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Are you a driven, collaborative and compassionate individual with a proven record of working with male adults in the criminal justice system, whether in the community or in prisons? Do you have experience of engaging successfully with challenging people, for example people who have complex needs, people who are reluctant to discuss their needs, or people who are angry and confused?

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a proactive Personal Wellbeing Navigator to oversee the delivery of Personal Wellbeing services to referrals of community offenders and prison leavers, including families, made by the Probation Service in North Yorkshire.

About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

Who are we?
St Giles is an award-winning social justice charity using expertise and real-life past experiences to empower people who are not getting the help they need. People held back by poverty, exploited, abused, dealing with addiction or mental health problems, caught up in crime or a combination of these issues and others. We show people there is a way to build a better future for themselves and those they care about and help them create this through support, advice, and training. Our peer-led services form the backbone of our work, putting people with lived experience at the centre of delivery, design, and evaluation of support and services across the UK.

The Wise Group is a leading social enterprise which is proud to be making a difference to people’s lives. We’re proud because we help people to find jobs, provide advice to people struggling to heat their homes and support people to find their feet following time in prison. To do this, the Wise Group works in partnership with everyone from large businesses to national and local government and third sector organisations who provide essential specialist support to our customers. Together, we’re greater than the sum of our parts.

The Wise Group and St Giles came together a few years ago to form a partnership with the aim of supporting the Probation Resettlement reforms by offering a high-quality service underpinned by staff who have lived experience and cultural competency. To date we have been awarded more than 20 contracts to deliver Personal Wellbeing, Finance, Benefit & Debt and Women’s Services across England and Wales.

About this key role

Our successful candidate will provide person-centred support to a caseload of service users who will either be serving community sentences or being released from prison.  This will involve undertaking assessment and action planning with individual service users which will result in timely and prescribed outcomes being achieved, and creating a safe and trusting environment, using trauma informed practice to successfully facilitate a supportive and constructive relationship with service users.  You will deliver a range of interventions to service users, including group work sessions where required, and work with service users flexibly, meeting and undertaking interventions in a range of prescribed locations across a wide geographical area.

We will also rely on you to develop and maintain positive working relationships with external agencies including Probation, Prisons and partners, and work towards contractual targets and outcomes within agreed timescales and in line with specified quality standards.  Using agreed CRM databases, recording all activity relating to caseload and ensuring all information is recorded within agreed deadlines are all also vital aspects of the role.

What we are looking for

• Experience in working with partner agencies either as part of a multi-agency team working towards common objectives or negotiating to establish links to further the aims of a project
• L3 qualification in Advice and Guidance or equivalent
• A sound knowledge of the requirements of managing a caseload
• An understanding of the barriers faced by people with complex and multiple needs
• The ability to assess clients’ needs and provide tailored, client-led support through action planning and interventions involving advice, guidance, advocacy, and coaching
• Impressive interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.

Please note: this role requires that successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced Adult workforce with Adult Barred List DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants and colleagues.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

To apply, please email us via this advert and request an application form.

Closing date: 18th Sept 2024. 11:00pm         Interview date: 27th Sept 2024.

This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Helath Advocate Educator (HAE). The post holder will train and provide ongoing support to GP practices and other health professionals to enable primary and secondary care staff to be able to effectively talk to their patients about domestic violence and abuse (DVA), provide early identification and offer appropriate care pathways for female and male victims of domestic violence and abuse aged 16 years and over.

The post holder will work in partnership with a local clinical lead to deliver the model and will participate and support the delivery of safeguarding training and awareness raising sessions to primary and secondary care staff and other multi-agency teams where needed.

This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Please note that a valid UK driving license and use of a car is essential to this role.

Hours: 18.75 hours per week (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) with a Requirement for occasional 12:30-20:30 duty shift

A Bit about Us:

WellChild, based in the centre of Cheltenham, is the national charity for children with complex medical needs and their families. We fund programmes and services to make it possible for children and young people living with serious illness to be cared for at home instead of hospital.

The WellChild Family Tree is a growing network that exists to connect families across the UK caring for a child with complex health needs with each other and with WellChild. Through its online forum, and programme of activities and communications, it provides members with the opportunity to make friends, make memories and make a change.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and well organised person to join us as our Family Information Officer as part of our Family Team. Working alongside the Family Programme Team and wider Programmes Team, this role will fill a critical information gap for the families that WellChild supports and will help the charity attract new and harder to reach families into the WellChild Family Tree network.

