Volunteer Group Worker

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Role Purpose:

Location:

The Group Worker will work in one or more geographical Hub
groups supporting parents or carers and their children.

Groups will be located anywhere in Bath and North East
Somerset.

Responsible to:

Family Services Manager

Hours:

Benefits:

To be agreed

  A supportive culture where staff feedback is highly valued.
  Training and development opportunities
  Volunteer travel/mileage allowance.

Equal Opportunities:

The worker will be expected to implement Southside’s Equity,
Diversity and Inclusion Policy in all aspects of their work.

Child Protection and
Safeguarding Vulnerable
Adults:

Southside
is  committed  to  protecting,  safeguarding  and
promoting  the  welfare  of  all  children,  young  people  and
vulnerable adults and expects all staff, volunteers and partners
to  endorse
follow  appropriate
procedures  to  ensure  staff  and  volunteers  are  trained  and
supported to respond appropriately, efficiently and sensitively
to child protection and safeguarding concerns.

this  commitment.  We

Confidentiality:

The  worker  will  be  expected  to  abide  by  Southside’s
Confidentiality Policy at all times.

Information Governance:

The worker will be expected to follow Southside’s
Information Governance policies and procedures as
defined by the NHS Toolkit.

The below will be dependent on the commitment the volunteer is able to give and their
desire  for  involvement  and  learning.  All  post  requirements  can  be  reasonably  adjusted
according to the volunteer’s commitment.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of the Post:

  To support the Hub team and other staff involved in the Hub.

  Tasks will involve but will be not limited to:

setting up tables and chairs, serving food, assisting with craft and play activities,
offering  information,  advice  and  support  to  families  with  complex  needs  and
cleaning and tidying up at the end of sessions.

  To attend summer picnics, outdoor activities or trips as required and agreed.

  To attend meetings and appropriate training as required.

  Work at all times within the policies, procedures and ethos of Southside.

  Whilst this role description attempts to cover the main duties of the post, it is not

exhaustive.

ATTRIBUTES

Education and
qualifications

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

A good general standard of education.

Experience

Some knowledge of child development and adult attachment relationships.

Interest in working in community groups.

Experience of working with families with
complex needs. E.g. drugs and alcohol, mental
health issues and domestic and sexual abuse.

Skills and Abilities

Ability to:

  make and keep personal and professional boundaries.
  engage with vulnerable service users and carers in a genuine and respectful way.

recognise the need for and aim of intervention in the lives of parents and carers,
as well as potential dangers and limitations.

  work effectively as a supportive team player as well as on one’s own initiative.

Pro-active and confident communicator with excellent inter-personal and communication
skills

An understanding of risk assessment and risk management.

Knowledge of benefits, housing and
homelessness issues.

Personal qualities

Self-awareness and the ability to regulate and contain one’s own feelings and behaviour,
and the ability to seek support when needed.

A commitment to being open and curious to
continuous learning.

The New Wolsey Theatre is looking for a professional female actor of African/ Caribbean or mixed heritage, for our upcoming Primary Schools Tour of Grandad Anansi by Elayne Ogbeta.

GRANDAD ANANSI by Elayne Ogbeta

‘Grandad is as smart and mischievous as the wily spider Anansi, but as they tend the flowers in his beautiful garden can he find a way to tell his granddaughter Abi about his plans to return to his homeland in the Caribbean? Filled with original songs and classic Jamaican folktales, Grandad Anansi is an uplifting tale of love, courage, and the power of letting go.’

Casting:

Abi – Playing age 11yrs old. Intelligent, playful and curious, Grandad Anansi is Abi’s whole world and her best friend. Together, they tell Annasi stories to each other and to the audience as Abi tries to workout what her Grandad is keeping from her….

Requires an actor who can sing and follow simple choreography.

The Grandad Anansi company will consist of a stage manager and two actors. You will tour across Suffolk and the whole company will be responsible for loading/unloading the van and putting the set up/taking it down, at each school. Bringing the magic of live performance to young audiences is incredibly rewarding, but schools touring can be demanding and requires someone who is a resilient team player with a good sense of humour.

Actors will need to hold an Enhanced DBS to undertake this contract. If you do not currently hold an Enhanced DBS dated within the last 3 years, we will raise one for you.

To be eligible for this opportunity you must be aged over 18 years and have trained as an actor or have professional (paid) acting experience. As part of our commitment to supporting and developing local theatre makers, we are particularly interested in hearing from actors with a strong connection to the Eastern region.

