Jobs in Aylesford
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Background
The Maypole Project supports children and young people with complex medical needs and their families across the UK. Our vision is that all families with a child with complex medical needs will have access to our support from diagnosis, for as long as they need.
Our unique model provides emotional and wellbeing support through counselling and therapy services for parents/carers, siblings and other adults involved in caring for a young person with complex medical needs.
The Maypole Project has been providing vital services to families for over 21 years and is in an exciting phase of development. We are expanding our management team to provide the capacity needed to grow and extend our provision to meet the needs of more families who would benefit from our unique model of support.
Role Purpose
As a member of the senior leadership team, the role will have strategic and operational oversight of all clinical and therapeutic services and activities, ensuring the Maypole Model of support is delivered effectively, to high-quality standards and is appropriately resourced. Working to the Maypole vision to provide access to support for everyone who needs it across the UK, through appropriate outreach, the role will work closely with colleagues and external partners to support the development and expansion of our service offer to meet the needs of families and grow our income.
Key Responsibilities
Service Management
- Line Management of the Senior Counsellor, Senior Child Therapist, Activities Manager and Clinical Supervisors.
- Overall management of the Therapies team, fostering positive communications through regular team meetings/socials, and building a collaborative and collegiate working culture across the organisation.
- Ensure all staff receive appropriate training and have access to further professional development opportunities.
- Holding a counselling caseload of 3-4 clients, in line with postholders professional qualifications and experience.
- Oversight of all enquiries and referrals from initial contact, through assessment and end of support, with assistance from the team administrator.
- Facilitate the provision of a Clinical Supervision for the therapies team.
- Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for the organisation ensuring safeguarding cover is always available via nominated deputies in your absence.
- Contributing to case conferences as required and convening internal “Maypole Team around the family” meetings to discuss our work and ensure seamless working both within Maypole’s provision and with external providers as necessary.
- Contract management: act as the main point of contact for our contractors with which we have service level agreements for the provision of therapy services.
- Data: Manage the client database and associated systems for recording of clients in relation to appointments, payments and impact reporting.
- Ensure premises are fit for purpose for therapy services and activities programmes, ensuring adherence to health and safety regulations, accessibility and confidentiality policies, in liaison with Head of Developments, CEO and other responsible personnel.
- Business/Service Development
- Contribute to strategic and operational plans for business and service development including delivering the aims of our strategic plan for growth in the following areas:
- service uptake and expansion across a wider geographic area
- developing service provision, quality and resourcing
- development of training and other consultancy services to external professionals
- Monitoring and Evaluation: ensuring standardised ways of recording data and disseminating the impact of our services in communications to a range of stakeholders including for contracts/grants as well as for key supporters and internally the Board and staff team.
- Support the CEO and Head of Development in developing external relationships and partnerships, instigating discussions regarding potential new contracts and partnerships and opportunities for collaborative working.
- Act as an Ambassador for The Maypole Project, advocating and promoting our work throughout relevant networks. Working with the Head of Development, seek opportunities to give talks and presentations to a range of audiences with the aim of building relationships with external contacts and potential partners.
- Reporting: provide written reports as required for the CEO, Board of Trustees, funders and contract clients.
Finance
- Contribute to setting the annual budget for therapies and activities.
- Monitor monthly income and expenditure accounts for therapy services, highlighting any discrepancies or potential for significant over or underspends.
General responsibilities
- Attend regular supervision, line management and whole team meetings.
- Adhere to the codes of ethics and practice adopted by The Maypole Project, in line with our service model and with other relevant Counselling Professional bodies.
- Comply with legal and statutory requirements including the Data Protection Act, Health and Safety at Work Act (always ensuring H&S of self and others).
- Comply with all organisational and departmental policies and procedures.
- Undertake the required CPD as identified in annual appraisals and line management processes.
- The postholder is expected to carry out additional duties commensurate with the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Talent Set are delighted to be working with Helpforce to recruit their Head of Communications. The charity offers a flexible working environment, with remote working, and an expectation to attend monthly team meetings at their London office.
