Jobs in the local voluntary sector

To advertise your voluntary sector job here, FREE of charge, please email Philippa Leary. Jobs will be advertised until the closing date.

Spotlight

Carers Support Merton - Chief Executive Officer
Bromley Mind - senior administrator (Maternity Cover)
Bromley Working for Wellbeing – Psychological Therapies Service

Senior Administrator (Maternity Cover)

£21,000 per annum • Maternity cover of approx 9 months • Beckenham

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrator who shares our passion for enhancing and enriching the lives of people with dementia and their carers.

You will lead a dedicated 3-member team dealing with enquiries and maintaining accurate admin systems to support our MindCare managers and client facing staff.

Key responsibilities include

Maintaining an excellent standard of customer care
Producing staff and transport rotas
Maintaining accurate client records and producing activity reports
Producing invoices and processing staff pay claims
Managing the transport function, including supervision of minibus drivers, budget holding and vehicle maintenance schedules

Experience of standard office systems and IT applications including database is essential. You will be a good communicator with a talent for motivating others and maintaining calm under pressure. Every day brings something new in MindCare so you will enjoy being proactive and creative in your approach to problem-solving.

Closing date: 5pm on Wednesday, 6th July 2011
Interview date: Tuesday, 19th July

For an application pack, email personnel@bromleymind.org.uk or telephone on 020 8249 5910

www.bromleymind.org.uk

Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced level Criminal Records Bureau check

Bromley Mind is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from candidates with personal experience of mental health needs

Registered Charity: 108297

Bromley Working for Wellbeing – Psychological Therapies Service

4 x Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) Trainees (at Bromley Mind)
Salary NHS Band 4 • 35 hours per week • Based in Orpington

2 x High Intensity Therapist Trainees (at Bromley HealthCare)
Salary NHS Band 6 • 37.5 hours per week • Based in Beckenham

Bromley Working for Wellbeing delivers the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service in the London Borough of Bromley, and is a partnership between Bromley HealthCare and Bromley Mind. The service is expanding and taking on 6 new trainees to provide support to people with depression and anxiety.

PWP Trainees deliver evidence based psychological therapies to help people with depression and a range of anxiety disorders. The training is focused in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), including guided self-help and computerised CBT. Trainees will be employed in Bromley Mind's IAPT service, alongside undertaking a year’s specialist training at University College London (1 day per week). Applicants should have experience of working in mental health and the aptitude to undertake a post-graduate study programme.

Closing date: 30th June 2011
Interview date: from 19th July

The recruitment is being managed through NHS jobs - for more information and to apply:
For PWP Trainee roles: http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/vacdetails.cgi?selection=912682149
For High Intensity Therapist Trainee roles: http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/vacdetails.cgi?selection=912682102

For more information about Bromley Mind: www.bromleymind.org.uk

Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced level Criminal Records Bureau check

Bromley Mind is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from candidates with personal experience of mental health needs

Bromley Mind is a Registered Charity: 108297

Carers Support Merton - Chief Executive Officer

Starting salary £40-42,000 per annum including Outer London Weighting
(Subject to qualifications and experience)

Carers Support Merton (CSM) is a well-established and respected charity in the London Borough of Merton with an ambitious development programme of work to support, promote and improve the quality of life of unpaid carers. We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic person with excellent business, fundraising and people skills to take the organisation even further.
The successful candidate will have:

An understanding of carers’ issues at a strategic and practical level
Good interpersonal and communication skills
Experience in organising and managing a number of diverse projects and
people
Knowledge of the voluntary and statutory sector within a health and social
care setting
Experience in fundraising and budgetary control

CSM has a staff of 18 as well as sessional and volunteer workers.

For an application pack, please contact Karin Sensier on 020 8646 7515 or email info@csmerton.org You can also download the pack from the CSM website.
Closing Date: Tuesday 5th July 2011

Selection dates: Monday 18th and Wednesday 20th July 2011.
For more information on our work, log on to www.csmerton.org

Promote your vacancies free of charge through new national website

In addition to using the e-news bulletin’s job section, why not look at this new service to meet your recruitment needs?

Calendar Check's recruitment pages allow registered charities, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations to advertise permanent, part-time and voluntary charity jobs. Whilst it will be free to advertise 'paid' jobs until Spring 2011, it will always free to advertise voluntary jobs on the Calendar Check website.
Georgia Wood, Customer Service Manager, explains “After April we will be implementing a charging policy for charity advertisements for paid posts – but it will be a fraction of our competitors.

“With our national coverage, as a recruiter you get your own management area where you can log in, check on who has downloaded your applications, make revisions to your advertisement and generally check the progress of the campaign.”
Calendar Check has recently formed relationship with Student Employment Services, and 25,000 students and graduates are being emailed to encourage them job seekers to upload their CV's and browse the vacancies.

At this time of restricted budgets, we are all facing, it could be a good time to look at your recruitment budgets and test the water particular with access to the newest talent on the job market.

To find out more visit www.calendarcheck.co.uk or go to www.calendarcheck.co.uk[3] and click on Recruitment.. Any questions or comments regarding Calendar Check , contact Georgia Wood, Calendar Check LLP on 0113 240 9822 or email georgia@calendarcheck.co.uk

Please feedback your thoughts on the service to Frances McAuley, CLB’s Capacity Building Manager, as she is planning a research project for Spring around how Bromley’s groups recruit and their return on investment.