We are looking to recuit a Male Independent Sexual Violence Advisor who will support Male Survivors of Sexual Violence across Cheshire. You will be working with men who have either experienced sexual violence recently or who are reporting sexual abuse that happened as a child. 

If you have strong listening and advocacy skills and an interest in working with Male Surivors then we would really like to hear from you. This post is for a male worker and requires you to be a car owner/driver.

Location of office is flexible.

Age Cymru are extremely pleased to have been awarded funding from the Welsh Government to deliver the HOPE Project (Helping others to participate and engage). This is a project that will be delivered across the whole of Wales but some posts will operate within regional footprints. This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in the development and delivery of much needed local volunteer led advocacy support for older people through a community based co-produced approach. You will be part of a large team that will all be contributing to positive outcomes for older people at a preventative and early intervention level through the various posts within the HOPE Project.

We are recruiting for 2 full-time Project Officers to meet the HOPE project objectives by co-producing a regional framework for the development of advocacy across the region and supporting its delivery, and to recruit and support suitable volunteers within the region to deliver early intervention advocacy support, working closely and in collaboration with the local Age Connects and Age Cymru partners.

These roles are fixed term until March 2023.

About you

* Passionate about the issues affecting older people and carers
* Experience of working with a diverse culture, environments and communities in which older people and carers live
* Knowledge of local services in the public or voluntary sector
* Working with others to deliver successful projects and services.
* Recruiting, managing and working with volunteers.
* Establishing and maintaining productive collaborations.
* Networking, Running meetings and events.
* Experience within advocacy
* Ability to successfully manage a team of volunteers to deliver project outcomes.
* Adapt to changing circumstances, multi task and make decisions based on new priorities and demands.
* Prioritise work and deal with competing or conflicting demands/needs and interests.
* Promote programme aims and objectives.
* Ability to speak Welsh (Desirable).

What we offer in return

* Holiday - 27 days made up of 24 choice days and 3 days to be used between Christmas & New Year - Including carry forward
* Flexible Hours Working Scheme
* Excellent pension scheme (we will contribute up to 9%), life assurance, Simply Health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Discount on Gym Membership and Go Sweat Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* Perkz (online employee benefits scheme offering discount with UK retailers.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

For full job details please review the attached job description.

These roles will be home based until the guidelines regarding Covid-19 change. We will then expect one of the roles to be located in Cardigan and one in Newtown.

The role holder will be required to provide a car for business use and some occasional travel across Wales may be required. There may be occasional requirements to work evenings and weekends - these will be planned in advance.

The interview process will be two stages and due to Covid-19 will take place via video.

Age Cymru is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age Cymru is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

We politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Resident Support Outreach Officer

Vacancy Reference Number: PLA00646
Grade: SO2 - £33,759 - £34,986
Contract Type: Temporary- Fixed Term Contract (FTC)
Number of Posts: 1
Hours per week:35

Benefits and Allowances

Our existing terms, conditions and benefits are currently under review.

Role Purpose

Are you looking for a role that will offer practical support to help residents improve their circumstances? Do you have both sound knowledge and experience in benefits, homelessness, debt advice or a similar discipline? Do you want to help the Council improve the way it works with families and individuals who are struggling? If so, this could be the right role for you.

The Resident Support Outreach Team have been helping vulnerable households in the borough for the last 2 years to successfully transition on to Universal Credit, where eligibility criteria is met. We also provide support in other areas such as basic housing/rent arrears advice and grant applications which are identified by our troubleshooting, holistic approach.

It is clear many people across the borough need support both to be ready for their transition to UC, as well as help to successfully maintain their claims. It is therefore essential that any applicant has a proven track record of dealing with Universal Credit enquiries, as well as working with the vulnerable on a 1-1 basis. You will also possess good knowledge of other services within the borough that you can interlink with to provide the best outcomes.

The outreach team are currently working remotely, providing the same provisions, however, we do normally work from numerous outreach locations across the borough. It is our ambition to return to the face to face service when government safety guidelines allow. This means any applicant will also have experience in providing support both remotely and face to face.

It is essential that you have experience in delivering advice and assistance in either benefits, debt or homelessness advice or a very similar discipline. It is also essential that you have a proven track record of providing beneficial 1-1 support to the vulnerable on a varying number of issues.

