Permanent

Support Worker – Young adults

Support Worker

  • Location: Meldreth, Nr Royston, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border
  • Salary: £12.87 – £14.03 per hour (linked to competency and qualifications)
  • Hours: 40 hours per week (part-time hours available, minimum 24hrs per week)
  • Training: Full training provided and once passed probation we will support and fund studying the Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care
  • Driving license and own car needed
  • UNFORTUNATELY SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE

Have you got a passion for helping and empowering others? Are you wanting a career with progression and great benefits whilst making a difference?

CareEd Recruitment are recruiting for compassionate and dedicated people to become Support Workers to support young adults with severe and profound learning difficulties and complex health needs.

This unique setting offers a supportive living and learning environment for young adults with severe and profound learning difficulties and complex health needs. With specialist facilities and a focus on promoting independence, we support each of our young people through the transition from education into adulthood.

The Role:

As a support worker you will be highly involved in personal care, this is supporting our young people with all aspects of personal hygiene including toileting, dressing and maintain their personal appearance.

As well as supporting with their medical needs you will also get involved in helping with the young adults therapies such as rebound therapy or hydrotherapy in our newly renovated pool. We also have sensory gardens, a skills centre, forestry school and rooms dedicated to art, music and much more.

Independence is prompted wherever is possible, the adults will often run their own days with what they like to do, so you could be helping make things in the sites enterprise scheme, going on shopping trips, taking part in forestry lessons or even going to the pub!!

We are looking for candidates to demonstrate:

  • Willingness to learn and to go the extra mile
  • Ability to guide and encourage supportive independence when possible
  • Exceptional communication skills and patience
  • Resilient with a robust and positive nature
  • Ability to be creative in meeting the needs of the young adults.
  • Ability to work on a rota pattern which will include working every other weekend

It is a tough yet totally rewarding role. Ultimately, we are looking for people with a passion to build relationships and positively change the lives of the young adults that the school supports.

What’s on offer:

  • Full training given and continued support
  • Opportunity to study for Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care which will be funded by us!
  • Part time hours available if required
  • 33 days’ holiday including bank holidays
  • Life assurance
  • Enhanced pension scheme
  • Perkbox – access to shopping discounts
  • Car lease scheme
  • Bike to work scheme

If this is a role for you then please get in touch for an application form and to discuss the recruitment process on amy@care-edrecruitment.co.uk or call 07442 087457.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

CareEd Recruitment are acting as an employment business for this vacancy

Nursery Manager – permanent

Nursery Manager – part time and full time options!

  • Location: Godalming
  • Salary: Up to £38,00 per annum depending on experience (part time will be pro rata)
  • Start Date: July 2026
  • Hours: 25 – 40 hours per week

Be Part of Something Special from Day One!

CareEd Recruitment are recruiting for a part time Nursery Manager. This is a unique opportunity to join an exciting new nursery from the very beginning. We are looking for an entrepreneurial Nursery Manager to launch and develop our brand new business – The Crèche. There is a manager in place currently on a part time basis and there is an opportunity now for another part time nursery manager; the hours will be flexible but ideally between 25-30 hours a week.

This is a unique opportunity to build a flagship nursery from the ground up. You’ll instill our unique culture, and introduce Godalming families to a new and flexible, pay-as-you go childcare solution. We’re a small, family run business who prioritise our staff and our children in equal measure. Our mission is to be the highest quality and most flexible childcare provider in the UK (starting with our flagship site in the heart of Godalming).

We are open Mon-Fri, 8am – 6pm. The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong passion for early years education and childcare, and a successful proven track record in managing across the Early Years Foundation stage. You will possess excellent and up-to-date knowledge of EYFS framework and regulations, a thorough understanding of Safeguarding children, accompanied by a positive can-do attitude, the ability to motivate a team, and a commitment to every child settling in and succeeding. We are looking for someone who is qualified at Level 3 (early years) or above.

Requirements

  • Applications welcome from experienced nursery managers or from applicants looking for the next step in their career.
  • Full and relevant Level 3 (or above) Early Years qualification with deep EYFS and Ofsted knowledge.
  • Excel at building high-trust relationships with families and local community partners.
  • Experience with compliance and regulatory requirements, including health, safety, and safeguarding protocols.
  • Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and ensure smooth daily operations.
  • Leadership experience, with a passion for developing teams and promoting continuous professional growth.
  • Ability to inspire and guide a nursery team.

Responsibilities

  • Recruit, onboard, inspire and guide the nursery team, fostering a culture of continuous high performance, implementing tailored plans and providing ongoing development support.
  • Drive the opening phase, from community engagement to an “Outstanding” first inspection. Experience of successfully passing an Ofsted inspection to good or outstanding is desirable.
  • Ensure the curriculum is implemented e ectively and fully aligned with the principles and requirements of the EYFS.
  • Act as the DSL and ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety is promoted.
  • Manage staffing, resources, and operational efficiency to deliver excellent educational childcare, proactively driving continuous performance improvement.
  • Build caring relationships with parents and carers to ensure they feel informed, valued and involved.
  • Promote a positive and inclusive atmosphere within the nursery for both children and staff.
  • Manage the nursery’s P&L, occupancy, and growth with the support of the Directors.

