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We are on the lookout for a dynamic and committed individual to take on the role of Community Hub Leader based out of our Great Yarmouth schools, driving the creation of impactful and lasting relationships between our schools and their communities. This exciting opportunity allows you to be a pivotal force in the development and success of a vital community initiative. If you're ready to make a significant difference and shape the future of our communities, we want to hear from you.
Job Title: Community Hub Leader
Location: Based out of our Great Yarmouth schools
Salary: Pay Scale 23 – 28 (£33,366 - £37,938)
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Fixed Term initially until December 2026, with a view to a Permanent Contract.
Working Pattern: Full-Time, 37 hours per week
Development of Community Hubs:
Developing Community Hubs closely associated with our schools is the next strategic step for Creative Education Trust. We believe these Hubs will sharpen our efforts and have a profound impact on overcoming the barriers to learning faced by many of our children. By fostering a deeper connection within the community and building relationships with other agencies, civil society organisations and businesses, we aim to address the holistic needs of our students and create an environment where educational success is supported by both the school and the community. Our goal is to facilitate deep, meaningful partnerships between the school and the community it serves, ensuring that barriers to learning, particularly those related to academic attainment, behaviour, and attendance, are addressed effectively, and overcome.
About You:
As the Community Hub Leader, you will be the catalyst that kickstarts and enables the Great Yarmouth Hub to evolve, develop and grow. We are looking for a Hub Leader who can plan and facilitate the development of activities and relationships, as well as be the driving force behind the creation of a thriving and supportive community. You'll work closely with school staff, parents, students, and variety of agencies, charities and civil society organisations to break down barriers to learning, ensuring every student can succeed academically and behaviourally by maintaining exceptional levels of attendance.
We’re on the lookout for a dynamic individual with experience in:
· Direct engagement with parents, carers and young people, understanding what interventions are required for them to reach their potential.
· Leading innovative, community-focused programmes and activities that make a real difference.
· Building and nurturing impactful partnerships with other agencies, charities, civil society organisations and businesses, as well as with the wider community, to create lasting change.
· Creating a safe and supportive environment that will allow the Hub to flourish and gain the confidence of families and the local community.
Are you ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a profound impact? Join us and be a catalyst for positive transformation.
Requirements:
To apply for the Great Yarmouth Community Hub Leader opportunity, you must:
· Hold GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English.
· Have strong organisational and leadership abilities.
· Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
Creative Education Trust Benefits & Continual Professional Development:
Creative Education Trust is committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.
Next Steps:
We welcome informal conversations to discuss the role and purpose in more depth. Please do not hesitate to get in contact with our Head of Recruitment, Sarah Catchpole.
We look forward to receiving your completed application form.
Application Closing Date: Friday 10th January 2024
Interview Date: Week Commencing – Monday 13th January 2025 or Monday 20th January 2025
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility. All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview. The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Cardinal Hume Centre works to prevent and tackle youth and family homelessness.
Job title: Employment and Learning Manager
Reports to: Head of Advice
Salary: £42,000 plus benefits
Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours)
Hybrid Working
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the world? Do you want to leverage your skills to combat homelessness for children and young people? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking to recruit a passionate and values-led Employment& Learning Manager to lead on the development and growth of the Centre’s Employment and Learning Service. Our Employment and Learning Service is among the most impactful support we offer, with the potential to help individuals and families build long-term resilience. You will play a pivotal role in strengthening and expanding this service, particularly in demonstrating its effectiveness and scaling our ability to reach more people in need.
You are joining at a time when we are actively piloting projects to reach young people and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness sooner. We aim to lower the barrier to entry to our service through outreach projects, and you will be tasked with leading the team to build and engage in this project.
Our approach follows the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model, which helps clients to identify and pursue meaningful employment and learning goals based on their preferences and aspirations. Our learning service ihomework and exam preparation for children, English conversation classes and access to ESOL support, life-skill development, digital inclusion and access to vocational courses and higher education.
Please refer to the job description for further information.
