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Job Introduction
- Location: Oxfordshire
- Annual Salary: £47,710.05
- Hours per week: Full time (37.5 hours)
- Required: Full UK driving licence and access to a car/vehicle.
- Sponsorship is not available for this position
Help lead the kind of support that helps people live life their way.
At Affinity Trust, we support people with Learning Disabilities, Autism and related support needs to live the kind of lives most of us take for granted - ordinary, full, and led by choice. As an Operations Manager, you will be leading a team that is all about making that happen.
How will I be effective?
You will show others what good support looks like, helping managers and teams grow their confidence and skills to do their best.
You will build relationships with families and stakeholders so that the people we support can achieve great outcomes in life.
You will encourage teams to be creative, courageous, and practical in helping people live life their way.
What will I do as an Operations Manager?
You will ensure people are in receipt of amazing, safe, and consistent support which is always shaped around them.
You will lead with heart, setting a clear example and creating a place where everyone feels respected and valued.
You will bring people together to work in the same direction, making sure the people we support are truly at the centre of everything.
You will help people have real choice and say in their lives.
You will maintain and manage an effective budget.
You will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining quality and compliance across all the locations under your management.
You will be the Registered Manager for your locations and be part of the on-call rota
This post reports into the Divisional Director.
What do I need?
You will have previous experience managing teams (managers) in supported living, ideally supporting adults with Learning Disabilities and Autism.
You will have a clear understanding of the expectations set by our regulators, the CQC.
You will need previous experience in managing and maintaining a budget.
A proven history in driving and maintaining KPIs, compliance, and quality.
A confident use of tools like Word, Excel, and other everyday IT systems.
You will need to work flexibly, as required and be prepared to frequently travel across the area
What do I get in return?
We have a range of benefits that you can mix and match to suit you, such as:
- Buy and sell annual leave – transfer windows open twice a year.
- Wagestream – an app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, access to coaching, vouchers, discounts, cashback and more.
- Vivup – spread the cost of home and electronics items, or a bike to cycle to work through fixed salary reductions throughout the year.
- Simply Health - Fully funded health cash plans giving you access to a 24-hour GP, money back on prescriptions, dental treatment, opticians, and access to many more health benefits.
- Blue light card – we will reimburse your Blue Light Card membership which provides discounts in your favourite shops and restaurants
- Care Friends - our employee referral and reward app. You’ll receive points which can be exchanged for extra money.
- Pension and Life Assurance - you’ll be enrolled into our Scottish Widows pension scheme and Life Assurance scheme.
If you want to lead a team that helps people live life the way they choose, with purpose and pride, apply today.
If you are offered a role with us, you will need to complete an enhanced DBS check. We will submit your application and pay for your check.
We’re committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Lead to join our team in Wandsworth; the scope on this job involves….
Job Title: Clinical Lead
Location: Wandsworth
Salary: £87 per hour
Contract type: This is a consultancy post that is due to finish on 4 March 2026.
Hours: 43 hours available
We want kind and empathic people to work at Refuge, who believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion, are experts in their area of knowledge, want to make a positive difference and improve the lives of the women and children we support.
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Clinical Lead for the IRIS project in Wandsworth, to provide support to the Advocate Educator with promotion of the IRIS project and with training and consultancy to GP practices in Wandsworth.
Closing date: 9.00am on 25 April 2025
Interview date: 2 May 2025
Benefits
Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
- Location: Oxfordshire
- Annual Salary: £38,755
- Hours per week: Full time (37.5 hours)
- Training Provided: Opportunity to complete NVQ/QCF Diploma Level 5
- Required: Full UK driving licence and access to a car/vehicle.
- Sponsorship is not available for this position
Supporting people to live great lives.
Affinity Trust helps people live meaningful lives on their own terms. As a Support Manager, you will play a key role in supporting adults with learning disabilities across locations in Oxfordshire, helping them to live life the way they choose.
How will I make a difference?
- You will empower your teams to support people to live their lives their way with creativity, patience and empathy
- You will build a community of support to achieve great outcomes for people through your relationships with teams, families and professional bodies.
- You will be a role model to your team, building a culture of belonging.
- You will be willing to work flexibly to meet the organisation's needs, with regular presence at locations and on-call support on a rota basis.
What do I need to demonstrate in my application?