What we offer

  • Competitive base salary + up to 25% annual performance bonus.
  • A Share Programme.
  • Up to 35 days a year, including 8 bank holidays, 3 days off between Christmas and New Year, and your birthday.
  • Childcare discount.
  • Referral programme, refer a friend and earn up to £750.
  • Opportunity to access various training packages to support you in your role.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Amy at amy@care-edrecruitment.co.uk for an informal discussion.

To apply, simply click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your CV. We look forward to hearing from you!

CareEd Recruitment is acting as an employment business for this vacancy.

Area Sales Manager – Heating

Area Sales Manager – South

Location: South of England (Field Based) REMOTE
Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 + Company Car + Bonus
Job Type: Full Time | Permanent

Looking for your next challenge?

Major Recruitment are recruiting for an experienced Area Sales Manager to join the team and take ownership of the South of England for our clients established and growing manufacturing buisness

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven sales professional who enjoys building long-term customer relationships, winning new business and developing existing accounts. You’ll be joining a business with an excellent reputation, a high-quality product range and exciting growth plans.

If you’re someone who enjoys being out with customers, spotting new opportunities and making a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for managing an established customer base while identifying and securing new business opportunities selling the product across your territory.

Working with retailers, distributors and installers, you’ll help grow sales, strengthen customer relationships and ensure your customers have the support they need to maximise success.

This is a remote and field-based role with regular travel throughout the South of England.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow an existing portfolio of customers.

  • Develop new business opportunities across your territory.

  • Build strong relationships with retailers, distributors and installers.

  • Deliver product training and commercial support to customers.

  • Visit customers regularly to review performance and identify growth opportunities.

  • Achieve and exceed sales targets.

  • Monitor competitor activity and market trends.

  • Represent the business at trade shows, exhibitions and customer events.

  • Work closely with internal teams to deliver an excellent customer experience.

Ideally you’ll have:

  • Previous field sales experience.

  • Experience within the heating, HVAC, plumbing & heating or builders merchant sector.

  • A proven track record of winning new business and growing existing accounts.

  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

  • Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills.

  • A self-motivated approach with the ability to manage your own diary.

  • A full UK driving licence.

  • Willingness to travel across the South of England.

What’s on Offer?

  • Company car.

  • Bonus scheme.

  • Company pension.

  • Mobile phone and laptop.

  • Ongoing product training and support.

  • Career progression within a growing business.

  • Autonomy to manage your own territory.

Why Apply?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established manufacturer that’s continuing to invest in growth and innovation.

If you enjoy building customer relationships, developing new business and representing quality products, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today for a confidential discussion.

INDAS

QA Supervisor – Nights

To champion a culture where food safety, quality, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything we do. Working closely with operational teams, you will provide visible leadership that drives high standards, empowers people, and ensures products consistently exceed customer and regulatory expectations.

As a trusted technical partner, you will build strong cross-functional relationships, develop capability across teams, and inspire a proactive approach to quality through coaching, collaboration, and problem-solving. You will lead by example, creating an environment where food safety is everyone’s responsibility and continuous improvement is part of the daily routine.

Shift pattern – 4 on 4 off 6-6

Quality Inspector

Overview

We are currently seeking a Quality Inspector to join a growing manufacturing team. This is a hands-on role working closely with production to ensure all components meet customer specifications and move efficiently through the manufacturing process.

This opportunity would suit a detail-oriented individual who takes pride in their work and is confident working both independently and as part of a wider team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Carry out detailed inspections of raw materials, in-process components, and finished products in line with company and industry standards

  • Use a range of manual measuring equipment alongside CMM, 3D scanning, and measuring arm technology

  • Analyse inspection data and produce reports to identify trends and support corrective actions

  • Monitor scrap levels and support continuous improvement initiatives

  • Work closely with production to maintain workflow and component quality

  • Produce First Article Inspection (FAI) reports to customer specifications

  • Assist in developing and improving quality control procedures

  • Support internal audits and external inspections when required

Requirements

  • Previous experience in a quality inspection or quality assurance role within manufacturing

  • Strong understanding of technical drawings and 3D models

  • Experience operating a CMM

  • Confident using manual measuring equipment

  • Ability to work independently and manage workload effectively

  • Positive, proactive attitude with a team-focused approach

  • Background in precision engineering or similar environment is advantageous

Benefits

  • Competitive salary (£28,000 – £35,000 depending on experience)

  • Overtime paid at 1.5x

  • 28 days annual leave

  • On-site parking

  • Healthcare cash plan

  • Company pension scheme

INDAC

Risk and Assurance Manager

Risk & Assurance Manager

Permanent, Full Time

£55,000

Remote (occasional travel to West Yorkshire)

We are currently working on behalf of a public sector client to recruit to a Risk & Assurance Manager on a permanent basis.

