Overall Purpose: To provide intensive support to homeless clients, supporting and guiding them to access services to overcome their issues.
Key activities and tasks: You will be responsible for registering new clients. Outreach visits in response to reports of rough sleepers, building relationships with clients to enhance engagement and developing pathway plans to achieve their goals. You will need to be proactive in assisting clients to claim benefits, access external services including GP, drug and alcohol counselling, mental health services etc. and seek accommodation making referrals where appropriate. Liaise with external organisations to ensure clients are engaging and needs are met. Encourage and motivate to attend workshop sessions to improve wellbeing and confidence. Once the client has secured accommodation you will continue to visit them at their home to provide tenancy support to ensure the tenancy is sustained and the client has opportunities to develop further. All contacts and actions need to be recorded on our computer system in an accurate and timely manner. You will also be required to be on the on call rota to respond to emergencies at the Step 2 Project between the hours of 12 midnight and 9.30am one week in every month.
Personal Specification
Competencies and behaviours needed to perform the role:
You will need;
Excellent communication skills
To have an understanding and non judgemental manner
To be solution focused
Be positive and supportive even during difficult circumstances
to be able to maintain professional boundaries at all times
the ability and willingness to be flexible
to use your own initiative and be able to adapt your approach to suit clients
the ability to work on your own and make decisions and within the team to share information and update
to be client focused
Minimum qualifications and experience to perform the role effectively:
Essential
Full clean driving license and use of car
Experience in a support role motivating people
Good level of English and Maths
Basic IT skills
Preferred
Understanding of benefits system
Awareness of drug, alcohol and mental health problems
Understanding of General Data Protection Regulations
Mid and South Essex are working with Essex Community Foundation (ECF) to support marginalised communities, helping to address health inequalities for people who have mental health problems.
To be eligible to apply, charities and community groups must be working within the mid and south Essex footprint.
There is £185,000 in grants available from our Mental Health Inequalities Programme to support either revenue costs, projects or capital costs.
Applications from these areas must be for work that:
Focus on historically underserved communities
Help us learn how to improve the accessibility and inclusiveness of mental health support for people experiencing mental health inequalities
Offer innovation and originality in supporting these groups of people to achieve their goals
Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 can be given to individual organisations. Grants of up to £30,000 are available for organisations that are working together in a partnership to tackle an issue in their community.
The panel are keen to hear from community and voluntary organisations who have ideas for projects and initiatives that will reduce the health inequalities for marginalised and historically underserved communities.
How do I apply?
To provide more flexibility, the programme will open for applications on 23 August as a rolling programme with regular panel meetings. To apply, please read the guidance. You need to complete our online application form here.
If you have any questions about making an application, you can phone ECF on 01245 356018 or book a time slot for a 1-1 meeting with a member of the ECF grants team.
Essex Community Foundation will be hosting a Teams webinar which you can join to learn more about this Programme and ask any questions you may have. They will also be sharing information about the findings of their community listening project and marginalisation, and you will hear the experience of an ECF grant partner.
We’re delighted to have capacity across Essex, Southend and Thurrock for new participants to join our employment support programme. Please do refer anyone you know who might benefit from our support.
Whilst we are entering into the last 6 months of our delivery, we have plenty of capacity to continue to support people referred to us over the coming months – so please do keep on doing so!
We have in place a 10-week programme to ensure that we continue to provide appropriate wellbeing support for all participants along with practical employability skills. This approach ensures that all participants who engage with us complete the cycle of support on offer.
PWCF considers small grant applications from UK registered non-profit organisations supporting grassroots projects in diverse and deprived communities in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and Internationally. The small grants programme awards single or multi-year grants to a maximum value of £5,000 and £15,000 respectively. The average single award is £1,500. In order to maximize impact, we would also consider awarding multi-year small grants to UK registered non-profit organisations.
Please review our funding themes, eligibility criteria and application process before applying for a small grant:
HHE is a small charity , helping lots of people. It delivers a set of simple , but impactful services, using an uncomplicated business model. The successful candidate will be a well-rounded business practitioner who has a proven, operational track record. You will be leading the day-to-day effort to make the charity run well, you will also be at the heart of enabling it to grow and help more people. This is a great opportunity for the right person to roll up their sleeves and make a great charity, even greater! Sound like you?
Job Title: Operations Manager Role Purpose
To manage and co-ordinate the day to day operations
To manage, support, and develop the staff team, leading by example in line with our values and principles.
To lead on HR and IT for the charity, ensuring compliance with legal obligations, reviewing and upholding existing policies and systems, as well as implementing new processes when required.
Deputise for CEO as requested.
Salary: £30,000
Hours: Full time 37 hours per week (working hours and pattern negotiable for the right candidate)
Location: Office based in mid-Essex. Currently Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, Travel across Essex will be required.
Contract: Permanent
How to apply
Send a CV with a covering letter no longer than 3 sides of A4, setting out how you meet the specification, to [email protected]. We welcome applications from all. We actively encourage applications from people with a lived experience of hearing loss, supporting you and your requirements. All those invited to interview will have the opportunity to discuss any reasonable adjustments that are required to ensure a positive interview experience. If you would like an informal conversation about the role prior to applying please call 01245 496347 and ask to speak to Sophie Ede.
Deadline for applications is Midday on Monday 19th September 2022. All applications will be acknowledged.
On Monday 22nd August it was announced by Thurrock CVS that their Chief Officer, our colleague and friend Kristina Jackson had passed away.
Kristina was an inspirational colleague whose dedication to the communities of Thurrock and latterly Southend was obvious to all who had the pleasure of working with her. As a team member within the Essex CVS network she was supportive to her colleagues often being a balanced voice who was not afraid to challenge with respect, fairness and humour.