This is a truly forward thinking, innovative and mission led charity punching well above its weight, leading practice and ideas about the best way volunteers can support our health service. It could not be a better time to be joining them.
You will need to be creative and experienced in directing integrated campaigns and teams across most marcomms disciplines, including PR and with some experience of working with policy and public affairs to influence at national and regional level
We are looking for someone with a strong track record at a senior level. This doesn’t have to be in health and social care, but you'll need to have that commercial edge to understand new sectors quickly and translate the charity’s mission to accelerate the growth of volunteering in health and care into compelling messages to secure new business and influence change.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a comprehensive overarching marketing communications strategy to clarify, build and maintain Helpforce’s brand and position.
• Plan and deliver external multi-channel communication campaigns, and work with the Comms team and any external suppliers to ensure all campaigns are delivered strategically and effectively.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with media outlets, influencers, and key stakeholders.
• Commission and manage specialist agencies and freelancers – including policy, PR, website/digital and design – and ensure their contribution aligns with our strategic/business objectives.
• Support colleagues across Helpforce in their effective and strategic communication with stakeholders and audiences, including developing the CRM (Salesforce).
• Work with the Comms team, colleagues, agencies and freelancers to create compelling content for the website, social media, newsletters, blogs, press releases and other communication materials and assets.
• Collaborate with and support other teams to ensure consistent messaging and brand alignment.
• Monitor and analyse communication performance, to support a culture of continual improvement.
• Ensure you and the Comms team stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
Person Specification:
• A track record in creating and leading successful integrated, multi-channel marketing communications campaigns.
• The ability to think strategically while also being directly involved in content creation.
• The ability to come up with creative ideas that capture the media and other target audiences’ interest and secure coverage/engagement.
• Strong media relations experience.
• Exceptional written and spoken communication skills
• Good understanding of how to create compelling content for different audiences and capacity to brief relevant in-house or external specialists to deliver what’s needed.
• Ability to get to grips with a complex area of policy and practice, like healthcare, quickly.
• Experience of effective stakeholder communication and engagement.
• Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to provide wise and credible counsel to senior colleagues, and your peers and team.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines.
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
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The primary functions of the PR and Communications Officer role will be to contribute to the organisation’s media advocacy by working with colleagues to ideate, develop and publish compelling messaging and narratives around the organisation’s research and advocacy, and by delivering the day-to-day duties of the press office. Another key function of the role is to edit and proofread content generated by colleagues, including reports, blogs and other materials. A smaller share of the role is dedicated to carrying out and supporting with day-to-day “core” communications work, such as maintaining content on our website and contributing to our content planner. These general communications duties are flexibly shared across the communications team to enable team members to support each other’s workloads.
The PR and Communications Officer will be part of the communications team at the Tax Justice Network which is led by the Head of Communications, who this post will report into, and includes the Content and Communications Officer, the Creative Strategist/Podcaster and the Podcast Producer. The team leads and delivers the Tax Justice Network’s communications, including the organisation’s media work, blog, website, social media and newsletters.
The communications team is a busy team in a fast moving and agile organisation. The communications team works closely with teams, individuals and partners across the organisation, supporting the planning, development and publication of all external outputs. Therefore, you need to be self-reliant and a top multi-tasker, who enjoys independent writing as well as supporting colleagues with developing and polishing their work into the best possible shape. You will need to be able to provide constructive feedback to colleagues on their work in an encouraging and respectful manner that helps develop skillsets. Given the nature of the work, you will need to have an exceptional eye for detail.
The Tax Justice Network is a virtual organisation with all the team working remotely. You therefore need to be self-motivated and comfortable working alone. Alongside being thorough, diligent and independent you should have strength and confidence to judge when to reach out to colleagues to assist and support.
