Team Leader (Children’s Respite Breaks)

£21k per year, Full time contract 37.5 hours per week worked as annualised hours, Dolfor, Mid Wales

The Honeypot Children’s Charity is looking for a Team Leader to support disadvantaged children between the ages of 5 and 12 on overnight respite holiday breaks.

We’re looking for someone who’s positive and passionate about supporting young carers and vulnerable children, who can provide guidance and set standards for a friendly team of residential playworkers, and is ready to adapt to any challenge. Creativity is good, enthusiasm is a must – you’ll be organising fun activities for children and engaging with them to boost their self-confidence.

The role will be chiefly based at our respite home, Honeypot Pen-y-Bryn, situated in the beautiful countryside near Newtown, Mid Wales. It’ll be here you’ll provide a variety of individual and group activities for children in safe, nurturing environments, with full access to the facilities available, including trampolines, a swimming pool, the Galleon adventure playground, and the arts and crafts studio.

You must have experience of working with children in a group environment, a childcare, education or social work qualification and knowledge of Child Protection and Safeguarding. This role requires an enhanced DBS check.

We are recruiting this role on a full time permanent annualised hours contract and many of the hours will mainly be worked on weekends and school holidays.

Please click here for the full job description and personal specification.

To apply, please send us your CV with a brief covering letter telling us why you are interested in the role to recruitment@honeypot.org.uk.

The closing date for applications is the 20th January 2019.

First 1000 Days of Life

Are you a parent or an expectant parent?

The early years of a child's life from pregnancy to age 2 are vital to their physical, mental and emotional health and development. Problems that occur in this period can not only affect a person’s childhood, but the rest of their life: their physical and mental health, their ability to learn, communicate and manage their emotions.

 
All parents need support during this time from their families and friends, but also from local public services (e.g. midwives, GPs, children centres and health visitors). These services can help to identify problems in a child’s development and provide support for parents and families to help make sure children are given the best start in life. 
 
The House of Commons Health and Social CareCommittee who are responsible for holding the Government to account, are seeking parents’ views on the challenges, and the support, they received during the first years of their child’s life, from conception to age 2.

How can you help? 

The Committee is interested in hearing from parents from all walks of life, particularly those who:

·  Live in poorly connected or rural areas

·  Are first-time parents

·  Are single parents

·  Do not have English as a first language

Join our online discussion
 
Your answers will be used to inform the Committee’s scrutiny of the Government.
 
You will be required to answer a few questions and share your experience on our MumsNet Web Forum 

ASH Wales Newsletter - December

https://mailchi.mp/809199da8136/ash-wales-newsletter-1531373?e=9644b93e15

Welsh Government Warm Homes Nest News

https://dmtrk.net/2PYW-TGRM-E8D3EH129/cr.aspx

WCVA Update - 17 December 2018

This week's updates from WCVA

17 December 2018 Hello and welcome to the last WCVA Newsletter of 2018! It's been a whirlwind year, and despite some challenges across the sector we're incredibly proud of everyone's work over 2018. We hope that we can all band together over the coming year to help achieve our shared vision of a thriving third sector in Wales, improving wellbeing for all. If you'd like to catch up with everything we got up to in 2017-18, please take a look at our Annual Report. A brand new funding website has been launched by Third Sector Support Wales to help third sector organisations find funding more easily. The free database hosts a range of different funding options - with a search facility to help you to quickly and effectively identify relevant sources of funding. The site also includes news items and case studies, as well as links to support, information and guidance which will ensure that you're equipped with all the tools needed to make good funding applications. Visit funding.cymru to find your funding today! Thanks for reading, have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!

Volunteering Using the Volunteering Wales website - webinar A series of webinars has been scheduled throughout the year to provide training and support for those who are using the Volunteering Wales volunteering platform. New report highlights reading as a powerful tool to combat loneliness The Reading Agency commissioned leading independent think tank Demos to produce ‘A Society of Readers’, a report which predicts that by 2030 loneliness in the UK will reach epic proportions, with seven million people experiencing loneliness in the over-60 age group alone. Kellie’s volunteer story Kellie started with Green Days through Treforest Learning Curve. When she first came to one of our activities she lacked self-confidence and made it quite clear to staff that she definitely wouldn’t be able to do any of the things we might ask her to do. To her intense surprise and pleasure she quickly proved herself wrong!

