This is an exciting and challenging new role at SurvivorsUK, that combines management and leadership of a small team with a clinical caseload. It is designed to widen access to therapeutic support and improve and expand our existing provision in response to the specific and individual needs of our client base, Survivors accessing the service will receive 12 trauma-focused, short-term therapy sessions, including stabilisation techniques, risk and symptom management, and psychoeducation. This dedicated, expert support will be delivered by the Senior Swift Response Counsellor. The service is inclusive of people with clinical mental health diagnoses, drug and alcohol dependencies, at risk of suicide, homelessness or involved in the sex industry.

You will need to be an experienced manager with a passion for service development and a track record of supporting clinical staff. You will also need to be a skilled counsellor with recent experience of highly vulnerable clients.

Come and join our exciting social action programmes we deliver across Hackney and the City of London. If you are passionate about bringing people together to tackle common goals and deliver their dream ideas, then apply!

We are recruiting for our resident engagement and social action programmes that work with residents living across Hackney and the City of London. You will be based out in the community to engage, support and enable local residents and patients to deliver local services for themselves, to meet local needs. We support residents to come together, to share their skills and experience for the benefit of each other, to deliver local groups and activities such as a book group, film club, exercise classes or cooking group. Residents from diverse backgrounds and demographics attend these activities together and make new connections, building strong local communities, all working together to make their area a better place to live. People, many of whom are isolated across all ages, and who have difficult life circumstances, are brought together, providing each other with mutual support and encouragement to develop new skills and pursue life goals, and to feel better able to voice their concerns to services.

You will be joining a nationally recognised project, working with a whole range of community organisations and stakeholders including GP surgeries, local Councillors, mental health services, local authorities, to support residents to fulfil their personal goals, make connections with others, and design activities and services that meet local needs.

The roles are mainly based in one of our community hubs and so the post holders need to be self-motivating and confident to work alongside one other person and often alone, with some support from the team members based at other sites.

Senior IDVA

Location: Waltham Forest

Salary: Band 3

£30,500 dependent on experience and qualifications

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract: FTC for 12 months  

Vacancy Reference: a116

Closing Date: 05/06/2022

Interview Date: 10/06/2022

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

The Waltham Forest SASS team provides advocacy and support to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse living in Waltham Forest. An exciting opportunity has arisen in this busy team for a Senior IDVA.

About the Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for the IDVA team in Waltham Forest. This will include representing in multiagency meetings such as MARAC, holding a case load of service users identified as requiring short-term intervention, completing risk and needs assessing and safety planning with survivors of domestic violence. They will line manage the other IDVAs in the team including provision of regular supervision, advice and support and performance management. They will also support the wider advocacy team as and when required.

About You

We're looking for highly organised and self-motivated applicants who are passionate about ending gender-based violence. You will have a “can-do‟ approach and demonstrable commitment to Solace’s feminist approach to supporting women and their children to be safer. You will receive training and support for this role as necessary.

Successful applicants will have in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse and its impact on service users and their children, and experience of working with women who have experienced domestic and/or sexual abuse including strong casework management skills. You will also have experience of line managing staff or volunteers and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
 

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Job Title: Independent Gender Violence Advocate (IGVA)

Location: Redbridge VAWG, London

Salary: £27,948 per annum

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

We are recruiting for two independent gender violence advocates who will be working closely with victims of gender-based violence from the point of crisis, to provide high quality independent advocacy and support to survivors of gender-based violence at the highest risk and their children.

In this role you will be providing high quality independent advocacy and support to the highest risk survivors of gender-based violence and their children. This involves establishing and prioritising the risks to and the needs of survivors of gender-based violence and developing and delivering individual support and risk management plans in partnership with other agencies who attend the MARAC. You will advocate both verbally and in writing in a range of settings including civil and criminal proceedings and with criminal justice professionals.

We are looking for someone with proven experience of providing emotional and practical support to survivors of gender-based violence, also experienced in identifying and responding to the risks to and needs of survivors with ability to work in crisis or under pressure and have an up-to-date knowledge of criminal and civil legislation relating to gender-based violence.

You must understand multi-agency partnership structures including the MARAC and have an ability to advocate on a client’s behalf in a range of settings with strong written and verbal communication skills to write reports, deliver presentations and to communicate to stakeholders in a clear and effective way.

This role requires an exceptional individual who wants to make a difference. Occasional evening work may be required.

Benefits

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.

