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As PR and Content Officer, you will be providing a broad range of public relations related support to Allergy UK to enhance the reputation of Allergy UK and deliver against its vision and mission and for allergies to be taken seriously. The role will require an individual who has demonstrable press office/PR experience. If you describe yourself as someone with a ‘can do’ approach and enjoy a fast-paced autonomous role this role will meet those desires. You will be someone that is confident with all media activity and is looking for a role within the health and not for profit space.
Please complete a cover letter, referring to the job specification to demonstrate relevant experience.
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Digital Transformation Project Manager – 1-year FTC
Location: This post is hybrid, with an office base in London, requiring an average of at least eight days a month face-to-face working, with occasional travel to other locations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Contract: Full-time, one-year fixed-term contract (FTC)
Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 pa dependent on skills and experience
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 and across every region in the country, and supported by Arts Council funding, 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 an experienced digital project manager to help us transform our website. BookTrust has evolved in recent years, with a new strategic focus, to better meet the needs of our users, delivery partners, supporters and colleagues. We now have the opportunity to re-imagine our website offer in line with these developments and as such we are investing in a full redesign and redevelopment of our website. At the same time, we want to find new ways of using digital technologies to further support and enhance our work and increase our impact – working towards a wider digital transformation at the charity.
This is very much a hands-on role, key to supporting the Head of Digital and wider Digital team with day-to-day project management of the website revamp, as well as helping us introduce new digital platforms, processes and skills. Initially the role will work with a cross-functional project team, key stakeholders and our digital agency to research, redesign and redevelop the website, looking to relaunch in early 2025.
To apply please send a copy of your CV on our website 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: Thursday 25 July 2024 at 9am.
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.
The Role
Our influencing work is changing the UK conversation about domestic abuse, with both national and locally based elected representatives and the officials and colleagues who work alongside them.
Our Public Affairs and Policy Officer, reporting to the Head of Public Affairs and Policy, will be crucial in helping us to develop our engagement, as well as deepen our policy influencing capacity to support our roll-out of ground-breaking interventions to end domestic abuse and ensure support for the whole family to keep people safe sooner.
You will be joining the organisation at a pivotal moment. The recent General Election provides an unmissable opportunity to ensure that SafeLives’ priorities for improving the response to domestic abuse are taken forward by the new Government.
We welcome staff members who have themselves had an experience of domestic abuse, either directly or indirectly, whether they choose to discuss this openly or not. We particularly encourage candidates from under-represented communities.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (flexible working considered)
Location: London office and/or hybrid working, with regular meetings in London and occasional travel to other locations around the UK, including our Bristol office
Benefits
- 34 days' holiday inc public holidays
- Flexible working eg compressed hours
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
- Childcare Vouchers
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Clinical Supervision
- Holiday Purchase Scheme to buy up to an additional 5 days
- Enhanced Family leave Policies
- Enhanced Sick pay
- Professional Development Fund
- Individual learning budget
- Restorative Practice Training
- Time Off In Lieu
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter and CV.
Closing date: 9.00am on Wednesday 7th August 2024
SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all; please see our job description for full details.
No agencies, please.
People, workforce and culture are critical to the future of UK health research, which is why supporting the next generation of researchers to reach their full potential is one of the Academy’s five strategic priorities. The Careers Policy Officer will play an important role in delivering this priority as a key member of the Academy’s Science Base and Careers Policy team.
You’ll have a real opportunity to make a difference, working with a range of colleagues within the Academy as well as external stakeholders like research leaders in academia, the NHS and industry to broaden the range of people and disciplines engaged in biomedical and health research through provision of clear, effective and attractive career pathways.
We are looking for somebody who is committed to improving health for all supported by the best research and evidence, has strong analytical skills, the ability to summarise complex information, and thrives on working with others to produce high quality outputs. You’ll normally have a degree or similar qualification or equivalent work experience in a relevant area.
Experience working on research careers/career development, and knowledge of research policy issues would be advantageous. We will prioritise applicants with relevant work experience. We welcome applications from people with a variety of professional backgrounds.
Benefits
- Salary progression framework
- Hybrid and agile working
- 29 days’ annual leave including Christmas closure dates, plus bank holidays
- Pension (the Academy contributes 7.5% of gross salary to a pension scheme, with an employee contribution of 3%)
- Life assurance
- Season ticket travel loan (interest free)
- Family-friendly benefits (enhanced maternity and paternity leave, coaching for parents returning to work)
- Subscription to Headspace and Class pass
- Staff training to support your development including EDI training
For more information and to apply, please visit our careers page.
Closing date: Midday on Monday, 12 August 2024.
Interview date: w/c 19 August 2024.
