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We are looking for a Trusts and Grants Officer to join our busy and creative Fundraising Team.

Trusts and Grants Officer
Bristol Animal Rescue Centre
Salary: £27,000 – £30,000 depending on experience (FTE, pro-rata for part-time hours)
Hours: Part-time
Contract: Permanent
Work Pattern: This role is being offered at a minimum of 14 hours (2 days) per week and a maximum of 21 hours (3 days) per week, to be worked during office hours Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm.
Location: Hybrid, St Philip’s, Bristol City. Working from home is available for this role. On-site working will be required at our animal rescue centre, we request a minimum office attendance of one day per week for the first three months of employment. Following this, a minimum of one day a month office attendance will be required, with flexibility to work on-site if charity business requires it.

About Us

Our mission is to ensure that animals in need within our community receive the compassion, care and respect they deserve. We are committed to helping, healing and homing animals for as long as they need us.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with previous experience of making successful applications to trusts, foundations and other grant making organisations for a charity.  The responsibilities include researching potential funding sources, writing compelling grant proposals and maintaining relationships with funders to support the charity’s mission in helping, healing and homing Bristol’s vulnerable animals.

You will work closely with colleagues across the charity, learning about the different services we provide to both animals and pet owners and shaping projects for funding from your findings.

In particular you will:

• Research, identify and prioritise applications to trusts and foundations for which Bristol A.R.C. meets the funding criteria.
• Analyse the trusts and foundations landscape to enable the charity to fully understand the scope for potential funding
• Work with colleagues across the charity to create strong cases for support and shape projects for funding across all areas of our work. Ensure that we are maximising our trust and foundation funding potential by highlighting the lesser-known areas of our work and wide range of beneficiaries (animals and human).
• Write and submit high quality, targeted funding applications, including multi-year funding requests where appropriate.
• Maintain the trusts and foundations prospect and funder records on our fundraising database.
• Work with the Finance Department to ensure trusts and foundation income is administered correctly.

About you:

You will have a creative approach to your work, ensuring that we are maximising our funding potential by highlighting the lesser-known areas of our work and our wide range of beneficiaries both animal and human.

You will take a strategic approach, prioritising your workload to ensure you are balancing your time between researching potential funders, making high quality, targeted funding applications and stewarding organisations who have already supported our work.

What we are looking for in you:

• Proven experience and success in developing and drafting proposals and/or reports raising funds from trusts, foundations and other grant making organisations.
• Experience of research techniques applicable to identifying funding opportunities and framing funding bids.
• Able to convey complex information accurately, succinctly and engagingly.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent IT skills, including strong understanding of databases.
• Resilience and ability to use own initiative, manage competing demands, prioritise workload and meet deadlines.

If this role sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you.

Application deadline: Tuesday 6th August 2024.
Please note: that applications will be considered on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close the vacancy before this date if a suitable candidate secures the role.

Interested?

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website. 

Bristol Animal Rescue Centre and Bristol A.R.C. are the working names for RSPCA Bristol & District Branch (a charity registered in England & Wales 205858) and the linked charity the Bristol Dogs and Cats Home (a charity registered in England & Wales 205858-1)

No agencies please.

Are you passionate about advancing heart health research and improving the lives of millions?

Would you like the opportunity to put your skills and experience in data analysis to good use?

If so, we’re recruiting for a Health Intelligence Analyst to join us and put their mark on the work we do.

About the role

As our Health Intelligence Analyst, you'll play a key role in British Heart Foundation's (BHF) Health Insights team, helping to ensure that BHF has easy access to data and uses it effectively to provide high-quality evidence and insight to a wide audience, ensuring we maintain our intelligence-led approach across all of our operations.

You'll be focused on the delivery of a core health intelligence service, ensuring the Medical team and the wider BHF have access to a wide range of high-quality health intelligence assets. This includes the management of our statistics sign-off process and a supporting role across the core team in managing, prioritising, and reactively responding to queries.

You'll also play a key part in regular reporting to support the work of the team and the directorate, as well as engaging with individual programmes of work as required.

Working arrangements

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London Office.

The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you must be prepared to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause. Most of our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office each week, on average.
 
About you

Educated to degree level in a quantitative field (e.g. medical statistics, epidemiology, health services research, biomedical research or similar), or with equivalent experience, you'll have a strong understanding of statistical methodologies and health and care data (specific expertise in heart and circulatory health data, and knowledge management techniques is desirable). 
 