Other information

Closing Date: Monday 30 May 2022 at 09.00 am

Interview Date: Tuesday 07 June 2022

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

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

Do you want to make life better for LGBT+ victims and survivors of abuse?

Galop, the UK’s LGBT+ anti-abuse charity, is seeking an LGBT+ Housing Advocate to join our thriving advocacy team. As an LGBT+ Housing Advocate, you will provide high quality advocacy and support to LGBT+ people experiencing harm and abuse, focusing on their needs, safety and recovery. This role builds on work that we have been doing for decades to support and empower LGBT+ people who have been victims of violence and abuse.  Your work will enable LGBT+ people to feel supported, heard and empowered in the face of abuse and violence and pave the way to a safer future for our community.

Galop works directly with thousands of LGBT+ people who have experienced abuse and violence every year. We specialise in supporting victims and survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence, hate crime, and other forms of abuse, including honour-based abuse, forced marriage, and so-called conversion therapies. We are a service run by LGBT+ people for LGBT+ people, and the needs of our community are at the centre of what we do.

We run three national support helplines for LGBT+ victims and survivors of domestic abuse, so-called “conversion therapy”, and hate crime. We provide advocacy services, both in London and nationally, for LGBT+ victims who need longer-term support. We are person-centred, empowerment-based, and trauma-informed – meaning our focus is always on helping our clients decide what is best for them and then supporting them through their journey.

We use what we learn through working on the frontlines with clients to work on national and local policy changes to improve outcomes for LGBT+ victims and survivors of abuse and violence. We build evidence through key pieces of research, like our upcoming report on LGBT+ experiences of sexual violence. We push for legislative change, improved statutory guidance for victims, and a better understanding of the needs of LGBT+ people around the country.

You will work directly with LGBT+ victims/survivors, offering them a space to talk and think through options, helping them plan what they want to do, and offering assistance in getting what they need from services. Your work will focus on needs specifically related to the housing needs of LGBT+ people subjected to domestic abuse. You will be empathetic and thoughtful in your approach to understanding your clients’ needs while remaining boundaried and mindful of self-care. You will carry a caseload of service users who hold social tenancies with the local authority or a housing association. You will be required to coordinate the provision of multi-agency support, which focuses on working with domestic abuse survivors to maintain their tenancies and prevent homelessness.

You be line-managed by the Head of Domestic Abuse Services and sit alongside our team of advocates. You will also work with other statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure that LGBT+ victims/survivors across London get what they need from services. You will also work closely with key partner organisations providing support across London. You’ll help us reach, support and assist more of our community. You’ll be helping to amplify the voices of LGBT+ survivors of abuse and ensure that they are at the centre of Galop’s service.

Location

Galop’s offices are located in London. Hybrid working is available.

Hours

Full time (35 hours per week)

Contract

Fixed-term until 31 March 2023 (extension subject to continued funding)

Reports to

Head of Domestic Abuse Services

Salary

Galop uses the NJC scales. This post is on NJC scale points 20 to 25 (£ 30,224.84 - £33,873.59 year including London Weighting).

Closing Date

Applications should be submitted by 10:00am on 30th May 2022. Interviews will be held on 6th June 2022. 

We have an exciting opportunity to support male victims of crime in Cumbria, working 37.5 hours a week.

Do you want to make a difference every day? Do you want to contribute to change & improvement for male victims of crime? Do you have resilience & adaptability?

If yes, then we'd love to hear from you…

What we offer:

At Victim Support we believe in attracting & retaining the best people and offer a competitive rewards & benefits package including: -

• Flexible working options including hybrid working
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising to 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension with 5% employer contribution
• Enhanced sick pay allowances & maternity payments
• High Street, retail, holiday, entertainment & leisure discounts
• Access to our financial wellbeing hub & salary deducted finance
• Employee assistance programme & wellbeing support
• Ongoing training & support with opportunities for career development & progression

About the role:

The post is full time, Mon-Fri 9-5 although there will be a need for flexibility. The post is initially offered fixed term until March 2023 but may be extended depending on funding. This post is home-based but some travel around the Cumbria area may be required.

Please note that we are committed to provide support where victims can choose to be supported by someone of their own gender and so this post is open to male applicants only as being male is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

As a male victim caseworker you provide tailored advice and support to all male victims of crime including sexual and/or domestic violence. You will assist in the development of resources and support to meet the needs of male victims, and support the wider team to deliver the services ensuring that the needs of male victims of crime are met.