The Finance Data Analyst will play a pivotal role in supporting the financial health and sustainability of the Charity by providing insightful analysis on financial data, by developing intuitive reporting and contributing to the Charity’s data governance. Their ability to understand how underlying non-financial data impacts the Charity’s finances will be critical.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining financial models to gain insight and understanding as to the Charity’s financial performance and future.
- Provide expert financial insights to support strategy development, ensuring balance between operational need and financial stability.
- Develop intuitive financial reporting to assist both finance and non-finance staff in understanding results and drivers.
- Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor financial and operational performance.
- Produce required information to support decision making within the Finance department.
- Work across the organisation to create and advance data governance principles.
- Demonstrate proficiency across financial systems including identifying areas for improvement in use of existing platforms.
- Work closely with stakeholders across the Charity to gain an understanding of the underlying financial drivers for the Charity’s operations.
- To undertake other or additional duties that are within your skills and abilities, as the organisation may reasonably require from time to time.
Management of self
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders including all budget holders.
Professionalism
- Takes action and raises concerns.
- Adhere to the policies and procedures of The Children’s Trust.
- Maintain professional boundaries and professionalism at all times.
- Committed to demonstrating the organisations values and behaviours at all times.
Health and Safety
- Adheres to all Health and Safety guidelines, principles and regulations to perform your role and comply with The Children’s Trust policies and procedures.
- Promotes the health and safety of others.
- Uses the incident reporting and risk assessment system (IRAR), to identify and report risks and incidents/actions if directed.
Wellbeing and Emotional Resilience
- Maintains a positive approach and outlook when dealing with change and overcoming challenges and problems.
- Recognises own limitations, develops realistic goals, and uses support network resource when or if necessary.
- Treats challenges and problems as a learning experience.
- Remains organised and focused when under pressure.
- Responds appropriately and effectively to all constructive feedback.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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It’s an exciting time to join us. Oakleaf has a proud history of helping people across Surrey who are suffering from mental ill health. The need for good mental health support is growing, as are our funding needs and ambitions. This newly created position of Relationship Fundraising Manager is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative fundraising team as we look to develop major donor fundraising further.
The role will be responsible for overseeing all individual donor relationships, with a focus on major gifts. This includes developing and implementing a major donor strategy, as well as assisting the Head of Fundraising with corporate fundraising. You will be encouraged to use your experience and skills to shape the role, making a difference to the lives of hundreds of people attending Oakleaf every month for support.
Please refer to the attached Candidate Brief for more detailed information.
Position: Relationship Fundraising Manager
Responsible to: Head of Fundraising & Engagement
Location: Guildford, Surrey with hybrid working offered (min 40% office, 60% home as agreed); we will accommodate flexible working patterns wherever possible
Hours: 28-36 hours per week (36 hours is full time; part-time considered for the right applicant)
Salary: £32,000 – £34,000 FTE (dependent upon experience)
Annual leave and benefits:
- 32 days including public and statutory holidays. An additional day is added for each year worked (to a maximum of 4 days). Plus, an extra day off for your birthday!
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Private medical insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Sick pay
- Discount eye tests
- Work from home/flexible hours
- We are open to investment in training
Key Responsibilities (a full list of responsibilities is listed in the Candidate Brief):
- Manage recruitment, stewardship & retention of individual supporters with a goal of long-term financial support.
- Develop & implement a major donor strategy, including building relationships with key donors.
- Undertake tours of Oakleaf at our HQ or outreach venues to individual donors to show impact of giving.
- Research, formulate introductions & approach new prospects.
- Manage a communications plan for donors.
- Achieve agreed fundraising targets.
- Assist with corporate fundraising alongside the Head of Fundraising, including through attending networking events and supporting Oakleaf’s Mental Health Leaders Network.
Essential Criteria (a full list of essential and desirable criteria is listed in the Candidate Brief):
- At least three years’ experience in a charity/third sector fundraising position or similar
- Strong interpersonal and networking abilities; adept at building rapport quickly with people from a wide range of backgrounds
- Experience of building and managing a portfolio of both ongoing and new relationships
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of budgeting, forecasting and working towards financial targets
- An understanding of and empathy with the aims of Oakleaf & needs of its client group
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community, and we offer flexibility to assist employees with balancing work and other commitments. We are a Disability Confident employer.
Transforming lives through the provision of support, training and wellbeing activities, building new futures with adults managing their mental health
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Directorate: Practice and Quality
Annual Salary: £10,000 (This will be pro-rated for 2025 as the role will be a job share with the current Editor-in-Chief, with full responsibility handed over in April 2025)
Location: Hybrid. Office is London – EC4Y 8EE (expect attendance to conferences and occasional in-person meetings)
Contract: Fixed term (5 years)
Reports to:Head of Publishing
British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) is a membership organisation that brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession, harnessing a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we’re supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability. Our mission is to support members to deliver the best care at all stages of the rheumatology care pathway, focusing on communication, transparency and collaboration.
