Therapeutic Marketplace Coordinator and Group Worker

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Job description

Location: Waltham Forest Resource Hub

Salary: £26,000-£27,000 (Unqualified) 27,000-29,000 (Qualified) per anum

Hours: 37.5hr per week

Contract: Permanent

Vacancy Reference: S027

Closing date: 13th December 2021

Interview date: 17th December 2021

Solace is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, particularly women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

About the Service

Waltham Forest Therapeutic Marketplace is the first point of contact for survivors seeking to access therapeutic support. It also provides a range of women only group sessions.

This service is part of the wider Solace Advocacy Support Service (SASS) which is made up of professional staff offering short to medium term support to women and men affected by domestic and sexual violence in the community. The service offers information, advocacy and specialist services to increase safety and meet a range of needs - these can include ongoing safety concerns, emotional or housing support, legal options, reporting to the police, help around child contact, benefits and financial advice.

About the Role

You will be the first point of contact for survivors seeking to access therapeutic support and group work. You will be undertaking assessments and offering appropriate onwards referrals to counselling and other therapeutic interventions. You will be organising and delivering group sessions.

About You

You will need to have thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on women and their children, as well as experience of providing emotional and practical support. You will need a passion for working with victim/survivors of domestic abuse.

You will have the skills and ability to manage a busy service which involves processing referrals, carry out risk and needs assessments, safety planning. You will have knowledge of the available legal remedies, housing and welfare benefits. You will have excellent administrative, IT and time management skills.

Solace Women's Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applicants from black minority and ethnic communities.

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.

As part of safer recruitment we require all successful candidates will be required to complete a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure.

No agencies.