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About us

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here. 

The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.

About the role

At Breast Cancer Now, we’re seeking a Senior Press & PR Officer to join our ambitious press, PR & celebrity team for 12 months. The role is focused primarily on the charity’s Fundraising portfolio, including our corporate partnerships and high-value fundraising events, all of which raise vital funds that help the charity to deliver world-class research and provide life-changing support for anyone affected by breast cancer. 

About you

As an excellent communicator, you’ll be great at building trusted and influential relationships across a range of stakeholders including colleagues, journalists, external partners and advocates and ambassadors of Breast Cancer Now. This will help you bring our work to life, working collaboratively and effectively and at pace. 

With significant experience in developing and delivering impactful PR campaigns, either in-house or in an agency, you’ll tell powerful stories around our fundraising activity to achieve cut-through in the media and drive further engagement and support (including financial) from our key audiences. 

Always putting the patient voice at the heart of our work, you’ll be innovative and creative in your approach to secure maximum profile for annual events and campaigns, building on previous years’ successes and bringing fresh angles to this work to maximise engagement with the media and key audiences. 

With strong written skills and an instinct for what makes a good news story, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced press office, and always consider how content can be integrated and delivered across communications channels for greatest impact.   

The successful candidate will be excited to be part of an ambitious, focused and supportive wider Fundraising, Communications and Engagement Directorate, which has a remit to reach and engage more people with our work than ever before, and to develop our fundraising to become a sustainable organisation for the future. 

Job description and benefits

Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.

Primary location of role and hybrid working 

This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.   

When applying 

We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions please contact Breast Cancer Now Recruitment Team.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.

Please submit your application as soon as possible. We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis therefore this role may close before the advertised closing date.

Closing date 9am on Tuesday 30 July 2024 

Interview date Week commencing 5 August 2024 

About the role

The Wilder Communities Officer will inspire and support community-led action for wildlife and empower local people to create more wildlife rich spaces on their doorstep.  Working with colleagues across the Trust, the officer will help to build a wilder future through local community action for nature, with a particular focus on rivers and wetland habitats, and linking in with our Species Survival in Hertfordshire’s Chalk Rivers project.

For a full copy of our recruitment pack and details of how to apply please visit our website.

Project summary - Species Recovery for Chalk Steams – Wilder Communities

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust has secured a grant from the Species Survival Fund, a partnership between Defra and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Species Survival Fund is enabling the Trust to deliver an ambitious restoration programme for our chalk river and wetland habitats across 11.15km of the River Lea Catchment in Hertfordshire.  As part of the project, with additional funding, the Trust will be working in local communities to highlight the importance of our chalk streams and wetland habitats and enabling groups and individuals to take their own local action for wildlife.

This community organising work will initially focus on communities in and around Welwyn Garden City and Hertford.

How do we support you?

The Trust strives to be a positive employer supporting our staff through flexible and hybrid working, and training and development. We recognise the importance of our staff team and looking after their health and wellbeing. Our values and expected behaviours reflect the culture which the Trust seeks to maintain to ensure productive, efficient, effective and pleasant workplaces and roles.

In support of this, we offer an excellent benefits package, ranging from office perks, generous leave entitlements and financial benefits. You can find out on our website.

About the Trust

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is a local nature conservation charity.

We believe that wildlife should have space to thrive alongside our everyday lives and that everyone benefits from having access to nature.

Our staff team is enthusiastic, friendly and committed to making a difference.

The Dalgarno Trust is looking for an outstanding Project Manager who is passionate about health and wellbeing to manage our Community Champions project. You will be an effective and dynamic project manager with the right mix of both hands-on and management skills to recruit, lead and develop a team of local volunteers. Community Champions actively engage our local Dalgarno communities in identifying health needs and improving their health and well-being by delivering campaigns, events, activities, training and signposting to other services.

Community Champions are local people who volunteer their time to connect local communities and residents with local services. The Champions have success because they know and understand the culture and language of local communities and can tune into the communities’ needs and aspirations. The Dalgarno Community Champions project focuses on reaching residents living in the five social housing estates known as the Dalgarno Wedge.