Rheumatology Advances in Practice (RAP) is a fully Open Access journal that publishes quantitative and qualitative research on all areas of rheumatology and musculoskeletal practice. The Editor-in-Chief plays a key role in providing leadership, vision and strategy.
Job Purpose
The Editor-in-Chief will be appointed by BSR and the term of appointment will be for a five-year period. The Editor-in-Chief plays a key role in providing leadership, vision and strategy of the journal.
The Editor-in-Chief for Rheumatology Advances in Practice (RAP) will work with BSR to develop and produce a high-quality journal as well as establish its strategic direction. They will be involved in keeping the BSR Board of Trustees and RAP Editorial Board as well as leading the social media presence of the journal.
The Editor-in-Chief will have a general responsibility to the broader rheumatology, paediatric, primary care and allied health community in communicating clinical and scientific advances and standards, to promote their needs and aspirations by commissioning content and planning Special Issues that will enhance the field of research, care and support for these communities.
The Editor-in-Chief will work with the Society and Publisher to ensure that it continues to meet its objectives and set strategic goals for the journal.
The general strategic aims and objectives of the journal are:
- Ensure robust ethical standards and high-quality peer review
- Grow quality and number of submissions and publications yearly
- Ensure international recognition and reach of this journal by publishing high quality scientific and clinical research from across the world, and maintaining an engaged international Editorial Board
The journal is an open access, go to resource for the rheumatology community, with a scope that encompasses the wide range of disciplines involved in the field. We recently received an impressive first impact factor of 3.1 and we are excited to continue to grow the presence of the journal internationally. As the journal is fully online and open access, we have exciting opportunities to provide a multitude of publishing services for our authors, in line with the industry standards and experimenting with new ways of publishing. We listen to the voice of the authors, readers, reviewers and board members to understand their publishing needs and are excited to trial new projects. For example, we recently launched a new article type called an ‘Atlas Review’ with a unique offer of unlimited figures, allowing authors to illustrate their important discussions and not limiting the capabilities via text exclusively.
Quality and ethical standards
The Editor-in-Chief will ensure an appropriate balance of good quality articles, so the journal addresses the needs of the multidisciplinary rheumatology community. The Editor-in-Chief will see that the journal maintains the highest ethical and moral standards. The journal must be seen to be fair and unbiased towards individuals and provides a comprehensive and balanced view of the specialty. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and committed to the highest ethical standards in journal publishing.
Conference attendance
The BSR, EULAR and ACR conferences provide an excellent opportunity to network with current and prospective authors, reviewers and Editorial Board members, as well as to commission new content for the journal and to provide social media updates. Conferences can also be used to arrange podcast and video interviews with authors, Board Members and colleagues. Delegate tickets to EULAR, the BSR Annual Conference and ACR will be covered by the British Society for Rheumatology and travel and hotel expenses will be covered as outlined in the budget.
Editorial support to the Editor-in-Chief
The Editor-in-Chief will receive day-to-day support for processing papers and managing peer review from the BSR in-house Editorial Office team, as well as support from contacts at Oxford University Press. Co-Editors, Associate Editors and wider Editorial Board also provide support and guidance to the Editor-in-Chief.
The relationship with the British Society for Rheumatology
The day-to-day contact with the BSR will be through the Editorial Office; however, the Editor-in-Chief will have several relationships as follows:
- BSR Journal Committee
The BSR Journal Committee will review and supply any feedback about overall advice given by the Editorial Board on the content, quality, standards, promotion, and performance of the journal to the Editor-in-Chief. The Journal committee is responsible for overseeing and approving the finances, scope and policies of Rheumatology Advances in Practice. The committee ensure actions decided upon further the work of the Journal and its development within the Journal’s aims and scope.
- BSR Board of Trustees, CEO and Senior Management Team
Advised by the BSR Senior Management Team, the BSR Board of Trustees approve the finances and strategy of the journal. Members of the BSR Senior Management Team attend the Journal Committee meetings. The Editor-in-Chief is asked to attend the BSR Board of Trustees on an ad hoc basis to provide an update on strategy and delivery.
- Rheumatology Editor-in-Chief
There is a transfer of papers model in place, so the Editor-in-Chief will have opportunity to collaborate with the Editor-in-Chief of Rheumatology to ensure the right papers are directed to the right journals by understanding the scope nd criteria of each journal. The journals share a X and instagram pages and marketing and promotional campaigns can be co-ordinated.
