Specialist Domestic Abuse Support Worker
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,952 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | NG3 2DG |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Nottingham Central Women's Aid |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | May24 |
Summary
Nottingham Central Women’s Aid is working to end to violence against women and girls by providing safe accommodation, intervention programmes and support to recovery following the trauma of being subjected to abuse. We specialise in working with women and families who face multiple disadvantages and complexity of needs.
Our Domestic Abuse Specialist support team provide trauma-informed, high-quality, pro-active, front-line support and services to women and children impacted by domestic abuse. Refuge Accommodation roles will deliver needs and risk-led responses and interventions, always ensuring women and children are central to the process.
The Role
As part of a team providing a great supported living environment within our communal and dispersed accommodation as well as alongside our survivor recovery programmes. The Support worker role is varied, and will include:
Providing practical and personal welfare support and ensuring that families are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment.
Organising and delivering weekly house meetings, recording actions and decisions.
Supporting the wellbeing worker to organise and deliver a residents’ programme of activities and to encourage and support women and children living in refuge accommodation.
Responsibility for practical day-to-day housing management issues including health & safety checks and fire drills as determined under agreed procedures.
Promoting and maintaining a high standard of housekeeping. Prepare accommodation for incoming families, ensuring rooms are clean and of a high standard.
A full Enhanced Disclosing and Barring Service check will be required for this post.
You will thrive on achieving positive outcomes for all beneficiaries who make contact face to face or seeking support on the phone or by email.
You will have experience and understanding of how to to meet the needs of a diverse communities of women and children in a fast paced environment and will be capable of working with minimum supervision. You must be prepared to manage a wide range of duties and able to work within a confidential and safeguarding environment.
You should have the willingness to take part in the 24 hour on-call rota to ensure that out of hours crisis are responded to appropriately, remuneration will be additional to the basic salary. Availability to attend the Refuge located in Nottingham in an emergency situation is essential and this post will be subject to a full DBS check.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from women of all backgrounds and communities, and are committed to having a team that is diverse in terms of skills, experiences and abilities. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women, as these groups are currently underrepresented in our organisation as well as women with lived experience of domestic abuse and those who speak another language as well as English.
It is an Occupational Requirement that applications are open to women only, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1, of the Equality Act 2010.
An application form and job description is available here: JD person spec and application
*****CV’s will not be considered, and a full application should be submitted. No agencies please.*****
To discuss the post before applying or for any queries we welcome you to call 0115 9607943.
Please return the completed application: Admin@centralwomensaid.org
By 9am on Monday the 10th of June 2024
Interviews will take place on Friday the 14th of June.
Our Domestic Abuse Specialist support team provide trauma-informed, high-quality, pro-active, front-line support and services to women and children impacted by domestic abuse. Refuge Accommodation roles will deliver needs and risk-led responses and interventions, always ensuring women and children are central to the process.
The Role
As part of a team providing a great supported living environment within our communal and dispersed accommodation as well as alongside our survivor recovery programmes. The Support worker role is varied, and will include:
Providing practical and personal welfare support and ensuring that families are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment.
Organising and delivering weekly house meetings, recording actions and decisions.
Supporting the wellbeing worker to organise and deliver a residents’ programme of activities and to encourage and support women and children living in refuge accommodation.
Responsibility for practical day-to-day housing management issues including health & safety checks and fire drills as determined under agreed procedures.
Promoting and maintaining a high standard of housekeeping. Prepare accommodation for incoming families, ensuring rooms are clean and of a high standard.
A full Enhanced Disclosing and Barring Service check will be required for this post.
You will thrive on achieving positive outcomes for all beneficiaries who make contact face to face or seeking support on the phone or by email.
You will have experience and understanding of how to to meet the needs of a diverse communities of women and children in a fast paced environment and will be capable of working with minimum supervision. You must be prepared to manage a wide range of duties and able to work within a confidential and safeguarding environment.
You should have the willingness to take part in the 24 hour on-call rota to ensure that out of hours crisis are responded to appropriately, remuneration will be additional to the basic salary. Availability to attend the Refuge located in Nottingham in an emergency situation is essential and this post will be subject to a full DBS check.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from women of all backgrounds and communities, and are committed to having a team that is diverse in terms of skills, experiences and abilities. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women, as these groups are currently underrepresented in our organisation as well as women with lived experience of domestic abuse and those who speak another language as well as English.
It is an Occupational Requirement that applications are open to women only, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1, of the Equality Act 2010.
An application form and job description is available here: JD person spec and application
*****CV’s will not be considered, and a full application should be submitted. No agencies please.*****
To discuss the post before applying or for any queries we welcome you to call 0115 9607943.
Please return the completed application: Admin@centralwomensaid.org
By 9am on Monday the 10th of June 2024
Interviews will take place on Friday the 14th of June.