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A Therapeutic Fostering Agency who have been rated “Outstanding” by Ofsted 5 consecutive times are currently looking for a Supervising Social Worker who is based around the Bedfordshire region to carry a caseload of up to 8 foster carers.
This role is full-time, and permanent position.
Ideally, you will need to have a background within a Fostering Team as a Supervising Social Worker within an Independent Fostering Agency or a Therapeutic Fostering Agency, however we would consider any children's services social work experience.
What you will receive:
Salary of up to £44,000 per annum
28 Days Annual Leave Plus Bank Holidays
Birthday off
Enhanced Maternity Cover
Therapeutic fostering qualifications
Healthcare
Additional Discounts
Your responsibilities as the Supervising Social Worker:
Putting together Support Plans
Undertake Assessments
Supervise and Support Foster Carers
Work on an out of hours rota
Please follow the instructions on this website, or alternatively contact Tom McKenna on 07587031100 or tmckenna@charecruitment.com for further details and please do be sure to leave your contact details
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedfordshire, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £36400 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 2025-03-05 11:30:55
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Catfoss Recruitment Ltd are currently in partnership with a globally respected R&D company that is looking to recruit an HSE Manager to their expanding team.HSE MANAGERWe have an opportunity to recruit an experienced and motivated Health, Safety & Environment Manager to lead our HSE, reporting into the Head of SHEQ on a permanent basis.The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the HSE function and for the overall management of a small team with the aim of raising the profile of the HSE management throughout the organisation and promoting it as a fundamental aspect within it.Mon - Fri DaysThis is a varied and demanding role and it involves a number of duties and responsibilities:In day-to-day running of the facility the HSE Manager will manage many HSE aspects of the operation and development of the site and, through application of continuous improvement, increase the safety of the plant as a whole and will ensure appropriate managers and staff are fully involved in management of HSE in other areas.Some key tasks include (This is a varied role and the list is not exhaustive - full role profile can be provided upon request), Develop, maintain and/or deploy a HSE management system (including objectives, processes and assurance) that meet the requirements of relevant Operational Framework and International HSE Standards (such as ISO45001 and ISO14001) and supports the achievement of organisational goals., Provide competent and comprehensive HSE governance, advice and support to Line Leaders, enabling them to effectively manage HSE within their area(s) of responsibility., Manage and develop team(s) of HSE professionals, ensuring HSE resources are deployed to best effect and that talent is managed in line with HSE Function standards and changing business needs., Support the development and implementation of HSE strategy, governance, and innovative change programmes, ensuring consistency and effective improvement in HSE risk management and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and the sharing of best practices., Collaborate with key stakeholders, such as departmental Line Managers, influencing them to integrate HSE into existing business processes to ensure HSE factors are appropriately considered during decision making, at strategic and operational level., Provide robust, impartial and independent HSE assurance for determining compliance with all relevant legal, Operational Framework and HSE Management System requirements., Ensure effective regulatory compliance for the Line of Business, and support effective regulator engagement., Represent company and support specific work packages for and on behalf of the wider organisation, as determined by the relevant HSE Council and / or Group HSE Council.HSE Manager - The candidate:, Someone who can demonstrate they are dedicated to implementing and maintaining a robust HSE culture, Pragmatic approach to prioritising and promoting HSE initiatives, Demonstrate a track record of success in the HSE field, Possess a high level of emotional resilience and strong leadership capability including inter-personal and strong, proven influencing skillsHSE Manager - Qualifications & Experience:The role holder must hold one or more of the following QCF/NQF Level 5 (or higher) HSE qualifications:, NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety;, Level 5 NVQ in Occupational Safety and Health Practice;, Level 6 NCRQ Diploma in Applied Health and Safety;, NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management;, Safety, Health and/or Environmental Honours Degree (Bachelors or Higher);, or an equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, 5 years of experience post-qualification applying HSE knowledge and processes in work-related situations, Experience of reporting HSE status and improvements plans at Board level, Excellent written and verbal communication skillsThe successful candidate must satisfy security clearance requirements - including the last 5 years continual UK residency.HSE Manager previous suitable job titles: SHE Manager, EHS Manager, SHEQ Manager, EHSQ Manager, HSEQ Manager, HSE Leader, HSE Team Leader, SHE Team Leader, SHE Leader, EHS Team LeaderPlease apply ASAP ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Bedford, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + DOE +BUPA, Life, Sharesave
Posted: 2025-03-05 11:15:02
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Chartered Town Planner ideally with 5-8 years' professional experience in either the private or public sector to join a well-established consultancy.
This full-time role offers excellent benefits, hybrid working and a competitive salary.
Our client provides a wide range of services, including traffic engineering, and infrastructure design solutions to back development proposals across the UK.