You'll have previous experience working in an analytical role, ideally in a health-related organisation, and will have experience working with a range of data manipulation, analysis and visualisation tools (e.g. R, PowerBI, Tableau).

With confident influencing skills, you'll be able to communicate data analysis to individuals at all levels. You will also be able to collaborate with others with ease, able to make connections between data and information, strategy, systems, and ways of working. 

About us

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

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

Benefits

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

Interview process

Interviews may be held during the advertising period or shortly after the close date. Interviews may be held over MS Teams or in person in our London office.

How to apply

We have an exciting opportunity for a Safety Officer to join our team.

Location: Gilwell Park, Chingford, London (with hybrid working)

Salary: £39,650 Band F, Level 3 (inclusive of Outer London Weighting)

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Job Type: Fixed term until June 2026

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

About the Role:

As our Safety Officer, you will ensure young people taking part in Scouting are safe, by working with local volunteers, line managers and specialists to ensure that national policy, procedures and guidance are implemented at a local level. 

As the Safety Officer you will have:

• Good knowledge of relevant health & safety legislation and regulation
• Level 3 IOSH/NEBOSH accredited qualification
• Experience in delivering health & safety advice
• Experience of conducting health & safety audits and identifying risk
• Experience in office administration, using Information Technology, analysing/interpreting data and composing reports
• The ability to assimilate large amounts of data and information and provide a summary of key implications for others

Key responsibilities as our Safety Officer:

• Conducting health and safety audits in line with the Scouts’ Safety Quality Framework, identifying areas of non-compliance and taking appropriate action to rectify these
• Providing members with specialist technical advice and support in the area of safety, outdoor activities and adventure
• Assisting the National Safety Manager in developing the Scouts’ safety rules, policies and guidance and support in line with industry and external best practice
• Researching, planning and preparing proposals for changes to rules, policies and guidance relating to safety and outdoor and adventure, ensuring they are in line with current Government guidance and legislation
• Using management information to inform best practice
• Working with local volunteer line managers to ensure the delivery of safe scouting to members, through compliance, quality assurance, and data insights
• Ensuring a high standard of resource materials, for members and delivering training
• Ensuring responsive and genuine engagement with internal and external stakeholders which will provide both challenge and support
• Any other duties as reasonably requested by the National Safety Manager and/or other Safe Scouting Management Team, commensurate with the general level of responsibility of the job

In return, we offer you:

• Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department
• Be proud to say you’re part of a team with Investors in People (Gold)
• Plenty of opportunity for learning and development
• 28 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays rising to 32 days after two years
• Four extra days to look after your family when they need you
• Three extra days over Christmas

We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…

• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Flexible working hours
• Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
• Study and volunteer leave

Closing date: 11:59pm Thursday 1st August 2024

Interviews will be held online: Wednesday 14th or Thursday 15th August 2024

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our fantastic team! Click ‘Apply’ now!

The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.

Strictly no agencies.

Prospectus is excited to be partnering with Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity in the search for a Trusts and Fundraising Officer.

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity provides specialist nurses and support for seriously ill children across the UK. Their vision is that every child, young person, and family living with a complex and lifelong health condition in the UK, has the dedicated care and support of a Roald Dahl Nurse Specialist.

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis so please do apply now and we will be in touch!

As the Trusts and Fundraising Officer, you will maximise income from trusts by the creation of high-quality applications and reports to funders, and by providing excellent account management and cross-team collaboration. You will proactively identify trusts and research them for suitability and communicate and build relationships with their funders through emails, letters, telephone calls, service visits and face to face engagements.

To be successful as the Trusts and Fundraising Officer, you will have demonstrable experience in writing successful applications and securing four or five figure grants from trusts and foundations. You will have excellent research skills, which can be applied to identification of suitable new prospects for their funding pipeline.

This role is a full-time permanent position will ideally have hybrid working in their Amersham office, but they could consider homebased with occasional travel to their offices. The salary for this role is £27,000 to £30,000 per annum.

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. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application, then please contact Rhiannon Mehta at Prospectus.

If you are interested in applying to this Trusts and Fundraising Officer 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.

