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.
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
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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]
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:
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: