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Job Opportunity with ONE Westmisnter

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DBS Administrator

Hours:                         16 hours per week                                   Based at:                     37 Chapel Street, NW1 5DP                           Salary:                         £ 23,000 p.a. (Pro-rata) and includes Inner London Weighting                                                                          Start date:                6 months fixed term contract commencing January 2017

The main aim of this role will be to deliver the DBS service, which will include carrying out DBS checks for staff and volunteers from Westminster Volunteering Involving Organisations and non- profit organisations.  Other responsibilities include delivering individual training sessions to checkers and general admin duties, such as entering data into database, booking DBS appointments, dealing with phone calls, emails and other aspects of work relating to DBS. You will also support the office DBS volunteer.

You will need to have proven track record in project management and excellent written and verbal communications skills – comfortable communicating with people from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Deadline date is 12noon Monday 5 December    Interview date Monday 12 December

For an application form, please visit our website www.onewestminster.org.uk

or alternatively contact Nigel Barber on 0207 723 1216 or email at n.barber@onewestminster.org.uk

 

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Charity Governance Awards 2017

Charity Governance Awards 2017 are open for entry – win £5000!

Entries are now open to the Charity Governance Awards 2017 – the UK awards that recognise and reward good charity governance. The 7 categories focus on impact, board diversity, turnarounds, harnessing risk and new for this year digital. Each category offers a £5000 cash prize. You can enter online for free until 13th January 2017. The winners will be announced at the invite-only free awards ceremony drinks reception on 24th May 2017.

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Does your child need vaccinating?

Many people are unaware that healthy children under the age of five are more likely to have to be admitted to hospital with flu than any other age group. In addition children can spread flu to vulnerable adults especially over the festive period. This is why the children’s flu vaccine is offered as a free yearly nasal spray to young children to help prevent them against flu.

Flu can be a very unpleasant illness for children causing a number of problems and this in turn can lead to missed school days.

In areas where primary school age children were given the nasal spray vaccine Public Health England found:

  • A&E respiratory attendances were 74% lower
  • Hospital admissions due to confirmed influenza were 93% lower

 

Children aged 2,3 and 4 (reception years) on 1 September 2016 will be offered flu immunisation in GP surgeries.  Children in years 1,2 and 3 will be offered immunisation at school.  If a child misses the school immunisation it should be noted that they would not routinely be eligible to have this undertaken at their GP practice.  When a child in years 1,2 and 3 misses the school immunisation session parents will need to liaise with their GP practice individually.  

Vanessa Andreae Vice Chair of Hammersmith and Fulham CCG said:

“It’s really important that children get the flu vaccine and I would strongly encourage all parents and carers to make sure they do.  As well as protecting the child from illness they should know that children are the most likely to spread flu across the community. Vaccinating them works towards keeping the community safe.

“The nasal spray is simple and painless, and I urge all parents to take advantage of this free vaccine and protect their child from flu.”

 

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​Young Barnet Foundation – Development Manager Vacancy

Closing Date: 11th November 2016  Interviews: TBC

If you have a passion for supporting community action, facilitating partnership working and supporting voluntary and community organisations to bring about positive social change, this might be the job for you.

You will be a supporter, facilitator and connector of VCSEs in Barnet and as our Development Manager, you will be perfectly placed to facilitate the development of relationships with a range of stakeholders to promote and support the work of CYP VCSEs in Barnet.  This is a new charity and there is a lot of scope to develop a service that is deeply rooted in the local VCSEs.

Hours: Part-time 2-day week but some flexibility to offer a 3-day week for the first 6 months

http://www.youngbarnetfoundation.org.uk/vacancies

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Upcoming training sessions

 

For full information, simply scan the list below and click on the relevant session(/s):

Charity Trustees: Role Introduction & Refresher
Thursday 10th November, 6pm – 8pm (Free/£30/£40)

Level 2 Safeguarding Children & Young People Training – Working Together
Thursday 17th November, 10.30am – 1.30pm (Free/£30/£40)

Learn About Tuberculosis (TB) – Awareness Training
Tuesday 22nd November, 10am – 12.30pm (Free)

Health & Wellbeing Sub Group
Tuesday 22nd November, 1pm – 3pm (Free)

Voluntary & Community Sector Forum – Environment & Regeneration
Friday 25th November, 11.30am – 1.30pm (Free)