- Previous experience managing support for people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
- You will be able to plan, monitor and evaluate continuous improvement initiatives
- You will have a strong practical understanding of CQC/SCI Regulations and reporting requirements.
- You will be able to undertake CQC registration if required.
- You will be confident in using Microsoft Office programmes such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint
- You will be willing and able to participate in the on-call support rota
What benefits will I have?
We have a range of benefits that you can mix and match to suit you, such as:
- Care Friends - our employee referral and reward app. You’ll receive points which can be exchanged for extra money.
- Wagestream – an app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, access to coaching, vouchers, discounts, cashback and more.
- Blue light card – we will reimburse your Blue Light Card membership which provides discounts in your favourite shops and restaurants.
- Simply Health - Fully funded health cash plans giving you access to a 24-hour GP, money back on prescriptions, dental treatment, opticians and access to many more health benefits.
- Vivup – spread the cost of home and electronics items, or a bike to cycle to work through fixed salary reductions throughout the year.
- Buy and sell annual leave – transfer windows open twice a year.
- Pension and Life Assurance - you’ll be enrolled into our Scottish Widows pension scheme and Life Assurance scheme.
If you want to empower people to live the life they choose … Apply today.
If you are offered a role with us, you will need to complete an enhanced DBS check. We will submit your application and pay for your check.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received.
We’re committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Actively Interviewing
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Careers & Employability Delivery Manager (Birmingham)
Contract: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 35 hour per week
Location: Hybrid with travel in the Birmingham area
Salary: Circa £27,000 per annum
Benefits:
- Hybrid working opportunities
- 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Extra gifted days at Christmas
- Extensive Private Health Care
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee benefits scheme
- Access to Learning & Development Platform Mapal One
- Supportive work environment
- Family friendly
At Springboard we…
Futureproof the talent pipeline for hospitality and tourism.
Nurture people into careers in hospitality, leisure, and tourism by equipping them with the inspiration, knowledge, skills, advice, and guidance they need.
Help transform the lives of people and breakdown barriers to work and can benefit from our support, so that they get sustained employment in hospitality, leisure, and tourism, whatever their age or background.
Provide specialist careers information, advice, and guidance to inform and guide young people, adults and key influencers about the industry and facilitate quality work experience opportunities.
Promote hospitality and tourism as a great place to work, providing worthwhile and inspirational careers.
All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruitment process, please send a request.
The Role
- Recruit, plan, and deliver educational activities and employability courses, providing ongoing support and mentorship.
- Secure work placement and job opportunities and provide aftercare to trainees
- Contribute to on-going development of programmes & activities
- Manage, build, and maintain relationships with business partners, education bodies, referral organisations.
- Manage accounts and carry out regular reporting, on all activity on our Customer Relationship Management system
- Contribute to the targets of getting people into work in the sector and work directly with employers, referral partners, education bodies, and beneficiaries.
This job is for you if you are:
- Passionate about helping people improve their lives
- Excited about supporting the Hospitality, Leisure & Tourism industry (HLT)
- Flexible and proactive with excellent organisation and time management skills
- Data driven with strong IT systems skills - Microsoft 365, multimedia knowledge and social media ‘know how’
- With a proven track record in delivering a range of careers, education & employability activities or/and extensive experience in hospitality
- Experienced in working with target groups from diverse backgrounds, vulnerable people and understanding of safeguarding and related issues (including GDPR requirements)
- Experienced in managing and building key relationships
- Someone who shares our core values ‘Inspire’, ‘Make a Difference’, ‘Customer Focus’, ‘Listen’, ‘Responsive’, ‘Inclusive’, ‘Honest’
*Springboard is an equal opportunities organisation, and we are serious about our compliance with legislation and GDPR.
*Please note: By submitting your details in relation to this role you are giving us permission to retain your details on our database of job seeking professionals for future reference.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are a very small, registered charity (number 1164078)
We provide counselling support, for children and young people who would not normally have access to the help they need by offering funded counselling to children and young people within 35 local, surrey-based schools on a bi termly basis. We usually provide a counsellor for a minimum of 3 hours per week per school. We have great relationships with all of the schools that we support, they will provide a private room for our therapists and their student. The day/time is usually decided at the convenience of the therapist.
