Adults Activities Coordinator Jobs in TW13 6LD

Reporting to: Services Manager

Location: Midlands Home Working, with significant travel across the region

 Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

 Salary: £25,000 - £28,000

Purpose: This is a varied role which involves networking and engaging with a variety of communities and professionals specifically across the Midlands. This is a great time to join us as we work towards our 2024-26 strategy to ensure more people across the country have access to our information and resources. You will have the opportunity to work across a range of exciting projects to include online groups, reaching out to diverse audiences, community outreach and presentation delivery. We would like the person appointed to take up the post in January 2025.

Key Responsibilities – the role will include but not be restricted to:

· Support, nurture and facilitate Online Arthritis Action Groups and Events.

· Organise networking opportunities and presentations.

· Attend local and national events as required.

· Create and retain relationships with localised contacts including community organisations and healthcare professionals.

· Help us implement our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy by reaching out to diverse communities including Ethnic Minorities and Low-Income areas across the Midlands region.

· Support the development of our younger adult projects through researching and contacting organisations to ensure 18-40s are aware of our resources and information.

Networking

· Research and reach out to local and national networking opportunities across multiple sectors (community organisations, healthcare professionals, underrepresented communities).

· Nurture local relationships through meeting with and presenting to organisations.

Groups

· To organise and facilitate Online Groups including administration and promotion activities.

· Report on any relevant feedback with aims to improve the service.

· To assist with finding speakers.

· To understand and follow the Charity’s rules on confidentiality.

Other Activities

· Work with the Communications Team to keep social media and the charity’s website up to date with Groups and Events.

· Ensure administration is undertaken for all Groups and Events.

· Ensure Key Performance Indicators are kept up to date on the charity’s database (e-tapestry).

· Other tasks relevant to the level of this post may be asked of you.

· Attend our EDI Working Group meetings.

Location

The post will be located in the Midlands, working from home. Extensive travel across the Midlands will be an essential part of the role, which may require driving or using public transport. Therefore, owning or having access to a vehicle is essential. Monthly visits to the London office are required. Travel expenses will be reimbursed.

We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups and those with lived experience.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

 EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Track record of community engagement: Essential

Excellent project management and organisation skills: Essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including Microsoft Office and video conferencing): Essential

Excellent facilitation and presentation skills: Essential

Experience in researching potential partners and building relationships: Esssential

Experience of maintaining a charity database: Desirable

Experience of delivering course/ educational materials: Desirable

Experience of working as part of a small team: Desirable

Fluency in a foreign language (for example, Urdu, Punjabi, or Bengali): Desiarabl     

ATTRIBUTES

Excellent customer service and inter-personal skills: Essential                                 

A self-starter, able to work on own initiative where required: Essential             

Enthusiastic team-player with a can-do attitude: Essential                                 

Able and willing to travel extensively within the region: Essential                                     

Benefits

 As a valued member of our team, you will get:

· 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after five years, plus Bank Holidays and 3 additional days for our Christmas office closure.

· 7.5% employer pension contribution/2.5% employee contribution.

· 24 hour, 365-day access to the Employee Assistance Programme.

· Cycle to Work Scheme.

· Annual Eye Tests.

 How to apply

Applications should be in the form of a CV with a covering letter explaining your interest in and suitability for the role. Please provide both email and telephone contact information for yourself.

Applications should be received by 5.00 p.m. on Thursday 28th November 2024 at the latest. We may close the job prior to the closing date subject to receiving sufficient applications. Therefore, applicants are encouraged to make an application as soon as possible.

First round of interviews will take place on Zoom on 5th December 2024. The second round will take place on 11th December 2024 at the London office. Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Arthritis Action is an equal opportunities employer. We treat employees and applicants in the same way regardless of age, disability, marital status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.

Are you an organised and efficient administrator?

We are looking for someone to join our team supporting Unpaid Carers in Lewisham in a part-time admin role based at our Carers Hub at Glass Mill Leisure Centre. Our activities programme offers Unpaid Carers the opportunity to have a break from their caring responsibilities in a social environment where they can meet other carers and focus on their wellbeing.

You’ll work closely with the service manager to plan and arrange a wide programme of activities for young and adult Unpaid Carers. This will involve liaising with providers, ensuring health and safety, insurance and other checks are in place, arranging resources and refreshments, completing risk assessments and booking venues.

