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Jigsaw4u are recruiting a Support Practitioner to join our specialised and experienced team.
The Jigsaw4u Missing Young People Service is a statutory partnership with the London Borough of Sutton. Once the missing persons unit has made a referral, the support worker will make efforts to engage the young person so that they can conduct a Return Home Interview to gain insight as to why the young person may have run away or ‘gone missing’. These interviews can lead to individual support, working on the priorities identified during our assessments in order to reduce risk.
We also offer advice and consultation to parents, carers and professionals on the issues these young people are experiencing and work closely with Children’s Social Care, Schools, parents and other professionals to reduce and ultimately cease missing episodes from taking place
Helping children, young people and families in South West London put the pieces back together following social and emotional difficulties.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Title: Male Residential Support Worker (this is a live-in role)
Responsible to: Senior Support Worker
Responsible for: Young people living in the accommodation (4 young people aged 16 – 18 years old seeking asylum in the UK).
Location: This is a live-in, residential role based in a supported accommodation home in Loughborough. Some work will be based in our office buildings.
Hours: 25 hours per week on duty – this is a mixture of day, evening and weekend shifts. Two days a week will be off duty.
Leave: Two nights a month can be taken as nights away from the home. This in addition to annual leave allowance. Annual leave - 33 days (converted into hours) pro-rata for number of hours worked
Salary Band: £24,150 - £27,760 per annum pro rata. Equivalent to £16,100 to £18,506 for 25 hours a week.
Benefits in kind: Rent-free accommodation, including Wi-fi, gas, electric and council tax bills.
Contract: Permanent
Start Date: Immediately
Overall Purpose
To provide advice, assistance and support to young people in the home, as a key member of the Support Team, delivering Baca’s service in line with our Vision and Values. The role includes a consistent adult presence in the home. To attend to their practical and emotional needs whilst supporting the development of living skills. To teach them how to manage and look after a home in order to keep it safe and hygienic. To build trusting relationships within the home to enable young people to feel safe and cared for. To act as an excellent role model and to work closely with them and their Support Worker to enable them to make good progress towards independence.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Welcome newly arrived young people into the accommodation, helping them feel safe and able to rest; with compassion without discrimination of age, race, colour or behavioural issues.
- Actively support young people to make progress and develop in the following outcomes; physical wellbeing and emotional wellbeing; personal safety; education and learning; employment and training that is safe and suitable; social engagement (being part of the community and activities outside of the home)
- Be an excellent and positive role model, offering advice, guidance and assistance and consistently modelling behaviours in line with Baca’s values.
- Using Baca’s progress plan, train all young people in living skills and looking after a home such as washing, personal safety, cleaning, cooking and food safety, food shopping and budgeting.
- Providing emotional support at times of difficulty, anxiety or stress.
- Encourage young people settle into and support them to maintain a healthy routine which will include regularly attending education and social activities.
- Act as a co-keyworker for the young people to ensure that their support plans and progress are up to date and that all their needs are being met.
- Enable young people to live with positive values and good boundaries by challenging any unhelpful or unsafe behaviours and encouraging safe and positive behaviours.
- In accordance with the guidelines on Safeguarding and Health and Safety policies, to accept responsibility for working within these guidelines and report any concerns.
- Work collaboratively with the rest of the Rebuild Team to ensure all young people are safeguarded and supported to rebuild their lives.
- Take responsibility for keeping the home clean, by consistently role modelling to and training young people.
- Maintain very good communication with relevant members of the Rebuild Team and relevant social workers
- Ensure regular appropriate reporting requirements are consistently met, meeting regulations set out by Ofsted.
- Complete and update all admin work as part of the role such as month end reports and support plans on time and in a consistent manner.
- Playing an active role in developing knowledge and understanding in areas relevant to the role and especially in the areas of asylum and refugee law, trafficking, supporting separated children and the cultures of different nations relevant to Baca.
