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Parents and
Carers

We hope you find the information on the website helpful and are encouraged to come and visit us as a family. 

Parents/unpaid carers are experts by experience and part of our Journey family. Working with you, with professionals involved in caring for your family member and, most importantly, talking with your family member about their hopes and aspirations, we can offer the right service. 

Becoming part of the Journey family opens up a new and supportive network of families who share much in common. Each hub has events during the year to which parents/carers are invited. many of our parents/carers make strong friendships. Two parent-carers are invited to join our board of trustees to help set the charity’s strategy and to share their knowledge with us.  the charity regularly consults with parents/carers to help develop our services and to help us campaign for changes locally, and some parents/carers get actively involved in fundraising and campaigning.

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As a regional charity, we work in close partnership with our colleagues in the Voluntary Sector including all of our local carers’ centres.  Most of these are network partners within the Carers Trust.

Find your local network partner

We encourage all parents/carers to register with their local carers’ centres and to have a carer’s assessment from their local authority.  The assessment is simply a support plan which identifies services to support your own needs. The assessment is a great opportunity to talk about how caring affects you, whether you are working or not working, and to say what would help you.

Carers Assessment

We also recommend carers inform their Surgery if they are supporting someone as an unpaid carer. Your Surgery should have a Carers’ Register. This links to a unique code on to your health record on the NHS systems. This means that you should be offered prevention services such as health-checks and flu-jabs. You may also be offered support services such as mental health services. It is very important that health & emergency services know you that you have additional responsibilities should you become unwell or are involved in an accident.

Carers UK Help and Advice

A wide range of benevolent funds and charities offer grants for unpaid carers. Carers spend these on something they enjoy, giving them time off caring, studying/learning or essential items.  You may like to apply, once registered, to your local carers’ centre who may administer respite grant schemes both on behalf of the local authority and from the Carers Trust nationally.  Grants typically range from £100 – £300.  For more information go to these links:

Carers Trust Grants

Carers Trust PDF Download

We look forward to seeing you at Journey.

Elspeth McPherson

Chief Executive Officer

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Application

Our application form is in four parts.

Your answers in sections B and C will be scored by the selection panel against the published essential and desirable criteria. Section A and D will be separated from the application and will not be seen by staff involved in the selection process. You may attach up to 2 continuation sheets (A4) for section B. Please do not attach a Curriculum Vitae.

ACTION FOR EQUALITY: GUARANTEED INTERVIEW SCHEME

Journey aims to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another based on any of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010. The Charity is committed to ensuring staff with disabilities and/or unpaid caring roles are supported in work through appropriate reasonable adjustments, support and signposting.

Registered with Disability Confident Journey Enterprises welcomes applications from candidates with disabilities and unpaid carers. We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria in the person specification. This form is provided in the application pack.

SAFEGUARDING ADULTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Journey Enterprises is responsible for safeguarding vulnerable adults and young people in its services. Candidates applying for roles requiring an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check are advised that any offer of employment will be subject to successful DBS and Fit and Proper Persons clearance.

If you have previously worked with children, young people and/or vulnerable adults we will require references from each of these roles whether voluntary or paid positions. This is in line with Care Quality Commission standards.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

We can only shortlist people who have all of the essential criteria for the role. This is to ensure have people with the right skills, experience and knowledge.

English & mathematics: good pass

A good pass is a grade C of above at GCSE/O Level.

English and mathematics skills are particularly important for roles working with our Clients, many of whom have literacy and numeracy deficits and who rely on our Staff for training and support in these areas.

NVQ Health & Social Care & Equivalent Training This is an essential requirement for Life Skills and Hub Manager roles. Hub Managers must be qualified at Level 5 in Health & Social Care. Life Skills Coaches require either an NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or experience and qualification as an upper secondary teacher or career adviser:
  • We can accept applications for Life Skills Coach roles from qualified secondary teachers with at least 3 years post probationary SEN experience at upper secondary level (years 12/13).
  • We can accept applications for Life Skills Coach roles from qualified and experienced IAG practitioners who have supported young adults/adults with disabilities seeking training and employment.


Administration Roles

We set out our minimum criteria for Administration roles including the software and systems experience you will need to work successfully at Journey.

AGENCY EXPERIENCE

If you have been employed by an agency (umbrella organisation), we need to know which employers you have been placed with, not the name of the agency.

APPLICATION STATEMENT

This section is provided for you to match your skills, knowledge and experience to Journey. Many applicants will have similar experience but this section helps us select candidates who may best suit the Journey philosophy, commitment to disability inclusion and our current services.