Through becoming familiar with relevant policy and guidance for families caring for children with complex medical needs, you will be able to help identify the key issues facing our families and then curate the most relevant, up to date information from a variety of expert sources to help support them whilst also taking the lead on information projects aimed at helping families to thrive at home.

Purpose of the role:

Families thrust into a world of disability and complex care find themselves having to navigate their way through a ‘new normal’ with nowhere to go for relevant information and advice. The result leaves many unaware of their entitlements or the help that might be available. This puts many families under extreme pressure, leading to financial hardship, family breakdowns and emotional strain.

Working within the Family Team and reporting to the Family Programme Manager, this role will continue to develop and expand WellChild’s information provision. This will be achieved through research and delivery of information, tools and advice for families on subjects such as, but not limited to health, legal rights and entitlements, wellbeing and local services.

For the full details of the role, further contact details for more information and the JD/PS please see the enclosed documents.

We look forward to receiving your application!

The Springfield Project seeks to hire a Senior Family Support Worker who is passionate about supporting individuals and families.

The role will support the Family Support Manager to lead and supervise Families Support Workers within the allocated district to provide targeted support to vulnerable and complex families 0-5 within the 0-19 model with flexibility for 5-19 and a “whole family approach” Including pre-birth, to provide Early Help interventions to meet identified needs of families both in their home on a one-to-one basis and in other settings, using group work.

To act as a Designated Safeguarding Lead The ideal candidate for this role should have extensive experience working in family and child support environments, providing individual support for people with disability, domestic abuse, drug and alcohol dependency or mental health. 

The Senior Family Support Worker should have sound working knowledge of the Early help process, GCP2,  Safeguarding and child protection procedures.

QUALIFICATION:

· GCSE Maths and English at Grade C or above

· NVQ 3 Health & Social Care or Working with Parents or equivalent

This post is subject to DBS check.

No CVs accepted

Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and ambitious Strategic Partnerships Manager to join our UK Development Team on a full or part time basis. The Strategic Partnerships Manager plays an integral role in supporting Hope for Justice's fundraising and income generation strategy, and provides crucial contributions to our programme initiatives, and our overall mission to live in a world free from modern slavery and human trafficking.

As Strategic Partnerships Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Building a robust pipeline of appropriate opportunities from trusts, foundations and/or institutional donors.
• Forming and maintaining strong relationships with key donors and partners, with excellent donor stewardship.
• Developing quality proposals through effective proposal management, working closely with Hope for Justice programmes, MEL and finance teams.
• Managing grants/awards to ensure that Hope for Justice is complying with donor contractual obligations, including collating and submitting technical and financial reports.

The ideal candidate will be an outstanding communicator, relationship-builder and problem-solver to take us to the next level in the way we interact with grant-making bodies. They will have expertise in written, numerical and analytical skills, as well as a strong track record in securing medium to large-size grants from trusts, foundations and institutional donors. They will have experience in building complex bids, engaging in negotiations with donors and partners, and project and programme design. They will have the ability to liaise confidently and diplomatically with donors and colleagues globally.

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team and a global non-profit organisation with a well-respected reputation for changing lives and fighting for freedom for those affected by the misery of modern slavery and human trafficking.

For full details of this role please download the attached role profile.

Requirements

• 5 years+ proven experience of raising funds from restricted donors within an organisation.
• Degree or equivalent qualifications or work experience in a relevant field.
• Excellent writing skills to formulate complex proposals.
• Highly numerate with the ability to develop and monitor project budgets; analyse, interpret and communicate grant data and financial information.
• Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office suite.
• Strong relationship-building skills.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice are committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff.

Hope for Justice is a Living Wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

As part of Hope for Justice, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 1 day Marriage Leave
• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Company sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers
• Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family
• Professional development opportunities
• Professional memberships paid
• Flexible and hybrid working

Role Details

Job type: Full Time (37.5 hours per week) or Part Time (Negotiable weekly hours, from a minimum of 22.5 hours per week)

Salary: Up to £45,000 FTE, dependent on experience (pro-rated for part time hours)

Closing date: 16th September 2024

Applications will be reviewed and interviews held on a rolling basis. The advert may be removed prior to the closing date if the position is filled. If you are interested in this role please ensure to submit your application as soon as possible.