You will promote activities to Unpaid Carers, manage bookings and respond to queries. As the role is based in our Carers Hub, you will interact with Unpaid Carers visiting the team or enquiring about the service. You will also provide additional admin support to the team as needed.

Applicants should have experience in an admin role and excellent customer service skills. You will require exceptional communication, organisational and written skills, and should be a proactive and creative thinker. You must be proficient in using Word and Excel, with experience of using databases.

The part-time hours (22.5) can be worked as 3 full days or shorter days across the week. Some flexibility is required for occasional evenings or Saturday working.

Do a job where you make a difference. Apply today.

We offer our employees:

· Inclusive values-based environment

· Competitive remuneration package

· Workplace pension scheme

· Generous 31 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays

· Benenden Health Care

· Death in Service Benefit

· Cycle to Work Scheme

· Employee Supported Volunteering scheme

· Development opportunities

· and more

Imago is committed to Safer Recruitment practices, and the post is subject to references and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Please either submit your CV with a short covering note or visit our website for full details.

Imago recognises that many people in our society experience discrimination or lack of opportunity for reasons that are not fair. We aim to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences, and see these differences as an asset, as they improve our ability to meet the needs of the organisations and people we work with. We proactively seek to increase opportunities for inclusion, and celebrate diversity across our organisation and within communities.

Imago recognises its duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of the children, young people and adults at risk who access its services or with whom it comes into contact.

Job Purpose:  To lead our Step Forward project for young adults aged 17-24 to support mental health and emotional wellbeing, by delivering group sessions across venues in Surrey plus some 1:1 support.

Salary: £26,000 - £29,120

Hours of work:35

Working Pattern: Monday 12:30-8:30, Tuesday 9:00-5:00, Wednesday 10:30-6:30, Thursday 9:00-5:00, Friday 10:00-6:00

Employment type: Permanent full-time

Contract Type: Permanent full-time

Location: Phoenix Youth Centre, Preston Manor Road, Epsom, Tadworth KT20 5FB  Phoenix Centre Tadworth, but working across various locations in East Surrey as necessary

Annual leave:Starting allowance - 25 days plus Bank Holidays. Please note that school holidays are key delivery periods and annual leave is not usually agreed during these periods.

Benefits:

Free Gym Membership: The post holder will be entitled to free use of the YMCA East Surrey fitness centre in Redhill and half price YMCA childcare for dependents.

Free Parking : There is free parking availableat all our delivery site. YMCA East Surrey also operates a Bike to Work Scheme.

Pension Scheme: There is a YMCA East Surrey pension scheme - details available on request.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 9th December 

Interviews to be held: Monday 16th December 2024

Proposed Start Date: January 2025

Main Responsibilities:

· To help assess the needs and strengths of the referred young adult and help them identify individual goals to achieve desired change

· To deliver early support/targeted group interventions which aim to improve mental health and well-being, build on existing strengths and increase levels of resilience

· Record and collect data with various tools such as Outcome Star and Session Feedback Questionnaires to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions

· To take responsibility for own caseload of young adults, some with complex and multiple needs, with support from senior EWMH staff

· To help involve project participants in the co-production of programmes, activities and services

· To be proactive in connecting with other agencies who can provide activities to support Step Forward sessions

· Attending networking events and meetings, online and in-person, to promote Step Forward

· To work collaboratively with Surrey CCGs, GPs, local CYPS and adult mental health teams and other community-based services to provide the most effective service for young adults and reach targets set by partners whilst keeping within the YMCA values of service

· To keep accurate records of individual engagement, evidence of change and celebrate progress with participants

· To record and report the appropriate data to ensure the project can be accurately monitored and evaluated 

· Where appropriate, to apply safeguarding and child and vulnerable adult protection procedures

· To organise and provide written case studies as evidence of the effectiveness of individual interventions and activities

· To work as part of a team and attend team meetings, training events and participate fully in one to one, peer and group supervision

· Support summer activity programmes with partner group WAVES with supervising young people off-site

· Planning, organising and running summer activities for Step Forward participants

· To take responsibility for Youth Support Workers, volunteers and colleagues volunteering time to the project, taking charge of a staff rota and ensuring guidelines are in place and updated regularly to ensure best practice

· Outreaching to external volunteer workers and communicating closely with HR

· Any other duties are required to be performed within the grade and renumeration of the role

· We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults. This role will require an enhanced DBS disclosure (with barred children/vulnerable adults).  We require you to understand and demonstrate this commitment and attend any required training

When someone sustains a spinal cord injury, it is a life changing experience.