To be successful in this role you will be flexible and proactive, and have knowledge and experience of working with male victims of crime and have a thorough understanding of the needs of this group. You may have experience of delivering a service and working directly with people in a statutory, voluntary or community work setting. You will hold or be expected to train as an Independent Sexual Violence Adviser.

About Us:

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity providing a range of specialist services to people who have been affected by crime across England and Wales. We work towards a world where there are fewer victims but who have stronger rights, better support and a real influence in the Criminal Justice System. Everyone at VS is driven by our Vision Ambitions and Values to play their part in making a difference for those who experience crime and traumatic events. Working for VS gives you the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing high quality services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

Victim Support is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all communities and monitor the diversity of applicants to analyse if we are representative of the communities we serve in terms of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, age and socio-economic status. As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.

How to apply:

To apply for this role please follow the link below to the Jobs page on our website, and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the essential shortlisting criteria.

We looking forward to hearing from you.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date.

The Youth Endowment Fund

Programme Manager 

Reports to: Head of Programmes, Youth Endowment Fund 

Salary: £41,225 - £43,394 dependent on experience  

Location: Central London/ Hybrid (expectation of a least 2 days per week in office if based in Central London) 

Application Closing: Wednesday 8th June 2022. 

About the Youth Endowment Fund 

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice. 

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.  

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We exist to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by funding great initiatives, finding what works and working for change - scaling and spreading the practices that make a difference.  

Key Responsibilities 

Deciding which projects, we should fund and evaluate is key, as is making sure we deliver our funding and evaluations to the highest standards. Our Programme Managers are responsible for identifying, assessing, funding and supporting programmes designed to prevent youth violence.

Our Programme Managers span many areas of expertise. We look for individuals who may have experience in the youth sector, policing, criminal justice, education or how to involve local residents in making decisions about their own neighbourhoods.

If you have specific expertise in any of our funding themes or in place-based projects, we want to hear about it in your cover letter.

As a Programme Manager at YEF, you would work very closely with our evaluation team to make sure we learn from what’s being implemented and that the organisations we fund are prepared and excited to work with us to find what works.  
 

To achieve this, you will: 

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with through assessing funding applications, getting to know potential grantees and conducting site visits. You will check carefully all the initiatives we fund to ensure they are good things for us to fund.

• Work closely with potential grantees, external evaluators and our own evaluation team to ensure that the activity we are funding will be evaluable. This requires you supporting and advising potential grantees.

• Build strong relationships with our grantees and provide them with ongoing management and support through the life of their funding. You will also be responsible for monitoring the performance of grantees and ensuring targets are met and any project risks are effectively mitigated.

• Think strategically about how we design new funding rounds to achieve our overall goals and then manage those rounds excellently. You will help to design what our funding rounds are meant to achieve, will design grant application processes to achieve it, and manage our engagement with potential applicants to make sure we are attracting a diverse and promising portfolio of organisations to apply. 

• Report to our team and external stakeholders regularly on our funding portfolio to identify the emerging support needs of our potential and existing grantees and propose recommendations to address these needs. 

• Represent the Youth Endowment Fund at external events. 

About You 

You are this sort of person: 

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in a charity that is making a difference.

• You want to work in a job that makes young people safer. This issue matters to you. You don’t need extensive experience in grant making, you just have to be committed to learning it, but you do have to understand the sectors we work with, the challenges facing young people and what organisations face when implementing delivery programmes.

• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: policing, education, social care or the youth sector. 

• You have incredible judgement. You are able to reach sound and considered judgements about the viability and suitability of applicants based upon our given criteria, often using detailed written and financial information, and are able to deliver constructive feedback to organisations. You can also identify when things aren’t going to plan and be proactive with sharing observations and recommendations. 

• You are an optimiser. You look for solutions and think creatively to overcome challenges. You are curious, hungry to learn and always looking for ways to improve processes and increase efficiency and impact. 

• You love well-designed systems. You are committed to designing and maintaining the best systems to make sure we manage our funding rounds well. You know this is critical to effectively managing multiple, large-scale funding programmes and competing priorities. 

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with people at every level inside and outside the organisation and have managed large networks of stakeholders with different interests and priorities. You are excellent at customer service and can professionally handle issues that come up within your grant portfolio. 

• You work very well in a team. You are not motivated by being the individual winner. You want the team as a whole to succeed. You don’t care who gets the credit as long as things get done. 

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values. 
   

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence. 

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. 

This position will require a DBS check to be performed, but a record is not a block to performing this role. 
 

