Background
Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change. The British HIV Association (BHIVA) seeks a co-ordinator to manage its well-established national clinical audit programme following retirement of the current post-holder. This is a high-level role involving complex skills and independent working.
Main roles
There are two main aspects to the clinical audit co-ordinator’s role:
Design and implementation of audit projects (usually one main national audit per year) including:
Providing support functions for the BHIVA Audit and Standards Subcommittee, including:
Relationships
The post-holder works independently but under the direction of the BHIVA Audit and Standards Subcommittee and its chair and any sub-groups. In addition to members of the committee, the post-holder liaises closely with the BHIVA Secretariat and, when appropriate, the BHIVA officers. Other relationships include liaison with:
Skills and characteristics required
Ability and motivation to work independently without supervision.
Commitment to excellence in healthcare for people living with or affected by HIV, with a broad understanding of NHS services and structure. Specialist knowledge about HIV and related conditions, public health, and/or UK health systems are desirable but not essential.
An anti-discriminatory and non-judgemental approach regarding substance use and risk behaviours as well as protected characteristics under the Equalities Act 2010 (i.e., age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender) and sexual orientation).
Collaborative working with ability and willingness to consult and learn from a diverse range of colleagues and stakeholders.
Clear analytical thinking and research skills, encompassing:
IT
Post-graduate experience of research using quantitative datasets in public health, biomedicine, social science or related fields is highly desirable.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Economist Educational Foundation is looking for a hands-on, experienced leader you will ensure operations and finances are robust, efficient, and aligned with ambitious vision for growth and impact
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Hours: Full time (40 hours) with flexible working. Core hours are 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid. Central London on Wednesdays and Thursdays, remote working on other days
Salary: £53,000- £60,000 per annum, depending on experience
Closing date: Tuesday 7th January 2025 (23:59 GMT)
We will contact all applicants after the closing date. The first round interviews will take place during the week of 13th January 2025. The second round will take place on 22nd or 23rd January 2025. Please ensure you will be available to travel to our London office for interviews on these dates.
ABOUT US
The Economist Educational Foundation is a fast-growing charity on a mission to ensure that every child is empowered to think critically and communicate effectively about the world’s most complex current issues. Topical Talk, our programme, has already reached over 10,000 teachers and 400,000 children in over 124 countries. Our income will exceed £1million for the first time this year. Our goal is to reach over 1 million school children by the end of 2026, with ambitious plans to expand in the UK, USA and globally.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Director of Operations and Finance will be a crucial member of our Senior Leadership Team, overseeing financial management, operations, and strategic growth. You’ll play a pivotal role in leading financial planning, supporting the charity’s global expansion, and driving digital transformation to improve efficiency and impact. You will also manage risk and compliance, ensuring robust operational foundations as we scale. This hands-on role requires a leader with proven experience in financial management, operational leadership, and people management. By joining us, you’ll be at the heart of shaping our future, helping us reach more children, and making a lasting difference on a global scale.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
We enable disadvantaged children to build essential critical-thinking and communication skills through inspiring discussions about the news.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Benefits:
Background
Every three minutes someone in the UK develops dementia: a progressive and complex condition that can be devastating for the whole family. One in two of us will be affected by dementia in our lifetime – either by caring for someone with the condition, developing it ourselves, or both.
Dementia UK is the specialist dementia nursing charity that is there for the whole family. Our specialist nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, provide free, expert advice, support and understanding to help families care for their loved one. Every day, Admiral Nurses help families up and down the country to have the best life possible, for as long as possible.
Purpose of the job/about the role
Join our Community Fundraising team in this brand-new role to coordinate our growing Volunteer Ambassador (VA) programme delivering the recruitment, training, and ongoing support of Volunteer Ambassadors, ensuring they are equipped to represent our cause effectively.
As the Community Fundraising Volunteer Officer, you will be a a key point of contact for VAs, handling requests for their support from both internal and external sources. Collaborating with Community Fundraising Managers and Regional Fundraisers, you’ll build strong relationships with VAs, delivering exceptional stewardship and designing multi-channel supporter journeys in partnership with Regional Fundraisers.
You will deliver effective recruitment campaigns across various channels and coordinate the induction and training of VAs, both virtually and in person. You’ll also represent the charity at supporter events, networking and delivering presentations to inspire engagement.
Additionally, you will produce regular reports on marketing activities and stewardship performance, monitor financial and non-financial KPIs, and ensure accurate supporter database records in line with Dementia UK’s policies and processes.
To succeed in this role, you will bring experience in managing volunteers or a background in relationship management, with an understanding of volunteer engagement. You will have a track record of planning and developing projects, utilising databases effectively, and delivering impactful presentations.
If this sounds like you, join us now and be part of a team dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of those affected by dementia.
Our culture
In addition to a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a working environment that looks after our workforce to support them in achieving their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia.
Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation positively contribute to and lead on our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone. We aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We celebrate difference and individuality and encourage everyone to join us and be their whole selves always.
This role will be subject to a Basic DBS check.
By applying to join Dementia UK, you acknowledge that in the event you are successful for the role, any offer and your ongoing employment will be conditional on you having or obtaining the right to work in the UK.
*Please note that any decision on flexible working is based on business needs
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We want people to be in control of their end-of-life decisions because there is no-one better to make them. We support people to make informed choices, start honest conversations about death and dying with loved ones, and record and revisit their wishes whenever they want to.
Our nurse-led information line is a unique service, which helps to ensure people’s wishes are known and respected at the end of their lives. We do this through advance care planning and by helping people to make decisions about treatment and navigate the healthcare system. The service sits at the heart of the organisation. We listen to what people tell us and amplify their voices to drive changes to policy and healthcare practice. In 2023 we supported over 4,000 people and call volumes are increasing.
We are delighted to be expanding our clinical team and are looking for two dedicated and motivated nurses who can provide accurate, clear and practical verbal and written information and support.
The successful candidate will have relevant clinical knowledge and experience alongside excellent communication skills, enabling them to convey complex information in a straightforward and sensitive way by phone and email. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the expansion of a growing information service which not only delivers direct support to people, but also drives improvements in practice. This is a new permanent position, with potential to develop within the role.
We are looking for two part-time nurses, three days per week, however our priority is finding the right people or person and therefore we would also consider one full-time position, or part time positions for a different number of days. Please state in your application how many days per week you wish to work.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
We believe a good life should include a good death. Having the care and treatments you want, and not the ones you don’t.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
At St. John's, we have been making a positive difference to the lives of young people for nearly 140 years. We are now looking for an amazing Learning Support Worker to support us in making that difference! Could that be you?
Why join our inclusive team?
St. John's is one of the largest employers in Brighton and Hove.
What can we offer you?
Who are we?
St. John's is a non-maintained specialist provision, working with autistic people, the majority of whom also have learning disabilities. Some of our learners have co-occurring conditions such as epilepsy, hearing or visual impairments, or mental health needs. We also support autistic learners who have an additional profile of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) syndrome. We have a team built up of support workers, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, nurses, PBS practitioners, assistant psychologists, and more, to support us in our holistic approach to development.
Each learner's curriculum is shaped by their individual strengths, interests, and challenges. St. John's is awarded with Autism Accreditation by the National Autistic Society (NAS). We support our learners to develop their skills in the NAS's four focus areas of:
What are we looking for?
We've been doing this long enough to know that, whilst desirable, experience is not everything! Our amazing learning and development team and our passionate managers have coached people new to this field into support working roles. We know that if you have, the passion and desire to learn, and the want to empower others, you already have the foundations of an outstanding support worker. We are looking for drivers to support our young people to access the community, but having a licence isn't essential.
Sound like you? Then keep on reading!
What will you be doing?