Back Up’s Regional Outreach and Engagement team are the very face of the organisation and are based across the UK, working directly with spinal cord injury centres, major trauma centres and hospitals – or indeed anywhere that people affected by spinal cord injury may be.

As a Regional Coordinator, you will build relationships and take ownership for what happens in your geographical area. As someone affected by spinal cord injury themselves, you will be providing peer support to newly injured people in a clinical setting, facilitating wheelchair skills sessions, making referrals for ongoing support, and supporting volunteers and fundraisers. Above all, you will be passionate about being able to demonstrate the impact of what we do and will see for yourself how Back Up quite literally transforms lives.

About us:

At Back Up, we have big ambitions. Over the next few years, we’re going to be transforming the lives of even more people affected by spinal cord injury.

Together we’ll be working hard to make sure everyone affected by spinal cord injury has access to the support they deserve; and we are the only spinal cord injury charity in the UK providing specific services to children and young people

At Back Up, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Please read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy Statement. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from those from black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds or those with higher level spinal injuries.

Back Up has been voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.

In 2024 Back Up won The Times and The Sunday Times Spotlight Award for Best place to work for disabled employees. As well as this, Back Up has been voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.

Location:

From home and able to travel extensively to hospitals and other clinical settings around the region, if required.

Occasional visits to Back Up office in Wandsworth, London and the surrounding area.

East Region: East Anglia (likely based in East Anglia)

How to apply

Please apply by emailing recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk by midnight on Sunday 1st December 2024 with:

· A CV detailing salary information for your most recent post and two referees, one of whom should be your present or most recent employer. We will contact them after interview.

· A (maximum) two side A4 supporting statement, saying why you want the job and explaining how you meet the criteria in the job description.. This statement is crucial; CVs alone will not be accepted.

· A completed equal opportunities form. This form will be kept separate from your application, and not viewed by the recruiting manager. It is used to help us assess the diversity of our applicants to ensure our processes are fair to all. It is optional to fill in but it will help us improve and maintain high standards.

We will acknowledge receipt of your application, and then let you know if you are to be invited to interview.  First interviews will be held from the week beginning Monday 2nd December 2024.  If you cannot make any of those dates, please indicate this when you apply. 

What will the process involve?

The process will involve at least one interview round which will be either in person or online. There will be a panel interviewing you and you may be asked to complete a task beforehand to present to the panel. If you need any support or adjustment to the recruitment process at any step, do please ask and we’d be pleased to work with you to put these in place so that you can perform to the best of your abilities throughout the process and demonstrate your suitability for the role.  Please email recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As a ‘Disability Confident’ employer we are committed to the inclusion of candidates and employees with disabilities. If you have a disability and meet the minimum criteria of the role, set out as essential criteria in the job description, we will invite you to interview. Please let us know if you would qualify and want to take advantage of this scheme by emailing: recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

At Back Up we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every criteria in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at Back Up.

Job title: Senior Programme Coordinator

Term: Full time, two-year fixed contract with the option to extend

Salary: £36,920 + generous benefits

Location: Office located in Victoria, London. We encourage flexible working and have a hybrid working policy in place with expectations of one to three days in the office per week.

Closing date: 12 noon, 25 November 2024

Interviews: 3 and 4 December

Working as part of our development and engagement directorate, this is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking to further develop their project and event management skills within a busy and high performing team.

Our Digital Boards programme provides leadership development support to NHS Boards through bespoke board development sessions, peer learning events and written outputs. This role will involve working with the programme team and project partners to deliver a high volume of outputs every year.

To apply, please send a CV and cover letter setting out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the person specification to NHS Providers HR team.

Please also complete the online interactive equal opportunities monitoring form as part of your application.

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. NHS Providers is not able to offer visa sponsorship

NHS Providers is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender identity, race, age, sexuality, beliefs, or disability. To be successful in this role you will need to be personally committed to being anti-racist and support our broader diversity work across all protected characteristics.

Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

Apply by Midnight Sunday,15 December2024

Please note this role can be remote, but applicants must currently be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

About Restless Development

Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most. We also run the Youth Collective – a growing network of over 4000 local youth civil society groups and organisations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.

