Job Title: Head of Fundraising

This is a new post. Reporting to the Chief Executive you will be joining INS at an exciting stage in its expansion and will have the opportunity to set and inspire a new income generation strategy to increase revenue and achieve the charity’s mission. Your excellent communication skills will ensure effective engagement with both internal and external stakeholders and will be central to success.

Charismatic and a natural facilitator, you will have a passion for initiating, building and maintaining relationships whilst leading your fundraising team. Your demonstrable experience in a range of fundraising areas will underpin the diversification of funding streams. Key to this will be the development and application of our new database system. Experience of fundraising within the health and social care sector is also highly desirable.

INS (Integrated Neurological Services) is a charity providing long-term rehabilitation and support for people in West London with neurological conditions, particularly Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease or who have had a stroke, and their carers.
For more information on INS, please browse our website.

Please apply online to admin@ins.org.uk with a CV and a personal statement addressing the person specification on page 4 of the detailed job description, which can be read and downloaded by clicking here.

Closing Date: 8 June 2012
Interviews: 19 June 2012

Twickenham Fair – Monday, 4 June – bottle tombola - donations of bottles (alcohol or other) for this event should be brought in to INS in Hampton Road before Friday, 1 June, please.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, person-centred Speech and Language Therapist who places the individual at the heart of their work. You will have a wide variety of neurological experience and be keen to be part of a developing service. This is a new post and will be based within the INS team at Twickenham and will involve working across other bases within Hounslow and Richmond boroughs as well as in clients’ homes.

You will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team alongside OTs, PTs, social workers and rehabilitation assistants. You will supervise band 5 SALTs helping to deliver support to people with complex neurological conditions and their carers in a person-centred way. You will understand the importance of communication in its widest context and therefore provide communicative rich environments. It is essential that you have good interpersonal skills and a sound knowledge of the Speech Therapy process in order that the service can be delivered and developed in an effective way. A driving licence is essential as you will be working with patients in their own homes.

Please note that should this post attract sufficient interest we may choose to close at an earlier date. We strongly suggest that you apply at an early stage. If we have not contacted you within one week of the closing date of this post, please presume that you have not been selected.

To download more detailed information about this post and an application form please click on the relevant document title below.
Job Description … Person Specification … INS Application Form

For more information please contact Carol Hopkins, Clinical Manager, on 020 8755 4000

Closing date: 18 May 2012
Interviews: Tuesday, 29 May 2012

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Jobs News – Band 7 Speech & Language Therapist – part time required – for more information click here.   Head of Fundraising – part time sought – for more information click here.

Inspired by National Gardening Week?  We were inspired and entertained by  Elizabeth Banks, President of the Royal Horticultural Society, whose lecture in support of INS was on 25 April. We are immensely grateful to her for her support.   And for more inspiration in a good cause… and home-made teas and plants for sale… there was the Open Garden in Kew on Sunday, 13 May to raise funds for INS.

Raise money for INS when you shop online…. Spend £10 before 30 June and we’ll receive an extra £5 as well as a small percentage on your purchases. Please go to www.giveasyoulive.com/join/integratedneurologicalservices and start shopping!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Open Day on 25 April.

New INS Groups and Services

A new Mutual Support Group for Carers living in Hounslow was launched in January 2012.  We piloted a new Respite at Home service from February 2012 and have introduced a monthly drop-in benefits advisory surgery for carers – next session 22 May 2012. More information on these new services and other INS support for Carers can be found in Carers’ News.  We ran a new 4-week course, Memory Strategies, in January – see the Spring 2012 Newsletter for more information.  A 12-week Living Well programme for people recovering from a stroke has been developed – the first session started in July 2011.  A senior INS physiotherapist is delivering a stroke education programme for staff in local nursing homes.  The 6-week programme of Yoga for clients and carers which we ran last winter was so successful that it was repeated in February/March 2012 and will run again after Easter, still on Thursday afternoons.  Demand for Fit Club continues to grow: there are two sessions for clients – one on Wednesday and one on Friday – and a weekly Fit Club for Carers on Fridays.

INS/Homelink Day Service
INS and Homelink are working in collaboration on a new and exciting pilot project providing a neuro specific day of respite, therapies support, and activity.  Our project is in Homelink’s premises at St Augustine’s Church, Whitton from 10am – 3.30pm on Tuesdays.
We appointed Carol Hall to establish this initiative and are pleased to say that the new service commenced on schedule in October 2011. A  Mutual Support Group for the carers supported through this project has also been formed and meets monthly.
To learn more about Homelink, please see www.homelinkdaycare.co.uk

The Rotary Club presented a Charity Golf Tournament and Dinner at Stockley Park Golf Club on Thursday, 29 September in aid of INS.

Garden Party on Monday, 30 May Visitors came to admire a beautiful private garden in Kew and enjoyed tea and delicious home-baked cakes. There were plants for sale and a raffle. Over £2,000 was raised for INS. Read more at Open Garden in Kew.

Building work at 82 Hampton Road
Fantastic news – we now have level access throughout the building, a cafe style reception/meeting area and a fully adapted garden as well as a new boiler and more storage space, thanks to a grant award from the Social Enterprise Investment Fund. The objective of SEIF awards to charities to improve their facilities is to enable charities to bid to provide services on an equal footing with the public sector.
The builders completed the work on time - one of the conditions of the grant – so we breathed a sigh of relief and moved on to the finishing touches!
The garden has been transformed and now has raised beds at different levels, new paving and re-laid turf. Planting of the raised beds was completed in May, led by a team of volunteers from Cisco.

A big thank you to all who came to our annual Open Day on 25 April.

This is a great opportunity to meet our Trustees, staff, users and carers – and to learn more about the services that we offer and  to understand the vital work that INS does to help people in our local community with neurological conditions, and their carers, to live more active and independent lives.

• 11am – Our Patron, the Right Reverend Peter Price, Bishop of Bath and Wells will address INS
• 12 noon onwards – Trustees, staff, users and carers will be on hand to explain more about INS’ work

There will be displays and information about INS services.

Refreshments will be provided

The event will also provide the official launch of the Friends of INS. See the new Friends web page for a preview.

Please RSVP to the Administrator on 020 8755 4000 or email admin@ins.org.uk

It was a most enjoyable evening and we are immensely grateful to Mrs Banks for her support of INS.  The evening raised at least £6,500 which is a very valuable contribution to our funds.

Mrs Banks was elected in 2010 as the first woman President of the RHS in its over-200 year history. An outstanding landscape architect, she is known for her work on both historic and contemporary gardens. After a distinguished international career with Land Use Consultants, she set up her own consultancy in 1987 and has since won 5 Gold Medals for gardens at Chelsea. With her husband, she manages the 70 acre Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire – featured in the photographs on this page, more at www.hergest.co.uk/the_gardens.html.

Mrs Banks has lively and influential views on the practice of horticulture and its place in contemporary culture. Her descriptions of the gardens at Hergest, her work on other gardens and those of the RHS were laced with a wry humour and illustrated by beautiful photographs.

We are most grateful to Hampton School for the use of their splendid theatre, to Adnams Cellar and Kitchen who supplied the wines for the evening and to Squire’s Garden Centre who generously decorated the stage with wonderful displays of plants to create the perfect backdrop for the talk.

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