To apply  

To apply, please send a CV and cover letter, and complete the monitoring form via our application page by 23:59 Wednesday 8th June 2022. 

You’ll be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.  

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 20th June 2022. 

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.  
  

Job Title IRIS Advocate and Educator

Location: Barnet

Salary: Band 2.1-2.2 – Unqualified: £26,000-£27,500. Qualified: £27,500-£30,000 (please note successful candidates are usually appointed at bottom of relevant band)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract:  fixed term contact until 31st March 2023 – with possible extension depends on the funding

Vacancy Reference: S118

Closing Date: 27.05.2022

Interview Date: 03.06.2022

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Role: The role of an IRIS Advocate Educator is to organise and provide training to general medical practices, on-going support for health professionals and a proactive culturally sensitive and supportive service for women and girls who are experiencing domestic abuse.

The successful candidate will be responsible for risk and needs assessing and safety planning with survivors of domestic violence. They will hold a caseload of service users referred to the service via their GPs, providing advice, advocacy and onward referral where appropriate.

The successful candidate will also provide advice to the IRIS trained G.Ps and act like their domestic abuse lead.

About You: We're looking for highly organised and self-motivated applicants who are passionate about ending gender-based violence. You will have a “can-do‟ approach and demonstrable commitment to Solace’s feminist approach to supporting women and their children to be safer. You will receive training and support for this role as necessary.

Successful applicants will have in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse and its impact on service users and their children, experience of working with women who have experienced domestic and/or sexual abuse including strong casework management skills.

Please note: Applicants must hold a recognised VAWG qualification (IDVA, ISVA, DAPA or equivalent)  to be eligible for this role.

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Solace Women’s Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Solace is a Disability Confident employer. Please feel free to email us  if you require any additional support to apply for this role.

This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to women applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

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

Unfortunately we do not accept CVs and request no contact from recruitment agencies.

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gender-based violence. We aim to ensure that we proactively provide services, which meet the needs of the women, and girls who access them.

We are now seeking additional High Intensity Practitioners to join our Clinical Team’s Safeguarding Hub to facilitate innovative, responsive, trauma-informed and culturally responsible services for survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG). Our High Intensity Practitioners deliver a therapeutic response which engages survivors considered at high risk due to coping strategies such as acute or chronic self-injurious behaviour or suicidality that presents a threat to the client’s wellbeing.

We are particularly keen to hear from you if you have experience of working with one or more of the following or providing: specialist therapeutic support specifically addressing crisis presentation, a range of interventions, facilitating safety and stabilisation aiming to manage distress, interrupting presentation of suicidality, self-injurious behaviour and providing alternative coping strategies, creative solutions in working with survivors of VAWG that are affected by problematic substance use and mental ill health and / or from applicants who speak various community languages.

These posts will be based in various West London locations.

Applicants must be BACP, UKCP or HCPC accredited (or eligible) and demonstrate an understanding of the following: gender responsive approach, trauma focused, holistic therapeutic responses and multicultural competencies.

We provide clinical supervision, access to an on-going CPD programme and the opportunity to work in a leading multi-cultural feminist organisation. Employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, enhanced leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Programme.

We welcome and encourage applications from women of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic communities.

Interviews will be held on: Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th June 2022.

Please note: Applicants who have not received a response to their application within 2 weeks of the closing date should assume their application has not been successful on this occasion.

These posts are subject to satisfactory references and DBS checks.

WGN is an equal opportunities employer. The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gender-based violence.

We aim to ensure that we are proactive in developing specialist services that meet the needs of all the women and girls who access our services. We seek Specialist Counsellors who will thrive in a multi-cultural feminist environment.

We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have experience of working with one or more of the following:

• Women and girls from Black, Minority, and Global Majority communities - ensuring that issues related to diversity and identity are effectively understood and sensitively worked with.
• Delivering counselling via web chat and online platforms.
• Working with young people.
• And / or from applicants who speak various community languages.

Applicants must be BACP, UKCP or HCPC accredited (or eligible) and have experience of providing a range of counselling interventions for women and girls who have been subjected to gender-based violence. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following: gender responsive approach, trauma focused, holistic therapeutic responses and multicultural competencies. Successful candidates will also be experienced in facilitating recovery and responding to a diverse client group with multiple cultural identities.

These posts will be based in various West London locations.

We will be offering a minimum of 14 hours a week which will be dependent on the skills set of the successful candidates.