On behalf of ECVS we send condolences to her team in both Thurrock CVS and Southend AVS, where she also held the role of Chief Officer until May this year, the wider community, her friends, family and partner Simon.
Kristina will be hugely missed by all that worked with her.
Sarah Troop and Clive Emmett
Co-chairs of ECVS in behalf of ECVS
Up to £14 million will be made available through the Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN) Fund for activities enabling volunteering and tackling loneliness in 6 to 9 high deprivation local authorities. In line with the missions set out in the Levelling Up White Paper, our primary ambition is to develop our understanding of what works to improve wellbeing and pride in place in these communities through volunteering and community initiatives tackling loneliness. Citizens will be able to participate in local projects which build their skills, wellbeing and social networks.
KYN Fund objectives
The objectives of the KYN Fund are, by March 2025:
To build the evidence to identify scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in increasing regular volunteering and reducing chronic loneliness.
To increase the proportion of people in targeted high-deprivation local authorities who volunteer at least once a month.
To reduce the proportion of chronically lonely people in targeted high-deprivation local authorities who lack desired level of social connections.
To enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities, and the local voluntary and community sector in these places, to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage volunteering and tackling loneliness.
Fund length
KYN Fund will commence from December 2022 and end by 31 March 2025.
The spend for each financial year of the fund is:
Y1- 22/23- £1,600,000
Y2- 23/24- up to £6,200,000
Y3- 24/25- up to £6,200,000
Note: For each financial year the actual value of onward grants for the IGM to administer is the figure stated above, minus 10% for evaluation (both elements, as outlined in the assessment criteria and section 7 of the detailed guidance below) and minus the requested % administration fee included in your bid (admin fee of no more than 6% as per eligibility criteria).
All DCMS funded activities must have taken place and the expenditure incurred by onward grantees by 31 March in each financial year of the programme i.e. in year 1, £1,600,000 must have been delivered and onward grantees must have completed DCMS funded activities by 31 March 2023.
Successful applicants can use their match funds to support onward grantees beyond 31 March 2025 when this programme will end.
Flexible home/office working with substantial outreach work within the proximity of the employing local office
Citizens Advice Harlow (1 role)
Citizens Advice Maldon (2 roles)
Citizens Advice Southend (1 role)
Citizens Advice South Essex (2 roles)
Citizens Advice Uttlesford (2 roles)Job Share/Part time applicants may be considered
CVs submitted without a full personal statement addressing the person specification for the role will not be considered. Alternatively, applicants may wish to submit a fully completed (provided) application form available in the particulars section (find out more) for each role.
Citizens Advice Essex, the consortium of local Citizens Advice serving Essex, Southend and Thurrock, has entered into a long-term partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support to set up and deliver a new specialist advice service providing expert welfare benefits advice to people diagnosed with cancer and their families.
The service aims to support individuals holistically, to ensure the financial effect of their diagnosis is mitigated by ensuring all possible benefits are claimed, other sources of financial support accessed and that they are referred to other Citizens Advice or Macmillan services where appropriate.
We have 14 positions available across four roles – ranging from specialist casework, supervision and administrative support.To request download details or to apply please click on the links.For an informal discussion, please contact Martin Lord on 077422 31152 Or email [email protected]
Following the Feel Well Fund event on 21st July, Community360 are now welcoming applications and ideas generated since the event.
The Feel Well domain would like to address three key priorities:
Target suicide prevention
Supporting people with complex mental health needs
Tackle loneliness and social isolation
One Colchester, the local strategic partnership for the Borough, is holding £242,500 for distribution in Colchester over the next two years. The same figure is being held by Tendring Together. C360 and CVS Tendring are providing administrative support for managing the fund and supporting development of applications. There will be the potential to explore awarding funds to groups working across North East Essex through the collaborative management of the funding.
If you would like to access the fund, but have yet to connect with a partner organisation, please contact C360 using the details below, and they can assist in making those connections.
Please send completed applications to: [email protected].uk or by post to Community360, Winsley’s House, High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UG. Phone: 01206 505250
The deadline for initial applications is 23rd September 2022
Please find below the application form for the Fund, the application guidelines document and the slide presentations from the event.
An Introduction to Neighbourhood Working in North East Essex
The ‘Neighbourhoods Programme,’ is an exciting new way of working collaboratively between the local voluntary sector, communities, leaders, boroughs and district councils and health and social care.
Six Live Well Neighbourhood Teams will be created and developed in Colchester South, Central and North and Tendring West, East and South. The Live Well Neighbourhood Teams will be able to support individuals and communities with early interventions, ongoing care and high-level needs in a joined-up way. The aim is to break down barriers and work more closely together to focus on the improved health and wellbeing outcomes for local people.
Colchester Central and South Neighbourhood Teams have already been launched with some encouraging outcomes to date.
A new 12-page citizen facing brochure is about to be launched and some members of the Neighbourhood Team have been out and about supporting some Live Well Events in Colchester. The aim of these events is to engage with local people on the wide range of health and wellbeing services available to them, with the opportunity to meet members of their local neighbourhood team as well as other partners and organisations.
As we progress with the development of the Live Well Neighbourhood teams in North East Essex, there are some real-life case studies emerging which truly show the value and power of integrated neighbourhood working.
Listen to what Dr Sue Pickford has to say about neighbourhood working and how it has benefited her as a GP and her patients, by having access to a wider professional support network here
Download ‘An Introduction to Neighbourhood working in North East Essex’ here
A new citizen facing brochure has also been produced and is available to download here – Please contact Sonia Shelcott at Community360 if you require any printed versions