The Champions reach out to the community in different ways from meeting people on the streets, knocking on doors and engaging people through various events and networks. Talking to residents regularly provides a rich insight into identifying challenges and learning what people need to influence commissioners, other professionals, and decision makers. The Champions also support residents in making informed choices about a range of issues linked to their health and wellbeing. Through the programme the Champions are supported in gaining vital skills, training, and experience to progress them in their own professional development. 

Job Description:

· Recruit and coordinate Community/Maternity Champions volunteers to promote local health and wellbeing.

· Create engaging opportunities around local and national health campaigns for volunteer outreach in order to engage hard-to-reach communities

· Manage project delivery including community research, events, regular activities and public health campaigns

· Manage the work of the Community Champions Support Worker (working 16 hrs per week) and conduct regular supervision.

· Manage the work of the Community Champions Apprentice (working 30 hrs per week) and conduct regular supervision.

· Effectively manage and monitor project expenditure.

· Work with partner organisations to maximise the impact of Community/Maternity Champions and foster good working relationships between volunteers and local organisations

· Capture case studies and news and publicise to residents and stakeholders via the Community/Maternity Champions and the Dalgarno Trust website, newsletter and other social media outlets (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Next Door)

· Capture and record outputs on the online monitoring database and complete quarterly monitoring reports to the bi-borough Public Health Department

· Ensure that there is a diverse and equitable access to volunteering opportunities

· Liaise with GP surgeries and health and social care providers located in and/or serving the Dalgarno Ward residents to develop a thorough understanding of their services and create referral and access pathways

· Effectively manage and offer ongoing support and supervision to Community/Maternity Champions volunteers to include: regular supervision meetings and appraisals with volunteers; source & deliver continuous professional development, to enable them to undertake community research, signpost members of the community to appropriate services and support a range of volunteer-run activities e.g. information sessions and specialist training workshops on health and wellbeing themes designed to inform and build upon the knowledge of volunteers

· Ensure all staff and volunteers adhere to Dalgarno Trust’s policies and procedures.

· Undertake any other duties as directed.

· Be willing and able to work occasional evenings and weekends

Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
Contract type: Fixed term contract up to 31 March 2027
Travel: Although you will be based in the Belfast office, travel will be required within the region approximately 3-4 times per month.
 

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

Do you have good practical experience of working alongside volunteers? Could you use your knowledge of volunteering best practice to help provide our volunteers with the best possible experience. If yes, you might want to consider joining our new Volunteer Experience Team based in 5 locations across the UK. We have exciting opportunities within our new Volunteer Experience Team to recruit new Volunteer Experience Coordinators as part of our 3-year sustainability plan in which we aim to expand and empower our network of volunteers delivering services to people with arthritis.

Our new Volunteer Experience Team is based within our People and Culture Directorate which delivers all our people related services across the Charity. We work together to ensure that Versus Arthritis is a great place to work and volunteer and that everyone feels, engaged, motivated, supported, valued and included and able to do their best for people with arthritis.

About the role

Our Volunteer Experience Coordinators provide best practice guidance at a local level to Versus Arthritis volunteers. Over the next three years you’ll be supporting the growth and diversification of our volunteer force and introducing new sustainable products (including digital) and processes to support them.

In this role, you will focus on empowering our volunteers by ensuring they receive a high-quality experience through forging relationships with them and ensuring they have what they need to carry out their volunteer roles. For example, you’ll be triaging queries, inducting and supporting new volunteers, delivering workshops particularly around digital awareness and competency, and encouraging networking between volunteers.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:

• Great spoken, written and presentation skills.
• Ability to adapt communication style to audience.
• Ability to assimilate information and help drive forward change.
• Ability to build positive relationships quickly and to facilitate interactions between individuals and groups of people.
• Good IT knowledge and ability to share information with others.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and changing requirements.
• Strong collaborative team player as well as able to work effectively on own initiative.

*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.

Application deadline and shortlisting 

• We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.  
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales. 