To work as part of the team
- Be a role model, leading by example in practicing the Values of Baca.
- Actively participate in the delivery of the aims and objectives of the organisation working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them.
- Demonstrate curiosity and willingness to learn by be willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers.
- Play an active and supportive role within the organisation.
- Actively participate in team meetings, making a positive contribution to enable young people outcomes to be achieved.
- Maintain strict confidentiality in relation to work undertaken and ensure all confidential material is stored according to Baca’s Confidentiality statement and Data Protection Policy.
- Treat all staff and young people fairly and without prejudice, in line with Baca’s Equality and Diversity Policy.
- Consistently outwork the correct procedures for dealing with any safeguarding incidences or concerns, in line with Baca’s Child, Vulnerable Adult Protection & Safeguarding Policy and whistleblowing.
- Adhere to all Baca’s policies and procedures.
Personal Specification
Baca is looking for a Support Worker who is passionate about seeing unaccompanied young refugees achieving their potential and rebuilding their lives for a better future. The successful applicant will have a personal style that is in line with Baca’s vision and values. They will live in the new arrival house and make it their home. They will be a good self-starter and have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire our young people to be the best they can be. The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Baca does and the young people in our care. They will be very approachable, enjoy working as part of a wider team but also able to manage their own time and workload. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable, personable and willing to set boundaries in line with Baca’s values.
This is a frontline role that will need the successful applicant to be working closely with young people in their houses and will need access to transport young people to different appointments, meetings and activities.
An enhanced DBS check will be required. Shortlisting and interviews will take place as and when applications are received.
Please note: We cannot offer sponsorship for this role as Baca is not on the Home Office list.
It is our mission to serve young people who have been forced to flee their home country – offering safe homes, education, therapeutic care and support
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Our client, a prestigious London University, is currently seeking a temporary, full time (35 hours per week) Quality Assurance Administrator, running for 2-months in the first instance, based onsite 5-days per week in East London.
Key Responsibilities for this role include:
- Evaluating curriculum management processes and assessing learning processes within the school.
- Supporting academics in developing new or amending module specifications, including module proposal/amendment forms, ensuring relevant documentation is accurate & timely.
- Distribution of examination paper templates to module organisers, facilitating the moderation of all examination papers and marking guidelines using the systems in place.
- Allocating taught modules to external examiners, aligning to their areas of expertise, for review and maintaining accurate records of external examiner appointments.
- Distribution of exam timetables, ensuring that all moderation support is agreed with Heads of Department in a timely manner and communicated to the programme delivery teams - including updating and retaining a copy of the moderators list on SharePoint.
- Providing relevant and accurate information to students regarding assessment deadlines and procedures - fully understanding the Academic Regulations and their impact on students.
- Liaising with module organisers and the Appeals, Complaints and Conduct office to provide administrative support on plagiarism reports and related assessment disputes, maintaining accurate records.
- Assisting the Subject Examination Board Secretary and Chair with the preparation of board meetings, including relevant documents.
To be considered for this position, you should possess:
- Previous experience in a similar role working within a higher education setting.
- Experience in supporting examination processes.
- Detailed knowledge of higher education institutional procedures, regulations and codes of practice.
- Strong experience working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders.
- Strong customer service, administration, and organisational skills.
- Excellent IT skills, including usage of Microsoft Office packages and student databases e.g. SITS.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and submit your CV in Word format.
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.
Learning Disability Caseworker
Do you have experience in giving advice? Are you organised and can manage a varied workload? Yes, we may have the role for you.
Mencap are recruiting for a Learning Disability Caseworker (LDC) to give advice on welfare benefits, housing, health and community care, to people with a learning disability, their families, carers and professionals working with them.
The Learning Disability Caseworker role will be based at home, with occasional travel to casework venues and our Peterborough office. This role will be full time (37.5 hours) on a fixed term contract until March 2026.