We are very proud of our diverse, inclusive borough and we are looking for likeminded diverse and inclusive individuals to join our workforce. If you believe you have the necessary experience and you are genuinely passionate about helping others, please do apply as we would like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

1. To provide high quality advice to residents in the borough in relation to Universal Credit and the whole welfare system. To also provide advice on other matters such as (but not limited to) Housing, free school meals, NHS fines, energy grants and rent arrears.

2. Identify errors in Universal Credit calculation and information given to residents by the Department for Work and Pensions. Once identified, on-going support must be provided to ensure the error is corrected.

3. To undertake outreach using a holistic approach to advise and assist residents who may present with multiple issues and to provide wrap around support by way of on-going support and appropriate referrals to other partner agencies.

Additional Information

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CVs or alternative forms of applications are accepted.

Closing date: 07/06/2020

Interview Date: 25/06/2020

Please note interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams. 

This is a fixed term contract for one year.

Willingness to work outside of contracted hours in the evenings and weekends subject to notice.

To comply with the requirement to carry out a DBS check on this role.

Application Details

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

If this role is available to Internal employees only, this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CV’s or alternative forms of applications are accepted.

Internal employees should apply via the council's Intranet. External applicants apply via the Council's website. 

Financial Support Officer

Vacancy Reference Number: PLA00645
Grade: SO2 - £33,759 - £34,986
Contract Type: Temporary- Fixed Term Contract (FTC)
Number of Posts: 2
Hours per week:35

Benefits and Allowances

Our existing terms, conditions and benefits are currently under review.

Role Purpose

Are you passionate about making a difference? Do you get job satisfaction from helping the vulnerable achieve successful outcomes? If so, one of our Financial Support Officer roles may be for you.

Tower Hamlets Council is looking to recruit 2x Financial Support Officers to contribute to the meaningful work of the Tackling Poverty Programme. Tackling Poverty is a Mayoral priority and the programme was created to help alleviate the high poverty levels within the borough. The posts are being offered on a 1-year fixed term contract basis.

You will work with some of the borough’s most vulnerable residents to improve their circumstances. Using a holistic approach, you will identify all areas where support is required and where this support cannot be provided in-house i.e. specialist law advice, you will ensure referrals to appropriate organisations are made.

Using council systems, you will proactively contact vulnerable residents whom are identified as having rent arrears or being in financial crisis. You will have proven experience in carrying out income and budgeting assessments, and where gaps in benefit entitlements are identified, assistance to claim will be offered. This will predominately be Universal Credit and Discretionary Housing Payment applications but help to claim all welfare support will be offered. Knowledge of different financial and non-financial support options is required.

It is essential that you have experience in delivering advice and assistance in either benefits, debt or homelessness advice or a very similar discipline. It is also essential that you have a proven track record of providing beneficial 1-1 support to the vulnerable on a varying number of issues.

Occasionally we identify the opportunity for a benefit up-take campaign that we would like the financial support officers to lead on. 

We are very proud of our diverse, inclusive borough and we are looking for likeminded diverse and inclusive individuals to join our workforce. If you believe you have the necessary experience and you are genuinely passionate about helping others, please do apply as we would like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

To identify and proactively support the most vulnerable households in the borough who may be experiencing issues such as risk of homelessness and debt using council systems.

To carry out budgeting and income maximisation assessments using the Benefits and Budgeting calculator and support households to make applications for Discretionary Housing Payments and other grants available.

To carry out a wide range of duties that support the delivery of the overall Tackling Poverty Programme

Additional Information

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CVs or alternative forms of applications are accepted. 

Closing date: 07/06/2020

Interview Dates: 23/06/2020 and 24/06/2020

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams 

This is a fixed term contract for one year.

Willingness to work outside of contracted hours in the evenings and weekends subject to notice.

To comply with the requirement to carry out a DBS check on this role.

Application Details

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

If this role is available to Internal employees only, this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CV’s or alternative forms of applications are accepted.

Internal employees should apply via the council's Intranet. External applicants apply via the Council's website.

