Specialist Family Support Worker

Location: Islington refuge provision

Salary: 2.2 band £29,174.06 - £31,826.25 per anuum,

£20,421.84 - £22,278.38Pro rata at 26.25 hours per week.

(Please note, successful candidates are usually appointed at the bottom of the relevant band)

Hours: 26.25 hours per week (3.5 days)- Will include late and weekend shifts

Contract: Fixed term contract until March 2025

Closing Date: 19th April 2024 at 12 noon

Virtual Interview Date: week of 22nd April 2024

Are you looking for a rewarding role working for an intersectional feminist organisation? If so, we have an incredible opportunity for you to join our team as Specialist Family Support Worker at Solace Women's Aid.

We exist to end the harm done through gender-based violence. Our aim is to work to prevent violence and abuse, as well as providing services to meet the individual needs of survivors, particularly women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives, free from abuse.

Our core values reflect our history and were developed in consultation with staff and service users. Feminism and intersectionality are key to our work and we are committed to the principles of being survivor-led, trauma-informed, empowering, diverse, anti-racist and anti-discriminatory.

About the Service

Specialist Family Support project provides additional provision to support and strengthen mother-child relationship through trauma informed, strength-based approaches to children, young people, and their mothers after experience of abuse who live in our safe accommodation services across three boroughs.

Project consist of Team leader and two Specialist Family Support workers, and this role is vacant in our Islington Accommodation services.

About the Role

In this role you will deliver a range of trauma informed educational group work provision and occasionally individual 1-2-1 sessions to children, young people, and mothers after they fled to safety due to experience of abuse with the aim to promote safe space to strengthen relationship between mother and their children. You will ensure competition of holistic needs in order to deliver the programme of support, while working through internal and external mechanisms and in partnership with colleagues and the wider community.

About You

We are looking for a passionate person who is committed to Solace’s values to foster innovation and continuous improvement in working practice, who is flexible and open to new challenges, ideas and experiences as well as committed to diversity and anti-discriminatory practice to support children, young people, and their mothers to reframe their experiences and support healing. You are knowledgeable about the impact of trauma on children and young people lives and have a sound knowledge of safeguarding as well as enthusiastic to make a difference to the lives of children, young people, and their families. You will be expected to deliver children and young people group work sessions in the afternoons between 3:45-5:45pm twice per week.

We understand that you may not have all the knowledge, experience, and skills mentioned in the Job Profile Document. However, your interpersonal skills, passion to have a positive impact, commitment to our purpose, and ability to learn quickly and collaborate effectively will be equally important. If you wish to learn more about the role or if you are unsure about whether to apply, we encourage you to contact our recruitment team at recruitment@solacewomensaid.org.

What we can offer you

We provide a comprehensive benefits package to all our employees, including:

• Flexible working
• Focus on learning and development (internal career progression and training)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Employer pension contribution
• Family-friendly leave and enhanced maternity pay
• Access to Inclusion Networks
• Daily clinical debriefing
• Employee Assistance Programme providing free 24/7 support and advice
• Employee Benefits Platform offering staff discounts, benefits and savings
• Flow & Restore yoga classes
• Meditation sessions
• Cycle to Work Scheme

How to apply

Please submit your CV and Supporting Statement through the recruitment portal. When applying for this role, kindly highlight in your Supporting Statement how your values, knowledge, transferrable skills, and experience align with each point within the following sections of the Job Profile Document:

• Values, Behaviours & Competencies
• Knowledge, Experience and Skills

Solace Women's Aid values diversity, promotes equity, and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, abilities, perspectives, and lived experiences. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay, and benefits. Our Inclusion Networks support staff with protected characteristics and offer inclusive spaces to connect.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as needed and support employees who acquire a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work. If you require any support to apply for this role, please email us at recruitment@solacewomensaid.org

This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female 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.

As part of safer recruitment practices, we carry out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and right to work in the UK checks.

No agencies.