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Newham Asian Women's Project

Position:

Legal Advice Outreach Worker

Full / Part Time:

Part time

Salary:

SO1 SCP29 £22,512 pro rata

Description:

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. These services include 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’). We are seeking to fill the post of Part-time Legal Advice Outreach Worker staff for four posts. The post is offered on a fixed term basis with an initial probationary period of six months. The person should have the following skills:

A minimum of two years experience working in legal fields and areas such as family law, domestic violence, welfare rights, housing and immigration law among other areas

Experience of providing legal advice and information, and speaking to women and about the legal rights

Knowledge and experience of working with women

Strong work planning and management skills

Ability to deliver projects on target

Ability to speak fluently one of the main South Asian languages

For further information about the post please contact: Baljit Banga on 020 8472 0528 or on bbanga@nawp.org

Closing Date:

12 noon on Friday 14 December 2007

Phone for Details:

For an Application Pack please contact Shahina Begum on 0208 8472 0528 or

Email for Details:

sbegum@nawp.org

Special Details:

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

This post is re-advertised. Previous applicants need not apply