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Are you considering entering a career in law, having a strong passion for social justice? We are recruiting a Legal Assistant to provide administrative and legal support to PILC’s Gypsy and Traveller Legal Advice project which aims to defend and promote the rights of gypsies and travellers to pursue a nomadic way of life. You will assist our Supervising Solicitor, an expert in gypsy and traveller law, who has represented this underprivileged community over the last 15 years. As well as working on client files, you will liaise with the Legal Aid Agency to ensure their cases receive public funding, making sure documentation is prepared for court hearings, and arranging for experts and other participants to take part in proceedings.
Ideally you will be available to join us from the beginning of September to benefit from a full introduction by the incumbent.
Since becoming independent in 2019, PILC has gone from strength to strength by carefully expanding our strategic priorities and project areas. Our team is growing and currently made up of 17 staff working from our modern offices in Cambridge Heath, E2.
PILC exists to challenge systemic injustice through legal representation, strategic litigation, research and legal education.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Director of Research (Maternity Cover)
The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation has a single, clear vision: a world free of Motor Neuron Disease (MND). In the relentless pursuit of this goal, we are committed to funding research projects to accelerate the development of meaningful treatments, focusing on the projects that are most likely to impact people with MND positively.
The Director of Research is a key position in the organisation that leads our research activities, managing a small team as we invest in a prioritised and focused research portfolio. Working alongside the CEO and senior leadership team, you will be responsible for overseeing a research strategy that fits seamlessly with the Foundation’s vision, ensuring we have the expertise and resources required to support our programme and initiatives.
As someone with experience working in a scientific research role, you will have the ability to interpret, analyse and utilise research findings and developments, with a deep understanding of the drug discovery and development landscape. You will be someone who constantly seeks out new research approaches, methodologies and funding models, ensuring that the Foundation remains at the forefront with its innovative practices. Knowledge of the research grants system is essential; we’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running. You will care about the impact of our work, developing an excellent understanding of the MND field and placing those living with MND at the heart of every decision you make, while ensuring all funded projects continue to meet our goals and financial requirements.
Strong communication skills are central to this role. The successful candidate will be comfortable demonstrating our expertise and position in the MND community and communicating developments, insights and critical milestones both internally and externally. Influencing and relationship building will come naturally to you, and you’ll be the kind of person who can work with diverse personalities from a wide variety of professional backgrounds. Playing a key role in championing the Foundation, you will also lead the ambitions of the organisation. Your contribution will be integral to our success.
If you’re proactive, organised and highly motivated to make a material difference for those living with MND, then we would love to hear from you. Come and be part of the cure – no job could be more rewarding.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The main purpose of this role will be to provide clear, accurate and helpful retrofit and other related technical guidance in areas such as carbon foot-printing, building energy performance and renewable energy options to local and community organisations to help them tackle the climate emergency.
Pay and conditions
- The role is full-time (37.5 hours per week).
- The salary for the role will be £29,864 - £35,770.
- You will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday (plus statutory holidays).
CSE offer a range of benefits including, subsidised bike purchase and Tech Scheme, Life Assurance, Health Cash plan, retail discounts and discounted breakdown cover and much more.
Specific responsibilities
An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:
- Deliver training to local and community stakeholders on topics such as carbon literacy, retrofit, renewables and energy efficiency.
- Develop and strengthen tools, guidance and other materials for community organisations that help to increase their ability to deliver beneficial local retrofit initiatives.
- Undertake basic retrofit assessments of domestic and non-domestic buildings and provide useful guidance and recommendations on potential improvements.
- Provide carbon auditing, and recommendations for decarbonisation plans for community businesses.
- Support community organisations to design and deliver capital investment projects, develop funding bids, business cases and project delivery plans.
- Support community organisations to plan and deliver wider community engagement processes that help to foster leadership, consent and action.
- Facilitate learning, networking, and sharing between local and community organisations, staff and volunteers.
- Support CSE’s fundraising activities and the development of new models and approaches for the provision of retrofit activities and services at the local and community scale.
- Provide administrative support for timely delivery of project activities, accurate record keeping and robust reporting.
- Champion to key stakeholders (such as local authorities and funders) the importance of community engagement and the roles which local and community organisations can play in catalysing and enabling the decarbonisation of local homes and community buildings.
- Foster collaboration and deepen relationships with partner organisations who are active and interested in supporting similar areas of work.
To see a detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website.
Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.
How to apply
To apply, please download and complete the application form available on our website. Your application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in the person specification.
The closing date for applications is midnight, Sunday 21 July 2024. If you have not heard from CSE by 25 July, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
Interviews are expected to take place Wednesday 31 July and Friday 2 August 2024 at our offices in Bristol.
If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.
About us
Room to Heal is an established therapeutic community in London. We support refugees and people seeking asylum, many of whom are torture survivors, through an integrated programme of therapeutic and casework assistance, in the context of a community of survivors. Our approach recognises the political context of our community members’ multiple and ongoing experiences of trauma and marginalisation including in their home country, on their journey to, and within, the UK. We offer long term and holistic support.