Agile Project Management
Tuesday 29th November, 10am – 1pm (Free/£30£40)

Nominated Safeguarding Person Training
Tuesday 6th December, 10.30am – 1.30pm (Free/£30/£40)

HR: What You Need To Do When You Employ Someone
Wednesday 7th December, 9.30am – 2pm

Crowdfunding – Information Event
Tuesday 13th December, 10am – 12pm

PQASSO (Quality Assurance Systems)
Tuesday 13th December, 10am -12pm

Introduction To Volunteer Management
Thursday 12th January, 10am – 1pm

Emergency First Aid At Work
Thursday 19th January, 9.30am – 4.30pm

 

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One Westminster – Job Vacancy DBS Administrator

Deadline date is 12noon Monday 5 December    Interview date Monday 12 December 

Hours:                         16 hours per week

Based at:                     37 Chapel Street, NW1 5DP

Salary:                         £ 23,000 p.a. (Pro-rata) and includes Inner London Weighting

Start date:                  6 months fixed term contract commencing January 2017

Background

One Westminster is the Council for Voluntary Service and Volunteer Centre for Westminster.  Our role is to support the local voluntary and community sector across Westminster by providing a range of services to meet their needs.  These include signposting and capacity building, best practice and fundraising and support for the Westminster Community Network – providing a voice for the sector.

One Westminster also provide a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) service for anyone involved in supporting or caring for children or vulnerable adults for staff and volunteers from Westminster Voluntary and Community Sector organisations (VCS).

Main Tasks

The main aim of this role will be to deliver the DBS service, which will include carrying out DBS checks for staff and volunteers from Westminster Volunteering Involving Organisations and non- profit organisations.  Other responsibilities include delivering individual training sessions to checkers and general admin duties, such as entering data into database, booking DBS appointments, dealing with phone calls, emails and other aspects of work relating to DBS. You will also support the office DBS volunteer.    

You will need to have proven track record in project management and excellent written and verbal communications skills – comfortable communicating with people from a diverse range of backgrounds.

 

For an application form, please visit our website www.onewestminster.org.uk

or alternatively contact Nigel Barber on 0207 723 1216 or email at n.barber@onewestminster.org.uk

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Need help recruiting skilled trustees?

Sobus is working in partnership with Works4U to help you find trustees with a range of skills in areas such as finance, marketing, business planning, personnel and law to join your board. The Sobus newsletter goes out to over 1000 people locally and the Works4U mailing goes out to a range of businesses based in the area including the BBC, Coca-Cola, Disney,  Ernst & Young, Mercedes, L’Oreal,  Sky and many more.

If you would like to advertise a trustee vacancy in our upcoming mailing then please send us the following information:

  • a short description of your charity’s work,
  • the type of skills you are looking for,
  • contact details for who interested candidates get in touch with
  • your charity logo

Send the information to news@sobus.org.uk by Friday 25th November

 

 

 

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Charity Governance Awards 2017

 

Win £5K for your charity!

Charity Governance Awards 2017 are now open for entry. The Charity Governance Awards 2017 are the UK awards that recognise and reward good charity governance in charities both large and small.

By shining a spotlight on the best of the sector, the awards will demonstrate how effective governance can transform a charity and even more, the lives of its beneficiaries.

Entry to the awards is free. Each of the seven categories offers a £5000 cash prize.

Categories
The award categories are:

  • Board Diversity & Inclusivity
  • Embracing Digital
    Embracing Opportunity & Harnessing Risk
  • Improving Impact – charities with 3 paid staff or fewer (including charities with no paid staff)
  • Improving Impact – charities with 4–25 paid staff
  • Improving Impact – charities with 26 paid staff or more
  • Managing Turnaround

How to enter
You can enter online for free until 23.59 on 13th January 2017. The winners will be announced at the free awards ceremony drinks reception on 24th May 2017. You can follow the conversation via #charitygov17 .

Looking for inspiration for your entry?
Hear from the winners of the 2016 awards in our podcast interviews, with representatives from the winning charities talking about governance at their organisation and what it meant to win an award. You can also read about all the 2016 shortlisted charities.

About the organisers
The Charity Governance Awards are organised by The Clothworkers’ Company– a City Livery company that supports trusteeship initiatives – in partnership with charity think tank and consultancy NPC (New Philanthropy Capital), charity recruitment specialists Prospectus and volunteer matching charity Reach.

 

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