WCVA general Brexit Update - December 2018 Charles Whitmore, Brexit Civil Society Forum Coordinator, is here with a festive Brexit update for the third sector before the holidays. Christmas shopping with a conscience In this blog, Simon Dowling of WCVA provides some ethical relief from the material overload of shopping for your loved ones over the festive period.

Funding New Funding Search Platform for the Third Sector in Wales New funding website launched by Third Sector Support Wales to help third sector organisations find funding. A B Charitable Trust Funding of up to £20,000 is available to support charities working where human dignity is imperilled and where there are opportunities for human dignity to be affirmed. Greggs Foundation’s Local Community Projects Fund Funding of up to £2,000 is available for groups to deliver projects or provide equipment to people in need at the heart of their local communities. EU Settlement Scheme – Grant funding available for the third sector The Home Office has recently announced the launch of a £9 million fund, for the third sector, to help vulnerable or at-risk EU citizens needing additional support when applying for the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS).

Training and events Designing and delivering engaging presentations Make your presentations matter – learn how to design and deliver dynamic presentations with ease. Training skills Where the trainee becomes the trainer – learn the skills to plan, prepare and deliver great training sessions.

Trustees and governance Alert for Charities – Postal Stamp Fraud The Charity Commission has issued an alert to charities about postal stamp fraud Changing your charity’s details – Updated Guidance New guidance on how to change your charity details Charity Commission Updates Safeguarding Guidance The Charity Commission has updated its guidance on safeguarding and protecting people.

Policy and politics Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation: Develop social capital as an indicator Our response to Welsh Government’s consultation. Help improve our support for you Complete a very quick survey and help us help you better. Brexit FAQs for the health and social care sector The Welsh NHS Confederation has compiled a number of Brexit FAQs for the health and social care sector in Wales.

Community Connector (Builth Wells & Llanwrtyd Wells)

Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations has the following vacancy

Community Connector (Builth Wells & Llanwrtyd Wells)

Based in Builth Wells

(required to work one day per week in Llandrindod Wells)

28 hours per week

Salary £20,370 per annum (£1,697 per month) £25,463 pro rata

(This role is funded until 31 March 2020)

The post holder will, as part of PAVO’s Community Health and Wellbeing Coordination team, work with statutory and other partners to provide front line support delivering integrated community based health and well-being support services that take a whole system approach to “what matters” to people, helping individuals, their families and carers to access the right support at the right time.

You will have a good knowledge of communities within Powys, experience of working alongside and supporting individuals and families from a variety of backgrounds and with varying needs, of working within multi-agency partnerships, delivering a person-centred service and supporting people to plan and meet their own needs for the future. 

 You will have excellent communication skills, be well organised, have good ICT skills and the ability to work using your own initiative, managing a demanding caseload.

Ability to communicate in Welsh is an advantage.

Closing date for applications: 3^rd January 2019 at 9am

Interviews will be held w/c 7January 2019 in Llandrindod Wells

Application packs are available from the PAVO website:

https://www.pavo.org.uk/jobs.html

or recruit@pavo.org.uk              tel:01597 822191

PAVO is for life, not just for Christmas

I’m making a list, checking it twice, figuring out who’s naughty and nice ….

Christmas references aside, there have been many lists written in the last few months, lots of things crossed out and new lists re-made.