Interview

Interviews expected: in the week commencing Monday 12 August using Microsoft Teams

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Waltham Forest, London

Salary: £32,000 per annum, pro rata

Contract: Fixed Term Contract until March 2025

Hours: 22.5 hours per week

Are you passionate about young people and eager to play a pivotal role in the implementation and development of a new mental health service, aimed at improving the mental wellbeing of children, young people and their families in Waltham Forest?

The Role

Our client is looking for a dynamic and flexible CWP / EMHP / CYP IAPT Practitioners who, with the support of the Service Manager and Clinical Lead, will hold a caseload of young people across their Waltham Forest sites.

The organisation have been commissioned by the London Borough of Waltham Forest to deliver high-quality, evidence based interventions to young people across the borough. The post holder will provide support for children, adolescents and their families who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions across various sites in Waltham Forest. These interventions will employ the principles of the CYP-IAPT initiative. The post holder will develop partnerships with key individuals across youth services, CAMHs clinicians, and Education providers to support the development and improvement of children’s Mental Health Services in the borough.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a thorough assessment of mental health needs in collaboration with young people and their families

• Take responsibility for managing own caseload, including group work.

• Work in partnership with Primary Mental Health, CAMHS, Schools and GPs

• Provide evidence-based mental health provision to children, young people and their families for mild to moderate mental health difficulties

• Develop, support and train parents and professionals, whilst innovating practice within and outside of the organization.

• Provide support to volunteer group facilitators as appropriate.

Skills and Qualifications

• Committed to working to improve children and young people’s mental health

• Qualified therapeutic practitioner with experience delivering evidence-based interventions, and an interest in working with young people (5 - 17)

• Experience delivering CBT based interventions.

• Knowledge and understanding of the barriers young people can face when accessing mental health support.

• Eager to develop your skills as a practitioner, and to foster new ideas/creative modes of delivery to response to the needs and wishes of young people across the borough.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, please do not hesitate to apply.

Closing date for applications: 9th August

Interviews: w/c 12th August

Prospectus are delighted to be working with Your Place in their search for an Interim Employment Coach.Your Place’s mission is to build hope and enable lasting change to end homelessness for people in east London. They are a growing charity, helping people who've lost their homes to regain their self-belief and rebuild their lives.

This is a role offered on a 3-4 month temporary contract, on a full-time basis, based on Barking Road, London. Paying £16.92 per hour.

The Interim Employment Coach will report to the Team Manager and be responsible for the service delivery of an effective, high-quality, person-centred support service to residents with a range of medium to high needs. The postholder will temporarily lead on developing employment, training, and education (ETE) opportunities for residents. A key element of this role is developing positive relationships with residents as well as developing partnerships with potential employers and community partners.

To be successful, you will have demonstrable experience within the local authority, voluntary, independent, charity or social housing sector. You will have experience of providing personalised advice, coaching and support to individuals facing homelessness or other forms of social exclusion. You will have an awareness of issues facing people that experience homelessness or rough sleeping. You will also have an understanding of ETE (education, training and employment).

You will have excellent customer service skills and the ability to build rapport with internal and external stakeholders. You will have strong IT literacy skills, especially Microsoft Office. You will be a team player who can also work on their own initiative and have strong organisational skills.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

SCIE Vision

We are committed to building a society which enables people who draw on social care to live fulfilling lives.

At the SCIE, we are driven by our values:

· Progressive – always learning and developing.

· Inclusive – working together for equality, diversity, and fairness.

· Credible – evidence-based, robust, and reliable.

· Transparent – open and honest.

The role:

A great opportunity for you to join our small impactful team and make a real difference to people’s lives by:

· Be a member of the TLAP leadership team, taking specific responsibility for our policy and influencing work as a partnership and within the core team.

· Co-Produce TLAP policy positions with NCAG, others with direct lived experience and TLAP partners.

· Liaise with and seek views from a wide range of TLAP partners and key stakeholders as part of programme and product development.

· Maintain TLAP at the forefront of influence and innovation, working with TLAP partners to improve personalisation nationally, regionally and locally

What we are looking for:

· Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion and social justice.

· Extensive strategic experience, gained at a senior level, of developing of policy and/or practice and of delivering complex work programmes in partnership with people who draw on care and support.