As a Chartered Town Planner, you will provide strategic planning advice, manage key projects, and engage with stakeholders to support development proposals.
You will be responsible for:
* Preparing high-quality planning submissions.
* Representing client interests throughout the planning process.
* Building and maintaining strong client relationships through networking.
* Contributing to the growth and success of the team.
What we are looking for:
* Previously worked as a Town Planner, Town Planning Consultant, Urban Planner, Town Planning Officer or in a similar role.
* Ideally have 5-8 years' professional experience in either the private or public sector.
* Background in wide range of planning issues.
* Hold a degree in town planning or a related subject.
* Extensive knowledge of the UK planning system.
* Ability to work on diverse projects across the private and public sectors, collaborating with colleagues in planning, urban design, architecture, transport, sustainability, and environmental services.
What's on offer:
* Competitive salary
* Pension scheme
* Private healthcare with BUPA
* Life insurance
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Contributions towards professional memberships
* Enhanced maternity scheme
Apply now for this exceptional Town Planneropportunity to work with a dynamic team and further enhance your career.
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedford, England
Start:
Duration:
Salary / Rate: £35000 - £55000 Per Annum
Posted: 2025-03-04 16:50:56
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Service Support Worker Location: Based at British Red Cross, Unit 11, Kingfisher Business Park, Bedford, MK42 0YN with travel across the area Hours: 35 hours per week.
Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm Salary: £12.00 an hour Driving Requirement: Full UK Manual Driving Licence Required (Mandatory), the role requires driving a British Red Cross Vehicle. Do you love helping people in need? Are you looking for a rewarding role that could kick start your career in the health and social sector? We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic person with great people skills to join our Health and Crisis service as a Service Support Worker.
If you have a caring, patient, and helpful nature you could make a tangible difference to someone's life.
No professional experience? No problem.
If you can make someone, feel cared for and comfortable then you'd be a perfect fit for us. Our service support workers are a friendly face to someone who may be struggling to do things for themselves due to age, illness, or vulnerability.
You'll allow people to enjoy healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Not only will a career within Independent Living be rewarding, it can also providing extensive progression opportunities and allow you to build meaningful relationships with both colleagues and service users.
It's not just a job, but an amazing way to give back to your community. A day in the life of a Service Support Worker will involve:
Providing practical and emotional support (telephone calls, welfare checks, shopping etc) and guidance to service users
Providing reactive, focused, and flexible support to adults following a hospital stay to enable early discharge.
Responding to referrals from Clinicians and Community Health Professionals
Assess service users' needs, complete and follow a support plan for the individual.
Supporting service users in the weeks after hospital discharge or to prevent readmission.
Taking someone to a hospital appointment that they otherwise couldn't get to or be picking up prescriptions and shopping.
To be a successful Service Support Worker, you'll:
Have a full UK manual driving licence.
Have a good knowledge of services provided by the NHS and Social Care.
Be able to make things great.
You know how to improve service quality for the benefit of users.
Be professional.
You can deal with queries in a diplomatic and confidential manner.
Love being flexible.
Working hours out with the norm suits you.
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedfordshire, England
Salary / Rate: Up to £12 per hour
Posted: 2025-03-03 14:40:29
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Job Title: Demi Chef de PartieThis presents an excellent opportunity to join one of London's most esteemed private members' clubs.
The establishment boasts opulent decor, sports amenities, bars, and several distinguished restaurants.
They are actively in search of a new Demi Chef de Partie to become part of their exceptional team, dedicated to working within the clubs brasserie serving modern European food.Demi Chef de Partie:
£30,000 per annum + annual club bonus.40 hour contract, hourly paid overtime.Located near Sutton.Closed for Christmas & New Year every year.Working within a stable and supportive senior team.Meals and uniform provided whilst on duty.Pension schemes.