The Youth Futures Foundation is a new, independent, not for profit organisation set up to tackle youth unemployment with a £90million endowment from the Reclaim Fund. We are looking for bold and impactful ways to help young people find and keep good jobs. There are over 750,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK. Young people are twice as likely to be unemployed than older adults in the labour market and BAME and disadvantaged young people disproportionately bear the brunt of it.

We are building an ‘empowerment foundation’ to identify practical solutions that work in a complex world yet are simple and cost effective enough to roll out across multiple locations, to reach as many young people as possible. To do this, we are now building our own inspiring team to help us achieve our vision.

As the Executive Assistant to the CEO, you will play a vital role in supporting Youth Futures Foundation to achieve our mission and deliver our ambitious strategy. You will develop and deliver a comprehensive organisational, administrative and management support service to the CEO, Chair and wider Youth Futures Foundation team. You will be dealing with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders and will be the first point of contact for the Chief Executive and Chair.

This role will suit someone who has experience as an Executive Assistant at executive level and would be excited at the opportunity to be involved across all aspects of the organisation to ensure we are operating efficiently and effectively to deliver on our purpose.  As part of a small and ambitious team, the post holder will have visibility of all areas of the organisation and have the opportunity to really help with shaping Youth Futures Foundation at this nascent stage.

The successful candidate will have at least three years' experience supporting a senior management team member (i.e. CEO or Director), ideally in the charity sector, and will have excellent organisational, written, verbal and general project management experience.

The closing date is 11.59pm 8th June 2020.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

The successful candidate will be an experienced People Operations professional. They will be responsible for overseeing the day to day running of a compliant, customer-focused team who provide operational people services to managers, employees and potential employees.

The directorate is transitioning to a model of Centres of Excellence, Business partnering and People Delivery/Shared Services.  The substantive post holder is seconded into the transformation team and the successful candidate will provide an experienced steadying hand to team management, ensuring business as usual continues, whilst enabling the team to take up opportunities to participate in the transformation work as appropriate and prepare for change. 

The successful candidate will be an experienced people manager, with skills and experiences across the full employee lifecycle and team’s multi-functional remit.  They will also have a focus on customer service, continuous improvement, provision of first line HR and Payroll advice, generating and handling data and preferably will have worked in organisations using the Ulrich model.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

Age Cymru are extremely pleased to have been awarded funding from the Welsh Government to deliver the HOPE Project (Helping others to participate and engage). This is a project that will be delivered across the whole of Wales but some posts will operate within regional footprints. This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in the development and delivery of much needed local volunteer led advocacy support for older people through a community based co-produced approach. You will be part of a large team that will all be contributing to positive outcomes for older people at a preventative and early intervention level through the various posts within the HOPE Project.

We are recruiting for 3 part-time Project Officers to meet the HOPE project objectives by co-producing a regional framework for the development of advocacy across the region and supporting its delivery, and to recruit and support suitable volunteers within the region to deliver early intervention advocacy support, working closely and in collaboration with the local Age Connects and Age Cymru partners.

These roles are fixed term until March 2023

About you

* Passionate about the issues affecting older people and carers
* Experience of working with a diverse culture, environments and communities in which older people and carers live
* Knowledge of local services in the public or voluntary sector
* Working with others to deliver successful projects and services.
* Recruiting, managing and working with volunteers.
* Establishing and maintaining productive collaborations.
* Networking, Running meetings and events.
* Experience within advocacy
* Ability to successfully manage a team of volunteers to deliver project outcomes.
* Adapt to changing circumstances, multi task and make decisions based on new priorities and demands.
* Prioritise work and deal with competing or conflicting demands/needs and interests.
* Promote programme aims and objectives.
* Ability to speak Welsh (Desirable).

What we offer in return

* Holiday - 27 days made up of 24 choice days and 3 days to be used between Christmas & New Year - Including carry forward
* Flexible Hours Working Scheme
* Excellent pension scheme (we will contribute up to 9%), life assurance, Simply Health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Discount on Gym Membership and Go Sweat Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* Perkz (online employee benefits scheme offering discount with UK retailers.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here

These roles will be home based until the guidelines regarding Covid-19 change. We will then expect the 3 roles to be based in Flint, Denbigh and Caernarfon.