Dates

Rehearsals take place in Ipswich, Suffolk from 30th March – 14th April 2026.

Performances in primary schools and community settings across Suffolk from 15th April – 8th May 2026, with final performances on 9th May 2026 at the New Wolsey Theatre.

Fees and Contract

This production is paid at an MRSL Grade 2 Subsidised Theatre rate of £562 per week and artists will be engaged under the terms and conditions of the UK Theatre/Equity Subsidised Theatres agreement, T.I.E. Variation.

Relocation allowance

If the artist normally resides 25 miles or more from the theatre, they will receive a subsistence payment of £235 per week to relocate to Ipswich for the duration of the contract. If they reside 15-25 miles from the workplace, during rehearsals and performances, they will receive a weekly travel allowance, amount TBC.

For artists in receipt of the relocation allowance reasonable travel costs will be paid at the start and end of the contract, to cover their travel costs to and from their home base and Ipswich.

Auditions

The first round of auditions will take place on-line in the week beginning the 26th January 2026. Second round at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich in the week beginning 2nd February, TBC.

How to apply

To be considered for this role, please email Sam at admin@wolseytheatre.co.uk with the following:

1. A copy of your C.V or a link to a website that hosts your C.V (e.g. Spotlight)

2. A short self-tape that includes:

• An introduction that includes your name, contract details (or agent contact details), and a couple of sentences about why you’d like to be involved in Grandad Annasi.
• A short speech of your choice.

Once you have emailed Sam, please complete our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Form Online by clicking here.

Submissions will close at 5pm on Friday 23rd January.

In our pursuit of creating a diverse and inclusive production, we welcome applications from people who identify as deaf and disabled people, neurodivergent people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements or if you need us to make any adjustments to allow you to fully participate in this casting process.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with Tony Casement at tcasement@wolseytheatre.co.uk

Welfare Advisor

Location: primarily based at the High Wycombe Campus

Department: Membership Services

Contract type: full-time, permanent

Hours: Full-time (based on a 37-hour working week, Monday to Thursday, 9am-5pm and Friday 9am-4.30pm) with the flexibility to occasionally work outside the core hours

Salary: Grade E: £29,588 - £33,002

Closing date for applications: Sunday 8^th February 2026 at midnight

Interview date: Thursday 19^th February 2026

Start date: as soon as possible

Are you passionate about supporting students and helping them navigate university life? Are you looking to work for the Students’ Union that is ranked in the top 5 in the UK?

If this sounds like you, we're looking for a dedicated and approachable Welfare Adviser to join our Students’ Union Advice Centre Team. In this pivotal role, you'll provide guidance on a wide range of academic, financial, housing, and welfare issues—ensuring students receive the support they need to thrive at university. You’ll be working with our diverse membership, offering one-to-one advice, providing tailored support, and advocating for students when needed. From supporting financial hardship applications and budgeting advice to providing information on academic processes and university regulations, your work will make a real difference to students.

Bucks Students’ Union is a democratic, student-led organisation whose mission is to make life better for students at Bucks. We are committed to improving the student experience and actively seek to bring positive change to student life.

We are ranked in the top 5 students’ union in the UK, are a Real Living Wage Employer, a Mindful Employer and have achieved the highest standards in accreditation for Fairtrade, Green Impact, Best Bar None and Quality Students’ Unions.

Our reward package provides over 40 days paid annual leave each year as well as a competitive pension, extensive development opportunities, wellbeing support and discount schemes, amongst other benefits.

We are committed to tackling inequality and offer a ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ for applicants of colour and/or applicants with a disability. If you have a disability and/or are a person of colour and you meet the criteria of a role description and person specification of a role, please select the ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ option on the application form.

For more information, contact sujobs@bnu.ac.uk or call 01494 601 600.

For the full applicant pack, click here.

To apply, complete this form

Vacancy at Farms for City Children

Farm School Leader (Growing)

Salary £ 24,447

Wick Court, Gloucestershire

Details

Farms for City Children offers children and young people a week in the heart of the British countryside staying on one of our farms, where they are immersed in the natural world of food, farming, and country life. During their stay, they participate in the seasonal tasks of the day: sowing, growing and harvesting in our kitchen gardens, caring for livestock and looking after the land, and a variety of tasks designed to build greater connection with the natural world.

