STADV Associate (freelance)

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Job Title: STADV Associate

Responsible to: The Chief Executive

Payment: To be agreed

Working Hours: Variable

Work Location: Based at home or at the office of Standing Together Against Domestic Violence or agreed venue

STADV is looking for skilled and experienced domestic abuse experts to widen our pool of associates to help with chairing or report writing for domestic homicide reviews, development of our training programme and a range of bespoke consultancy work related to strategic and operational responses to domestic violence.
Duties and commitments would vary depending on needs of STADV staff and clients and availability of associates. Payment is typically made on a daily rate or in some cases for project at an agreed sum. An availability of at least 10 days per year is required.

To apply, please email your CV and a covering letter to admin@standingtogether.org.uk by 5pm, Monday 23rd November 2015. It would be helpful to include your particular interest and skills related to the general activities listed above. Initial telephone conversations will take place in late November.

For any queries, please email: admin@standingtogether.org.uk or call on: 020 8748 5717

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Fundraiser Post with Woman’s trust

Job Title: Fundraiser
Hours 21 hours per week subject to the availability of funding
Salary £13,800-£16,200pa depending on experience (£23,000-£27,000 pro rata), plus 3% matched pension contribution on successful completion of probation

 

Length of contract One year, renewable subject to availability of funding
Responsible to Board of Trustees
Line Managed by Woman’s Trust’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Location Based at Woman’s Trust Offices at Edgware Road, NW1

Job Purpose To research appropriate funding streams and secure new funding for the organisation. To maintain excellent relationships with current and new funders.

On a day-to-day basis responsibilities include drafting, editing and submitting funding applications, researching funding opportunities, building effective networks with key funders, building up a knowledge base of suitable funding bodies, co-ordinating the submission of grants and the reporting process, dealing with fundraising queries and working closely with the CEO, fundraisers, the Reporting Officer, Finance Manager, lead managers, project staff and volunteers, and to ensure a joined up approach towards fundraising.

 

Click on link below to see full job description and application pack

 

JD and application form

 

 

 

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Older People’s Outreach Worker

Older People’s Outreach Worker
Salary £26,342-£27,877 NJC SCP 26-28 pro rata (28 hours)
Contract: 1 year

 

Job Description

Enthusiastic, efficient and self-motivated Older People’s Outreach Worker needed to enable isolated older people to access befriending and events in Hammersmith and Fulham. The Older People’s Outreach Worker will undertake outreach work with isolated older people to enable them to access the new H&F Connect 55+ project Your focus will be on isolated older people who are living in sheltered housing or not in receipt of any other befriending services. The Outreach worker will also help the Older People’s Services team cover essential services such as telephone befriending and preparing publicity for events. Applicants should ideally have excellent office skills and a minimum of one year’s recent experience working with older people and volunteers. Experience of hosting events for older people is an asset. The post is for 28 hours a week.
Older People’s Services
Older People’s Services covers a range of projects delivering befriending, casework, events and advocacy support through trained volunteers to isolated or lonely older people in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Bishop Creighton House

Older People’s Services is part of Bishop Creighton House. BCH is a multi-purpose charity which was founded in 1908. We run a community resource centre and a number of social support and welfare services mostly for people living in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. We specialise in meeting the needs of people who are older, disabled, vulnerable or socially excluded, and aim to support their independence, health and well being, and to help them maximise their potential.
Apply via website : www.creightonhouse.org
Keep Active Westminster Coordinator
Salary £27,877 – £29,698 NJC SCP 28-30
Contract : Permanent

Job Description
We are looking for an experienced coordinator to oversee and deliver a new exciting expansion of our Keep Active volunteer programme into the City of Westminster. The Keep Active Co-ordinator will recruit, train and support volunteers to enable older people referred from Community Rehabilitation Services to regain mobility and independence through indoor and outdoor exercise support. Applicants should ideally have a minimum of one year’s recent experience of managing volunteers and working with older people. Knowledge of Westminster is desirable. The job will be based at Bishop Creighton House in Fulham but will involve extensive working in Westminster.
The Keep Active project
Keep Active Westminster is a pilot partnership project with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and is being funded for 3 years by Public Health. Keep Active will provide volunteers for 9 weekly sessions to older people who have lost some function due to illness, stroke or fall. Volunteers help older people to stay mobile and engage with their local community. All referrals will come from the Westminster Community Rehabilitation Service (CRS) for clients being discharged who could benefit further from volunteers giving them motivational companionship and support. This project is an expansion from our Keep Active Hammersmith & Fulham Service which was shortlisted for the Guardian Charity Awards 2014.
Bishop Creighton House
Keep Active is part of Bishop Creighton House. BCH is a multi-purpose charity which was founded in 1908. We run a community resource centre and a number of social support and welfare services mostly for people living in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. We specialise in meeting the needs of people who are older, disabled, vulnerable or socially excluded, and aim to support their independence, health and well being, and to help them maximise their potential.
Apply via website : www.creightonhouse.org

