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Save the Date!! Bridging the Gap - User Involvement Event 12th June 2012

We are delighted to invite you to a big user involvement event on Tuesday 12th June. The Adult Health and Social Care Provider Network, Barnet Centre for Independent Living (BCIL) and Barnet LINk are working together to offer Barnet providers, community and user groups an interactive learning day.

The event will provide local service users with the chance to have their say on how service providers can better help to meet their needs. Barnet user groups will share their experience, and there will be sessions on different approaches to bringing user involvement and participation to life.

Service providers and users will be able to come together to discuss needs and jointly find solutions on how to best meet them. This day is about bringing providers and users together from across the whole spectrum – it is open to ALL service providers and user groups. More Information..

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‘Mystery Shopping’ – Investigate Customer Service Standards across Community Health Facilities

Throughout our life we use community health facilities such as walk-in clinics, sexual health clinics and healt h visitor services. To access these services we go through various avenues including contacting/visiting receptions and using telephone systems, all of which may have different customer service standards.

Central London Community Healthcare has trained its staff to ensure the delivery of strong customer service standards across all of their facilities in Barnet. They are now looking for people like you, who live in Barnet and/or use its services, to test their new standards and staff development.

Do you want to check if customer services have improved at community health facilities? Get in touch by Monday 21st May on 020 8364 8400 ext 218. More Information..

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Big Society Innovation Bank - Round Two Opens Soon!

It’s time to re-open Barnet’s Big Society Innovation Bank. Round One of the Innovation Bank has already funded eight projects which you will see up and running this year.

In Round Two, we continue to seek local solutions to local challenges and will be working even harder to find new ways of doing things. We will be focusing on three areas, further details of which will be published soon:

- enabling residents who need that extra bit of support to become more resilient and take control of their lives

- finding local solutions to emerging community problems (which may be social, economic or environmental)

- skills and employment.

We are looking for people who can contribute both to re-thinking some of the local challenges we face and to designing and implementing the solutions. We will be pre-selecting people to take part and will provide expert help with the innovation process, as well as other technical backup. Full details will be posted here by 11 June 2012. More Information..

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CommUNITY Barnet Seeking an Interim CEO

Hours: 4 days per week

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 pro-ratad annual salary equivalent

Contract: Immediate start to 31 December 2012 / short-term freelance contract

Our current CEO is leaving the organisation after six years at the end of June 2012.

We are seeking an interim CEO who will guide the organisation through a significant period of change. The local authority, our primary funder, is transforming into a “commissioning council” with the majority of services being delivered by external contractors. The council is also moving away from a model of funding free development support for local groups towards a focus on promoting social innovation, engaged citizenship, self-help and social enterprise.

To apply please send your CV, with details of two referees and a covering letter of no more than 2 A4 pages FAO by 12noon on 25 May 2012. More Information..

CommUNITY Barnet, 52 Moxon Street, High Barnet, Herts, EN5 5TS Reg Charity 1071035 Co Ltd by Guarantee 3554508 Tel: 020 8364 8400 Fax: 020 8364 8488