Our school based therapists can also have the option of appearing on our website for anyone who would like to refer themselves to one of our counsellors and we also have the option to refer our part funded applicants to our therapist base.
We also offer some part funded counselling on a self-referral basis for those who do not have access within their school environment or for those above school age. We currently support approximately 45 children, young people and their caregivers on a weekly basis.
We are delighted that we are in the position to invite one or more fully qualified Counsellor/s to join our small passionate and perfectly formed team working in Surrey on a ‘self-employed basis’, initially for the summer term of 2025.
Role Description
You will provide at least 3 counselling sessions to 3 separate children and/or young people per week at one school during the summer term of 2025. We are recruiting for a number of therapists, so should you want to carry out more paid hours we can offer more, up to 6 per day for up to 5 days per week. These would be carried out in different schools for up to 11 weeks, depending on the individual school term. You would need your own transport to travel between schools.
Should our funding continue, we may be able to continue into the next school year. The school/s will be either based in and around Tadworth, or in and around the Byfleet/Woking area.
You must read and adhere to all of our relevant policies, including safeguarding, confidentiality and information sharing.
Job Overview;
The role will provide a high-quality, safe and confidential counselling service to pupils comprising of 1:1 clinical work with pupils at your designated school. You will be report into our clinical lead.
You will be paid £25 per hour on a self-employed basis, invoiced directly to The Matthew Hackney Foundation on a monthly/half termly basis.
Duties & Responsibilities.
Ensure High Quality Clinical Practice and Delivery
• Undertake clinical assessments based on child/young person’s needs
• Manage and account for overall clinical caseload
• Be able to complete assessment and hold regular reviews of clinical work
• Identify appropriate clinical interventions for pupils based on assessed need.
• Undertake one to one clinical work with pupils
• Engage in monthly supervision with a suitably qualified supervisor who has experience of working with children and young people
• Practice with an integrative model
• Demonstrate an understanding of working with children who require or would benefit from emotional or therapeutic support within the school environment
• Seek to improve the quality of service and provision wherever possible
Establish Positive, Active and Effective Relationships with the Staff and Pupils
• Meet the expectations of the school, working closely with the designated representative within the school and our Lead Counsellor/clinical lead.
• Demonstrate an understanding of child development and issues that may impact on their wellbeing
• Devise and implement appropriate strategies to support children behaviourally, emotionally and physically
• Demonstrate accuracy in all communications
• Have experience of providing short- and long-term therapy
• Identify and discuss potential referrals with the designated person within the school
• Establish and sustain positive working relationships with staff and children
• Embed the counselling service firmly within the ethos of the school
• Work autonomously and proactively within school
• Promote good mental health, share information and good practice with staff throughout school
Accurately Report and Evaluate Data
• Maintain detailed, confidential, up to date records of all provision delivered
• Use data to inform and improve practice and impact
• Be Alert to Safeguarding and Child Protection Issues
Demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding children
• Be proactive in reporting safeguarding issues and concerns to the DSL
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of child protection and safeguarding policy and procedures within school as well as Statutory documentation such as KCSIE and in line with The Matthew Hackney Foundation’s safeguarding policy
• Keep up to date with safeguarding policy and developments
• Respect the reporting lines of confidentiality that occur in Safeguarding Training and Development
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of pupils for who you are responsible and with whom you encounter
• Maintain high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, appearance and conduct
• Maintain positive, courteous relations with pupils and colleagues
• Promote the good name and reputation of the Matthew Hackney Foundation and adhere to it’s policies and procedures
Key criteria required for the role;
Qualifications:
You will be a fully qualified Counsellor, Therapist or Educational/Clinical Psychologist with a Post-graduate level qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy (ideally this would specialise in working with children (and adolescents)) however, experience of working with children in acceptable.
You will have BACP Accreditation, UKCP or BPC registration or registration with an equivalent recognised awarding body or working towards these registrations
• Further therapeutic training or qualification in working with children and young people
• Experience of working therapeutically with children post qualification is desirable, however, if you have experience of working with children in a different role, we are happy to support you in developing your skills.
• Demonstrate understanding of a range of therapeutic models
• An understanding of the developmental, emotional, social and educational issues of children and young people
• A clear understanding of child protection policy and procedures and commitment to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
• An awareness of range of needs of people from diverse ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds
• Knowledge of local mental health and CAMHS Services
• Knowledge of the Children’s Act and legislation pertaining to children
• Experience of working in a School
You would have be able to demonstrate;
A passion for supporting the mental wellbeing of children & young people.