About us and what we do

Be the Business was established as an independent charity in 2017 by a group of prominent business figures led by our chair Sir Charlie Mayfield, in response to the UK’s poor productivity performance. For more than fifteen years, the UK’s productivity growth has been negligible, and we have fallen behind many of our international peers. At Be the Business we’re working on what needs to be done to reverse this.

Having received seed funding from the government we are now fully financially independent. Our strategy has a clear focus on delivering three key areas that we know will increase our impact:

• Build on our proven ability to innovate by testing and learning what engages business leaders and makes a real difference to their business’s productivity.
• Further our influence by developing the impact of our knowledge and insight, and making it valuable for partner organisations.
• Apply our expertise by delivering market-tested services proven to boost business productivity, and enhance the professional development of executives.

About the role

This role is important in amplifying the work we do and furthering our influence with corporate enterprises, small businesses and the government. You will shape our messaging and communications with stakeholders, especially through the production of our thought leadership and publications, as well as helping drive engagement with stakeholders through different channels including media and socials. You will work closely with the Head of the Knowledge Centre to provide the expertise needed to make this team a success.

Key responsibilities of the role

Thought Leadership Reports

Content Development

• Work across the organisation with other teams to create impactful content.
• Provide writing and editing support for thought leadership reports, ensuring high-quality content with a clear narrative, compelling headlines, and a consistent tone of voice.
• Provide detailed feedback when collaborating with freelancers.
• Create forewords for our CEO, ensuring alignment with the report’s themes.

 Design Collaboration

• Work closely with our design agency on the report's design, ensuring it aligns with our brand guidelines.
• Conduct a final edit of reports to ensure overall quality assurance.

Project Budgeting

• Monitor and manage the budget related to report production and promotion.

Promotion and Distribution

• Have ownership of the promotion and distribution of content and its tracking, so that we can learn what works and continuously improve.
• Develop and provide copy for social media posts, ensuring effective promotion of reports.
• Build and manage report landing pages on the website, incorporating UTM parameters.
• Create press release landing pages on the website and manage related media plans.
• Assist in devising and executing media plans for report launches.

Media relations

• Developing media relations strategy that includes National, Regional and Trade publications.
• Draft and pitch press releases about Be the Business’ work.
• Lead on reporting for media output, producing slides for review at team and management meetings.

Publications

• Lead the calendar of report publications for Be the Business, in coordination with the other parts of the organisation.
• Set and maintain tone of voice across any external publications.

CEO profile

• Lead on drafting speeches, op-eds, and commentary for the CEO including management of social media output.
• Produce and manage LinkedIn content and engagement.
• Develop and agree a strategy for raising CEO profile.

Stakeholder engagement

• Assist in organising and supporting events such as policy briefings, roundtables, and stakeholder meetings.
• Drafting communications to stakeholders including government and leading businesses.
• Contribute to the implementation of stakeholder engagement plans to support advocacy initiatives.
• Support the creation of content for the website.

*Please note this is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities and may be revised from time to time as per business needs.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in communications or adjacent functions.
• Ability to work closely with the CEO and leadership team
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Experience of using social media to build brand awareness
• Research skills and the ability to assess information critically and distill key messages
• Project management experience including the publication of reports
• Able to manage your time effectively
• Ability to work as part of a small, collaborative team

Application process

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, a CV and a few samples of their writing.

Family Support Worker

£23,000 pa + benefits (including 25 days annual leave, company car and pension)

Southampton Care Team - This role covers Southampton and surrounding areas, covering parts Dorset, parts of Hampshire, parts of Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight

About the role:

We are looking to appoint a Family Support Worker to deliver a high-quality family support service as part of our Southampton Care Team.

Reporting to the Family Support Manager working in partnership with health, education and social care professionals, you will take responsibility for providing needs-led emotional, social and practical support to families where a child/young person has a life threatening or terminal illness

Having worked in a stressful and emotional environment you will have a genuine interest in building supportive relationships and helping people; and having provided bereavement support to families, you understand processes of grief, loss, and change - and how best to help others deal with its impact.

What we’re looking for:

· An experienced child health, education or social care professional - applications will be particularly welcome from those who have worked in a community environment and those with a recognised qualification in education, health or social care.

· A warm, inclusive approach to achieving goals quickly and correctly.

· Practiced in child protection, information sharing and the rules around data protection - you lead by example, drawing on your own professional experience and working within established guidelines.