In your cv and cover letter, please outline how you meet the requirements of the role and why you would like to work for us. You must account for any gaps in your employment history.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The Centre requires staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration and undertake a DBS check. This role requires an enhanced DBS check.
Benefits
· 26 days’ leave rising to 28 days’ leave after two years’ service (pro rata for part time staff)
· Additional discretionary wellbeing and celebratory days
· Access to Blue Light Card discounts
· Pension: stakeholder pension scheme and we will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%.
· Life assurance cover (after probation passed)
· Season ticket loan
· Training and development opportunities
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Our client is a UK charity supporting people with learning disabilities, their families, and carers. They provide services, advocate for inclusion, and campaign for equality, aiming to empower individuals to live full and valued lives. Prospectus is excited to be working with this exciting organisation to appoint a new talented Senior Partnership Manager.
The Senior Partnership Manager will work across New Business (60%) and Account Management (40%) developing and implementing account plans for each partner. The post holder will be accountable for the delivery of the charity's high value-value and multi-year partnership programme.
The selected candidate will have managed a varied portfolio of six-figure partnerships and be adept at growing and extending existing partnerships.
You will have experience of building and managing a pipeline and of managing relationships across an organisation to generate income from corporate donors.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds and we are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. Please contact Jessica Stoddart at Prospectus for support with your application.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You’ll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.
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Our client is a national charity whose mission is to help people to live healthier lives. Their unique offer combines clinical services, relationships and sex education, outreach in community settings, wellbeing programmes and counselling.
National charity (health)
Finance Director (interim contracts or permanent considered as well as candidates interested in a 3 or 4 day working week)
£90,000 - £120,000
Hybrid working with presence in London or Liverpool offices.
This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join their Executive Team, as they deliver their 2023-2026 strategy with an ambitious programme of growth and change.
As the new Finance Director, you will play a critical role working alongside the Chief Executive, Board of Trustees and a vibrant Executive Team. You will be instrumental in strengthening the organisation by providing strategic financial support and ensuring strong performance management. You will also support their innovative new commercial trading subsidiary.
Our client is looking for a strategic thinker with substantial experience of leading a charity finance team within a £multi-million organisation, to successfully implement the financial elements of their strategic plan and to support commercial trading activities and business expansion plans.
If you are dedicated to providing exceptional services and wish to be part of a trustworthy, collaborative, inclusive and courageous organisation, we would love to hear from you. Our client is committed to increasing the diversity of the Executive Team and would particularly welcome applications that would help achieve this aim.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below with a copy of your CV in the first instance by the deadline of 12 January.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
Hours of work: 15 hours per week flexibly (including evenings/weekends to meet new volunteers)
Salary: £26,280.80 per annum, pro rata (£10,512.32 for 15 hours)
Place of work: The Ark Workshop, Lockerby Road, Liverpool
Contract type: 1 year fixed term contract due to funding
Closing date: Friday, 10 January 2025, at 23:59
Do you want to be a member of a Charity and Community that believes in kindness and for everyone to have opportunities and enjoy life as a core message in their values?
Do you have a passion for helping people reach their full potential and make a positive impact on others?
Do you have skills and talents in effective coordination, administration and supporting people to become volunteers in our vibrant Community?
Can you link with local groups and volunteer networks to promote opportunities within L’Arche and showcase what we have to offer to a wider audience and stakeholders?
Could you be creative in the identification and development of roles that use volunteers’ skills to bring friendship and other benefits to the Community?
If this sounds like a role you would love and you'd love to become a member of our wonderful Community, then have a read of our recruitment pack and apply.