Age Cymru is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age Cymru is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age Cymru politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Age Cymru are extremely pleased to have been awarded funding from the Welsh Government to deliver the HOPE Project (Helping others to participate and engage). This is a project that will be delivered across the whole of Wales but some posts will operate within regional footprints. This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in the development and delivery of much needed local volunteer led advocacy support for older people through a community based co-produced approach. You will be part of a large team that will all be contributing to positive outcomes for older people at a preventative and early intervention level through the various posts within the HOPE Project.

We are recruiting for 3 part-time Project Officers to meet the HOPE project objectives by co-producing a regional framework for the development of advocacy across the region and supporting its delivery, and to recruit and support suitable volunteers within the region to deliver early intervention advocacy support, working closely and in collaboration with the local Age Connects and Age Cymru partners.

These roles are fixed term until March 2023

About you

* Passionate about the issues affecting older people and carers
* Experience of working with a diverse culture, environments and communities in which older people and carers live
* Knowledge of local services in the public or voluntary sector
* Working with others to deliver successful projects and services.
* Recruiting, managing and working with volunteers.
* Establishing and maintaining productive collaborations.
* Networking, Running meetings and events.
* Experience within advocacy
* Ability to successfully manage a team of volunteers to deliver project outcomes.
* Adapt to changing circumstances, multi task and make decisions based on new priorities and demands.
* Prioritise work and deal with competing or conflicting demands/needs and interests.
* Promote programme aims and objectives.
* Ability to speak Welsh (Desirable).

What we offer in return

* Holiday - 27 days made up of 24 choice days and 3 days to be used between Christmas & New Year - Including carry forward
* Flexible Hours Working Scheme
* Excellent pension scheme (we will contribute up to 9%), life assurance, Simply Health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Discount on Gym Membership and Go Sweat Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* Perkz (online employee benefits scheme offering discount with UK retailers.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here

These roles will be home based until the guidelines regarding Covid-19 change. We will then expect the 3 roles to be based in Flint, Denbigh and Caernarfon.

Age Cymru is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age Cymru is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age Cymru politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Data Analyst

Ewell 

Permanent, Salary Band 3 

Samaritans is an established charity who for over 60 years have been delivering services to some of the most vulnerable people across the UK and Republic of Ireland. 

Based in Ewell with great transport links to London and the South, our employees benefit from a picturesque head office, flexible working and a comprehensive wellbeing and benefits package. 

Our volunteers operate 24 hours a day providing emotional support and alleviating distress.  Our mission is to reduce the number of people who die by suicide and we pride ourselves in taking a leading role in influencing suicide prevention policy and practice.    

We are launching our new multi-channel platform, which should allow volunteers to answer telephone calls, online chats and emails within one platform.  We are also planning to roll out Online Chat after several successful pilots, as well as looking at digital outreach and a number of other exciting developments.

We are looking for Data Analyst to join our Listening Service team to inform continuous improvement in our services, to deliver deeper research findings, and to support more effective communications, partnerships and influencing. The Senior Service Data Analyst will play a key role in supporting the Samaritans vision that fewer people die by suicide. 

In return we’re offering a salary of between £28,000 and £38,000, 25 days holiday, and 3 wellbeing days per annum as well as access to a competitive pension scheme. 

We are keen to hear from candidates who have demonstrable experience of: 

• Recognizing and identifying appropriate ways to collect, collate and prepare data;

• Presenting clear findings that colleagues can understand and use;

• Understanding and producing different types of data models;

• Manipulating and linking different data sets; 

• Taking responsibility for data organisation, architecture, quality, integrity and compliance. 

In addition, we are interested to hear from candidates with experience of data visualisation, applied statistics or building data products - and candidates are encouraged to highlight any experience in these areas in their application. 

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to: 

• Determining the needs of different users for data insight and reporting; 

• Using operational data to monitor the functioning of our services; 

• Advising on the development of data systems and tools; 

• Representing service data on key initiatives and projects; 

• Assuming shared responsibility for improvements to data organisation, architecture, quality, and compliance. 

If the prospect of joining a well-respected and highly regarded national brand appeals to you please visit our website for a full job description

Domestic Abuse Duty Practitioner
Colchester, Essex

About Us

We are Next Chapter, a domestic abuse charity that provides free and confidential services to support people who are currently experiencing, or have previously experienced, domestic abuse. We work across Tendring, Colchester, Maldon, Chelmsford, Braintree and Uttlesford.