Location: Remote working, ocassional travel may be required to Manchester head office.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, thank you for your understanding.

Age UK Hertfordshire is looking for a HR Manager to lead the HR department in line with HR and Organisational priorities, so that we are in a position to recruit, develop, motivate, performance manage, reward and retain the skills required to lead, manage and deliver our strategic goals

HR Manager
Location: Hybrid between home-based and Hertford office (occasional travel to other sites will be required)
Salary: £37,500 - £40,000 FTE per annum
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week.  Part time hours considered
Benefits: Holiday entitlement, 25 days per annum plus UK Public Holidays, rising with length of service

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead our HR Team.

As HR Manager, you will work with the Senior Management Team and Heads of Departments to ensure all HR activity throughout AUKH is carried out effectively and in line with statutory and internal policy requirements.

About You

If you would like to join usthen we would love to hear from you.

Do you have:

• Relevant HR experience of operational HR managing employee relations, recruitment, training and  development, as well as an up-to-date knowledge of HR best practice and employment legislation
• Good communication skills, with the ability to converse sensitively and empathetically
• CIPD Level 5
• Excellent organisational skills

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button and submit your CV together with a supporting statement telling us how you meet the person specification

We offer 

Training and development

Contributory pension scheme

Health care plan after an initial qualifying period.

For further information please take a look at Age UK Hertfordshire's website.

Location: Homebased – UK wide travelling to our London based Hub (Kennington) 

We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. We support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care.   

We currently have around 90 staff based in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’re in a privileged position to be able to grow our staff team to deliver our ambitious strategy, On a Mission. There are huge challenges facing bowel cancer patients across the UK and our community needs us now more than ever. We’re building a strong and united team to bring us closer to a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.  

Job summary 

We're looking for an ambitious and talented Head of Public Fundraising join our team. As a member of the extended leadership team, you'll inspire and lead a talented team of fundraisers committed to growing income from community, events fundraising and individual giving (including legacies). A highly motivated, creative team player with a strong track record of success, you'll support our fantastic public fundraising team to take these vital income areas to the next level and beyond. 

You’ll have a solid understanding and experience of one or more public fundraising income areas, be adept at identifying and creating opportunities for income growth and be able to communicate with a wide range of audiences, organisations and stakeholders — internally and externally. An understanding of health and medical causes would be beneficial but certainly not essential. We’re very happy to support the career development of somebody stepping up into their first ‘head of’ role and will also consider applications from someone who is already in a Head of role seeking to increase their remit across a greater number of fundraising areas. Most importantly, however, is your understanding of public fundraising alongside your passion to support the charity to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. 

We are looking for an ambitious and talented individual to join our Fundraising team as a Senior Corporate Partnerships Fundraiser, supporting the Major Giving and Events Manager with the development and delivery of the charity’s corporate partnerships programme with responsibility for account managing our portfolio of Bridge Partners and developing a pipeline of new business to build meaningful relationships with corporate partners. The role will identify, cultivate, and engage with prospects through bespoke proposals, events, and other appropriate fundraising activities in order to generate income to achieve ambitious targets.

About the RNRMC

RNRMC is the Navy’s principal charity which exists to support every sailor, marine and their families, for life. We do this by offering grants to and working with, other organisations to deliver programmes that meet the needs of our beneficiaries. We work hard, engaging with supporters to help raise awareness and funds to deliver the outcomes required for today and tomorrow. 

Experience and Background

You will be a natural communicator with the ability to persuade, influence and inspire, with the confidence, gravitas, and sensitivity to build relationships at a senior level and experience of creating and delivering presentations.You will have previous experience ideally gained in a similar fundraising or sales role with a proven track record of identifying, developing, securing, and maintaining corporate or commercial partnerships. 

Hours of Work

Hours of work are 35 hours per week, 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday. 

We have a friendly, supportive, and inclusive environment with a hybrid working approach of 60% in office and 40% home-working.

Salary

The full time equivalent annual salary range for the post is between £33,000 up to £36,000 per annum, dependent upon experience.

