JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Community Support Practitioner

Location: Home based, some office visits required, flexible, with some travel UK wide
required

Hours of Work: Full-time – (Maternity leave cover)

Contract: Fixed-term 12 months Dec 2025 to Nov 2026 Maternity cover

Line Manager: Head of Support

Overview

As a member of the Community Support Team, you will work closely with our small
group of experienced practitioners to provide confidential support at any life stage and
for any type of SMA, and family member / carer across the UK.

You will build key Relationships with:

Individuals and families affected by SMA

•
•  Health, education, and social Care professionals
•  Wider SMA UK team, volunteers, and trustees
•  Disability and support charities and organisations

Key Responsibilities

As a member of the Community Support Team, you will

•  Respond to requests for:

Emotional support, practical guidance, information and grants from individuals
and families affected by SMA.
Information and resources from health, education, and social care
professionals working with people who have SMA.

•  Respond in a timely and empathetic way using communication tools that best suit

the person.

•  Follow organisational guidelines and with the Head of Support, assess the need

for a home visit, offering this when requested and appropriate.

www.smauk.org.uk  •  office@smauk.org.uk  •  01789 267520

Unit 9, Shottery Brook Office Park, Timothy’s Bridge Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 9NR

Registered Charity Number: 1106815

•  Ensure you work holistically with the individual or family:
Offering the opportunity to join SMAUK networks, where they may be connected to
others to share experiences
Signposting to other charities and organisations that may enable specific issues to
be addressed.

•  Assess when your contact and support has reached a natural end and agree this
with the person, reassuring them they may contact the Community Support Team
at any time in the future and that other SMA UK resources remain open to them.

•  Be alert to, and address, child, and adult safeguarding concerns, following the

organisation’s policy guidance, working with the Head of Support and Designated
Safeguarding Officers.

•  Take an active part in weekly Advocacy and Support team meetings, sharing

knowledge and undertaking support work that benefits and enhances the work of
the charity.

In the role you will engage with the wider charity team, including:

•  Head of Advocacy to enable:

Issues raised by individuals from the SMA community to be known and
appropriately worked on.
Individuals willing to speak up on issues or to join advocacy groups to be
identified and supported to do so.

•

Information Lead to enable:

Questions being raised by the SMA community to be known and appropriately
worked on and added to our website information.
Individuals willing to assist with the development of information to be
identified.

•  Community Engagement co-ordinator to enable:

Topics to be identified for podcasts and webinars.
Support of the community networks.
Understanding of community needs for virtual and face to face events.

To work with and offer support to fundraising and communications team as required.

www.smauk.org.uk  •  office@smauk.org.uk  •  01789 267520

Unit 9, Shottery Brook Office Park, Timothy’s Bridge Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 9NR

Registered Charity Number: 1106815

To fulfil the role you will be required to:

•  At all times, adhere to all the organisation’s policies, processes, and guidance.

•  When agreed, attend the charity’s events which require a Community Support team
presence  in  a  supportive  or  representative  role.  This  may  include  weekend
working.

•  Take part in training and supervision sessions as agreed.

•  Attend and contribute to team meetings both virtually and in person.

•  Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of issues and information relevant to the role.

•   Be committed to up-skilling in information and related technologies.

•   Fulfil any other duties required by and negotiated with management.

www.smauk.org.uk  •  office@smauk.org.uk  •  01789 267520

Unit 9, Shottery Brook Office Park, Timothy’s Bridge Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 9NR

Registered Charity Number: 1106815

Person Specifications

A professional education, health or social care qualification
Commitment to the vision, purpose, and values of Spinal
Muscular Atrophy UK

Knowledge of and experience in the disability sector

Lived experience of disability

Excellent listening, relationship building and communication skills
An understanding of commitment to and experience of addressing
child and adult safeguarding concerns

A high standard of written communication
An understanding of and commitment to adhere to all aspects of
confidentiality.
The ability to work in a co-operative manner with colleagues and
peers and to work independently
The ability to relate to a wide range of people of diverse
backgro...

Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - MHARS

Location:  Midlothian (Dalkeith) and Homebased Working

Salary: £24,618 - £25,944 per annum (£12.62 - £13.30 p/h equivalent)

Full Time – Permanent

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Here you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

We are looking for a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our amazing MHARS team.

You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside Community Mental Health Team, providing a crisis line; an open access, single point of telephone access for self-referral and agency referrals. You will respond to calls in a manner guided by the service principles being inclusive, sensitive and respectful.

