Together is an amazing place to work. And it’s not just because we’re one of the UK’s oldest and most respected mental health charities. It’s because we put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do – supporting and enabling them to take control of their lives and make a positive contribution to the community.

We are looking to expand our workforce by recruiting one full time support worker to join our Floating Housing Related support team. You will be part of a team, working in a fast paced environment where no two days are the same.

You will work across Warwickshire, so access to a car is essential. You will have your own caseload of clients and will work autonomously, identifying people’s goals completing assessments and risk management meetings.

By working alongside people with disabilities your work will be vital in helping people to manage and sustain their tenancies, prevent and relieve homelessness, deal with debt, benefit issues and promote independence.

You will support the most vulnerable people in our community who experience mental ill-health, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, sensory impairment and autism. Experience of all areas is not essential as full training will be provided to the right candidate.

We have a firm commitment to encouraging fairness and diversity in our work force and we welcome applications from disabled people and those from BME backgrounds.

The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded Oxfordshire Youth funding for three years to continue Oxfordshire Youth’s core work of supporting young people in communities. The Development Coordinator will be responsible for connecting, equipping and inspiring good youth work practice across the county. Working closely with the Partnerships Manager, Youth Participation Coordinator and other members of Oxfordshire Youth staff.

London Black Women’s Project (LBWP) is a Black feminist organisation delivering services in London. LBWP was set up in 1989 (previously known as Newham Asian Women’s Project) to provide specialist support services for BME* women and their children experiencing domestic violence. LBWP delivers services in three main areas: refuge provision, counselling and therapeutic support and legal advice and information.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced and dynamic individual with an in-depth understanding of the specific needs of BME women experiencing multiple disadvantage as a result of experiencing domestic violence and abuse. You will deliver holistic, women centred, individualised support for women and children  in our refuges, ensuring their safety and using an empowerment approach to enable positive resettlement into appropriate accommodation. You will also lead on supporting children across the refuges, engaging them in creative, learning activities and building their relationships with their mothers.

It is requested that only women who identify as BME apply. Additionally we encourage applications from women with lived experience of accessing services and who are from African and Caribbeam backgrounds..

Please download the job descrption and person specification and e-mail your completed application by 9am, Thursday 9th July. Please note CVs will not be accepted. 

* BME women: i.e. women who originate from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, including the indigenous peoples of Australasia, the Americas and the islands of the Atlantic Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Contract until 31st May 2021

These posts are restricted to female applicants only.

Exempt under Schedule 9. Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010

1. Aims of the Position:

To address the immediate safety needs of BME women at risk of harm to secure their safety and the safety of their children through a combination of advice, information, signposting and referrals onto appropriate services which will put clients on the path to long term safety.

2. Job Summary 

To provide a range of support services to women and girls across London, with the aim of maintaining their independence by assessing a woman’s needs and enabling them, to have access to other locally available services as appropriate both initially and in the longer term

3. Main Duties

• To provide women with emergency housing and subsidies who are fleeing domestic abuse and who have No Recourse to Public Funds

• To offer advocacy, information, advice, casework and support to women and girls effected by domestic abuse  
• To implement all AWRC policies pertaining to service delivery
• To take and assess referrals in accordance with projects & AWRC Policies & Procedures
• To work with clients within the framework of AWRC risk assessment, key work & support planning systems
• To ensure that all relevant policies and procedures are explained to new service users
• To maintain client and other records in accordance with Project’s systems, policies & procedures

4. Key Work

Where appropriate comprehensive and holistic needs/ risk assessment and safety planning that enables women to recognise their situation and develop and/or build strategies to enhance their safety and that of their children without reducing opportunities or impairing quality of life will be undertaken. This includes using the Common Assessment Framework (CAF), CAADA RIC and providing support and referral to appropriate services.

• Casework will be provided to women presenting with VAWG issues as appropriate.  At the initial referral contact, an initial assessment of risk and safety planning will be carried out with each client. High risk cases will be referred to the MARAC (multi agency risk assessment conference). All immediate safety issues will be dealt with at this point
• To work with clients to assess the level of risk and discuss the range of suitable options. Develop safety plans ensuring that the survivor’s perspective and safety is at the centre of any multi agency proceedings
• To work closely with partner agencies to manage risk appropriately, deliver co-ordinated and comprehensive support packages and to make appropriate referrals to other services as required including the MARAC, Police, CSPU, Adult and Children’s Services, mental health, drug and alcohol services, counselling and therapeutic services etc
• To undertake CAADA DASH RIC and safety planning that enables victims to enhance their safety and that of their children without reducing opportunities or impairing quality of life
• To represent clients at different Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) as required.
• Advise/signpost to assist in maintaining the safety and security of the home including referral to Sanctuary for  the installation of additional security measures
• Advise/signpost women to maximise their income and to avoid and address rent arrears and other debt through welfare benefits advice and referral to specialist agencies as required
• Provide advice and signpost around housing, legal and financial options and assist women to access a range of services that will enhance their safety and that of their children

• Provide advice and signpost women to identify and address any health needs and/or social care needs through health promotion, access to health and adult and children’s social care services
• Provide advice on safety including the criminal justice system, civil justice system, Prohibited Steps & Residence Orders, Child Contact, the role of CAF, CAFCASS including court reports, the role of Islington Children’s Social Care, information on Children’s Centres, home shelter, housing transfers, homelessness, immigration, sexual health and immigration issue
• Promote access to and participation in recreational activities, education, training and employment (as appropriate) and assist women to gain skills in English as a second language and make referrals accordingly
• To keep detailed case notes of all work undertaken with users
• To provide appropriate emotional support for users
• Facilitate groups and service user consultations
• To facilitate service users to access a range of specialist agencies
• Support with duties delegated by the director

