Job Vacancies

Job title: HIA-BCP Franchise Lead

Hours: 30 hours per week (with potential to increase) 

Salary: £34,000-£36,000 PA (pro rata) plus 6% pension contribution

Staff benefits: All staff are offered 3 wellbeing days per year (these are in addition to the annual leave allowance)

Contract: Permanent

Line Manager: CEO, Faithworks

Closing date for receipt of applications: Monday 17th March 2025, 9am

Possible date for interviews: w/c 24th March 2025

We’re on a mission to end homelessness in our area. One of our services to accomplish this is our Hope into Action (HIA) Franchise – enabling churches in BCP to house the homeless.

In five years, we’ve secured investment for four homes, partnered with four churches, and seen lives transformed—newfound confidence, financial stability, employment, addiction recovery, and faith.

Now, with a new five-year franchise agreement, we’re aiming to double our homes. The Franchise Lead is key to making this happen—driving growth, inspiring action, and changing lives.

Key aspects of the role include:  

• Overall: our vision is to see each individual and family thrive in our HIA homes, and to see more local churches wanting to “house the homeless” (ideally doubling the number of HIA homes in the BCP area over the next 4 years).
• Develop and equip the team to ensure tenants thrive in safe, supportive environments.
• Work with local churches so that their friendship & support teams are empowered, equipped, and prayerful; promote the project so that new ones want to get involved.
• Ensure current investors feel engaged and valued; and promote the project so that new ones come on board.
• Ensure that the project has the highest safeguarding, property and quality standards, liaising with national and regional Hope into Action teams.

Essential attributes required:

• Proven experience in managing programs and teams with compassion and professionalism.
• Exceptional organisational and communication skills to inspire tenants, churches, and stakeholders.
• A heart for vulnerable adults and a deep understanding of homelessness issues.
• A resourceful, emotionally intelligent, prayerful leader with a strong Christian faith.

This post is subject to an occupational requirement that the holder be a Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

If you think you may be the person we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. For an informal chat about this position please call the office (01202 429037) and speak to Alistair our CEO, or David our Homelessness Projects lead.

Download a Job Description and Job Application below.

Please note that applications will ONLY be accepted using the Faithworks’ application form. CV and covering letters will NOT be accepted. Note also that we take safeguarding very seriously and we will conduct a DBS check of the successful candidate.

Please send completed applications to office@faith-works.org.uk

Job title: Lead Debt Adviser – Christchurch
*Note: full Debt Advice training will be provided

Hours: 18 hours per week (Tuesday – Friday to include Christchurch Foodbank+ opening times)

Salary: £25,000-£26,000 PA (pro rata) plus 6% pension contribution

Staff benefits: All staff are offered 3 wellbeing days per year (these are in addition to the annual leave allowance)

Contract: Permanent

Line Manager: CMA Centre Manager 

Closing date for receipt of applications: Monday 31st March 2025, 10am

Faithworks Community Money Advice (CMA) works to provide debt advice and budgeting support to those experiencing financial difficulties. We want to see people in our area free from debt, so that they can “live life to the full”.

We are looking for someone to lead our small team of volunteers at Christchurch Foodbank, to provide debt advice to clients.

Note: You do not need to be a Debt Adviser to apply for this role as full training will be provided.

Key aspects of the role include:  

• Help to recruit, oversee, coach, and mentor Christchurch based CMA volunteers to help individuals get out and stay out of debt. 
• Provide professional debt advice and budgeting support to referred clients. 
• Develop understanding of the wider needs of the individual, signposting and referring them to other support as needed. 

Essential attributes required:

• A passionate and empathetic individual with a desire to use their skills to help others.
• Professional integrity with brilliant organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to build a rapid rapport with people.

For an informal chat about this position please call Becky Nixon on 07395 022843.

Download a Job Description and Job Application below.

Please note that applications will ONLY be accepted using the Faithworks’ application form. CV and covering letters will NOT be accepted. Note also that we take safeguarding very seriously and we will conduct a DBS check of the successful candidate.

Please send completed applications to office@faith-works.org.uk

Job title: SMILE Link Worker

Hours: 16 hours per week

Salary: £25,738 PA (pro rata) plus 6% pension contribution

Staff benefits: All staff are offered 3 wellbeing days per year (these are in addition to the annual leave allowance)

Contract: 6 months (with the possibility to extend)

Line Manager: SMILE Project Lead, Faithworks

Closing date for receipt of applications: Monday 24th March 2025, 9am

Possible date for interviews: 14th – 23rd April 2025

“With SMILE, lone parenting doesn’t need to be lonely parenting”. 

SMILE provides support, activities and friendship for single parent families in the Poole area. We work closely with families to create a community that support each other and live everyday to the full.

Demand is growing, and we need a new Link Worker to come alongside particular parents in our community to help them overcome barriers that keep them from moving on in certain areas of life.  This is a temporary role but has the potential to be extended.

Your work will help those in our community to develop the confidence and communication skills to voice their needs, particularly when working with other professionals.

Key aspects of the role include:  

• Helping the SMILE community to grow and flourish.
• Walking alongside individuals, linking professionals who are supporting their families to communicate together.
• Empowering the client to find their voice.

Essential attributes required:

• You will have initiative, flexibility, insight, compassion and the passion to make a difference.
• You will have experience of encouraging and coaching people to find their own solutions while keeping them accountable.
• Ideally they will have some experience of working with vulnerable families, and other professional services.

For an informal chat about this position please call the office (01202 429037) and speak to Racheal our SMILE Project Lead.

Download a Job Description and Job Application below.

Please note that applications will ONLY be accepted using the Faithworks’ application form. CV and covering letters will NOT be accepted. Note also that we take safeguarding very seriously and we will conduct a DBS check of the successful candidate.

Please send completed applications to office@faith-works.org.uk

From Food Banks, lone parent families, debt advice, to supporting those moving on from homelessness, there are many ways to join the team – take a look at our latest opportunities below…