Contact a Family is a UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to the families of all disabled children.
We are a growing organisation dedicated to putting the voice of parents at the forefront of all our work.
Older Children's Services Development Officer
Salary: £28,771-£30,351 pro rata
Hours: 35 hrs per week
Location: Southwark, London
Six month contract
You will have the responsibility to engage with potential partners in the provision of services to families caring for a child/young person with a disability or additional need approaching adulthood. Your remit will also include researching alternative sources of funding for ongoing carer support and providing impartial advice to families with disabled children. Working closely with health, education and social services you will strive to improve interagency working, including contributing to strategic level transition meetings.
Experience of working with and supporting families who have disabled children is essential, as is knowledge of the issues affecting them. Your excellent organisational and communication skills and ability to influence and motivate
others will see you excel in this role. Ideally you will have experience of developing communities.
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Closing date: Tuesday 9 February 2010
Interview date: Monday 22 February 2010
Family Workers (East of England)
Salary: £22,221-£23,708 (£11,110-£11,854 pro rata)
Scale: NJC scale 26-28
Hours: 17.5 hrs per week
Location: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire (two posts)
We have two fixed-term vacancies (3 years) for 2 Family Workers one to cover Norfolk and the other to cover Cambridgeshire.
These posts are funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund, as part of a Contact a Family project to empower families with disabled children in the East of England.
Each Family Worker will also work directly with families to co-ordinate the provision of advice and support to families with disabled children, especially in relation to money issues and income maximisation. Knowledge of welfare systems and experience of working with and supporting families who have disabled children is therefore essential. They will be an integral member of the family support team England wide and in their own region of East of England.
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Closing date: Monday 8 February 2010
Interview date: w/c Monday 15 February 2010
Head of Finance
Salary: £37,848-£40,505 NJC scale 41–44
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: London
We are looking for someone to head our Finance Department and take full management responsibility for providing an accurate, timely and valued service to colleagues and Trustees, and ensuring the maintenance, monitoring and development of the charity’s financial records and systems.
Applicants must hold a recognised accountancy qualification and must have had considerable post-qualification accounting experience.
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Closing date: Monday 1 February 2010
Interview date: Monday 8 February 2010
Family Worker - Children's Centre
Salary: £25,520-£27,007 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Southwark, London
You will be responsible for providing an advice, information and support service to families with a child with a disability from the many different communities living in Southwark. You will work closely with Health, Education and Social Services and other statutory and voluntary services to improve services to families as well as providing links to other families and support agencies.
Experience of working with and supporting families who have disabled children is essential, as is knowledge of the issues affecting them. Your excellent organisational and communication skills and ability to influence and motivate
others will see you excel in this role. Ideally you will have experience of developing communities.
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Closing date: Monday 25 January 2010
Interview date: Friday 5 February 2010
New Media Adviser
Salary: c£27,000 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: London, but some travel around the country is likely
Contract: Fixed term until 31 March 2011
In this role you will ensure Contact a Family is taking full advantage of new media to reach families with disabled children and facilitate opportunities for them to network online and access information about support available to them.
You will expand and monitor our presence on social networking websites, and contribute to the development and monitoring of digital media on our own sites such as message boards and hosted chat room events. You will support and inspire our team of staff, parent volunteers and members of parent support groups on the use, benefits and opportunities of digital media. Also, you will help to produce content for print and web, for example edit and produce podcasts, and write articles/parent guides around new media.
You must be passionate about new media and have extensive experience of using social networking sites, ideally on a professional basis, with current knowledge of trends and an eye for future developments and opportunities. As you are working directly with parents of disabled children you must be friendly and approachable, and able to explain technology in non-technical language. The post also requires excellent writing skills for both print and web.
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Closing date: Monday 18 January 2010
Interview date: Monday 25 January 2010
Downloads
Our standard application form, equal opportunities form and guidance notes can be downloaded in both Rich Text Format (rtf) and as a Word document, enabling the form to be opened by most word processing software and completed directly.
Alternatively, application packs are available from our human resources department.
Contact our human resources department
If you have a query and wish to speak to our human resources department please contact us.
Contact a Family
209-211 City Road
London
EC1V 1JN
e-mail: recruitment@cafamily.org.uk
tel: 020 7608 8777
Equal opportunities policy
Contact a Family is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
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