Exciting opportunity? We think so! Click apply to start your journey as part of the St. John's College family as a Learning Support Worker
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
Salary: £32,000pa
Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week (and part of an on-call rota)
Days and times: Monday - Friday, 09:00am - 17:00pm
Contract: Permanent
Employed by: Age UK Hillingdon, Harrow & Brent
Location: Age UK Buckinghamshire office 145 Meadowcroft, Aylesbury, HP19 9HH - Age UK HHB operate a hybrid and flexible working policy on successful completion of induction.
Interviews: These will take place on a rolling basis on receipt of applications
ACCESS TO A CAR AND A CLEAN FULL DRIVING LICENCE IS A REQUIREMENT OF THIS POSITION
This is an exciting opportunity for a leader who is passionate about delivering services to make a difference to the lives of people especially older people.
Are you organised, able to make decisions using your own intuition, a driver of change?
This is a full-time role working with Age UK Buckinghamshire to deliver the Hospital Discharge Support Service. The post holder will manage and deliver the day-to-day operation of the service supporting the staff and volunteers from the Age UK Buckinghamshire offices in Aylesbury. In a typical year more than a thousand patients will be taken home by our teams and helped to settle in safely. This service supports people aged 18 and over who are leaving hospital after a stay. Older people are highly represented in this client group.
The post holder will work closely with the Community Team who support residents post discharge by liaising with other services and offering practical support to settle in at home.
If you would like an opportunity to make a difference, we are keen to hear from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Compassion UK is hiring!
Senior Analyst who will lead with data and serve with purpose!
Are you a data expert who feels called to make a difference? At Compassion UK, we’re seeking a Senior Analyst to bring advanced analytics expertise to our mission of releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
About the Role:
As a Senior Analyst, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our strategies through data-driven insights. This is not just a technical role, it’s an opportunity to directly influence our ability to steward resources wisely, champion our supporters, and inspire action for vulnerable children worldwide.
Your projects will range from digital analytics and decision-making tools to developing best practices in test-and-learn activities. You’ll take the lead on significant initiatives, guiding our data strategy and fostering a culture of excellence within the analytics team.
Key Responsibilities:
What We’re Looking For:
This senior role requires exceptional skills and expertise. The ideal candidate will bring:
Desired Skills and Experience:
Qualifications:
A degree or equivalent experience in a numerate subject is essential. You must demonstrate a strong intuition for working with numbers and ensuring outputs are accurate and reliable.
Why Join Compassion UK?
At Compassion UK, we combine professional excellence with a deep sense of purpose. Every project you lead will contribute to empowering children and their communities. You’ll work within a supportive and faith-driven environment, continually growing and making an impact that matters.
If this role sounds right for you, apply today on our website!
Important Information:
As we approach the festive season, please note that our offices will be closed during this time and will reopen in the New Year. We kindly ask for your understanding, as our responses may be slower than usual while we take time to celebrate and recharge.
The application deadline for the Senior Analyst role is 16 January 2025. Following this, we will shortlist candidates and invite successful applicants to proceed to the assessment stage. Interviews are planned to take place during the week commencing 27 January 2025.
To comply with our obligations under the Immigration, Asylum, & Nationality Act 2006 we cannot consider applicants who do not presently have permission to work in the United Kingdom. We are only able to consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for work visas.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
We work in 29 countries partnering with 8,600 local churches within communities experiencing poverty.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Independent Age is the national charity focused on improving the lives of people facing financial hardship in later life. We believe no one should face financial hardship in later life.
Our Helpline and expert advisers offer free, practical support to older people without enough money to live on. Through our grants programme, we support hundreds of local organisations working with older people across the UK.
We use the knowledge and insight gained from our support services and partnerships to highlight the issues experienced by older people in poverty and campaign for change.
We would love to find individuals from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds to join us on this journey.
Responsibilities and Person Specification:
This role is strategic, creative and fast paced. The successful applicant will lead the public affairs team at Independent Age to develop influencing strategies targeting decision makers across national and local government, Parliament and Whitehall to ensure we secure policy change for older people facing financial hardship. You’ll need to be a strategic thinker, with an in-depth understanding and experience of different parliamentary levers, the ability to build strong external relationships and exceptional organisation skills.
