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If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing technology consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose.

As a Business Analyst (Consultant), you’ll bring a depth of experience and expertise from working in large, complex organisations.

To succeed in this role, you’ll have experience as a Business Analyst and be able to demonstrate, with tangible examples, that you can:

• Recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Apply business analysis techniques (such as SWOT, 5 Whys) to understand business context, processes, and systems; analyse root causes, define problems, evaluate options, and make recommendations aligned with strategic goals
• Elicit, analyse, validate and prioritise business and user requirements, using techniques such as BPMN process flows, wireframing and data analysis
• Define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements; maintain traceability and facilitate prioritisation
• Use business modelling, process improvement and digital/data systems analysis to represent organisations, processes, relationships, and systems; identify gaps, recommend improvements, and support implementation and validation
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and cross-functional teams, communicating clearly, reaching consensus and adapting messages to different audiences
• Analyse and prioritise user experience needs, presenting insights in an accessible, data-informed way.
• Support testing by defining business scenarios and acceptance criteria, reviewing prototypes, test plans and outcomes to ensure solutions meet requirements
• Deliver to the highest quality, adhering to recognised industry standards and frameworks (such as  GOV.UK Service Standards), in large and complex organisations
• Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary Agile teams, validating process and system improvements and delivering project objectives effectively
• Present complex information in a way that is easy to understand, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders

With a significant proportion of our client base in the public sector, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience working in central or local government and/or the NHS.

 Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages is highly desirable. If you have this experience, please demonstrate this on your CV to discuss at interview. 

Essential consulting skills

In addition to business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be an Opencast consultant. You’ll need to demonstrate how you:

• Contribute to improving ways of working and driving continuous improvements within your teams.
• Share knowledge and best practice with fellow business analysts and other disciplines, including proactively engaging in client and Opencast communities of practice.
• Positively challenge decisions or solutions you don’t agree with, striving for the best client outcomes.
• Create lasting value in the projects you work on, ensuring a user-centric, sustainable approach.
• Engage with Opencast in a meaningful way, supporting the growth of your practice and wider capability.
• Support Opencast's growth plans, by providing case studies and updates into the relevant forums of your project work.

Requirements

• Ability to work in a fast-paced team with the ability to remain calm under pressure
• Outstanding Communication skills both internal and external
• The Ability to effectively prioritise your workload and build relationships
• Excellent attention to detail
• A customer-focused approach
• A proactive and can-do attitude to work
• The ability to work on own initiative and take full responsibility for the role
• The ability to follow processes and instructions

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.

As a Children’s senior support worker, no two days are the same and you will be instrumental in creating a nurturing and supportive environment where young people can thrive and achieve positive outcomes.

You will encourage new experiences and support young people to develop their own identity, confidence, and independence, along with the help and guidance of your colleagues and Break’s therapeutic services.

Day to day you may find yourself planning and taking part in trips and activities alongside learning new skills to help young people overcome communication difficulties.

This role may occasionally involve a physical element helping young people in and out of wheelchairs and using hoists.  

Please note that you must have a full, valid, manual driving licence.

• Complete a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare within 2 years. 
• Work flexibly, following either own initiative or as part of a team. 
• Undertake sleep in duties where appropriate. 
• Communicate effectively and demonstrate strong listening skills. 
• Establish caring relationships within professional boundaries. 
• Deal with challenging behaviour. 
• Maintain accurate records and write reports.
• Work calmly under pressure.
• Good standard of written and spoken English.
• Drive and hold a full clean Driving Licence.

We will interview as suitable candidates apply. This means the role may close at short notice and without prior warning.

As a Children’s support worker, no two days are the same and you will be instrumental in creating a nurturing and supportive environment where young people can thrive and achieve positive outcomes.

You will encourage new experiences and support young people to develop their own identity, confidence, and independence, along with the help and guidance of your colleagues and Break’s therapeutic services.

Day to day you may find yourself planning and taking part in trips and activities alongside learning new skills to help young people overcome communication difficulties.

This role may occasionally involve a physical element helping young people in and out of wheelchairs and using hoists.  

You will need to successfully complete a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare within the first 24 months of support work- This will be fully funded by Break and you will be supported by our training team.

Please note that you must have a full, valid, manual driving licence.

• Complete a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare within 2 years. 
• Work flexibly, following either own initiative or as part of a team. 
• Undertake sleep in duties where appropriate. 
• Communicate effectively and demonstrate strong listening skills. 
• Establish caring relationships within professional boundaries. 
• Deal with challenging behaviour. 
• Maintain accurate records and write reports.
• Work calmly under pressure.
• Good standard of written and spoken English.
• Drive and hold a full clean Driving Licence.

We will interview as suitable candidates apply. This means the role may close at short notice and without prior warning.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Health and Safety team where you will gain valuable health and safety skills and administration experience to kick start a career in this field, while gaining a national vocational qualification.  

• A genuine interest in gaining experience in business admin, health and safety practice and a desire to learn 
• Be aged 18 and over  
• Be eligible to work in the UK.   

Please note this apprenticeship is not already educated to degree level.  

As a Wellbeing Coach, you will support individuals to improve their wellbeing by helping them identify goals, build resilience, develop self care strategies, and overcome social challenges. 

Working as part of the Living Well Derbyshire and Derby Wellbeing Service, you will engage with people in their local communities, providing coaching and recovery focused support to individuals and their families accessing mental health services. Embedded within the Living Well team and working alongside partner organisations, you will play a key role in empowering people to achieve positive outcomes and improve their overall wellbeing.