We are a small team of committed and hard working individuals who work collaboratively in a supportive and friendly environment.
We are looking for a Director (maternity cover) who:
- Understands the experiences of our members in order to sustain Room to Heal’s therapeutic community and ensure the safety and appropriateness of all of our services
- Has awareness and interest in psychotherapy and group work
- Makes strategic decisions that centre the experience of refugees and people seeking asylum alongside maintaining the sustainability of the organisation
- Has the drive, care and vision to create new opportunities to support refugees and people seeking asylum and to learn and share experiences through external networks and partnerships in the UK and internationally
- Is able to speak with authenticity and challenge injustices knowing directly what the impact is due to own lived experience
- Can lead by consensus and collaboration and has a strong belief in the therapeutic benefits of community.
Hours: 7.5 hours per day (typically 9.30am – 5.30 pm with a half hour for lunch) 5 days a week. We will also consider 4 days per week, salary pro-rata’d
Salary: £45,000 - 50,000 per annum (full time salary)
Start-date: Autumn 2024 with 8-10 weeks handover with the current Director
Pension and benefits: automatic enrolment pension scheme, 4% employer contributions and 4% employee contributions
Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays
We strongly encourage applications from those with some lived experience of the issues that our community members are experiencing.
Please apply for the role using the Charity Job portal. Your completed application should contain:
1. A current and detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV);
2. A statement of why you are interested in the role. Please write about the qualities detailed in the person specification (see below) and explain how your experience, abilities, skills and motivations will enable you to meet these requirements. It is important that you write about how you meet the ‘Essential’ criteria detailed in the first part of the person specification in your statement. Please limit the statement to 2 pages. We recognise there is a lot in the person specification. Please don’t be put off if you don’t meet all of the person specifications.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are seeking a Therapeutic Practitioner to join our newly established Health Team. This specialist role will enhance our current provision and improve the quality and breadth of mental health support available to young people. The successful candidate will work within the Health Team, in collaboration with our partner organisation Camden & Islington Young People's Service, to deliver 1:1 emotional and practical support, assist in our drop-in service, and facilitate workshops for all young people experiencing homelessness.
You will specialise in helping young people improve their self-confidence while improving their understanding of difficult emotions such as anger. Additionally, you will focus on developing their thinking and practical skills, as well as coping and de-escalation strategies. Your work will aim to improve relationships among young people within the day centre, and continue to promote trauma informed working practices across New Horizon, so that all of our services are designed to address the psychological and emotional needs of young people who are unsafe or facing homelessness.
You will have the unique opportunity to contribute to the development of an important and innovative new role. You will be provided with your own theraputic support delivered by a highly experienced clinical psychologist and regular individual and group clinical supervision. You will also be given opportunities for further professional development through training and consultation through New Horizon and our Camden & Islington's Young People Service.
Closing Date: 9am, 29th July 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Charity People is thrilled to be working with Latymer Foundation in the recruitment for a Fundraising Manager. The person in this role will be a pivotal member of a brilliant development team.
Job Title: Fundraising Manager
Location: Hammersmith, London - 3-4 days a week in the office during term time and full time working from home during school holidays
Contract: Permanent and full time - 37.5-hour week, Flexible working hours between 08.00 - 19.00 Monday - Friday
Salary: £45K
About the organisation
2024 marks a hugely important milestone for the Latymer Foundation - its their 400th anniversary!
The Latymer Foundation at Hammersmith was established in 1624 by Edward Latymer, a lawyer and local landowner, with the aim of offering financial support to eight children living in the area, providing them with clothes and giving them an education. An education which would not otherwise have been possible for them to access.
Today, the Foundation runs Latymer Upper and Prep School and one of its main aims is to provide bursaries (financial support for school fees) to as many local children as possible, ensuring that any promising and talented child can access a first-class Latymer education, regardless of their family's financial situation.
As of September 2023, the Foundation is supporting bursaries for 1 in every 5 students at Latymer Upper School, and is aiming to increase this to 1 in 4 students by 2024.
The Role
Reporting to the Director of Development, the Fundraising Manager is a key member of a sector leading development team. Latymer's bursary programme is one of the most successful in any UK independent school. Since 2002, the number of pupils receiving means tested support has grown from just 7 to more than 280 as of September 2023, the majority of whom receive between 75-100% fee remission.
This growth has only been possible thanks to philanthropy through the Latymer community: parents, alumni, Governors, staff, and students.
