Hammersmith & Fulham Council is launching a Disabled People’s Commission as part of its drive to improve services and accessibility for all communities in the borough. Too often, disabled people are overlooked when councils are both designing and delivering services. With the launch of its Disabled People’s Commission, H&F will look into the experiences of disabled people in the borough to help make positive changes to increase equality and inclusivity for all those who live in, work in and visit the borough.
Salary £14,400 (pro rata £36,000, 2 days p/week) per annum
Location Islington, London, Greater London
Job Type Permanent
Contract: Part-time post – 2 days (14.4 hrs) per week, with the possibilty of hours/days increasing
The work is office based but will require occasional weekend working.
Providing a focal point for the NRCSE’s Quality Framework, this post is key to growing the NRCSE’s delivery of a national, tailored, quality assurance scheme for the supplementary education sector that responds to contemporary requirements of both community and statutory sector agencies and ensures safe and effective delivery of educational activities for children and young people. You will be working with community, voluntary and statutory sector staff at senior levels, and recruiting and managing volunteers.
This is a unique opportunity for a high calibre manager to join an organisation that is transforming out-of-school education in a supportive and appreciative way.
In this role, you will lead, manage and develop a growing quality development team, responsible for quality monitoring, coaching and supporting advisers, to ensure consistently high standards of advice and drive client focus and service excellence.
Reporting to the Executive Director, you will work closely with Regional Development Managers and our statutory agency partners to enhance and develop processes and systems supporting high quality and compliance, to ensure effective outcomes for our members and partners.
How to apply: please click here
Salary £16,800 (pro rata £28,000, 3 days p/week)
Job Type Permanent
Contract: Part-time post – 3 days (21.6 hrs) per week.
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 23rd August, 2016.
The post will have desk space allocated within NRCSE London office at Resource for London, N7.
The work will require flexible hours, outside of usual office hours and occasional weekend working. Travel within the boroughs will also be required.
Outline of role
As a member of the Quality Development Advice Team in NRCSE this post will support community-led supplementary schools (out-of-school hours educational projects) within the London Boroughs of Brent/Barnet/Camden/Ealing/Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster by providing mentoring and guidance towards quality assurance.
The postholder will be giving advice and guidance to management committee members and co-ordinators and visiting supplementary schools in operation to ensure that they are running safely and effectively (requires flexibility to work some weekends and evenings).
If you are passionate about community-led change, believe that culture and language are a crucial part of who we are, if you are outgoing and self-motivating this could be just the job for you.
How to apply: please click here.
Please click on image to enlarge
Please click on picture to enlarge
Contract details Initial 12 Month Contract
Salary details Skilled Admin Worker £21,336 – £23,332 (pro rata)
Hours 16 hours per week (Mon-Thurs 5pm – 9pm)
We currently have a vacancy in the Counselling Service for a skilled administrator. Our counselling service provides long term talking therapy to people from any borough. We have a 30 strong team of counsellors we see 50-60 clients at any time during the year and the service is expanding all the time.
We are a dynamic organisation offering opportunities to develop your skills and practice in a supportive working environment.
We are looking for an innovative individual to join our staff team to provide administration service and support to our counselling team.
You will have proven experience of managing your own workload and working in a busy and high pressure environment.
HFM is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from individuals who have experience of using mental health services.
If you would like an informal discussion about the post please contact Farya Barlas, Therapeutic Services Manager on 020 7471 0580
As we hoping to recruit the right person as soon as possible we are not using a closing date as we may recruit immediately for the right candidate.
Interviews will be held at our offices in Fulham – you will be contacted directly to arrange a convenient date and time.
To apply please compete the application form using the Job description and person specification available on our website http://www.hfmind.org.uk/get_involved/job-opportunities.htm for your supporting statement and send to farya.barlas@hfmind.org.uk
From September 2016 Reachout Social Club at Fulham Good Neighbours is being transformed into Fulham Lunch Club. We hope to ultimately become the world’s smallest lunch club for 10 housebound older people requiring transport. The club takes place on Wednesdays and a typical afternoon has the following programme:
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Guest Speaker or Performer
14:30 Board Games and Crosswords
15:30 Tea and Cake
We are encouraging new members to join us and the club is FREE of charge.
Address: Rosaline Hall
70 Rosaline Road
London, SW6 7QT
Tel. 020 7385 8850
Email: info@fulhamgoodneighbours.org
Volunteers Needed: We are always looking for volunteer drivers and volunteers to help out on the day so please get in touch if you would like to assist the local community.’
Please click on image to enlarge
Dawes Road Hub
The Dawes road Hub managed by Sobus and located in Fulham offers office space, hot desking, meeting and training rooms for hire. It is currently being used by the voluntary and community sector organisations and others.
Reception
The Hub has a team of four part time Receptionist/Administrators working shifts to cover reception as well as providing administrative support for Sobus.
