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Warehouse Team Leader \n \n Theale | £30,750 + Benefits | Monday - Friday, 2pm to 10pm \n About the role \n We're looking for an energetic, hands-on Warehouse Team Leader to lead a team of pickers and packers at a busy distribution site in Theale. You'll run the afternoon shift for a well-established business supplying the hospitality sector. Reporting to the Warehouse Supervisor, you'll make sure orders go out accurately, on time and to a high standard. You'll also keep looking for ways to work smarter. \n What you'll be doing \n\n • Leading the shift and sharing out work across the team to meet daily targets\n, • Managing the processing, picking and packing of orders on time\n, • Reviewing processes to improve picking efficiency and accuracy\n, • Putting planned changes to how the warehouse runs into practice\n, • Making sure health and safety rules and warehouse standards are followed\n, • Checking products for damage and reporting any discrepancies\n, • Helping to load and unload vehicles using safe manual handling and warehouse equipment such as forklifts and pallet trucks\n, • Keeping records and reports up to date on the warehouse systems\n, • Running 1-2-1s and performance reviews to keep the team engaged and developing\n, • Keeping the warehouse and equipment clean, safe and tidy\n\n What we're looking for \n\n • Previous experience in a warehouse, ideally in a team leader or supervisory role\n, • A strong working knowledge of warehouse management systems\n, • A track record of hitting KPIs (key performance targets) on picking accuracy and productivity\n, • Confidence with computers and numbers, with good written and verbal communication\n, • Excellent attention to detail and a methodical, organised approach\n, • The ability to prioritise a busy workload and act on your own initiative\n, • Good at building relationships and working as part of a team\n, • Reliable, with excellent timekeeping\n\n Desirable \n\n • Relevant warehouse or leadership training\n, • Desire to learn and progress your career & skillset\n\n What's in it for you \n\n • A salary of £30,750 plus benefits\n, • A consistent Monday-to-Friday shift, so your weekends are always free\n, • A supportive, team-focused environment where your ideas to improve things are welcome\n\n \n About Cast UK \n\n • Cast UK are a specialist recruitment consultancy operating across Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics & Sales. We work with businesses ranging from ambitious SMEs through to major FTSE organisations, helping them attract and retain the talent they need to grow.\n\n

