Job Title: Community Connector
Project: Welcome/Laskavo Prosimo
Reports: Communities & People
Salary: £22,000 pro rata (16 hrs per week) Mon – Fri
Location: Cedarwood, North Tyneside, NE29 7QT
Contract: 12 months Fixed Term
Requirement: Fluent in Ukrainian and English 

Cedarwood is a Charity dedicated to improving the quality of lives for residents living in North Shields and the wider Northeast region. In the last four years we have become a lead innovator in supporting people to become empowered to access health, wellbeing, social, and leisure activities, and to take a step into education, training, and employment.  We strive to help make North Shields an inclusive community.

By actively listening to the community, we have identified a need to provide Ukrainian settlers (from the Homes for Ukraine Scheme) with support to help them further their transition to British and local culture, specifically the place and people of our region. 
A key element of this role is to deliver activities that provide cultural connectivity with Ukrainian traditions to ensure these traditions are kept alive for the current and future generations of Ukrainian settlers.

If you are seeking a role that has the potential to be a key support service for the communities in our region. If you have the skills to motivate, encourage and empathise with people, then this may be the role for you.

To apply for this role, please contact louise@cedarwoodtrust.com for an application pack. 

This post is funded by the Watkin Family Fund via the Community Foundation, to who we give grateful thanks for their support. Without it, Cedarwood would not be able to respond to emerging community needs. 

Closing date: Friday 15th September 2023 at 11:00am. If you have not been contacted 3 weeks after this date, you have been unsuccessful in your application. 

Job Title: Community Connector
Project: Learning For Life
Salary: £26,000 pro rata
Duration: Full Time 32hrs / Permanent
Location: Cedarwood Hub, North Shields, North of Tyne
Clearance Required: DBS
Responsible to: Project Manager

Job Purpose

• To work within the mission and values of the charity.
• To inspire individuals to develop a healthy lifestyle, including the development of physical and mental health and wellbeing.
• To actively outreach and encourage people to engage in the Step up into Care and Nurture Academy training, to encourage return to employment, further education, or volunteering.

Key Responsibilities
 
Your duties are to:

• Actively contribute to an inclusive, stimulating, and welcoming environment for staff and service users by promoting a culture that maintains all professional boundaries.
• Actively promote the Cedarwood Trusts values and ethos.
• Manage your own time and workload effectively, whilst also working as part of a team.
• Identify any opportunities for quality improvement and raise them through the Bright Ideas process.
• Contribute to the organization’s marketing and publicity.
• Keyholders must adhere to keyholder responsibilities.
• Actively engage with the community through varied and appropriate channels to promote the learning opportunities provided by the Cedarwood Trust.
• Actively recruit students to the Step up into Care and Nurture Academy programs and compete Individual Learner Records (ILRs) as appropriate to meet NTCA monthly targets.
• Ensure that service user files are maintained to meet the requirements of Ofsted and NTCA.
• Liaise and work alongside the tutors to ensure a smooth and supported transition for all students.

 

• Support individuals by developing and maintaining good communication with people accessing the program to ensure that their strengths, goals, and preferences as individuals are met.
• Connect people to relevant opportunities and services within their community to achieve their goals.
• Develop positive working relationships with key health and social care workers, including care navigators, GPs, and neighbourhood enhanced care teams.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key relevant community-based service providers to ensure effective and smooth onward referrals, including other local voluntary, community, and social enterprise organizations.
• Build up knowledge of what opportunities and services are available in the local and wider community, and assist individuals to access through attending with them or providing information on the means to do so.
• Monitor and record key information on the Upshot system (and ILR folders where appropriate) regarding individual’s participation, including tracking (client journey) their experience and outcomes and provide timely feedback to referral partners.
• Support and assist with the monitoring and evaluation of the program, including producing relevant monitoring reports as well as collecting broader qualitative and outcome data from case studies, focus groups and interviews to understand how or why the delivery approach is impacting on people and the local community.

 
 
NOTE: Cedarwood Trust provides front line services and recognises the need to respond flexibly to changing demands and circumstances. Whilst this job description provides a summary of the post, this may need to be adapted or adjusted to meet changing circumstances.