· Practical and people-oriented - you will thrive working at a fast pace whilst maintaining accuracy and be a confident user of IT (including MSOffice)

· A persuasive and open communicator, you will work collaboratively with your team and volunteers to ensure delivery of a high-quality service and support fundraising colleagues by writing case studies and family updates

· A practical knowledge of diversity issues affecting children, young people, and their families – aware that being responsive to others needs and concerns, is essential.

What we offer:

We have a range of fantastic benefits that we offer our employees. If you’d like to find out more about these benefits and working with us, please visit our website. More information can also be found in our Candidate Pack.

We also have a fantastic learning and development programme - the Anne Harris skills development programme - in which we aim to provide a high level of training and development opportunities for all staff, so you are able to perform to the best of your ability, achieve individual and team objectives aligned to Rainbow Trusts strategic plan, supporting staff to be the best they can be, and feel a valued member of a high performing organisation.

Our Family Support Workers are given the opportunity to complete a number of diverse training courses in their first 12 months, including but not limited to: Mental Health First Aid, Makaton, counselling skills, and Introduction to Play.

The programme aims to provide a building block for you to individually tailor your own learning and development needs, with all family support workers having a foundation level of skills within their first year.

How to apply:

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Interview dates: Interview Dates to be confirmed.

Interviews will take place via Teams or in person with a date to be confirmed. We will only contact those applicants who have been successful.

There will be a requirement for flexible working and a full current driver’s licence to accommodate the team and family need. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this post.

Rainbow Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.

Rainbow Trust is an equal opportunities employer and a Best Companies One-Star rated organisation. Registered Charity No: 1070532

Location: Hybrid - linked to one of our offices in London, Birmingham or based in NI, Scotland or Wales

About UnLtd

UnLtd is the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK and offers the largest such network in the world. Our mission is to find social entrepreneurs with bold solutions to today’s challenges. Through funding and support, we help them to realise their potential and creating lasting change.

UnLtd values diversity and is committed to inclusion and understanding intersectionality. These are more than just buzz words for us; they are principles guiding how we build our teams, support leaders and empower social entrepreneurs. We want to create an organisation that’s the right fit for everyone we work with.

To support an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their lived experiences and ideas, we have embedded an equity and inclusion group within UnLtd, giving us a wide range of different perspectives in our work to help us see what is most needed in society.We are particularly keen to hear from those who identify as Black, Asian or minority ethnic, LGBTQIA, people who are disabled, those with learning differences, those with caring responsibilities, from a less advantaged socioeconomic background as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce.

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About the role

We are a vibrant, ambitious organisation, keen to continuously learn and grow so that we can better support social entrepreneurs. We have a new strategy in place, Breaking down Barriers, which outlines our plans to 2025.

As an organisation which offers a full range of support to social entrepreneurs, we are a grant maker, a service delivery organisation and an investor. UnLtd is also the corporate trustee of the Millennium Awards Trust (MAT), the original £100 million endowment from the Millennium Commission (thanks to HM Government and The National Lottery Community Fund). We draw down around £5 million a year from MAT’s total return and complement this with around £3 million of funding from a range of valued partners

Our governance, our leadership, our culture, and our people management need to reflect the impact (depth, quality and value), inclusivity and sustainability of our mission and model

The Executive Assistant role will play a key role in the governance, executive/leadership support and team engagement of UnLtd.

Working closely with the CEO and executive team, you will lead on board support, leadership group support and our ways of working

Please see the Job Description for more information.

Interested? Here’s how to apply

We need to know a bit about you, your experience and what you can bring to UnLtd.

You can submit a CV + supporting statement (up to 2 pages). We’d love you to tell us: 

• About you – your skills, experience and personal qualities; 
• Why you’re interested in the role and what you hope to get out of it.

The main thing is you can demonstrate you have skills and experience (Lived or learned) that relate to what we have said we are looking for.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

• Application Closing Date:  12th August 2024
• First round of interviews:   19th and 20th August

UnLtd is committed to offering employment opportunities for people with criminal convictions. As a result, we will only ask you about any criminal convictions at initial offer stage. Your information will be treated fairly and confidentially and will not automatically exclude you from the role that you have applied for.

During Covid-19, our staff have been working remotely, some staff are returning to the office in a phased, optional approach. We continue to seek to accommodate remote working.

Find out more about our generous range of employment benefits on our website.

1. Are you passionate about delivering top-notch health, safety, and sustainability education?
2. Do you have the drive to lead a team towards excellence?