Our approach to safeguarding

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

About the role

The £4.5m Young Gamechangers Fund (YGF) is an exciting UK funding initiative that provides grants of up to £20,000 a year to young people transforming communities into safer, more sustainable and more inclusive places to live. Funding is provided by the Co-op Foundation, Co-op and #iwill fund, and is delivered in partnership by Restless Development, Global Fund for Children and the Co-op Foundation. In addition to funding, successful applicants also get access to peer support networks, training and mentoring. Importantly, the fund is co-design with young activists, through a Youth Steering Group. All elements of the programme are youth-led and grantee centred, with a commitment to codesign and seeking input from young people at all stages. 

Evaluation and learning is central to the fund; we aim to generate learning that will support young people, grantees, funders and delivery partners to learn and increase their impact, but also to generate evidence that can influence the wider sector. Ultimately, we are seeking to change the way youth-led funding is delivered.

The Evaluation and Learning Coordinator will work closely with the grantees to help them effectively understand and learn from the results of their work; and to generate and disseminate wider evidence and learning on the impact of the fund. The role will work closely with the Fund’s external Evaluation and Learning Partner - The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) - who have just finalised a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) framework for the fund. Restless Development is the delivery partner leading on the learning element of the fund.

We are looking for someone who has a commitment to learning and youth leadership, and is excited by the idea of generating evidence that could help to shift power to young people in the funding sector. You will also be excited by the prospect of working closely with our incredible Young Gamechangers, to help them better understand their impact.

The role will be part of Restless Development’s growing team in the UK that supports our network of young leaders. It will also be part of the YGF team, working closely with colleagues based within Global Fund for Children.

Job title : Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

Location : Flexible, anywhere within the UK

Salary : £30,893

Preferred start date : ASAP

Length of contract : Until July 2026 (TBC)

Visa requirements : Must have the right to work in the UK

Reports to : Head of UK & European Programmes

Expected travel : Regular travel within the UK; including occasionally at weekends

Key responsibilities:

Support to Grantees

• Provide training and support to grantees to help them respond to quantitative and qualitative reporting requirements as set out by the MEL framework, e.g. through training on how to implement qualitative data collection tools (such as reflective diaries or more creative approaches such as video style reporting)
• Provide broader evaluation and learning support to grantees, based around the needs of their work - as part of the wider support offer alongside funding. Including the design and delivery of training, and in-person support visits.
• Support to grantees to complete other funder reporting requirements, including uploading quantitative data to match funder’s online portal.
• Focused support to a sample of grantees to help them develop Community Impact reports for their work, based on peer research (methodology to be defined from the Learning Partner)

Implementation of the Fund’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework

• Acting as the main point of contact for the Fund’s learning partner, and coordinating with other stakeholders (including delivery partners, funders and the Steering Group), to include coordinating feedback and review processes, e.g. for the mid-term and final evaluation reports.
• Work in partnership with the Learning Partner on the development and dissemination of any external learning products or activities, such as events, blogs or ‘Failure and Innovation One Pagers’
• Working to ensure strong youth engagement is embedded throughout all stages of the evaluation process, from design through to delivery. This will include working closely with the Steering Group.

Learning and Reporting systems

• Ensure effective processes are in place so that learning generated is used to inform the fund’s design and delivery, e.g. through a quarterly learning and review process.
• Responding to funder reporting requirements, including through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data collected through the MEL framework.
• Working with Restless Development’s Communications team to support the external dissemination of any learning from the fund, e.g. helping to finalise external products, and identifying relevant case studies to showcase the fund’s impact.

Other

• Contributing to agency wide learning, working with colleagues across the global agency to build expertise in funding and supporting youth social action
• You will occasionally be required to work on weekends and/or public holidays, for which time off in lieu will be granted
• Other duties as required

About you

We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our Values and behaviours.

Head: We are experts in our lived realities. We innovate and try new things without fear of failure.

Heart: Youth Power is at the heart of everything we do. We prioritise the wellbeing of all our people, supporting young leaders to thrive.

Hands: We collaborate and shift power with young people and communities. We connect, nurture, celebrate and fund young leaders.

Voice: We are honest and transparent.  We use our voice for what is right.

Skills and experience

Essential

• Experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning, including the implementation of MEL frameworks (or equivalent) and supporting evaluations
• Experience and / or commitment to mobilising and supporting young people from diverse communities in the UK to take social action (e.g. through campaigning, organising or volunteering)
• Strong analytical, and qualitative and quantitative research skills
• Strong coordination, organisation and time management skills
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to adapt information so that it is accessible for a diverse group of people
• Belief in the values of Restless Development and ability to uphold them personally

Desirable

• Experience of providing MEL focused training and support, ideally to grantees or partners.
• Experience of producing externally facing materials, such as case studies, learning papers or blogs
• Experience in working with young people from underserved communities within the UK (such as those who have experienced racism and discrimination)
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders across multiple delivery and funder partners 

Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.