Willingness to make a minimum commitment to practice in school one half day per week (term time only) for one term.
Understands and can demonstrate the values, vision and mission of The Matthew Hackney Foundation.
Emotionally robust and able to demonstrate self-awareness and self-reflection
Will have undertaken personal therapy (one-to-one or group therapy) to enhance this.
Be willing to develop an understanding of The Matthew Hackney Foundation’s equal opportunities policy, safeguarding policy and confidentiality policy, and a personal commitment to equality of opportunity and anti –discriminatory practice in service delivery.
Outgoing, friendly and proactive character.
Being able to use your own initiative but be able to ask for help when you need it.
Be creative and full of ideas
Be trustworthy, friendly and reliable
Ability to multitask
Ability to work under pressure
Please note you will be required to provide or apply for an enhanced DBS check and proof of/carry out safeguarding training along with three professional references
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Background:
Established in 2011, Kaleidoscope Trust (KT) is a UK-based charity focused on fighting for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and gender diverse (LGBTI+) people across the Commonwealth and beyond. We fund, fight for and empower those upholding the human rights of LGBTI+ people by working with governments, changemakers and civil society organisations to effect meaningful and lasting change in the lives of LGBTI+ people.
The Role:
The UK Policy and Advocacy Manager will lead Kaleidoscope Trust’s UK-focused policy and public affairs activities, in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives, and support, where appropriate, the wider work of the Policy and Public Affairs Team, including with external relations, communications, campaigns and events.
This role aims to:
▪ Provide the Secretariat function to support the co-chairs of the APPG for Global LGBT+ Rights to deliver the APPG’s strategy and work plan.
▪ Build and maintain relationships with government officials and the wider policy community across the UK, strategically deploying senior organisational staff or representing Kaleidoscope Trust and the APPG in external meetings and civil society forums as directed, and support delivery of events where such stakeholders are to be engaged.
▪ Identify and share insights into relevant emerging international political and policy trends helping to anticipate issues, risks and opportunities and translate these for relevant UK stakeholders.
▪ Draft insightful and compelling policy submissions, briefings and papers under the guidance of KT’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs.
▪ Fulfil the key responsibilities of the job role in a professional manner while adapting to often changing circumstances and re-prioritising accordingly.
For more information on the role, please find the Job Description attached.
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!
We’re seeking an Individual Giving Manager to join our Fundraising team. In this role you will lead on regular giving, appeals, major donors, legacies and the development of our lottery product.
Together with our Marketing and Communications team you’ll develop and implement a portfolio of inspiring campaigns and appeals that connect with our existing supporters, as well driving the acquisition of new supporters particularly through regular giving. You’ll also collaborate with colleagues to shape, refine, and execute our fundraising strategy.
You will have a good understanding and knowledge of growing individual income streams, combined with a natural ability to collaborate across teams and enjoy creating new and exciting fundraising appeals and campaigns. Most importantly you must have a passion for fundraising and the ambition to grow income and increase donor recruitment and retention.
We provide a place of safety for vulnerable dogs, rehabilitating and rehoming them whilst working towards creating lasting change.

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Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos? Then Advance Charity could be the career choice for you!
We are looking for 2x Specialist Prison & Probation Prison Advocate – Prison Services
Salary: £27,000 - £29,000
Location: HMP Peterborough primarily – with travel to London/Hammersmith HO occasionally
Hours: 10.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term – until 31st March 2027
This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Please note: Any offer of employment will be made subject to references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK, and satisfactory enhanced DBS check. This role is also subject to Police Vetting.
About us
Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse and supporting women with short-term sentences to reduce offending. We believe in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community.
We are a community-based organisation who lead in best practice approaches to supporting women in their local community. We achieve this by being available to meet and support women in local settings and at our women’s centres, and by working in close partnership with other agencies.
Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
About the role:
The Advance Prison Advocate will support women on remand and those unsentenced within the prison setting, providing pre-release support; focused on Accommodation, Finance, debt & benefits, Family & significant others and Social inclusion.