​If you are interested in this role, please email louise@cedarwoodtrust.com for an application pack and the closing date for applications is the 7th July 2023.

Job Title: Community Adult Learning Tutor
Project: Learning For Life
Salary: £28,000
Duration: Full Time 37hrs / Permanent
Location: Cedarwood Hub, North Shields, North of Tyne
Clearance Required: DBS
Responsible to: Project Manager

Job Purpose
This role is part of Cedarwood Trusts Learning for Life community Adult Learning provision. Offering a wide range of courses and qualifications in health and social care (Step Up into Care). We are seeking to recruit a tutor to deliver Step Up into Care courses in both the Cedarwood Hub and across the North of Tyne, to design, plan, deliver and evaluate high quality learning opportunities and experiences for learners in response to their identified needs.

Accountabilities:

Deliver Learning:

• Plan and deliver effective learning programmes for diverse groups or individuals in a safe and inclusive environment.
• To initially assess learners’ starting points and monitor their progress, set challenging tasks and objectives, and build on and extend learning for all learners.
• Enable learners to share responsibility for their own learning and assessment, setting goals that stretch and challenge.
• Motivate and inspire learners to promote achievement and develop their skills to enable progression.
• Address the mathematics and English needs of learners and work creatively to overcome individual barriers to learning.
• Promote the benefits of digital technology and support learners in its use.
• Apply appropriate and fair methods of assessment and provide constructive and timely feedback to support progression and achievement.
• To support learners to develop personal, social and employability skills for them to progress into further learning or jobs that meet local and national needs.

• Maintain and update your teaching / training expertise, vocational competence, and digital skills.

 
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Personal Management and Continuous Improvement 

• Actively contribute to an inclusive, stimulating, and welcoming environment for staff and service users by promoting a culture that maintains all professional boundaries.
• Actively promote the Cedarwood Trusts values and ethos.
• Manage your own time and workload effectively, whilst also working as part of a team.
• Undertake continuing professional development including participating in supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required.
• Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures, and guidelines.
• Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional expertise.
• Adhere to and live our workplace values of being caring, adaptable and honesty.
• Identify any opportunities for quality improvement and raise them through the Bright Ideas process.
• Contribute to organisational development and quality improvement through collaboration with others.

 
 
NOTE: Cedarwood Trust provides front line services and recognises the need to respond flexibly to changing demands and circumstances. Whilst this job description provides a summary of the post, this may need to be adapted or adjusted to meet changing circumstances.

​If you are interested in this role, please email louise@cedarwoodtrust.com for an application pack and the closing date for applications is the 7th July 2023.

Job Title: Learning For Life Manager
Project: Learning For Life
Salary: £30,000
Duration: Full Time 37.5 hrs / Permanent
Location: Cedarwood Hub, North Shields, North of Tyne
Clearance Required: DBS
Responsible to: CEO

Job Purpose:

• To lead and develop the team to deliver a high-quality person centred, customer focused service as directed by the CEO.
• To ensure Cedarwood Trust’s vision and values are embedded in the team.
• To ensure all requirements of the service specification are met

Main duties and responsibilities:
To lead, manage and develop the team by:

Core Delivery Duties

• Providing management of our Adult Community Learning programme (Learning for Life, which consists of Step Up into Care and the Nurture Catering Academy), ensuring and maintaining effective delivery of all relevant elements to the North of Tyne.
• Ensuring that the Learning for Life provision achieves all identified requirements within its function and integrates with all appropriate areas of delivery within Cedarwood Trust. Provide management support to the Employability Skills and Basic Functional Skills element of the service, ensuring it promotes progression.
• To lead on the audit of the service, including customer service and satisfaction. Actively seek feedback from service users and ensure that the service is meeting their ongoing needs.
• Develop internal quality assurance processes to ensure that delivery meets the needs of the group, is aspirational, and promotes employability.
• Contributing to and promoting an asset-based community development agenda, and be adept at overcoming stigma and promoting the benefits of community inclusion to both the client group and wider community networks.

