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Cycling development officer – Essex

Closing date:
Monday, 6 September 2021

Location:        Home based in Essex

Salary:            £26,000 per annum

Contract:        Full Time (37.5hrs), Fixed Term Contract until end of March 2022. This role is funded externally, with the option to extend subject to funding availability.

We are looking for a highly self-motivated, driven, and creative individual to join our innovative and engaging organisation. Seize this opportunity to develop our Big Bike Revival programme and engage with local community cycling clubs, initiatives which are integral to helping us achieve our goal of getting millions more people cycling.

Cycling UK is the national cycling charity delivering community-based behaviour change programmes to increase cycling participation levels in traditionally hard to reach groups across the country. As part of our Behaviour Change and Development Team, you will be helping run these projects and engaging to help more people cycle, more often.

Tell us why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity and change lives.

Explore the job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening and send to [email protected].

Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to both the job description and person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.

Apply before 09:00am on 06 September 2021

We are an inclusive organisation and would particularly welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. We strongly believe that diversity strengthens our work. If you are already passionate about cycling, that’s great, many of us are too! But if you are simply really excellent at what you do, no matter what your background, that is what matters most to us.

For job spec and other details visit the website >> https://www.cyclinguk.org/announcement/cycling-development-officer-essex

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Adult Inclusion Officer – West Essex Adult Inclusion Lifestyles Project

Contract Type; 1-year fixed term

Location

Agile – Home/Office

Salary

£26,086 – £28,737

Package

LGPS, 28 days annual leave, perkbox benefits, agile working, professional development

Job category/type

Fixed Term – Full Time

Closing Date; 5th September

 

The Adult Inclusion Officer role as part West Essex Adult Inclusion Lifestyle Project provides a unique opportunity to shape and deliver a newly commissioned project across West Essex.

We are looking for a dynamic, organised and self-motivated individual to work across three geographic areas to support adults with learning disabilities to improve their physical and mental health in order to live active and fulfilled lives.

You will be responsible for the recruitment, training and development of volunteers who will be deployed to support adults with learning disabilities across West Essex.

You will also work closely with the Adult Inclusion Lifestyle Occupational Therapist in upskilling local service providers to offer inclusive services and assist in the development and delivery of new activities across West Essex.

The successful candidate will have experience of volunteer management including recruitment and training of volunteers.

They will have knowledge and experience of developing and delivering health and wellbeing interventions and experience of working with people with disabilities.

You will have excellent inter-personal, communication and motivational skills and be able to work autonomously and flexibly.

Experience of monitoring and evaluating the success of projects is desirable.

The successful candidate will be able to develop and sustain effective relationships with clients, their carers and families, volunteers and wider stakeholders and proactively promote the wider services offered by Epping Forest District Council, Harlow Council, Uttlesford Council and wider providers.

If you would like an informal chat about this fixed term contract role, please contact Fabrizio Ferrari, Public Health Improvement Officer, at Epping Forest District Council on 07538523771

To make an application, please visit the Epping Forest Council website

https://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/jobs-and-volunteering/jobs/

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Epping Forest District Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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East Region Safeguarding Learning Weeks

We are delighted to invite you and your colleagues to a collaborative learning event taking place between:

  • 13th – 17th September 2021 13:00-14:00
  • 20th – 24th September 2021 13:00-14:00

The agenda has been created in collaboration with partners across the East Region including: Police, Local Authority, Heath, Fire, Education and other partners.

We welcome an audience from frontline workers across all professions so please share with your partners across health, Police, Fire, Local Authority, Education, Third Sector and Volunteer agencies.

Please access the agenda and registration to the session via the following link:

https://eastsafeguardinglearningplatform.co.uk

Topics include:

  • Multiagency pre-birth safeguarding: Considerations for best practice
  • Reconsidering CT head scans in suspected physical abuse – research presentations
  • Safeguarding children: The role of a community perinatal team
  • The experience of safeguarding from a patient’s perspective through a midwife’s eyes
  • Transition and looked after children
  • Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme
  • Vulnerability – Transitional Safeguarding: towards a fluid response for adolescents and young adults
  • Older people and domestic abuse – it’s not always adult safeguarding
  • Mental Capacity Act: A quick refresher
  • The lived experience of trauma informed care
  • Confidence building in sharing information – a legal view
  • A day in the life of a PREVENT officer
  • Incel – An introduction
  • The role of the interventionalist in supporting survivors
  • Online grooming: Breck’s story
  • Extremism….a mother’s experience and the impact on families

Please note:

  • Use Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari to use the registration pages effectively. Internet explorer does not support this platform.
  • Don’t worry if you can’t make a session you really want to see, we will be recording, if you register on the platform you will have access to all the recordings after the two weeks have finished.
  • Keep an eye on the platform as we will also be recording some bonus sessions for your to watch, so please watch this space.

