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About Woman’s Trust
The charity was established in 1996 to meet the gap in specialist mental health services. Woman’s Trust is led by and for women and aims to ensure that women affected by domestic abuse can live a life free from further harm and abuse. Our approach is trauma-informed and person-centred, empowering survivors on their journey to recovery from the trauma. We are committed to a positive, inclusive and equitable environment for our staff, service users and volunteers.
Alongside delivering our existing 1-1 counselling, self-development workshops and therapeutic support groups for women who have experienced domestic abuse, we are focused on developing our innovative mental health services for young women and girls, delivering new peer-led support groups and providing therapeutic groups to children and their mothers. We are also committed to developing further awareness-raising workshops and training for professionals, building on our research and policy to improve systems nationally.
Background
The lack of recognition of domestic abuse as a mental health issue within the NHS leads to delayed and inadequate support for survivors. This gap in understanding and response often result in survivors only being able to access and receive appropriate care when their mental health deteriorates to the point of requiring secondary mental health services (Women’s Aid 2021). Meta analysis suggests that CBT, one of the NHS’s most prescribed approaches for mental ill-health, is not the best approach for domestic abuse survivors as it does not recognise and take into account the external factors and dynamics of abuse, specifically power and control, the role of the perpetrator and the resulting trauma for the survivor.
In March 2025, WT published its first major report, ‘Living Without Hope’ which consolidates existing and increasing academic, government and sector research demonstrating the significant impact of domestic abuse on women’s mental health. Outlining the current agency responses at national, regional and local levels and the gaps in provision; the report also makes recommendations for change and improvement across the VAWG and health sectors.
Building on the research highlighted in our ‘Living Without Hope’ report, WT has secured funding to work with key stakeholders in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to examine the links between domestic abuse and mental health, the specific experiences of Arab and Moroccan women and their access to safe, appropriate services that meet their needs.
Purpose
This is an exciting new role and will be focused on developing Woman’s Trust’s (WT) response to addressing the systemic issues female survivors of domestic abuse face when trying to access support.
Working with key stakeholders in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (LBKC) and specifically Al-Hasniya to ensure that professionals have a clearer understanding of the link between domestic abuse and mental health and its impact on survivors.
Contract & hours: Part-time, 22.5 hours per week (0.6 FTE). Fixed term as dependant on funding.
Location: Woman’s Trust premises including co-location with statutory partners and community partnership locations.
Closing date: 10 February 2026.
Interviews: 18 February 2026.
Please note, this post is open to female applicants only – Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1 applies.
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Location: The Upper Room, St Saviour’s Church, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week (3 days)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £30,000 per annum (full-time equivalent), £18,000 actual for 3 days per week
Reports to: UR4Driving Service Manager
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About the Role
UR4Driving supports individuals who have experienced the criminal justice system, or are at risk of entering it, to gain their driving licence, rebuild confidence, and move towards independence. The driving licence is a powerful tool, opening access to employment, structure and self-worth.
As our Employment & Training Co-ordinator, you will be embedded within the UR4Driving team, helping participants make the most of their progress by supporting them into meaningful volunteering, training, or employment. Many of our participants face significant barriers including chaotic lifestyles, trauma histories, long-term unemployment, poor digital literacy, and limited formal education. This role is about building trust,offering practical support, and creating pathways that are realistic, motivating and sustainable.
You will offer a blend of structured 1:1 guidance and group workshops, developing individual action plans, and linking participants to volunteering and job opportunities. You’ll also work closely with other staff and external agencies to ensure a holistic approach to support.
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Key Responsibilities
1. Client Support & Employability Delivery
- Deliver 1:1 support to all UR4Driving participants, including two mandatory employment sessions per client
- Build trusted relationships with clients who may have complex needs or low confidence
- Provide practical guidance on CVs, job applications, interview skills, and disclosure statements
- Support job searching, training enrolment and digital access where needed
- Deliver regular group employability workshops (monthly or fortnightly)
- Ensure every client completes and logs 80 hours of volunteering, with support to secure placement.
