Foundation employs 300 people and, across its 18 office network, provides services to 3,000 people. Our chief area of operation is Yorkshire - our head office is in Leeds. We also deliver services in the North East and Lancashire. One of our aims is to make coming to work a pleasure - not a chore.

We are Number 26 in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Medium Sized Companies to work for survey. A recognition of our excellent staff support and engagement, we were described by independent auditors as being consultative, creative, friendly and non-hierarchical, with good terms and conditions for staff.

As an Investor in People Foundation prides itself on delivering high quality accredited services. To enable us to do that we need high quality people to fill a varied and interesting variety of roles.

Join the Foundation team and you'll open the door to a whole host of career development opportunities; from NVQs and housing qualifications through to management development. Bursaries are now available to allow staff further opportunities to access training not offered as part of our current provision.

Applying for jobs

We prefer to deal with applications electronically. When you download the information about the job the application form is towards the end of the document. It is a Word Document. Please complete it and e mail it back as per the instructions in the covering letter.

If, for some reason, you are unable to download the form please ring 0113 3030 150 and ask for a pack to be sent to you. Make sure you quote the job reference number so you get the correct pack.

Human Resources Business Analyst

Location: Leeds

Post Ref: FCST062

Salary:£20,858-£23,708

This is an exciting opportunity for an HR professional to develop their analyst skills within our busy and fast moving HR team. The main responsibilities of the role include controlling and processing payroll data (using Chris 21) and co-ordinating HR21; our new software allowing remote direct input of payroll data by team managers. Producing quality and timely Managment Information is another key aspect of this role; we want to develop our current HR reporting to produce robust information and analysis reports in order to identify areas for improvement and support management processes and decisions with reliable user friendly MI. You will also be involved in co-ordinating and in some cases owning project plans for many key HR initiatives and new ways of working.

Closing Date: Close of business Friday 13 August 2010. Please click here for further information and to download a recruitment pack.

Volunteering Opportunities

The Volunteering in Probation (VIP) Project

The Probation service is trying to reduce the number of people in prison serving sentences of less than 12 months. A large number of 18-25 year old offenders have breached their community orders and Probation aim to reduce these breaches.

The Aims

The ViP Project aims to work with volunteer mentors to quickly make contact with offenders under the managed ViP Project. Mentoring on a one-to-one basis helps build trust between mentor and mentee. The mentors aim is to assist probation staff to motivate offenders to comply with community orders and reduce the number of breaches to those orders.

Relief Housing Support Workers (Hostel)

Area: York and Selby

We sometimes require casual relief workers to cover for sickness and holidays at our hostels in York and Selby. If you are interested please download an application pack and send it back to us.

Please click here to download a recruitment pack