- Oxford University Press
OUP publish the journal on behalf of the BSR. OUP provides a full publishing experience with expert teams who advise and support on matters related to production, marketing and law, publishing ethics and strategy. The publisher, BSR and the EiC work closely to ensure the journal strategy is bespoke in order for Rheumatology Advances in Practice to maintain the current community, build the readership and authorship, and align with the visions and values of BSR. The Editor-in-Chief will meet OUP contacts at the Journal Committee Meeting and strategy planning meetings, as the publisher highly values the knowledge and experience of the Editor-in-Chief. Day to day communication will be via the Editorial Office to ensure smooth running of journal procedures.
Main responsibilities
- Work towards and guide the 5-year strategy for the journal
- Set strategic goals with BSR and the publisher to apply for further indexing, and maintain or grow the Impact Factor
- Work with BSR, the publisher and Editorial Board to target and commission reviews, original articles and special issues, and curate a sponsored supplement timeline
- Ensure that the journal’s scope is international and is reflected in its content
- Ensure the journal is produced to a high standard, and that it reflects the needs of the full spectrum of the rheumatology professional community
- Ensure rapid peer review with time to first decision within three weeks
- Ensure the Editorial Board reflects not only the various subspecialties within rheumatology but also includes a global spread
- Ensure that the journal is promoted online using a range of media to promote and raise awareness of the journal
- Participating in the digital offerings of the journal, such as hosting podcasts
Person Specification
- A PhD degree/ Doctor of Medicine, specialised in rheumatology, with a clinical science background and a strong understanding of recent trends and developments
- Demonstrable experience in an editorial role including, reviewer, editorial board member, associate editor or guest editor
- Adaptability to new publishing systems and software. Experience with the system, ScholarOne, would be beneficial to the role but is not a requirement as training can be provided
Equity, Inclusion and Diversity statement
BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equity, and diversity in our workforce. We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our staff team. We try to reduce as many barriers as we can for those with a disability. We know that everyone is an individual, so please always tell us what we can do to support you.
We welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including those from minoritised communities, and those with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.
We are hiring! We have a job vacancy for a Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) / Dementia Coordinator.
Shine has a membership of over 13,500 members living with SpinaBifida and/or Hydrocephalus and associated conditions and over 6,000 associated members.
In the last year we have seen a 25% increase in members who are living with NPH across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are currently just under 600 members with NPH, plus their carers registered, but we are expecting this to continue to rise as awareness and diagnosis of the condition grows.
We are looking for an experienced, skilled, organised and dedicated new staff member to join Shine’s Services team to develop and lead our new NPH service.
Job title: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)/ Dementia Coordinator
Reports to: Director of Services
Location: Home Based or Hybrid *
(dependent on proximity to our Head Office in Peterborough, with travel across England, Wales & Northern Ireland as required)
Hours: 35 hours per week (willingness to work outside of office hours, evenings and weekends when required)
Salary: £31,672 pa
Closing Date: 21st July 2024 at 11pm
Purpose of Job
To provide the foundations for improved health, social and emotional outcomes for adults living with NPH and to support their families/carers.
To focus primarily on delivering 3 of Shine’s 7 Strategic Goals all of which drive Shine’s ambitions:
· Goal 3: Adults of all ages with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus have the choices and opportunities to live healthy and independent lives
· Goal 4: A connected community
· Goal 7: Transforming attitudes and improving access to health and care services through engagement, partnerships, research and campaigning
And contributing to delivery of other strategic goals as appropriate.
Staff management:
1. Shine is committed to providing quality advice and support. As service lead you will provide supervision, training, guidance and support in line with Shine’s HR processes and procedures to other members of staff who are involved in the delivery of work for the NPH service.
Project management:
1. Evaluate existing support for members living with NPH and their families/ carers within Shine
2. Develop and grow the service based on the needs and voice of our members
3. Lead the support of members living with NPH and their families/ carers across England, Wales & Northern Ireland
4. Develop annual work plans, which will enable continued development and delivery of the NPH service
5. Create a framework for the service and develop Shine colleagues to support delivery in key areas
6. To provide training to upskill colleagues in dementia
7. Create greater consistency across all Nations by developing strong working relationships with key colleagues in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
8. Drive collaborative working with the National Programmes and Engagement Manager and the National roles – particularly Health and Benefits
9. To manage any specific project budgets, ensuring spend is planned, within budget and allocated to the appropriate cost centre
10. Maintain an oversight on data capture and data management for the work on NPH, alongside the Director of Services develop outcome measures to demonstrate impact
11. Work in line with GDPR, maintaining confidential member records providing clear and accurate record keeping for monitoring and evaluation
12. Identify new potential sources of funding as the project develops and contribute to funding bids as requested.
13. Working with colleagues in Services, Fundraising, Marketing, Trust and Foundations colleagues and Shine’s membership to identify opportunities for long-term sustainability of the work.
