UPDATE E-BULLETIN Date: 11th September 2015 Voluntary and Community Sector

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1 Voluntary and Community Sector SCEN Contact: Swale CVS

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3 We have made a few improvements to the programme of forthcoming Kent Commissioning Network events. This includes some amended themes and venues, and the addition of a new event early in January 2016! Do not hesitate to contact us on info@sekgroup.org.uk if you would like to book a place on any of the events.

4 Picnic and Praise at Kenward Trust Sunday 20 th September 2015 Come and celebrate with us! You may be familiar with the life-transforming work of Kenward Trust, now in its 48 th year of Ministry; We would very much like to invite you, your congregation and your wider circle of friends to a special event we are holding at Kenward House and Gardens on the afternoon of Sunday 20 th September Our address is Kenward Trust, Kenward Road, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AH. From 2pm onwards, we are encouraging our friends and their families to bring a long a picnic, enjoy our lovely old Manor house and grounds and stay around for a time of celebration and praise from an hour or so from 4pm. If you have an interest in our work with men and women overcoming addiction, this is your opportunity to join us in giving thanks, hearing testimony and meeting among others, some of our trustees and frontline staff. We will also be introducing our new Chaplain at this event.

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12 Health Information Do you live in Thanet? Come and share your experiences We ll be in Thanet this week (September 9 th ). Everyone is welcome so do please spread the word and encourage your contacts to come and share their experiences of local services with us. As well as giving an update about our work, we will have speakers from East Kent Hospitals and Thanet Clinical Commissioning Group. We ll be at Canterbury Christ Church University, Broadstairs Campus from 11 3pm. Please RSVP to Gemma on gemma@healthwatchkent.co.uk and let her know your dietary requirements. Working with the Deaf Community Over 45 members of the deaf community joined us last month to learn more about the future of East Kent Hospitals. It was a fantastic turn out and testament to the hard work and commitment by Healthwatch volunteer, Annie McMillan. The event was a culmination of a lot of work that Annie has done to support deaf people including the creation of the Healthwatch Kent text service for people who need a British Sign Language interpreter and the provision of credit cards for all deaf people in Kent to inform health and social care professionals that they require an interpreter at their appointments. If you know of any deaf people then do please encourage them to share with us their experiences of health & social care services. We will use their experiences to help improve services. The Healthwatch Kent text number is or info@healthwatchkent.co.uk Share your patient experience of Community Hospitals If you, or a family member has been treated in a community hospital within the last two years, you may consider getting involved and helping to improve the service for others. The following hospitals all have vacancies on their Patient Experience Groups Edenbridge and District War Memorial Hospital Gravesham Community Hospital Hawkhurst Community Hospital Livingstone Hospital, Dartford Sevenoaks Hospital Tonbridge Cottage Hospital Whitstable and Tankerton Hospital. If you live on the Isle of Sheppey, there is an event on September 10 th for people to share their experiences of Sheppey Hospital. There is a similar event in Gravesend on October 13 th about Gravesham Community Hospital. For more information or to register a place at the meetings involveme@kentcht.nhs.uk or phone Do you live in Tunbridge Wells? Have you ben to the dentist recently? We are very keen to hear about people s experiences of NHS dental services particularly if you live in Tunbridge Wells. We ll soon be completing a number of Enter & View visits to dentists and we want to hear about your experience as part of that project. Contact us for free anytime on or info@healthwatchkent.co.uk Your health & social care services are integrating. Help make it happen If you use health & social care services, or are interested in how they could and should integrate, then you will be interested in attending an event in Tonbridge on September 23 rd from 10 4pm. The event is called Making it Real and they want to hear from people about what good care should look like and discuss how we can make it happen. This is one of several events taking place. We will post details of the others as soon as we have them. To register your interest, Sian at sian.dellaway@kent.gov.uk Showcasing our work Last week we presented to the Kent Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee (HOSC) about our work and our plans for the year ahead. HOSC is made up of Kent County Councillors and their role is to scrutinise health services in Kent. They meet each month in Maidstone and they are public meetings. If you can t attend them you may wish to watch them online. Check out Steve s presentation here