· A thorough knowledge of personalisation and community-based support as defined in the Care Act and subsequent policy development 

· A record of collaborative work within an organisation and across organisational and professional boundaries to achieve change

· An understanding of partnership working, in particular the promotion of coproduction and inclusive approaches to policy development and influence

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· What we offer in return.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary and homeworking allowance. We provide an employer pension contribution above the statutory minimum, an award-winning employee assistance programme, and an attractive holiday package which rises with length of service.

If you would like to access the application form in a different format or if would like any assistance that might help improve your experience while completing the application, please contact us.

Finance Systems Officer
 

The Vacancy

As part of the wider Connexional Team, the finance team seek to continually review and provide budget holders with management and analytical reports that help them to understand the financial consequences of their strategies and decisions. We use a number of finance applications to process and analyse financial data and produce reports that help our stakeholders make informed decisions.  The Methodist Church has embarked on a transformational journey, and with a strong focus on technology-driven solutions, we are committed to enhancing efficiency, productivity, and colleague satisfaction.

We are currently seeking a talented Systems Support Officer to join our dynamic team, working with IT, Finance and also non-finance colleagues.

As a Systems Support Officer, you will work with and support our Finance Systems Analyst, the finance team and other colleagues within the Connexional team in administering our finance systems, developing financial reports, troubleshooting and supporting colleagues in finding systems solutions. You will work collaboratively to analyse data, provide training to users and make suggestions that will improve operational efficiency.

You will work with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the provision of accurate and timely reports and be able to analyse the data produced in a meaningful way.

There will also be the opportunity to work on new projects and initiatives to support information and user experience across the Connexional Team.

If you are a highly motivated and organised Finance System professional with a passion for delivering exceptional results, we want to hear from you!

About You

• Proven ability in a similar role, preferably supporting and working with multiple finance applications in a medium to large organisations.
• Experience in administering and maintaining financial systems and financial reporting platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of and experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Query/Power BI).
• Able to manage multiple projects and priorities.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Have passion to continuous professional development in finance systems applications.

Our Culture, Values and Benefits

Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.

We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.

The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups. We also welcome applications from people living with disabilities.

Closing Date: 28 July 2024

Interview Date: 5 August 2024

re you an experienced Senior Marketing Manager ready to make a difference? Do you have the expertise to craft compelling Corporate and High-Value marketing campaigns?

As our Senior Marketing Manager, you will be the driving force behind the creation and execution of industry-leading  corporate and high value marketing campaigns. Your mission is to inspire more organisations and high-value donors to engage with and support the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in its life changing, lifesaving work. 

Working in close collaboration with BHF’s high-value income teams (Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy), you’ll lead the development and implementation of our partnership and high-value marketing strategies, contributing to our fundraising and mission objectives.

You'll lead a small team and be responsible for the development and delivery of go-to-market initiatives, overseeing the execution of key campaigns with strategic partners and high-value donors, creating marketing collateral, and managing marketing activities in tandem with our supporters.

You’ll cultivate deep relationships with our strategic partners’ marketing teams and collaborate with them to design and deliver initiatives that propel our partnership goals.

Working arrangements

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office. 
 
At BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause. 
 
Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

About you

As our ideal candidate you will have CIM/IDM or similar qualification, you have demonstrable end-to-end experience in developing integrated, multi-channel campaigns, including B2B and B2C. You'll have experience in setting objectives, tracking, and evaluating results and managing budgets. 

You'll also have significant experience in partnership, corporate, or B2B marketing, as well as experience targeting high-net-worth audiences. 

Additionally, you'll have experience of delivering marketing activity through a range of channels and creative formats including the production of TV, radio, outdoor, press and digital formats as well as direct marketing and mail pack production and scheduling Face-to-Face and Telemarketing channels.

With a strong understanding of managing brand campaigns and brand strategy, you’ll have proven project management ability, including working with agencies and a wide variety of teams and stakeholders, and will be a self-motivated, solutions-focused individual.