The Fundraising Manager is at the heart of the community fundraising, focussing on the full cycle of cultivation, solicitation and stewardship
Responsibilities:
* Develop and deliver the strategy and tactics to increase giving and participation in support of our annual bursaries appeals (including Upper School and Prep) using a range of channels and touchpoints (e.g. DM, digital, phone campaign, events, face to face)
* Design the stewardship matrix and tactics to thank our supporters and develop compelling content that surprises and delights our donors, including events and the delivery of our annual campaign impact report, Campaign Review
* Provide a supporter experience that increases conversion and retention and builds long-term commitment to the Foundation, especially important this year as we celebrate Inspiring Minds and start to focus on future campaigns
* Develop case studies to illustrate the impact of donations across communications and devise ways to increase opportunities to see these stories
* Utilise insight and data to set, monitor and evaluate appeal/activity performance and inform future tactics
* Manage the process of researching potential donors and other potential supporters of the Foundation
* Manage portfolio of leadership giving donors to make individual approaches to mid-level donors in support of the Bursaries Appeal
* Work closely with the Bursaries Appeal volunteers to raise awareness of the bursaries
* programme and increase giving particularly amongst current parents
* Oversee the student-led bursaries fundraising Club (RAISE)
* Prepare the annual budget proposal for all fundraising appeals for submission to the
Director of Development, focussing on ROI for fundraising channels
* Manage the Fundraising Assistant ensuring they have the direction and resources to be successful in their role
About You
This is a great opportunity for an able and enthusiastic person to make their mark in a busy and successful department.
* Have previous fundraising experience;
* Take an innovative approach to meet and exceed targets;
* Be a confident, assured communicator in English, both in written and verbal form;
* Be focused, well organised, proactive and efficient;
* Be curious and solution-focussed when faced with challenges;
* Be capable of working effectively under pressure and changing priorities;
* Demonstrate good IT and have previous experience of Raiser's Edge or other CRM database.
To kickstart the application process, please contact Seema Choudhury at Charity People today with your CV or profile. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds. If you require any assistance or adjustments during the application process, please don't hesitate to reach out.
For over thirty years, Charity People has been dedicated to recruiting talented individuals for non-profit organizations. We are proud to partner with charities, universities, and institutes that promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Join us in making a difference in the charitable sector.
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Job Responsibilities
This is a list of the main duties or tasks that the post holder will be expected to undertake.
1.To ensure training requirements are met
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Deliver safeguarding training, mainly via Zoom, to a range of abilities, facilitating a safe shared learning environment in both an online setting and in person.
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Provide professional advice to a range of stakeholders including Leaders, Safeguarding Leads, Community Members and Lay staff on policy, procedure, good practice and DBS application processes.
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Ensure all training course and materials are inclusive and accessible to all
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Develop learning resources including presentation slides, interactive learning approaches, pre and post course reading/exercises and reference materials.
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Maintain detailed training records and produce reports for internal and external use.
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Promote embedding effective practice, through training, that enables attendees to identify and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns.
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Develop and maintain good internal and external working relationships with RLSS membership, partner organisations and stakeholders around safeguarding including CSSA, diocesan workers and Catholic organisations.
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Ensure that training is reflective, evidence-based, robust, transparent and can be upheld in the case of challenge.
2. To promote health and wellbeing through training
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Facilitate open and generous communication and sharing of best practice.
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Ensure that the experience and voice of survivors is embedded in training materials, and the delivery of training
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Be open, empathetic and alert to issues being brought forward
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Promote that safeguarding is done best when done with other professionals and encourage a collaborative approach to safeguarding.
3. To work within RLSS policies and procedures
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Alert the RLSS Safeguarding Manager, to any/all identified issues of risk and recommend immediate remedial steps be taken to reduce risk and improve practice.
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Provide support to members ensuring timescales are adhered to.
4. Professional Leadership, development, and working in best practice
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Encourage, develop and implement creative and imaginative approaches to improve the overall service in line with national and local priorities, user feedback and efficient use of resources.
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Demonstrate and champion evidence-based practice and keep abreast of developments.
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Draw upon and promote professional values and ethics.
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Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
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Take ownership of own professional development; attending training, supervision, workshops, courses and meetings and applying this learning to service improvements and further opportunities for professional development.
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Proactively support the service through periods of organisational change.
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Willing to share learning and expertise across the organisation.
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Be part of a team that delivers a responsive and effective service.
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Facilitate a culture of innovation, accountability and empowerment amongst RLSS membership
5. Equal Opportunities / Diversity
The RLSS is committed to Equal Opportunities, our policy affirms that all staff should be afforded equality of treatment and opportunity in employment irrespective of sex, sexuality, age, marital status, ethnic origin or disability. All staff are required to observe this policy in their behaviour to other employees and individuals they work with.
6. Health and Safety
It is the responsibility of every employee to ensure the effective discharge of health and safety responsibilities.
The nature of this post will require flexibility to meet service needs as they arise which will include work outside normal office hours including responses to emergencies.
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude to the duties which may have to be varied after discussion, subject to the needs of the service and in keeping with the general profile of the post.
Personal Specification
Educational Achievements, Qualifications, Training and Knowledge
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Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
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Additional training or teaching qualification
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Relevant training experience/qualification and/or experience within a teaching/ training or safeguarding role or environment
Experience
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A substantial track record delivering impactful training virtually and in-person.
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Clear and effective knowledge of Training and/or Safeguarding and promoting wellbeing
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Excellent communication and presentational skills, both oral and written including the ability to translate complex issues into clear, focused and understandable language for a range of audiences.
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Delivering targeted and focused training
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Summarises and communicates information effectively
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Strong understanding of IT applications (particularly Outlook, MS Excel, PowerPoint and video conferencing.)