Brokering access to other services and partnership working

• Prioritise effective partnership working arrangements in order to co-ordinate the work of local services and provide a robust package of support.
• To attend case conferences and Team around the Family and Child meetings, where necessary.
• To ensure adequate communication and information sharing protocols are in place including with the police, housing, health, adult and children’s social care services so that prevention and early intervention can stop a serious problem from developing.
• To ensure that service users have access to required primary healthcare services and health promotion information when addressing disclosure of sexual assaults as appropriate
• To broker access (surgeries) to statutory and voluntary services. This includes mainstream and specialist counselling and therapeutic services, legal services, educational services, training and employment opportunities, organisations meeting specific cultural needs etc
• Support women who have no recourse to public funds
   

Quality and Performance Management

• To ensure the framework of quality standards
• To develop and maintain performance information, and set-up systems to record and monitor performances in accordance to funders requirements
• Maintaining appropriate records and statistics of AWRC service users and implementing and monitoring systems to ensure that AWRC projects are meeting the requirements of its funders

General

• To undertake own administration. e.g. typing, filing
• To ensure office is covered and telephones answered
• To record and distribute mail
• To participate in external meetings, forums, etc. as appropriate
• To collect and record information for monitoring purposes
• To attend staff meetings, staff training and supervision / appraisals as required
• To facilitate user meetings and activities for users as appropriate
• To liaise with external agencies (e.g. DSS, social services, police, housing) in accordance with   AWRC confidentiality policy
• To abide by and implement all AWRC policies, including the Equal Opportunities Policy
• To carry out other duties appropriate to the post as requested by your Line Manager or the Director of AWRC

PERSON SPECIFICATION

1. Relevant experience:

• Extensive experience of work within community-based services providing support services To BME women and girls including gender violence services, housing and welfare benefits
• Experience of working with other voluntary or statutory Voluntary Agency providers of Support Services

• Experience of managing complex and lengthy projects

• Experience of monitoring and managing quality and performance

2.  Education and training:

In the absence of formal qualification, candidates must be able to demonstrate significant relevant experience with support providers and gender violence

3. General and special knowledge:

1. An awareness of national policies that relate to gender violence, housing and support services
2.  A knowledge and commitments to equal opportunities and an awareness of their impact on service delivery
3. Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to gender violence, housing and welfare benefits

4. Skills and abilities

1. Ability to communicate clearly verbally and in writing including producing reports
2.  Ability to review and evaluate services and service performance including performance against service target
3.  Ability to liaise and negotiate with other agencies, funders, staff and service users
4.  Ability to set up working relationships/projects with other organisations
5.  Ability to make presentations and communicate with groups
6. Ability to work on own initiative prioritising workloads and meeting targets /deadlines
7. Ability to work with IT systems

5. Any additional factors

5.1 Willingness to continue further training and personal development

A young adult carer is someone aged 15-21 who cares, unpaid, for a friend or family member who has an illness, disability, mental health problem or addiction. Some caring roles are big, others small. Either way, at Carers' Hub Lambeth, we’re here to help. As the Service Coordinator - Young Adult Carers, you will lead in this area of our work.  The project sits within our Young Carers Service and as such you will have the opportunity to work with young carers aged 5 and up too.

We know that friendship, support and trying new things can provide the boost that young adult carers need, so we split our work into three areas:

• We provide 1-2-1 support, tailored around their needs – whether educational, emotional or something else

• We organise a mixture of fun activities throughout the year

• We run a monthly young adult carers meet up group

At the moment, we are working from home and providing our services via phone calls and video calls.  You will need to be creative to come up with new and engaging ways to connect with the young adults, be willing to test out new ways of working and be comfortable with rapid change.   When the lockdown ends, we will be back in our offices in Brixton. 

We are a small friendly charity based in Brixton about to celebrate our 2nd birthday.   As we are still relatively new, you will have loads of opportunities to get involved in other areas of work to build on your existing skills and learn some new ones too!

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated Deaf or Disabled person to join our busy Advice & Advocacy Team as a Caseworker. Merton CIL is a Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation (DDPO) which promotes the independence and inclusion of Deaf and Disabled people, challenges discrimination and works to achieve change locally.

35 hours per week fixed-term contract until 31 March 2021 (with the possibility of extension) at a starting salary of £25,000.00 per annum.

You must have at least one year’s experience of providing welfare benefits advice to members of the public on a one-to-one basis. This can be on a paid or voluntary basis. You will be expected to have an excellent working knowledge of all health and disability benefits.

Merton CIL is committed to equality, diversity and reflecting the communities we serve. We particularly welcome applications from Deaf or Disabled people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.

Closing date for applications: 5pm Monday 13th July 2020

Interviews will take place: during the week commencing Monday 20th July 2020 via Zoom

Candidates invited to interview will be informed by: Thursday 23 July 2020

Start date: As soon as possible thereafter

You are recommended to complete our application form via email. If you send through your CV via Chairty Jobs, you will be emailed an application form to complete and return before the deadline. We are unable to accept CVs.