The Prison Advocate will develop a referral pathway with the Offender Management team within the prison, for women to access the service and will work in partnership with the existing service providers operating within the prison. You will co-design a person-centred support and action plan with women accessing support, enabling you to support them to address their needs and any risks in relation to the interventions identified above including providing ‘through the gate support’. The role will combine a casework- based approach, along with a signposting and advice service for the women in custody.
You will have demonstrable experience and understanding of working with women in a challenging multi-agency environment, ideally working with prisoners and/or their families.
You will build strong relationships with the Pre Release teams to ensure clients are able to maintain or access suitable accommodation, finance, benefits and debt, family and social inclusion support including negotiating terms on behalf of the women. Ensure that interventions are responsive to and meet the needs of women from diverse and minoritised backgrounds. This, together with referrals to wider partner organisations in the community, will ensure additional support needs are addressed post-release and continuity of support exists
A car may be desirable for this role, though not essential
About You:
To be successful as the Advance Prison Advocate you will need the below experience and skills:
Knowledge and experience of the criminal justice system obtained through academic study, experience of working in the criminal justice system (or closely associated social system).
The ability and experience as a caseworker delivering gender specific and trauma responsive interventions which support resettlement and rehabilitation of female adults in the criminal justice system whether in the community or in prisons.
You will possess excellent organisational skills, excellent communication skills and be able to work in a prison environment whilst remaining calm.
Knowledge and understanding of the requirements of managing a caseload including maintaining and updating records, remaining focused on action plan goals, and keeping to deadlines
You will have the ability to complete trauma informed, support and action plans in collaboration with the woman; to support in addressing their multiple and individual needs and enable them to engage with services, which will result in timely and prescribed outcomes being achieved.
· *Advance reserves the right to close the advert early, or on the appointment of a candidate.
What we can offer you - Employee Benefits:
- 35-hour working week
- An exceptional 30 days of paid holiday per year (pro rata for part time), PLUS public holidays on top (that's nearly 40 days paid holiday per year!)
- Additional days off to celebrate International Women’s Day, and for religious observance and moving home
- Perkbox - an employee discount platform where you can receive free rewards as well as take advantage of savings on clothes, groceries, travel, leisure and more
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee eye-care scheme
- Clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles
- Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 for each referral who passes probation
- Organisation wide away days
- One-week paid carers’ s leave
- Career development pathways
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Under the Equality Act 2010, we are required to make any reasonable adjustments. If you have a disability as defined under this act and/or have special needs, please email the Talent Acquisition Team via the Advance website and will aim to make the necessary arrangements to accommodate your needs.
Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.
Safeguarding
Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm and expects all staff, including volunteers to share this commitment. We believe all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe. We have a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures and practice guidance, accessible to all staff, which promotes safeguarding and safer working practices across all our services and activities. When we recruit staff, we follow rigorous safer recruitment practices, this involves carrying out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, and identity checks. We ensure all staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities, to empower them to be competent and feel confident in recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding issues and promote wellbeing.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are looking for a talented, creative and dedicated marketing professional to join our small but powerful team to help deliver our new strategy.
As a new role in the hospice’s Fundraising & Marketing Team, the Marketing & Communications Manager will join an existing team of fundraising managers working to maximise awareness and support of the hospice in order to ensure its long-term sustainability.
The postholder will be responsible for the operational management, development and delivery of marketing and communications to support the hospice’s income generation strategy, including line management of the Website Editor and Marketing & Communications Officer, and external agencies.
The successful candidate will be an experienced marketing professional, used to working closely with income generating teams. They will oversee the delivery of a compelling programme of multi-channel communications with the sole aim of increasing the awareness of and support for the charity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Marketing and communications planning, delivery and performance management
- Working closely with the Director of Fundraising & Marketing, develop a clear marketing and communications plan to support the strategies for fundraising, retail and volunteering.
- Implement, monitor and analyse marketing and communications plans and budgets, producing impactful insights and reports to guide our ever-evolving work through all communication channels.
- Develop and maximise the marketing mix, identifying innovative initiatives and working across online and offline channels, to best support the promotion of all income generation activities across the hospice.
- Ensure compliance to industry standards and best practice at all times.
- Support the fundraising strategy in proactively researching and targeting audiences across the catchment area to ensure a broadening of reach and awareness of the breadth of the hospice’s services.
