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Senior Community Engagement Manager Vacancy at Tenovus
Salary: £38,000
2 year Fixed Term post
Hours of work: 35 hours per week (full time) supported by flexible working
Place of work: Home based with travel as required to our Head Office in Cardiff City Centre (close to Cardiff Castle & the Principality Stadium).
Closing Date: 14th May 2023. Adverts can be closed early if sufficient and quality applications are received. Candidates should be available to interview on the 24th May.
Free resources to help you make your documents accessible
Learning Disability Wales’ Easy Read is a way of writing and designing documents to make them easier to read and understand for people with a learning disability.
Kidz to Adultz Wales & West Exhibition 2023
Date: 21st September 2023
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Location: International Convention Centre, Newport, Wales.
CAVDAS Health Awareness Day
CAVDAS are holding a Health Awareness Day Friday 28th April 10am-4pm.
Cardiff & Vale Safeguarding Board Spring 2023 Newsletter
The Safeguarding Board have published their Spring Newsletter
Raising Awareness of Undiagnosed Children's Day 2023
For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, Undiagnosed Children’s Day is our annual awareness day held on the last Friday of April. It’s our chance to make as much noise as we can, increase awareness of undiagnosed genetic conditions and raise funds to ensure SWAN UK can carry on providing support to families who are affected by them. This year, Undiagnosed Children’s Day will be on Friday 28 April.
Free training from Welsh Women’s Aid
Free training in Cardiff on 16th May. Do you want to help end violence against women? Why not attend #AskMe, our free public training? To register you must be 18 or over and live, study, work or volunteer in South Wales.
Warm Welcome programme helps thousands of Vale residents
The Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Warm Welcome programme has awarded nearly £30,000 to community projects and seen more than 3,500 people use their facilities this winter.
Proportion of people using the internet frequently to manage their health has almost doubled
The proportion of people in Wales who used the internet and digital technology to manage their health nearly doubled from 25 per cent in 2019/20 to 46 per cent in 2020/21, according to research published today by Public Health Wales.
Emergency Alert Service Test on Sunday, 23 April
There will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alert Service on Sunday, 23rd April at 3pm. People with compatible 4G and 5G mobile phones and tablets will receive an alert as part of this test.
Vale of Glamorgan community-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics
Vale of Glamorgan residents eligible for their spring COVID-19 booster vaccines will now be invited to attend one of our community-based clinics.
9 tips for managing stress
Feeling stressed is a normal part of life and can help motivate us to achieve our goals. But if you’re finding stress hard to cope with, there are things you can do to help.
RIC Hub Lived Experience Newsletter
Cardiff and Vale RIC Hub is pleased to announce the release of our most recent newsletter collating best practice on how our region is using lived experience as an asset to improve our health and social care system, including:
Marie Curie’s Wellbeing and Support Hub
Marie Curie have recently re-launched their Wellbeing and Support Hub. It’s available to any adult affected by terminal illness. They don't have to be staying in our hospice, or accessing any of our services to receive support. They have a range of free sessions to choose from, including carers' café's, activity groups, complementary therapies and bereavement support groups.
RemakerSpace
RemakerSpace is a public engagement facility. RemakerSpace is a not-for-profit organisation and works closely with community groups, businesses and education providers to drive the circular economy in Wales and beyond to increase awareness on the benefits of reuse, repair and repurposing to extend product life cycles.
Extra £3.3m to implement mental health workforce plan
The Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being has announced an additional £3.3m to support the implementation of the Strategic Mental Health Workforce plan in 2023-24.
New parking restrictions provide more flexibility for patients and visitors outside peak hours
On-site parking restrictions at the University Hospital of Wales have changed to provide more flexibility for patients and visitors outside of peak hours.
Digital PROMS – Better patient insights, part of our approach to Value Based Healthcare
Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan has embarked on an ambitious programme to introduce the collection of Electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) working with My Clinical Outcomes (MCO).
Alzheimer’s Society activities May – August 2023
Alzheimer’s Society activities and group services currently running for Cardiff and the Vale.
First detailed insight into young people's wellbeing before and during the Covid pandemic.
Data analysts at Public Health Wales have provided the first detailed insight into how young people in Wales were feeling and behaving in the years before and during the pandemic. They have taken the results of a large school based survey and reported the data on a local basis, helping us to understand regional differences in health and wellbeing of young people in Wales for the first time.