We are looking for a Farm School Leader to join our team on our farm in Gloucestershire. Wick Court is a 50-acre working farm raising pigs, poultry, sheep and cattle. It also houses equine and bees and has a number of important heritage orchards growing perry pears and apples for juicing. 

This is a hands-on role, responsible for planning and delivering a productive kitchen garden and leading engaging countryside, food and farming sessions for groups of children at Wick Court

The postholder will create and deliver productive and environmentally sensitive growing in the gardens and orchards. They will be passionate about food quality and provenance and work closely with the kitchen team at the farm. While the role will be responsible for growing at Wick Court, and lead practical management of the garden and orchard and work with volunteers, the postholder will also work with the animals and children, and support estate management as part of the wider farming operations team. The postholder will deliver countryside sessions for visiting children as well helping with daily farming tasks.

As comfortable in wellies in the garden as engaging with visiting children and teachers, this role requires a can-do attitude, an enthusiasm for good food, and a genuine passion for supporting children and young people to access the benefits of nature.  

The role requires the ability to undertake work outside of 9 to 5 hours, including some weekend and lone working on a rota basis. 

For full details about the role, please see the Job Description and Person Specification and Job Information Pack.

In return you will receive a starting salary of £24,447 per annum and a range of benefits, which include:

·        25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

·        6% employer contribution to NEST pension scheme

·        Employee Assistance Programme

Deadline for applications: 9am Monday 26th January 2026

Interviews: Friday 30th January 2026

To apply, please download and fill out our application form that is located at the bottom of the page. Once completed, click on the Apply button, fill in your details and upload the application form. You may also wish to fill out and upload our equal opportunities monitoring form. 

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
• 6% employer contribution to NEST pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Attached documents

We seek a new vicar for this established benefice; someone who can build on strong foundations. This will be a part-time (3 days per week, plus Sunday duties) position.

Inspiring delightful villages on the Cambridgeshire/Bedfordshire border with the hope and joy of the Gospel.

We seek a priest who will help us to Engage, Grow and Deepen in our mission, with their vision of mission in rural spaces, and outreach to the communities, young families, children and young people in which we live and serve.

We are three quite small rural parishes who are increasingly working together, sharing worship and social activities. We are strongly supported by the local community and continue to pay our Parish Share but need help in increasing consistent attendance of regular church services.

We wish to welcome a priest who will be able to build on what we are already doing and help us in our outreach to those who so clearly value what we have to offer but have not yet made the step into personal discipleship and fellowship.

We hope you will:

• be led by the Spirit
• want to engage with rural life
• be outgoing and friendly
• especially engage younger families
• balance traditional with new expressions of church
• be committed to including all
• be able to delegate and still hold accountable.

We can offer you:

• strong ministry team
• engaged and active PCCs and officers
• generous and committed givers
• superb accommodation, close to the local school
• a glorious place to live and serve.
• Spacious modernised vicarage, with plenty (but not too much) garden

Applications

• Download the application form and benefice profile below from the Pathways Vacancy Ad here - https://pathways.churchofengland.org/en/jobs/vicar-of-the-staughtons-amp-hail-weston-0-6-fte-nr-st-neots-cambridgeshire/3184.
• Please note that applications must be submitted by email to archdeacon.handw@elydiocese.org
• Closing Date: Midday 2 February 2026
• Interviews: 3 March 2026
• Full details at https://www. elydiocese.org/about/vacancies
• Informal enquiries Ven Richard Harlow, Archdeacon of Huntingdon & Wisbech, Telephone 07415 757527

Safer Recruitment in the Diocese of Ely

The Diocese of Ely is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees to undertake safeguarding checks and training relevant to their role and to adhere to the  Church of England’s safeguarding policies and procedures . Therefore, this position is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service).

A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce  

The Diocese of Ely is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents our context and wider community. We are aware that those of Global Majority Heritage/United Kingdom Minority Ethnic (GMH/UKME), women, and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy and workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation. 

Our Diocese

The Diocese of Ely stretches from Cambridge to Peterborough and out towards the coastal areas of West Norfolk. It houses 3/4 million people, which will rise to 1 million in the next 15 years.

This area buzzes with energy from the academic, business and medical excellence of Cambridge University to the rich agricultural areas of Huntingdon, Fenland and Norfolk and the diverse, growing city of Peterborough. Ely Cathedral from the River OuseDespite the presence of a world leading university, Cambridgeshire is not all affluent. Towns and cities have pockets of poverty and low attainment. Some rural areas can be isolated and vulnerable, but this village is thriving and well connected.