You’ll have strong influencing and negotiating skills with a sense of diplomacy and empathy and will be a flexible team player who shares knowledge and learning openly and strives to help others. With strong organisational skills, adept at time management and prioritising to meet multiple, competing deadlines, you’ll have excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, able to develop strong working relationships with colleagues across the organisation.

About us 

At British Heart Foundation, we are focused on the urgent need to fund more research into heart and circulatory diseases like heart diseases, stroke, vascular dementia and the conditions that cause them, to find answers fit for 21st century challenges. We are independent, have more than fifty years of breakthroughs under our belts and we won’t stop until we beat heartbreak forever.
 
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day. 

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Benefits

To find out more about the benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of our advert page.

Interview process

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. The first stage is planed for the 6th and 7th of August, while the second stage is set for the 12th and 13th of August.

The Junction is an out of hours service, open 365 evenings a year, to support and assist individuals experiencing a mental health concern. The aim is to alleviate the need for people in the Swindon locality to access A&E acute mental health services and primary care GP services unnecessarily by managing the presenting symptoms/mental health crisis along with the triggers and context for that crisis. 

As a Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be providing a preventative, person centred approach to people accessing the service who may be experiencing a mental health crisis.

The service is open from 4PM-11PM, 365 days a year so this position will include some weekends.

 
What You'll Do: 
 

• Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, elevating the mental health and emotional well-being of the people we serve, while opening doors to life's possibilities. 

• Effective Partnerships:  Ensure effective and appropriate communication with all individuals, staff, community agencies and partner organisations.  

Successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual.

Ref: PSW-241

Are you a proactive, organised and compassionate individual with a proven record of working collaboratively with multi-agency partners and providing vital support, advice and advocacy to vulnerable people?

If so, St Giles is looking for a highly motivated Peer Support Worker to engage with and provide one-to-one Peer led support to people who are not only experiencing mental health conditions but who also present with risk and behaviours that bring them into the forensic arena.

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

About this key role

Based within the Forensic Community Mental Health Team in Coventry and Warwickshire, you will provide emotional and practical support to your referred clients, and to assess, with reference to St Giles Trust/ Forensic Community Mental Health Team assessment practices, each individual, producing support and risk management plans based on these assessments.  We will rely on you to liaise closely with other St Giles teams with reference to referrals, avoiding duplication, and to support those referred to access and engage with suitable support agencies, while also developing strong relationships with statutory agencies.

An important element of this role is to deliver a holistic support service, working independently or with colleagues as the situation dictates, to each of your clients, as well as ensuring you close cases efficiently and positively, identifying a success plan for the client including agencies that can be used for on-going support/ if serious problems develop in the future.

What we are looking for

• Relevant direct or indirect personal experience of the criminal justice system
• Experience of working and engaging positively with people who have a history of substance use, mental health, offending or other vulnerable groups, reluctant to discuss their needs, and people who are angry and confused
• To have a relevant qualification to a good standard or be working towards one
• An understanding of the need to use support plans, to enable people to successfully access accommodation and support services
• Excellent IT, prioritisation, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work

As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will require an Enhanced Child and Adult with Child Barred DBS Check.

We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group to apply for this role.

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

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

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

To apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button. We encourage you to apply early as we will be shortlisting as applications come in.

Closing date: 12 August 2024. Interview date: 20 August 2024.

Previous applicants need not apply.
 

Job Title: Project Coordinator & Head Coach: ‘Access- Ability’Programme' (Part-Time)

Department: Disability

Reports to: Disability Projects Manager (Specialist Support)

Salary: £15,000 (pro rata'd of £25,000)

Working Pattern: 21 Hours ( 3 Days a Week)

Closing Date: 11th August 2024

Interviews: W/C 19th August 2024

Brentford FC Community Sports Trust

With community work spanning three decades, Brentford FC Community Sports Trust has established itself as a pioneering organisation for the local community. It uses the power of sport to educate, motivate and inspire people from all walks of life.

Main Purpose of Job

To coordinate and lead the implementation and delivery of a sports, social and employability programme for Deaf & Disabled young people across West London.

The post holder will split their time between coordinating the project, and leading on delivery of the sessions, which will be a mixture of sports sessions, social clubs, and employability sessions, designed to prepare participants for the workplace.