Mencap is committed to providing good quality information and advice casework, enabling people with a learning disability and their families to access critical service and support. The casework service is outcomes focused and the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate the positive impact that their casework has on individuals and families.
Do you have the key skills for a Learning Disability Caseworker?
- Level 3 qualification in giving advice or an equivalent relevant qualification.
- Strong communicator with analytical skills.
- Experience of working in an outcomes and impact focused advice service.
- Experience of working with a CRM system and keeping clear advice records is essential.
- I.T skills and the use of Microsoft Office tools.
- Well developed listening and diagnostic skills.
- Knowledge of social care issues and of learning disability.
- Knowledge of social care and healthcare law.
- The ability to communicate clearly in another language is desirable, but not essential.
Please view the job description for full details of the skills and experience required.
If this sounds like the role for you please apply now with an up to date CV outlining your skills and experience. This vacancy will close on Monday 9th September and interviews will take place shortly afterwards.
We are an equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation and we particularly welcome and encourage disabled applicants and those from the Black and Asian communities to apply for the role as they are under-represented within the workforce.
Benefits
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.
- 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
- Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed
- Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.
- Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
- Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.
Our work includes;
- Providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
- Providing advice through our help lines and web sites
- Campaigning for the changes that people with a learning disability want
Great opportunity to work 22.5 hours over 3 days per week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.
This would be a great opportunity for someone who has a passion or interest in working for an established not-for-profit social care organisation and someone who is looking for a long-term role where they can be part of a team. We are looking for a proactive and friendly individual to join our established team as an administrator. You will be based at our Central Blackburn Office with on- site parking. The role is part-time and part of a job share to work 9.00am am to 5.00pm over 3 days
We would consider school time hours between 9.00 and 3.00pm PM for interested applicants however applicants would need to be prepared to cover annual leave on a job share basis when required.
As an Administrator your role will involve:
· Payroll processing and invoice records
· Assisting managers with general administration and minute taking
· Assisting with local newsletters
· Answering queries and liaising with managers to ensure rotas are covered
· Sending and receiving emails
We are looking for a candidate that has a bright, positive approach with excellent communication skills; a clear telephone manner; strong organisational skills; experience with Excel and minute taking. Alongside this we are looking for candidates with a high standard of customer care, with a warm and friendly manner.
Employee benefits:
· Free life insurance and paid sick leave after a set period
· A choice of either weekly or monthly pay
· Free employee assistance programme to employees and members of your household
· £100.00 probationary period bonus ( pro rata based on hours)
· Free on site care parking
· Additional days birthday leave
Vacancy Reference Number: 80626
Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number
Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days Annual Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.
We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.
We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a proactive, solution-focused individual with great customer service skills interested in working for a leading UK charity and gaining experience in an internal Recruitment function?
This role is offered as a 12 month fixed term contract until 31 October 2025
Temporary workers are vital to the continuous and effective running of services across St Mungo’s. Alongside temporary agency workers, St Mungo’s has its own bank of around 370 casual locum workers – and this number is continually growing! Working as part of a small sub-team within the wider Resourcing Team you will join us as a Resourcing Administrator and play a pivotal role in supporting the recruitment, onboarding and retention of casual workers (referred to internally as locums) and temporary agency staff across the organisation.
In this varied and interesting role, working as a Resourcing Administrator you will:
- Provide comprehensive administrative support for the recruitment and on-boarding of casual workers to St Mungo’s Locum Bank, including processing a high volume of applications from various sources including staff leavers, agency workers, students, volunteers and external applicants.
- Be the first point of contact for queries from locums, managers and agencies, dealing promptly and effectively by phone, email and in person. This will include responding to payroll related queries.
- Conduct agency audits and contribute to the ongoing compliance monitoring of agencies on St Mungo’s Agency Preferred Supplier List (PSL)
The role is available on a part-time basis, 26.5 hrs per week. This equates to 3.5 working days between Monday and Friday, however, there can be some flexibility on when these hours are worked, across the week. The individual working days can be agreed with the chosen candidate on appointment.