What we do for you

Remuneration

We are proud to commit to a transparent global salary scale, ensuring a fair and comparable system of pay across all global locations. In addition to salary, we offer pension contributions and other benefits in accordance with the local Hub.

Values and Culture

At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with.  Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.

Work-life Balance

It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development. We also recognise the importance of helping staff to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering:

• 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).
• Birthday Leave
• Access to flexible working.
• Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.

Professional Development

Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognises potential and invests in the development of its staff.  We are committed to the professional development of our staff through:

• Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff – allowing them to develop on-the-job. 
• Regular performance management.
• Training and development opportunities, including supporting our staff to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.
• Quarterly Staff Workshops for all staff to give and receive agency updates, receive training, and socialise.

Travel and Medical Insurance

When travelling abroad with work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development’s travel and medical insurance.

To Apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter that explains why you are excited by this role, and provides examples of how your skills and experience respond to the essential and desirable criteria in the Job Description (using no more than 500 words).

Mind in Enfield and Barnet is a fast-growing charity in North London providing much needed therapy, wellbeing support and advocacy services to people with mental health problems. 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Community Care Coordinators to support some of our most vulnerable users of emergency services. These roles have been developed to further support our service users alongside our statutory partners at North Middlesex NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department, to increase their wellbeing, confidence, social integration, and independence.

The successful candidates will be responsible for working with service users during periods of crisis and support them through their journey of recovery to ensure that they are receiving the support most beneficial to them. This will be achieved through a person-centred approach to ensure that the views of service users are central to the planned support they receive.

The successful candidates will take a lead in working with service users to assess needs/barriers preventing clients from recovery, working with them to create a personal action plan, and monitoring and evaluating outcomes and progress.

Independence will be encouraged through self-management and recovery.

The roles will involve working in the community and with the wider team as well as our partner organisation North Middlesex NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department to ensure that the community is kept up to date with the services that we are offering and the strong reputation of Mind in Haringey as a leading provider of mental health services in the borough is maintained.

This is a part-time position (26 hours per week), between the service hours of 9am-5pm (Monday-Friday)

Community Care Coordinators are based at 275 Fore Street, Edmonton, London, N9 0PD & North Middlesex Hospital.

Facilities Coordinator

Are you passionate about creating welcoming, safe, and supportive spaces? Family Futures is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Facilities Coordinator to help maintain our nurturing, therapeutic environment. As a key part of our team, you'll bring a friendly, can-do attitude, excellent organisational skills, and the flexibility to manage a diverse and busy workload. You will report to the Office Manager and together you'll play an essential role in ensuring our centre runs smoothly. If you’re a people-person with a love for helping others and keeping things running seamlessly, we’d love to hear from you!

At Family Futures our staff are all different as each staff member brings different lived experiences, unique ways of thinking and ideas to the team to provide an excellent service. This is one of our greatest strengths and enhances our agency’s culture. Family Futures actively encourages applications from qualified Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups as they are currently under-represented at our organisation.

We offer excellent staff development opportunities and a highly nurturing environment. We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Family Futures is a menopause friendly employer.

Family Futures is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The organisation follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk of harm, and will require the successful applicant to undertake a standard DBS disclosure.

Mind in Haringey is an independent charity organisation providing vital mental health services to our community in Haringey since 1989.

We have a broad and exciting range of services and projects running in a dynamic, evolving environment. We are constantly striving to develop and improve our services through listening to our community, peers, and staff team to evaluate and deliver the best possible projects for our community.

Working with Mind in Haringey will give you the opportunity to join a small, creative team with many opportunities for learning and progression. We are a diverse and passionate team, who welcome experiences and perspectives from all backgrounds. 

We particularly encourage applications from those with lived experience of mental health, from racialised communities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and residents of Haringey who are passionate about changing things for the better in the borough. 

Haringey is a melting pot of culture, history, and resilience. Though there is much that needs to be improved, we are proud to work as part of a community that has displayed great strength in hardship both in the past and in more recent years. Interested in joining us in this work? We look forward to receiving your application for the role.

