Vacancies

Reference: HERT-STADMIN-07.23

Hours:

• St Albans site offers -14 hours per week working on Saturdays and Sundays

Hourly rate: £11.63 per hour

Location: St Albans AL3 5BU

Contract type: Permanent

Description:

Role Summary:

To provide administrative support to ensure the smooth running of HILS’ meal services at the weekends. This will mainly be meals on wheels, but will also include administration of the ‘emergency food and grocery pack’ scheme. The successful post-holder should have excellent customer service skills, ensuring clients’ safety and well-being is a priority.

Qualifications & Job Requirements: Essential: • Full UK driving licence • Ability to understand written and oral English • Satisfactory DBS check • The right to work in the UK Desirable: • Food hygiene certificate • Clean driving licence • Basic first aid • Flexibility to provide cover as required

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

Essential: • Good office experience • Good communication skills, both written and verbal • Good I.T. skills • Good telephone manner Desirable: • Experienced in working with the elderly • Good IT skills with knowledge of Word and Excel, and ability to learn a new computer system

Personal Qualities:

Essential: • Able to communicate with customers effectively • Able to demonstrate empathy • A team player • Reliable • Flexible and adaptable • Ability to work on own initiative • Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines Desirable: • Knowledge of the delivery area • Ability to plan routes, read maps, and use a Sat Nav

For more information about this role, please see job description (here)

How to Apply:

To apply for any of this positions, candidates will need to complete the attached application form or send a CV by email to jobs@hils-uk.org

Hours: 11am to 2pm

Hourly rate: £10.90 on weekdays, £11.63 on weekends

Location: Various

Contract type: Permanent

Description:

Role Summary:

The primary function is to deliver hot community meals to vulnerable, disabled, and elderly clients across Hertfordshire.

We operate from 4 sites in Hertfordshire and currently have vacancies at: – St Albans (AL3 5BU) – Hemel (HP2 4EU) – Hertford (SG13 7BH) – Letchworth (SG6 1HB)

Qualifications & Job Requirements:

Essential qualifications for the role are: • Full UK driving licence • Ability to understand written and oral English • Satisfactory DBS check • The right to work in the UK

For more information about this role, please see job description (here)

How to Apply:

Complete the application form and send to jobs@hils-uk.org, or use the submission form on this page. You can also apply on Indeed.

Reference: CTM-Hampshire 3008

Hours: Various shift patterns available -Zero hour-contract, 20 hours per week (5 days over 7 ) including weekends, 12 hours per week (3 days over 7) including weekends.

Hourly rate: £11.90 per Hour

Location: Various Locations in Hampshire-Please see more information in the description .

Contract type: Permanent

Description:

Role Summary:

The primary function is to deliver hot meals and tea packs to older, disabled, and vulnerable, clients across Hampshire. Every visit includes a caring welfare check to help every client to stay happy, healthy, and independent in their home.

HILS currently have vacancies available at the following locations:

• Micheldever- SO21 3BD
• New Milton- BH25 5QU

Multiple various shift patterns available:

• 20h per week (5 days over 7, including some weekends)
• 12h per week (3 days over 7 including some weekends)
• Zero hours on an ad hoc basis

Please note: shifts are 4h per day (10.30am to 2.30pm).

For more information about this role, please see job description (here)

How to Apply:

Complete the application form and send to jobs@hils-uk.org, or use the submission form on this page. You can also apply on Indeed.

Reference: HAMP-ST2310

Hours: 08:00 till 16:00, inclusive of a 30-minute break. This will be a 5 days over 7 contract, and will involve weekend working.

Hourly rate: £11.90

Location: Hampshire, SO21 1BQ

Contract type: Permanent

Description:

Role Summary:

Health and Independent Living Support (HILS) is a growing charitable social enterprise, providing services to clients in Hampshire, Hertfordshire and West Sussex to enable them to live independently in their own homes. The primary function is to provide administrative support to ensure the smooth running of HILS’ meals services. This will mainly involve support for our meals on wheels service, but will also include administration of lunch clubs and other goodwill schemes as required (e.g. client Christmas gifts). The successful post-holder will be expected to offer excellent customer service to internal and external parties, ensuring clients’ safety and wellbeing is the priority, and that HILS’ values are followed.