- Be forward facing and lead on engagement with clinical colleagues to promote the need for strong patient stories and effective storytelling to support fundraising.
- Ensure sufficient opportunities for collection of service user data to share news and promote activities.
- Proactively develop and streamline the long-term internal and external communications schedules across the charity.
- Lead on content creation, coordination and production of hospice marketing materials, protecting the reputation, brand and tone of Katharine House.
Operational delivery
- Lead on the writing and distribution of appropriate and engaging press releases, paid adverts, local village features and articles.
- Work closely with the Marketing & Communications Officer to oversee delivery of a planned (and reactive) social media programme, maximising opportunities to increase our profile, using online planning and Analytical tools to plan and report on digital channels to improve targeting and supporter journeys.
- Work closely with the Website Editor to oversee and optimise the KHH website: creating and updating content for the charity and clinical colleagues, including the EPiC Resource Centre.
- Work with the Website Editor and Supporter Care team to ensure that integration of the CRM (Beacon) and website is optimised, to maximise supporter journeys, supporter preference compliance and insights.
- Work together with relevant charity and clinical colleagues and our designer to prepare, design and deliver high-quality marketing materials.
- Work with the Marketing & Communications Officer to oversee the production of the monthly supporter e-newsletters.
- Alongside your immediate team, manage production of the bi-annual Katharine House magazine from start to finish, with content and thematic planning with fundraising and volunteering managers.
- Lead on content creation to use across the charity. Continue to manage and regularly update our library (filed, captioned, tagged) of patient, staff and volunteer stories with consent, quality photography and video content for use across all of income generation.
- Manage and oversee the charity’s online channels including website, ensuring accurate, up-to-date and engaging content, and ensure all online advertising (inc. paid social media adverts), Google AdWords grant and SEO are effectively managed.
- Liaise with clinical colleagues at our NHS partner OUH to support key marketing, messaging and communication needs, ensuring our brand is correctly used.
Leadership and people management
- Meet regularly with the Website Editor and Marketing & Communications Officer, fostering positive communication and engagement. Carry out monthly one-to-ones, setting quarterly objectives and recognising training needs where necessary.
- As a member of the management team, represent the culture and values of the hospice and charity sector.
- Manage the ongoing and changing priorities within the team, communicating and sharing progress and changes in a clear, timely manner. Promote collaborative working and its benefits across the organisation.
- Attend regular management meetings, contributing to team strategy and overall management/team needs.
- Act as a positive role model to the charity team and wider stakeholders.
- Actively manage the workload of our designer.
- Where necessary, manage poor performance as it happens and support staff to fulfil their role.
- Network and foster good relationships both internally and externally to the charity.
VISION, MISSION AND VALUES
Vision - our vision is to ensure that every moment matters for patients and families affected by life limiting illnesses in our local community.
Mission - our mission is to ensure that we maximise support for quality, holistic services that meet the complex medical and social needs of our community around the issues of death, dying and loss.
Values
Compassion - we act with compassion and integrity, and ensure that everyone is treated with respect.
Inclusivity - we are committed to our whole community, regardless of background or circumstance.
Sustainability - we work to ensure the continued provisoin of quality palliative and end-of-life care in our community.
To ensure that we maximise support for quality, holistic services that meet the complex needs of our community around death, dying and loss.





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Join our vibrant and supportive fundraising team! This position is ideal for someone who excels at relationship-building and is passionate about making a difference in their community by working for a local charity. We're looking for someone who thrives on building strong relationships with corporate partners and local businesses across Berkshire and nearby counties, helping to generate essential income for our charity. This includes assisting with the organisation and delivery of events.
You'll leverage your creativity and professionalism to manage and grow existing corporate partnerships, while proactively seeking new business opportunities by undertaking research, create compelling proposals for a range of audiences and pitching to companies to secure their support. It you have the transferable skills to succeed, no formal fundraising experience is necessary.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer generous annual leave, access to a pension scheme, private medical insurance, and life assurance. You'll also enjoy free on-site parking and the benefits of our Employee Assistance Programme.
We provide specialist care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families, across Berkshire




Head of Individual Giving, Legacy and Supporter Experience
Are you a strategic fundraising leader with a proven track record in individual giving, legacy programmes, and supporter experience? Are you looking for a leadership role where you can drive impactful fundraising strategies and make a real difference? Join Prospect Hospice as our Head of Individual Giving, Legacy and Supporter Experience and help us support our community through delivering exceptional end-of-life care.