Mind in Haringey are seeking a Community Care Coordinator for some of our most vulnerable users. The role which has been developed to further support our service users alongside our statutory partners at North Middlesex NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department, to increase their wellbeing, confidence, social integration, and independence. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for working with service users during periods of crisis and support them through their journey of recovery to ensure that they are receiving the support most beneficial to them. This will be achieved through a person-centred approach to ensure that the views of service users are central to the planned support they receive.

The successful candidate will take a lead in working with service users to assess needs/barriers preventing clients from recovery, working with them to create a personal action plan, and monitoring and evaluating outcomes and progress. Independence will be encouraged through self-management and recovery. 

When someone sustains a spinal cord injury, it is a life changing experience.

Back Up’s Regional Outreach and Engagement team are the very face of the organisation and are based across the UK, working directly with spinal cord injury centres, major trauma centres and hospitals – or indeed anywhere that people affected by spinal cord injury may be.

As a Regional Coordinator, you will build relationships and take ownership for what happens in your geographical area. As someone affected by spinal cord injury themselves, you will be providing peer support to newly injured people in a clinical setting, facilitating wheelchair skills sessions, making referrals for ongoing support, and supporting volunteers and fundraisers. Above all, you will be passionate about being able to demonstrate the impact of what we do and will see for yourself how Back Up quite literally transforms lives.

About us:

At Back Up, we have big ambitions. Over the next few years, we’re going to be transforming the lives of even more people affected by spinal cord injury.

Together we’ll be working hard to make sure everyone affected by spinal cord injury has access to the support they deserve; and we are the only spinal cord injury charity in the UK providing specific services to children and young people

At Back Up, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Please read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy Statement. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from those from black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds or those with higher level spinal injuries.

Back Up has been voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.

In 2024 Back Up won The Times and The Sunday Times Spotlight Award for Best place to work for disabled employees. As well as this, Back Up has been voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.

Location:

From home and able to travel extensively to hospitals and other clinical settings around the region, if required.

Occasional visits to Back Up office in Wandsworth, London and the surrounding area.

North Region: North of England (likely based North East)

How to apply

Please apply by emailing recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk by midnight on Sunday 1st December 2024 with:

· A CV detailing salary information for your most recent post and two referees, one of whom should be your present or most recent employer. We will contact them after interview.

· A (maximum) two side A4 supporting statement, saying why you want the job and explaining how you meet the criteria in the job description.. This statement is crucial; CVs alone will not be accepted.

· A completed equal opportunities form. This form will be kept separate from your application, and not viewed by the recruiting manager. It is used to help us assess the diversity of our applicants to ensure our processes are fair to all. It is optional to fill in but it will help us improve and maintain high standards.

We will acknowledge receipt of your application, and then let you know if you are to be invited to interview.  First interviews will be held from the week beginning Monday 2nd December 2024.  If you cannot make any of those dates, please indicate this when you apply. 

What will the process involve?

The process will involve at least one interview round which will be either in person or online. There will be a panel interviewing you and you may be asked to complete a task beforehand to present to the panel. If you need any support or adjustment to the recruitment process at any step, do please ask and we’d be pleased to work with you to put these in place so that you can perform to the best of your abilities throughout the process and demonstrate your suitability for the role.  Please email recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As a ‘Disability Confident’ employer we are committed to the inclusion of candidates and employees with disabilities. If you have a disability and meet the minimum criteria of the role, set out as essential criteria in the job description, we will invite you to interview. Please let us know if you would qualify and want to take advantage of this scheme by emailing: recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

At Back Up we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every criteria in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at Back Up.

Support those who Care

This is an exciting opportunity to join our new service supporting Carers across City of London to improve their health and wellbeing, and access support that meets their needs. We are working with Carers from a range of cultures, and it would be an advantage to speak Bengali.

The team work holistically with Carers to understand their individual circumstances and level of need. You’ll carry out home visits and community-based meetings, co-produce support plans, and develop effective relationships with Carers, families, and professionals. You will also support Carers to complete written forms and applications, draft letters, and advocate with third parties.

You’ll build on your local knowledge to signpost and facilitate access for Carers to support services, including financial and benefit advice, housing, health and safety home systems, and leisure and social activities. You will also support the development of escalation plans so that Carers are prepared for unforeseen circumstances that would impact negatively on ability to care.