The reception rota was organised so that only one team member would be on reception duty during any shift. This presented a problem in providing cover when the receptionist needed to leave the front desk eg to complete other tasks or take a break. This was initially dealt with by using other members of staff to temporarily cover reception, but this wasn’t ideal and was also subject to staff availability. On the other hand, having two receptionists on shift at reception simultaneously would have been a waste of resources. A solution was needed.
Volunteering Proposal
Volunteering was proposed as possible solution. We decided we should look at how we could reorganise the work to allow us to fully understand what work should be done by staff, and tasks that could be done by a volunteer that would create an interesting volunteer opportunity. After some thought we set up a Receptionist/Administrator Volunteering program. A part time volunteer would volunteer alongside the receptionist on shift and in return they would receive full training, work experience and reasonable reimbursement of expenses for travel and lunch.
Implementing Proposal
A member of the Reception/Administrator team, was asked to create a series of Volunteer handbooks across three levels of learning, which would provide information and instructions on all tasks included in the role. The handbooks were designed to assist training and give feedback on training progression both to volunteers and to the team. It was also necessary to amend existing documents used for paid staff to make them appropriate for voluntary staff including Voluntary role advertisement, role description, person specification and other policy documents. Once everything was completed and approved, we were to advertise the role through Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre who put details on ‘Do-it’ through their website. We were fortunate however in receiving direct offers of voluntary help from two interested individuals before the advert was put out. A meeting took place with the potential volunteers to discuss the role and their own expectations and skillset.
Outcome
Both individuals were taken on as volunteers. Each volunteer completed the agreed three month voluntary period. The experience has helped one volunteer to develop their own business, the other has moved from a retail job to an office job. The reception team and Sobus found it really useful to have extra help ensuring a high level of service to people using the Hub, additional tasks being completed and having a pool of people to recruit from when required. We are now recruiting volunteer receptionists on an ongoing basis and looking to develop a similar model in other areas of Sobus’s work. We have had no shortage of interest or applicants.
As a result of this experience we would highly recommend taking on volunteers to other organisations, where a similar program could be tailored to suit any particular organisational need.
If you want to learn more, contact Sobus at support@sobus.org.uk or get help with volunteers in your organisation please contact Catherine Perez-Phillips – Volunteer Services Manager at H&F Volunteer Centre on 020 8741 9876 or Catherine@hfvc.org.uk
The Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan have today announced the start of Operation Hercules in which additional firearms officers will be deployed in visible roles in the capital.
Hercules is part of the Met’s commitment to delivering extra armed officers to protect London against the threat of terrorism. The Mayor has welcomed the Commissioner’s increase of 600 additional firearms officers to protect London against any attack. The first are now fully trained and operationally ready.
The public will see more armed officers, working alongside their neighbourhood and specialist colleagues, on proactive operations and targeted patrols, both on foot and in vehicles, across London.
Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said:
“Anyone who’s been following events in Europe over the past few weeks will understand why we want to show our determination to protect the public. We are deadly serious about the protection that we are offering the people of London and we will never be complacent.
“That’s why I’m increasing the visibility and the number of armed officers on London’s streets, and demonstrating some of the range of tactics we already have to protect the public from all manner of threats.
“I want the public to know that we have substantial resources and a range of tactics that we can call on to protect them.
“The reality of having to deal with armed and deadly attackers is that you need firearms officers who will use force to stop those attackers in their aim. Our firearms officers are the ones who will run towards the danger. They are our heroes.
“Despite the fact they are carrying guns they are still police officers and I want the public to approach and talk to them, they are out on our streets to reassure and help the public.
“Equally important in how we protect our capital is the relationship that our mainly unarmed officers have built with communities over many years. Our communities are a vital source of information and if you have fears or concerns then we want to know.”
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “The safety and security of all Londoners is my first priority, and our police and security services are working incredibly hard every day on our behalf.
“The threat level here in London has not changed, but it does remain at severe and especially in light of recent deadly attacks in Europe it is important we are prepared should the unthinkable happen.
“We will see more armed officers on our streets, but there is no reason to be alarmed. All of our police officers are playing their part and working closely with all of our communities to prevent the possibility of an attack.
“That is why we are returning to real neighbourhood policing with a second dedicated PC in every London ward by the end of next year, to be the eyes and ears of our security services and build trust in our communities.
“Our armed response teams do a very difficult job. They put their own lives at risk every day and are at the front line of protection for Londoners across our city.”
The Met will continue to do everything possible to protect the capital not just through the use of armed officers but the ongoing work by specialist detectives in the counter terrorism command; working with partner agencies and gathering community intelligence.
The operation is not based on any specific intelligence but is a long term response to best use the increasing number of armed officers the Met has to make London as hostile an environment as possible for any would-be attacker. That means the locations, types of tactics and the numbers of officers deployed at once will continually change to be most effective and avoid predictability.