As well as joining a friendly Community, where you will be well supervised and supported, and benefit from L’Arche’s mentorship programme, these are some other benefits you get by working for us:
- Paid sick pay, up to a maximum of 7wks (depending on length of service)
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption/Surrogacy, and Paternity Pay (depending on length of service, details available on request)
- Interest free loans and salary advances available
- Free eye tests and a contribution towards the cost of glasses if you need them for work
- Free DBS / PVG checks
- Free SSSC registration
- Free Blue Light Card
- Professional membership fees paid if they are directly relevant to your role
- Free Employee Assistance Programme available to everyone
- Up to 5 days paid compassionate leave
- Up to 6 days paid (pro rata) for time off for emergency dependents leave
- Carer and Childminder costs available in some circumstances to facilitate attendance at residential meetings
- Paid mileage costs at HMRC rate
- Working from Home Allowance for those in office-based roles but for whom no office is provided
- Specialist bereavement counselling for employees and their family members
- Free Life Assurance up to 4 times gross annual salary
- Access to the Bike to Work scheme
- Joining shared meals since cooking and having a meal together is what we are all about
Main purpose of the role:
The Volunteer Coordinator will provide effective coordination, administration and support to volunteers including recruitment and orientation. You will link with local groups and volunteer networks to promote opportunities within L'Arche. The Volunteer Coordinator will be creative in the identification and development of roles that use volunteers' skills to bring friendship and other benefits to the Community.
Key essential criteria
- Knowledge of social care organisations, the third sector and issues facing adults with learning disabilities;
- Experience of volunteering (ideally within the social car sector) and volunteer management or HR or coaching;
- Experience of maintaining databases: accurately recording information, reporting and identifying errors in data;
- Competent in using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and SharePoint);
- Supportive and enthusiastic about working with an organisation which is both a high quality service provider and an ecumenical Christian community open to people of all faiths and none;
- Self-motivated and ability to manage own workload on a daily basis and be accountable for the delivery of own workload;
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS record check;
About us
L'Arche Liverpool is an energetic Community. We provide support to people with learning disabilities. Our services include supported living accommodation, and The Ark Day Service, our Community Hub.
We pride ourselves on being a place of welcome and kindness. We support people to build relationships, share our skills and gifts, and be a beacon of hope and diversity.
A full job description and person specification can be found in the Recruitment Pack.
The closing date is Friday, 10 January 2025, at 23:59
Interviews will take place on Thursday, 16 January 2025
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this role. You will need to hold the existing right to work in the UK to apply.
To apply, please read the full job description and person specification and answer the questions on our online application form.
Please also read our privacy notice for job applicants.
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Registered Charity
101 - 500
Our inclusive communities challenge people to think differently about disability
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The role
We are looking for a new member of the Global Talent Visa team.
As a Programme Officer, you will support the Academy's Global Talent Visa activities, working closely alongside other endorsing bodies and the UK Home Office to deliver the Global Talent Visa work programme.
We are looking for a proactive and flexible team player to join our friendly and supportive team who has strong organisational and administration skills and an appetite to learn and support promising and talented individuals from across the globe. An interest in learning about the UK immigration landscape is desirable.
In this role, you will manage the day-today activities required to deliver the Global Talent Visa work programme. You will have a keen interest in improving processes and will assist in managing and processing applications, responding to internal and external queries, and handling sensitive and confidential data. Consequently, a methodical approach to planning workloads to meet deadlines is essential.
You are an effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, able to build rapport quickly and collaborate with both external and internal stakeholders. Empathy and sensitivity are great tools in this role; therefore, we are looking for someone who is confident building and maintaining relationships and working independently and has excellent time management skills.
Our location
Our light, spacious head office is based in a fantastic location in central London with views over St James’s Park and close to the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline for office-based working of a mandatory weekly team day plus further days each week as required for the role and the Academy.
Who are we?
Engineering matters. It shapes our everyday lives, from our ability to turn the lights on, have a hot shower and commute into work to the mobile phones we rely on to keep connected. It also plays a vital role in addressing some of the biggest challenges facing society today, from climate change to global health pandemics and cyber threats.
The Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation, building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together, we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.
With a diverse workforce and an inclusive and supportive culture, we look to attract candidates from wide and different backgrounds who have a passion for the role engineering plays in society. Our aim is to make the Academy the best place to work for the staff we have and those we seek to attract.
Why work for us?
We’re looking for people who are driven to make the world a better place. If you’re passionate about what you do and want to work collaboratively with talented colleagues to make change happen now and for future generations, we want you to get in touch.
