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The vacancy

What we’re looking for:

• Do you have a background in specialist/supported housing?
• Do you have experience of working with a vulnerable client group?
• Do you understand or have experience of managing a large team?
• Can you communicate respectfully with and about people respecting their dignity and diversity?
• Do you drive and have access to your own vehicle?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a Team Manager on a Temporary basis for 12 months, covering our Colchester area.

A bit about the role:

As a Team Manager, you will provide leadership and direction for your team of Outreach Support Workers to deliver high quality and effective support services, which promote the independence, wellbeing and inclusion of customers.

As Team Manager, you will identify and deliver service improvement projects and initiatives that improve the effectiveness of the team and the outcomes of the service.

Some of the key results for the role include: 

• Leading, supervising and managing a team of support workers, providing supervision every four to six weeks, and being responsible for ensuring they meet or exceed the requirements of their role.
• Providing a positive role model for support workers, by modelling good practice, advising on, and intervening in, complex and/or high-risk cases and assisting with the in-service induction of new staff.
• Ensuring that support workers carry out needs and risk assessments, complete support plans, provide support in accordance with the risk assessment plans and  carry out reviews, in accordance with policies and procedures and the requirements of stakeholders and funders.
• Ensuring support workers deliver services to customers which are flexible and personalised.

This role will require an Enhanced DBS check and a UK driver’s licence and access to a vehicle.  

The successful candidate must be available for the on call rota which includes waking nights and sleep ins.

This role would suit an experienced Senior Support Worker or Support Worker seeking career progression and/or development!

A bit about us: 

It started over 160 years ago with one man’s desire to improve the lives of poverty-stricken Londoners.

Today, we have 107,000 homes and 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties and around 20,000 care and support customers. But the desire remains the same – to create homes and communities where people can flourish.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays  
• Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.
• 4 x Life Assurance
• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates  
• Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year  
• Family friendly policies
• Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

Are you ready to apply? 

Closing Date: 4 July 2024

Interview Date - Week commencing 8th July.

To be considered for the position of Team Manager, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.  

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer

JOB PURPOSE

The post holder will support all aspects of business development to achieve the Association’s objectives, including securing funding from a range of sources; keeping abreast of income sources and funding opportunities; assisting and supporting the development of bids, tenders, and making applications to grant makers, trusts and others with funds to invest.

Some Key Tasks & Responsibilities:-

· Preparing quality funding bids and tender submissions (including to Trusts; Foundations’ Lottery; Local Authorities, Health Service, etc.) to meet the Association’s objectives.

· Keep abreast of funding and tendering opportunities from public, government, trusts and private sectors ensuring WLCA managers and consortium partners are kept informed, where appropriate.

· Maximising opportunities by preparing and submitting expressions of interest /pre-qualification through to the tender stage, objectively reviewing bid submissions and making appropriate changes/improvements.

· Ensuring bids and tender submissions are developed with community engagement and input, ideally coproduced with community members and potential beneficiaries.

· Supporting the development of project concepts by researching and developing relationships with prospective funders.

· Liaising with and supporting consortium funding opportunities, applications, and project development in line with the tendering and funding bid requirements.

· Developing and maintaining a database of funders and creating good practice fundraising guides and model applications.

· Developing links with the private sector to provide sponsorships and funding through Social Value and Corporate Social Responsibility.

We are looking for a highly capable Finance Officer to ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day transactional financial processes of the charity. In particular, a large part of the role will involve the monitoring of various income streams through the activity of the Fundraising team. The candidate will need to be methodical, highly organised with excellent attention to detail, showing initiative and self-motivation in carrying out routine tasks, often to deadlines.

As part of a small team, the post holder will be responsible for managing all supporter and donation information on the fundraising database, regularly importing payment data from a range of sources and leading the monthly reconciliation process. The post holder will also provide data selections and reports and any administrative fundraising tasks when required.

Progressive career development opportunities, 28 days holiday entitlement (pro rata), increasing to 31 based on length of service, time off in lieu for Bank Holidays worked, access to an ethical pension scheme, invitation to join the Employee Voice group, Wellbeing Wednesdays, central Digbeth location

ASH Co-op is a thriving tenant-managed housing co-op in Cambridge. We have two part-time staff and are looking for a focused, committed, self-motivated and enthusiastic person to take the role on to cover for maternity leave to start from late September. 

This is a varied front-line role involving collecting rent and taking enquiries, including maintenance requests and applications for membership. It also involves monitoring budgets, some basic accounting and general office administration. You must be IT literate with a good working knowledge of excel and will ideally have previous experience of housing work, or a similar office environment.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To be responsible, with our other housing co-ordinator/s, for the day-to-day running of ASH Co-op in co-operation with the membership; deal with outside bodies on behalf of the co-op; keep computer records; maintain and develop office and financial systems; and provide administrative support for working groups.