Job related Aptitude and Skills
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Highly organised and strong time management skills with a solution focused, logical and innovative approach to challenges
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Demonstrable self-awareness and ability to act proactively and demonstrate high levels of trust and personal accountability.
RLSS is committed to safeguarding and follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. Successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search may be carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
Committed to a safer Catholic Church. RLSS is an independent team of safeguarding professionals offering safeguarding services
We are looking for a confident individual with great interpersonal skills for this busy Neighbourhood Services role. If this is you, come and join us at ISHA as our Neighbourhood Services Officer.
Neighbourhood Services Officer
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Location: ISHA, 102 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, N4 2DR
Salary: £34,891.50
Contract: Permanent
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Neighbourhood Services Officer who understands effective management of neighbourhood services and contractors to join our small, but supportive, Housing & Neighbourhoods Team working on all aspects of Neighbourhood and Estates. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing smooth running of the neighbourhoods, support and assist residents and work colleagues and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.
You will bring your knowledge and experience of conducting routine inspections of neighbourhoods and coordinate with contractors to schedule and oversee cleaning, landscaping, and maintenance activities, including building maintenance, cleaning, maintenance of communal areas, monitoring CCTV. Through regular inspections and overseeing the work of contractors, you will ensure that health and safety requirements are met. You will maintain records of inspection findings, complaints and corrective actions taken, providing regular reports to management and stakeholders on the status of cleaning and maintenance.
You should be a resilient, professionally curious person, who is enthusiastic about a career in the Social Housing Neighbourhood arena.
You will work closely with the Neighbourhood Services Manager, in a generalist capacity, to support with continuous improvement across all service areas, while helping to support and achieve our organisational objectives.
Some of the key responsibilities of the role include:
- Conduct routine inspections of neighbourhoods to assess cleanliness and maintenance standards, identifying areas in need of attention.
- Be customer centred, welcoming new residents to their neighbourhoods and ensure information is made available on a range of local services.
- Carry out neighbourhood inspections in line with the programme set out by ISHA, such as checking cleaning and gardening meets the required standards.
- Monitor cleaning and gardening services, check cctv systems, lifts, check and test communal lightings, rotate communal bins and litter pick. Undertake visual weekly safety checks on playgrounds and equipment where applicable. Record your findings on our housing management system database.
- Take ownership and responsibility for any service-related complaints/queries from customers ensuring that the customers experience is positive, professional and within set timescales at all times.
You
We are seeking a proactive and committed individual with strong interpersonal skills who can provide an efficient, exceptional and customer-focused service to residents. This is busy and varied role, so we’re looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, who can adapt to a fast-paced working environment while ensuring consistency, alongside considering and minimising risks, who will play an integral role in estate services and building inspection by monitoring and inspecting against standards and health and safety assessments.
Working closely with our key internal and external stakeholders, you will make recommendations for estate improvements and ensure the better delivery of services to customers. You will ensure health and safety are identified, reported and action as soon as possible.
You need to be flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic, and have excellent communication and influencing skills. A great sense of humour and can-do attitude will serve you in good stead working in our busy, fast paced office.
Don’t feel you meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At ISHA, we are dedicated to building an inclusive workforce, so if you’re excited by this role but your experience doesn’t quite align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.
Staff Benefits
We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits (see attached). We have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and we will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.
About ISHA
We are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Our ambition is for the communities we are anchored in and exist to serve, and we have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times we know we’ll achieve nothing unless we are equally ambitious for own our people.
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.
We can’t be a brilliant landlord if we don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?
If this sounds exciting, we want you on our team. Please do apply.
This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.
Deadline: 09:00am on Wednesday 10 July 2024
Interview: To be confirmed
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be redirected to complete your application for this position.
Please note: We can only able to accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want ISHA to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in Team ISHA and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for adjustments
ISHA is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
No agencies please.
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Mind BLMK works across our communities to support positive mental health and wellbeing. Working closely with a range of partners, we offer a number of activities from our wellbeing centres and local venues to make a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of people in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, and our aim is to make sure that no-one has to face a mental health problem alone.
Luton Wellbeing Service Manager
Post no: 604
Working base: Luton Wellbeing Centre, LU1
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Work Pattern: 5 days per week incl 1 evening per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £27,500 per annum
About our Wellbeing Centres
We offer a safe, non-judgmental space to take part in group activities, chat with others over a cuppa, play a game, read a book, or just sit quietly over some mindful colouring. Our sessions are facilitated by our recovery workers who can also provide information about other services available locally and on ways to support your well-being.
About the Role
This is a varied role which involves leading the continuous development of the service to ensure that it meets the needs of the community, in line with Mind BLMK values, including promotion of the service and building strong links with other local organisations, groups, agencies and the wider community. The role also holds responsibility for referrals into the service and leading on more complex cases to assess suitability along with managing the staff, volunteer and student team delivering the service and for the health, safety and maintenance of the Luton Wellbeing Centre.
Service Delivery
- Operate a service and ensure outcomes which supports individuals to deescalate crisis and develop strategies for recovery and increased wellbeing, in line with Mind BLMKs Recovery Model and contract requirements.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the delivery of the Luton service plan and in line with local Luton stakeholder initiatives and plans.