WGN’s employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, enhanced leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Scheme. Successful candidates will receive regular line management support, clinical supervision, training and development including access to an ongoing CPD programme.

Interviews: Monday 13th & Tuesday 14th June 2022.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be required to attend 5 days of WGN Induction training – to be held in July 2022.

Please note: Applicants who have not received a response to their application within 2 weeks of the closing date should assume their application has not been successful on this occasion.

These posts are subject to satisfactory references and a DBS Check.

WGN is an equal opportunities employer.The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 and Part 1

Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Policy and Advocacy, the role will be responsible for developing and delivering high-impact parliamentary engagement and campaigns, building and holding relationships with those with political influence, and advising senior staff on political affairs.

The role will also involve working closely with coalitions and INGOs including BOND, GADN and GAPS to coordinate for greatest impact. It will involve being part of CARE’s work with Helen Pankhurst (Great Granddaughter of Emmeline) to host an annual event on International women’s day #March4Women that engages thousands of UK public in support of women’s rights.

In working to address women’s rights this role will be responsible for representing organisational values of anti-racism and feminism. In addition, CARE seeks to work in ways that reflect understanding of intersectionality, and the interconnected nature of race, class, and gender and how societies perceptions of those classifications can create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Duties will include:

• Work with the Head of Team to develop CARE International UK’s parliamentary and government strategy to achieve policy and advocacy objectives, with a particular focus on retaining UK government as a champion for gender equality and supporting aid commitments for women and girl’s development and emergency programming.
• Identify opportunities to support delivery of CARE International UK’s advocacy priorities in Westminster, devolved governments and with UK stakeholders as identified.
• Write briefings, parliamentary submissions, or letters as relevant and deliver parliamentary engagement events and activities on CARE International UK advocacy priorities working closely with policy colleagues to further campaign objectives for women and girls worldwide.
• Work with teams across CARE (Including Comms and Supporter Engagement) to ensure a coordinated approach to UK campaigns that engage the public with UK Parliament or Government.
• Track impact as part of CARE’s systems for monitoring and evaluating engagement in Parliament.
• Actively build and maintain relationships with parliamentarians, researchers and other political contacts including other UK public bodies as relevant.
• Build effective advocacy relationships with other civil society organisations, politically influential organisations and networks, and represent CARE International UK in coalitions, as appropriate.
• Keep abreast of latest political developments and parliamentary activity to inform advocacy strategies.

Why work for us?

At CARE International UK we are passionate about fighting poverty and injustice, particularly focusing on the role and importance of working with women and girls. The UK has a long history as a committed leader on gender equality and a champion for women’s and girls’ rights, but over the last two years, policy decisions by the UK government risk undermining significant achievements and the UK’s leadership on development, humanitarian response and gender equality. Can you help us ensure our priorities are heard and supported in government and parliament?

As a development and humanitarian agency with programmes and partnerships in over 100 countries worldwide CARE brings its experience of working in crises like Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, DRC, Afghanistan to policy-makers to inform decisions. Can you help us ensure the evidence and insight from CARE programmes and partners on the ground informs UK government international development strategies and emergency response? For example evidence shows that COVID-19 has had a significant impact on gender equality and women’s rights, and when intersecting with other crises, like climate change and conflict, risks rolling back hard-earned gains by a generation. Our campaigning and influencing work focuses on the importance of effective investments in women and girls and addressing gender inequality to ensure it remains a priority for the UK government.

Some of the areas that this role will focus on in the coming year include:

• the UK governments new International Development Strategy and how it will deliver on the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) on overseas aid and focus on helping the world’s poorest people and how it will use UK aid and global leadership to make progress on the biggest challenges facing the world, such as gender inequality, climate change and humanitarian crisis.
• The UK government’s FCDO-wide Women and Girls Strategy, how it addresses the economic and structural barriers to gender inequality and how it includes an intersectional approach that includes an understanding of the needs faced by women and girls facing intersecting inequalities.
• The government’s focus on preventing sexual violence in conflict, the proposal for a summit and a convention that supports progress on the issue and how this is integrated with wider strategies on prevention of violence against women and girls more broadly.
• Informing and influencing accountability at key parliamentary and government moments like autumn and other budget announcements, G7 meetings, PSVI Conference, Party conferences, donor conferences.
• And coordinating with the sector to participate in or lead at public campaigning moments, including #March4Women; #Wednesday4Women; Wave of Hope; Great Big Green Week; 16 Days of Activism on GBV.