REPORTING TO 
The Employment Co-ordinators, who are elected by the members on to ASH Co-op’s committee.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
All tasks are to be carried out with the relevant Co-ordinators and Working Groups where appropriate.  As a volunteer led organisation, the Housing Co-ordinators will be expected to liaise with working group co-ordinators from time to time to agree how tasks will split between them.  A key responsibility of the Housing Co-ordinators is to provide continuity where volunteers are unable to do so.

The successful applicant will be able to work Tuesdays and spread remaining hours across other weekdays between 8am-7pm when needed. The core office opening hours are 9.30am- 5pm. This role is being offered on a 13 month fixed contract.

Application date closes 10th July.

Interviews to be held late July 2024. 

As a People Business Partner you will lead the customer facing side of HR as an ambassador for the People team. Your core purpose will be to work with senior leaders within your dedicated business area to:

• Provide strategic and commercial HR support
• To lead and embed the people strategy by devising and implementing a people plan for delivery within your business area.
• To support from a people perspective with the successful delivery of strategy and the delivery of local and corporate business plans within your area.
• To drive and deliver improvements against the key people KPI’s in the business area you support.

The role is a key role within the people team who will be proactive in supporting the People Director and will work collaboratively across all areas of the people team to ensure that the people function provides a simply brilliant service to its customers.

The role is also responsible for the effective management of an ER / HR advisor and the collective responsibility with other People partners for the wider ER team development, co ordination and management .

• Working closely with your business area to deliver an effective People partnering service and to understand the people drivers that will contribute to successful business delivery.
• Understanding the wider business priorities and how these relate to the people strategy activity
• Devising a strategic people plan for your functional areas that supports the delivery of the wider people strategy and GSA corporate strategy and the business areas needs.

Minimum of CIPD level 5 qualification in Human Resources Management or equivalent experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience gained in a People partner role
• Experience of creating people plans aligned to an overarching corporate people plan that supports business  area specific needs
• Demonstratable working knowledge of people policies, processes, legislative requirements and best practice

Senior Housing Management Worker (Midlands)

Job type: Permanent/ Full Time

Salary:                   £26,478 per annum

Hours:                     35 (plus 5 hours paid lunch breaks) 

Location:                    Midlands

Who are we looking for?

A Senior Housing Management worker, who will be based in our Derby office,  acting as an operational practitioner working across accommodation-based services across our Midlands Step Forward Portfolio. Guiding and supporting teams in matters of practice, quality, performance, compliance, and resource management. Line management responsibility for a team of front-line staff and carrying a caseload of service users as required.

Saying what we do at Nacro is simple. We house, we educate, we support, and we speak out for - and with - disadvantaged young people and adults. But it’s how we do it that really makes the difference.

By challenging boundaries, setting agendas, and delivering innovative solutions, we successfully promote social justice and give everyone we deal with the best chance of a second chance. And because it affects their lives, we aim to achieve the highest standards in everything we do.

What we Offer;

We want all our employees to have an excellent work-life balance and employee wellbeing is very important to us. Nacro is committed to supporting employees to balance the demands of personal and work responsibilities at times of urgent and unforeseen circumstance through the provision of various types of leave. We offer a discretionary 10 days of special leave for dependent or bereavement leave. 

We have an excellent benefits package which includes  a 25 days per year (plus public holidays) annual leave entitlement, with an additional day added each year, increasing to 30 days (plus 8 public holidays) after 5 years’ service. Additionally, we also provide an occupational sick pay scheme which exceeds statutory requirements. If you want to work as part of a dynamic supportive team who delivers results for the people we support every day, Nacro could be the place for you.

Key responsibilities include:

•  Line Management of a team of frontline staff
• Carrying a Caseload of Service Users
• Performance Monitoring and action planning
• Personal Development

People Management;

• Support with the recruitment, induction and training of new staff members to ensure all staff are prepared and have what they need to be able to succeed in their role. 
• To manage the conduct and performance of direct reports, using the appropriate policies and procedures.
• Provide adequate support and supervision for all staff to ensure high levels of and performance and best practice.

Quality Assurance & Delivery;

• Support with the implementation of new services or changes to delivery ·
• Conduct regular property visits to ensure high levels of property standards are maintained.
• Positively promote and represent Nacro at all times, building strong relationships with colleagues and external partners.
• Working as part of an integrated team, focused on meeting the needs of services users

Duties may vary from time to time within the broad remit of your role and grade. You are required to undertake any such reasonable and appropriate duties.

This role requires regular travel, a full Driving License and access to your own vehicle and business insurance are an essential criteria.