- Work closely with the recovery and peer workers to ensure the correct access to service procedure is followed, taking responsibility for more complex referrals and ensuring everybody has a consistent and quality experience and are able to access the correct service for them in an acceptable timescale.
- Ensure regular involvement of service users, volunteer and staff on local service delivery, organisational matters and wider mental health strategies.
- Maintain an effective workforce for the service in line with Mind BLMK’s HR policies, procedures and guidance (recruitment, line management, workload planning, support and development of Recovery and Peer Workers, volunteers and student placements).
- Work with the Operational Services Manager to review, design and implement changes to service delivery and working models, ensuring the service meets the needs of the local community, and identify relevant funding opportunities.
- Hold responsibility for health and safety (risk assessments, reviews, reporting, safeguarding, incidents/accidents, premises), data collection, budget & cash handling (and associated record-keeping), in line with Mind BLMK’s policies, procedures and guidance.
Entitlements/benefits:
- 25 days (pro rata) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)
- Auto-enrolment NEST pension scheme (employer contributes 3%, employee contributes 5%)
- Health Plan with a wide variety of benefits
- Discounts available through Blue Light Card & Tickets for Good
- In-house and external Learning and Development as appropriate for the role.
- Flexible Working On request (in line with Mind BLMK policy on Right to Request Flexible Working)
If you have a passion for working in mental health and possess the required skills, we would love to hear from you.
Closedown: 5:00pm Thursday 11th July 2024
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early if enough suitable applicants apply
Start date: ASAP
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Mind BLMK has been committed to the Mindful Employer charter and the Disability Confident Employer Scheme since 2008.
Please note: Mind BLMK follows Safer Recruitment practices and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Therefore all our roles are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
No agencies please.
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Community Engagement Coordinator - Wales
Location: The role will be based out of the BookTrust Offices in Cardiff. BookTrust works in a hybrid and flexible way with an expectation of a minimum of 8 face to face collaboration days per month which could be at the Cardiff office, visiting partners across Wales and on occasions UK wide travel. There will therefore be reasonable travel needed to fulfil the role, with occasional overnight stays.
Contract: Full-time, open to discussing flexible and part-time options
Salary: £28,000.00 per annum.
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We know that children who read are happier, healthier, more empathetic, and more creative. They also do better at school. Working with every local authority in England, Northern Ireland and Wales and supported by a range of funders including the Arts Council England, Northern Ireland and Wales Governments, we reach over 3 million families a year via partners in schools, children’s centres, health visitors and libraries. This incredible network helps us to get children reading across the country.
We are looking for a positive and enthusiastic individual with a demonstrable ability to develop relationships and make connections across a wide range of people and groups. A strong communicator with the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of audiences, in writing, and in person.
You will have ideally worked within or across a particular community or region, in outreach or a project within the third sector and be a highly motivated individual with the ability to work and travel unsupervised across multiple projects simultaneously and to work at pace, often to tight deadlines.
A passion to make a difference for children and families with an interest in the benefits of literacy and reading to child development, the value of books, stories and rhymes and the role of parents, carers, and guardians in developing a love of reading would be valuable.
We are currently recruiting to two Community Engagement Coordinator posts.
To apply please send a copy of your CV to our webiste along with a covering letter showing how you meet the person specification and your motivations for applying for the role. Your covering letter should not be longer than two sides.
Closing date: 31st July at 11:59pm.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; therefore, early applications are encouraged.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity
We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: minority ethnic candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team to discuss your requirements further.
BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.
Growing Hope is a charity providing free therapy for children and young people with additional needs in partnership with local churches across the UK. We aim to grow hope for children, hope for families and hope in Jesus. Growing Hope was founded in December 2017 and has a vision to see 20 clinics set up across the UK by 2030. We currently have five clinics, King’s Cross, Brockley, High Wycombe, Gateshead and Redbridge. We worked with over 500 children, young people, parents, carers, siblings and professionals in 2023.
Role Summary:
We are recruiting an Operations Officer who will support with operations across the charity. This includes supporting the team with administration, finance, training and fundraising. We are seeking an individual who is flexible and adaptive in their approach, and has excellent attention to detail, IT and communication skills. We are open to candidates who have a strong work ethic and are keen to learn and develop the essential skills for the role. We are looking for employees who are committed to Growing Hope’s vision and values and can demonstrate these both within their interview and as they complete their job role. Growing Hope values:
- Hope - We believe Jesus brings hope to children, young people and families, even in the most difficult situations, and that underpins everything we do.
- Community - We are accepting of all and want everyone to know they are seen, heard and belong.
- Courage - We are brave, choosing honesty over comfort, and tackling problems because we want to change lives.
- Innovation - We are innovative, flexible and creative in our approach, always aiming for excellence.
- Generosity - We look out for others and share our time, encouragement, finances and skills.