2. Assessment & Action Planning
- Identify individual strengths, goals, and barriers (e.g. mental health, housing, welfare)
- Develop and monitor personalised action plans for employment, volunteering, or education
- Make appropriate referrals to wraparound support services (e.g. benefits, housing, clinical support)
3. Employer and Partner Engagement
- Develop relationships with local employers, volunteering bodies and training providers
- Promote the strengths and potential of UR4Driving participants to external partners
- Support a small number of participants into direct job, training or volunteering placements
4. Monitoring and Outcomes
- Use The Upper Room’s CRM system (e.g. Inform) to record sessions, milestones and outcomes
- Track attendance, engagement and progress across all participants
- Contribute to reports, case studies and service evaluation as required
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Person Specification
Essential
- Empathy, patience and the ability to build rapport with individuals with complex lives
- Experience supporting clients into employment, education or volunteering
- Knowledge of barriers faced by ex-offenders and vulnerable adults
- Excellent communication and motivational skills
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a caseload
- Must be able to independently design and adapt workshop content, resources and tools to suit the needs of the client group
- Confident with CV development, disclosure support, job search and basic digital tools
- Commitment to safeguarding, equity, and trauma-informed practice
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Desirable
- Experience facilitating group workshops or training
- Knowledge of local employment and training opportunities in West London
- Understanding of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and related guidance
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Why Join Us
The Upper Room is a values-led organisation committed to empowering those experiencing poverty, exclusion or injustice. You’ll be part of a supportive and motivated team, with opportunities for development and real impact.
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How to Apply
Please send your CV along with a covering letter (max 500 words) outlining why you’re interested in the role and what you’d bring to it. If you’d like to arrange an informal chat before applying, we’d be happy to speak with you.
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Recruitment Process
- Stage 1: Panel interview focused on your experience, motivation and approach.
- Stage 2 (if shortlisted): A short presentation followed by further discussion. Full briefing provided in advance.
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Closing Date
Tuesday, 3rd February 2026
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Registered Charity
11 - 20
Making sure nobody, socially or financially excluded in West London goes without help, supporting those in need, enabling those with potential
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Role
This is an entry level, part-time administrative role within the Volunteer Recruitment & Training team
The Listening Place (TLP) is an award-winning charity providing face-to-face, compassionate and non-judgemental support for people who feel that life is no longer worth living. Since opening our first site in Pimlico in 2016, we have grown to four sites and our service is delivered by over 850 active volunteers.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, dedicated team and play a vital role in ensuring our volunteers are recruited, trained and prepared to deliver our outstanding service. You will provide high quality administrative support across the volunteer recruitment and training process, helping the team to operate efficiently and effectively.
We are committed to welcoming everyone from all backgrounds and communities and creating inclusive teams. If you have a disability, a learning difficulty (such as dyslexia) or a medical condition that may affect your performance during the selection process or in the role, we are very happy to make reasonable adjustments to support you.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support across the volunteer recruitment and training process
- Liaise with potential volunteers, interviewers and trainers
- Arrange and coordinate meetings, interviews and training events (this may involve travelling between sites)
- Manage room bookings and logistics for training and interviews
- Monitor shared mailboxes and calendars; respond promptly to email and telephone enquiries
- Request, track and record volunteer references
- Maintain accurate office systems, including data entry and upkeep of spreadsheets and databases
- Any other ad-hoc tasks as required
Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills, with strong attention to detail
- Ability to work at a fast pace whilst maintaining accuracy
- Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills
- A reliable, punctual and enthusiastic team player, who works collaboratively and builds positive working relationships
- Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to plan, prioritise and manage competing demands
- Calm and professional under pressure
- High level of computer proficiency, particularly in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and tact
- Strong commitment to, and understanding of, The Listening Place’s mission and values
Desirable
- Recent experience in an administrative role
- Experience working or volunteering within a charity or volunteer-led organisation
Hours
3 days a week (22.5 hours), worked during office hours, Monday to Friday.Occasional evening and weekend work to meet operational requirements.
Location
Predominantly office based at our Hammersmith or Liverpool Street offices with some remote working.
Reporting line
The Volunteer Recruitment and Training Coordinator will report to the Senior Volunteer Recruitment and Training Coordinator.
Salary
£18,094 pro-rated per annum (subject to a scheduled review and anticipated increase in April 2026) plus:
- 3% employer contribution towards pension
- 15 days annual leave per annum (plus pro-rated public holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Medicash health insurance and critical illness cover
Application process
Please submit a CV and cover letter (maximum one A4 page) by Friday 30 January.