About you
To be successful in this role, you’ll have strong administration skills and exceptional attention to detail combined with the ability to problem-solve effectively and have the tenacity to see tasks through to completion. If you can demonstrate the below and a willingness to learn, we encourage you to apply!
- Experience of providing excellent customer service and strong communication skills to engage effectively with internal managers, candidates and our wider partner agencies.
- You don’t necessarily need to have extensive recruitment experience; what’s important is having a pro-active, ‘can do’ attitude, along with a willingness to learn.
- You will gain full exposure to Recruitment / HR processes and how they relate to temporary staff so this role would be ideal for anyone looking to develop their career in this field.
Whilst our main office is currently in Tower Hill, London, where you will work for at least 2 days per week, we are flexible and encourage a blended working pattern including working from home and across other London or St Mungo’s regional hub locations. More details will be provided at interview stage.
How to apply
To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document’ tab on the advert page on our website.
To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website.
Closing date: 10am on Monday 2 September 2024
Interview and assessments on Tuesday 10 September 2024
St Mungo's are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.
What we offer
- Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities
- A Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
- Great Pay and Other Benefits
We are looking for a dedicated Engagement Officer for Healthwatch Stockport. Could this be you?
You will be working within the passionate team at Healthwatch Stockport to effectively engage with local people, communities who have a lived or living experience of serious mental illness and of using mental health services in Stockport.
You will be a point of contact for individuals and voluntary and community groups, to share experience, to develop meaningful communication methods and feedback the impact of their voice and involvement. You will facilitate co-production and develop approaches to support individuals and groups to be involved and engaged as partners in the development and co-design of mental health support and living well across Stockport.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Community Engagement Lead. The successful candidate will lead on mappng services in the Borough; forming partnerships with statutory and voluntary agencies based on identified needs of the service to enhance and extend multi-disciplinary knowledge available at and through the Gaia Centre.
The post holder will be responsible for managing relationships with partner agencies and coordinating co-locations within the Gaia service as well as negotiating for staff from the service to co-locate with partner agencies. You will build capacity for a community response to meet the needs of survivors of VAWG by drawing on the expertise of other specialist and by-and-for service providers, such as those working with LGBTQ+ victim/survivors, disabled victim/survivors or victim/survivors of so-called ‘honor’-based violence in order to provide a wraparound support as part of a broader service offer. The post holder will also support a team of the Peer Support Mentors and volunteers who will be leading on some practical aspects of individual and group support for survivors accessing the GAIA Centre.
The successful candidate will be skilled at working with a diverse range of audiences and will be adept at creating and developing new partnerships and pathways that contribute towards coordinated community response and improve the lives of survivors of domestic abuse and gender-based violence. You will also have experience of developing teams and supervising people.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
37 hours a week – Full and part time roles available
Location: Travel to offices across Guildford and Waverley as required
Are you an experienced advisor with a passion for mentoring and leading others? There’s never been a more important time to join Citizens Advice as an Advice Supervisor. With the soaring cost of living, individuals and families are struggling to make ends meet, and we’re experiencing record-breaking demand for our services. In this role, you’ll be responsible for guiding and supporting a team of volunteers, ensuring they have the tools, knowledge, and confidence to provide accurate and effective advice to our clients. If you’re a natural leader committed to helping others, this is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact during a critical time.
As an Advice Supervisor, you’ll be at the forefront of our efforts to provide essential support to those in need. You’ll conduct case checks, provide feedback and coaching to volunteers and ensure that all advice given meets our high-quality standards. Your ability to manage complex cases, provide clear guidance, and foster a positive and supportive team environment will be crucial as we help clients navigate a range of issues. This role not only requires a deep understanding of the challenges our clients face but also the leadership skills to inspire and develop your team to meet these challenges head-on.