The reason being is that we’ve had a revamp in the Health and Wellbeing team. Mental Health is now part of the newly formed Health and Wellbeing team, lead by Freda Lacey Uwch Swyddog Iechyd a Llesiant/Senior Officer Health and Wellbeing. Jackie Newey is our Swyddog Gwybodaeth - Iechyd a Llesiant (Iechyd Meddwl) / Information Officer – Health & Wellbeing (Mental Health) whilst Owen Griffkin is the Swyddog Cyfranogiad – Iechyd a Llesiant (Iechyd Meddwl) / Participation Officer – Health & Wellbeing (Mental Health) for the team. We’ve had two new additions to the team to support the changes, myself Jen Hawkins and Sue Newham Swyddog gwybodaeth lles a iechyd / Health and Wellbeing Information Officer Engagement Officer – Health & Wellbeing (Health) We say goodbye to Carol Hay Swyddog Cyfranogiad – Iechyd a Llesiant (Iechyd) / Participation Officer – Health & Wellbeing (Health) and Anne Woods and welcome Carol’s replacement next year to the team.

All in all there’s been a lot going on but I’m delighted to say that we’re hitting the ground running in January with a great line up of events to share valuable information with you and support you with your health and wellbeing requirements.

Please keep up to date with all our recent news, in addition to the Mental Health Twitter account @PAVOMH and Facebook Page @ExpertsbyExperience you can also find all our latest Wellbeing news and information via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Simply click the links below to connect with us.

All that is left for me to do is to wish you well during this festive season, may it be a time of peace for you and those close to you.

Connect on Instagram  Follow @PavoWellbeing

PAVO Wellbeing / Llesiant PAVO

Christmas Message from PAVO Wellbeing

As we race to the last working day before our Christmas holidays, I’m mindful this year that it falls on the shortest day of the year 21st December. For me, this day, the Winter Solstice  has all sorts of meanings. Over Christmas many of us stay warm - lighting fires, eating hearty food and enjoying the holiday season, whatever tradition we celebrate. We make special efforts to be with family, friends and neighbours, with our Christmas lighting ceremonies or food festivals, Christmas markets, choirs, church and concerts. But at this time of year I’m also aware of many people in Powys who may be socially isolated, living with depression, living on their own, people who are sad or lonely, who are in need. I’m very mindful and grateful for the work of Sector colleagues who are on the front line, giving support to people. It is the season generally of good will, of sharing, of compassion and of giving. I hope that at this time you will feel the abundance of receiving yourselves and in giving, feel you are filled up with light, warmth and energy as we head into the New Year. Wishing you and your families, colleagues, clients and friends a very happy and warm holiday season and a heartfelt New Year celebration.  We look forward very much to working with you all in 2019. Freda Lacey, Senior Officer, Health and Wellbeing Team, PAVO Please note that PAVO offices will be closed from 5pm on Friday 21st December 2018 and will reopen at 9am on Wednesday 2nd January 2019.

CARER AWARENESS E-LEARNING COURSE

Social Care Wales and NHS Wales have jointly developed a Carer Awareness E-learning Course.

This e-learning course aims to raise understanding and awareness of carers by exploring key topics:

• who is a carer;
• the types of support carers provide;
• the impact of a caring role can have;
• what carers need
• carers’ rights and entitlements, the law and where to find out what support is available

With over 370,000 carers in Wales and 3 in 5 people providing care for someone at some point in their lives, carers make up most of the support given to people within our society.

Whilst some of these carers are aware of the support available to them, others will not see themselves as carers. Therefore, identification of carers is vital for them to know where they can find help. The earlier this identification happens the better to support carers’ health and well-being.

The course will take about 45 minutes to complete, and following successful completion, a certificate will be downloadable for personal development records.

Complete the resource here Learning@Wales

Arts and Health Meeting

Monday 14^th January 10.00-12.00

PAVO Office, Unit 30 Ddole Road Industrial Estate, Llandrindod Wells. Powys LD1 6DF.

A chance for voluntary sector groups to meet other creative people and share ideas.

This get together is organised by PAVO and refreshments will be provided.

To reserve your place please book via the
Online booking form

sue.newham@pavo.org.uk   01597 822191

Living Well with Dementia

An invitation to join us in a day of networking.

Wednesday 20th February, 9.30am -4pm at the Elim Pentecostal Church Brecon, Canal Rd, Brecon LD3 7HL  

The focus for this event is housing, including housing issues, technological aids, adaptations and maintaining independence. It's open to those living with dementia, their carers and organisations, as well as professionals working with people with dementia. 

