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Delivery Driver – Self Employed – Smiths News in Newcastle (Gateshead)
Must have own or have access to a 3.500kg van.

Night shift delivering between 2/3am and 8/9am, 7 days a week.
Paid weekly
Average annual earnings of £31,000 - £36,775 with the potential to earn additional

About the role:  

We are currently looking for Self-employed courier drivers to join our expanding distribution network supporting our customers.  

• Light warehouse activity of newspapers including loading and unloading of shipments.  
• As a self-employed driver you’ll be responsible for delivering newspapers, magazines and shipments to our customers across your designated route.  
• Most importantly you’ll ensure every customer receives excellent and efficient service, every time.  
• Fixed routes available to entrepreneurs looking to expand their business.  

What do you need?  

• A valid UK photo-card licence   
• Have access to or own a van.  

• VAT certificate (if applicable)  

What’s in it for you?  
 
This is a fantastic opportunity to earn some extra income working with a leading brand in the wholesale industry, giving you the security but also flexibility around other contracts and commitments – you really can have the best of both worlds!  

Many of our current self-employed drivers enjoy the flexible benefit of picking up additional work during the day; utilising the nightly working pattern Smiths News can offer enabling our self-employed drivers to maximise their earning potential and work life balance throughout the week.   

If you’re interested in learning more - then we would love to hear from you.

Delivery Driver – Self Employed – Smiths News in Newcastle (Gateshead)
Must have own or have access to a 3.500kg van.

Night shift delivering between 2/3am and 8/9am, 7 days a week.
Paid weekly
Average annual earnings of £31,000 - £36,775 with the potential to earn additional

About the role:  

We are currently looking for Self-employed courier drivers to join our expanding distribution network supporting our customers.  

• Light warehouse activity of newspapers including loading and unloading of shipments.  
• As a self-employed driver you’ll be responsible for delivering newspapers, magazines and shipments to our customers across your designated route.  
• Most importantly you’ll ensure every customer receives excellent and efficient service, every time.  
• Fixed routes available to entrepreneurs looking to expand their business.  

What do you need?  

• A valid UK photo-card licence   
• Have access to or own a van.  

• VAT certificate (if applicable)  

What’s in it for you?  
 
This is a fantastic opportunity to earn some extra income working with a leading brand in the wholesale industry, giving you the security but also flexibility around other contracts and commitments – you really can have the best of both worlds!  

Many of our current self-employed drivers enjoy the flexible benefit of picking up additional work during the day; utilising the nightly working pattern Smiths News can offer enabling our self-employed drivers to maximise their earning potential and work life balance throughout the week.   

If you’re interested in learning more - then we would love to hear from you.

Delivery Driver – Self Employed – Smiths News in Newcastle (Gateshead)
Must have own or have access to a 3.500kg van.

Night shift delivering between 2/3am and 8/9am, 7 days a week.
Paid weekly
Average annual earnings of £31,000 - £36,775 with the potential to earn additional

About the role:  

We are currently looking for Self-employed courier drivers to join our expanding distribution network supporting our customers.  

• Light warehouse activity of newspapers including loading and unloading of shipments.  
• As a self-employed driver you’ll be responsible for delivering newspapers, magazines and shipments to our customers across your designated route.  
• Most importantly you’ll ensure every customer receives excellent and efficient service, every time.  
• Fixed routes available to entrepreneurs looking to expand their business.  

What do you need?  

• A valid UK photo-card licence   
• Have access to or own a van.  

• VAT certificate (if applicable)  

What’s in it for you?  
 
This is a fantastic opportunity to earn some extra income working with a leading brand in the wholesale industry, giving you the security but also flexibility around other contracts and commitments – you really can have the best of both worlds!  

Many of our current self-employed drivers enjoy the flexible benefit of picking up additional work during the day; utilising the nightly working pattern Smiths News can offer enabling our self-employed drivers to maximise their earning potential and work life balance throughout the week.   

If you’re interested in learning more - then we would love to hear from you.

Delivery Driver – Self Employed – Smiths News in Newcastle (Gateshead)
Must have own or have access to a 3.500kg van.