Delivery
To manage all enquiries from our members living with NPH and their carers, providing direct one to one support and advice including-
· Welfare benefit/ income maximisation advice
· Condition specific support to enable the person living with NPH to have choice and control over their current and future care needs.
· Signposting /referring to more specialist information and support, internally or to other local, regional or national organisations
You will also:
· In collaboration with Shine’s National Programmes & Membership Engagement Manager, Health and Services colleagues and external partners, lead the delivery of the NPH awareness week once a year
· Review existing and develop new resources for members with NPH alongside the Health team
· Develop and deliver an annual programme of events and peer support groups for members with NPH and their families and carers
· Oversee social media, Facebook and WhatsApp support groups
· Organise steering groups, providing opportunities for Shine members to guide the development of the service, and engage in consultations and research
· Develop partnership opportunities and closer working relationships with health professionals, statutory organisations and charities
· Identify key campaigns to improve the rights of members with NPH, improving access to statutory services, access to NHS care, awareness regarding diagnosis and treatment.
Other core requirements of working for Shine:
· To work with Shine’s national and regionally based colleagues to ensure that all work is complementary, coordinated and beneficial to our members
· To maintain the high standards of respect, communication, professionalism, empathy and sensitivity conducive with working for an organisation that represents 13,500+ members living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus or associated conditions.
· To ensure that Shine’s safeguarding policies and processes are followed, and are ‘everyone’s responsibility’
· To actively take part in the annual staff residential
To undertake any other duties in line with the job role.
Person Specification
Experience – essential
· A minimum of 3 years' experience of working with older people living with dementia
· Experience of project management and delivery
· At least two years’ experience of delivering support and advice services for older people.
Knowledge, skills and abilities – essential
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Ability to build strong relationships both with internal and external stakeholders
· Ability to develop and deliver professional presentations and training in a variety of settings
· IT literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft 365 and confident in the use of CRM Database systems
· A non-judgmental approach to working with people
· A good knowledge of adult safeguarding policy, procedures and reporting
Qualification- essential
§ Relevant qualification in health or social care
Experience – desirable
· Welfare benefits: Experience of supporting older people to maximise their income
· Experience of providing supervision, guidance and support to others as a lead
· Developing and delivering opportunities to enable and empower disabled people
· Organising information sessions and social events
· Multi-disciplinary working and advocacy
· Evidence of successfully developing a base of local, regional and national contacts/partners who can provide specialised support to our members/ families
· Working in the third sector in a paid or unpaid capacity
· Working with, and supporting, volunteers
Qualifications - desirable
Relevant qualification in:
§ Information, Advice & Guidance
§ Management
§ Project management
In return, Shine will offer you:
· A competitive salary
· 35 hour working week
· 25 days annual leave plus additional discretionary leave between Christmas and New Year
· Support to learn and develop
· Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
· Additional annual leave due to length of service
· Defined contribution pension
Shine is a Disability Confident employer and will offer guaranteed interviews if a disabled applicant meets the minimum criteria for the job.
If you would like to have a chat about the role in more detail or have any questions, please give us a call and ask to speak to Gill Valentine, our Director of Services.
Interviews will be held on Monday 12th August in our Head Office, Peterborough
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The role of Office Coordinator is essential to the efficient and effective day-to-day work of the organisation, ensuring the team are well equipped to successfully carry out their roles and helping the organisation to support the optimum number of young people to the highest possible quality. Whilst you will have specific areas of responsibility (see below), you will also be expected to contribute towards the wider vision of Matrix Trust, as appropriate.
1) Office and Building
- Support Maintain and, where necessary improve, office systems.
- Proactively ensure the building is clean, tidy and maintained to a high standard, liaising with SLT and external contractors where necessary to achieve this.
- Proactively purchase and restock office, cleaning and hygiene resources, ensuring a ready supply at all times.
- Proactively purchase and restock staff refreshments, ensuring a ready supply at all times.
- Proactively ensure physical and digital notice boards are kept up-to-date.
- Proactively ensure digital team calendars are kept up-to-date.
- Support the team in utilising the GSuite and printing facilities.
- Act as the first point of contact for all internal and external queries, ensuring that emails, phone messages and postal enquiries are responded to promptly.
- Support the Head of Operations in their role as Senior Fire Marshall, Health and Safety Officer, and Data Protection Officer.
- Prepare rooms for team meetings and events, as required.
2) Human Resources Support
- Utilising our HR database, maintain accurate, organised and confidential HR records.