Joining Citizens Advice means becoming part of a team dedicated to making a real difference in people’s lives. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside passionate professionals in a supportive environment that values integrity, support, inclusion and collaboration. If you’re ready to take on a pivotal role that impacts every people’s live and contributes to a greater cause, we’d love to hear from you.
Deadline for this role is 9am Monday 2 September 2024
For the job pack, please click on the apply button to be taken to the vacancy page. We are accepting CV and cover letter appl
The Citizens Advice service values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, as they are currently underrepresented in our workforce.
We have an exciting and rare opportunity available for a Director to lead RBL’s six Care Homes and ensure they are fit for the future. As part of the senior leadership team, you will influence the direction of the care homes, driving the improvement of our services through inspirational strategic vision and leadership.
We are looking for someone who can effectively lead our Homes through an exciting period of transformation including the introduction of new technologies to establish better ways of working and caring for our beneficiaries. Previous significant experience of profit/loss accountability and business management within the care sector, and experience of managing complex care budgets of £10m+ is essential for this role.
Key areas of responsibility will include –
- Leading our geographically dispersed care homes through a period of transformation, being accountable for the strategy and delivery of RBL’s Care Homes.
- Ensure regulatory compliance through direct delivery of services, working in collaboration with other partner agencies and providers.
- Ensuring the financial strategy for the care homes is robust and fit for purpose to ensure service delivery and viability.
- Working in collaboration with the Services senior leadership team and the care services senior leadership team to develop corporate plans and budgets to deliver an exceptional service for our beneficiaries.
Why apply?
RBL employs c2,000 people across the country campaigning on behalf of the Armed Forces community, delivering support services to them, leading Remembrance on behalf of the nation, raising funds to support our work and developing and running the organisation and our network of membership branches.
We are modernising, and we are ambitious to deliver more for the communities we support. It’s therefore an exciting time to be part of both changing the lives of our customers and changing the organisation and its future capacity and capability.
Here at RBL, we aim to support our people and their wellbeing, with a package including generous paid holiday allowance and pension scheme contributions, and a range of optional benefits and discounts.
You will be expected to travel regularly in the course of your work. You will be contracted to your home address, where you will be expected to work – using our collaboration tools – when not travelling
For more detailed information about the role, please see our Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
1st stage Interview Dates: 11th September (Virtual)
2nd stage Interview Dates 18th September (face to face at our head office – Haig House)
The PA to the Director of Education is responsible for acting as the first line of contact for the Director of Education, his diary management, the maintenance of administrative systems, and for general secretarial and administrative duties. Key to the smooth running of our education services, the role also involves liaison with the administrative team in the services and the charity. The role will require dealing with highly confidential matters with tact and diplomacy.
To act as first line contact for the Director of Education, ensuring telephone callers, visitors and staff receive a professional response and are dealt with by the appropriate person
To communicate and liaise with staff, parents, governors, trustees, members of the local community and other external parties as appropriate, developing positive and courteous relationships with all
To manage the Director of Education’s diary with confidence and organise his day-to-day commitments To manage all incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the Director of Education, including drafting letters and emails
To assist the Director of Education by dealing with all administrative functions, anticipating and scheduling meetings, including booking rooms, providing refreshments, preparation of materials and minute taking, in order to ensure their timeliness and smooth-running
To support and contribute to the charity’s responsibility for safeguarding learners, showing absolute confidentiality and discretion at all times To cover routine events or emergencies with equilibrium and confidence.
The ability to keep calm in any situation and to deal with anyone who may be upset or emotional will be an asset Assisting in co-ordinating arrangements for service or charity-wide events, including sending out invitations and collation of replies To work closely with other members of the office and administration team, supporting their work, attending meetings and covering for absent colleagues as required
To undertake training and development relevant to the post and in line with the charity’s priorities Undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required by the Director of Education
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for an organised and proactive Administrative Assistant to support the Director of Fundraising. This role requires managing the Director's calendar by scheduling and arranging internal and external meetings. You will book meeting rooms, ensure necessary technology is set up, and register in-person external guests to the office. You will coordinate meeting agendas, take minutes, and document decisions and next steps from the internal meetings
In this role, you will ensure briefings for the Director of Fundraising are received in advance of meetings, book travel arrangements, and support and edit PowerPoint presentations. Your role will include researching key topics, compiling, and summarising information for reports and coordinating a monthly update report across fundraising activities.