This is the perfect time to join us. We have a dynamic, visionary CEO, a strong leadership team and an ambitious and exciting strategy. The value we bring as experts in our field and change agents is highly recognised and makes the Academy a motivating place to be. Our work today builds on a long, proud history with a focused and ambitious future, which we’d love you to be part of.
We are looking for talented people who want to make a difference to join our team – is this you?
For more information and to apply, please visit our careers page.
Closing date: 5 January 2025.
Interview date: 13 January 2025.
The Academy is committed to making reasonable adjustments to removing barriers that hinder applicants from applying or staff from working effectively and comfortably.
The Academy is proud to be an ‘A’-rated visa sponsorship licence holder and will consider visa sponsorship for a migrant skilled worker visa (1 to 5 years) or a new entrant visa (1 to 2 years) where a role is eligible (as defined by the Home Office), in that a suitable Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code is identified, and minimum salary expectations are met.
A certificate of sponsorship and a skilled worker visa application will only be made when an applicant is successful in being ‘conditionally’ offered the role. Offers of employment under the Academy Visa Sponsorship Scheme will not be confirmed until the visa application has been formally approved by the Home Office.
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Position: Volunteer Engagement & Communications Manager
Type: Full-time (35 hours a week), Fixed Term until 27 February 2026
Location: Office-based in London with flexibility to work remotely
Salary: £39,717* per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band and Job Family: Band 3, Charity
*You will start at our entry point salary of £39,717 per annum, increasing to £42,199 after 6 months service and satisfactory performance and to £44,681 after a further 6 months.
An immediate start from February 2025 is desirable.
About us
We make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told us is important to them. It gives us a clear and determined focus.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference.
About this job
Please note this is a fixed term contract until 27 February 2026
We are looking for an experienced individual who can lead a team and provide high quality communications and engagement activities to volunteers and volunteer managers through a time of change.
You will be expected to lead the Volunteer Engagement and Communications team, ensuring that we have a high-quality programme of engagement, communication, learning and development across our volunteer community.
We are currently going through a programme of transformation to implement a new Volunteer Management System and transform the services and support we provide to the MS community. This includes how we deliver our services across our central offer, and in the regions and nations and in the MS community. It will also involve innovating our services to offer more choice and support, allowing us to reach more people than ever before. We understand our volunteers and this role are integral to the success of this change.
Closing date for applications: Monday 6 January 2025
Interested?
PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Equal Opportunities
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format.
More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance
- 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
- More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
- Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
- Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family
- Generous sick pay entitlement
- More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
- Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
- Enhanced leave for new parents
- Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
- Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
- 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service scheme
- New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
- In the event of miscarriage or still birth
- To support fertility treatments
- For antenatal appointments for both parents
Thinking about your finances
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
- Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
- New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work
- Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
- Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
- New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
- Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
- Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal
Safeguarding
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.
This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.
We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
No agencies please.
Registered Charity
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To fund world-leading research, share the latest information and campaign for everyone's rights. Together we are a community. Together we can stop MS
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Moving Medicine is an award-winning initiative of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM) aimed at improving health through physical activity. It provides healthcare professionals with practical tools and evidence-based resources to promote physical activity in clinical practice. Moving Medicine is our free, award-winning initiative, designed to provide clinicians and allied health professionals with accessible, evidence based, condition specific information to help give advice on physical activity at all stages of a patient’s treatment pathway.
We are expanding our impact through the development of additional Moving Medicine resources for patients. This will include managing the build of a new patient facing Moving Medicine website; the development of resources with our Moving Medicine Clinicians and partners; and working closely with our partner organisation Nuffield Health to demonstrate social impact.
Our partner Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity, driven by its purpose to build a healthier nation. Through our hospitals, fitness and wellbeing centres, and innovative community rehabilitation programmes, we support people to live healthier, happier lives.
FSEM and Nuffield Health’s partnership is based on our shared mission is to educate, encourage, and provide tools for people living with long term conditions to adopt movement as a vital component of their health journey. By improving readiness for change and increasing activity levels, this partnership strives to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases and improve the quality of life for individuals across the UK.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Project Manager to join our dynamic team.
