and mental health etc.
- To support the recruitment and engagement of young people to ACN programmes.
- To build positive working relationships with youth workers and community partners to achieve the best outcomes for young people on all programmes.
- Manage groups of young people and be responsible for their care, safeguarding them whilst they are participating in activities.
- Promote and encourage empowerment within all sessions.
- To support the wider team with programme related administration completing relevant documentation and ensuring it is accurate including updating our monitoring and evaluation system.
- To work with the wider team to evaluate and record the impact of sessions and workshops that are being delivered.
- Promote volunteering and engage with young people to take part in opportunities.
Soteria London is a Community Interest Company (CIC) whose mission is to create compassionate alternatives for individuals experiencing crisis and distress, especially for those experiencing altered states, often called psychosis, and their families and social networks. We are part of a larger network in the UK and abroad, which promotes the Soteria model of personal relationships, interactive activities and communities with the minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.
We are looking for a part-time Community Development Worker to help grow supportive communities for people experiencing altered states, often called psychosis, and their families and social networks. in North London with a specific focus on Haringey/Camden/Islington. The role will focus on mapping and building neighbourhood communities that offer kinder alternatives to mainstream services, and will involve working closely with individuals, their families and social networks.
We are planning to submit a bid in April 2025 for a 24/7 Community Mental Health Pilot as set out in the NHS England invitation and the Community Development Worker will play a key role in growing partnerships and facilitating the community led development of this bid. The successful candidate will employ compassionate, empowering, and community-centred social justice approaches that address racial, gender, and class inequities.
The freelance role include:
● Creating inclusive communities of support, that value diversity and cultural sensitivity, to support people in crisis and distress, especially people experiencing altered states, often called psychosis, and their families and social networks, with a focus on Haringey/Camden/Islington
● Building new and strengthening existing relationships with like-minded individuals and organisations
● Setting up a Soteria supportive central hub or community space to facilitate activities and collaborations
● Help people find their voice through creative, artistic and well-being and somatic initiatives, such as our "Soteria in the Pub" program and body work sessions.
● Promoting collaborative learning through events and sharing sessions to explore and reflect on existing and historical compassionate, empowering and community focused approaches to supporting people in crisis and distress and their families and networks, to identify what may work in our local communities in Haringey/Camden/Islington
● Exploring options for piloting support to individuals and their families and networks in their own homes - a ‘Soteria at Home’ approach
● Developing and gathering feedback on a pilot approach to supporting individuals who wish to reduce or cease their medications.
● Identifying the learning and training needs for the proposed areas of work that have come through our collaborative piloting, learning and reflection. These include the requirements for operating a Soteria House and a Soteria at Home approach; exploring and developing various forms of peer support, including models like Hearing Voices, Open Dialogue, and Intentional Peer Support.
● Drawing on the activities above to develop a bid for an exciting NHS England 24/7 Community Mental Health pilot project where people are in control of their own care, as well as exploring other possible funding options for our proposed areas of work
To thrive in this role, you'll need:
● Excellent communication skills for engaging with diverse communities.
● Knowledge of mental health services, particularly for extreme distress. People with lived experience are encouraged to apply.
● Experience in social media outreach and engagement.
● Project management and event planning skills.
● Experience in monitoring and evaluation.
● Administrative, budgeting, and fundraising skills.
Compassionate alternatives for people in distress and crisis
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.