Personal Management and Continuous Improvement

• Actively contribute to an inclusive, stimulating, and welcoming environment for staff and service users by promoting a culture that maintains all professional boundaries.
• Actively promote the Cedarwood Trusts values and ethos.
• Manage your own time and workload effectively, whilst also working as part of a team.
• Undertake continuing professional development including participating in supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required.
• Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures, and guidelines.
• Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional expertise.
• Promote, adhere to, and live our workplace values of being caring, adaptable and honesty.
• Identify any opportunities for quality improvement and raise them through the Bright Ideas process.
• Contribute to organisational development and quality improvement through collaboration with others.

Team Management and Development Duties

• Providing operational management and maintain the effective running and administration of a Learning for Life Service: assigning work to team members, monitoring and supervising the day-to-day delivery and quality standards of the work.
• Providing motivation, leadership, and support to staff in specific areas of service delivery.
• Undertaking capability assessments, disciplinary investigations, and grievance issues, where appropriate.
• Monitoring attendance, annual leave, and absence, undertaking return to work interviews and implementing absence management procedures for your staff as necessary.
• Providing support, supervision and coaching to project staff.
• Through team meetings, supervision, appraisals, manage and develop individuals and teams against objectives.
• Ensuring practice development and ongoing training is provided to the relevant staff within your teams.
• Providing effective communication and presentation of key messages to staff, volunteers other agencies and stakeholders
• Ensuring safeguarding procedures and policies are adhered to.
  
• Developing own skills and those of the team to always deliver an excellent service and throughout the progress of the Project.
  
• Assisting in the building of a cooperative and collaborative team that is flexible and adaptable to changing requirements.
  
• Participating in and promoting training and development opportunities.

Leadership Team Duties

• Being an active member of the Leadership Team.
• Supporting the Leadership Team to develop and implement action plans for achieving and maintaining performance targets and KPIs.
• Supporting the Leadership Team to develop and maintain the culture and values of the service.
• Assisting in the identification of risks and problems and working with the Leadership Team to resolve them.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of Ofsted auditing systems.
• Initiating innovative forms of service delivery and identifying development opportunities to maintain and develop service provision.
• Ensuring service user involvement and influence is evident across the service.
• Undertaking other responsibilities as reasonably required to ensure the efficient running of the service.

Note: This job description is intended to provide a guide to the general duties and responsibilities of the post. It should not be regarded as a contractual document. It will be reviewed regularly and may be varied at the discretion of Cedarwood Trust Senior Management Team.

If you are interested in this role, please email louise@cedarwoodtrust.com for an application pack and the closing date for applications is the 7th July 2023.

Job Title: Meal Development & Cookery Tutor 
Salary: £26,000 per year (37.5 hrs per week) Mon – Fri
Location: Cedarwood Centre, North Tyneside
Contract: Fixed 12 months with possible extension

Cedarwood Trust is a Charity dedicated to improving the quality of lives for residents living in North Shields and the wider North East region. In the last four years, Cedarwood Trust with the leadership of the CEO has become a lead innovator in the region. 

Supporting people to access affordable food is a key part of the work we do at Cedarwood, from free meals to people in crisis to supplying ready meals to our social supermarket. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 55,000 free meals were provided to the community.

We are now seeking to expand further into developing a ready meal provision based at the Cedarwood Centre in a brand-new bespoke production unit.

The role is twofold in developing the ready meals service and teach cooking skills to students. 

If you are seeking a role that has the developing potential to be a key support service for the communities in our region. Have the skills to motivate, encourage and emphasis with people, this is for you. 

As tutor, you will be responsible for delivering weekly cookery sessions to produce the ready meals. With lessons that support students to develop a range of catering skills to support them bridge the transition into employment.

1. To lead weekly cookery sessions, developing and delivering schemes of work, weekly lesson and evaluation plans and end case studies.
2. To support learners in setting and achieving targets in their individual learning programmes. To assess, monitor and track students' progress and achievements.
3. To identify and report any safeguarding concerns.
4. Develop the meals to the door community service and enterprise opportunities.
5. To attend team meetings, undertake staff development courses and participate in supervision and teaching observations.
6. To adhere to Environmental Health & Safety policies and procedures within the work placement.
7. To follow all Cedarwood Trust policies and procedures.
8. The job description is a guide, and you will carry out other duties as appropriate and required.

Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience Essential

1. Relevant professional or vocational qualification or substantial experience of catering and hospitality sector.
2. Experience of teaching cookery classes.
3. Ability to work as part of a team.
4. Experience of working with diverse cultures and of addressing the needs of different sectors of the community.
5. The ability to work flexibly under pressure.
6. Knowledge and understanding of Equal opportunities and Diversity, and an ability to ensure that policies are implemented through everyday practices.
7. Evidence of clear and effective communication skills.
8. High level of computer literacy, in particular Microsoft Office and use of email and internet.
9. Appropriate levels of numeracy, language and literacy at a standard required for the role.
10. Professional Qualification in catering and hospitality.

To apply for this role, please contact louise@cedarwoodtrust.com For an application pack.

Closing date: 30th June 2023 at 11am.

If you have not been contacted 3 weeks after this date, you have been unsuccessful in your application. 

JOB POSITION: Strive to Thrive Group Facilitator
LOCATION: North Shields
HOURS: 37.5 a week
SALARY: £26,500 per annum
CONTRACT: 12 months Fixed Term, November 2023.

Cedarwood Trust is a fast-growing Charity, dedicated to improving the quality of life for residents living in the Chirton and Riverside Wards of North Shields, and the wider North Rast region. We are an established 40-year-old charity that has modernised and
become a lead innovator in the region over the last 3 years.

We are now expanding services into recovery from addictive disorders and are seeking to
recruit a highly skilled group facilitator to deliver Strive to Thrive - a group behavioural
change programme for people with gambling misuse disorder.

If you have the skills to motivate, encourage, and empathise with people seeking change
this is the role for you.

Job Purpose
Deliver the Strive to Thrive structured programme to complete recovery focussed change work via weekly facilitated groups and 1:1 support. The post holder will develop members’ self-exploration and self-empowerment themes within a setting that provides social contact and support, enabling client members to improve their recovery and reach personal goals. This will be done by creating a safe, non-stigmatising and welcoming environment for client members, a safe place where people feel able to express themselves.

Please email: louise@cedarwoodtrust.com or get in touch via the form below for an application pack

Note: This role will require an Enhanced DBS.

CLOSING DATE: 1st November at 1pm

Location: Cedarwood Trust, North Shields
Hours: 30 per week
Rate: £11 per hour

Cedarwood Trust operates an amazing, vibrant community hub on the Meadow Well Estate in North shields.

The hub has over 100 community visitors per day accessing a range of support and life enriching activities.

To ensure the smooth running of the hub, we require a sessional support worker to provide the extra resource in supporting the team at times of maximum capacity.

This is a demanding and physical role as you will be supporting the whole team as and when they need the extra capacity.

If you are a motivated individual who can work with little supervision, this maybe the role for you. 

​Please email info@cedarwoodtrust.com or get in touch via the form below:

Job Title: Chef – Nourish Bistro
Location: Cedarwood Trust, North Shields
Salary: £22,000 - £24,000 p.a.
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week. (5 days out of 7 - sociable family-friendly hours and no evening or split shifts)

Are you an experienced Chef wanting to run a catering unit whilst also having the support and encouragement of a bigger on-site team? Do you enjoy providing customers with high quality cooked food and drinks, all presented with great service?

We're a busy, friendly team operating out of The Cedarwood Community Hub and need an enthusiastic and passionate Chef to serve our very loyal customers with local, tasty, quality cooked food, drinks, and specials.

This is an exciting and varied role: ideal for an individual who enjoys engaging with our lovely customers (and their dogs!) and can adapt the menu to the weather conditions.
Nourish Bistro represents the spirit of The Cedarwood Trust and that shines through in everything we do, from the quality, local produce to the staff who greet every guest with a smile.

About the role:
To manage the day to day running of the Nourish Bistro preparing, cooking, and selling delicious food and drinks.

Be focussed, energetic, and ensure good customer service throughout.