If so, this vacancy for an Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager could well be for you!

Benefits Package - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

• Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Location: Fully remote within the UK
• Working Hours: Full-time, 9-5, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Employment Type: Permanent
• Long-term growth opportunities
• Flexible working policies
• Supportive of professional development

About the Organisation - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

Our client is committed to delivering excellent learner support and providing market-leading products that emphasise quality and service. As an ambassador for the organisation, you will help achieve the mission of promoting health, safety, wellbeing, and sustainability education.

About the Role - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

As the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager, you will:

• Grow and lead the EHS education department.
• Manage and mentor a team of three direct reports: a Study Support Advisor and two Level 6 Trainers.
• Ensure training is delivered in an engaging manner through a blend of face-to-face and digital media.
• Liaise with a separate e-learning department to ensure content is developed to high standards.
• Develop innovative, student-focused educational materials that drive positive learning outcomes.
• Maintain and enhance the portfolio of health, safety, and sustainability courses.
• Work with sales and marketing teams to support growth and profitability.
• Engage with students and tutors through various platforms to provide ongoing support.

Key Responsibilities - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

• Contribute to budgets, forecasting, and setting objectives that drive UK market growth and profitability.
• Develop a high-performance team culture by setting clear objectives.
• Recruit, train, monitor, and develop full-time and associate tutors.
• Ensure all educational products are pedagogically sound, technically accurate, and innovative.
• Lead the identification and development of new resources and innovation opportunities.
• Develop and maintain channels of engagement with students and tutors.
• Monitor competitors and benchmark products and pricing.
• Engage in quality assurance and moderation activities.
• Lead on driving metrics, SLAs, and trading meetings for Education.

• Foster collaborative relationships with external accreditation bodies.

Skills / Experience Required - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

• Must have or be working towards a Level 6 National NEBOSH qualification.
• Experience delivering IOSH/NEBOSH courses.
• Commercial acumen and an understanding of marketing and sales.
• Ability to develop materials and support students.
• Strong IT skills, including PowerPoint.

To Apply - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge, we want to hear from you! Please submit your CV and a covering letter, detailing your motivations for applying and what skills and experience you can bring to this role.

Interview Process - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

• This will be a 2 stage, online interview process, with first stage interviews to be held on 24th and 25th July 2024.

• There will be a task to complete prior to first stage interview around your approach to developing a bespoke fire risk assessment course - details of this will be provided should you be successful at shortlisting stage.

Deadline for Applications - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Education Manager

• Friday 19^th July 2024
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to be considered for this opportunity.

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.

Working for a small , resident led , community organisation your role will be to develop and deliver a range of projects and activities for local residents . You will have experience of similar work in a community setting and be responsible for managing an existing portfolio of projects and staff . You will work to develop partnerships with a range of local organisations , both statutory and voluntary , with a view to deleloping new projects and representing resident's interests . You will also undertake some fundraising and deputise for the Chief Executive as required.

Maternity Cover Opportunity: Level 1 Youth Worker

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people? Do you believe in empowering youth to shape their own services? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits – Company Pension, free parking, reduced access to the Gym, C2W

We are seeking an experienced Level 1 Youth Worker to join our team. This role is ideal for someone with hands-on experience working with young people, primarily aged 11-19, up to 25 with disabilities, and from diverse backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities:

· Lead and deliver activities and events to support and engage young people.

· Understand and address the needs and challenges faced by youth.

· Positively engage with young people to improve behaviour, skills, and confidence.

· Plan and deliver sessions to a diverse group of young people.

· Ensure adherence to safeguarding practices and procedures.

Why Join Us?

· Make a real impact on the lives of young people.

· Work in a dynamic and supportive environment.

· Opportunity for further career development.

A Little Bit About Us!

Youth Moves is a youth work charity deeply committed to the transformative power of youth work relationships. We collaborate with young people, families, schools, and communities across South Bristol, focusing on those who need our help the most, particularly in the UK's most deprived areas. We empower young people to take responsibility for their actions, make positive choices, and achieve self-sufficiency.

We offer a range of services, including:

· Youth Club Provision

· One-to-One Mentoring

· Youth Participation Programmes

· Targeted Outreach and Group Work

· Positive Activities

· Social Action and Volunteering Opportunities

Our mission is to support young people in making a successful transition to adulthood by providing high-quality programs that foster long-term, positive changes in their lives.