This is a fantastic opportunity to raise the issues that are faced by people in later life experiencing financial hardship up the political agenda, and further establish Independent Age’s profile as a key stakeholder in this space.
For full details on the role and requirements, please review the job description and person specification. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with all of the criteria in the person specification but you do meet most of them and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply anyway.
This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, which you can choose to work over five days or a 9 day fortnight.
What it’s like to work at Independent Age:
We celebrate diversity at Independent Age and champion the differences that make each of us unique. We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. We aim to attract and retain a wide range of talent and create an environment where everyone can feel safe, protected, welcome and included.
We offer great benefits including 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, and fantastic learning and development opportunities. We also offer a number of enhanced leave provisions and benefits.
We know that a good work life balance helps us perform at our best and supports wellbeing. Flexible working hours and hybrid working is standard for all (those contracted to work in the office usually attend 1 day per week). But if you need a different form of flexibility, we are always happy to talk flexible working.
You can find out more about what it’s like to work at Independent Age by visiting our website.
Application Process:
To apply, please visit our website to submit a CV and a Supporting Statement, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification (please do not hesitate to contact us if you have specific requirements and need support to apply in an alternative format).
To support our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion our hiring managers use anonymous shortlisting. Therefore, please do not include your name, photo, or information to indicate your gender or age in your CV and supporting statement. Please do not omit dates of employment. Please ensure the title of any uploads does not contain your name.
Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. We therefore ask that you supply your full work history with explanations for any gaps in the application documents you submit and, if offered the post, we will require two employment references including your current or most recent employer. A Basic DBS Certificate will be required for this role.
Closing Date: 5th January 2025 11:59pm
Interview Dates: Remote interviews on 13th and 14th January 2025
Registered Charity
101 - 500
Independent Age is the national charity focused on improving the lives of people facing financial hardship in later life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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!
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Registered Manager to lead and work as part of our Rugby Service team – Moultrie Road.
Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values.
All our CQC registered homes aim to help people move on to more independent accommodation by providing support that meets their changing needs.
Moultrie Road
A 7-bed, 24-hour staffed nursing service offering rehabilitation and support for individuals with severe mental illness. Residents can transition to more independent living, including our CQC-registered Supported Living Service in a 3-bed property or independent accommodation.
JOIN THE TEAM!
How you will make a difference as a Registered Manager:
Essential Skills and Experience Required:
Caring for our people.
We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:
Who are we?
We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”
It is an exciting time to join our growing charity. We are on a transformation journey, one that supports the delivery of the organisation strategy – delivering Communities that Care. Supporting employees, managers and leaders through this change is a key priority for the People function. Just like its key that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Remote - East Anglia region beneficial.
Regular travel required across the UK. Access to Norfolk and Cambridgeshire for team meet ups.
Role Mission:
I am accountable for all the charity’s relationships with our corporate partners. It is my role to help grow Scotty’s impact by acquiring new funding partners, developing existing relationships, and ultimately being responsible for the income generated from our partnerships with businesses.
I am accountable for:
The charity’s corporate fundraising income stream including the development of annual plans, budgets and delivering agreed goals.
Stewardship and growth of Scotty’s Business Heroes Club.
Development of partnership and sponsorship opportunities.
Stewardship of reactive and proactive charity of the year partners.
Corporate participation in Scotty’s events such as the Scotty’s March and Scotty’s Ball.
To apply please click below to be redirected to the Scotty's website.
Thank you for your interest in joining our team, we are an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are treated with respect and given equal opportunities for employment and advancement.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.
We encourage all qualified individuals to apply for employment within our charity and we are dedicated to providing a fair and inclusive recruitment process for all candidates.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About The Role
We are looking an organised and methodical generalist to join our People and Culture team. You’ll be the first point of contact for all people related queries so you’ll love supporting people helping them help themselves through effective signposting and coaching. This role is the bedrock of the team ensuring compliance and data integrity is upheld at all times to enable informed decision making by other members of the team.