Formerly known as Colchester & Tendring Women's Refuge, our mission is to provide rapid responses that increase safety for all victims, enabling them to rebuild their lives and create lasting change.

We are passionate about ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to live their life free from domestic abuse. We’re currently looking for a Domestic Abuse Duty Practitioner to join us in Colchester.

The Benefits

- Salary of £22,070 - £24,831 per annum DOE & qualifications
- Career development and progression opportunities
- Join a skilled team who are passionate about making a positive change

If you have a background in duty, helpline, support and/or advice work and experience of supporting people affected by domestic violence, this is a great opportunity to make a real difference with an established charity. 

We strive to create a welcoming environment that enables our staff to give their best every day, because we understand how important it is to be supported both personally and professionally. 

We’re open, honest and fair in everything we do and are passionate about challenging injustices and enabling the voices of survivors to be heard. If you want to help us work towards a future without domestic abuse, we want to hear from you. 

The Role

As a Domestic Abuse Duty Practitioner, you will provide a high-quality telephone frontline service to victims of domestic abuse and professionals. 

Working as part of the Community Outreach Team, you will manage referrals both online and over the phone, as well as responding to live webchat enquiries via the website. 

Additionally, you will:

- Work with multiple agencies to ensure that individuals receive the best support possible
- Carry out an initial needs and risk assessment for individuals 
- Handle sensitive calls and deal with crisis intervention 
- Signpost individuals to any other beneficial services
- Maintain accurate and confidential service user records 

About You 

To join us as a Domestic Abuse Duty Practitioner, you will need: 

- Experience of working with individuals experiencing domestic abuse and other vulnerabilities
- Previous experience of duty, helpline, support and/or advice work, handling complex and sensitive calls and being able to respond to crisis intervention 
- A good understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on victims and their children 
- An understanding of the principles of risk assessment, safety planning and risk management for victims of domestic abuse and their children

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational qualification under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Experience or knowledge of any of the following would be beneficial: multi-agency partnership working, working in a community or voluntary organisation, trauma-informed care, child protection issues and the legal responsibilities surrounding these issues, current welfare rights legislation and its impact on individuals leaving abusive relationships, or the criminal justice system and civil and legal orders available to victims of domestic abuse.

Other organisations may call this role Caseworker, Support Worker, Domestic Violence Support Worker, Case Worker, Abuse Caseworker, or Protective Services Worker.

Next Chapter is committed to creating an inclusive environment which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish.

So, if you’re looking to take your next step as a Domestic Abuse Duty Practitioner, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Support Worker – Evenings / Weekends
Based from one of our sites in Tendring, Colchester, Maldon, Chelmsford, Braintree or Uttlesford

Do you have experience of working with vulnerable individuals or of working in a residential care setting? Want to take on a challenging, yet highly rewarding role that you can fit around your existing responsibilities? If so, read on. 

About Us

We are Next Chapter, a domestic abuse charity that provides free and confidential services to support people who are currently experiencing, or have previously experienced, domestic abuse. We work across Tendring, Colchester, Maldon, Chelmsford, Braintree and Uttlesford.

Formerly known as Colchester & Tendring Women's Refuge, our mission is to provide rapid responses that increase safety for all victims, enabling them to rebuild their lives and create lasting change.

We’re currently looking for a number of Support Workers to join us on a part-time basis, working evenings and weekends. 

The Benefits 

- Salary of £18,971 pro rata 
- Career development and progression opportunities
- Join a skilled team who are passionate about making a positive change 
- Help to create a positive and welcoming environment in our refuge 

This is a fantastic opportunity to build on your existing expertise and join a forward-thinking charity in working towards a future free of domestic abuse. 

Once you join us, you’ll discover an open, honest and collaborative environment where staff are empowered to develop, both personally and professionally. 

The evenings and weekends can be a particularly lonely time for our refuge residents, and you will play an important part in helping them to recover and start rebuilding their lives. 

The Role

As a Support Worker, you will provide emotional and practical support to women in our Recovery Refuge. 

