Women Making Changes Project Worker - Women Centre
Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Women Centre.
Kirklees Domestic Abuse Specialist Services
Based in: Huddersfield
The Kirklees Women Making Changes Project has been successfully developed through a pilot phase funded by Kirklees Council and is transitioning to a new way of joined up working through the Kirklees Domestic Abuse Specialist Services Partnership. We are recruiting a project worker to work with women affected by domestic abuse who have complex needs and/or are experiencing barriers to service engagement or who are from marginalised communities. The Project is one of several services that together form the Kirklees WomenCentre which is part of the wider WomenCentre organisation delivering services in Calderdale, Kirklees and Bradford.
For this role you will be expected to have knowledge of a range of issues that impact on women of all ages; including: domestic abuse, homelessness/housing needs, financial hardship, seeking asylum, dementia, drug & alcohol use/abuse, mental and physical health issues, cultural and language barriers for women from marginalised communities, learning disabilities and self harming.
Personal and job-related skills will include:
- Experience in advocacy work and managing a complex caseload
- Experience of supporting people with multiple complex issues and working with competing demands
- Knowledge of the impact on women of children being removed/legal access
- Knowledge of entitlements to access all types of benefit and support for hearings both benefit and legal re custody, to assist with the completion of assessment forms
- Experience of effective multiagency working
We are an organisation that promotes safeguarding practice across all our service delivery, staff and volunteer recruitment.
Closing Date: 15th April 2024
Interviews: 24th April 2024
For an informal discussion please contact Anna Fry anna.fry@womencentre.org.uk
Application packs are available on our Women Centre website
Completed applications to be e-mailed directly to: hr@womencentre.org.uk
These posts are open to women only – Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1 applies
Company number: 06084795 Charity number: 1118366
15 April 2024, 11:55 PM
This vacancy is closed to applications.