We are dedicated to equality of opportunity for all staff. Applications are encouraged from individuals of all backgrounds.

Successful candidates will undergo an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, an online search, and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

If you are committed to youth work and want to be part of a team that values the voice of young people, apply now and be a part of something meaningful.

Apply Now and Join Us in Making a Difference!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader to join the Specialist Services team in Bedfordshire, working 37.5 hours a week.

Do you want to make a difference every day? Do you want to contribute to change and improvement for those who need it?

Do you have resilience and adaptability? Can you work effectively with a focus on customer service and care?

If yes, then we'd love to hear from you…

What we offer:

At Victim Support we believe in attracting & retaining the best people and offer a competitive rewards & benefits package including:

• Flexible working options including hybrid working
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising to 33 days plus Bank Holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday
• Pension with 5% employer contribution
• Enhanced sick pay allowances, maternity & paternity payments
• High Street, retail, holiday, entertainment & leisure discounts
• Access to our financial wellbeing hub & salary deducted finance
• Employee assistance programme & wellbeing support
• Ongoing training & support with opportunities for career development & progression

About this role:

This role supports the service across Bedfordshire. As a Team Leader for the Specialist Services team you will:

• Have line management responsibilities for the team from across all our local projects
• Attend and Chair local MARACs and other partnership meetings

You will need:

• A qualification as an IDVA or ISAC
• Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships and pathways within a multi-agency and legislative framework
• Knowledge of legislation relating to equal opportunities and diversity, safeguarding and risk assessments
• Practical understanding of the requirement for confidentiality and safe working practice and maintenance of files in accordance with the Data Protection Act and other legal requirements
• Experience of working in a challenging and changing environment with an emphasis on customer focus and excellence in service delivery
• Demonstrable experience of providing crisis management, support and guidance in sometimes stressful and difficult situations to a team with a client service focus
• Have excellent communication, negotiation and advisory skills, both written and verbal when interacting with a range of agencies and individuals
• Work without direct supervision, prioritise work and deal with competing or conflicting demands/ needs and interests in an organised and methodical manner
• Gather, analyse and use information and evidence from different sources to solve problems and report on data quality and compliance
• Sound IT expertise with the ability to use a range of software including: Word, Excel and Case Management systems
• Self-aware and committed to own continuous development

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

About Us:

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity providing a range of specialist services to people who have been affected by crime across England and Wales. We work towards a world where there are fewer victims but who have stronger rights, better support and a real influence in the Criminal Justice System. Everyone at VS is driven by our Vision Ambitions and Values to play their part in making a difference for those who experience crime and traumatic events. Working for VS gives you the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing high quality services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

Victim Support strives to represent the diverse communities we serve and are passionate about creating an environment where all staff and volunteers feel respected and heard. Being a diverse organisation with an inclusive culture is integral to us being able to meet our aim of ensuring that anyone who is a victim of crime gets the support they need.

As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we particularly welcome applicants from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. VS is also a Disability Confident Employer and we provide a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for candidates that are disabled and meet all essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

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Join Age UK Westminster's friendly team and help grow its service supporting Westminster residents who are living with dementia. In 2024 the ambition is to grow the reach of the successful monthly ‘Heart of Westminster' Cafe delivered in partnership with the Salvation Army’s Regent Hall and grow the weekly community-based MCST group to two weekly groups and provide expertise to the Befriending team to manage some befriending matches. 

Job Title: Dementia Service Coordinator

Reporting to: Community Services Manager

Responsible for: Dementia Volunteers

Salary: £28,000 - £31,000 per annum pro-rata including London Weighting, plus up to 7% Pensions Contribution

Hours of work: 3 days a week with possibility of increasing days subject to funding

Annual Leave: 28 days per annum (pro-rata for part time), plus Bank Holidays

Location: Beethoven Centre, Third Avenue, London W10 4JL

Contract: 12 months with extension subject to securing continuation funding

London Seminary seeks an enthusiastic Administrator to play a crucial role in its administration function. 

An exciting opportunity awaits a proactive, personable, and reliable Administrator to join a friendly and engaging administration team. The Seminary seeks an individual with a fast-paced nature and outstanding attention to detail to offer comprehensive support, including student applications, facility administration, library assistance and general enquires. 