To book your place please complete our online booking form

Social Prescribing learning needs study- participants required.

Do you have a role as a community navigator, link worker or similar? Or do you send or receive a social prescription and deliver a community asset? Carolyn Wallace and David Pontin have been commissioned by Health Education and Improvement Wales to complete a study exploring the learning needs for those practicing social prescribing. If you have a role as a community link worker, community navigator (or similar), make or receive referrals for a social prescription then we need your perspective on the learning needs for social prescribing.

It will be an online study using three separate short exercises.

• The first asks you to complete the following sentence:  to help me in my social prescribing role my learning needs are….
• The second invites you to sort and label a collection of statements.
• The third asks you to rate the statements against two scales - importance and availability.

The study takes place during December to February 2019. Please contact Carolyn Wallace if you are interested in taking part. Carolyn.wallace@southwales.ac.uk

Everybody's Business: A Report on Suicide Prevention in Wales

The Assembly Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has published its suicide prevention inquiry report Everybody’s Business: A report on suicide prevention in Wales.  The Welsh Government will now consider the recommendations alongside those in the Talk to Me 2 Midpoint review and will respond formally to the inquiry. Read the full findings of the report  Here

News and recent publications from IPC

IPC are seeking best practice in care co-ordination for children and adults with learning disabilities and long term conditions.

IPC has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care to identify good practice and innovation in providing care co-ordination or key working support for people (adults and children) with learning disabilities and long term conditions. The research will include a literature review of published information as well as exploring new and emerging models of co-ordinated care that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. If you would like to participate in this project and have examples to share, please download this document for further information.  Please contact Clare Dodwell using this form and sending it to  ipc@brookes.ac.uk.

The Future of Community Pharmacies

Promoting Local Collaboration and Securing the Benefits of Holistic Community Care

Central London

Wednesday 20^th March 2019

Event Details  Event Brochure  Website  Register to Attend

The role of community pharmacies in promoting the health and wellbeing of UK citizens has expanded rapidly. Currently, over 11,688 community pharmacies exist in England (Public Health England, 2016). Roughly 1.2 million individuals visit a local pharmacy with a health related concern every day. The total amount of items dispensed between 2017 and 2018 was a recorded 1,013.8 million (General Pharmaceutical Services, 2018). Across a range of communities, pharmacies have become instrumental components of the local healthcare infrastructure.

In recent years, the Government has sought to utilise community pharmacies to overcome increasing demand for primary care services. In 2018, NHS England launched its new, ‘Stay Well Pharmacy’ campaign to promote the role of pharmacies as frontline sources of clinical advice for minor health concerns including ‘sore throats, coughs, colds, tummy troubles and teething’ (NHS England, 2018). Moreover, the NHS Five Year Forward View, initially launched in 2014, has promoted heightened coordination between healthcare bodies in an attempt to improve existing services. The Pharmacy Integration Fund (2016) has assisted the delivery of deeper collaboration between medical institutions. Predominantly this has been through deploying pharmacy professionals into alternative care settings such as general practice, integrated urgent care (IUC) hubs and care homes. During 2018, NHS England has also been trialling new programmes intended to further embed pharmacies into local care networks via new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).

Although pharmacies have assumed a central role in the UK healthcare provision, a number of challenges threaten their future viability. As the UK prepares to leave the European Union, the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee have raised concerns within its report, The Impact of Brexit on the Pharmaceutical Sector (2018), over potential skills shortages in the sector. NHS England’s pilot integration scheme is due to end in January 2019, raising questions over the prospects for future collaboration between local public health services. Moreover, a reported 2.1 million A&E visits in 2016/17 were for self-treatable conditions, illustrating the need for further campaigning to ensure local communities understand how to engage with pharmacy services (NHS Digital, 2017).