You will need to be CIPD level 5 qualified as a minimum and come with experience of providing support on a range of Employee Relations casework. Your advice, guidance and support will facilitate managers and employees to be able to get on with their roles making sure no child faces mental health issues alone. For a career with purpose, this is your place!
Together we can change children’s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma, allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.
For a career with purpose, this is your place.
Recruitment Process:
As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on 03 January 2025
1st Interview date: 10 January 2025
2nd Interview date: 15 January 2025
Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.
Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organization.
Please note if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply asap.
Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment including DBS checks and social media background checks.
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
This organisation is using Anonymous Recruitment to reduce bias in the first stages of the hiring process. Submit your application as normal and our system will anonymise it for you. Your personal information will be hidden until the recruiter contacts you.
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!
Community Fundraiser based in Cheshire
Supporting MHA services in Cheshire
Full time role - 37 hours per week
For more than 80 years, families have been choosing MHA to support the needs and aspirations of their loved ones in later life.
People have been forging friendships through our community programmes; fundraising to drive our charitable goals; and spreading the warmth, comfort, and spirituality that you’ll find across every MHA home, community, and development.
All our work is always for one reason, which will always stay the same: helping older people to live later life well. Could you be the person to join MHA as our Community Fundraiser for Cheshire as we continue to enable people to thrive in later life?
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference by playing a vital role in our work across Cheshire. Reporting to the local team and supported by the national fundraising team, this role will be responsible for engaging volunteers, both as individuals and groups, across the area to raise funds for MHA.
You will work closely with all MHA services, building relationships, and inspiring and empowering local fundraising to enable those who choose to use our services to thrive. This will include supporting those who wish to fundraise In Memory and utilising MHA’s fundraising products.
A portion of your time will also be spent collaborating with community fundraisers across the country on fundraising initiatives and guides, benefiting both your area and community fundraising nationally. You will provide an effective and efficient service supporting the organisation and our homes and schemes to meet our vision, values, and strategic objectives. The role will be target-driven with regular reviews throughout the year to ensure fundraising goals are met.
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
About You
Are you a passionate and skilled community fundraiser keen to play a key role in building a local network of community fundraising volunteers? Do you have a passion for working with supporters, building meaningful relationships, and inspiring supporters while ensuring your work aligns with the results we need? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Ideally, you will have experience working with high value donors and supporter groups, including businesses, and are able to evidence making a difference at scale across a wide geographical area., formally working in roles where you have successfully met targets. You will work well as a team player, closely collaborating with both operational colleagues in your area and the wider Fundraising Team, ensuring a focus on achieving the right results for the organisation and building lasting and substantial relationships with funders. You will be an effective communicator, developing trusting relationships, and taking everyone with you on the journey.
In return, we offer a committed and supportive team and a great staff membership scheme which includes training, pension, life assurance, access to high street vouchers, and lots more.
About us
Methodist Homes (MHA) is the largest charity care provider in the UK. With 80 years of experience delivering care and support to over 18,500 older people, we understand what it takes to help people live later life well through our care homes, retirement schemes, and MHA Communities.
At MHA, we place great importance on nurturing the mind, body, and spirit of those we care for and their families, with the commitment and dedication of our 7,000 employees and 4,000 volunteers, regardless of faith, background, or belief.
As the largest charity care provider in the UK, we offer some of the highest quality care, accommodation, and support services for older people throughout Britain. Our mission is to inspire the best care and wellbeing at every stage of later life.
Why join MHA?
Please Note: We will interview on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the recruitment period early if we successfully recruit for this role.
MHA are fully committed to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) as this is embedded in our values: respect, nurture and inspire. In addition, as a committed employer we have been awarded level 2 under the Disability Confident Scheme. Click here to read more about this.