Together with colleagues, you will plan and deliver the service’s activity package, including coffee mornings, drop-in sessions, activities, online and face to face groups, and peer support forums. There will also be opportunities to promote the service by attending meetings and forums, and to deliver training sessions to professionals and community organisations so that they have the skills to identify Carers.

Applicants should have relevant personal or professional experience of working with Carers and/or vulnerable adults or children in a social care, health, education or voluntary and community sector.

This is a full-time position and you should be an excellent communicator and able to motivate and empower others. You’ll need a practical understanding of barriers faced by Carers, and an awareness of cultural differences and access to services.

Do a job where you make a difference

We offer our employees:

· Inclusive values-based environment

· Competitive remuneration package

· Workplace pension scheme

· Generous 31 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays

· Opportunities for hybrid working

· Benenden Health Care

· Death in Service Benefit

· Cycle to Work Scheme

· Employee Supported Volunteering scheme

· Development opportunities

· and more

Imago is committed to Safer Recruitment practices, and the post is subject to references and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Please either submit your CV with a short covering note or visit our website for full details.

Imago recognises that many people in our society experience discrimination or lack of opportunity for reasons that are not fair. We aim to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences, and see these differences as an asset, as they improve our ability to meet the needs of the organisations and people we work with. We proactively seek to increase opportunities for inclusion, and celebrate diversity across our organisation and within communities.

Imago recognises its duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of the children, young people and adults at risk who access its services or with whom it comes into contact.

Job Title: Trainee Volunteer Coordinator

Job level: Entry Level

Salary: £25,207 per annum (pro rata according to working hours) London Living Wage (LLW): £13.85 per hour from Nov 2024

Hours and Contract: 35hrs/ 5 days per week, 12 months

Location: Office based, some flexibility to work from home

Department: Development, Learning and Activities Team

Reports to: Development, Learning and Activities Service Manager

Benefits: 30 day annual leave per annum, 3% Pension

Camden Carers is a charity organisation that provides support and services to informal carers within the London Borough of Camden.

Main Purpose of the Role:

Would you like the opportunity to work for Camden Carers supporting unpaid carers in Camden and gain the knowledge and skills needed to move into Volunteer Management?

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate who will gain the skills, knowledge and experience of developing our Volunteering Programme here at Camden Carers.

This post is funded through the Rank Foundations ‘Time to Shine’ programme, that enables individuals with the right skills mix, talent and work ethic the opportunity to experience a 12-month paid leadership and development placement in a charity. This post is aimed at entry level candidates who would like to develop skills to move into Project Manager. The successful candidate will be able to attend ‘Time to shine’ development days, Leadership and Ranknet events.

We are looking for a hardworking, enthusiastic and flexible team member to join our dynamic team at Camden Carers and make a difference to the lives of people and families in Camden.

This role will work closely with carers, colleagues, Trustees and volunteers to create a Volunteer Strategy and programme for the Organisation. This strategy alongside written procedures, volunteering job roles and training packages will support the organisation to identify and recruit more volunteers to work with the organisation.

Camden Carers proactively embraces equality and diversity at the very core of what we do, throughout the organisation.

Our commitment to equality, diversity and anti-racism is to ensure that all carers have equal access in accordance with their individual needs to our services, no matter their background, belief, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or ethnicity. Carers, who provide care for a family member, partner or friend who has a disability or long-term illness, play a vital role in our community.

Please make sure to read the job description before applying. You will need to complete the required documents, please download the documents from the links

Please see key dates for application.

Ø  Deadline for application Monday 25th November by 9am

Ø  Shortlisting will take place Monday 25th November  

Ø  Interviews Tuesday 26th November will be held online on Zoom; details will be shared to candidates that have been shortlisted for an interview.

DFN Project SEARCH is delivering transformative change, supporting, and helping young people with learning disabilities and autism into the world of work. Nationally only 4.8% of people with special educational needs and disabilities gain permanent paid employment in the UK yet 70 percent of DFN Project SEARCH graduates gain jobs, 60 percent of them achieving full-time permanent roles.

You will be required to improve the quality and outcomes of existing DFN Project SEARCH programmes across a geographical area. This is with the aim of supporting the organisations to ensure that every intern has the best possible chance to gain full-time paid employment. The focus of this role is to ensure continuous improvement across all sites, relating to model fidelity and outcomes. This relates particularly to sites achieving less than 60% employment outcomes. 