The Role 

You will be one of the first points of contact for the Seminary and responsible for providing multifunctional administrative and practical support to the Principal, Senior Leadership Team, and staff. 

You will take a proactive approach to the role, supporting the smooth admission of students into the Seminary. You will also undertake a wide range of other duties including supporting the senior leadership team, ensuring the smooth running of the library, liaising with the site manager over accommodation and facilities and general administration as required. Below is an outline of duties. 

Student support 

• General enquiries 

• Telephone queries 

• Book interested parties into Visit and Open Days 

• Send out applications as requested.  Chase up near deadlines. 

• Deal with written correspondence, forwarding/scanning items as necessary 

• Student applications 

• Progress, request references, arrange interviews, offer places as directed 

• Provide admissions information, reading lists, handbooks, and answer queries 

• Administrative and welfare assistance 

Course Support 

• Produce and issue timetables as directed by teaching staff 

• Assign students and staff to Morning Worship slots 

• Book lecturers where requested 

• Set seminar, assignment, essay and visit/open dates 

• Allocate seminar presentation slots to students 

• Produce lecturer agreements 

Facilities 

• Book residential rooms for students, lecturers, and visitors 

• Student Flats: provide information about flats, licence agreements etc. 

• Report faults/maintenance issues 

• Provide accommodation reports 

• Arrange bookings for extra meetings and conferences 

• Ensure safe standards are maintained across the site, reporting issues and rectifying problems 

• Update Fire Risk Assessment 

• Maintain Accident Book, and ensure First Aid Training is up to date and documented 

Finance 

• Check and approve purchase invoices within agreed limits 

• Distribute invoices 

• Chase overdue invoices 

• Maintain leases for photocopier 

• Maintain and order office supplies as needed 

• Maintain scale of fees and payments 

• Bank cheques and cash 

• Liaise with local authorities for Council Tax and Business Rates queries and demands 

Library 

• Collate book requests and reading list items for approval 

• Order books as directed 

• Classify books, and maintain classification system 

• Oversee cataloguing, stock-checking, filing and maintenance of books 

• Maintain journal subscriptions 

• Process book donations, adding to the library, selling to students, or disposing of as appropriate 

• Order and sell set texts to students 

• Order book donations for students, and biblical texts in the original languages 

• Maintain library software, running maintenance and error reports 

• Provide student details to Evangelical Library 

Other items 

• Maintain licences, ensuring they are operated correctly and renewed promptly: 

• Data Commissioner updates 

• Liase with Copyright Licencing Authority 

• Liase with Christian Music Copyright Licensing 

• Ensure Microsoft and Adobe software licences are up to date 

• Maintain users on the system, adding new users as necessary 

• Maintain procedures and records of processes and passwords 

The role is full time, Monday through Friday, 37 ½ hours per week on site at London Seminary. 

About You 

You will be a highly motivated, efficient and organised administrator, who is a team player, as you will work with a number of people at all levels across the Seminary. With a track record of working in a busy environment where attention to detail is essential, along with the ability to manage various tasks simultaneously. 

We are seeking a manager to lead a frontline team, suitable for an experienced people manager who is friendly, kind, and capable of managing a busy workload. The ideal candidate will motivate staff and volunteers, engage with elders, and be solution-focused.

About Katherine Low Settlement

Katherine Low Settlement is a busy, local charity that has been serving Battersea and the wider Wandsworth community since 1924. We are dedicated to building stronger communities and enable people to challenge and find ways out of poverty and isolation.

We run a range of our own community services to support older people and children, young people, and their families from refugee communities. We campaign for social change. We incubate and support other charities and social businesses to thrive. Each week we work with 30+ charities and community groups supporting more than 1,000 people.

Katherine Low Settlement’s work with older people

Katherine Low Settlement has worked with older people since its conception in 1924.They are a core part of the community that we continue to work with. We provide, often in partnership, a range of projects and activities for older people including health and wellbeing; creative arts; intergenerational work; connecting people and trips/outings. Our services include an Older People's Lunch Club, Contact Club, T’ai Chi for Elders, exercise and social sessions, and support online.

We work with older people to:

• Encourage active and independent living

• Reduce isolation and loneliness

• Improve well-being and prevent ill-health

• Enable older residents to be dynamic and contributing members of the Wandsworth community.

