Jobs Listing

Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire has ongoing job opportunities for Help at Home Assistants.  Further details are here

SIL is a ‘not for profit’ organisation providing services that enable older and disabled people to live independently at home and access the community.

Herefordshire Care Employer Finalist 2018

Male and Female Support Workers – Herefordshire (including Ledbury area)

Rate of Pay: £8.21 per hour (Potential earnings of £28,000 per annum) plus a generous benefit package

Location: Herefordshire

Hours: To be worked over 7 days on a rota basis

Do you want to work somewhere where every day is different? Working with people to live independently in their own homes.

From supporting someone to go to the cinema, assisting with personal care, to a quiet night in and everything in between, if so we could have the job for you.

We currently have vacancies for shorter calls of four or five hours, mornings and evenings as well as 24 hours shifts and experience is not always essential.  Applicants must possess a current driving licence.

Please contact Gemma on 01568 616653 or e-mail Karen.Hunt@s4il.co.uk

Marches Family Network

Charity number 1047075

 Is looking for Youth Support Workers, Volunteers and Trustees!

 We are a unique, well-established, registered charity providing valued support and opportunities for children and young people with a disability or additional needs.

 Due to increasing demand for our services, we are recruiting for support workers and volunteers to help at our Saturday term time activity days in Herefordshire and/or South Shropshire, term-time evening youth clubs in Hereford and Leominster and weekday sessions in school holidays.

We are looking for enthusiastic, fun loving people with a genuine passion for enabling all children and young people achieve their potential, good team working and communication skills.

We offer a free enhanced DBS check, high quality training and the chance to develop many valuable transferable skills. Previous experience of working with young people, including those with additional needs is desirable. Does this sound like you?

Paid worker positions are available for candidates 17 years old and above, and volunteer roles from the age of 16. Current pay is £9.20 per hour and volunteer expenses will be paid.

 

If you would like to know more, please contact us for an application pack on 01568 614908, or

email Louise at manager@marchesfamilynetwork.org.uk

 

We are also seeking people from various walks of life, including accounting, IT, HR and education/social care to join and strengthen our Trustee Board.  If you have a genuine interest in promoting opportunities for children and young people and can spare around two hours a month to really make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families, this could be you.

If you would like to discuss this role or come along to meet our trustee board, please contact Louise on 01568 614908, email manager@marchesfamilynetwork.org.uk 

Visit our website at www.marchesfamilynetwork.co.uk to find out more about what we do

 

JOIN OUR TEAM

Marches Family Network offer a range of activities to young people aged 0-25 years who have additional needs or a disability, while providing some much needed respite for their parents and carers.

We are keen to hear from anyone interested in becoming a youth worker to help with our term time and school holiday adventure/activity schemes, youth clubs & trips.
Varied/Flexible hours available – full training given.

 

 

Youth Support Services (YSS) has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Finance and Resources

 

Job Title:	Director of Finance and Resources
Hours	37 hours/week or part-time negotiable
Salary:	£40,000 per annum (pro-rata if part-time)
Contract:	Permanent
Reporting to:	CEO
Base:	Worcester with occasional travel to YSS offices across West Mercia – Homeworking during restricted C-19 period.

 

At YSS we are passionate about our work. We operate in the West Mercia region and help people overcome adversity and realise their potential. We are valued for our local knowledge and enthusiasm for working with some of the most difficult issues facing our society today and tomorrow. We work in a multi-disciplinary way, bringing together colleagues’ knowledge and expertise to achieve better results for the people we help. We work across the fields of criminal justice and social care for families, adults, children and young people. 

We are planning our next stage of growth and recruiting a Director of Finance and Resources in our senior management team, reporting to the CEO. Financial management is at the heart of the role, and the post holder will take overall responsibility for YSS’s financial control, planning, compliance and reporting.

About you:

• Qualified accountant with a recognised accounting body (CIMA or other)

• Experience in accounting or finance, ideally with experience in the charity sector
• Initiative and resourcefulness to operate in a complex and uncertain environment 
• Ability to work accurately under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

The post is based in Worcester, with occasional travel to Shropshire, Herefordshire and Warwickshire (home-working is negotiable).

About us:  

• We are an entrepreneurial charity with ambitious strategic objectives
• We are focussed on building relationships and partnerships
• We have provided a wide range of services since 1989 in response to local needs

We offer:

• 24 days annual leave rising to 26 days after 2 years’ service,
• Pension contribution
• Health and wellbeing plan
• Occupational sick pay scheme
• Flexible working

For further information on the role visit our website yss.org.uk

Closing date: 9.00 am Monday 13 July 2020

Interviews: to be confirmed but either Monday 20 July or Thursday 29 July 2020.

 

	Link Worker
Hours	30.5 hours a week split 18.5 MORSE and 12 ESS
Salary:	£20,013.70 pa (pro-rata)
Funding:	MORSE until 31 March 2021 ESS until 31 July 2021
Reporting to:	Senior Link Worker
Base:	No Wrong Door, Hereford City Centre

 

At YSS we are passionate about our work. We operate in the West Mercia region and help people overcome adversity and realise their potential. We are valued for our local knowledge and enthusiasm for working with some of the most difficult issues facing our society today and tomorrow. We work in a multi-disciplinary way, bringing together colleagues’ knowledge and expertise to achieve better results for the people we help. We work across the fields of criminal justice and social care for families, adults, children and young people.  

 

We are seeking a dedicated and highly motivated Link Worker to join our Criminal Justice team.  The Link Worker will be expected to organise and manage their own caseload and be fully committed to the ethos and values of YSS. They will be based in Hereford and work across Herefordshire.

 

The Link Worker will provide one to one community based interventions, to those individuals who are facing additional life challenges, this may include housing, physical or mental health, debt or finance management or substance misuse. They will encourage individuals to get to the root cause of their behaviour, providing practical and emotional support aimed at avoiding repeat behaviour. The one to one intervention will incorporate attitude, thinking and behaviour, building their confidence and resilience.

 

The Link Worker will work in close partnership with the West Mercia Police, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Fire and Rescue service and the West Mercia Community Rehabilitation Company.  YSS truly values partnerships, they are the hallmark of our work and that to be effective we need to collaborate and continually develop and work in partnership.

 

This is a dual role working across two projects ESS (Enhanced Support Service) and #MORSE (Making our roads safer for everyone).  For further information visit the “What we do” section on our website www.yss.org.uk

 About you.  You will have:

• The ability to engage and motivate a wide range of people.
• An understanding of the complex needs of service users in the criminal justice system.
• A commitment to the principles of service user involvement.
• Experience of using a multi-agency approach
• Good IT skills including Microsoft office soltfware

 

For further information and to apply visit yss.org.uk/work-for-us.  CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date: 9.00 am Wednesday 22 July 2020

Interviews: Thursday 30 July 2020.