- Liaising with Line Managers, administer the annual leave and sickness process.
- Liaising with the Designated Safeguarding Lead, administer the DBS process.
- Support the Head of Operations by administering the recruitment and induction processes.
- Support the Head of Operations by administering the team performance processes, including probations and appraisals.
- Coordinate and book staff training, ensuring all regulatory requirements are met.
- Coordinate a range of inclusive team social events.
3) General Administrative
- Support Support the Head of Operations in maintaining detailed and accurate records of the grant application process.
- Support the Head of Operations with basic data entry on grant applications.
- Support the Head of Operations in collating data for grants applications and any necessary reports.
- Support the wider team with occasional administrative tasks, as required.
- Provide occasional administrative support to the Board of Trustees and SLT, as required.
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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!
VCSE Strategic Lead (Living Well and Wider Wellbeing)
30 hours per week (0.8 post) – over 4 or 5 weekdays, core hours between 8am – 6pm (excluding a 30-minute break)
NJC Point 31 - £39,186 per annum (£31,349 per annum for 30 hours per week)
2-year fixed-term contract
Location: Salford CVS’ office Eccles and various community venues across Salford
The VCSE Strategic Lead for Living Well and Wider Wellbeing is an exciting new role that will be focused on ensuring that the VCSE sector has voice and influence so that Salford people are supported to live well, with a focus on mental health and wellbeing.
The role will be aligned with Salford’s Living Well programme and the city’s Mental Health Collaborative. These are the cornerstones of the design and development of innovative solutions to adult mental health provision in the City. As well as the alignment with Living Well, the lead will also focus on creative health, placed-based working, and physical activity.
The Strategic Lead will work across a broad spectrum of VCSE and public sector partners that design, commission, or deliver activities and services that support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Salfordians. This spectrum includes NHS Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, Salford City Council, START, Mind in Salford, Salford Community Leisure, Salford Sport, and Physical Activity Alliance.
The Strategic Lead will play a key role in ensuring that there is collaborative working and effective communication within Living Well. This also includes key stakeholders, strategic partners in Salford, Local Authority, VCSE, and NHS organisations.
Living Well
Living Well is an innovative new service created and delivered by a partnership between START, Mind (Salford), Six Degrees, and Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust. A multi-agency team, collaborating to provide positive, humanistic, and safe experiences for those experiencing poor mental health who are unable to meet the threshold for community mental health services.
This post requires an enhanced level DBS check.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate extensive experience of building multi-sectoral partnerships and relationships, as well as having outstanding communication skills. They will also have a clear understanding of the VCSE sector, preferably in Salford, and mental health and wellbeing context across Greater Manchester.
If that sounds like you – then we want to hear from you!
Closing date: Friday 26th July 2024 at 12 noon
Interview date: Thursday 15th August 2024
We reserve the right to review applications before the closing date should we get sufficient applications.
Please note late applications will not be accepted.
Actively Interviewing
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!
Job Title: Clinical Supervisor (Mental Health)
Reporting To: Clinical Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part Time: 18 - 22.5 hours per week between 6:30pm and 12:30am (UK Time).
Shifts are 4 hours plus 30 minutes of admin time. Your preferred availability can be discussed at interview.
Salary: £40-45k / $80-90k full-time equivalent/pro-rata
Base: Remote (UK or NZ)
Closing Date: 19th July 2024, 5pm (Please note, we will be interviewing on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the job advert early if we receive a high number of applicants)
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave per year, plus public holidays;
- Company electronic devices;
- Competitive pension;
- Reimbursement for external clinical supervision;
- Health insurance.
About Mental Health Innovations (MHI)
MHI is an ambitious charity, driven to provide the public with access to much needed digital support services. The organisation's purpose, to transform lives by improving access to digital resources, is built on a strong belief that technology can help improve mental health outcomes in the UK.
Founded in November 2017 following the success of The Royal Foundation’s ‘Heads Together’ campaign, it launched its first product, Shout, in 2019. Shout is a free, confidential, 24/7 text message service for anybody struggling with anxiety, loneliness or depression through to self harm or suicidal thoughts.
Job Summary
To provide online, in-the-moment clinical supervision and support to trained Volunteers, Clinical Practitioners (CPs) and Qualified Practitioners (QPs) in their text conversations with texters on our UK 24/7 text messaging platform.
Main duties
- Engaging in a non judgemental, collaborative manner with Shout Volunteers and practitioners taking conversations with texters. Ensuring risk and safeguarding concerns are appropriately handled and provide constructive feedback for their growth and development.
- Engage in clinical discussions with fellow supervisors on shift to ensure decision making is in line with Shout policies and solid rationales are built for clinical decisions made.