Night shift delivering between 2/3am and 8/9am, 7 days a week.
Paid weekly
Average annual earnings of £31,000 - £36,775 with the potential to earn additional

About the role:  

We are currently looking for Self-employed courier drivers to join our expanding distribution network supporting our customers.  

• Light warehouse activity of newspapers including loading and unloading of shipments.  
• As a self-employed driver you’ll be responsible for delivering newspapers, magazines and shipments to our customers across your designated route.  
• Most importantly you’ll ensure every customer receives excellent and efficient service, every time.  
• Fixed routes available to entrepreneurs looking to expand their business.  

What do you need?  

• A valid UK photo-card licence   
• Have access to or own a van.  

• VAT certificate (if applicable)  

What’s in it for you?  
 
This is a fantastic opportunity to earn some extra income working with a leading brand in the wholesale industry, giving you the security but also flexibility around other contracts and commitments – you really can have the best of both worlds!  

Many of our current self-employed drivers enjoy the flexible benefit of picking up additional work during the day; utilising the nightly working pattern Smiths News can offer enabling our self-employed drivers to maximise their earning potential and work life balance throughout the week.   

If you’re interested in learning more - then we would love to hear from you.

£28,992 - £5,636 (includes paid school holidays) + excellent benefits

Those Huge Small Victories

Our clinicians are fulfilled by the idea of affecting even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things.

Get out what you put in

This role is based at Ashbrooke School.

You’ll be joining Ashbrooke School, one of the leading SEN settings in the North East. A purpose-built school with specialist classrooms, extensive grounds and sporting facilities, plus a new purpose-built primary provision – Ashbrooke supports young people with ADHD, autism, SEMH and SLCN and was recently rated Outstanding by Ofsted.

Our clinicians are a crucial part of the most joined-up model in SEND. Across all of our specialist schools and children’s homes, we provide unrivalled levels of clinical support, both in terms of our expertise and breadth of provision. Our young people present with a complexity of need including developmental trauma, neuro-developmental conditions and special educational needs.

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team you will be supporting educational and residential colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments and, based on clinical assessment and formulation, offer individualised interventions and engagement to our young people. You’ll also be assessing our young people’s mental health and recommend appropriate interventions in a personalised care plan. Building rapport is key, by doing this you’ll be able to deliver effective counselling and feedback on progress.

What we do for you

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

• Training : A full induction and on the job training

• Holiday : You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays

• Clinical Development : If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development

• Flexible benefits : meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here

• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance

• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts

• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools here

• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £2,000 bonus every time

  Bring your whole self to work

  This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within our living and learning environments you will be offered the support, resource and platform for you to do great things. You’ll benefit from supervision, a clinical development programme and access to a 220+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way. Here’s a few things we’ll need from you:

  • Be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist registered with the HCPC

  • Be a specialist with proven skills and experience to engage and deliver therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs

  • Need experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences

  • Be a confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader and trainer.

  • Be highly organised and ready to take the initiative

  • Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

  Interested in joining us?

  Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

  The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

  For a full job description and person specification, please click here .

  To view our ex-offenders policy please click here .

  To view our Child Protection Policy, please visit the 'Parents and Carers' section of this School/Learning centre. You can find all our Schools here .

  Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD

Job Title : Senior/Principal Naval Architect

Location : Barrow-in-Furness, Bristol, Portsmouth or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Conducting analysis and evaluation of submarine platforms manoeuvring performance from concept design to in-service support

• Undertaking development, verification and validation of mathematical manoeuvring model using physical model test data

• Generation of Safe Manoeuvring Envelopes and supporting associated operator guidance

• You will be working with enterprise partners to develop the modelling capability, processes and toolsets for use to support our major programmes

• Working collaboratively with other naval architecture teams, systems teams, Active Vehicle Control system teams and propulsion engineers as well as customers and suppliers to deliver innovative & safe submarine solutions

• Supporting & conducting hydrodynamic sea trials such as depth and heading control, including test form development and post-trial data analysis

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in the generation of ship or submarine manoeuvring modelling

• Advanced numeracy and analytical skills

• A strong understanding of hydrodynamic principles and methods

• Degree in Naval Architecture, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent experience

