Role summary:

Helping to maintain and develop the grounds/garden of the hospice for the enjoyment of our service users, visitors and staff.

Usual Role Hours / Shift:

Flexible hours to suit between 8.30am – 5pm (Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursdays – Bishop Auckland hospice is only open on these days.) The hours you donate to helping us are up to you – whether it’s for a couple of hours or full day, once or twice a week – we really appreciate any help you can give us. We will provide P.P.E – gloves, eye, ear protection , you will need your own stout/appropriate footwear and clothing for the task and weather conditions. We will also provide tools, and machinery (lawn mowers etc.)

Main Tasks:

• Maintaining beds – weeding/planting.
• Mowing, strimming , hedge-cutting , pruning.
• General clearing/tidying of site/leaf clearance

We would prefer it, if you had some gardening experience, but we will welcome anyone who is keen, reliable and willing to pitch in. We understand that some will be more comfortable than others performing some tasks, such as mowing and strimming – we won’t ask you to do anything that you are uncomfortable with.

If you want to know more, contact us on 01642 607742 for a chat or email volunteers@butterwick.org.uk

Applicants must be above school age /16 or over.

Thank you for your interest.

Role Category:Volunteering

Role Type:Volunteer

Role Location:Bishop Auckland

Salary: Competitive, location-based. In line with IPPF’s regional compensation structureLocation: One of IPPF’s Regional Offices: Tunis (Tunisia), Mexico City (Mexico), Delhi (India), or Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
The position cannot be based outside these locations. Contract Type: Full-time (Permanent - with a 6-month probation period).

About the Role:
IPPF is seeking a strategic and passionate Senior Advisor, SOGIESC, to lead the integration of inclusive practices across our global operations. This critical role will drive the implementation of IPPF’s Gender Equality and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policies, ensuring that our services are gender-equitable and accessible to people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics.
You will work closely with regional teams and Member Associations (MAs) to provide technical assistance, shape inclusive programming, and foster best practice sharing. Your work will directly contribute to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all, especially those who are often left out or left behind.

Key Responsibilities:
•    Drive the implementation of inclusive gender and diversity programming across IPPF and its Member Associations.
•    Provide technical support to ensure services are accessible and equitable for people with diverse SOGIESC.
•    Support the rollout of IPPF’s Gender Equality Policy and related initiatives.
•    Facilitate knowledge exchange and best practice sharing among MAs.
•    Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to enhance gender and inclusion strategies.
•    Contribute to funding proposals and identify new opportunities for SOGIESC programming.
•    Represent IPPF in regional and global forums on gender and inclusion.

About You:
•    Proven experience in gender equality, diversity, and inclusion programming, ideally within an international NGO context.
•    Strong analytical, facilitation, and communication skills.
•    Ability to build consensus and work collaboratively across diverse teams.
•    Fluent in English; additional languages (French, Spanish, Arabic) are highly desirable.
•    Committed to feminist, anti-racist, and inclusive values.
•    Willingness to travel nationally and internationally as required.

Why Join Us?
•    Be part of a diverse, multicultural, and inclusive organisation.
•    Work on meaningful projects that make a global impact.
•    Collaborate with passionate professionals dedicated to advancing SRHR and social justice.

How to Apply:
•    Download the job description linked below for full requirements of this role.
•    Complete the application form linked below.
•    Send your completed application form and CV to Jobs@ippf.org with "Senior Advisor SOGIESC" in the subject line.

Do you have questions?

Please feel free to reach Jobs@ippf.org for any questions you may have.

About IPPF
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global sexual and reproductive health service provider and one of the leading advocates for universal access to sexual, reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. We are a worldwide movement of 149 national organisations working with and for communities and individuals and, together, have delivered more than 1 billion cumulative services over the last 6 years.  

We are now looking for people to join us and make our Come Together–Strategy 2028, a reality. Revolutionising IPPF, placing it in a stronger position to support SRHR for those who are left out, locked out or left behind. Come Together commits IPPF to shaping laws, policies and norms through feminist action and international solidarity; and to strengthen the federation adding new drive for real and lasting impact.

Action is urgent. We have delivered. We have stood for justice and equality. We commit to more daring and feminist action that secures choices about our bodies, sexual lives, and well-being. Everyone should enjoy a pleasure-filled and healthy sex life and a life free from violence, shame or criminalisation. We know love is love. And we come together in support of women, youth, and people who are marginalised and excluded. Through the care we deliver, the actions we take, and the solidarity we foster.