The main responsibilities will be to lead their risk and assurance work and ensuring they remain compliant. You will be owning their risk and controls framework, data protection, business continuity processes and internal audits.

The role will have direct management of one Lead Risk Officer

Responsibilities of the Risk & Assurance Manager:

  • Leading and managing the organisations risk and assurance functions
  • Ensuring compliance with all relevant legal, statutory and regulatory data requirements such as data protection and GDPR
  • Owning the risk and controls framework, ensuring it supports strategic decision making and provides assurance for board and regulatory oversight
  • Producing annual performance reports for senior management and board
  • Ensuring the board is kept up to date of changes and developments in regulation
  • Leading the planning of the annual internal audit programme and to oversee its delivery
  • Acting as the lead contact for whistleblowing, ensuring all cases are investigated and managed appropriately
  • Leading, developing and managing the risk and assurance team, setting clear priorities and objectives

Requirements of the Risk & Assurance Manager:

  • Strong experience across business risk and assurance
  • Working knowledge of risk management and compliance within a complex and regulated business

To be considered for this exciting role, please contact Bethan Hall – Director at Hamilton Woods on 01509 276158 or apply online with a covering note of your experience and suitability referencing the job ID number. Due to the exceptionally high level of applications if you have not heard back from HWA within 7 – 10 days, it is regrettable that we cannot reply to everyone with feedback directly and pleas

Senior Architectural Technician

My Shrewsbury based client is currently recruiting for a Senior Architectural Technician based in their Shrewsbury or Birmingham studios – Hybrid working

My client is looking for an experienced Senior Architectural Technician, with a minimum of 10 years experience, you will have sound knowledge of construction and detailing.

Salary: Competitive dependent on experience

37 hours per week (Hybrid working)

25 days holiday plus bank holidays and increasing with service

Support with career progression and education

Paid professional memberships

BUPA health cash plan

Critical illness insurance

Life Assurance scheme

Discretionary bonus scheme

Cycle2work scheme

Responsibilities:-

  • Responsible for day to day job running during production information and site stages under the supervision of a Project Director
  • Produce effective working drawing packages with the minimum of supervision
  • Advise on environmental and building regulatory requirements affecting the project
  • A good understanding of current and future fire regulations
  • Advise on materials
  • Carry out Designer Risk Assessments (CDM)
  • Co-ordinate with other consultants/colleagues, disseminate information to team members and negotiate with statutory bodies
  • Ensure compliance with design, legal, statutory and professional requirements
  • Co-ordinate detailed design information
  • Liaise with and produce documentation for statutory and local approval authorities
  • Use latest Revit Level 2 BIM processes
  • Able to provide COBie data
  • Source technical information, buildability awareness, carry out Health and Safety Risk assessments, prepare tender reports and recommendations, carry out measured surveys and implement and work to QA procedures

Skills and experience:-

  • Relevant degree, HNC/HND or BTEC
  • No less than 10 years experience as a Technician
  • Demonstrable experience working in healthcare, DfE schools and high density residential settings
  • Highly proficient in Revit with continual use in practice as the primary design/delivery tool
  • Expert knowledge of UK Construction and Building Law

Contact Alex at Major Recruitment Telford for further information

We will carefully consider your application and advise you if we’re able to progress with your application within 3 working days. If you do not hear from us within this time, your details won’t be retained. If you’re not successful on this occasion please continue to apply to future roles we advertise.

Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract you will find our staff professional and courteous and our interview process straight forward. We are located in thriving Telford, and we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire, North Wales and Wolverhampton. Major Recruitment specialise in industrial, commercial, driving and technical recruitment

INDFE

Quality Inspector

Overview

We are currently seeking a Quality Inspector to join a growing manufacturing team. This is a hands-on role working closely with production to ensure all components meet customer specifications and move efficiently through the manufacturing process.

