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Scope and senior accountability
Hold delegated senior responsibility for the performance, quality, workforce, safeguarding and development of the children and family services portfolio.
Lead EHWP+ as a key commissioned programme, ensuring that delivery remains aligned with contract requirements, local need, agreed outcomes and Spring North’s values.
Hold senior accountability for the effective management and delivery of counselling and therapeutic services within the portfolio, including service quality, practitioner practice, professional standards, supervision arrangements and continuous improvement.
Balance strategic direction with strong operational grip, intervening early where delivery, safety, quality, finance or partnership performance is at risk.
Contribute to whole-organisation leadership, growth, resilience and culture as an active member of the Senior Leadership Team.
4. Key accountabilities
4.1 Strategic leadership of children and family services
- Develop and implement a clear strategic direction for EHWP+ and the wider children and family services portfolio, aligned with Spring North’s organisational strategy and local commissioning priorities.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the changing needs of children, young people, parents and carers, using data, lived experience, professional insight and community intelligence to shape priorities.
- Create a more connected portfolio by linking existing services, clarifying pathways and reducing gaps, duplication and avoidable hand-offs for families.
- Promote early help, prevention, relationship-based and strengths-based approaches that improve emotional health, wellbeing, resilience and family outcomes.
- Keep abreast of policy, legislation, evidence and emerging practice affecting children, young people and families, translating these into proportionate action.
4.2 EHWP+ programme leadership and delivery
- Provide senior leadership and direction to the EHWP+ team, creating a shared focus on access, quality, outcomes, partnership delivery and continuous improvement.
- Lead the operational delivery of counselling and therapeutic provision, ensuring clear service models, referral and allocation arrangements, appropriate caseload management, safe thresholds, effective practitioner deployment and consistent therapeutic practice across employed teams and delivery partners.
- Ensure counselling and therapeutic interventions are delivered by appropriately qualified and competent practitioners, with suitable induction, supervision, continuing professional development and access to specialist or clinical advice where required.
- Ensure that service plans, capacity, resources and delivery arrangements are sufficient to meet contractual commitments and respond appropriately to local need.
- Establish clear management arrangements, decision-making routes and performance expectations across employed teams and delivery partners.
- Review delivery data, caseload or activity information, outcomes, waiting times, feedback and emerging risks; agree and monitor corrective action where required.
- Ensure that the voice of children, young people, parents and carers is visible in-service design, review and improvement.
- Support effective mobilisation, change and service redesign when contracts, need or evidence require a different delivery response.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About the role
This role sits within Women and Girls Network’s Intake Service and provides high-quality, trauma-informed and survivor-led support to women and girls affected by Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
As an Advice Hub & Sexual Violence Helpline Practitioner, you will be a key first point of contact for survivors, providing one-off and short-term support through WGN’s Advice Hub and Sexual Violence Helpline. You will offer practical advice, advocacy, emotional support, risk and needs assessment, and safety planning via telephone and webchat.
You will also contribute to WGN’s Emotional Support & Resiliency programme, provide specialist guidance to professionals, and help ensure the continued development of accessible, survivor-centred services.
Job description
As the Advice Hub & Sexual Violence Helpline Practitioner, you will:
- Deliver one-off and short-term support, advocacy, information and safety planning to survivors via telephone and webchat.
- Undertake risk and needs assessments and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns.
- Deliver structured emotional support sessions for survivors of sexual violence.
- Provide specialist advice and consultation to professionals supporting survivors of VAWG.
- Support survivors to understand their rights, options and available services.
- Work within an intersectional, feminist, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed framework.
- Contribute to the effective delivery, development and promotion of the Advice Hub and Sexual Violence Helpline services.
- Maintain accurate records, monitoring information and partnership relationships to support high-quality service delivery.
Closing date and interviews
This vacancy will close at 23:59pm on Thursday 8 October 2026. Interviews will take place shortly thereafter, and shortlisted candidates will be notified of the arrangements.
We encourage early applications, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a high volume of applications or identify a suitable candidate.
Interviews may be conducted either in person or remotely, depending on panel availability and logistical requirements.
About us
Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a pan-London organisation that supports women and girls affected by all forms of gendered-based violence. Our overall aim is to promote, preserve and restore the mental health and well-being of women and girls who have experienced, or are at risk of, gendered-based violence, whilst working towards a society free of gendered-based violence.
We do this by:
- Providing women-only holistic and seamless therapeutic services, which meet women and girls’ needs and contribute to total and sustainable recovery from the experiences of violence.
- Evidencing the impact of gendered-based violence and presenting this information in appropriate forums to affect social change in attitudes towards, and responses to, gendered-based violence.
- Developing good practice in the sector by providing training and guidance on specialist service provision and the development of culturally appropriate service delivery.
WGN is proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer and a member of The London VAWG Consortium, Halo Code, and Helplines Partnership.
Join us and be part of a team that values your well-being, growth, and contribution.
Commitment to Equity and Inclusion
We are deeply committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity, resilience and strength of the women and girls we serve. We strongly encourage applications from Black and Global Majority women and applicants with Lived Experience, including those who may not meet every criterion.
WGN is an equal opportunities employer.
Exemption
This post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, and is open to female applicants only, due to the nature of the role.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We promote social change that transforms societal attitudes, practices, and policies to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Mid Kent Mind is a local, independent, mental health and wellbeing charity providing a safe environment for individuals where everyone is valued. We improve the lives of those in our community by building their resilience and giving them hope for a better future. We strive to tackle stigma and discrimination through projects that promote a better understanding of mental health. Our vision is for a community where all individuals are accepted, included and supported to thrive. We aim to ensure that the needs of each individual who experiences a mental health problem, are met with the best possible support and outcome.
As one of our Wellbeing Coaches you will be instrumental in facilitating a wide range of support across Maidstone, Ashford and Swale.
You will lead on the existing service delivery, courses and social groups, both out in the community and based at our Wellbeing Centre in Maidstone.
You will plan and prepare a range of engaging online and face to face group sessions, and courses.
You will conduct wellbeing assessments with our service users.
You will be instrumental in facilitating a wide range of support across Maidstone, Ashford and Swale. You will lead on our structured mental health courses, and community groups whilst also having the opportunity to shape your individual approach to support the needs of our service users.
Full licence and access to vehicle is required, due to the nature of the role and the remote areas Mid Kent Mind covers.
To find out more please read the full job description and additional information document.
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Registered Charity
21 - 50
We are a local, independent, mental health and wellbeing charity providing a safe environment for individuals where everyone is valued.