About you:
Previous food preparation and cooking experience is essential
A passion for great food and great service

If you like the sound of the role and want to join the Cedarwood team, email louise@cedarwoodtrust.com, closing date 8th April 2022 at noon.
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If you're uncertain if the role is right for you, people with a background (or interest) in the following have excelled in the past: Experienced Chef, Restaurant Cook, Café Chef, Line Cook, Catering, Kitchen Supervisor.

Projects: Nurture – Nourish – Thrive – Step Up into Care – Nurture Catering Academy 
Responsible to: Skills & Development Coordinator  
Normal Hours of Work:  Full time 37.5 
Salary: £11.20 per hour  
Holiday Entitlement: 28 days including Bank Holidays
Contract Length: Fixed term to 30th September 2022 
Funding: This post is part funded by European Social Fund (ESF)
Job Summary: To support individuals progress to accredited training, mentoring, volunteering within the Nurture – Nourish – Thrive - Step Up into Care program – Nurture Catering Academy.  Support individuals to gain skills to become to move towards work readiness and identify employability routes.

Key Responsibilities:
To develop and deliver training  
Deliver agreed preparation for employability training  
Support participants to achieve accredited up to Level 2 Certification 
Coach and motivate participants to become work ready 
Complete ESF participants learning journals and all related paperwork including:
1. Registering and support with collating input form
2. Support with developing soft skills
3. Support with developing hard skills
4. Support with volunteer / work placement
5. Support with self-employment
6. Support with employment
7. Supporting transfer of participant to other member of the consortium

Assess, mark, and submit training workbook modules  

Download the full job description here.

Salary: £18,000 to £22,000 FTE per annum, plus contributory pension scheme

Location: Cedarwood Centre, Avon Avenue, Meadow Well, North Shields NE297QT

Working hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, usual hours are 09:00-17:00 Monday to Friday. Occasionally weekend and evening work will be required, for which TOIL will be given.

Holidays: 28 days, Bank Holidays (includes Christmas closure days) FTE

Term of contract: 12-month fixed term


The Cedarwood Trust is a regional charity supporting communities of high deprivation through innovative practice, pastoral care, education, training, and research. Our vision is a world in which children, young people and their families are effectively supported to build on their own strengths to achieve their goals in life. We care in three main ways:

1. Researching the systemic underlying causes of Poverty.
2. Developing, piloting, and evaluating new, cost-effective interventions for individuals and families facing complex difficulties.
3. Supporting the local authority and combined authority to improve their practice, through the collection and evaluation of outcomes data.

Community is at the heart of everything we do; we are committed to discovering and understanding the best way to help residents, families, and professionals. We believe our impact comes from partnership and collaboration. Cedarwood Trust works in close partnership with a wide range of service providers, voluntary sector partners and local authorities. Demonstrating “best practice” in creating the best and safest conditions for community work. We aim to achieve this in ways that could be emulated by any organisation seeking to do right by communities, residents, individuals, and families. This means that all staff need to be appropriately trained in ensuring children and vulnerable adults are safe (Safeguarding), our staff are safe (Health and Safety), our information about people is safe (Information Governance) and that we include everyone equally irrespective of their identity and background (Equality and Diversity).
The Centre values diversity and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Overview of the post
Under the leadership of our CEO Wayne Dobson Cedarwood Trust has rapidly expanded its service provisions and is one of the fastest growing small charity in the region at this time. With a strategic emphasis on raising income from a variety of sources, including statutory funds, trusts and foundations, corporates, major donors, and community fundraising.
Including tendered contracts, in last 2 years the CEO has secured over £1.2 million.
 
The focus of this post is to support revenue funding, particularly from statutory funders, tendering for contracts and applications to Trusts and Foundations. The post-holder will be involved in supporting some areas of fundraising from corporates, major donors, and community fundraising. The role combines generating new voluntary income and maintaining our relationships with current funders (approximately 70% of time to be spent on generating new income from trusts and statutory sources, and 30% of time on overseeing current grants and communicating with current funders).