Non Charity Employer
21 - 50
To contribute to creating the conditions for achieving tax justice by challenging false narratives, and normalising bold, progressive proposals.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Purpose of the post
HDR UK and the BHF Data Science Centre are committed to meaningful involvement and engagement where patients and the public are actively involved in shaping our work and decision-making. Reporting to the Centre’s Operations Director, this is a pivotal role that will be integral to ensuring the patient and public voice is embedded in our work at all stages.
You will work closely with public members, research and NHS communities, internal colleagues, charity partners, and funders to develop and implement plans for PPIE activity across all of our key areas of interest, in addition to the governance of the Centre.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has a passion for meaningful involvement and engagement of patients and the public, to shape and influence our work on the safe, ethical and scientifically robust use of data for research into the causes, prevention and treatment of all diseases of the heart and circulation.
The successful candidate will have a track record in working with individuals, groups and communities and have the ability to communicate complex information in clear, engaging ways. The post holder will have excellent influencing and negotiation skills, experience of working on complex projects with multiple partners and be comfortable with working at pace. Patient and public involvement and engagement in data-driven research is a growing field. The successful candidate will show a willingness and experience of developing and delivering innovative approaches to involvement where previously opportunities may not have been obvious.
Main responsibilities
Embedding PPIE in our work
- Lead on the delivery of the PPIE strategy for the BHF Data Science Centre, with oversight from the Operations Director, incorporating regular (e.g. annual) reviews and updates of the strategy.
- Lead and facilitate meetings with public contributors to integrate meaningful PPIE throughout all aspects of our work.
- Undertake and manage specific involvement and engagement activities, including but not limited to focus groups, engagement events, developing and undertaking surveys, supporting the writing of plain English summaries of projects and their outputs. In collaboration with senior colleagues, support involvement of patients and the public in the governance of our work.
- Review and provide advice on PPIE elements of research applications ensuring adequate PPIE is incorporated and provide advice where needed to researchers.
- Develop methods to expand reach and ensure diversity of perspectives and work with the HDR UK PPIE team to grow involvement of currently underrepresented and underserved groups in health data science.
- Build and manage relationships with colleagues within the BHF Data Science Centre, working collaboratively to support and manage involvement and engagement across all areas of work.
- Work closely with the internal communications colleagues to create and disseminate engaging content (e.g. news stories on outputs and impact, videos, infographics, case studies) on our work and involvement and engagement activities using a variety of communication tools.
- Horizon scan and liaise with colleagues across the BHF Data Science Centre and HDR UK for opportunities to increase visibility of the institute’s engagement and involvement impact, i.e. through conferences, festivals, journals and other publications.
Developing PPIE best practice and collaborative working
- Incorporate best practice in our work, learning from examples of successful patient and public engagement that could influence our work
- Provide briefings for colleagues to share best practice and examples of successful patient and public engagement
- Collaborate with PPIE colleagues to coordinate public outreach initiatives and other events, ensuring that stakeholders are afforded opportunities to contribute their input and provide feedback. Establish effective working relationships and ‘ways of working’ with strategic partners to maximise opportunities for collaboration in patient and public involvement and engagement.
- Act as an internal and external ambassador for public, patient and practitioner engagement and involvement.
- Monitor and report on performance of PPIE across the Centre, make effective use of digital approaches to maximize the ability to collaborate, communicate and continuously learn.
Supporting PPIE members
- Be the point-of-contact for all BHF Data Science Centre public contributors, ensuring they are kept updated, receive all information in a timely manner and that any issues are dealt with in a sensitive manner.
- Lead on the recruitment of new public contributors as required. Adapt, develop and provide training for public contributors where necessary identifying training requirements as needed.
- Working with BHF Data Science Centre colleagues, maintain patient and public contact lists in Hubspot (CRM).
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Experience
- Experience of working with patients, carers and members of the public with diverse interests.