We are seeking a Government & Parliamentary Officer that can work with the team and our INGO colleagues to engagement government and parliament as part of a joint strategy to carry out this important work. This is a critical role that offers someone with knowledge and get up and go the chance to really shape policy debates and ultimately impact the lives of many thousands of people. If this sounds really exciting to you then we can’t wait to hear from you!

About you

The Government and Parliamentary Officer will have a strong understanding of UK Parliament and current parliamentarians and experience of the best strategies to influence and engage key stakeholders. You will understand political parties and how they play out in Westminster. You will understand the best ways to communicate the work of a humanitarian and development organisation with a focus on women and girls and how to work in collaboration across the sector to influence global summits and legislative processes.

Ideally you will have experience working in cross-organisational campaigns to deliver a shared influencing goal. You will relish the opportunity to work with a team of passionate and expert colleagues both in the advocacy and policy team and across CARE’s communication and supporter engagement teams.

Please Note that there are 2 contract types being offered : one permanent and the other 2-3 months Fixed Term contract

About CARE

CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places.  We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

CARE International UK is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to dismantling harmful and oppressive structures of power and accordingly centre gender equity in our work to save lives, fight poverty and achieve social justice. The post holder agrees to promote and uphold these principles.

CARE International UK operates fair, transparent and non-discriminatory recruitment practices and actively encourages applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from candidates from Black and minoritised communities, LGBT+ candidates and disabled candidates.

CARE International UK is a disability confident employer. As part of our commitment to disability inclusion we guarantee interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the relevant section in the online application form. If at any stage of the recruitment process you require reasonable adjustments, including a copy of the recruitment pack in large print or an alternative format, please contact HR team

Safeguarding

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Closing date for applications: 23:59 Sunday 5 June 2022

Interview date: W/C Monday 6 June 2022

Sessional (Bank) Complex Need Counsellor

CJO are seeking A Freelance Sessional Contractor

Part-time June 2022-March 2023

Hourly Rate: £30-£40ph (dependent on qualification and experience)

The Pandemic has led to an increased need for therapeutic support for our community. We have twice had to close our counselling service over the past year due to the demands on our service.  We are now seeking an individual(s) who can provide a holistic specialist time-limited counselling service for African/Caribbean women, young people and children who have experienced/witnessed any form of gender base violence using a number of different counselling models. This may at times include working with individuals with more complex psychologic conditions.  This post will be based at the Claudia Jones Organisation’s premises and or online dependent on needs and Government COVID policies.

CJO work to the BACP Ethical Framework for good practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy. You will bring your practice of working in an anti-discriminatory gender responsive trauma focused feminist framework and be available to start.

To apply for this role, please send a covering letter of no more than 2 page and CV (maximum 2 pages) by email to Charity Job no later than 23rd May at 5pm.  Please head your e-mail `Sessional (Bank) Counsellor’.  Please note – Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

All jobs are dependent on an Enhanced DBS and 2 References. Due to the nature of work and focus of the Claudia Jones Organisation the candidate’s race and gender is an occupational requirement in accordance with Paragraph 1, Schedule 9, of the Equality Act 2010.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Sessional (Bank) Complex Need Counsellor

Hours: Up to 5 counselling sessions per week

Qualifications: Qualified to Degree level /BACP accredited or working towards

accreditation / UKCP registered / equivalent.

Code of Conduct: Working to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Completed: Minimum of 250 hours of clinical work (including the required  

hours included in training course) in the last three years

Responsible to: Women and Families GBV Service Manager and Clinical  

Supervisor.

Purpose of role:
To provide specialist time-limited counselling for African/Caribbean women and families in Hackney and surrounding boroughs experiencing emotional distress, anxiety depression, trauma and multiple traumas, PTSD, childhood sexual abuse, DV and other GBV issues

Key Responsibilities:
Work within the CJO team to provide a high-quality contractual counselling service which is responsive, ethical, safe and effective for all service users

• Work in a person -centred, holistic way and form effective therapeutic alliances whilst maintaining professional boundaries
• Appropriately use different therapeutic tools, depending on the needs of individual clients
• Adhere to BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy which will be addressed regularly in clinical supervision
• Continuously work towards and support the development of best practice in therapeutic interventions with individuals affected by mental health issues
• Carry out needs assessments and support planning, with reference to CJO’s Family

Support team and Gender Based Violence team provide an appropriate service to clients with varying presenting issues and levels of distress