To see the full job description, and to apply please visit our website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We’re looking for an experienced and dynamic Digital Programme Manager to lead our digital transformation and content strategy.
Digital Programme Manager
Type: Full-time (35 hours a week), permanent
Location: Office-based in London with the flexibility to work remotely
Salary: £43,342* per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band and Job Family: Band 3, Profession/Technical
*you’ll start at our entry point salary of £43,342 per annum, increasing to £46,051 after 6 months service and satisfactory performance and to £48,760 after a further 6 months
About us
We make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told us is important to them. It gives us a clear and determined focus.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference.
About this job
You’ll manage a team of specialists, overseeing diverse projects, including platform development, marketing campaigns, and technical solutions. Collaborating with senior stakeholders, you’ll shape and deliver a digital roadmap that drives innovation and user-focused outcomes.
What you’ll do:
- Lead a team of project, product, and technical managers.
- Deliver digital projects on time, within budget, and to high standards.
- Oversee compliance, accessibility, and security of digital systems.
- Drive process improvement and continuous innovation.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience managing large-scale digital programmes.
- Expertise in Agile, Scrum, or PRINCE2 methodologies.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management.
- Passion for technology and innovation.
Why join us?
You’ll join a vibrant and supportive team dedicated to making a difference for people with MS. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our digital presence and deliver meaningful impact.
Closing date for applications: 9:00 on Monday 6 January 2025
Interested?
PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Equal Opportunities
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format.
More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance
- 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
- More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
- Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
- Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family
- Generous sick pay entitlement
- More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
- Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
- Enhanced leave for new parents
- Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
- Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
- 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service scheme
- New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
- In the event of miscarriage or still birth
- To support fertility treatments
- For antenatal appointments for both parents
Thinking about your finances
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
- Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
- New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work
- Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
- Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
- New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
- Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
- Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal
Safeguarding
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.
This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.
We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
No agencies please.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
To fund world-leading research, share the latest information and campaign for everyone's rights. Together we are a community. Together we can stop MS
Thank you!
Everyone deserves a decent place to live – join Habitat for Humanity Great Britain as our new Head of People, and support people to find a decent, safe, affordable home
We are looking for an experienced senior level HR professional, with a strategic mindset and people management experience. Reporting to the Director of Finance and Compliance and working in close collaboration with the National Director and others, your role will be both strategic and operational: shaping our people agenda and ensuring our HR systems and processes are of the highest quality.
You’ll be joining us at a really exciting time as we’re on an ambitious transformation journey, providing you with the opportunity to directly influence and develop new ways of working and impact our performance. In collaboration with the senior management team, you’ll help shape and implement our people and development plans to support employee and volunteer engagement and a positive and inclusive working culture.
You’ll be comfortable being hands-on, balancing between strategic and operational priorities. You’ll be familiar with driving best practice, transforming and streamlining processes, with a success record in developing and implementing strategic and operational people plans.
You will bring a positive ‘can do’ attitude to the role and be able to provide sound advice and guidance with regard to all aspects of HR such as reward, coaching, employee relations, culture, organisational design and change, performance management, and learning and development.
If this sounds like it could be a good match for you, please take a look at the Candidate Pack .
Please note: this role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK.
Start your Habitat journey here…
We want the recruitment process to give you the opportunity to shine, to share your skills and experience as clearly as possible, and for you to find out more about Habitat GB in return. You are welcome to get in touch and arrange an informal chat with Henrietta Blackmore before submitting an application.
To apply for the role, please send us your CV and a supporting statement (max two sides of A4) ng us about the skills and experience you would bring to the role and your motivation for applying.
The deadline for applications is 5 January 2025 (at 11:59 pm).
Habitat for Humanity requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguard our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Managers at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially children), and promotes the implementation of our code of conduct. The employment of this position will be subject to a satisfactory reference check and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
At Habitat for Humanity GB, we aim to build, develop and retain a talented workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. We welcome and actively encourage applications from anyone who feels they’d be a good fit for our organisation, regardless of race, religion, colour, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, neurodiversity or any other protected characteristics.