DBS check required for this role

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Service Lead

Job type - Full -time

Hours - 35 (plus 5 hours paid lunch break)

Salary - £35,235 per annum

Location- Caunton Avenue, Nottingham

Are you a person-centred leader who thrives on getting the best results possible?

Do you hold a passion for empowering young people who have multiple, and complex needs due to their experiences to achieve self-actualisation?

Do you have experience of leading supported housing services, with proven experience in safeguarding in a supported housing environment?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Service Lead to join us, managing our Nottingham Young Person Supported Housing Service based in Nottingham City; providing accommodation and support to 80 young people.

To be considered for this role you must have the following requirements: -

·be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of supported housing services and /or housing management services to a range of service user groups presenting with a range of complex needs.

·be able to prioritise tasks effectively; ensuring the team are supported, Service Users needs are prioritised and contractual KPI’s are met.

·You will need to be adaptable and highly organised to balance your time. You will champion relationship mapping in your region, including developing links with supporting agencies.

·You will need excellent people skills, which will be inclusive of problem solving, and both written and verbal communication skills.

Be confident in quality risk assessment, risk management and provision of holistic support.

We are looking for:

Someone who can lead and manage a team of Support Workers and Housing Management workers to deliver high quality, effective supported housing services to young people that meet their needs and meet contractual requirements and financial targets. Reporting to the Area Manager.

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

- Effectively lead and deliver services which comply with the regulatory framework.

- Ensuring your staff team understand and meet the agreed financial standards on voids, arrears and re-lets

- Managing the rota and on-call arrangements.

- Lead team by example by upholding Nacro’s values and behaviours and translating those into everyday activity.  

- Ensuring safeguarding and risk management is a key part of our support work and that any safeguarding alerts and/or incidents are safely managed. Be the accountable Safeguarding lead for the service.

- Meeting service quality standards and ensuring your team are adhering to all operational and policy standards.

-Ensuring all service user support and safety plans are in place.

- Take responsibility for the communication of organisational and local messages through regular and effective team meetings.

• Set clear objectives and performance targets for each direct report using the appraisal process and monitor through 

Car driver needed.

DBS check will be required for this role 

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Job Title: Counselling Services Coordinator

Hours: Part-time Monday to Thursday 4 hours per day (16 hours per week)

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract to 28th November 2026

Salary: £31,000 to £32,000 FTE depending on experience

Application Deadline: Wednesday 10th July 2024 at 11.00pm

Interviews: week commencing 22nd July 2024

Location: Hybrid, with home-working available following an initial period of training at BCWA Head Office in London SE20

Employee benefits we offer:

- A friendly, flexible and values-led organisation

- Competitive salary

- 25 days of annual holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)

- Birthdays and Wellbeing Leave

- Contributory pension scheme (5%)

- Training to help you perform your role and support your professional development

- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling and wellbeing support

- Healthcare cashback scheme

Who we are: Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid is a well-established, innovative and forward-thinking local domestic abuse service. We are seeking a self-motivated, flexible and experienced individual to join our dynamic team to help us deliver excellent services to vulnerable women who have experienced domestic abuse and be committed to working in a non-discriminatory manner.

About the role:  We are seeking to recruit a Counselling Services Coordinator to provide administrative support to our Counselling Services Manager and assist in the smooth running of our counselling programme. You will deal with referrals and carry out clinical counselling assessments in person and online to ensure that BCWA is the correct counselling service for the client.  You will liaise with our trainee counsellors and allocate clients to the counsellors based on suitability. You will manage our counselling waiting lists and ensure clients are kept informed.  You will ensure confidentiality and data security is maintained in relation to service user’s details, case records and supervision notes. Ideally you will have or be working towards a counselling qualification and/or have experience of providing trauma-informed support.

All staff have access to hot-desking at our offices as needed. We do our best to accommodate flexible working practices at BCWA. We are all women with busy lives and families, and we understand that flexibility can be crucial in supporting women in the workplace.   

Wellbeing: As a trauma-informed charity we take mental health and wellbeing seriously. We offer clinical supervision to our frontline team, regular staff wellbeing sessions, use of our Employee Assistance Programme and an additional wellbeing platform which offers a range of advice and support.

Notifying candidates: We apologise in advance that we will not be able to notify candidates who are not shortlisted. If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks from application deadline, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.

We reserve the right to terminate this recruitment process should we receive a large number of applications.

Female applicants only: In light of the nature of work, the candidate’s gender is considered to be an occupational requirement in accordance with Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: BCWA is committed to supporting and promoting equality & diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. To achieve this, we seek to employ a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds to better represent the communities we serve.

BCWA are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Reg. Charity No.1068007.

Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Location: Finsbury Park, N4 2DR. This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.
Salary: £ 53,949 per annum
Contract: Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quantity Surveyor who understands the multiple disciplines required to deliver this fast-paced area of the business, to join our small, but supportive, Housing & Neighbourhoods Team. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing this type of services and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.

You will bring your knowledge and experience by providing financial acumen and support to various stake holders, staff and residents by supporting in keeping ISHA financial services and maintenance records along with close scrutiny of requisition orders being placed.

You should be commercially 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:

• Good understanding of the National housing federation rates to enable processing of invoices.
• Responsible primarily for orders being produced within the Housing and Neighbourhoods department, covering responsive repairs, neighbourhood services and support when required across planned works and empty homes by way of controlling and monitoring costs.
• Ensuing orders are coded/allocated to the correct budget lines, appropriate evidence for cost approval is saved on ISHA systems.
• Take ownership of requisition approval process of orders being requested for supply of goods, by validating requisition and purchase orders prior to ordering goods and services.
• Ensuring that robust financial monitoring, reporting, and forecasting systems are in place.
• Contributing to the budget plan and compiling budget reports monthly.
• To support in the managing of all 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.

You

We are seeking a proactive and committed individual with strong interpersonal skills who can provide an efficient commercial service across our contracts and support internal teams.

This is busy and varied role, so we’re looking for someone, 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 services.

Working closely with our key internal and external stakeholders, you will continue to lead the way in the development of our processes for requisition orders being placed and support in the works orders being approved and coding to SoR have been correctly used.

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.

Deadline: 09:00am 26 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.

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.

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.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead ASSIST Sheffield’s experienced and diverse volunteer teams and staff in delivering high-quality support to people who are experiencing destitution as a result of being refused asylum in the UK.  The post holder will join a small leadership team, collectively holding responsibility for the work of the organisation. 

You will be experienced in managing or delivering support and advocacy services. You will be committed to the wellbeing of people seeking sanctuary in the UK  and to the values of solidarity and respect which underpin ASSIST’s work. You will be confident in enabling volunteers to work effectively with skill and compassion. You will thrive on teamwork in a dynamic and challenging environment and will be ready to bring your skills to the leadership structures in a vibrant, learning organisation.  You quickly grasp the subtleties of complex issues and identify patterns in challenges. You don’t stop at diagnosing problems, though; you come up with insightful, pragmatic, equitable, and sustainable ways to produce positive change.

You will be an excellent communicator, committed to forging positive relationships with partners, and ready to hold responsibility confidently and transparently. 

And finally you put equity at the centre: You recognise ways that race and other identities intersect, especially with communities we serve. You identify potential for bias and actively work to minimise inequities in all areas of your work.

ASSIST Sheffield is a well-established charity which has supported people who have been made destitute following the refusal of their asylum claims for 21 years. With over 140 volunteers and a staff team of 12, this is a dynamic and challenging working environment.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

BENEFITS

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme - providing counselling and a range of other benefits

• 6% Employer contribution to our workplace pension scheme

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Free Eye Tests

• Effective Line Management, personal and professional development opportunities

• A supportive, well-being-focused work environment.

• The opportunity to be part of an effective, well-respected community organisation 

ASSIST is committed to equal opportunities policies and practises and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of the asylum system.

Leading the way in resident empowerment Watmos' unique approach has put it at the forefront of transforming communities, providing great homes and exceeding expectations. We are seeking an outstanding and dedicated individual who shares our passion for improving people's lives.

This role involves providing a community engagement service and administrative support in association with the Senior Community Engagement Officer (SCEO) and residents. You will support the SCEO to develop and maintain resident engagement routes and assist in producing and disseminating key performance indicator information.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with local communities to achieve positive outcomes and a background in housing or administrative roles. They should excel in written and verbal communication, interpersonal relations, report writing, organisation, negotiation, IT and possess strong customer service skills.

Job Purpose

• Provide administrative support and service to the Senior Community Engagement Officer (SCEO) and residents in respect of consultation and community development.
• Support the SCEO to develop and maintain resident engagement routes including the Resident Voice database in addition to other meetings/events.
•  Assist the SCEO in producing and disseminating KPI information as necessary.
• Provide a responsive highly supportive and proactive administrative service as required to SCEO.
• Assist the SCEO to prepare and present reports, in a timely fashion, as required.

We are genuinely proud of our diversity, our people, our values, our homes and our achievements and you will support our ongoing evolution.

In line with our ethos as an organisation we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation with a sense of belonging, where everyone knows their opinions matter and their talents can be fully utilised. We encourage applications from those of all backgrounds and strongly value having a workforce that includes people who have different life experiences.