Desirable:

• Hydrodynamic/aerodynamic design and evaluation experience

• Physical testing experience

• Chartered Engineer or working towards/ability to achieve

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Vehicle Control team:

As a Principal/Senior Naval Architect within the Vehicle Control team, you will be working alongside a team of experts within Naval Architecture and the Whole Boat Design Team in one of the largest and fastest growing Naval Architecture Departments in the UK. You will be working on some of the most complex ship design and build programmes ever undertaken to deliver cutting edge submarines to the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 15th August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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Job Title : Senior/Principal Naval Architect

Location : Barrow-in-Furness, Bristol, Portsmouth or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Conducting analysis and evaluation of submarine platforms manoeuvring performance from concept design to in-service support

• Undertaking development, verification and validation of mathematical manoeuvring model using physical model test data

• Generation of Safe Manoeuvring Envelopes and supporting associated operator guidance

• You will be working with enterprise partners to develop the modelling capability, processes and toolsets for use to support our major programmes

• Working collaboratively with other naval architecture teams, systems teams, Active Vehicle Control system teams and propulsion engineers as well as customers and suppliers to deliver innovative & safe submarine solutions

• Supporting & conducting hydrodynamic sea trials such as depth and heading control, including test form development and post-trial data analysis

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in the generation of ship or submarine manoeuvring modelling

• Advanced numeracy and analytical skills

• A strong understanding of hydrodynamic principles and methods

• Degree in Naval Architecture, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent experience

Desirable:

• Hydrodynamic/aerodynamic design and evaluation experience

• Physical testing experience

• Chartered Engineer or working towards/ability to achieve

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Vehicle Control team:

As a Principal/Senior Naval Architect within the Vehicle Control team, you will be working alongside a team of experts within Naval Architecture and the Whole Boat Design Team in one of the largest and fastest growing Naval Architecture Departments in the UK. You will be working on some of the most complex ship design and build programmes ever undertaken to deliver cutting edge submarines to the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 15th August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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Location: Newcastle
Business Unit: Kier Construction – North & Scotland
Contract Type: Permanent | Full Time, Opportunity for some hybrid working

At Kier Construction, we deliver projects that shape the future of our communities. We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor  to join our team in Newcastle , where you'll support the successful delivery of a new build school project  – a scheme that will provide vital learning spaces for generations to come.

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a key role in managing the commercial aspects of the project, ensuring value, quality, and compliance at every stage. You'll work closely with our supply chain, clients, and internal teams to deliver excellence from procurement through to final account.

• Manage subcontractor procurement and payments
• provide timely , accurate information for CVR reporting 
• Support change control and risk mitigation with the Senior Quantity Surveyor 
• Carry out site measurements to assess sub contractor payment applications
• Collaborate with site and design teams to ensure all project variations are captured and costed 
• Prepare information to enable applications for payment to client 
• Provide commercial advice to the project teams as required

• Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• Experience in main contracting, ideally on education or public sector projects
• Knowledge of NEC and/or JCT contracts
• Full UK driving licence
• Located in North East of England, able to travel to office and site locations. 

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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At Kier Construction, we're proud to be shaping the communities of tomorrow. We're now looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor  to join our team taking commercial lead on a project in Darlington , where you'll play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of the Pollam Hall School  project – a high-profile scheme that will leave a lasting legacy.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll take commercial oversight on this exciting project, managing cost and risk while ensuring value for money and contractual compliance. You'll be involved from early-stage feasibility through to final account, working closely with internal teams, clients, and supply chain partners.

You'll also:

• Lead procurement and manage subcontractor packages
• Prepare and assess applications for payment
• Monitor project expenditure and produce CVRs
• Manage change control and mitigate commercial risk
• Mentor junior team members and share your expertise

We're after someone with.

• A degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying
• Strong knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts
• Experience in main contracting and large-scale 2-stage bids
• A collaborative, trusted, and focused approach – aligned with Kier's values
• A full UK driving licence

At Kier, you'll be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team. We offer:

• A competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunities for career progression and professional development
• A culture that celebrates innovation, inclusion, and integrity

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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