• Maintain confidential, up-to-date, and accurate records of all counselling sessions
• Hold responsibility for own counselling diary and working with Women and Families GBV Service manager on CJO’s waiting list
• Provide monthly reports to the Women and Families GBV Service Manager
• Facilitate the contribution of service user feedback thus ensuring that service users’ voices are heard within CJO
• Positively promote the service in the wider community and represent CJO in an appropriate way, consistent with the organisation’s values and objectives
• Liaise with referrers, other professionals and agencies as appropriate
• To ensure that equality and anti-discriminatory practice is modelled in the therapeutic work.
• Work from a gender responsive trauma focused feminist framework
• Provide an individualised therapeutic work from a strength-based perspective
• Attend regular supervision
• Offer therapeutic opportunities that elicit empowerment and personal growth

Clinical Supervision and Professional Development

• Attend training as required
• To participate in monthly clinical supervision with CJO’s Clinical Supervisor
• To distinguish when to bring issues to the attention of the clinical supervisor and/or safeguarding lead either in supervision session or in an emergency
• Work closely and effectively with the Women and Families GBV Service Manager contributing to effective provision of services
• Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant legislation and clinical practice guidelines to contribute to the highest professional standards of counselling practice
• To work as part of a team, promoting the ethos and values of CJO
• The successful applicant will be expected to attend mandatory training provided for SharePoint, Safeguarding and Oasis our database case management system.

Policy and Procedure

• Ensure that all CJO’s policies and procedures are always adhered to
• Maintain CJO’s Confidentiality Policy
• Ensure that all work is clearly within Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults and Data Protection guidelines as laid down in CJO’s policies
• Uphold and work within CJO’s Equality and Diversity Policy
• Maintain safe working practices and spaces through working within CJO’s Health and Safety Policy including COVID19 measures and at no time acting in a way which might jeopardise the health or safety of any service user, employee, or visitor
• Work within CJO’s Lone Working policy and protocol

Other information

Successful candidates will be considered for CJO’s team of Sessional Bank counsellors from time to time, when funding has been secured. This will be subject to review by Women and Families VAWG Service Manager and Clinical Supervisor/Lead.

THE CLAUDIA JONES ORGANISATION

Women & Families VAWG Specialist Service Manager (Female applicants only)

The Claudia Jones Organisation has provided support for women and families in Hackney and surrounding boroughs since 1982. We are now seeking a Service Manager to build on our established by and for specialist violence against women and girls’ service. 

CJO’s Women and Families VAWG specialist service aims to provide a cohesive support for vulnerable women and families of Caribbean/African heritage experiencing violence and present with complex layering of issues. The service works alongside the counselling and therapeutic services of the charity to increase wellbeing and safety. Together, our services provide social and learning opportunities for women and families whilst meeting their immediate needs. 

This role is for someone with demonstrable experience of delivering and managing women and families VAWG services for African heritage women including team and case management reviews, advocacy and understanding of the legal system and how it relates to survivors and their families.

All jobs are dependent on an Enhanced DBS and 2 References. Due to the nature of work and focus of the Claudia Jones Organisation the candidate’s race and gender is an occupational requirement in accordance with Paragraph 1, Schedule 9, of the Equality Act 2010.

Job Descriptions and application form available at: harityjob.CLOSING DATE:  Monday, 23rd May 2022 5PM.  We recommend that you apply at your earliest convenience.  We screen applications as they are received as well as interview and appoint suitable candidates on this basis regardless of the closing date.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Objectives Within the Overall Purpose of the Post:   

1. The management of CJOs VAWG women and family’s specialist service ensuring it meets the needs of African Heritage women and families, is contract compliant with the service specification and the charity’s policies and procedures.

2. To lead, develop, plan, negotiate and effectively manage the service, its finances, related to delivery including staffing in line with the grant and annual budget.

3. Lead on and participate in national, local discussions, consultation, research, data gathering, needs assessment, collaboration, networks, to sustain and grow the women and family specialist service and any other activity relevant to deliver the service. 

4. Represent the service and organisation at both internal and external meetings and within multi-agency partnerships as required. 

5. Lead on and facilitate activities, which supports the voices of service user and their data, to inform legislation, policy, and practice, identifying synergies across the organisation’s work as well as opportunities to produce and share learning. 

6. Facilitate a range of training for; professionals, service users, staff, volunteers, external audience to improve practice and service delivery. 

7. Communications - directly produce, facilitate publicity and marketing material for the service, appropriately using social media e-leaflets, paper booklets etc to increase knowledge, awareness, skills, and the impact of VAWG on the lives of women and families. 