Our model means that our regional Programme Specialists form new partnerships and develop new DFN Project SEARCH sites, supporting them through to year one of delivery. These sites will then be passed to our Programme Impact Co-ordinator team where you will then be required to continue to nurture these strong partnerships and provide ongoing training and support to colleagues within your region. You may also be required to support colleagues by promoting DFN Project SEARCH in other areas and contribute to the development of relevant new focussed materials and resources.

Main Purpose: To support the Café and Kitchen Manager in day to day running of the CareTrade’s Café Traineeship Programme at the Southwark Resource Centre, SE17 providing hands on work-based training to autistic jobseekers interested in catering and hospitality careers

This post is based on a full-time salary of £28,000 per annum. Holiday is based on annual leave of 5 weeks plus bank holidays

Reporting to: Café and Kitchen Manager

Line Management responsibility: Café Assistant and between 3 and 4 Trainee Café Assistants (at any one time)

Working with: Southwark Resource Centre Management, Café and Kitchen Manager, Larcom Kitchen Chef, CareTrade Head of Education, TAP Project Coordinator, Administrator and CEO, Café Assistant, Trainee Café Assistants

Place of work: Southwark Resource Centre, Hithard Court, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2 QB and CareTrade’s Office, Larcom House, 9 Larcom Street, SE17 1RT

Core Responsibilities:

1. Supervising CareTrade Café throughout the school year (including half terms)

2. To work with the Café and Kitchen Manager to write and prepare training materials for the Trainee Café Assistants

3. Oversee the training of the Trainee Café Assistants (young people with autism) during work placement

4. Monitor the progress of Trainees and write end of placement reports

5. Line Manage the Café Assistant and the Trainee Café Assistants and report to Café and Kitchen Manager

6. To work closely with the Southwark Resource Manager and CareTrade to develop marketing materials and promotions for the Café and Community involvement

7. Responsible for opening and locking up the café and cashing up

8. Prepare coffee and food including: baking cakes, making sandwiches, salads, cooking hot meals.

9. Restock/refill items as necessary and list items that need ordering from suppliers.

10. Check stock in fridge for out of date products and dispose of as necessary.

11. Customer service including taking orders, serving customers and cash handling.

12. Maintain coffee machine including set up, cleaning and refilling with beans.

13. Ensure daily cash up form is filled in and money is in safe.

14. Ensure café is ready for customers on opening.

15. Create a welcoming and professional environment.

16. To help raise awareness of autism amongst customers.

17. To keep the café clean and ensure a high standard of hygiene.

18. To ensure food safety guidelines and laws are adhered to.

19. To ensure a Healthy and Safe working environment for self, staff, trainees and customers.

General Responsibilities:

1. To attend all staff meetings and participate in staff development as required.

2. Promote a positive image of autism, the Project, Southwark Resource Centre, Project partners and CareTrade.

3. Co-operate with all CareTrade and Southwark Resource Centre staff in maintaining good relationships with outside agencies and the general public in order to promote the charity and win increased support for its work

4. Co-operate with all CareTrade and Southwark Resource Centre staff in maintaining harmonious inter-personal relationships. Ensure that your conduct within and outside of your work place does not conflict with professional expectations.

5. Ensure an awareness and observation of Fire and Health and Safety Regulations at the work place.

6. Ensure the respect, dignity and rights to privacy of both students and staff as far as possible.

7. Work within all CareTrade and Southwark Resource Centre policies and procedures, in particular Health & Safety, Equal Opportunities, Confidentiality and Data Protection.

8. Carry out any duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job and the title of the post, as required by your Line Manager.

The job description reflects the present requirements of the post. You will be expected to carry out other activities that are within the scope of the role.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all young people who use our services and as such expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff must provide a current, adequate and relevant DBS Certificate or be willing for CareTrade to process a new enhanced DBS application. All staff must have a satisfactory enhanced DBS check prior to starting.

Confidentiality: All staff are required to maintain confidentiality for all areas of the CareTrade Charitable Trust, partner organisations, its staff, and its work. The nature of the work entrusts people with confidential information about clients/service users, their families and staff within CareTrade and partner organisations. Any breach of this confidentiality will constitute gross misconduct. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all young people and adults who use our services and as such expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff must provide a current, adequate and relevant DBS Certificate or be willing for CareTrade to process a new enhanced DBS application. All staff must have a satisfactory enhanced DBS check (formerly CRB check) prior to starting.

Applications are sought from all suitably qualified sections of the community.

Job Types: Full-time

Pay: £28,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 24/11/2024