Benefits

Free on-site parking

30 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Cycle to Work Scheme 

Free Access to HMS Excellent Fitness Centre 

Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential support 24 hours a day

Life Assurance (after one year’s qualifying service) 

Private Healthcare Scheme (after one year’s qualifying period) 

Standard Life Non-contributory Pension Scheme (7% contribution after 3 months qualifying period) 

Enhanced Maternity Leave Package (after 2 year’s qualifying period) 

Closing Date: 09:00, 23/09/2024

Interview Date: As applications received.

Interviews will be held on a rolling basis during the advertising period and RNRMC reserve the right to close the vacancy early and make an appointment at any stage of the application process. Applicants may be asked to attend an on-line Application Review prior to the closing date to aid in the shortlisting process. This will be held via Microsoft Teams.

About the Role: We are looking for someone who is passionate about empowering and involving people in decisions made about their lives to join our team. You will work resourcefully and collaboratively with the individuals you support ensuring that they are able to fully participate in decisions affecting their lives.

The post holder will provide independent advocacy in a range of settings, from hospitals, including secure mental health units, residential homes, and in the community.

You will be responsible for ensuring individual’s wishes, feelings, beliefs, needs, and values are met to create positive outcomes for the people you support. You’ll promote self-advocacy and empowerment at every opportunity whilst raising awareness of advocacy and referral pathways to those who are eligible and the wider community.

About You: The successful candidate will need a good working knowledge of public and voluntary organisations to enable them to work in partnership with clients and professionals, gaining an understanding of their issues by listening, exploring options, and acting as directed by them.

You will need to have a flexible attitude and must be comfortable handling highly sensitive information whilst able to work well independently and confidentially on behalf of others. Strong communication skills and time management skills will be required, and you will need to be computer literate.

Whilst a qualification in Independent Advocacy is desirable this is not essential. We will provide the successful candidate with practical training alongside support needed to achieve the qualification so that you can develop your knowledge and skills to become an advocacy expert.

As an organisation that undertakes ‘Regulated Activity’ all advocacy roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) and Adult Barred List Check.

Equality & Diversity: We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, especially those with lived experience.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria, relevant to this role (as set out within the person specification), will be guaranteed an interview.

How to Apply: For further details on how to apply, please download the Recruitment Pack (available below).

Important Dates:

The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 8th September 2024.

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 16th September 2024.

The role of the Project Support and Admin Worker will play a vital part in the running of the day-to-day operations within our London office and across a number of our programmes. The youth work programmes that will be supported by this role have grown rapidly over the last few years and continue to have an impact across London. The successful candidate will have the exciting responsibility of supporting the needs of these programmes as they operate on a day-to-day basis. The responsibilities of the role will include administrative duties, supporting events and sessions as well as ensuring projects are internally resourced.

DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To provide a support function to the London Project delivery team to ensure that staff and project managers have a nominated administrative member of staff to work with.
• To work with the Programme Manager and Facilitators to support events, training sessions and group sessions including helping with organisation, set up and the running of these.
• Work with the staff team to ensure that ACN’s methodology and ethos is being delivered by our network partners in London, ensuring a consistency of offer/service across the organisation.
• Represent the organisation with external networks including funders and network partners in the sector.
• Work with the team to prepare and execute funding reports and communicate the department’s impact for young people and the community.
• Ensure monitoring data is of a high standard, inputted onto our software system in a timely and accurate fashion ensuring strong project management against KPIs and funding requirements.
• Analyse data and manage a high output of project data to inform the department of their performance against contracts and the ambitions of the team.
• Work with other representatives in the charity to ensure project returns, reports and funder requests are managed efficiently and to a high standard.
• Assist with the preparation of presentations and materials for meetings and events.
• Ensure the efficient operation of the day to day running of the office.
• Support with the operational functions within the organisation where required including IT, Finance, Recruitment and HR.
• Ensure all ACN policies and procedures are adhered to and work with the central team to continuously improve the charity’s compliance, efficiencies and promotion of best practice.
• Provide administrative support for the London team where guided and requested by the Programme Manager and Director of Programmes.

City & Hackney Carers Centre is a warm, welcoming and inclusive organisation which aims to improve the quality of life for unpaid carers. A cornerstone of our organisation is the provision of high-quality information and advice, enabling carers to understand their rights and entitlements.

We are seeking a Carers Support and Information Officer to provide carers with information on their rights, a friendly listening ear and the opportunity to meet other carers in similar situations through coffee mornings and online workshops. 