Specifically, you will: 

- Ensure that any advice or assistance you provide is in line with current safety and support plans 
- Encourage residents to get involved with social activities 
- Support new residents and provide a tour of the refuge 
- Welcome out-of-hours admissions and complete the admissions process 

About You 

To join us as a Support Worker, you will need: 

- Experience of working with vulnerable individuals or experience of working in a residential care setting
- An understanding of safeguarding procedures and the legal responsibilities surrounding these issues
- Knowledge of confidentiality protocols and boundaries and the ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
- An understanding of the principles of risk assessment, safety planning and risk management for vulnerable individuals

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational qualification under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Experience of any of the following would be beneficial: working in a community or voluntary organisation, working with individuals with substance misuse issues, or working in domestic abuse services. 

You may have previously worked as a Residential Care Assistant, Domestic Abuse Support Worker, Caseworker, Refuge Support Worker, or Women’s Refuge Support Worker.

This is a part-time role. We have the following hours available: 

- 20 hours per week, 5pm – 10pm, Monday – Thursday 
- 16 hours per week, 5pm – 10pm, Friday, and 4:30pm – 10pm on weekends 
- 16 hours per week, 8am – 4:30pm on weekends

Next Chapter is committed to creating an inclusive environment which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish.

So, if you’re looking to take your next step as a Support Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Hours: Will consider full time and part time

Salary: £37,000 - £40,000

Contract: Permanent

Location: Bristol/London/Home (with regular travel across UK)

The Role

The Senior Practice Consultant for the Whole Family Practice Team will steer and guide our work to transform the multi-agency response to domestic abuse and how children adults and families are safeguarded.

The role will work nationally; supporting the Head and team to establish a framework for disseminating best practice, embedding quality and learning and enabling statutory and voluntary sectors to work better together to improve the experience and outcomes for children, adults and families. You will combine comprehensive and innovative practice experience with an entrepreneurial mind-set, focusing on working alongside partners to devise innovative, dynamic and pragmatic solutions to complex problems. 

Context

As Senior Practice Consultant, you need to be able to both coach and mentor your team, alongside pro-actively support your Head in an ever changing strategic and operational environment.

This person needs exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; bringing a strength in building relationships with national partners and local areas. They must be dedicated and determined in the development of a coordinated and dynamic response to domestic abuse and related safeguarding complexities.

This role requires a resilient, positive, driven and solution focussed attitude and mindset is a necessity in supporting and guiding this team in its mission to make people safer, sooner. 

You will be confident about delivering new and dynamic ways of working in fast changing, challenging and untested environments. You will live our values, and be part of building a culture where agencies working together to safeguard and end domestic abuse offer a compassionate, consistent and high quality response to victims, survivors, and their families.

Benefits include a generous package including: 25 days’ holiday a year and public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme.

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.

Closing date: Sunday 14th June 2020 at midnight.

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.

No agencies please.

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, modern slavery and human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,000 women and children in our national network of services.  These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services, culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline. We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, manage a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.

This is an exciting role to support and reach out to young people aged 11 – 17 who have experienced or been effected by gender based violence. You will manage a caseload of around 15 clients, providing one-to-one emotional and practical support.

You will work in partnership with other agencies to secure the best outcomes for your clients and for other survivors of domestic or sexual violence. You will work in partnership with other agencies to deliver presentations and informal training to increase local understanding and improve the coordinated response to gender based violence, especially for young people.

You will have demonstrable experience of providing emotional and practical support within the violence against women and girls sector, preferably working with young people. You will be experienced in advocating in a multi-agency setting to secure positive life outcomes for your clients and to making the service a success.

You will be self-sufficient, assertive and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with empathy and sensitivity to build and develop supportive relationships with young people. You will maintain professional boundaries and adhere fully to Refuge’s safeguarding policies and procedures.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality which underpin all of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to work within Refuge’s Values and Behaviour Framework and demonstrate these in their everyday work.

Competitive salary offering annual progression within points of the salary grade, 28 days annual leave increasing to 30 days, pension scheme with People’s pension that includes a 6% Employer contribution, comprehensive EAP.

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We offer the first Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) accredited qualification for our profession. 

Please visit Refuge’s website for further details and other opportunities.

Closing Date: 14th June 2020

This is a full time and fixed term role for 1 year.

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.