- Complete administrative work such as maintaining clinical notes, reporting in line with Shout policies when risk to life and safeguarding concerns occur.
- Work collaboratively with fellow supervisors on shift and other members of staff, to ensure optimal use of resources to meet platform demand.
- Take conversations with texters to help manage service demand
Job responsibilities
- Regularly attend meetings, online or in person, including team meetings, one-to-ones, workshops and training
- Attend regular external clinical supervision with external personal Supervisor (paid for by MHI) with a minimum of one session per month
- Contribute to service development and continuous quality improvement within the organisation, including participation in ongoing in-person or online training and professional development
- Maintain membership, registration and/or accreditation with a relevant professional body
- At all times, adhere to Mental Health Innovations and Shout’s framework, policies and procedures and engage in a way that is reflective of the organisation's values
Person Specification
Essential criteria
- Psychotherapy/Counselling/Psychology/Mental Health Nursing or Social Work practice qualification
- Accreditation/registration with the BACP, UKCP, BPS, NMC or NZAC, DAPAANZ, or equivalent relevant professional body
- Clinical/professional experience working with risk relating to suicide, self-harm, complex mental health problems and safeguarding
- Strong administrative skills with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in Clinical Supervision
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience in working digitally with clients/supervisees
- Strong knowledge and experience of safeguarding, confidentiality and risk
- Sound experience of supervising groups or individuals
Key Competencies
- Excellent communicator
- Ability to multitask and work at a high volume whilst maintaining calm under pressure
- Ability to make sound clinical decisions in a fast moving environment in response to high risk situations
- Demonstrate a high level of resilience
- Adaptable to the needs of the organisation
- Self-motivated, hands-on, problem-solving approach, with a focus on effective and clinically sound decision-making
- Willingness and ability to work independently (remotely), whilst remaining connected to and engaged with the team
- Ability to communicate sensitive topics effectively
- Reflective, compassionate, kind, and respectful
- Proactive in reviewing own performance, improvement and development
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Following a merger between St Barnabas Hospices (incorporating St Barnabas House and Chestnut Tree House) and Martlets, we’ve undertaken a strategic restructure of the Fundraising and Communications teams and are recruiting to a number of new roles. These roles work across all three hospices and will play a fundamental part as we build and develop our new team. This is an exciting opportunity for driven, innovative and open-minded individuals to be a part of, and set the direction of, a ground-breaking collaboration for hospices across Sussex and South-East Hampshire.
The Communications Manager (Marketing & Campaigns) leads a team of marketing and communications specialists in the delivery of communications support to stakeholders from across the three hospices. You’ll take pride in delivering excellent customer service while ensuring your team’s activity is prioritised and in line with organisational objectives.
You’ll have the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders; listening, understanding and applying your communications expertise to ensure that you and your team are delivering high quality marketing and communications services that meet the organisation’s needs.
Alongside the Head of Marketing & Communications, you’ll play a key role in planning and prioritisation for the wider Comms team, using your detailed stakeholder understanding, audience insight and market research to inform team plans.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- Leadership Experience: Experience of leading, developing and supporting a team to deliver excellent, timely and effective services.
- Change Management: Proven ability to design, implement and review complex business processes, making recommendations for change and implement them where necessary.
- Quality Assurance: Comprehensive experience of successfully leading a programme of quality compliance and assurance in a regulatory environment.
- Learning and Development: The proven ability to lead the design, implementation and delivery of a departmental training plan, making recommendations on future training needs and modes of delivery.
The Finance Officer is responsible for working within the core Wheels for All team to provide finance team support to the wider programme delivery and national staff team. By working with colleagues to maintain financial systems, accurate record keeping and undertake financial administration they will provide the support required to implement and improve the processes needed to maintain the accurate financial management systems which are crucial to supporting the charity’s mission.
This role would suit someone with at least 2 years’ experience in a charity finance role, who has experience or knowledge of all the core accounts department processes and some understanding of different charity income streams. You might be studying for an accounting qualification (e.g. AAT or ACCA) or be qualified by experience. A training package may be available for an applicable accounting qualification.
Title: Finance Officer
Salary: £26,000- £32,000 FTE, dependent on experience
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week (1 FTE, will consider PT for the right candidate)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Warrington Head Office / hybrid option being 3 days a week in the Warrington office
Reporting to: Finance Manager
Staff benefits
Wheels for All is committed to the health and wellbeing of our staff. We are proud to offer these benefits to all members of our team:
- Birthday bonus – take an additional day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Volunteering – take a volunteering day each year to support another charity or Wheels for All partner.
- Apparel – we will provide all members of staff with quality clothing to keep them looking and feeling good when out and about.