Good luck with your application!
Job Details
Personal Details
Personal Details 2
References
Please give the names, addresses and telephone numbers of two referees one of which must have known you for 3+ years. One must be your current employer or, if you are currently not working or are studying, your most recent employer or tutor. We cannot accept references from friends or family members. If you are applying externally, please ensure both of your referees are unrelated to Journey Enterprises. If you are a permanent employee at Journey, please ensure that at least one referee is from outside Journey. If you have worked with children, young people or vulnerable adults previously you must provide a referee for each of these roles. Please continue and complete sheets 3 and 4, adding additional sheets if needed.
Referee 1
Referee 2
Positions with Children, Young People or Vulnerable Adults
Referee 3
Referee 4
Referee 5
Work Experience
Please tell us about your work experience. This can be experience gained in employment, self-employment, work placements or volunteering. List the most recent first and explain any gaps.
Role 1
Role 2
Role 3
Role 4
Role 5
Further Employment Details (If Required)
Secondary Employment
Do you intend, or have currently, secondary employment (another job) which you will be doing as well as working at Journey, if you are appointed? If Yes, please complete the details below:
If employment: please provide your employer’s name and address and your role with the organisation in the space below.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
Please tell us about your education and qualifications. List the most recent first. Please ensure you have told us that you have a good pass in English and mathematics, if this is an essential requirement, and any other qualifications the role states are essential.
Education 1
Education 2
Education 3
Education 4
Education 5
Additional Education (If required)
Professional Licensing
Please tell us about your professional licensing.
Continuing Professional Development Courses
Please tell us about courses you have attended in work.
Section C
In this section we ask you to set out your application for the role. Please tell us why you are interested in working at Journey Enterprises, your understanding of our values, and how your experience and training meets the essential and desirable criteria for the position.
We are not able to short-list any candidate who does not meet all of the essential criteria.
Section D
Fit & Proper Persons Declaration
We are required to assess if potential Directors, service managers and staff applying to work with adults who receive our day-care services are ‘Fit and Proper Persons’, in line with Care Quality Commission regulations.

By signing this application form you confirm that you are not aware of any facts or circumstances which mean that you do not meet the Fit and Proper Person requirements of Regulation 5 of the Care Quality Commission Regulations and, in particular, you confirm:

a) I am not an undischarged bankrupt or a person whose estate has had sequestration awarded in respect of it and has not been discharged;

b) I am not the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or an interim bankruptcy restrictions order or an order to like effect made in Scotland or Northern Ireland;

c) I am not a person to whom a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies under Part VIIA (debt relief orders) of the Insolvency Act 1986;

d) I am not a person who has made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, creditors and has not been discharged in respect of it;

e) I am not included in the children's barred list or the adults' barred list maintained under section 2 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, or in any corresponding list maintained under an equivalent enactment in force in Scotland or Northern Ireland;

f) I am not prohibited from holding the relevant office or position, or from carrying on the regulated activity, by or under any enactment;

g) I have the necessary qualifications, competence, skills and experience for the relevant office, or position for which I am applying/or am already employed to do;
Conflict Of Interest Declaration
Secondary employment or self-employment in which you continue to have a financial interest outside Journey.
Appointments (voluntary or otherwise) e.g. trusteeships, directorships, local authority membership, tribunals etc.
Membership of professional bodies, special interest groups, campaigning/political organisations outside Journey.
Investments in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings and beneficial interests.
Gifts or hospitality offered to you by external bodies and whether this was declined or accepted in the last twelve months.
User of Journey services: as a Client or a family member of a Client.
Personal links to current Clients, Trustees, Senior Managers/Managers.
Personal links to any prospective or current suppliers of services to Journey or its Clients/families.
Personal links to any funders, commissioners or regulators of Journey.
A family member or dependant working for a competitor organisation.
Any other conflicts that are not covered by the above including those set out in our Conflict of Interest Policy.
REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974. EXCEPTION ORDER 1975
The provisions relating to non-disclosure of criminal convictions does apply to people seeking employment within our services.
Please state here whether or not you have a criminal record.
Declaration
Please indicate your consent by ticking/checking the statements shown below:
Guaranteed Interview Scheme (Optional)
Journey Enterprises is committed to ensuring equality & diversity in our recruitment practice.

All applicants with a disclosed disability who meet the essential criteria for the advertised role will be offered an interview with us.
What do we mean by disability?
The Equality Act 2010 defines a disability as a physical or mental-health condition which has a substantial and adverse long-term effect impacting normal day-to-day activities.
Candidate declaration:
Equal Opportunities Monitoring (Optional)
Journey is committed to ensuring diversity and equality in its Staffing team. Please only answer the questions you are comfortable answering.

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