Unfortunately, because of high volume of applications we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants. If you haven’t heard from us within a month of the application deadline, please assume that your application has not been successful.
We’d prefer to hear directly from applicants – we won’t be working with third party recruiters on this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Title: Family Finding Social Worker/Senior Practitioner
Contract: 6 months Fixed term with the possibility of extending.
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: FTE £38,435.60 – £41,474.10 - Social Worker
FTE £42,590.80 - £46,065.60 - Senior Practitioner
Location: Hillingdon based in Civic Centre Uxbridge (Hybrid)
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
Coram Ambitious for Adoption Regional Adoption Agency [RAA] is a commissioned Voluntary Adoption Agency delivering statutory adoption support services and family finding for a number of local authority partners. The family finding post holder will be located in Hillingdon, as part of the wider RAA partnership located across London and surrounding areas. The hub services for the RAA include the recruitment, assessment and support of Coram approved adopters, which are located at the Coram Campus in London.
The post holder will be employed by Coram, a service with a long track record of serving children well and outstanding ratings from Ofsted. The task for the Regional Adoption Agency is to ensure that all children who have a plan for adoption are given every chance to have that ambition realised and when placed in a permanent family receive the relevant support as their needs change and develop.
About the role
We are seeking a dynamic Family Finding Social Worker or Senior Practitioner wishing to play an active role in the delivery and development of a high-quality family finding service for the London Borough of Hillingdon, for children with a plan for adoption.
The post holder will be one of two professionals responsible for family finding for children with a care plan of adoption within the local area.
The post holder will be part of a small and very supportive team to develop practise and skills in this area. The post holder will also be able to have access resources and services within Hillingdon to support this role and be part of a bigger network of support from colleagues from across the RAA. This role will function as 6 month fixed contract with the possibility of an extension to offer continuity to the children we are family finding for.
To arrange an informal discussion – please contact, Hellan Timothy-James – Service Manager for Hillingdon and Harrow.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date:Wednesday 1st January 2025 at 23:59
Interview date: TBC
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBTQ+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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At Impact on Urban Health, we are building a portfolio of programmes that demonstrate the power of long-term approaches to complex health issues in urban environments. We focus our efforts on the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, working in partnership with residents, local and national government, and community and private sector partners to improve the health of local residents. By doing this, we aim to influence others in the UK and internationally to create better health. The programmes focus on children’s health and food, financial foundations for adult health, the health effects of air pollution and children’s mental health, and are all at different stages of development.
Each Portfolio Manager builds part of a programme strategy, co-develops projects with partners, and makes recommendations for funding these projects. This is a supported process, with lots of input and ideas shared across the team as you shape your projects. We build partnerships with a wide range of partners, from local communities, businesses, charities, the public sector and any other person or organisation that we think can have an impact on heath equity.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading on strategy development for part of one or more of our urban health programmes.
- Building a deep understanding of one or more of our programmes and identifying organisations to collaborate with.
- Leading the funding partnership life cycle from idea through development, decision, contracting, management to exit. This includes:
- Approaching relevant organisations and their teams, engaging them and co-developing projects and partnerships.
- Guiding and advising existing project partners as they deliver to achieve our mutual goals.
- Working with our evaluation team and external evaluation experts to develop and deliver evaluation plans for projects and partnerships.
- Bringing projects and partnerships through our internal decision-making process.
- Assisting organisational development of partners, through commissioning grants plus support.
- Driving an inclusive/non-extractive due diligence process.
- Planning and delivering ways to scale solutions and grow impact through influencing, in collaboration with partners and internal teams across the organisation, such as policy and influencing, communications, and evidence and impact. This includes:
- Building diverse, cross-sector partnerships.
- Convening and supporting partners to work together to influence policy and decision-makers.
- Delivering thought leadership for your area of focus to influence relevant stakeholders, e.g. blog writing, attending and speaking at events
Skills, Knoweldge & Expertise
- Comfortable working independently in uncertainty on issues that are complex in nature and don’t have silver bullet solutions.