You will be responsible for maintaining files and records on SharePoint, collating documentation for purchase orders and invoices, and leading on the organisation of logistics for fundraising all staff strategy away days. Building and managing positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, identifying administrative processes for simplification or efficiency, and appropriately managing confidential information are also critical aspects of this role.
This is a temporary position starting at the end of August for four months and involves hybrid working arrangements, requiring 1-2 days per week in the office, my client are open to 28 hours or 35 hours a week (4-5 days)
Person specification
Essential Experience
- Previous experience in an administrative role.
Essential Skills/Knowledge
- Capability with Microsoft Office platforms: including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Good organisational skills, including the ability to manage priorities
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Understanding of a fundraising department
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Job Title: Family Finding Worker
Salary: £16,043 per annum (£15,593 per annum salary + £450 per annum Homeworking Allowance)
Hours & Contract: 21 Hours per week - Permanent Role
Location: Homebased in Yorkshire and the Noth East
As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. We are a homeworking organisation, and we pride ourselves on our flexible working opportunities, available from day one, an extensive wellbeing programme and our benefits package, all curated to nurture a healthy work life balance for all our employees so they can give an excellent service to our carers and the young people and children we care for.
As a foster care charity, TACT invests all surplus income into services, staff, carers, and child development. This means that we have been able to invest unique projects like TACT Connect, our unique and ground-breaking scheme for TACT care experienced young people and adults, as well as our expanding TACT Education Service and our new Health Service. All our activities are built on our commitment to becoming a fully trauma informed organisation, in line with our key values and ethos.
TACT achieved 16th place in the UK Best Companies Work For survey results in 2023, with 91% of employees acknowledging that the organisation is run on strong values and principles and 94% stating they feel proud to work for this organisation.
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and highly-motivated individual with experience in administration within the social care field to work with us as a Family Finding Worker. This role is homebased and it will cover placements for our Yorkshire and North East areas.
The Family Finding Worker is responsible for receiving placement requests for children who need to be looked after and matching them to our foster carer in cooperation with the Duty Social Worker. The role requires exceptional communication skills and discretion, sensitivity and the capability to deal with conflicting priorities at times.
If you want to be valued as a professional, be appreciated at work and contribute to better outcomes for the children and young people connected with TACT, apply now.
Overall Duties of the Family Finding Worker will include:
- Processing referrals recieved from the Local Authority requesting a place for a child
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with Local Authority Placement Teams
- Liasing with appropriate parties regarding discussion of potential matches
- Reviewing sensitive and confidential documents
- Establishing professional relationships with colleagues, carers and the children they look after to ensure the best outcomes for the children and young people in our care
You will be suited to this role if you have…
- Experience in a social care & health setting
- Experience of working with children/young people
- Knowledge of current safeguarding procedures.
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to build a rapport and a positive working relationship with external partners.
TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
- 31 days paid holiday plus 8 annual bank holidays (pro rate for part time employees).
- Flexible working arrangements (including compressed hours, flexibility around core hours, volunteer days policy).
- Family friendly policies.
- Homeworking ‘bundle’ including annual allowance, IT equipment and a loan for home office set up.
- Help at Hand Employee Assistance Programme (including CBT counselling, 24/7 remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, mental health support and second opinions on serious diagnosis).
- An hour a week of live, expert led activities through the Annual Employee wellbeing Programme.
- Menopause Policy and free Menopause Clinician Appointments.
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme (salary sacrifice).
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities for all roles.