With a new five-year strategy underway, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in our fundraising team to ensure we meet our ambitious growth targets.
Hours: 30 to 37.5 hours per week (flexible working options available)
What is the role?
As Head of Individual Giving, Legacy and Supporter Experience, you’ll lead a passionate team responsible for individual giving, legacy programmes, and delivering a world-class supporter experience.
You’ll shape and implement data-driven strategies to engage and steward supporters, maximise donor lifetime value, and deliver campaigns that truly resonate. You’ll also lead the development of a first-class supporter journey, ensuring donors feel valued and connected to the impact they make.
This role is key to helping us achieve significant growth across cash appeals, raffles, lottery, committed giving, legacy, and in-memory giving, ensuring Prospect Hospice can continue providing compassionate care to those in need.
At Prospect Hospice, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. Our team culture is supportive, inclusive, and focused on continuous learning and innovation. You’ll be joining a charity that values diversity of thought and perspective, fosters a culture of respect, and encourages collaboration across all levels.
The role has a requirement to work occasional evenings and weekends to support events.
About you:
We are looking for someone who brings:
- Proven leadership in individual giving, legacy programmes, and supporter experience
- A successful track record of developing fundraising strategies, plans, multi-channel campaigns and budgets to grow income and impact.
- Deep understanding of supporter journeys, donor engagement, and stewardship best practice
- Exceptional leadership skills to inspire and develop a high-performing team
- Proven track record of delivering income against specified targets
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and stewardship skills to engage donors and stakeholders
- Ability to influence and negotiate with ease
Due to the nature of this role, a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is also required.
Please see the job description for full details and person specification.
We offer a great range of benefits, including:
- 27 days annual leave entitlement (plus bank holidays)
- Generous contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Discounts with local retailers, gyms, and service providers including Blue Light Discount Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Family-friendly policies and practice
- Supportive induction, and training and development
- A values led, inclusive working environment
- Free parking on-site
To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your suitability for the role and why you’d like to work with us.
Equality & Diversity
Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business, and the communities we serve.
We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Senior Brand and Marketing Manager
Are you a creative, strategic, and experienced marketing leader ready to shape and grow a purpose-driven brand? Are you looking for a leadership role where you can drive impactful marketing strategies and make a real difference? Join Prospect Hospice as our Senior Brand and Marketing Manager and play a key role in raising awareness, inspiring action, and supporting compassionate end-of-life care in our community.
With a new five-year strategy underway, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in our marketing team to ensure we meet our ambitious targets.
Hours: 30 to 37.5 hours per week (flexible working options available)
What is the role?
As Senior Brand and Marketing Manager, you’ll lead a skilled and passionate marketing team responsible for developing our brand and marketing activities. You’ll work across the organisation to create compelling messages, insight-led campaigns and communications to achieve our strategic objectives, lead on refreshing and growing our brand, and maximise engagement, awareness, and support across our community.
This role is key to helping us raise awareness, increase consideration to support, engage supporters, and promote our products, events, and services.
At Prospect Hospice, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. Our team culture is supportive, inclusive, and focused on continuous learning and innovation. You’ll be joining a charity that values diversity of thought and perspective, fosters a culture of respect, and encourages collaboration across all levels.
About you:
You’ll bring a mix of creativity, leadership, and hands-on experience to the role. We’re looking for someone who has:
- Extensive knowledge of marketing across all channels.
- Significant experience in strategic brand management and development.
- Proven ability to create and execute effective marketing strategies, plans, and budgets to grow engagement and impact.
- Exceptional leadership skills to inspire and develop a high-performing team.
- Strong analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience in digital marketing, including pay-per-click and display advertising.
- Ability to use audience insight to develop effective marketing plans.
Please see the job description for full details and person specification.
We offer a great range of benefits, including:
- 27 days annual leave entitlement (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible working
- Generous contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Discounts with local retailers, gyms, and service providers including Blue Light Discount Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Family-friendly policies and practice
- Supportive induction, and training and development
- A values led, inclusive working environment
- Free parking on-site
To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your suitability for the role and why you’d like to work with us.
