Vacancies

Full Time –37 Hours Per Week

Base of Work: N-Gage Customer Service team, Carlisle

A vacancy has arisen for a Modern Apprentice based in the N-Gage Customer Service team. This is an exciting opportunity to gain office experience in a lively and proactive office environment. The apprenticeship will be for a period of two years and will provide training and experience in a range of administrative duties.

Full Time –37 Hours Per Week

Base of Work: Asset Management Team, Workington

A vacancy has arisen for a Modern Apprentice based in the Asset Management. This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in a supportive and friendly office environment.

The Modern Apprentice will be given the opportunity to gain experience in managing housing repairs and maintenance work together with an NVQ Level 2 qualification in Business Administration and will be for a period of two years.

Based in Carlisle – 18.75 hours per week (Possibility of increasing to full time in the near future)

In this Support Worker role, you must provide personalised support to each client – in line with the individual’s person-centred plan – and assist people to live as tenants and citizens in the local community. Support must be consistent with people’s rights, choices and responsibilities.

Holy Trinity Parish Church, Kendal Church Office Administrator Part-time post 18 hours per week as part of a Job share (Hourly rate £9.58) For 1st September Holy Trinity is a busy Parish Church and this post provides administrative support for the Church. This position would suit someone who is well organised, approachable and sensitive to the needs of others and who has excellent IT and administrative skills.

Peer Support Officer (Getting Cumbria to Work) 37 hours per week £23,400 Fixed Term Contract to 31/12/2019 South Lakeland Mind is a successful and growing mental health charity (registered number 1143286) that supports over 250 people each year through Counselling and Peer Support delivered by a team of 6 staff and over 80 volunteers. Getting Cumbria to Work is a new project led by Cumbria CVS and funded through Building Better Opportunities that aims to provide support to individuals across south Cumbria to overcome the barriers to accessing and sustaining work. The Peer Support Officer will engage and support individuals to overcome mental health issues through one to one and group support and work placements as part of Getting Cumbria to Work. The Peer Support Officer will have experience of supporting clients to overcome mental health issues, and ideally to access employment and/or training, will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with clients, volunteers and partners, and be able to work flexibly to deliver Getting Cumbria to Work in Barrow in Furness, Kendal and Ulverston.

We  are looking for an enthusiastic co-ordinator to help manage our panel of 750 volunteer walking leaders. Our volunteers lead holidays throughout the UK and overseas, and are at the heart of everything we do. The role involves managing their appointments, motivating them to succeed, and getting involved with their training and development. Experience of working with volunteers or travel would be advantageous. More importantly we are after someone with a positive attitude, good organisational skills, and great people skills. This role is based at our friendly office at Penrith in Cumbria.

35hrs Mon-Fri

You will support the delivery of the Compass holistic assessment process and providing advice, support and advocacy to the people of South Cumbria. You will work as part of a well-established supportive team and engage in a program of training that is designed to increase your overall understanding of the key issues that impact on people’s lives in South Cumbria.

A temporary 12 month position is available based at our Warehouse in Kendal. Your position will be varied which will include customer service, delivery and collection of stock, sorting of donated stock and managing the shop operation in the absence of the manager.

Due to the nature of the job you will need to be fit and active to be suitable for this role.

Cumbria Community Foundation provides high quality philanthropic services (grant making) to a wide range of public, corporate and individual donors. It is an award winning charity that has distributed more than £35M in grant aid to community groups throughout Cumbria.

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Communications Support Officer to support our Communications Officer in promoting the organisation and enabling the organisation to deliver key communications to staff, volunteers, stakeholders and the public in a planned manner.