Job Purpose
Growing Hope is a national charity with a growing number of clinics across the UK. This operations role will provide support across the Growing Hope national staff team. This will include support with administration, finance, fundraising and training. This role is key in enabling all the functions of the national charity to run smoothly and effectively. The role will be based in King’s Cross with occasional events outside of the office.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities will be discussed and developed as the charity continues to grow. It is anticipated that this time will be flexible and adjusted according to the needs and priorities at the time. Specifically the role with include:
IT administration
- Administration of IT systems, logins and spreadsheets for the team, volunteers, staff and freelancers (keeping these up to date and amending systems as required).
- Ordering and setting up IT hardware and software for individuals joining the team.
- Oversight of IT systems used by Growing Hope including ticket tailor, jot form, mail chimp, Microsoft office, google adverts and tracking. Supporting with problem solving when issues arise.
- Overseeing and training others in Canopy (clinic administration software) and helping support and problem solve with using this. This includes liaising with a freelance software developer to manage the development project.
HR administration
- Oversight of the recruitment checking process for new volunteers, trustees, freelancers and employees. This includes carrying out DBS checks, calling referees, chasing for references and communicating with individuals as they start with Growing Hope.
- Management of the ‘internal news’ list in order to track individuals working closely with the charity.
- Writing, drafting and sending out HR letters, contracts and contract variations.
- Organising internal events on behalf of the team including away days, training days and ad hoc events.
- Organising online training as required for members of the Growing Hope team.
Office Support
- Overseeing the day to day office and building use including the alarm, maintenance visits, wifi, printer and other equipment. This includes liaising with other individuals who have office use.
- Liaising with the Director of Operations around the use of the office.
- Ordering office supplies as required, ensuring office space and storage is kept organised.
- Supporting with external events planning including finding venues, sponsorship and items needed.
- Ordering equipment as required across the team.
- Ad hoc tasks as required across the team.
Volunteer admin support
- Processing volunteer applications and induction as required.
- Oversight of volunteers using the office space on a day to day basis. Including allocating volunteer tasks and explaining and supporting with these as required.
- Managing volunteer IT access.
General
- Sending letters and emails and making phone calls as required.
- Logging all actions on Salesforce database.
- Maintain data protection & confidentiality in line with Growing Hope’s policy.
- Ensure adherence to Safeguarding and wider Growing Hope policies.
- Actively contributing to staff prayer meetings and upholding Growing Hope’s Christian values.
Person Specification
The ideal candidate will have a genuine interest in working in the charity sector, an interest in additional needs and inclusion are highly desirable.
ESSENTIAL
- This role has an Occupational Requirement to be a Christian, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1, of the Equality Act 2010. Excellent copywriting and proof-reading skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.
- Ability to work with Microsoft word, excel, outlook and ppt efficiently and effectively.
- Ability to understand and work with back end IT systems such as wordpress, google admin suite and azure.
- Ability to take initiative and have a flexible approach to tasks.
- Commitment to Growing Hope’s vision. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, as the task requires
DESIRABLE
- Experience, interest in or commitment to a career in additional needs and inclusion.
- Experience of working in the charity/NGO sector.
- Experience of other IT systems such as quickbooks, mailchimp and ticket tailor.
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Job title: Advocate for Children and Young People with Disabilities
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £25,500 – £29,500 per annum (depending on experience)
Location: Hybrid and flexible – a mix of working from Coram Campus, London, WC1N 1AZ, from home, and visits to young people in the community
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
About Coram Voice
We run a range of children’s rights projects, including providing advocacy for children in care, care leavers, children with disabilities and homeless children, as well as other children and young people in need of the support of Children’s Services.
At Coram Voice we have a wealth of experience advocating on behalf of young people with disabilities, and recently expanded our work with children with disabilities through our Disability Outreach Project. We work side by side with some of the most vulnerable children and young people in society and reach out to those who have missed the support they need. Join us as we work to transform the lives of children and young people, by supporting them to uphold their rights and actively participate in decisions about their lives.
Coram Voice is part of the Coram group of charities that develops, delivers and promotes best practice in the support of children and young people. Our vision is that every child has the best possible chance in life, and we work together to do this from our leafy campus in Bloomsbury.
About the role
You will:
-Provide direct advocacy support to children and young people with disabilities, in and on the edges of the care system. You will hold a caseload, and be committed to championing the rights of these young people, working with a broad range of other stakeholders and agencies to do so.
-Support with developing the quality of services and projects delivered by Coram Voice to children and young people. This includes under Coram Voice’s Disability Outreach Project. It is an exciting time to join this project, which has recently expanded to include educational advocacy in addition to social care focused advocacy.
-You will support in the promotion of good practice across both Coram Voice and external organisations, building equitable and inclusive practice across the sector for children and young people with disabilities.
Our advocates will have relevant experience with children and young people, and may hold a suitable Advocacy Qualification. For the right candidate, we may also be able to offer this post as a Trainee position, and offer support to gain qualifications. The salary offered will reflect the candidate’s experience and skills.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on the role and what we are looking for in a candidate.