Amber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy where home energy technology works to put money back in customers’ pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition. We’re an Australian headquartered company, where we are both an energy technology company and a utility providing energy directly to households and small businesses. In Australia (the world leader on rooftop solar and a 2-way energy grid), we’ve proven that the cheapest, fastest and most rewarding way to reach 100% renewables is to automate the growing wave of home batteries, EVs, and other smart energy devices. Customers get direct access to the real-time electricity prices and the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price they can be paid for it is highest. We are a clear market leader in energy automation in Australia, and are now partnering with utilities across Europe to bring our technology to European markets and consumers. We’re at a critical moment in taking the business to scale in Europe. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing regional team of 15, and be part of a global team of over 220, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world. We’re backed by leading VCs in Australia and Europe, as well as impact-focused investors and world-leading energy companies. At Amber, we believe that enabling a culture where everyone is set up to do the best work of their lives, and feels connected and supported, is one of the most important things we can do to ensure our long-term success. Want to help improve the environment by shifting the world’s energy usage towards renewables? We are currently hiring for a Full Stack Software Engineer. Amber provides a great opportunity to apply your skills as an Engineer to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in the customers' homes, enabling them to time their usage to consume power at times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting them outbid energy generators and earn potentially >£50 in an afternoon. The Amber Electric product team develops and supports: • Home automation integrations (to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability, • Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage, • A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing The tech stack is React Native mobile app, some React web frontends, and a Serverless Lambda backend on AWS. We’re using Typescript top to bottom, and Apollo GraphQL sits in the middle. We keep our data in DynamoDB, Postgres, and Snowflake, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload. You can learn more about our tech stack at _ While we’re looking for talented and driven individuals our desire is to build a champion team, not a team of champions. We’re full-stack-ish; while it’s impossible for everyone to excel across every layer of the stack we value people who can chip in wherever they’re needed. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace from the ground up. We want engineers who are as comfortable communicating with people as they are with their code. At Amber, we want to hire self-starters who are eager to learn, and are comfortable working in a changing environment. Some of the key traits we are looking for in this role: • You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do, • Between 3 and 5 years of commercial development experience in either Web or Mobile environments, • Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus, • Experience with languages sharing features with Typescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar), • We favour generalists who can be flexible across the stack, both frontend and backend, • Strong verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential, with English proficiency of C1/C2 level at a minimum, • Additional language skills, particularly in European languages, are a bonus and may support broader team and customer engagement., • Write and maintain high quality program code across the stack in the areas of your specialty, • Flexibly contribute outside your specialty in other areas of the stack supporting your team when they need it, • Work collaboratively with your peers in product and across the wider company to ensure you're always shipping the right thing the right way at the right time, • Research, consult, analyse, and evaluate our system requirements, • Test, debug, diagnose, and correct errors in our tech stack according to our operational specifications, • Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production, • The role will see you working directly with external clients while collaborating across internal teams, including leadership, product, design, and engineering to deliver impactful solutions., • We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world, • Join a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household renewable energy use, • You’d be a part of a growing team of over 220 people with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations, • Flexible working hours & remote working - see "How You Work" for more info, • Competitive salary within your local market, • Share options in Amber Electric, • Employment and leave entitlements as per your local country, • An external Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support, • Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth, • Annual company conference in Melbourne, Australia. Between £45,000 and £70,000 base per annum. All roles at Amber include employee stock options. This is a full-time role to be based ideally from the UK/Germany/Netherlands. We do have a co-working space in London where we work flexibly between the office and home. You will be working predominantly remotely within a high-trust environment where transparency and accountability are foundational to our engineering culture. Amber's flexible approach allows you to shape your schedule around core collaboration hours, which are 7am - 12pm Tuesdays and Thursdays London time. This overlap enables meaningful collaboration with your Australian colleagues. Outside these core hours, we trust you to manage your time effectively. We focus on outcomes and impact rather than hours logged, but we do expect consistent communication and reliable delivery on commitments. Regular check-ins and transparent progress updates are part of how we maintain this balance of freedom and responsibility. We value work-life balance and sustainable pace—we don't want team members to overwork or burn out, nor do we expect you to be available 24/7. Instead, we promote clear boundaries and open dialogue about workload and capacity. Our headquarters is located in Melbourne, Australia, with a second co-working office/space in Sydney, Australia. Our European team operates from a central London hub that you will travel to during your onboarding, and approximately every 2 months thereafter for team collaboration. These in-person sessions help strengthen relationships and reinforce our collaborative culture. We also have AmberCon every year, this is a big team calendar event and we will fly you to Melbourne to be there with the rest of the team. We will always cover flights, accommodation and other travel costs as part of our travel policies. If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you! Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Please include your resume and a cover letter and tell us: • One specific way you could use your technical skills to improve a household's energy use under the Amber model. Our process will generally be as follows: • A screening interview with our talent team, • A take-home technical challenge that should take no longer than four hours, • A follow up interview with two members of the engineering team, • A culture interview with two members of the engineering leadership team We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team. Only applicants with full working rights in the UK/Europe region will be considered for the role. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible. No recruitment agencies please. We are already working with our preferred partners. Thank you! We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Please note: Interviews for this role will be held in person on either Thursday 22nd October or Wednesday 28th October at the Reading Office. This will be a full-day assessment event, providing an opportunity for you to meet colleagues and gain insight into the role through a visit to a live Community Payback project. You will be required to arrive at 09:00am, with the morning dedicated to the site visit. Your interview will then take place in the afternoon. Please note that interviews will only be conducted on these dates. You must be available for the full day, as we are unable to offer alternative dates or reschedule appointments. Please note: Candidates must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence when applying for this role, this is a mandatory technical requirement in order to carry out this role. We cannot accept candidates who hold an automatic Driving Licence only. A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on the lives of People on Probation as well as your community. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service. It's all about supporting People on Probation on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that's building benches or cleaning the streets, you're there because you genuinely want to help. This daily working schedule for this role requires the person to have a fixed start and end time each day (8.00 AM and finish time of 17:00 PM). The role will include weekend shifts and the candidate will be expected to work both Saturday and Sunday each week with alternative week days to be agreed with successful candidate. If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £28,064, Pro-Rata for Part-Time roles. On a typical day, you’ll spend up to 7 hours supervising a group at a Community Payback unpaid work placement. Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working. Working pattern The Community Payback supervisor role is accommodated to people on probation who work or have caring responsibilities. Community Payback projects run 7 days a week therefore you will: work frequent weekends, and you may be asked to cover some evenings. You will be paid a higher rate of 50% for weekend days you do work. In this role, the pace of our work means that rest breaks don’t always happen in the standard way. When this happens, we make sure your wellbeing is looked after. Your wellbeing really matters to us, so we want to be open about this from the outset. If you’re someone who enjoys a varied, active role where no two days are the same, this is a great environment to make a real difference while being fully supported. The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows. New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable. Overview of the job This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary. For further information on the summary, responsibilities, activities, duties of the role and the Civil Service Success Profile Criteria which will be used in the assessment process, please refer to the full Job Description Attachment. Right to work in the UK You must have the right to work in the UK and Civil Service (government/publications/nationality-rules). Skilled Worker visa changes from 22 July 2025 In accordance with current immigration rules, this role is not eligible for a new Skilled Worker visa. From 22 July 2025, the Government introduced changes to the eligibility criteria for Skilled Worker visas. As a result: HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) cannot consider sponsoring you to work as a community payback supervisor unless you have held a Skilled Worker visa prior to the 22 July 2025 changes. If you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously, please raise this during your pre-employment checks and your eligibility will be assessed in accordance with the immigration rules and transitional provisions in place. If you apply to be a community payback supervisor and you have not held a Skilled Worker visa prior to 22 July 2025, you will need to consider your options for obtaining and/or maintaining your right to work in the UK in light of these changes. If your application is successful, you will need to ensure that you have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom. HMPPS will continue to comply with UK Immigration Rules applied in the UK and Civil Service. You can read more about Skilled Worker visas and the eligibility criteria here. Civil Service recruitment: nationality rules This guide is intended to assist departments with managing their responsibilities on nationality rules related to Civil Service recruitment. You can read more about Skilled Worker visas and the eligibility criteria here (skilled-worker-visa) About us: The work is varied, challenging and meaningful and comes with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities - not to mention the chance to make a real difference to people’s lives and our communities. #J-18808-Ljbffr