Please see the attached job description for more details about this role.

For more information about this role, please see job description (here)

How to Apply:

To apply for this position, candidates will need to send a CV or complete the attached application form along to jobs@hils-uk.org, or use the submission form on this page.

Closing Date for applications is 13th November 2023

Reference: WSSC-1123

Hours : 30 hours a week, flexibly between the hours of 8am to 5pm. This will be subject to the line manager’s discretion.

This role will be up to 5 days over 7, but we will also consider part-time work – please state if you are looking for part-time work during the recruitment process. This role will involve weekend working.

Salary: £12.35 per hour

Location: Based at HILS’ Meals on Wheels site in Ford, but covers all HILS’ West Sussex sites and the candidate will be expected to travel to all locations as and when required. HILS’ West Sussex sites are Ford, ; Horsham, RH12 1GZ; and other sites based in West Sussex. A company vehicle is usually provided for travel between sites, otherwise mileage will be paid.

Contract Type : Permanent

Description :

Health and Independent Living Support (HILS) is a growing charitable social enterprise, providing services to clients in Hertfordshire and West Sussex to enable them to live independently in their own homes.

The primary function is to provide support to ensure the smooth running of all of HILS’ stock ordering and management processes in West Sussex.

The successful post-holder will be expected to offer excellent customer service to internal and external parties.

Reference: PM-HAMP-SEPT 23

Hours: 30-37.5 hours per week (to be agreed with successful candidate), with potential flexible working options

Salary: £30,822 – £33,439 per annum, dependent on experience

Location: Based in Hampshire (SO21 1BQ) with some travel required to West Sussex, and occasional travel to Hertfordshire – mileage and accommodation costs would be covered for travel to non-home sites when this is required

Contract type: 12-month fixed term

Description:

Role Summary:

About HILS: Health & Independent Living Support (previously Hertfordshire Independent Living Service) is a successful not-for-profit social enterprise delivering a variety of services to help older and vulnerable people stay happy, healthy, and independent in their homes for as long as possible.

Our core service is meals on wheels, which we deliver across multiple counties in the UK.

Role Summary:

We are looking for a team member experienced in Project Management, preferably with logistics experience, to work with us to expand our meals on wheels provision into Hampshire. In October 2023, we will be taking on an existing meals service in Hampshire. The successful candidate will support the HILS management team to ensure our 365-day a year operation continues without disruption, and to problem-solve on the ground when issues occur. This will include support with the co-ordination of a fleet of around 30 vehicles and several premises, including a main depot and satellite depots.

Successful candidates will also need to look for solutions that support the resilience of all of HILS’ southern meals operation, working closely with our West Sussex Team to support the development of the service, which HILS has been operating since October 2022. They will need to bring planning, change management, and organisational skills, and work with the frontline teams to drive development and support the smooth day-to-day running of the service. The successful candidates will need to work with central teams (HR, Finance, Support Services, Senior Management) and local operational teams to ensure success. They will need to communicate effectively with each other, and their colleagues, to ensure work is shared pragmatically and nothing is missed or duplicated.

Qualifications & Job Requirements:

Essential: Qualifications and/or experience of Project Management – Experience of working with frontline operational sites and complex logistics – Experience of managing and negotiating supplier relationships – Leadership experience, preferably of a frontline operation – Good IT skills – Excellent verbal communication skills, good written communication skills – Satisfactory DBS – Full UK driving license and willingness to travel frequently between sites as required Preferred – Experience of managing a fleet of vehicles, and/or working with vehicles – Food Safety, Health and Safety, Fire Safety qualifications and training – Experience working in the charitable sector, with vulnerable groups or older adults

Personal Qualities: – Practical, hands on approach – Organised, able to keep accurate records – Good communicator – Outcomes focus, willingness to ‘pitch in’ and work as a team to achieve results – Good team player – Empathy with HILS’ mission and values

For more information about this role, please see job description (here)

How to Apply:

To apply for this position, candidates will need to send a CV by email to jobs@hils-uk.org, or use the submission form on this page.

Please note: applications will be closed on 1st October 2023