- A creative strategic thinker who can look at a complex problem and come up with solutions.
- Strong relationship building skills and ability to engage a wide set of partners in the delivery of our work, across sectors and at a local, national and international level.
- Inclusive and high-quality communication skills and comfortable with a wide range of audiences – from government and policy makers to businesses and industry, from statutory bodies to voluntary and community sector organisations and social enterprises.
- A growth mindset where you look at problems and issues as opportunities to learn and are constantly seeking to help others to grow and overcome their challenges. An ability to seek clarity and actively ensure roles and responsibilities are clear
- Comfortable handling uncertainty and navigating complexity
- An understanding of the foundation blocks for what makes organisations effective in the work they lead.
- A demonstrable commitment to equity and good health for all.
- Experience in or knowledge of one or more of the following areas will be an advantage (list not exhaustive):
- Living or growing up in diverse urban areas; Business and corporations;
- Ventures and entrepreneurship (including social enterprise); Philanthropy and funding;
- Voluntary and community organisations; Statutory bodies such as local authorities; or the healthcare system;
Benefits
- Up to 12% employer pension contributions
- £800 annual personal development budget and annual health and wellbeing personal allowance of £200
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit plus shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses and Employee Assistance Programme
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We're looking for kind, compassionate and resilient Waking Night Support Workers to join our Young People service in Tower Hamlets.
There are three 40 hour positions and one 20 hour position available.
£27,352.00 per annum, pro rata, Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.
Night Support Workers enable people with particular needs to manage their tenancies and live independent lives of their choosing in the community. Night Support Workers are responsible for ensuring continuity of a support service at night and for keeping customers and the building safe.
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
What you'll do:
Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers and creating a positive atmosphere
Working proactively with other members of the team to handle the service caseload and administrative responsibilities
Conducting key work sessions as required, that are innovative and engaging in order to achieve Support Plan goals
Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of 'positive risk taking'
Providing support with daily living activities, including practical assistance to support customers to independent living e.g. budgeting, cooking, establishing a night time routine
Supporting customers to maintain a healthy environment and where appropriate assisting them to clean their accommodation and maintain good personal hygiene
Assisting in the recording and reporting of customer incidents
Managing customer referrals, completing assessments and obtaining and maintaining all relevant paperwork
Developing productive relationships with partner organisations to improve service outcomes
Adhering to lone working protocols and maintaining high levels of awareness in relation to the health and safety of yourself and colleagues
Involving customers in the design, development and delivery of the service
Ensuring Look Ahead Health and Safety policies and local protocols are adhered to at all times e.g. fire risk assessments, fire alarm checks etc.
Taking on shift leading responsibilities by coordinating and leading shifts in the absence of a manager
Being responsible for the handover of key information between shifts
Adhering to all other Look Ahead's policies and procedures
Engaging in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
Undertaking any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead
About you:
Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
Exudes a warm friendly presence and open behaviour
Prefers working as part of a group or team
Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organized
Able to apply the right balance of care and support dependant on the needs of the customer
Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour
Ability to adhere to Look Ahead's professional boundaries policy
What you'll bring:
Essential:
NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent with some previous relevant sector work experience
About us:
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 120 services, providing support to around 6000 customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
We focus on Excellence and innovation.
We are Caring and Compassionate.
We are Inclusive and Trusted.
We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
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Location: Manchester Hub (working across Greater Manchester)
Contract type: Fixed Term until 31st July 2025
Salary: Grade 3 - £31,133.37 (pro-rata for part time)
Hours: Part time – 30 hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 5th January 2025 at 11.30pm
This role is ring-fenced for those with lived experience of multiple disadvantage.
Are you dedicated to empowering people with experience of homelessness? Do you have excellent communication interpersonal skills and a commitment to overcoming barriers to healthcare faced by those with lived experience?
Join Shelter and you could soon be playing a vital role helping people who are affected by the housing emergency.