Recruitment agencies: please note, MHA do not accept unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies, regardless of whether they are on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL). We only accept CV’s from agencies that have been appointed and briefed by MHA’s Talent Acquisition Team
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
At The Elephant Group, we believe talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. That’s where we come in. We’re on a mission to create fairer access to top universities. As Head of Programmes, you’ll be key to driving this change.
In this role, you’ll lead the delivery of our transformative programmes – Elephant Access and Meta Method. Your work will directly contribute to breaking barriers, ensuring our programmes not only meet but exceed their potential. This is an opportunity to blend strategic thinking, project management, delivery and partnership building while using your analytical mindset and curiosity to continually improve outcomes and ensure excellence.
You’ll personally deliver elements of content to young people and other stakeholders, oversee the evaluation of programme impact, lead two direct reports, manage relationships with key partners and contribute to the development of strategies to promote fairer access.
Beyond programme leadership, you’ll drive collaborations with industry and third-sector organisations, leveraging their expertise and resources to improve our programmes and create solutions that promote opportunity.
You'll be joining a small charity that has grown rapidly in reach since our launch and has big plans for the future. In 2024 we were short listed for the “Student Mobility Impact Award” and our inspiring CEO Jayne Taylor, was a finalist in the “Rising Chief Executive” category at the Third Sector Awards.
Job Details
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 depending on experience
Contract: Permanent (subject to a successful probation review at 3 months)
Hours: Full-time only
Benefits: 28 days holiday plus 3 days at Christmas and bank holidays, 5% pension contribution, flexible working, training & development opportunities
Based: Remote – a suitable home working space is expected with equipment provided. Frequent organisational travel is expected with expenses paid. (You will need to be based in or very close to one of our hubs, Greater London, Midlands or Yorkshire and will travel typically around twice a week )
Line Manager: CEO
Direct reports: Programme co-ordinators
Start Date: As soon as possible
Key Responsibilities
Programme Management
Programme Development and Innovation
Team Leadership and Organisational Contribution
Why join us?
Great company culture
Our small, friendly team is committed to the mission of social justice. We are ambitious and hard working; we make decisions quickly and action them. We value professionalism, curiosity, innovation, speed and collaboration.
Excellent package
A competitive salary and generous leave
Professional development
We value initiative and will support forward thinking employees to develop with formal and informal opportunities. Our fantastic Chief Executive is passionate about staff development and giving staff autonomy to thrive and deliver great outcomes.
Interested? To find out more including the important skills we are looking for, download our candidate brief
NB: An enhanced DBS check will be taken prior to appointment. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We are unable to sponsor visas for international applicants without the right to work in the UK.
Please apply via CHARITYJOB
Application Details
Please send a CV and up to two-page covering letter via Charity Job
Your cover letter should include:
a) Why you want to work for the Elephant Group? What excites you about our mission?
b) How your skills and experiences fit our job requirements and make you a great candidate for the role.
Please address your cover letter FTAO Jayne Taylor, CEO The Elephant Group
For an informal discussion about the role, please email us via our recruitment email in the attached candidate brief in advance of the closing date.
Registered Charity
6 - 10
We’re on an urgent mission to create fairer access to top universities & courses for talented young people from underrepresented backgrounds.
The OAC is a coalition of leading charities and health organisations in Wales which aims to influence the development of the Welsh Government’s obesity strategy, Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales. In this role, you will be the secretariat for the group, and will engage with stakeholders and decision-makers and write policy documents on behalf of the OAC, in order to influence change.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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 1.3 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.
It’s an exciting time at BookTrust: we’re investing in developing our successful scaled programmes to deepen the impact we’re delivering for the children we’re reaching. We’re looking for a fantastic Service Design Lead to drive the design and development of ‘at scale’ offers, enhancing the priority touchpoints and moments of truth in our partner journey to create greater impact for families. Working closely with our Partnerships team and our Research and Impact team the postholder will reimagine our existing service journeys and define and activate service or product improvements that drive loyalty, advocacy and deepen relationships with our key delivery partners.