The Diocese of Ely is a good place to live and work: stable finances, good housing, inclusive and warm hearted senior colleagues, coupled with a rich diversity of benefices in all traditions make this a place that clergy stay once they have discovered us. We have over 110 incumbent status clergy, with a strong Diocesan team, and a real emphasis on lay development and training. We have no plans to reduce clergy numbers.

We anticipate the announcement of a new Diocesan Bishop in early 2026, and the diocese remains on a steady course. Our Mission Strategy, Ely 2025, devolves much decision making to the parishes, benefices and deaneries, so that clergy are able to innovate, take ...

Teaching Miscellaneous (25/26 AS02) 25/26 AS02

• Application Deadline
• Friday, August 28, 2026
• Location
• Abingdon Foundation
• Category
• Support
  (Other)
• Vacancy Type
• Full Time or Part Time
• Role Summary
• This application process should only be completed in very limited circumstances. Please ONLY proceed if you have been requested to do so by the HR Team or another Abingdon Foundation employee for a specific role.
• Specific Application Requirements

• Candidates are advised that a cover letter must be uploaded in order to complete the application process.

  Abingdon is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Vicar of All Saints and Salutation, Darlington, and St Edwin, High Coniscliffe with St Mary, Peircebridge

We seek a minister who will lead our parishes well in the next stage of our mission and ministry. All Saints seeks to grow, with a committed PCC and the advantage of excellent modern facilities; St Edwin’s is a welcoming village church, with a beautiful, ancient building; St Mary’s is a newly-reordered a Festival Church.

This is a very exciting opportunity for a skilled, collaborative leader to help the congregations build on the very real strengths of these churches, as they seek to grow and serve their communities.

For more information or an informal conversation, please contact:

Archdeacon of Auckland, The Venerable Rick Simpson archdeacon.of.auckland@durham.anglican.org

Closing date: 31 January 2026

The Diocese of Durham is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.

Other supporting documents:

Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy

• Closing date:February 5th, 5pm
• Interviews: March 4th/5th

Vicar, St Jude’s Church, Southsea

St Jude’s is a warm, lively, evangelical church seeking a prayerful, Christ-centred Vicar to lead us into the next season of our life and mission. At the heart of vibrant Southsea, with the seafront, Common and shopping precinct on our doorstep, we long to see our community encounter Jesus, find belonging and grow in faith.

We are a Word-and-Spirit church with a diverse congregation, strong children’s and youth ministry, and a thriving nursery school. Supported by an experienced leadership team which includes both volunteers and employed staff, St Jude’s has strong foundations for ministry, mission, and growth.

We are praying for a leader who is both strategic and relational; rooted in Scripture, open to the Spirit, and passionate about helping people grow as disciples. You will find a congregation eager to learn, to serve, and to share God’s love with Southsea’s growing and changing community.

A spacious five-bedroom vicarage is provided, within a short walk of the church.

Healthcare Assistant - Lancashire

Job Description

Healthcare Assistant - Lancashire

Please note we do not offer sponsorship for this role

Location: Preston

Pay Rate: £12.75 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend

Why join us?

If you are passionate about providing expert and compassionate care and looking to develop in your career as a Healthcare Assistant in the field of Neurological care, Brainkind has an amazing opportunity for you!

About the role:

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced

• Carrying out personal care duties with close supervision and making judgements involving straightforward facts or situations

• Monitoring the physical and emotional well-being of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues, as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact – achieved by talking and working with them

• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation

• Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals’ experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff

• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.

• Supporting service users to have their views and experiences considered in the way the service is provided and delivered

• Having a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources. This includes safeguarding, handling cash and service users’ valuables

• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

• For an insight in to what the role would entail please watch our video detailing a Day in the Life of one of our Support Workers at Brainkind: Working at Brainkind: A day in the life - Millie

About you:

• Proven experience of working within a team

• Care delivery experience

• Willing to provide personal care

• Good communication skills

• Numeracy and literacy skills

• IT skills including accessing and using the internet, email and word

Rewards

You can look forward to excellent benefits including:

• A competitive rate of £12.75 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend
• 33 Days AL
• Buy/Sell up to 5 days AL each year
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Company Pension
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards
• Free parking

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

To join our friendly team, click the Apply Now button.

**Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. **

*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.

Job Details

• Pay Type
• Hourly

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