Benefits of working with us
We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. You can read more about our benefits package on our careers site. This includes:
-A competitive salary
-A matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary
-Generous leave entitlement, including up to 28 days’ annual leave, as well as an additional 3 days of paid leave between Christmas and New Year
-A suite of family-friendly policies
-Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
Recruitment process
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend interview. The interview process comprises of a written exercise and a panel interview. Successful candidates will be required to take part in a Warner style interview as part of our safer recruitment processes given the nature of the role. Internal candidates will need to notify HR of their interest in the post and they will provide further information on the internal application process. When completing your application form, please address the person specification in order to demonstrate how you are suited to the role as please note we do not take CVs.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: Sunday 14th July 2024 at 23:59
Interviews will take place on Friday 19th July 2024, with some flexibility for other dates
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
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We are looking for a confident, people-focused individual with great interpersonal skills for this busy Asset and Repairs role. If this is you, come and join us at ISHA as our Asset and Repairs Manager.
Asset & Repairs Manager
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Location: ISHA, 102 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, N4 2DR / Hybrid working possible
Salary: £60,062 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Requirements
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced responsive repairs professional who understands the multiple disciplines required to deliver this fast-paced area of the business, to join our small, but supportive, Housing & Neighbourhoods Team working on all aspects of repairs and maintenance. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing these types of services across ISHA portfolio and help keep our residents homes well maintained, and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.
You will bring your knowledge and experience by providing advice and support to various stake holders, staff and residents by keeping ISHA service and maintenance records up to date and be able to demonstrate a robust repairs and maintenance service is being maintained. You should be a resilient, professionally curious person, who is enthusiastic about a career in the Social Housing.
You will work closely with the Head of Assets and Repairs in a generalist capacity, to support with continuous improvement across all service areas, while helping to support and achieve our organisational objectives.
Some of the key responsibilities of the role include:
- Coaching and advising Building Surveyors, Disrepair Coordinator and currently four repairs’ advisors.
- Ensuring that robust monitoring, reporting, and forecasting systems are in place.
- Contributing to the budget plan and compiling budget/KPI reports monthly, managing budgets for responsive repairs ensuring effective use of funds.
- You will be responsible for the delivery of our repairs and maintenance service to our residents’ homes ensuring customer satisfaction is achieved and KPIs are being met by our supply chain.
- To contract manage the repairs and maintenance contractors and all other contracts associated with the delivery of these services delivering excellent customer service and value for money.
- Ensuring that robust monitoring, reporting, and forecasting systems are in place and data is kept updated.
- Establish communication links for communal repairs keeping residents informed of outages and reinstatement of service ie lifts.
You
We are seeking a proactive and committed individual with strong interpersonal skills who can provide an efficient and customer-focused repairs and maintenance service to residents.
This is busy and varied role, so we’re looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, who can adapt to a fast-paced working environment while ensuring consistency, alongside considering and minimising risks, who will play an integral role in delivering our repair & maintenance services.
Working closely with our key internal and external stakeholders, you will continue to lead the way in the development of our repairs and maintenance services and you would have worked ideally in Housing before.
You need to be flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic, and have excellent communication and influencing skills. A great sense of humour will serve you in good stead working in our busy, fast paced office.
Don’t feel you meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At ISHA, we are dedicated to building an inclusive workforce, so if you’re excited by this role but your experience doesn’t quite align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.
Other information
About ISHA
We are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Our ambition is for the communities we are anchored in and exist to serve, and we have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times we know we’ll achieve nothing unless we are equally ambitious for own our people.
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.
We can’t be a brilliant landlord if we don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?
If this sounds exciting, we want you on our team. Please do apply.
This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.
Staff Benefits
We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits (see attached). We have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and we will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.
Deadline: 9:00am on Monday 8 July 2024
Interview: TBC
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to where you can complete your application for this position.
Please note: We can only accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want ISHA to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in Team ISHA and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for adjustments
ISHA is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview, or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us.
No agencies please.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Brand & Audience Strategist, a very exciting opportunity, joining a specialist UK Health/Cancer Charity. Open to remote working or attending the London office. 9 - month contract. Open to flexible working patterns.
- 9 - month contract.
- Open to flexible working patterns. Full-time, or can consider 30 hours per week.
- Open to remote working or you can attend the London office.
With a new strategy and ambitious goals to reach and engage a much larger and more diverse audience about the cause, as the Brand & Audience Strategist, joining the Brand and Strategy team, you will bring your brand strategy and audience segmentation expertise to help deliver this change.
As a Brand & Audience Strategist expert, you will help the charity deliver and embed a framework to allow more intelligent audience engagement across all engagement activity. Positioning the charity as the go-to charity and priority audiences will be key.
- You’ll be a strategic thinker rather than a tactical doer. It will be your audience-first approach and strategic brand direction that will bring everything together.
- You’ll play a key role in influencing what is spoken to an audience and when. Facilitating and embedding a new audience framework across the entire organisation.
- You’ll work closely with multifunctional teams, leading discussions with the communications team, working with the digital and data teams to ensure they can make decisions and pivoting existing activity based on real-time data and insight.
As the Brand & Audience Strategist, you will:
- Project manage profile growth strategic workstream, considering how to make the most impact through brand activity.
- Lead the audience workstream, working closely with the Head of Brand and Strategy and the cross functional workstream team to develop strategies to best achieve the charities goals.
- Work alongside the Deputy Director of Communications and the audience agency, to manage audience workstream; developing, owning and embedding a new audience-centric approach across the charity to enable them to reach, engage and motivate more people to join their community.
Main Responsibilities:
Audience growth
- Project manage the audience workstream, ensuring they remain on brief and on track to deliver results that support teams across the organisation
- Support, develop and champion audience-first approach across the organisation, developing and owning ways of working to embed this across teams.
Brand strategy and development
- Project manage the workstream responsible for purposeful profile growth, positioning the charity as the go to charity and increasing their reach amongst the community.
- Develop audience insight and key messaging that inspires teams across the organisation, in particular the Engagement directorate, to develop integrated campaigns and bring these to life in the most impactful way.
- Own and embed the brand strategy and the engagement funnel so that all external activity, as well as internal ways of working, speaks to the bigger picture of who they are as a brand, and where their audiences are on their journey
Planning and processes
- Identify the best way to launch and embed audience segmentation framework, providing the platform and tools for colleagues to work from
- Forward plan communications priorities according to the organisational strategy, ensuring consistent brand story across all channels
- Work with teams across the organisation to understand the audience needs and project manage opportunities to establish category and increase reach and engagement.
Data and insight
- Lead on high-quality market intelligence gathering and analysis to inform audience engagement strategies that promote the brand story and drive people through the engagement funnel
To be successful in this Brand & Audience Strategist role, you will have knowledge, skills and experience in these areas:
- Strong experience of developing and delivering brand and audience strategies that deliver impact with proven track record of achieving or exceeding brand and reach KPIs
- Successful track-record in delivering internal frameworks, marketing plans & strategy, responsible for brand activation across multiple communication channels and disciplines
- Experience of commissioning and analysing audience data and insight to develop successful marketing activities, along with using performance data to monitor and maximise impact
- Manage budgets, set KPIs, track performance and adjust plans and activity to maximise impact.
Please note: This is a rolling recruitment drive and the deadline is ASAP.
Angela Mann Recruitment' is a specialist Charity & NFP Recruitment Agency, with extensive experience and knowledge of working within the sector. We match individuals to roles based on the required skills and experiences requested to fulfil a position, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
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Job Title: Money & Energy Adviser
Reports to: Money & Energy Advice Service Lead
Location: Based at home/preferred place of work, with travel across the region as required
Hours: 37.5 (full time) or 17.5 hours (part time) Monday to Friday. Hours to be agreed with successful candidate. Must be sufficiently flexible to work irregular hours as demanded by the requirements of the post
Contract: Full or Part-time, fixed term contract, ending 31 March 2026
Salary: Two jobs (1) 35 hpw £27,000 pa (2) 17.5 hpw £13,500 pa pro rata
(plus expenses, pension, and generous annual leave)
To deliver money and energy advice service for kidney patients struggling with their energy and water bills and other costs of living challenges. You will provide subject matter expert support within our Patient Support Services team, and will work closely with our Patient Support & Advocacy Officers to develop and grow this service in your area.
Summary
To raise awareness of the service and build strong relationships with kidney patients, professionals, and other kidney stakeholder groups in your defined geographic region.
Key responsibilities
• With support, establish the Kidney Care UK Money & Energy Advice Service in the region for patients and carers at risk of fuel poverty to access independent support on money and energy matters
• Responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the Money & Energy Advice Service across the region, effectively managing an ongoing caseload
• Provide practical advice to patients, assessing their needs and identifying sources of support to resolve financial, practical and psychosocial challenges.
- Activities will include creating budget plans, completing income maximisation checks and benefit claims, carrying out switching exercises and Home Energy Surveys (this is not an exclusive list of tasks)
- Responsible for identifying cases where FSA approved advice is required, and supporting patients in the referral of their case to our approved partner organisation or other appropriate regional/national services
• Act as a gateway to local information and access to:
- Kidney Care UK Patient Grants service, raising awareness of the service and supporting applications
- Kidney Care UK Patient Support & Advocacy Service, to ensure patients have access to reliable and accurate patient information relating to kidney disease, patient pathways, models of care, and patient choice
- Kidney Care UK Counselling Service and other appropriate services to meet patients’ emotional and physiological needs
• Work closely with local Kidney Care UK Patient Support & Advocacy Officers to ensure that patients receive expert advice in all areas of need, with smooth, effective handovers ensuring that patients feel supported and part of the Kidney Care UK ‘family’ at all times
• Maintain records on the Kidney Care UK database to support service delivery and communications with patients, and facility effective reporting to Kidney Care UK and our funders
• Raise awareness of Kidney Care UK and the benefit of its full range of Patient Support Services amongst kidney patients, their families, carers and professionals across the region
• Provide insight on patients’ concerns and unmet needs to inform Kidney Care UK research, campaigns, and new service development activity
• Work in a way that respects the personal, social, cultural and spiritual needs of the individual and maintains the confidentiality of information they may have shared with you
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