This post would suit someone who enjoys working with people, is a good listener and communicator and who is looking to develop their knowledge of carers rights, statutory services and welfare benefits. 

This post is client facing and will be based at our office in Dalston, Hackney which we share with 6 other local charities.

We seek a motivated, enthusiastic person who enjoys working with teams and with people generally and who is passionate about delivering the highest quality information to unpaid carers. A second language is desirable but not essential.

We are interviewing on a rolling basis as soon as suitable candidates apply, so please send in your CV and covering letter as soon as possible. 

The interim Head of Grants & Impact is responsible for effectively managing our grant management process and strengthening partnerships, with a focus on the impact our funding achieves.

The role would suit someone with strong leadership qualities who will be excited and willing to contribute to our wider leadership team and can build strong relationships across our health sector and academic partners, with compelling written communication skills and extensive experience of impact evaluation and grants governance.

In line with the charity’s core behaviours, we value diverse backgrounds and contributions.

About RBH Charity:

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity is dedicated to improving the lives of people with serious heart and lung disease. Each year we grant around £6m to fund projects at our partner hospitals, including current initiatives such as:

• Equipping Royal Brompton Hospital with a high specification genetic sequencer to screen and plan treatment for patients and their families
• Creating a new consultant fellowship in imaging related to structural heart disease
• Providing core funding for the rb&hArts programme combining improvements to the hospital environment with therapeutic activities such as Singing for Breathing
• Supporting three fellowships annually to support allied health professionals in pursuing research projects
• Funding the Road to Recovery programme to provide mental health support for patients with long Covid
• Committing £100,000 to a Patients’ Fund each year, to support around 40 micro-projects from palliative care ‘comfort boxes’ to better seating and new televisions on wards

Our funding comes from the fundraising efforts of thousands of supporters as well as income generated by our investments in property and equity markets.

We have a small, committed and skilled team (29 in 2024/25), with expertise across fundraising, marketing, HR, property management, grant-making and financial management.

We are committed to – and hold ourselves and each other to account for – the following core behaviours:

· Setting ourselves challenging goals, in order to achieve more for the charity’s beneficiaries

· Working as one team, sharing information and ideas, and valuing our diverse range of backgrounds and contributions

· Solving problems, using our resources, our networks and our creativity to provide a better service

· Creating opportunities to learn, and supporting each other to grow

· Enjoying our work, celebrating our successes and finding time to have fun as a team

We are recruiting for a Children’s Support Worker who will be working closely with children and their mothers who are living in our refuges escaping domestic violence and other forms of violence and abuse, to provide personal welfare support and ensure that our clients are provided with a safe, supportive, and welcoming environment.

A key requirement is to provide personal one to one and group support to children and young people to ensure they are provided with a safe, supportive, and welcoming environment. The post holder will support children who have witnessed or experienced domestic violence and plan and provide stimulating, safe, and appropriate activities.

This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Youth Worker (Women's Worker) – 9 Month Maternity Cover
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate team player to join our growing team as a full-time Youth Worker (Women’s Worker) on a fixed term 9-month maternity cover contract. 
In this role, you will work within the Youth Work Team to deliver our frontline drop-in service and support our weekly and monthly activities to all young people experiencing homelessness.
You’ll specialise in sharing knowledge and expertise in gender-informed work, leading the delivery of our weekly Women and Non-Binary space, facilitating group sessions and supporting a caselist of young women experiencing multiple and complex needs.
Ideally you should be experienced in working with young people aged 18-25 and/or have demonstrable experience working directly with women (of any age). You will understand gender informed practice and have experience or transferable skills working with those who are survivors of domestic violence and other gender-based violence. You will also be committed to the safeguarding of all young people and delivering an inclusive and trauma-informed service.
You should be experienced designing, planning and facilitating a range of activities, able to work dynamically in a fast-paced day centre environment and be skilled in engaging a diverse range of young people in positive activities.
If you have the required skills and are passionate about supporting young people who are experiencing homelessness, then we would love to hear from you.
This role will be based at our day centre in Camden, with the option of remote working and some travel to New Horizon projects within London.

Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 9th September 2024
Interviews: Thursday 19th September 2024
Please note, the interview date is fixed and will not be changed. Please ensure you are available on this day when applying for this role.