Residing at the heart of their communities, pharmacies have been called upon to support more robust public health services. This timely symposium provides a range of public policy and health professionals including pharmacists, health and wellbeing boards and clinical commissioners with an invaluable forum to examine how pharmacies can deliver stronger and more efficient primary care support. Delegates will also explore the evolving role of pharmacies within their communities and co-develop strategies to embed them at the centre of local public healthcare.

Delegates Will:
Explore the evolving role of community pharmacies in supporting local public health and explore how to safeguard their contribution to national health and wellbeing
Co-develop strategies to promote heightened collaboration between local pharmacies, primary care institutions and medical professionals
Determine the impact of emerging technologies on community pharmacy services and care provision
Assess the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s report, The Impact of Brexit on the Pharmaceutical Sector and examine the broader risks of the UK departing from the European Union
Develop methods to strengthen pharmacy staff training to ensure the delivery of quality clinical services
Engage in the sharing of best practice regarding local level promotion of existing pharmacy services and functions
Examine the remaining obstacles to public accessibility and consider methods of facilitating the public’s use of pharmacy services
Promote the role of community pharmacies as local hubs, discussing measures to further uphold their broader social and economic contributions
To view our brochure, including the full event programme, click here.

We would like to advise you that we offer a 20% early registration discount off the standard delegate rates (subject to type of organisation and terms and conditions) for bookings received by the 8th February 2019. Do feel free to circulate this information to relevant colleagues within your organisation.

In the meantime, to ensure your organisation is represented, please book online or complete and return the attached registration form at your earliest convenience in order to secure your delegate place(s).

WCVA Training - Engaging online

Engaging online
5 February 2019, Rhyl

Connect with your online audience and create innovative content to meet their needs

https://mailchi.mp/wcva/engage-online-audiences-ymgysylltu-chynulleidfaoedd-arlein?e=1926e35f2d

WCVA Update - 10 December 2018

This week's updates from WCVA

10 December 2018 WCVA's Annual Lecture by Missing People CEO Jo Youle is now available to download, watch or stream. In the lecture, Jo talks about how we can 'let fly' as third sector leaders - running through the amazing people she's met who've inspired her as a leader, her experiences as a professional musician and how it's all informed her faith in the third sector. Visit the website to listen/watch.

Volunteering Innovative new mentoring project in Cardiff The Bridge the Gap Project makes great strides in developing individuals.

WCVA general ‘Getting Brexit Ready’ Guide Now Available for Third Sector in Wales "Getting Brexit Ready: A Guide for Small to Large Third Sector Organisations" has been published by the Wales Civil Society Forum on Brexit. Six new trustees join WCVA board Winners of 2018 board elections were announced at WCVA’s Annual General Meeting and Lecture, including six brand new board members. Listen back to our 2018 Annual Lecture WCVA’s Annual Lecture by Missing People CEO Jo Youle is now available to download, watch or stream.

Funding Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust Arts and Environment Fund MSCT are pleased to announce a one-off Grant Scheme called the Arts and Environment Grant Fund for amounts up to £5,000. The Bruce Wake Charitable Trust The Trustees will consider grant applications related to the provision of leisure activities for the disabled. Vinci UK The next round of Vinci UK funding will open in January 2019. Community Asset Development Fund EQ now open The eligibility stage of the application process for the new Community Asset Development Fund (CADF) is now open on eTenderWales.

Training and events Engaging online Connect with your online audience and create innovative content to meet their needs Introduction to fundraising through trusts and foundations Strengthen your charity's fundraising by making effective bids to trusts and foundations

Trustees and governance Third Sector Support Wales partners pledge support for the UK Charity Governance Code Third Sector Support Wales (TSSW) partners, a network of support for the third sector across Wales, have signed up to the principles of the UK Charity Governance Code.

Policy and politics UK Government contracts 'not gagging clauses' A recent investigation by the Times newspaper showed how suppliers working under contract for the Department for Work and Pensions were required to sign contracts including ‘adverse publicity’ clauses. This included charities working with Universal Credit claimants. How should the sector prepare for Brexit? Ask your questions at an online Q&A. Mark Drakeford new leader of Welsh Labour Mark Drakeford has been announced as the new leader of the Welsh Labour party.