Responsibilities will include 

• To increase participation in sport for teenagers and young adults who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing or have a disability.
• To increase social opportunities for teenagers and young adults who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing or have a disability.
• To create and provide employability opportunities for Deaf/Hard of Hearing and disabled teenagers and young adults, including training courses and volunteering opportunities.
• Use Deaf/Disability-friendly communication to publicise and co-ordinate the Project.
• To help build the team of staff to effectively deliver the Project, including assisting with recruitment of new coaches and volunteers.
• Train coaches, support workers and partners in basic BSL and Deaf Awareness.
• To encourage partnership work across West London to ensure a coordinated approach to all Deaf and Disability activity participation across the region.
• To ensure monitoring reports are completed to a high standard and in a timely fashion, as per funder’s monitoring guidelines.

About You

You will have atleast two years’ experience of working with teenagers/young adults who are Deaf or disabled and previous experience in delivery Deaf or disability activity programmes. You will have a good understanfing ofthe issues faced by Deaf and disabled participants and their families related to activity provision and attendance.

You will have the ability to work to deadlines and have good time mangement. Good organisational skills are essential.

Brentford FCCST is an organisation which values and is passionate about diversity and inclusivity. We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates, including those from underrepresented groups – such as those from ethnically diverse backgrounds, women, those from the LGBTQ+ community and those with disabilities.

Should you require any workplace accommodations (also known as ‘reasonable adjustments), you will have the opportunity to let us know at the appropriate points in the hiring process.

 Please note that where appropriate for the role, you will be required to complete additional background checks such as Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and police checks for any time you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 10 years. 

 If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

SCIE Vision

We are committed to building a society which enables people who draw on social care to live fulfilling lives.

At the SCIE, we are driven by our values:

· Progressive – always learning and developing.

· Inclusive – working together for equality, diversity, and fairness.

· Credible – evidence-based, robust, and reliable.

· Transparent – open and honest.

The role:

A great opportunity for you to join our small dynamic team and make a real difference to the future of care and support by:

• Monitor TLAP work programme, milestones, and risks.
• Report TLAP programme delivery to government and funders.
• Provide Business Support to TLAP Programme Board and ensure governance compliance.
• Co-produce business and finance policies and processes with team, National Coproduction Advisory Group and SCIE finance and HR teams.
• Manage TLAP core team functions and budgets.
• Plan and support delivery of national TLAP events.
• Line manage Business Administrative Officer and deputise for Head of PMO

What we are looking for:

· At least 10 years experience working in administrative roles

· Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion

· Experience of working in coproduction with people with lived experience

· Experience of coproducing processes and procedures with various stakeholders

· Skilled in all aspects of administration and budget management

· Experience of using ICT effectively

What we offer in return.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary and homeworking allowance. We provide an employer pension contribution above the statutory minimum, an award-winning employee assistance programme, and an attractive holiday package which rises with length of service.

If you would like to access the application form in a different format or if would like any assistance that might help improve your experience while completing the application, please contact us 

Join Britain’s biggest charity supporting Kinship Carers. 

We know kinship carers are strong, capable and fiercely determined to ensure they get what they need to support their kinship family. And we want to support them to feel confident and empowered to do that. Kinship has been awarded funding to develop the first ever training programme for kinship carers. The programme will support all kinship carers across England in the caring role.

This is a new role and will be part of a brand-new team responsible for the delivery of this national training programme. You’ll be supporting the team to deliver high-quality in-person and online training across the country. You’ll help co-ordinate and support the successful delivery of our workshops.

You’ll need to be an experienced and effective administrator and clear communicator You’ll be organised, calm and detail orientated and be great at managing your time and working to consistently high standards.

You’ll work with initiative and be curious – always thinking ahead, anticipating need and seeking opportunities to improve our service and the experience for kinship carers.

As part of this new training service, you’ll receive training and development to support you to succeed in this role.

There will be some travel across England either to support the training programme, meet with colleagues or attend learning and development sessions. This may include overnight stays from time to time. We’re happy to discuss how this could work best if you have kinship caring responsibilities.