- Flexible working arrangements - including working from home and flexibility around caring responsibilities.
- Annual leave entitlement of 25 days - in addition to public holidays, increasing by one day each year up to a maximum of 30. (Note: pro-rata for part-time colleagues).
- Employee Assistance Programme - access to a 24/7 confidential helpline, counselling services and online information.
- Healthy and wellbeing - we welcome staff to embed regular exercise into their daily work lives. We provide access to a Cycle to Work scheme (unlocking savings of up to 47% on the cost of a new cycle and accessorises) and yoga classes at our head office.
Role responsibilities
Financial Administration
• Maintain efficient and accurate computerised financial accounts & bookkeeping records (the organisation currently uses SAGE) including the upkeep of the records management with regular reconciliation activity according to standard processes.
• Receive and process invoices for payments to/ from suppliers.
• Record income from users, supporters, donors, members etc and maintain up to date records of income received.
• Analysing our donations ensuring accurate income allocation and consider any Gift Aid submissions.
• Liaising with and responding to enquiries from colleagues, suppliers, and partners.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly reporting, quarterly management accounts, any Gift Aid claims and annual audit.
• Process employee expenditure claims & assisting with the preparation of payroll.
• Supporting the preparation for the annual audit, e.g. fixed asset records and maintain the fixed asset register
• Supporting colleagues on finance procedures and protocols and advising colleagues on finance queries.
• Liaising with staff and volunteers to process expense claims accurately and timely.
• To support the Finance Manager in reporting back on budget-to-budget holders
• Support departments in providing detailed financial analysis work which aids their work.
Outcomes: The charity has accurate high quality financial management records which support the efficiency of operations.
Programme Support
• Administer, track, and record petty cash and staff expenses.
• Support budget monitoring & reconciling of programme expenditures. Answering queries, seeking appropriate clarifications & making inquiries of coded expenditures, and providing up to date information to the wider staff team.
• Assist the Finance Manager in creating financial reports to enable tracking and monitoring of spend, regular budget monitoring and in reporting to funders.
Outcomes: The staff team have the financial information and support centrally to run effective projects with partners and volunteers, and to report to trustees and external funders.
Compliance
• Ensuring your work is carried out with excellent attention to detail to the required quality standards and adhering to internal financial management procedures.
• Provide documentation to facilitate programme operations, including grant documents and funder reports.
• Support the Finance Manager in ensuring the charity is compliant with contractual and legal obligations.
Outcomes: The charity is fully complaint with company and charity legislation;
and best practice regarding financial management.
Accountability and relationships
The Finance Officer will be accountable to the Finance Manager and will be a key member of a small finance team (up to 3 people). They will work closely with a core office team and other members in the national Wheels for All network. They will also have a working relationship with suppliers, partners, and volunteers. They will be expected to attend regular staff meetings and supervision sessions.
Note: This job description is subject to amendment based on experience and consultation with the post holder. It provides a general indication of duties and may vary over time.
Skills/knowledge
• Proven experience in all areas of accounts - purchase and sales ledger, banking and cash management, basic management accounts.
• Excellent numeracy skills.
• Understanding of bank reconciliations, control accounts and other day to day financial management procedures.
• Good knowledge of customer relations management and database software, (for example Salesforce).
• Knowledge of financial management systems/software, ideally Sage.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly excel and an ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Good time management and problem-solving skills.
• An accountancy qualification or studying for (e.g. AAT, ACCA), or proven qualification by experience.
• An understanding or awareness of how to manage restricted and unrestricted funds & common charity VAT & taxation issues an advantage.
• Good organisational and time management skills to be able to prioritise workloads effectively, meet deadlines and monitor outcomes.
• Excellent time management
Experience / essential skills
• Bookkeeping, finance, or equivalent role(s).
• Strong communication skills
• Maintaining accurate records and data entry.
• Familiarity of using software packages and strong Microsoft 365 skills (particularly Excel and Outlook).
• Working as part of a team and with managing the delivery of tasks from various colleagues.
• Experience of financial accounting in a small to medium sized organisation, preferably charity sector.
• Experience of dealing with charitable income, restricted grants, and charity taxation (desirable).
Application Process
Please apply by sending your CV and a covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the role, including ‘Finance Officer’ in the title. Alternative formats are also welcomed e.g. video or audio.
You don’t need to be a cyclist to apply for this role, but you do need to share our passion to deliver our services and enjoy making a difference to people’s lives.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on Tuesday 23rd July 2024
With interviews week commencing: 29th July 2024
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: Hybrid working between the Aldgate, London office and home/ Remote based.
Salary: up to £33,000 per annum (Remote) up to £37,000 per annum (London office based).
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