Demi Chef de Partie Requirements:
A skilled, reliable and competent Demi Chef de Partie.A Demi Chef de Partie who is organised, hard-working and a great team player.A Demi Chef de Partie with a strong foundation having trained in food led kitchens. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Sutton, Bedfordshire, England
Start: ASAP
Duration: Permanent
Salary / Rate: £30k per year
Posted: 2025-02-27 14:34:35
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Catfoss Recruitment Ltd are currently in partnership with a globally respected R&D company that is looking to recruit a Bid Manager on a permanent basis to their expanding team.Reporting to the Head of Commercial, Procurement and BD, you will be responsible for leading the external opportunities through the bid phase ensuring governance compliance, coordinating the key bid deliverables and working with colleagues to support the cost and price build up.This role will provide you work closely with a team consisting of technical SMEs, finance, commercial and procurement to ensure the bid team are focused on the development of compelling, innovative and class leading proposals to meet submission deadlines.Bid Manager - This is a varied and demanding role and it involves a number of duties and responsibilities, Leading all aspects of the planning and execution of the overall bid cycle/governance plan (for bids), Managing bid development and bid submission in a timely and efficient manner, schedules and overseeing key reviews, Defining, tailoring and implementing an appropriate bid process to fit the opportunity, Generating and gaining approval for implementing a realistic bid plan and bid schedule (including resources, budgets, responsibilities and task allocation), Managing the business approval process at all required delegated authority levels, supporting any security and export approvals, Leading the multi-disciplined Bid team and ensuring the entire team is kept appraised of developments in requirements and bid status, on a regular basis., Interacting with bid stakeholders at all appropriate levels and keeping the Senior Leadership Team informed and engaged, including timely escalation of issues needing resolution, Supporting risk and opportunity tracking and management throughout the bid process, Assisting in the ‘Triage process' to capture and co-ordinate opportunities relevant to the group company strategy., Support engagement with Microsoft Dynamics for tracking and managing opportunities across group companies.Bid Manager - Skills and Qualifications, Qualified to Degree standard or equivalent or proven relevant work experience, Relevant Project Management qualifications APM/Prince2 or equivalentBid Manager - What we are looking for in you, Comprehensive knowledge of bid/proposal techniques and best practice, Have comprehensive practical and relevant work experience, Experience of leading complex bids with multiple stakeholders and managing through to submission, Use of Microsoft packages, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Experience within the Defence/Aerospace/Maritime industry is an advantage, Experience of working in a research and development (R&D) or low technology readiness level (TRL) environment., Knowledge of latest bid/proposal best practice in industry and seeks to apply new techniques to their solutions where possible, Some commercial/legal awarenessThe successful candidate must satisfy security clearance requirements - including the last 5 years continual UK residency.Bid Manager previous suitable job titles: Proposals Manager, Proposals Engineer, Sales and Bids Manager, Bid Project Manager etc…Please apply ASAPDue to current high volumes of applications to our advertised jobs, we are unable to respond to every application.
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedford, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £50000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + DOE +PHealth,Life,Sharesave,Pension
Posted: 2025-02-26 17:56:43
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Catfoss Recruitment Ltd are currently in partnership with a globally respected R&D company that is looking to recruit a Project Manager on a permanent basis to their expanding team.Reporting to the Head of Project Management, this role will work closely with a team consisting of technical SMEs, finance, commercial and procurement to ensure the bid team are focused on the development of compelling, innovative and class leading proposals to meet submission deadlines.Project Manager - This is a varied and demanding role and it involves a number of duties and responsibilities, Coordinate the efforts of project teams to deliver business benefits from a portfolio or programme of constituent projects, Act as the prime point of contact with internal client representatives, in close liaison with the project technical manager(s), Capture and manage project requirements and prepare project justification/business case documentation, in coordination with project technical managers and resource managers, Understand the portfolio and/or programme risks, resource requirements and schedule constraints including interactions both within the portfolio or programme and the wider business, Ensure the project baseline is effective with key assumptions and risks made clear, taking advantage of lessons learned from previous projects as well as advice from colleagues, providing a sound basis for change management, Prepare a work breakdown structure and resource estimate supported by the technical manager(s) and technical experts as required, Work with project, technical and resource managers to prepare and manage against schedules including stage gates and milestones, Prepare and implement a communications plan with details of how the team will send, receive and share information including formats, timing and methods, respecting stakeholder requirements, Monitor and control the project, address issues with the help of the project team and other colleagues and lead the implementation of the change management process as necessary, Support the Bid Manager in the preparation of bids, supported by project and technical managers, including: estimating, risk management, planning (including preparation of product and work breakdown structures and schedules), proposal preparation and presentation Project Manager - What we are looking for in you, A university degree or equivalent skills and experience in an engineering or technically demanding discipline, A project management qualification is beneficial, however demonstrated experience managing complex projects is more important so this should not be a bar for candidates who are clearly capable, The ability to understand a technical narrative with guidance from technical experts, Excellent communications skills using spoken and written English, Demonstrated leadership experience of technical projects with a record of delivering within challenging time, quality and cost targets.
Commercial experience is also desirable including meaningful involvement with managing customers, A minimum of 2 years' high-quality experience in project managementThe successful candidate must satisfy security clearance requirements - including the last 5 years continual UK residency.Project Manager previous suitable job titles: Project Engineer, Bid Manager, Proposals Manager, Proposals Engineer, Senior Project Manager, Technical Project ManagerPlease apply ASAPDue to current high volumes of applications to our advertised jobs, we are unable to respond to every application.