The Family Finding Worker will be homebased within the Yorkshire and North East area but will be required to travel to face-to-face meetings, for training and team wellbeing events.
A Standard DBS clearance is required for this role and will be processed by TACT on your behalf.
Closing Date: Sunday 22nd September 2024
- Interview Date: Tuesday 1st October 2024 (via Microsoft Teams)
Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believes that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications, and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than advertised if the volume of applications is excessive, you are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies, nor the fees associated with them.
Working 2 days per week in our London office.
Purpose of job:
As the Producer at Comic Relief, you will turn creative ideas into reality, ensuring projects progress quickly, efficiently, and within budget. While your input may vary on a project, you will bring a layer of magic and efficiency to the teams you support. With your skills as a storyteller and organiser, you will essentially ‘make it happen’ in a variety of places and spaces. You will respond to briefs from across the organisation, ideating, developing, and executing ideas that resonate with our audiences and meet campaign objectives. While ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget, you will bring fresh, out-of-the-box ideas for managing and delivering content efficiently. Whether it’s a photoshoot, design project, social video, digital content, video game, podcast, event, or factual content, you will help the team transform core ideas into impactful outputs by driving the project forwards.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead multiple concurrent projects to ensure overall quality of work and guarantee projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Proactively identify ways to add value to the team through economical solutions and savvy production management.
- Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration and oversee a range of outputs including photography, broadcast, print, social, digital, events, activations, and other specialty projects from ideation through to delivery.
- Serve as the communication hub for larger campaign projects, coordinating between key stakeholders involved in an assigned project.
- Manage your own projects and collaborate across various specialist teams to drive projects forward, integrating various content outputs into a seamless workflow.
- Develop, implement, and manage project scoping, planning/scheduling of internal and external resources, estimating, and building project timelines.
- Provide clear and accurate communication regarding team member tasks and deliverables as well as providing regular updates to senior stakeholders.
- When required, coordinate and manage the entire production process (from research, creative ideation and development, to producing shoots, post production oversight and delivery), working with key stakeholders to ensure alignment. This includes producing schedules, budgets and facilitating key meetings to drive the project forward.
- When required, set up and manage production shoots to capture content, directing talent and contributors, as well as briefing internal teams and freelance crew.
- Work closely with key stakeholders across the organisation to drive Comic Relief’s year-round storytelling strategy, supporting with new ideas for content generation as required.
- Maintain systems and processes for generating and sharing ideas including crafting creative treatments and pitch documents to sell-in ideas as required.
- Collaborate closely with production management colleagues to ensure all productions adhere to organisational best practices, including safeguarding, obtaining consent, and complying with health and safety, risk management, and legal considerations.
- Adhere to production management operational processes to ensure all resources and productions are utilised and executed efficiently.
- Collaborate closely with key stakeholders across the organsation to integrate DEIB principles into all aspects of our creative work.
- Stay informed on industry trends and best practices, sharing knowledge and expertise in your specialism area.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience managing simultaneous projects in a fast-paced agency, marketing, or creative services environment.
- Proven track record in scoping complex campaigns, ensuring the creation of accurate resource plans, project schedules, and estimates. Clear understanding of what is and isn’t included in the delivery and risk mitigation plans.
- Strong understanding of planning/strategy, creative, and design processes. Ability to effectively converse on all areas, from static social posts to TV spots, OOH to printed posters, and everything in between.
- An eye for detail - always ensuring an excellent standard of delivery.
- Active listener and problem-solver with the ability to build trust with peers quickly.
- A ‘can-do / go-getter’ attitude with an ability to make things happen. Be the glue and go-to person for delivery solutions with the ability to see the bigger picture and confidently challenge ways of working.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work well with a variety of personalities and work styles.
- Champions creativity, not just output-driven, encouraging great ideas whilst creating efficient processes to create more opportunities.
Desirable criteria
- Media understanding - can comprehend the implications of different channels, formats, and technologies.