From the moment you answer the telephone, you will listen and ensure that you understand the issues that have led to crisis for that person, providing an immediate response to those whose life may be in immediate danger. Understanding each person’s unique situation resulting in fast, tailored support and finding ways to successfully resolve the crisis situation and assist planning for the future.

Once the initial period of crisis has been addressed you will support connections to additional, statutory or community support and/or deliver a Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) response to those in distress. This will involve community-based problem-solving support, wellness and distress management planning, supporting connections and signposting for a period of up to 14 days. You will be flexible and responsive, offering the medium of support that the supported person feels most comfortable with.

You will assist people who use the service to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in the community. Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners play a central role in the planning and provision of quality, recovery focused support to people who use the service.

We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.

For more information, including full job description and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack.

We cannot consider CV’s – all applications should go through the application process on our website. Only applications completed through our website will be considered. If you are unable to complete an online application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk and we can arrange for a paper copy to be sent out to you.

Please note that unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship. We can only accept applications from applicants who currently have the legal right to work in the UK, or applicants who have already have an application in progress to obtain the legal right to work in the UK.

Updates and responses to applications will come from our recruitment system. These emails may go into your spam inbox so please check frequently for any updates on your application. To avoid this happening please add “Penumbra Careers” – recruitment@penumbra.org.uk to your contact list. You can also check the status of your application by logging into the careers portal. If you have not had any update on your application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.

Penumbra is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates with mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. We will make any reasonable adjustments required to ensure a fair and inclusive process for all. If you think you require reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.

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New Year, New Role – are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference?

Our vision at Thurrock and Brentwood Mind is of a society that promotes and protects good mental health for all, and that treats people with experience of mental distress fairly, positively, and with respect – we won’t give up – and our valued employees bring this vision to life.

The Crisis House (based in Basildon) is part of the 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Response and Care Service, offering short term support to help service users manage a mental health crisis, in a welcoming residential environment.

Do you have significant experience of working with service users with mental health problems/applying person-centred approaches, coupled with flexibility, resilience and a passion to support service users to achieve positive life changes? If you would like to be part of a recovery focused and empowering safe space, enhancing mental heath support in Mid and South Essex, we want to hear from you!

Join us – with your help, we can make an even greater impact.

Download the Job Description & Person Specification

Thurrock and Brentwood Mind is a successful independent registered charity, helping to improve the lives of people with mental health problems. We are affiliated to national Mind, and we are proud to be part of a network of over 100 local Mind organisations.

Our vision is of a society that promotes and protects good mental health for all, and that treats people with experience of mental distress fairly, positively, and with respect.

Our Charity Values are at the heart of everything we do:Respect – put people firstIntegrity – do the right thingCollaboration – stronger togetherEvolve – keep learning and adaptResponsible – own it and find creative solutions

We are Investors in People accredited and value the people that bring our vision to life via competitive salaries, 35 days annual leave (increase with service), pension scheme, access to discount schemes (inclusive of corporate gym membership and a Blue Light Card), ongoing support, training and development opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme via Bupa, a family ‘feel’ team working environment and flexibility to support a healthy work/life balance. We are also a Mindful Employer, and are proud to champion the lived experiences and unique perspectives of our employees and volunteers.

This post comes under the terms of Mind’s Equal Opportunities Policy. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our service users as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

This post is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.  Any provisional offer of employment made will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), to include an annually renewed DBS Update Service subscription.

Care & Support Committee Member

Job Description

Committee Member for Care & Support

Background

The Riverside Group Limited (TRGL) is looking to recruit someone who has the knowledge and experience set out in the person specification. The successful candidates will take up a place on the Committee for an initial three-year term with the possibility of a second three-year term.

About Riverside Governance 

The TRGL Board is the senior governance body within Riverside and sets the mission, strategy, corporate and business plans and policy for the Group as well as overseeing performance against these.

The work of the Board is supported by seven committees. The powers of committees are delegated by the Board and set out in the Terms of Reference of the committees.

About Riverside

Riverside is a group of complementary businesses driven by a clear social purpose, with a not-for-profit charitable housing association at its core.

Established over 95 years ago, we remain driven by a deep sense of social purpose, providing a range of homes and wider support services for a diverse community of people across England and Scotland.

The Riverside Group is a sector-leading national housing association group:

• owning over 75,000 homes, putting us in the top ten English housing association groups by size.

• operating across a national footprint, with ‘weight’ in London, the North-West, the East Midlands, the East Coast and Scotland.

• being the nation’s largest housing association provider of supported housing.

• with secure financial foundations: £680 million annual turnover, £5.2 billion assets.