This opportunity would suit a detail-oriented individual who takes pride in their work and is confident working both independently and as part of a wider team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Carry out detailed inspections of raw materials, in-process components, and finished products in line with company and industry standards

  • Use a range of manual measuring equipment alongside CMM, 3D scanning, and measuring arm technology

  • Analyse inspection data and produce reports to identify trends and support corrective actions

  • Monitor scrap levels and support continuous improvement initiatives

  • Work closely with production to maintain workflow and component quality

  • Produce First Article Inspection (FAI) reports to customer specifications

  • Assist in developing and improving quality control procedures

  • Support internal audits and external inspections when required

Requirements

  • Previous experience in a quality inspection or quality assurance role within manufacturing

  • Strong understanding of technical drawings and 3D models

  • Experience operating a CMM

  • Confident using manual measuring equipment

  • Ability to work independently and manage workload effectively

  • Positive, proactive attitude with a team-focused approach

  • Background in precision engineering or similar environment is advantageous

Benefits

  • Competitive salary (£28,000 – £35,000 depending on experience)

  • Overtime paid at 1.5x

  • 28 days annual leave

  • On-site parking

  • Healthcare cash plan

  • Company pension scheme

INDAC

Development Manager

The NPD Manager will report into a NPD Controller and help to drive the innovation agenda internally and with our customers. Ensuring a continuous quality first agenda. Supported by the Process Technologist and reporting to the Head of NPD. We are looking for a real foodie and someone who gets excited about innovation

Food Obsessed – You are the engine behind our product innovation agenda. Keeping your finger on the pulse of food and drink trends and sharing your findings, products and examples across the team.

Continuous learning / researching. Use personal experience, product tastings, online research and insight driven by the category team.

NPD and EPD management – Relentlessly driving innovation and product improvement from concept to launch.

Working in tandem with the Category and Commercial team to ensure we are using data driven insight to target the largest and most strategic opportunities to deliver category value and volume growth.

Proactive and continuous product management. Driving the long-term innovation plan to deliver against our customers strategic ambitions

Working cross functionally with Category and Commercial to ensure a joined-up approach to product launches with all of our customers.

Developing innovation briefs, in partnership with our customers as their partner supplier.

To develop products from concept, customer sign off, factory trials, nutrition and shelf-life evaluation through to launch procedures. Includes associated specification and quality system maintenance.

Internal systems and specs maintained and up to date. Customer critical path management, paperwork and systems management.

Sample Management – Development of products will require kitchen development work regarding samples for customer presentations.

Samples are fit for purpose and of the highest quality for both internal and customer approval.

Project management – Lead and own all customers and projects working closely with Category, Commercial, Technical, Planning & Operations.

Internal and external teams understand the ownership of the project. Provide clear communication to and direction to all key stakeholders both internally and within our customers.

NPD Meeting leadership – Cross functional, biweekly meeting.

Specifications and artwork are approved in a timely manner as directed by our customers and inline with the critical path.

Benchmarking – Support the benchmarking schedule. Feedback to the business updates with opportunities and developments within the sector

Process Management – Support the Process Technologist in investigation of process related issues, identifying issues and making recommendations to deliver quality and consistency.

Continuous improvement approach to NPD & Production

Customer presentations – Lead NPD / Product development and Benchmarking meetings with all customers.

Product Presentations are led by the NPD team to customers and aligned with Category and Commercial.

A passion for food culture, research through media, online platforms, comp shops, food safaris and recipe exploration. Share your findings with the team.

ESSENTIAL / DESIRABLE SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND QUALITIES

Essential

Desirable

Previous NPD / Process experience.

Previous experience in FMCG environment

A real passion for food

  • A well-developed palate
  • Driven and motivated
  • Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills
  • IT literate
  • Good attention to detail

Excellent English speaking and written skills

Ability to plan and organise your time to deliver concepts to an agreed quality and timescale

Commercial Executive

The Role

This is a hands-on, commercial role where you’ll work closely with the Commercial Manager to unlock growth across the UK market. You’ll play a key part in managing major customer accounts day to day, helping to drive profitable growth, outstanding service levels, and long-term partnerships.

You’ll be right at the heart of the action – influencing account strategy, owning commercial admin, supporting forecasting and revenue management, and acting as a central contact for customers. You’ll also take the lead on NPD project management, ensuring launches land on time, on spec, and with impact.

If you enjoy variety, pace, and seeing your work translate directly into results on shelf, this role will keep you engaged and challenged.


What You’ll Be Doing

  • Take P&L responsibility for a defined account, driving brand growth in line with business objectives

  • Act as the day-to-day commercial contact for customers, building strong, trusted relationships

  • Partner with Marketing to create and deliver compelling customer plans, including in-store and online activation

  • Analyse promotional performance, turning insight into clear recommendations that maximise ROI

  • Deliver robust reporting and data analysis, supporting decision-making with actionable insights

  • Manage forecasting (internal and external) on a weekly basis

  • Support S&OP and revenue management, ensuring alignment across the business

  • Own NPD project critical paths, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver successful launches

  • Work closely with Supply Chain on stock, availability, and service level performance

  • Liaise with supply site planners to maintain full CSL

  • Manage customer administration for allocated accounts, including promotional nominations and EPOS analysis

  • Support the delivery of Joint Business Plans and sustainable channel growth

  • Act as the voice of the customer internally, championing their needs across the business

  • Ensure timely, accurate information flows to wider business teams