IPPF is an equal-opportunity employer. As a leading global human rights organisation focused on equality, empowerment, ending discrimination, and poverty...

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Full Time Teacher of Physics (2 Posts)

Due to retirement and internal promotion we are seeking two outstanding and dynamic full time teachers of Physics who are able to deliver an excellent standard of classroom teaching across all key stages including A Level.

This is an exciting and rare opportunity for committed and motivated professionals with vision and enthusiasm to join our experienced and successful department.. These posts are suitable for outstanding ECT's or experienced teachers.

These roles will be paid on the Teachers Main Scale only.

Physics at LRGS enjoys an extremely high reputation within the school and is one of the most popular subject choices at A level.

The successful applicant will:

Ø be able to teach Physics across the age range

Ø be an energetic teacher, who is passionate about Physics and who seeks out opportunities within and beyond the classroom to inspire their pupils

Ø lead by example and encourage excellence and the highest possible standards

Ø prepare and deliver well-resourced and well-sequenced lessons

Ø ensure that the needs of all pupils, including learners with SEND, are met through adaptive teaching strategies

Ø provide meaningful marking and effective feedback to ensure the progress of all pupils

Ø maintain excellent records to demonstrate pupil progress

Ø work collaboratively with the rest of the Physics department to meet the school’s priorities

Ø work with Learning Support Assistants as required

Ø attend departmental and staff meetings

Ø perform any other tasks as deemed appropriate by the Head of Physics or Headteacher

For further information and to apply please click here. Applications should be submitted by no later than Noon on Monday 2nd February 2026.

For any queries regarding the role or any part of the recruitment process please contact Kate Roberts, HR Manager, at kroberts@lrgs.org.uk

For specific details of the roles and responsibilities, please see the Job Description.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience in a Housekeeping or facilities assistant role (or similar), excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Please note that that role requires both evening and weekend work.

We offer 34 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays), workplace pension scheme, health cash plan, life assurance, employee assistance programme, free on-site parking, free use of gym and swimming pool, free lunch plus other benefits commensurate with working for a large Cambridge University College.

How to Apply

• To apply, please submit a CV and a covering letter detailing how your skills and experience match the person specification to recruitment@girton.cam.ac.uk
• If you require additional information or support, please e-mail recruitment@girton.cam.ac.uk

Further Information

• Job Description (PDF) available here.
• Closing date for applications is 25th January at 11.30pmand interviews will be taking placew/c 2nd February.
• Please note the College has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
• The College is an Equal Opportunities employer encouraging diversity and inclusion.
• If you would like more information about the role, you may contact the People and Culture Department at  recruitment@girton.cam.ac.uk

All employers are subject to a legal requirement under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 to check that anyone to whom they offer employment has the right to work in the UK.

Link Worker Homeless Service

• Job Reference: 00004468-1
• Date Posted: 9 January 2026
• Recruiter: YMCA Together
• Location: Liverpool
• Salary: £25,290.72
• Role: Frontline jobs
• Job type: Permanent
• Work hours: Full Time

Job Description

Link Worker

Location: Liverpool L3

Salary: £25, 290.72 per annum

Hours: 38.6 hours per week

Job Type: Permanent/Fixed Term

Why this role would be great for you

If you’re someone who thrives on building meaningful relationships, enjoys helping others overcome challenges, and has a passion for empowering people to live independently, this role could be perfect for you.

You’ll be a great fit if you’re proactive, compassionate, and confident working with individuals who have complex needs. If you’re a natural collaborator who can think creatively, stay organised, and remain calm under pressure, you’ll find this work both rewarding and impactful.

Based in Leeds St your role will be to:

• To ensure that Intensive Housing Management tasks are completed in a timely way and to a high standard
• To build supportive and therapeutic relationships with Service Users through dialogue
• To deliver activity-based interventions
• To support in preparing Service Users to resettle into their community of choice
• To ensure that Housing Benefit applications are completed in a timely manner.
• To work alongside the support-worker team in ensuring that all daily tasks are completed and that residents needs are met

What your week may look like:

Your week as a Link Worker might include:

• Supporting new residents as they move in, helping them settle and complete housing benefit applications.
• Building trust through one-to-one conversations and group activities that promote wellbeing, independence, and engagement.
• Collaborating with support workers and external agencies to create personalised support plans and risk assessments.
• Encouraging service users to take part in community activities and helping them re-engage if they’ve become withdrawn.
• Keeping accurate records of interactions, updating risk assessments, and contributing to team handovers.
• Responding to incidents, conducting welfare checks, and ensuring the environment is safe and welcoming for all.
• Attending team meetings and contributing to service development through feedback and co-production with residents.

