African Communities Engagement

posted: 11/06/2010

NAM, the national HIV information charity, are looking for a black African person to extend the reach of NAM’s HIV information among African communities in the UK.

The job is full time and based in inner London, near the Oval. The pay starts at £23,016 and there is a 6% pension contribution.

The deadline for applications is 2pm Monday 28 June.

Full details and application form at NAM’s website

3 Jobs at George House Trust

posted: 11/01/2010

We have three full time job vacancies at George House Trust. We are looking for an Adviser, a Finance and Facilities Organiser, and an Office Administrator. The closing date for all three jobs is 12 noon on Friday 29 January.
 

The Adviser will be part of our services team and responsible for providing advice, advocacy and support for people living with HIV according to their needs. They will take the lead on supporting people from African communities and for coordinating a fortnightly African group, including activities for African men. We want someone with experience of working with people with complex needs, for example relating to asylum and immigration, and a confident advocate who is committed to tackling stigma and discrimination on a daily basis.

The Finance and Facilities Organiser will join our operations team and look after the day-to-day administration of our finances and facilities. This involves a wide variety of financial tasks, including accounts payable, bank reconciliations, credit control, petty cash and donations management, and experience with Sage is desirable. The person will also help manage our buildings and facilities, including health and safety, contracts and IT.

The Office Administrator will provide general administrative support for both the HIV services and operations teams. This will involve coordinating office supplies, filing, data entry, answering the telephone and updating information in our contact databases. They will also be responsible for hiring out our training room by taking bookings and providing a quality service. We are looking for someone with experience of office computer systems, excellent customer service skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks.
 

Closing date for applications the three jobs is 12 noon on Friday 29th January 2010. The interview dates vary with the jobs.
 

All three jobs require an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check.
 

Full details of each job, including hours and pay, and the application packs can be downloaded here , or telephone us on 0161 274 4499 for a job pack to be posted to you.
 

George House Trust works alongside 2,500 men, women and children living with or affected by HIV in North West England from our base close to the city centre of Manchester.

People living with HIV face a range of issues including stigma, discrimination, poor health, poverty, employment and immigration issues.

Through the delivery of innovative services, and influencing regional and national policy, we are able to support people to tackle these issues and achieve a better quality of life.
 

2010 is our 25th year.

No agency enquiries please.

New HIV Job in Preston

posted: 17/11/2009

Preston is the place for a new fulltime HIV services co-ordinator for CLASS.

They say 'This post offers a unique opportunity to develop support opportunities for those living with and affected by HIV in Central Lancashire, offering a partnership approach with existing services and harnessing the skills and experiences of those living with and affected by HIV.

You’ll be part of Drugline-Lancashire Ltd under its SHIVER (Sexual Health HIV Education and Reponses) banner.'

The job is funded by Central Lancashire PCT and Lancashire County Council Social Services.

• Do you have a relevant degree and/or comparable counselling/adult training qualifications?
• You will require excellent listening, counselling, communication, supervision/support, presentation/training, monitoring /reporting, case working and administrative skills.
• You will demonstrate an up to date knowledge and understanding of HIV and Sexual Health and ideally have experience of working with volunteers.
• You will be able to work in a flexible way and have confidence in individual and group settings.

Drugline – Lancashire Ltd has a commitment to personal staff development in line with DANOS and Equal Opportunities

For an Application Form and further details please contact:
Drugline – Lancashire Ltd. 2 Union Court, Union Street, Preston PR1 2HD Tel: 01772 253840 or download application pack [when we looked it wasn't yet available, but should appear within a day or two] Only applicants short-listed for interview will hear from them.

Closing Date: Thursday 3rd December 2009 10am
Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 15th December 2009
 

Drugline – Lancashire Ltd is a county-wide voluntary organisation. The service provides confidential and non-judgemental support for drug-using individuals, their carers and workers, for people using legal or illegal substances either experimentally, recreationally or dependently.

CLASS

Group Facilitator Jobs

posted: 27/07/2009

The National Long Term Survivors Group (of people living with HIV) is looking for enthusiastic and experienced facilitators for groups, individual counselling and general support at their residential weekends. They run these weekends four times a year at a peaceful location in rural Staffordshire.

Applicants should have appropriate professional qualifications, experience and good references.

NLTSG pays its facilitators a fee, travel expenses as well as providing meals and accommodation (should these be required).

Applications should be sent to:

National Long Term Survivors Group
BM LTSG, London, WC1N 3XX

The NLTSG is a vibrant user-led group that provides support to people living with HIV for 5 years or more. It is a registered charity.

The group has recently secured funding from the Elton John AIDS Foundation to enable people living with HIV over 50 or who live in an isolated location to attend a weekend, or for people who are paid or unpaid workers with an HIV Group.
 

NLTSG website 

Benefit Reform Backlash

posted: 01/12/2008

Gordon Brown is facing a growing backlash against Labour's welfare reforms, which will give private companies a greater role in moving the unemployed back to work, as some of Britain's biggest unions join anti-poverty campaigners in a new national campaign against the plans.
 

As the prime minister pledged over the weekend to respond to the economic downturn by speeding up the reform of public services, the new campaign warned that a "draconian" welfare policy was not the right one in a recession.

HIV impacts
The reforms will be one of the key elements of the government's legislative programme to be outlined in Wednesday's Queen's speech to parliament. The main reform to affect people living with HIV is the review and transfer of all existing claimants on Incapacity Benefit (paid for long term illhealth or disability) to the new benefit Employment Support Allowance. The tests for receiving this for long term sickness are significantly tougher. The government's intention is to reduce the number claiming for long term sickness or disability by about 1 million. These one million will either have to find work (very difficult as unemployment rises in a recession) or claim Job Seekers Allowance - about £20 a week less. People on this have under £9 a day income. Another element of the reforms is to part-privatise job seeker support services. The fear is that the "harder cases" such as people with long term unpredictable health conditions and those with stigmatised conditions will be left behind. The contracts for job seeker support services pay by results and there are tough penalties for failure. In the recesssion the companies will be driven by the contract penalties to cherrypick the easiest cases.

Campaigners against the welfare reforms, led by the centre-left pressure Compass and unions including Unison and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said: "Many of the plans were unacceptable when they were first published and the worsening economic situation should lead to a fundamental rethink."

Brown said yesterday that the details in the Queen's speech were the "biggest New Labour project of all" and rejected claims that the government's plans to raise the higher rate of tax to 45p marked the end of New Labour. "Doing nothing is not an option," Brown told the Progress conference in London. "This is the biggest New Labour project of all: to give people confidence and hope that we can build through this downturn into a better economy and society. It will mean not a slowing down of reform but only a stepping up in the pace of reform."

The welfare reform plans, based on a report by the city financier David Freud, have been in the pipeline for some time. Government sources said the changes in approach to the long-term unemployed were more necessary than ever.

But the new campaign group is alarmed about a drift to the right in attitudes to the jobless and has seized on warnings by the government's own advisers, the social security advisory committee, to suspend plans to force single mothers with children under 12 to seek work or face benefit cuts.

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