Objectives and Deliverables:
Define our ‘to be’ delivery partner service journey to identify and deliver priority enhancements that make the most of our physical and digital touchpoints with partners, ensuring that our channels work together to in a cohesive, impactful, service experience for partners.
Create and manage a digital user experience development roadmap/backlog to ensure the website is optimised to support partners, drive and deepen engagement with BookTrust and deliver an impactful digital service experience.
Work closely with our supply chain, IT, digital and books teams to scope feasibility and define key product parameters and design requirements for proposed continuous improvement work.
Extend our core service/product portfolio to deepen impact e.g. designing supplementary support for children with particular needs, reimagining group storytelling support, e-learning and partner training.
Work with Head of Innovation, Design and Development to define our ‘continuous improvement cycle’ for at scale products and services - when and how we iterate and evolve existing designs in a way that is sustainable for the organisation.
Coach and support more junior designers/line reports to nurture BookTrust’s in-house service design capability.
Would suit someone who:
Has practical experience of leading the development and optimisation of existing products and services, using design thinking /human centered design approaches.
Has experience of defining and delivering new digital experiences in the context of complex ‘offline’ journeys, products and services, and can combine on-line and offline touchpoints for maximum impact.
Knows brilliant collaboration is at the heart of design.
Has a product or service development background in a mid-large organisation/company.
Has a track record of managing development pipelines/roadmaps and can work within existing governance structures to ensure decision making happens at the right levels.
Understands and demonstrates great design leadership with both line reports and wider organisational teams.
PLEASE NOTE: Applying as soon as possible is advised, as the vacancy may close early, due to the high volume of applicants.
To apply please complete the application along with a copy of your CV and 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.
We are looking for a Financial Controller to join the National Theatre Finance Team.
The Financial Controller has responsibility for ensuring the National Theatre, and its subsidiaries’ statutory accounting processes, controls and records are managed in accordance with professional standards while being responsive to the needs of the Theatre. The post holder will seek to develop systems to ensure that the Finance Department provide an efficient and secure service to internal and external users.
The successful candidate will have the following:
A professional chartered accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) and proven post qualification experience.
Good working knowledge and experience of financial reporting and preparation of statutory accounts, including dealing with multi-currency ledgers.
Good working knowledge of taxation issues (particularly Corporation Tax, Income Tax, NI, and VAT) and the ability to broaden that knowledge as required.
A good working knowledge and recent experience of the use of information technology in financial management and the ability to apply that experience to develop and improve the finance systems at the National Theatre.
Proven experience of leading, managing and developing staff
If that sounds like you, this may be the role for you!
Working with us will give you...
Complimentary staff tickets for shows and backstage tours, subject to availability and policy
25 days annual leave increasing up to 32 with length of service (plus bank holidays)
Training and Development Programme via e-learning platform, and specialist in-person training relating to role
Hybrid and flexible working, subject to agreement and policy
Access to interest-free season ticket loan and cycle scheme partnership
Generous sick pay
Family-friendly employer – we are a member of Parents and Carers in the Performing Arts (PiPA)
Pension schemes with Legal & General and NEST
Sabbatical option, subject to agreement and policy
On-site staff canteen and social facilities
On-site Occupational Health support
In-House Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisors providing workplace counselling and support
Wellbeing programme of events including mental health awareness, financial wellbeing, skills sharing and opportunities to get active
Exclusive staff talks to hear more about NT productions, past and present, from some of the world’s leading practitioners
Discounted access to NT at Home
Volunteer Leave – paid day a year to volunteer for your chosen charity
Discounts in the NT’s bars, cafes, restaurants, and bookshop, as well as in local businesses (from Wagamama to gyms, on and around the South Bank)
Access to retailer discounted gift cards and a cash-back-on-spending card
Please note
The closing date for the receipt of a completed application is Sunday 5th January 2025 at 12pm
We support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for our vacancies.
People Department 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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