- Experience managing or producing content in the non-profit sector.
Perks and benefits:
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home option
- Life Insurance
- Wellness programs
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Paid emergency leave
- Sabbatical Opportunities
- Professional development
- Mentoring/coaching
- Paid volunteer days
- Payroll giving
- Salary sacrifice
- Team social events
- Extracurricular clubs
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free fruit
To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.
Closing: 12:00pm, 30th Aug 2024 BST
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Why work at Comic Relief
There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London,
There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work.
Disability Confident Employer
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV and application questions.
The Church & Community Organiser is a crucial and exciting role that aims to utilise community organising as a means support mission in and amongst estate and low income communities in the parish of St Peter de Beauvoir Town.
This role has been enabled by a grant from the Hackney & Islington Programme as part of the Church of England’s Diocesan Investment Programme. The role includes oversight of a small budget awarded as part of the grant, and line management of a .4 FTE Operational Support Officer to be recruited following the successful appointment of the Church & Community Organiser role.
The successful candidate will utilise a community organising methodology to
- build relationships
- listen and discern existing community leadership and institutions on estates and among low income communities
- work to organise communities to overcome identified need whilst building relationships and a habit and culture of acting together to deliver agency, ownership, and change
- signpost to/create appropriate groups/spaces to meet identified need or to enable action to be taken together to deliver social and community change
- to create new worshipping opportunities and nurture disciples from low income communities
- create and devise mindful and prayerful spaces and worshipping activities in St Peter’s and in appropriate spaces in the community with the aim of launching a new worshipping community or service
Main Duties
- to oversee membership with and relationship to Citizens UK/Centre for Theology and Community or another recognised partner institution utilising community organising
- to undergo community organising training (if not done so already) in order to be able to train local leaders and congregation members in community organising
- to building relationships with and discern the spiritual and material needs of residents of estates and low income communities through a regular pattern of 121 conversations (on average 3 a day)
- to identify local leadership and institutions on estate and low income communities, and to help develop local leaders
- to convene small groups and local actions to discern and meet identified need to enable action to be taken together to deliver social and community change
- to listen actively via a programme of 121s with members of St Peter’s congregation (and Warm Welcome guests) especially those living in estate and low income communities to develop St Peter de Beauvoir’s ability to welcome and develop agency of guests and worshippers from estate and low income communities
- to create spaces and opportunities to meet spiritual needs of residents of estates and low income communities through creation of prayer spaces, worshipping opportunities and new services/worshipping communities, in addition to signposting to existing services and activities currently taking place at St. Peter’s.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Experience of setting up a new or consolidating an existing project
- Experience of working with and developing the leadership potential of volunteers
- Experience of working with different faith communities, as well as those of no religious faith
- Experience of risk taking to create a project/ situation/event that illustrates your values
- A working knowledge and good understanding of St Peter de Beauvoir and its communities (or a similar community and clear desire to do so locally)
- Ability to inspire, motivate and lead (particularly people who are different than you)
- Ability to organise yourself and others and to work responsibly in an unstructured environment
- Ability to use imaginative strategies to help improve disadvantaged communities
- Ability to plan and organise under pressure
- Ability to work with and relate to all types of people
- Ability to teach and facilitate workshops
- Ability to develop the potential of others
- A passion for justice, and the role of church communities in achieving justice for all at a local level, especially amongst those from marginalised communities
Desirable:
- A demonstrable track record of successful Community Organising
- Experience of carrying out a power analysis and using the results to initiate new relationships
- Experience of successful fundraising
- Clear evidence of campaigns won
- Financial management skills including ability to set and manage a budget
The Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 part 1(1-3) applies to this post.
The post is restricted to practicing Christians as leading prayer and devising opportunities for prayer are part of the responsibilities of this role.
The Community Organiser will be required to undertake a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check. The above list of tasks is not intended to be exhaustive and may be subject to change, which will be done in discussion with the post holder and line manager.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.