Family Support Worker – NAWP – 23rd December 2010
Hours: Full Time
Salary: SO1 29 £20,282
Newham Asian Women’s Project (NAWP) is a leading women’s organisation in East London. Set up in 1986 to provide specialist support services to Asian women and their children experiencing domestic violence. The project has since developed a range of other services to support Asian women and girls including four refuges, a resource centre, a counselling service, a youth project, a legal advice service, a training department and a mental health project called Zindaagi (meaning ‘Life’).
The project has recently secured a grant from BBC Children in Need for a Family Support Worker to be based in NAWP’s refuges.
We are seeking a highly motivated and dynamic woman who has the drive to take this project forward and who has the following skills:
* Experience of working in accommodation-based refuge services for women
* Experience working with children resident in refuges and an awareness and understanding of the issues impacting on them
* Knowledge and experience of working with children who are vulnerable to and/or experience domestic violence
* Experience of monitoring and evaluation including the knowledge of the use of OutcomeStar
* The ability to actively involve mothers and their children in service development and delivery in a creative and empowering way
* The ability to speak fluently in one of the main South Asian languages
For further information about the post please contact: Baljit Banga on 0208 536 1397 or bbanga@nawp.org
For an Application Pack please contact: Shahina Begum on 0208 472 0528 or sbegum@nawp.org
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Thursday 23 December 2010
This post is open to South Asian women only and is exempt under the Sex Discrimination Act 7(2)(d) and (e) and the Race Relations Act 5(2)(d) 1976
Charity Registration No: 1001834
