Location : London

Status : Fixed term contract until January 2025

Salary : £140 per day

Closing date : 17/11/2023

Interview date : 04/12/2023

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is seeking 2 patient and carer representatives to join the Quality Improvement in Tobacco Treatment (QuITT) QI Collaborative and the evaluation of the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Services project team as Workers.  The successful applicants will be:

  • Smokers or have only recently given up smoking, and/or have experience of accessing inpatient or community mental health services. 

OR

  • Experience of caring for someone who is a smoker, someone who has only recently given up smoking, and/or someone who has experience accessing inpatient or community mental health services.

Further details

This is the national awareness day to help ensure unpaid carers know their rights and are able to access support that is available to them as soon as they need it.

Please join us on the day from 10am-11am at an online talk for professionals to learn about Carers’ Rights.

Register for the talk here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CRDThurs10amSupportforCarers

The talk will be hosted by Carers Network’s Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea Services Manager, Sandie Roberts and Information, Advice and Guidance Worker, Monika Halpin.

You will be able to learn about the rights unpaid carers are entitled to and find out how Carers Network can support any of your clients who may be unpaid carers themselves.

To join the meeting online on Zoom on Thursday 23 November from 10am-11am, please  email events@carers-network.org.uk for login details.

The Rebel School run practical, inspiring, action focused courses that help people start businesses in a simple way and without getting into debt. They are running a free course 13th-17th November at Museum of Brans that is fully funded by Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Council.

Please click here for the course flyer to give you a flavour of the project.

Go! London Foundation grants will help organisations ​continue delivering impactful work in physical activity and sport, ​reach more young people, and become more resilient and sustainable​.

Grants of up to £40k are available for up to 24 months are available to community groups delivering sport and physical activity to young people in London. We will fund project-specific costs, core costs or both​. ​

Foundation funding aims to

  • Improve organisational sustainability
  • Enhance services for children and young people​
  • Increase numbers of children and young people supported by sustaining provision

Organisations interested in applying for funding, and meet the eligibility criteria, will need to complete a short online eligibility/fit to fund quiz form. Eligible organisations will then be able to access an online application form.

  • The deadline for eligibility forms is 2pm, Friday 10th November 2023
  • The deadline for applications is 2pm, Tuesday 21st

More information, including eligibility requirements, can be found on golondon.org.uk/foundation/