Role Purpose
We are seeking to recruit a manager to lead a frontline team. This role will suit an experienced people manager who is friendly, kind and able to manage a busy workload. Someone who can motivate staff and volunteers, engage with elders and be solution focused.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the day to day running of the Elders Core Service as part of the wider Elders Programme. This includes the three day a week lunch club, transport offer and social sessions and one-off activities and trips.
• Lead a team of dedicated part-time paid staff and volunteers. The team members include a cook, support worker, minibus driver and sessional workers such as exercise tutors.
• Work collaboratively with the wider team to provide this “hands on” programme which builds on older people’s strengths and potential.
• Manage the monitoring and evaluation of the project.
• Ensure the programme runs to budget.
• Support the planning of the core programme with Elders members themselves and with the wider team.
• Recruit, assess and support new and existing members (service users)
• Manage waiting lists for the programme
 

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Planning and oversight

• Working with the Head of Programme, ensure that all service output meets KLS’ vision, mission, values and charitable objects and with the Head of Programme, ensure the service meets the programme strategy and KLS’s 5-year strategy.
• Ensure the smooth delivery of core older people's activities throughout the week and organise, plan and promote agreed one-off activities throughout the year in a timely and planned manner.
• Manage the transport offer, including route planning and pick-up schedules of older people to and from KLS’ activities with the Minibus Driver. Ensuring the Minibus Driver maintains records.
• Ensure activity records and registers are kept accurately and up to date as well as case work notes for the core team, completing regular checks on this. We use a Salesforce Database for which training will be given.
• Actively support the social and support needs of our older people as appropriate, including safeguarding issues and being a first contact for compliments and complaints for the service.
• To be part of, and work closely with, the wider elder's team, sharing information regarding elders on a regular basis where appropriate.
• Conduct outreach and support work with older people in the community and on home visits and oversee the case work of the Core Team as well as having a small caseload. This does not involve advice work but is mainly signposting, referral and light advocacy.

Staff and volunteer management

• Take responsibility for the Core Programme. This includes line management of the Outreach and Support Workers, Lunch Club Cook and key relevant social activities workers and volunteers related to the core programme (we do also have a KLS Volunteer Manager who recruits volunteers).
• Ensure performance management and quality systems are used to monitor and evaluate the project’s work, processes and safeguarding.
• Managing individual volunteers as part of the Core Programme Team.

Relationships, comms and networks

• Continue to build and sustain strong relationships with our members.
• Contribute to comms for the service with the Head of Service. Oversee the comms for the Core Programme including the shared service newsletter, activities calendar, annual report and social media platforms.
• Attend meetings as requested on behalf of the Core Programme.
 

Finance

• Manage the project areas to budget, maintain basic financial records as agreed with the Head of Programme – in this instance this is usually a petty cash sheet.

Safeguarding

• Responsible for ensuring adherence to policies and procedures across the core team, ensuring that safeguarding is at the forefront of KLS’ delivery.

Undertake other duties

• Participate in regular management supervision and annual appraisal; help to identify your own job-related development and training needs
• Undertake your role in a professional manner and maintain a high-quality standard of work in accordance with the aims, values and ethos of KLS

Skills and Experience

• Experience of working with older people in a community setting
• Experience of line managing a small team in a community setting
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, including communicating with people from a wide range of backgrounds and when working individually or in groups
• Strong multi-tasking skills and time management 
• Ability to work as part of a small team, whilst also working independently
• Experience of monitoring and evaluating projects effectively and ensuring that they are consistently meeting needs
• Understanding and experience of safeguarding, and health & safety in theory and in practice
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office suite and ability to use Internet, email and social media. Database experience would be an advantage (Salesforce) 
• Experience of working with or being a volunteer
• Knowledge of Battersea and Wandsworth
 

Personal Qualities

• Passionate about working with older people and championing their value to the community
• A hands-on, highly motivated individual with considerable drive, energy and a determination to succeed
• Caring and compassionate 
• Dedicated and organised with the ability to work under pressure 
• Able to see the wider picture as strong attention to detail
• Able to take initiative and solve problems
• Trustworthy, non-judgemental, caring and compassionate, proactive, self-motivated and hardworking
• Committed to KLS’s mission, vision and values

The above job description reflects the position at the time of writing; it is not intended to be a task list but indicates the general level of work involved. It is expected that duties will be reviewed and revised as required.
 

Dates

Closing Date for Applications:  28th July 2024

Interview Date: TBC End of July