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedford, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + DOE +BUPA, Life, Sharesave
Posted: 2025-02-26 17:28:21
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Security and Parking Officer - Bedford Hospital - 40 Hours per week - £23,795.20 per Annum
Do you have an SIA license?
Do you enjoy working outside?
Are you a security focused person?
Do you have experience in customer service?
If you answered yes to the above, then read on!
We currently have an opening for a Security and Parking Officer at Bedford Hospital. Security and Parking Officers are essential for access and safety for patients and staff. As a Security Officer you will protect the hospital against loss, theft and damage.
You will monitor and patrol the car parks as well as giving clear directions.
You will provide customer service to both the public and staff within the Hospital.
Please note, shifts will be on a rotation basis: 2-3 weeks on days and 2-3 weeks on nights. 5 days a week, including weekends
What you will do:
- You will provide safety and car park patrolling provision to our clients NHS hospital.
- You will patrol the hospital site ensuring the safety and security of the site and its users.
- You will have a role in the efficient running of the car park and control room, whilst working towards continuous progress in all these areas.
- You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and be able to work in a fast paced but caring atmosphere.
If you hold a current, valid SIA license, then click "apply" today and one of our team will be in touch soon!
Must be 18 or over to apply
We are focused on ensuring APCOA is a fair place to work regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality or level in the organisation. We offer a motivating work environment where successes are shared.
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedford,England
Start: 24/02/2025
Salary / Rate: £23,795.20 per Annum
Posted: 2025-02-24 10:47:04
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Security and Parking Officer - Bedford Hospital - 24 Hours per week - £14,277.12 per Annum
Do you have an SIA license?
Do you enjoy working outside?
Are you a security focused person?
Do you have experience in customer service?
If you answered yes to the above, then read on!
We currently have an opening for a Security and Parking Officer at Bedford Hospital. Security and Parking Officers are essential for access and safety for patients and staff. As a Security Officer you will protect the hospital against loss, theft and damage.
You will monitor and patrol the car parks as well as giving clear directions.
You will provide customer service to both the public and staff within the Hospital.
Please note, shifts will be on a rotation basis: 2-3 weeks on days and 2-3 weeks on nights.
2 days a week, including weekends
What you will do:
- You will provide safety and car park patrolling provision to our clients NHS hospital.
- You will patrol the hospital site ensuring the safety and security of the site and its users.
- You will have a role in the efficient running of the car park and control room, whilst working towards continuous progress in all these areas.
- You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and be able to work in a fast paced but caring atmosphere.
If you hold a current, valid SIA license, then click "apply" today and one of our team will be in touch soon!
Must be 18 or over to apply
We are focused on ensuring APCOA is a fair place to work regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality or level in the organisation. We offer a motivating work environment where successes are shared.
With challenging projects and an atmosphere of fostering and support, staff have the development opportunities to fulfil their potential while aiming for excellence in their work. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Bedford,England
Start: 24/02/2025
Salary / Rate: £14,277.12 Per Annum
Posted: 2025-02-24 10:41:03
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Trainee Field Sales Representative
Would you like a career as a Trainee Field Sales Representative / Technical Sales Demonstrator and benefit from some of the best sales training in the Automotive Aftermarket?
This is one of the market leading businesses in the Automotive Aftermarket sector and joining them as a Trainee Field Sales Representative / Technical Sales Demonstrator can offer job security, great earning potential, ongoing support, ongoing training, personal development, supportive work colleagues and realistic career development.
If you are a hands on / DIY / Technical or mechanically savvy type of person and really enjoy speaking with people then you can make a great career for yourself being trained as a professional sales person.
If you are a car enthusiast or have a general interest in vehicles then this is the perfect role for you.
Ideally Located - Bedford, Watford, Luton, Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage
Salary - £35K to £38K OTE (Basic £25K) - Company Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits + career development + career progression + 5 day working week
The Candidate
Good technical knowledge - Car Body Work or bodyshop or mechanical repair is beneficial but not essential.
Maybe already have some Sales Experience or have the personality to be able to sell.
Have good communication skills and a keen sense to negotiate and close deals.
Have a genuine interest in cars, body work, paint work and the Automotive sector.
Be able to develop new and existing accounts to grow turnover and profit.
Demonstrate technical products highlighting the features and benefits.
Promote new lines.
Build customer loyalty by creating strong relationships.
Full driving licence essential.
Next Steps:
If you're interested, please forward your CV to Robert Cox at Glen Callum Associates Ltd on or phone him on 07398 204832
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Type: Permanent Location: Bedford, England
Start: 21/03/2025
Salary / Rate: £25000 - £38000 per annum + OTE £35k-£38k (£25k Basic) +car +bonus
Posted: 2025-02-21 13:00:07