• Experience working with individuals with mental health needs including serious mental illness.
• Genuinely cares about making a difference through coaching principles, and is motivated to improve mental health outcomes for people.
• Has a sound knowledge of the identification of risks and safeguarding procedures.
• Knowledge of mental health difficulties and the impact on functioning.
• An approach that is non directive, strength based, recovery focused and person centred.
• An ability to balance the various demands of this role. For example, providing support, promoting people’s rights, facilitating conversations, working within a multi agency team in a variety of settings.

For the full person specification, please click the 'apply now' button.

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.

We’re always on the look out for talented and enthusiastic Ground Maintenance Operatives to join our fun, customer focused team.

As a grounds operative, you'll carry out a high standard of grounds work. This’ll include grass and hedge cutting, border maintenance and weeding to make our communal grounds areas more attractive for our customers!  

You’ll need a full, clean current driving licence (held for at least 1 year) to be able to drive one of our vans when needed. You’ll need to have good knowledge and experience in this field of work. And have the skills to operate a variety of equipment, machines and materials that you'll use on a daily basis. 

If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We’ll be happy to help.

• Full Driving Licence with category B
• Operating a wide range of pedestrian and ride on mowers
• Using handheld machinery, including; brush cutters, hedge cutters and backpack blowers
• Meeting targets and deadlines
• A good communicator
• Well organised and able to plan and prioritise
• Dependable

We’re always on the look out for talented and enthusiastic Ground Maintenance Operatives to join our fun, customer focused team.

As a grounds operative, you'll carry out a high standard of grounds work. This’ll include grass and hedge cutting, border maintenance and weeding to make our communal grounds areas more attractive for our customers!  

You’ll need a full, clean current driving licence (held for at least 1 year) to be able to drive one of our vans when needed. You’ll need to have good knowledge and experience in this field of work. And have the skills to operate a variety of equipment, machines and materials that you'll use on a daily basis. 

If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We’ll be happy to help.

• Full Driving Licence with category B
• Operating a wide range of pedestrian and ride on mowers
• Using handheld machinery, including; brush cutters, hedge cutters and backpack blowers
• Meeting targets and deadlines
• A good communicator
• Well organised and able to plan and prioritise
• Dependable

You will work alongside our existing Senior AppSec Engineer and Security Architect, strengthening our capacity and resilience as we continue to mature our security services. This is not a vulnerability management position. It is true engineering‑led AppSec, shaping secure design, embedding controls into CI/CD, operating core security services and getting into the technical detail of how our systems are built.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.

To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate some of the following skills and experience:

• Proficient in writing Terraform, Python and ideally KQL.
• Significant hands‑on experience with implementing and operating code scanners including SAST, DAST, IAST and SCA.
• Experience of automating security capabilities and delivering security or policy as code using tools such as OPA or Azure Policy.
• Experience of securing GitHub and GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience of securing Kubernetes ideally AKS, along with broader container security.
• Experience of securing APIs and other exposed components.
• Ideally experience in securing data platforms such as Databricks, Dagster or Snowflake.
• Experience working directly with software engineering best practices including source control, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation and strong debugging and troubleshooting.
• Experience in threat modelling within engineering teams.
• Exposure to Agile working and DevSecOps.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001 and its relevance to secure engineering.
• Desire to be part of a small fast‑paced team with a collaborative mindset.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft MS‑500, AZ‑500, AZ‑700, SC‑200, CompTIA Security+ or Cloud+, CSA CCSK, ISC2 CSSLP, GIAC GWAPT or EC‑Council CASE.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Architect) to own the high-level design of our researcher operations systems. As Our Future Health moves to expand its researcher offering we need to build and operate new systems related to acquiring researchers, onboarding them, taking them through the study application process, and maintaining our relationship with them.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.

We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you:  

Technical Skills 

• You have led the architectural design of systems. 
• Experience of configuring and integrating off-the-shelf SaaS systems with bespoke web and backend applications, via APIs, event-driven architectures, etc. 
• Appreciation of the balance between “build” and “buy”, experience of weighing up pros and cons to make a selection which will fit into the wider organisation’s systems and meet the needs of organisational internal users and goals. 
• Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications and backend services using open source technologies such as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python in a start-up or scale-up environment. 
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP. 
• Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally with knowledge of Terraform. 
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data store (blob, document, graph). 
• Expertise in modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub. 
• Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management. 
• Experience of working with sensitive personal data. 

Join us as a Chainsaw Operative in our specialist team and you’ll work across the city and frequently beyond, undertaking tree work at a range of sites including parkland, woodland, the highway, and domestic gardens. Under the guidance of a Team Leader, you’ll undertake the full range of tree maintenance work to specified standards whilst complying with Health and Safety, COSHH and other appropriate regulations. We’ll provide opportunities for you to have regular training updates.

Disability Confident Employer

We are looking for an experienced chainsaw operator, with an appropriate NPTC/CS Unit certification with experience of carrying out practical tree work operations. You’ll be able to work without close supervision, use your own initiative as well as work well in a team environment.

Consideration will be given to applicants who do not hold these certifications or have any direct arboricultural experience, though you will have to give reasons why you would be a suitable candidate for this position. If successful you would be given training and be required to pass the chainsaw operator assessment.

You will be a highly safety conscious individual, you’ll understand the principles of Health and Safety relating to practical arboriculture and be able to apply them in the day-to-day tasks. Using good literacy and numeracy skills you’ll complete relevant paperwork, and ensure records are accurate and up to date.

A full driving licence is essential.