8. Ensure written language is to good quality standard including emails and all other record keeping and documentation required of CJOs work. 

9. Ensure that the service is delivered within safeguarding requirements and in line with organisational, local, and legal procedures. 

10. Monitoring & Evaluation

• Contribute towards and/or write comprehensive reports that may include data, narratives, and case studies to meet a need as required by funders, commissioners, CJO and others. 

• Oversee the management of the Oasis database undertaking quarterly audits and monthly monitoring of data collection for performance management of the service. 

• Dip sample and audit case files as held on Oasis, ensuring staff are recording information and delivering services in line with Imkaan and other quality standards.

• Oversee the consistent use of the ‘Safe Lives’ risk assessment tool, alongside other developed risk mitigation templates. 

• Ensure staff appropriately represent women and advocate on their behalf when dealing with outside agencies such as the Housing department, Police, DSS, Solicitors, Social Services, Health Professionals, and all other relevant agencies. 

• Document monitoring data and ensure that it is provided in the agreed and acceptable formats for monitoring the VAWG women and Families Specialist Service activity using standard templates.

11. Management of Service Finances 

• Work closely with the finance team and within the financial regulations and policies of the organisation. 

• Oversee the income and expenditure of the service in line with all policies and procedures of the organisation and as per any additional contractual policies and procedures relevant to CJOs funded work.

• Ensure that small grants woman receive are appropriate working closely with finance, social work students and support worker(s) or volunteer. 

• Take full ownership of strategic fundraising for the service, identifying funding sources and making direct applications, write proposals for additional wrap around support, where work is not commissioned, and it will help increase quality in service provision and or the infrastructure. 

12. Wellbeing

• Ensure the service is delivered within CJOs Community based approach to Wellbeing and that a therapeutic approach is embedded in your practice.

• Attend regular clinical supervision

• Ensure that your staff team attend regular clinical supervision.

• Lead and manage the Thinking Space service, facilitator and bi-weekly debriefs and contractors working synergistically with CJOs Clinical Lead.

13. Operational 

• Along with your team, to always work in the best interest of CJO and to avoid any action that may bring CJO and or its activities into disrepute. 

• To undertake any other duty commensurate with the position of Service Lead and as required by your line manager. 

• To engage in one’s own performance management through training and development as required. 

• As a member of the senior management team work to promote CJO’s purpose, values, and our influence through evidence-based solutions to improving the lives of vulnerable women and their family experiencing VAWG/trauma and to act-up/step in the absence of members of the senior management team or staff. 

• Regularly supervise, appraise, and support the development of staff and volunteers addressing challenges and implement necessary support measures to improve performance with staff, external contractors, and agencies.

• Participate in regular supervision, induction, training, and team meetings. 

• Develop appropriate partnerships, collaborations, and communications to enable our family support and gender-based violence services to be seen as a leader in its field.

• To be the lead registered officer for CJSM, Safeguarding Lead for the Service and Deputy for the Charity. 

This role presents opportunity to work innovatively & responsively, creating new, unique, & informative LGBT+ affirmative resources, crisis support, prevention & wellbeing initiatives; along with having a developmental role in upskilling & supervising sessional staff, trainees, interns & volunteers.   This is an exciting job opportunity to join a dynamic & committed team, in a key frontline role within our Heads-Out (LGBT+ mental health crisis prevention & intervention) Service 

Heads-Out offers individualised mental health & crisis safety plans, mental wellbeing workshops, and mental health support groups; including a group for LBT+ women who have experienced domestic abuse or sexual violence. 

Opportunities will incl. delivery of these specialised interventions, taking direct referrals and helping to support & stabilise those at heightened risk and/ or living through crisis.  Whilst the mental wellbeing workshops & group programmes will further enable you to engage, empower & support participants to build confidence, develop skills, strategies & achieve goals to improve, maintain & best manage mental health, increase mental wellbeing, and reduce and/ or prevent future crisis. 

This role presents opportunity to work innovatively & responsively, creating new, unique, & informative LGBT+ affirmative resources, crisis support, prevention & wellbeing initiatives; along with having a developmental role in upskilling & supervising sessional staff, trainees, interns & volunteers. 

Initially this work will take place remotely, online and via home-based working whilst we progress our covid-recovery strategy & return to in-person operations.in 2022

elop – is an award-winning London based community-led LGBT+ mental health & wellbeing charity offering a range of support, advice, information, counselling and group support services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) communities.