Refuge Workers and Peripatetic Domestic Violence Worker – Refuge – 6th May 2010
Refuge Workers
London £26,334- £28,839
Kent, East Sussex, Fenlands and Mid Cambridge (20 hours per week) £23,118 – £25,622 pro rata
Your role will entail providing invaluable practical and emotional support to women and their children, such as advocacy, support around welfare, housing and legal entitlements, and supporting women to move on to safe and permanent accommodation. You will have excellent case management skills, good written and verbal communication skills, clear professional boundaries and be a proactive team player. You must have experience of providing support to women in a refuge or community work setting and knowledge of current welfare rights, civil and criminal legislation relating to domestic violence. In these front-line roles you will assist women to move to a life free from abuse using individual support plans as tools to develop a strategy for each woman. You will be required to work as part of an on call Rota.
All candidates must have a commitment to the values of empowerment, support and equality, which underpin all the work undertaken by Refuge.
Peripatetic Domestic Violence Worker
London £27,249 – £29,595
Kent and East Sussex £23,118 – £25,622
You will deliver a high quality professional service to abused women living in our refuges and those who access our floating support services. Your role is to support colleagues by filling gaps created in the service by absence and annual leave and will be required to work from any of our services, within the geographical area in which you are based.
Your role will entail providing invaluable practical and emotional support to women and their children, such as advocacy, support around welfare, housing and legal entitlements, and supporting women to move on to safe and permanent accommodation. You will have excellent case management skills, good written and verbal communication skills, clear professional boundaries and be a proactive team player. You must have experience of providing support to women in a refuge or community work setting and knowledge of current welfare rights, civil and criminal legislation relating to domestic violence. In these front-line roles you will assist women to move to a life free from abuse using individual support plans as tools to develop a strategy for each woman. You will be required to work as part of an on call Rota.
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Benefits include 28 days’ holiday, a non-contributory pension scheme, employee assistance programme, death in service scheme and childcare voucher scheme.
An enhanced CRB disclosure will be required for these posts.
Section 7.2(d) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies.
Please visit our website for further details and other opportunities: http://www.refuge.org.uk/working-for-refuge
Closing date for these posts is 2pm on Thursday 6th May 2010.
Refuge values diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
