Solace Women's Aid
Multiple Disadvantage Refuge Worker
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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 a Multiple Disadvantage Refuge Worker at Solace Women's Aid.
About Us
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
The Multiple Disadvantage Refuge Worker provides specialist support services to women living in refuge with multiple needs who have experienced domestic or sexual violence and who have mental illness or use alcohol or substances problematically. You will liaise with partner agencies, ensuring services delivered are of the highest standard in line with the organisation's aims and objectives.
About The Role
- Create tailored support plans and keywork appointments to address their immediate practical and emotional needs.
- Conduct lone working assessments, risk assessments, and safety plans.
- Help with benefits and budgeting.
- Explore pathways for resettlement.
- Promote social inclusion.
- Encourage independence.
- Help women build resilience.
- Create a support network through partnership working and enabling engagement with other services.
- Run groups.
- Attend and, on some occasions, facilitate house meetings.
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About You
- Hands-on experience in specialist support services, working directly with women and families facing multiple challenges.
- Casework focused on offering proactive and emotional support to women recovering from domestic abuse, drug and alcohol issues, and mental health issues.
- Comprehensive understanding and knowledge of supporting service users to navigate mental health and drug and alcohol services.
- Adept at collaborating with various agencies, always approaching these partnerships with a professional and proactive attitude.
Additional Information
- The postholder will be based at our Bexley refuge, working part-time, providing on-site support to survivors.
- Given the nature of this role and our refuge services, we are unable to offer hybrid working for this position.
What We Can Offer You
- 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
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How To Apply
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
Diversity and Inclusion
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.
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.
Safer Recruitment
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.
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