About The Role
You will support the Project Coordinator to deliver the My Health Matters Project in Manchester including the Homeless Health Peer Advocacy service. The Service is delivered by volunteers with lived experience and is a front facing project delivering 1 to 1 support on an outreach basis. You will help to recruit volunteers and support them through their induction with Shelter; provide day to day support for peer advocates and peer research volunteers; accompany volunteers on outreach appointments, support with referrals, attend group meetings, administer expenses and other admin duties. The post will be based in our office at Swan St but will require travel across Greater Manchester and occasional travel to other cities including possible overnights.
About You
You understand the barriers to accessing healthcare faced by people who are experiencing homelessness and can form professional relationships with peer advocates and Homeless Health Peer Advocacy clients, all the while following relevant guidance and safeguarding procedures.
You empower those with lived experience through your excellent interpersonal and communication skills and you are as comfortable working collaboratively as you are working independently.
Most importantly, you are dedicated to developing your skills to support others in the role and committed to Shelter’s purpose and values of equality and social inclusion.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension, and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme, and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support, and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
About The Team
My Health Matters is a peer-led health inclusion project that works towards an inclusive health system where everyone has access to the health care they need. My Health Matters supports people experiencing homelessness to address physical and mental health issues through the delivery of a Homeless Health Peer Advocacy service. We work to improve people’s confidence in using health services and increase their ability to access healthcare independently. The project brings together frontline health and social care services with those with lived experience supporting the co-production of solutions to health inequalities in Manchester.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
How to apply
Please submit your CV, along with a supporting statement. The supporting statement should demonstrate how you meet the About You points in the job description, and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviour below throughout your responses:
- We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
Please use real examples and write up to 350 words per point. CVs without an accompanying supporting statement will not be considered.
Safeguarding Statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Recruitment Agencies
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Lead Youth Worker
Oasis Hub East Southampton
16 HOURS PER WEEK Part-time 0.4FTE (There is flexibility in hours in discussion with candidates)
10 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT (with view to extend)
SALARY: £10,428 per annum (£26,072 for 1FTE)
Want to enable young people to have positive lives?
Want to be part of a supportive, dynamic, fun & quality team?
Want to make your community a better place?
Want to grow in confidence and experience?
Oasis Community Hub East Southampton are recruiting for an experienced Lead Youth Worker to work alongside the youth and community hub team in East Southampton. This positive, adaptable and talented youth worker will help us to deliver detached youth work and mentoring. Supporting the development of a team and building youth leadership opportunities.
The role will be focussed on the East Southampton community surrounding Oasis Academies Mayfield and Sholing and the Harefield Hub space. Delivering detached work, alongside other partners using our Oasis Youth van; delivering mentoring in schools and supporting and developing a youth team.
Key responsibilities will be:
· To develop and deliver a youth work programme engaging with young people across East Southampton in school and community settings. To Include:
o Detached provision
o Positive activities
o Wellbeing support
o Mentoring
· To work alongside the hub team to increase opportunities for young people to influence decision making and develop their leadership.
· To line manage sessional youth staff and support volunteers.
The successful post holder must have:
· Proven experience of leading work with young people in formal and informal settings
· Experience working with challenging behaviours and attitudes.
· Understanding of monitoring and evaluation in youth work
· Knowledge of safeguarding practices and health and safety.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team, working in a community and education setting. As part of the package, Oasis offers:
· A pension scheme, offering 7% employer contribution.
· A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year plus 8 Bank Holidays, Pro rata.
· Policies which promote well-being and are family friendly.
Email your CV including a Supporting Statement. Please visit the Oasis Charity Jobs website for further details.
Your Supporting Statement should be a minimum of one A4 page addressing the following question:
Please expand on your CV to tell us about how your character, qualities, experience, and qualifications/training will enable you to thrive in this job.
Candidates will be interviewed on a rolling basis as we receive completed applications.
Interviews will take place in Southampton
We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups. If you require any assistance to overcome potential barriers, please let us know.
Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
The successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Oasis cannot assist with sponsorship or visas.
Oasis supports Equal Opportunities. Registered Charity No. 1163889
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