location_on Reading location_on Reading 18/10/2026 The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included. Salary £4,479 per annum plus £269 SEN Allowance per annum Contractual hours 7.5 Basis Part time Region Term Time Only / Permanent / Part-Time Job category/type Schools Date posted 18/09/2026 Job reference SCH3544 Addington school is part of the Ascendancy Partnership Trust, a multi-academy trust with deep community roots across the Berkshire area composed of a family of SEN schools all specialising in learning difficulties. Our main school site is located in Woodley, Reading and we also have a smaller Early Years Centre located in Farley Hill. Location: Woodley Only We can offer: The opportunity to work in a special school judged ‘outstanding’ with a highly experienced Senior Leadership Team An environment committed to staff development and growing leadership A school with a coaching and collaborative culture Membership of an inclusive learning community with SEND expertise A school where creativity and innovation is encouraged Local Government Pension Scheme, Free Car Parking, Staff Wellbeing Group, Flu Vaccinations, Access to Private Medical Scheme, Employee Assistance Provider with access to counselling and GP service Addington School offers an environment committed to staff development and a route into teaching for candidates looking for a stepping stone onto the SEND teacher ladder. Providing support during lunch breaks, the role will involve assisting with setting out tables for lunch, assist the children with eating their lunch and ensuring that the lunch area is clean and tidy for the afternoon session. You will also be required to ensure that the children are engaged in suitable activities that may involve supervising the children inside and outside of the building and supporting with personal care. We cater for pupils aged 3 - 19 years with special educational needs and disabilities across two sites located in Woodley and Farley Hill. We currently have vacancies available at our main site in Woodley and are interested in hearing from applicants with previous experience of supporting children and young people with special educational needs. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Addington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.All employees of Addington School are required to undergo safeguarding checks which will include reference checks and enhanced DBS check. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. ASCENDANCY PARTNERSHIP TRUST - STRONGER AND BETTER TOGETHER #J-18808-Ljbffr

location_on Reading location_on Reading 18/10/2026 The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included. Salary £4,479 per annum plus £269 SEN Allowance per annum Contractual hours 7.5 Basis Part time Region Term Time Only / Permanent / Part-Time Job category/type Schools Date posted 18/09/2026 Job reference SCH3543 Addington school is part of the Ascendancy Partnership Trust, a multi-academy trust with deep community roots across the Berkshire area composed of a family of SEN schools all specialising in learning difficulties. Our main school site is located in Woodley, Reading and we also have a smaller Early Years Centre located in Farley Hill. • The opportunity to work in a special school judged ‘outstanding’ with a highly experienced Senior Leadership Team, • An environment committed to staff development and growing leadership, • A school with a coaching and collaborative culture, • Membership of an inclusive learning community with SEND expertise, • A school where creativity and innovation is encouraged, • Local Government Pension Scheme, Free Car Parking, Staff Wellbeing Group, Flu Vaccinations, Access to Private Medical Scheme Addington School offers an environment committed to staff development and a route into teaching for candidates looking for a stepping stone onto the SEND teacher ladder. Providing support during lunch breaks, the role will involve assisting with setting out tables for lunch, assist the children with eating their lunch and ensuring that the lunch area is clean and tidy for the afternoon session. You will also be required to ensure that the children are engaged in suitable activities that may involve supervising the children inside and outside of the building and supporting with personal care. We cater for pupils aged 3 - 19 years with special educational needs and disabilities across two sites located in Woodley and Farley Hill. We currently have vacancies available at our Early Years Centre in Farley Hill and are interested in hearing from applicants with previous experience of supporting children and young people with special educational needs. Please contact Amanda Cherry, HR Manager on if you wish to discuss further. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Addington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees of Addington School are required to undergo safeguarding checks which will include reference checks and enhanced DBS check. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK ASCENDANCY PARTNERSHIP TRUST - STRONGER AND BETTER TOGETHER #J-18808-Ljbffr

Addington School in Reading is seeking a part-time Lunchtime Controller to support pupils during lunch breaks.You will help set tables, supervise students, assist with eating, and keep the lunch area clean for the afternoon session.We cater for pupils aged 3–19 with SEND across two sites.The role

Reading Borough Council seeks a Lunchtime Controller for Addington School in Reading. The role involves supporting lunchtime routines, helping children with meals, and keeping areas tidy for the afternoon session. The post is part-time, term-time only, with 7.5 contractual hours, offering a chance to work in a respected special school within a trusted trust and development-focused environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Seeking reliable Class 1 HGV drivers for afternoon shifts, offering depot-to-depot trunking, consistent weekly pay, and flexible hours.