Candidates shortlisted for interview will be asked to complete a homework task in advance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Title: Independent Visitor Co-ordinator
Service: Manchester
Reporting to: Children’s Rights Manager
Salary: £19,434.82 (£24,293.53 FTE) per annum
Location: Home based (with travel across the region)
Hours: 28 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
Our work
Coram Voice is a national independent children’s charity established in 1975 and has grown to become one of the leading organisations for children and young people in the UK.
Coram Voice is a leading children’s rights organisation. We champion the rights of children. We get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them and work to improve the lives of children in care, care leavers and others who depend upon the help of the state.
We provide:
- Advocacy services direct to children and young people in care, in need, in custody and to care leavers and children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems. Advocates around the country support children and young people to get their voice heard in decisions about their lives.This may be through the telephone helpline or through an advocate working directly with a child, for instance, to support them at a review meeting or to help them make a complaint about their care. Coram Voice provides visiting advocacy services to most of the secure units nationally, to Secure Training Centres, Juvenile Young Offender Institutions, psychiatric hospitals, residential special schools and children’s homes.
- Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) to advocate for young people as qualifying patients under the Mental Health Act, in order to fully support them to get their views heard in matters relating to their mental health.
- Independent Visitor services offers a child or young person in care an adult volunteer who provides independent, one-to-one visiting, advice and befriending support. Our independent visitors can become the only long-term, consistent source of support throughout a young person's time in care.
- Independent services provide independent person services for complaints by children and for reviewing whether children should be locked up in secure units on welfare grounds.
- Policy and campaigning to create a better system for all children and young people looked after by the state, for their care to be more child-centred and to give young people a greater say in decisions about their lives.
- Participation services to ensure children and young people have a voice in the development and delivery of services and campaigns, and through the process, provide the opportunity to develop relevant skills which will be of benefit to them in their future lives.
- Training, development and information for young people, advocates and child care workers, offering courses in advocacy, children’s rights and child-centred practice across a range of areas including the National Advocacy Qualification.
Job Introduction
- Are you passionate about supporting and developing volunteers?
- Are you looking for an opportunity to help make positive differences to the lives of children and young people who are looked after or care leavers of the local authority?
- Do you want to work with a leading national independent children’s charity?
Then come join us here at Coram Voice. We have an exciting opportunity for you to become a co-ordinator of our independent visiting service in Manchester.
We are seeking candidates who are committed to our objectives for children and young people and equally committed to the organisation and the development of our services. We recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and young people we help.
About the Role
You will co-ordinate and deliver a statutory independent visitor service to children and young people in care or care leavers of Manchester.
You will recruit, assess and train volunteers to become independent visitors, who are volunteer befrienders to children and young people looked after or care leavers. You will manage a cash flow to fund suitable activities for independent visitors to enjoy with the young person. You will manage data and reporting for this statutory service so that service leads and other stakeholders can understand the activity in the service.
We are a child led service, you will not act outside of the young person’s instructions (except in matters of child protection and safety.)You will build strong relationships with the child or young person, independent visitors and other significant adults, you will support Independent Visitors to develop long term, meaningful friendships with the young person.
You will work in partnership with other parts of the service, organisation and external agencies and professionals. This is to ensure there are pathways to attract and retain Independent Visitors in the area and sometimes out of area.
What you will receive
We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. Coram Voice benefits package includes a competitive salary, a matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of up to 25 days’ annual leave plus an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year. A supportive work environment fostering a good work/home life balance and a suite of family friendly policies, which promote employee wellbeing.
You will get a genuine opportunity to make a difference every day.
Recruitment process
Shortlisting will be undertaken by Emma Keen, Children’s Rights Manager and Sarah Gabriel, Children’s Rights Manager. Successful candidates will then be invited for interview.The interview process comprises of a written exercise and a panel interview.Successful candidates will have a further one to one interview in accordance within Warner recommendations. Internal candidates will need to notify HR of their interest in the post and they will provide further information on the internal application process.
Returning your application:
- We cannot accept general CVs. When completing your application form, you need to address each point of the person specification and demonstrate how you meet it.
- Applications must be fully completed.
- If you are a current Coram Voice employee you may submit a supporting statement only addressing the person specification requirements for the post.
Closing date: Monday 2nd February 2026 at 9am
Interview date: Thursday 5th February 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We are a leading children’s rights organisation. We champion the rights of children and get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.