13 Funding Comic Relief There are still many communities in the UK that suffer from economic and social deprivation and the current economic climate may make this situation worse. For this reason, Comic Relief has decided that 4.5 million should be available to fund projects across the UK which are addressing these issues through the 'Local Communities' programme Comic Relief is pleased to be working with UK Community Foundations and Community Foundations across the UK, to deliver this Local Communities programme. Kent Community Foundation is one of the delivery partners. The Local Communities programme will run for two years and during this time, grants of between 1000 and 10,000 will be available. The programme aims to empower local people, enabling them to create lasting change in their communities. Projects should be run by people directly affected by the issues they are dealing with and priority will be given to small, locally based groups or organisations in areas of disadvantage that have a clear understanding of the needs of their community. Under the programme, organisations can apply for funding to: 1. Improve people's life skills, education, employability and enterprise 2. Maximise people's ability to strengthen community cohesion and build social capacity 3. Provide people with opportunities to access local services, achieve greater social justice and to reduce inequality, exclusion and disadvantage 4. Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety For more information visit:

14 Job Vacancies SWALE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES Centre Support Officer (Befriending) 25/30 hours per week Salary 7.25 ph initially a one year contract An enthusiastic and empathetic individual is required to co-ordinate our New Connections Befriending Scheme and to provide general administrative support within the office. The New Connections Befriending Scheme was set up to help elderly people in the community who are lonely and isolated. The scheme aims to match the client with a Swale VCs volunteer to enable a trusted relationship to develop. Applicants must have good communication skills with people at all levels, an understanding of the needs of older people, an ability to listen, work on own initiative and good team working skills. Use of own car is essential (mileage expenses will be paid). For further information or an application pack please contact: Swale Community & Voluntary Services Central House Central Avenue Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4NU Please download the application pack at: Or julia.watling@swalecvs.co.uk Closing date for applications: 14 th September 2015 Interview date: 21 st September 2015

15 Job Vacancies DIVERSITY HOUSE The Heart of Kemsley Project Project Administrator 2.5 hours per week 8 per hour Project period is for 100 weeks The Heart of Kemsley is a Diversity House project that intends to bring together people from Kemsley area and encourage them to participate in 2 hours walking a week. A Project Administrator is required to support the project coordinator in delivering the project and will work within the Kemsley community to organise and run walking sessions twice a week. This is both a field and office based position. The Project Administrator will report back to the Project Coordinator and will keep records of the project, document the findings and create the appropriate literature to distribute. This project is funded by the Health Lottery through the People s Health Trust. For further information contact: Jessica Finn Heritage Project Officer Diversity House Phoenix House Central Avenue Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4BX Tel/fax: Or: e mail: info@diversityhouse.org.uk Closing Date for applications: Friday 16 th October 2015 at 5.00 pm. Interview Date: Friday 23 rd October 2015

16 Job Vacancies DIVERSITY HOUSE The Heart of Kemsley Project Project Coordinator 5 hours per week 11 per hour Project period is for 100 weeks The Heart of Kemsley is a Diversity House project that intends to bring together people from Kemsley area and encourage them to participate in 2 hours walking a week. A Project Coordinator is required to support the manager in delivering the project and will work within the Kemsley community to organise and run walking sessions twice a week. This is both a field and office based position. The Project Coordinator will report back to the Project Manager and will log the number of people participating, the number reached through literature and the overall progress of the project. This project is funded by the Health Lottery through the People s Health Trust. For further information contact: Jessica Finn Heritage Project Officer Diversity House Phoenix House Central Avenue Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4BX Tel/fax: Or: e mail: info@diversityhouse.org.uk Closing Date for applications: Friday 16 th October 2015 at 5.00 pm. Interview Date: Friday 23 rd October 2015

17 Job Vacancies Arches Local Big Local Co-ordinator Accountable to: Arches Local Big Local Partnership Group, with line management from the Arches Local Locally Trusted Organisation, Red Zebra Community Solutions Salary: 30K (37 hours per week); 12 months fixed term. An exciting opportunity to support the work of the Arches Local Big Local partnership in the Medway area. This role will involve building and maintaining local relationships, with residents as well as organisations, overseeing and driving delivery of the local plan and creating a lasting legacy. If you are interested, and think that this role might be for you please download the job description and additional information HERE or contact Liz at info@redzebra.org.uk Please note CVs will not be accepted. The closing date is 21 st September 2015 and interviews will be held on 2 nd October 2015 in Chatham. If you have any questions about this role or would like an informal chat, contact Charlie Fox, Charlie.fox@redzebra.org.uk or This post is funded by the Big Lottery.