Our Corporate Plan for 2023-2026 entitled Forward Together, sets out our three-year strategy. The Plan follows our merger with One Housing Group and comes at a time of stronger regulation across our sector. There is an increased emphasis on consumer regulation through a refocused Regulator of Social Housing and a more muscular Housing Ombudsman, a new regime for building safety and the strengthening of the CQC and Ofsted regimes applying to some of our care and support services.

The key objectives under our Corporate Plan are:

• Warm and safe, decent homes

• Trusted customer services

• Support through the cost-of-living crisis

• Leadership in care and support

• New homes, better places.

We are currently developing a new Corporate Plan for 2026-2031.

The successful candidate joining the Committee will provide leadership and help to shape how Riverside delivers on those objectives, whilst also expanding their own skills and experiences.

About the role

We are looking for a non-executive Committee Member to join our Care & Support Committee.

As a Housing Association, it is essential that our governance community promote and champion Riverside’s values, vision and social purpose. Customers are at the heart of everything that we do, and Committee members must be committed to work in the best interests of our current and future residents and customers.

Terms and Conditions

The total time commitment is estimated at 7 days per year which includes four formal Committee meetings per year (variously in person nationwide, and via Microsoft ...

Nightshift Care Assistant

A different kind of Care Assistant role… Do you want to work with great people and make a difference every day? Then this may be the job for you!

The role

We are a forward-thinking, progressive, innovative healthcare charity, providing exceptional respite holidays for people with neurological conditions.

Working as a key member of a multi-disciplinary care team, you’ll provide person-centred care to guests supporting them with evening activities including personal care.

We are open to discussion on number of shifts and pattern.

Examples:

• Week 1: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 8pm- 8am
• Week 2: Off

OR:

• Week 1: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8pm-8am
• Week 2: Wednesday, Thursday 8pm-8am

Salary and benefits

• Excellent salary of £13 to £13.39 per hour (dep. on experience) increasing April 2026
• Guarantee of every other weekend off (Fri 1pm finish)
• 35 days holiday per year (pro rata for part-time employees)
• Friends and family referral bonus
• Full training provided
• Fully funded SVQs
• Discounted PVG membership rate
• Cycle to work scheme, discount card for high street retailers, company pension and life assurance, free food and beverages provided during shifts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), wellbeing programme and more
• The chance to make a real difference to the lives of people with long term conditions

Requirements

• Right to work in the UK (essential)
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (Preferred due to our remote location)
• No experience necessary (fully funded training provided)
• Good communication skills
• Caring and compassionate
• Positive, friendly, can-do attitude
• Completion of a satisfactory Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check

Hours

• Week 1: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 8pm- 8am
• Week 2: Off

OR:

• Week 1: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8pm-8am
• Week 2: Wednesday, Thursday 8pm-8am

Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for any roles at this time.

Interested? Apply today and see where a career in Care can take you.

Pay: £13.00-£13.39 per hour

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Care and Support Assistant Days – 15hrs per week Guild House

Website Gloucester Charities Trust

Care and Support Assistant (Days) –  £12.61 per hour,  (increasing to £12.88 after medications training), plus £1.00 per hour at weekends

15 hours per week (two week rota average).

At Guild House residential home we specialise in supporting older people, living with or without dementia, to live full and independent lives where possible. Our care and lifestyle plans are tailored to meet the individual needs of our residents which makes this a varied role, with opportunities to a make positive impact through enabling residents to live well and engage with activities, family and friends.

We are looking for someone who is caring and compassionate with experience in care work who will ensure that our residents are at the heart of everything and always treated with respect and dignity.

The ideal candidate will have experience in providing adult care, and have or be willing to achieve a NVQ/QCF 2 in Health and Social Care or the Care Certificate.

We do not provide sponsored employment.

Click here for job description

Click here to send your CV and apply.

What we offer

• • 28 days holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays
  • Competitive pay enhancements
  • Contributory Pension Scheme – NEST
  • Free uniform and DBS

• Save as you earn scheme
• £500 friend referral scheme.
• Birthday bonus / long service awards
• Reward and Recognition scheme
• Staff Champion and staff wellbeing initiatives
• Full training programme & development opportunities
• Onsite parking

Who are we?

We are Gloucester Charities Trust (GCT) a multiple award-winning care provider and employer, who offer a range of services (our Circle of Care) from specialist Dementia day services to Sheltered Housing and Residential care for older people in Gloucester.

Our staff are the key to our success. Recruiting and retaining the right staff is paramount. We do this by valuing their input and empowering them throughout their roles. We need caring and compassionate people to help us provide the type of caring environment you’d want your own relatives to have.