We are looking forward to you joining us and we hope you find the sessions informative and valuable.

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Project Administrator – Mind in West Essex

Base – TBC Harlow/Dunmow

Hours  – 10 hours per week (spread evenly over 3 days)

Term – Fixed term until March 2022 – with ambition to continue if funding is
secured

Salary -£9.42 per hour

Please see the attached job description  here 

To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to [email protected] by the closing date of Wednesday 1st September 2021.

Interview date TBC via zoom.

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Premises Administrator – Mind in West Essex

Base – Great Dunmow

Hours – 4 hours per week

Salary  £9.42 per hour

Please see the attached Job Description here

To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to [email protected] by the closing date of Wednesday 1st September 2021.

Interviews to be held on 6th September 2021 via zoom.

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Service Development Manager – Mind in West Essex

Base – TBC – travel throughout West Essex essential

Hours – 37.5 hours per week (part time or job share also considered)

Salary – £16.87 per hour

Please see the attached job description here

To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to [email protected] by the closing date of Friday 10th September 2021.

Interview date TBC

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United in Kind Radio

United In Kind Radio is a digital broadcasting platform with shares great music, community information and messages of thanks and kindness, across our local communities, here in Essex.

If you would like to share a message of thanks and kindness with our listeners – you can call us and leave a message on our answerphone on: 03333 409505.

Listen on the go – download the United in Kind Radio Apps!

Find out more on their website.

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FREE Fire safety awareness sessions

A FREE online sessions available from ECFRS. If you could share across the membership of the group, I would appreciate it.

 

ECFRS online fire safety awareness sessions are presented over Microsoft teams, last for approximately 50 mins and provide the following :

 

  • Understand how to assess the risk of fire in the home
  • Recognise the common causes of fire in the home
  • Recognise the warning signs that an individual could be at increased risk of fire
  • Understand how to make a referral to ECFRS, and know what support we can offer

 

After completion of the session, you will be emailed supporting documentation to assist you in the information shared during the session.

 

We are currently working on an online booking system but until that is in place, we are arranging bookings over email.

 

Please identify a session that would be suitable for you from the list below, email me with your preferred date and time and I will book you in and confirm back by email with a link to the session you have booked.

 

If you are part of a larger group (5+) we can arrange a session outside of these times to deliver to the whole group to support availability. Please contact me for further details.

 

Fires safety awareness sessions August to mid-September.

 

For bookings and any questions please do hesitate to contact me at [email protected]

 

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Community Connector (West Essex) – WECAN

Due to Covid-19, physical activity is now positioned as essential to health and wellbeing. Active Essex and Essex County Council are taking the bold step of creating a major new campaign called Find Your Active to ensure physical activity is a top priority for everyone.

The ‘Community Connector’ role will provide the eyes and ears on the ground for Active Essex. Working within local communities and alongside United in Kind Coaches, to map physical activity where it already exists and help facilitate it where it doesn’t. The post is fixed term for 12 months.

For more information on this role including job description please visit our website:

https://westessexcan.org/2021/07/27/work-for-wecan/

Deadline 10th September 2021

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Wellbeing Connector (West Essex) – WECAN

Do you have a proven track record of community coordinator and developing community relationships? Would you like to deliver an exciting new project in West Essex over the next year?

If you have previous experience of working in the health and wellbeing arena and understand the benefits of building community interventions, we would love to hear from you.

This exciting new role will build partnerships that tackle health inequalities through a series of projects over the next twelve months. For more information on the role including job description please visit our website:

https://westessexcan.org./2021/07/27/work-for-wecan/ 

To apply email your CV and covering letter outlining how you meeting the job specifications to [email protected]

Deadline 10th September 2021

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