Purpose of the post
Working closely with the CEO and the Senior Management Team the post- holder will support with meeting income targets and developing and maintaining relationships with Trust and statutory donors and prospects.

Duties and responsibilities

Statutory grants and tenders for commissioned services

• Lead on the Department of Health’s and Department of Education’s annual grant
• rounds and any other government grant rounds which are eligible to apply for (including but not limited to National Lottery Community Fund)
• Effectively oversee the bid writing process to ensure that all required documentation is collated and submitted to deadline.
• Developing and writing proposals to foundations and statutory bodies.
• Coordination of statutory bid responses, at both PQQ and ITT stages.
• Supporting project and research teams on complex bids.
• Keep abreast of new rounds being announced, communicate with the wider team about timelines and oversee the bid identification process.
• Attend information events and feed back to staff team.
• Work closely with management to find the best project matches for each round.
• Liaise with project managers to complete application forms, including budgets.
• Oversee the process of reporting to funders.
• Attend grant negotiation and review meetings and oversee the process of grant and contract set up.
• Effectively manage multiple funding deadlines to ensure no key opportunities are missed.
• Oversee a timetable of progress reports for all grants and oversee the preparation of financial reports and budgets in collaboration with the Finance Team.

Trusts and foundations

• Take a lead on writing key grant proposals for trusts and foundations including liaising with the Finance department to create budgets for applications.
• Effectively manage multiple funding deadlines to ensure no key opportunities are missed.
• Forge and maintain successful relationships with Trust funders through regular contact with grant managers.
• Oversee and manage the reporting process to ensure that all funders receive regular updates as per their requirements.

Other income

• Build other non-statutory income streams such as corporate, community and major donor giving.
• Write proposals for other income streams and attending meetings as required.

Planning and reporting

• Support the Finance team in the preparation of Annual Accounts and ensure that all funder information is correct.
• Maintain an overview of and monitor the Centre's revenue income.
• Support on producing quarterly performance dashboards for the Board of Trustees.
• Organise and chair regular Finance and Fundraising meetings to ensure ongoing liaison and monitoring of current grants and to agree timescales and work plans for budgets of new grants and funder reports.

Line management

• Recruit volunteers and interns, where appropriate.

Information management

• Ensure all activities adhere to Data Protection standards.
• Develop and maintain oversight of systems to support all fundraising activities, including managing and reporting grant income.
• Maintain oversight of filing systems for all grants and donations, design new systems as required to improve efficiency.

Other duties

• Build strong and collaborative relationships across the Cedarwood Trust to ensure excellent understanding of our work to our funders and supporters.
• Gain support for all fundraising activities from trustees and staff.
• Continued Professional Development

The post-holder will be required to take part in the Cedarwoods annual review and will be supported to continued professional development to support the post holder in this role.

Meetings

The post-holder will be required to attend and participate in the staff meetings and to work at events which may take place outside office hours.
 

Other

• To maintain an awareness of and actively follow and promote the Cedarwood policies, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Information Governance.
• To complete all mandatory training, including but not limited to Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities, and Information Governance, within the required timescales.

To be noted

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks; the post-holder will be asked to undertake any other ad hoc tasks commensurate with the scope and purpose of this post.
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This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post-holder.

The post-holder will be required to have a DBS disclosure which the Cedarwood Trust will apply for. The Cedarwood Trust is a member of the Fundraising Regulator. As a member we are committed to the highest standards in fundraising. As part of your role, you will need to follow the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice and standards.

Please email louise@cedarwoodtrust.com for application pack and if you require assistance or experience difficulties in applying. Please note all our posts require candidates to have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of applying.

Contract duration
Fixed term 12 months

Closing date for applications
Midnight, Monday 22nd March 2021.

Notification of interview
Shortlisted applicants will be notified no later than 2nd April 2021.

Please note due to volume of applications expected, we will be unable to notify unsuccessful candidates.

Interviews
Interviews will be held in April 2021 subject to COVID-19 restrictions.

How to apply
Please email louise@cedarwoodtrust.com for application pack and if you require assistance or experience difficulties in applying. 

We are unable to accept CVs and kindly request no contact from agencies.