There is no closing date for this post. Interviews will be agreed with applicants.

Care and Support Assistant (Days) 18hrs – Temporary position

Website Gloucester Charities Trust

Care and Support Assistant (Days) 18hrs – Temporary position 

 £12.61 per hour,  (increasing to £12.88 after medications training), plus £1.00 per hour at weekends

18 hours per week (two week rota average).  

About the Role

We have 18 hours per week temporary contract available for a Care and Support Assistant to work at Guild House residential home. The fixed term is for 3 months minimum but maybe extended. The shifts times are 7am-1pm and 2pm-8pm.

At Guild House we specialise in supporting older people, living with or without dementia, to live full and independent lives where possible. Our care and lifestyle plans are tailored to meet the individual needs of our residents which makes this a varied role, with opportunities to a make positive impact through enabling residents to live well and engage with activities, family and friends.

We are looking for someone who is caring and compassionate with experience in care work who will ensure that our residents are at the heart of everything and always treated with respect and dignity.

The ideal candidate will have experience in providing adult care, and have or be willing to achieve a NVQ/QCF 2 in Health and Social Care or the Care Certificate.

Immediate start desirable, holding a current DBS would be advantageous.

We do not provide sponsored employment.

Click here for job description

Click here to send your CV and apply.

What we offer

• • 28 days holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays
  • Competitive pay enhancements
  • Contributory Pension Scheme – NEST
  • Free uniform and DBS
  • Save as you earn scheme
  • £500 friend referral scheme.
  • Birthday bonus / long service awards
  • Reward and Recognition scheme
  • Staff Champion and staff wellbeing initiatives
  • Full training programme & development opportunities
  • Onsite parking

Who are we?

We are Gloucester Charities Trust (GCT) a multiple award-winning care provider and employer, who offer a range of services (our Circle of Care) from specialist Dementia day services to Sheltered Housing and Residential care for older people in Gloucester.

Our staff are the key to our success. Recruiting and retaining the right staff is paramount. We do this by valuing their input and empowering them throughout their roles. We need caring and compassionate people to help us provide the type of caring environment you’d want your own relatives to have.

There is no closing date for this post. Interviews will be agreed with applicants.

Senior Theatre / Theatre Practitioner, Anaesthetics and Scrub

• Job reference
• 122643
• Department
• Theatre
• Location
• East Grinstead
• Full/Part-time
• Full-time
• Pay scale from
• No Pay Scale
• Pay scale to
• No Pay Scale
• Closing date
• 28/02/2026

• Description

• Recognised as a Centre of Excellence, The McIndoe Centre is looking for a experienced

  Senior Theatre and/or Theatre Practitioners,to join their ever-growing and developing Theatre team.Open to experienced Scrub, Recovery and Anaesthetic practitioners, you will be joining a team of passionate team of clinical experts, committed to providing a 5* level of care to all our valued patients.

  we offer a competitive benefits package inclusive of free BUPA Private Medical Insurance, Westfield Health Cash Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, pension schemes, plus many more!

  Aboutyou:
  • You will be a passionate and empathetic experienced professional, with excellent communications skills to help build those all-important and respected relationships with our patients and your colleagues.
  • Registered Nurse or equivalent ODP Level 3 qualification.
  • Prior experience within a hospital theatre setting.
  • Proactive and forward thinking, with a passion for continued learning.
  • Team player…after all, they do say that teamwork makes the dream work!
  Location:The McIndoe Centre, East GrinsteadFull-Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week)
  Contract:Work Pattern:Shift-based work (08:00-18:00 shifts 4 out of 5 days Monday to Friday with optional Saturday shifts)Salary:Up to £43,426.50 per annum (added enhancements for night, weekend and on-call work)Right to work in the UKIn accordance with Home Office guidance, successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencing employment. We have assessed this role and it does not meet the criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. As such,we will not be accepting any visa sponsorships for this role, and candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK independently, without sponsorship from Horder Healthcare.At Horder Healthcare, we are proud to champion and celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in all areas of our business. We are committed to creating an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to protected characteristics by applicable law.As a disability confident employer, we are pleased to offer our full support should you require an alternative method of applying or any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have receiveda sufficient number ofapplications.Due to the nature of work here at Horder Healthcare, and to ensure that we remain committed to our Safeguarding policy, any applicant upon an initial offer of employment will be subject to pre-employment checks, including anEnhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References and Occupational Health checks will also be taken up before appointment.