Equality & Diversity
Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business, and the communities we serve.
We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Head of Relationship Fundraising
Are you a senior level fundraising professional with a proven track record of exceeding targets? Are you looking for a leadership role where you can drive impactful fundraising strategies and make a real difference? Join Prospect Hospice as our Head of Relationship Fundraising and help us support our community through delivering exceptional end-of-life care.
With a new five-year strategy underway, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in our fundraising team to ensure we meet our ambitious growth targets.
Hours: 30 to 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options, minimum 2 days per week in the office)
What is the role?
As Head of Relationship Fundraising, you’ll lead a passionate team responsible for philanthropy, corporate partnerships, community fundraising, and delivering flagship events like the Starlight Walk, Run the Rainbow, and Light Up a Life. You’ll develop innovative strategies to grow our income, build meaningful relationships with donors, and deliver a world-class supporter experience.
This role is key to helping us raise over £1 million annually and to ensuring Prospect Hospice can continue providing compassionate care to those in need.
At Prospect Hospice, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. Our team culture is supportive, inclusive, and focused on continuous learning and innovation. You’ll be joining a charity that values diversity of thought and perspective, fosters a culture of respect, and encourages collaboration across all levels.
The role has a requirement to work occasional evenings and weekends to support events.
About you:
We want to hear from you if you have:
- Extensive Fundraising experience, skills and knowledge in securing high value donations, with first hand successes in at least two of the Relationship Fundraising streams
- A proven ability to create and execute effective fundraising strategies, plans and budgets to grow income and impact
- Exceptional leadership skills to inspire and develop a high-performing team
- Proven track record of delivering income against specified targets
- Strong communication, relationship-building and stewardship skills to engage donors and stakeholders
- Ability to influence and negotiate with ease
Please see the job description for full details and person specification.
Due to the nature of this role a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is also required.
We offer a great range of benefits, including:
- 27 days annual leave entitlement (plus bank holidays)
- Generous contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Discounts with local retailers, gyms and service providers including Blue Light Discount Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Family-friendly policies and practice
- Supportive induction, and training and development
- Free parking on-site
How to Apply:
To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your suitability for the role and why you’d like to work with us.
Equality & Diversity
Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business and the communities we serve.
We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you an experienced communications professional that is passionate about using your creative communication skills to make a difference?
This is an extremely exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the further development of Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service.
We are an award-winning local charity that provides specialist care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families across Berkshire and into surrounding counties.
We are looking for a motivated, dynamic and experienced Communications Manager to join our team and who will help us build on our charity’s established reputation. You will lead on the delivery of a marketing and communications strategy that will engage and champion our brand to all our key audiences, internally and externally, in a consistent manner via a number of mediums and platforms.
You will bring creativity, energy, and passion to this role, with responsibility for delivering high-quality marketing assets that will bring our vital work to life in an inspiring way to help grow awareness and increase vital income.
The successful candidate will need to have experience across various areas: PR and brand management, report writing and developing case studies.
The role is based at our state-of-the-art children’s hospice just outside Maidenhead.
We provide specialist care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families, across Berkshire




Friends Provident Foundation is a small, independent, endowed charity based in York with a big ambition to build a fair economy and better world. We strive to challenge the way the current economic system operates and provide funding to an ecosystem of organisations that believe in making the system more equitable, just and accountable.
We are seeking a Grants Manager to join our small, friendly team.
As Grants Manager you will play an important role in the Foundation’s work to support our partner organisations in building a better economy, primarily through grant giving. This role will be vital in the delivery of our funding strategy.
We are looking for someone who has significant experience of autonomous project management, of managing relationships and of working in an organisation that has received or made grants previously. We need someone who is highly organised, a good communicator, good at making judgements and decisions, and who can handle conversations with the public with sensitivity and tact. This is an office-based or hybrid role, working at least one day per week from our office in central York, and involves some occasional travel within the UK to attend Trustee meetings and other events.
If you share our values and ambitions and are interested in joining our team please visit our website via the Apply button to download the application pack.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer, where equity and social justice is one of our central domains in creating a fair economy. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds including age, disability, class, race, sexuality, and gender identity. If you have a disability and would like to request an application form in a different format, or discuss your application at any point, please contact us.
Please note: Applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the UK, as we are not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Deadline for applications: 7 May 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.