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Job Re Advertisement

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Female* VAWG Family Support Worker (Maternity Cover)
Fixed term contract to cover maternity leave to July 2016
Salary: £20,485 per annum inc Inner London Weighting
Working hours: 35 hours per week with some on-call cover required
Work Location: Based at Children’s centres in Westminster and the ADVANCE Hammersmith office

 

The Family Support Worker will work within a dynamic, fast paced, crisis intervention, advocacy and support service to ensure the voice of survivors informs every stage of the process specialising in working with clients who have children and are engaged with a children’s centre in Westminster or are referred either by agencies in Westminster or the Angelou Partnership. They will work within the team to make proactive contact and provide high quality advocacy and support based upon a client led needs and risk assessment. The post holder will have an excellent understanding of domestic violence and its effects on women and children and of best practice within domestic abuse services and in working with women with children. As an experienced domestic violence advocate who has worked with complex and multiple needs, the postholder will be skilled in risk management and safety planning, remaining calm in a crisis and in handling sensitive information on a daily basis. Experience of direct work with female survivors of domestic violence, of supporting women with children, and of working within safeguarding procedures is essential for this post, as is the need to adopt and promote a strong partnership approach to service provision.
ADVANCE is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. The post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and is open to women only (*Exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1).
Benefits include 30 days holiday and a non-contributory pension scheme.
Closing date: 23rd September at 12 noon Interviews: 30th September
Previous applicants need not apply
To apply: please download the application form and Job Description from our website at http://advancecharity.org.uk/#/come-work-for-us/4550289399
Completed applications should be emailed to althea.k@advancecharity.org.uk or posted marked ‘Private and Confidential’ to :
Althea King, ADVANCE (BSU Recruitment)
Unit 6,The Lanchesters 162-164 Fulham Palace Road
London W6 9ER

Full Job Advert

Registered Charity Number 1086873

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Job Vacancy: PA To The Secretary to Trustees

PA TO THE SECRETARY TO THE TRUSTEES

The Hilden Charitable Fund, a small grant-making Trust, is looking for a permanent PA to the Secretary, based in North End Road, London W14 0SH. We are seeking someone with good word processing and dbase skills, experience of basic bookkeeping and a good telephone manner. 18 hours a week: salary £22,568 – £27,755 pro rata.

For further application details please visit our website: www.hildencharitablefund.org.uk or email: hildencharity@hotmail.com

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 16 September 2015
Interview date: Thursday 1 October 2015

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Wormholt and White City Big Local are Recruiting!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate
person to be part of this amazing resident led project.

Post:       Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Salary:     £11,200

Hours:     16 hours per week

Contract: Initially fixed term until March 2016

To request a recruitment pack contact Emma at Emma@whitecityenterprise.com or on 07817 839 500

For more information

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Wormholt and White City Big Local, Review of Befriending Scheme.

Brief for researcher to produce an evaluation of Befriending to be considered by the Big Local Partnership Board and used as the basis for decision making.

We would like to complete the review quite quickly, ideally by the end of October. We want an independent look at what we are doing, but one that engages those currently involved in trying to make the service work and helps them to implement the change needed. There is a Big Local Partnership Board on 6th October and interim feedback for that meeting will be vital.

Budget

Up to £4,000 inclusive of all costs and VAT.

Expressions of interest

  • An outline of the proposed methodology
  • Details of previous work in this field including contact details for two referees
  • Information about the people who will work on the assignment and the number of days each will contribute to the review
  • Budget

Should be sent to Melanie Nock at Hammersmith United Charities by 3rd September. melanie@hamunitedcharities.com

For more information

 

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Parkview Community Champions are recruiting!

White City Enterprise are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate person to be part of this amazing, growing project.

Post:       Project Worker
Salary:     £7800 per year
Hours:     15 hours a week
Contract: Fixed term until June 2016 (with the possibility of extension)

Recruitment Poster

Job Description

 

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Mental Health Coordinator

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Mental Health Coordinator

Currently we seek to appoint a dynamic Project Coordinator with a proven track record in project development and management within a partnership context.
Standing Together coordinates the ground breaking multi agency response to domestic violence. Our work is recognised nationally and we continue to influence local and national policy and practice by initiating and driving innovative projects.
Our key mission is to work in partnership with agencies in order to provide safer options for survivors and their children, ensuring that their perspectives are at the centre of service planning and delivery. In addition we aim to improve the way that agencies respond to perpetrators, in particular in holding them to account for their abuse.
The role within this successful charity will focus on coordinating an Operational Group comprising professionals from both the statutory and voluntary sector mental health agencies and delivering training to improve service to survivors.

Salary: starting salary £30,537 including London weighting
Contract: Fixed Term
Location: West London

Interview date: 25th August 2015

Application packs are only available on our website www.standingtogether.org.uk

CLOSING DATE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS: 5pm, Wednesday 12th August 2015
For any queries, please email: admin@standingtogether.org.uk or call on 020 8748 5921

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