- Experience of running patient/public involvement activities and evaluating these activities, strategies and methodologies, preferably in a research environment
- Experience of promoting the need and value of engagement and involvement to a wide range of stakeholders and acting as an advocate
- Experience of writing / developing content for public and research audiences and delivering presentations
- Experience of demonstrating an understanding of health research and the needs of patients and the public
- Planning and organisational expertise with a proven track record of delivering challenging projects with multiple partners to deadlines
- Experience of organising and facilitating a range of events and meetings including: event preparation, chairing of meetings, delivering presentations, use of tools to gather views and feedback, follow-up communications and evaluation
- An understanding of the public sensitivities of using health data for research
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage complex and multiple areas of work with competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent people and interpersonal skills to build collaborative partnerships across diverse groups and the ability to handle sensitive issues positively.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively and confidently with different groups of stakeholders and people at all levels.
- Evidence of ability to meet tight and challenging deadlines using a flexible and adaptable approach
- Good influencing and coaching skills.
- Able to grasp the complexity of work across HDR UK and process complex scientific information to communicate it in a way that is clear, engaging and inspires the public to get involved.
- Strong analytic skills with the ability to frame problems and solutions in a logical manner.
- Ability to work autonomously and make decisions without supervision.
- Ability to work collaboratively and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Please note, as we are a UK-based organisation, applicants must be living in, and eligible to work in, the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Grants and Funding Manager (Part-time Fixed Term Appointment)
Hours: 0.2 FTE, one-year Fixed Term Appointment with possibility of extension
Salary: Up to £8,000 (FTE £40,000)
Location: Home based
The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional association for good zoos and aquariums. We drive excellence in animal welfare, conservation, education, and research, demonstrate the value of zoos and aquariums to society, and use our collective expertise to influence policy and champion positive behaviours.
We have an exciting new vacancy for a part-time Grants and Funding Manager to join our small, dedicated team and support us in developing and delivering on our strategic goals.
The Role
The Grants and Funding Manager will utilise Grant Finder and other resources to identify funding opportunities for BIAZA and its members and provide strategic advice on diversifying income streams.
Key Responsibilities
· Grant Research and Identification:
o Utilize Grant Finder and other resources to identify relevant funding opportunities.
o Maintain an up-to-date database of potential grants and funding sources.
o Monitor deadlines and requirements for grant applications.
· Grant Application and Management:
o Assist in the preparation and submission of grant applications.
o Coordinate with internal teams and BIAZA members to gather necessary information and documentation.
o Track the progress of submitted applications and follow up as needed.
· Income Diversification:
o Provide strategic advice on diversifying income streams for BIAZA
o Identify and evaluate new fundraising opportunities, including corporate sponsorships, partnerships, and individual giving.
o Develop strategies to increase financial sustainability.
· Stakeholder Engagement:
o Build and maintain relationships with funding bodies, donors, and other stakeholders.
o Communicate effectively with BIAZA members to understand their funding needs and provide tailored support.
· Reporting and Analysis:
o Prepare regular reports on funding activities and outcomes.
o Analyse funding trends and provide insights to inform future strategies.
Essential Skills:
- Proven experience in grant writing and fundraising.
- Familiarity with Grant Finder or similar funding databases.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of the zoo and aquarium sector is a plus.
This role will be mainly home based, however, travel to London for meetings may be required. There may also be a requirement to visit members and attend seminars, conferences and networking events around the UK and Ireland. These may occur in the evenings or at weekends.
This is a part-time, one-year fixed term role contracted at 0.2FTE, with the possibility of extension. Flexible working arrangements are available. The hours do not need to be confined to a single day each week and can be distributed in a pattern that suits both the candidate and the organisation. The full time equivalent (FTE) salary for this role is up to £40,000 depending on experience, which equates to £8,000 for this part-time role. The FTE leave entitlement is 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, for this role the leave entitlement will be 5 days, plus a pro-rata share of bank holidays.
BIAZA is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Closing date 17th January 2025
Interviews will be held by MS Teams in the week commencing 27th January
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.