Intensive Housing Management and Risk Assessing

• Assist the Practitioners with the induction and management of their case load taking direction as required
• Update and communicate service user risk assessments in line with YMCA policy and procedure
• Assist in the planning of workshops to individuals and groups that inform/ teach service users around how to manage a tenancy, manage a home and live independently.
• Creatively engage service users that have a wide range of complex and challenging support needs
• Encourage service users to take part in activities
• Offer a creative but assertive approach in order to seek to re engagement
• Assist Practitioners in the management of personalized behavior / support agreements
• Provide clear, comprehensive and accurate information on handovers to the team making recommendations where appropriate
• Assisting service users in the cleaning of their room
• Complete void checks and get rooms ready for letting
• Maintain accurate up to date electronic and written records
• Post holders must be willing to support clients whose behaviors we may find challenging using our CAT /psychologically informed approach

Service User Involvement and Engagement

• Encourage involvement, participation and co-production from service users in the running and development of the service
• Provide a safe, welcoming environment with excellent standards and an ethos of service delivery that encourages service users to engage

Multi Agency Working

• Working closely with Practitioners to promote and encourage pathways to independent living, help prevent mental health deterioration, hospital admissions, offending behaviours and substance misuse
• Encourage service users to engage with services
• Assist with the provision of r...

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

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• Salary:£18,252 per annum
• PoscityTedburn St Mary
• PoscountryUnited Kingdom
• Area:Equine Operations
• Vacancy Type:Permanent
• Full or Part Time?:Part Time

The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare organisation, offering care and protection to donkeys worldwide. Our vision is a world where every donkey has a good quality of life, and our mission is to improve the lives of donkeys every day. We will achieve this by transforming the lives of donkeys in need worldwide by fostering greater understanding, collaboration and support, and by promoting lasting, mutually life-enhancing relationships.

We have an excellent opportunity for a flexible and proactive individual with a passion for Donkeys to join our busy team at Town Barton Farm in Tedburn St. Mary, near Exeter, Devon. Possessing excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, you will provide care and rehabilitation for the resident donkeys, and will support the Farm Manager in maintaining a safe working environment. As well as a working farm, Slade House Farm is a visitor attraction at the heart of The Donkey Sanctuary, and strong customer service skills are vital.

About you:

• Excellent observation skills to identify and notice signs that would indicate ill-health in animals.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills – tactful and diplomatic when handling sensitive matters.
• Competent IT knowledge and skills.
• Full current UK valid driving licence.
• Willing to work outside in adverse weather conditions.
• Effective team player who builds trust and positive relationships.
• Self-motivated, with a positive and professional attitude.

About the role:

Your principal duties and responsibilities will include –

• Routinely checking, feeding, , grooming, weighing, worming and training the resident donkeys., mules, ponies and hinnies.
• Preparing and administrating medications including intramuscular injections as directed.
• Assisting the veterinary surgeon, nurse, farrier and dental technician with examinations, routine treatments and welfare assessments.
• Making regular observation and wellbeing checks for any signs of infection, abnormality, illness or distress, and reporting animal health and welfare updates to the Farm Manager/Supervisor.
• Maintaining a safe and hygienic working environment in barns, stables, and all work areas, adhering to biosecurity measures to prevent disease outbreaks.
• Maintaining farm security by regularly checking fences and ensuring gates and access to farm buildings are kept locked.
• Updating animal management records and medication logs.

What we offer in return:

This is a part -time, permanent contract starting as soon as possible, working 27 hours per week, covering weekends and evenings as part of a rota.

Benefits:  

Competitive pension.

Life assurance.

31 days holiday (including Bank holidays), rising to 34 with each full year of service.

Wellbeing team.

Recorded Pilates and Yoga classes.

Long service awards.

Healthshield plan –

• Reimbursement of some medical expenses up to the specified limits per membership.
• Offers, discounts and cashback on shopping, travel and entertainment from participating outlets.
• Access to a 24/7 GP and counselling service.

Free parking.

Subsidised restaurant and shop.

Closing date for completed applications: Tuesday 27 January 2026.

The Donkey Sanctuary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (children and adults), and expects all staff and volunteers to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment processes, including an application for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where required for the post.