Female Duty Telephone Helpline Worker

Female Duty Telephone Helpline Worker

Bristol

Salary: Point 16: £16,969 pro-rata (includes participation on out of hours telephone on-call rota)     

Part-time – 20 hours per week

Established in 1999, Next Link provides a range of domestic abuse support services to women and children within Bristol, BaNES and South Glos. 

Next Link has been successful in the re-commissioning process to deliver Bristol’s domestic abuse safe house and community support services. Our new integrated service delivery team is expanding and we have a number of exciting opportunities for creative and highly motivated women with a broad understanding of domestic abuse issues, complex needs and a commitment to providing a high-quality inclusive service within Bristol.

Duty Helpline Workers are responsible for providing a high-quality telephone crisis response service providing advice, information, advocacy and support to women and children experiencing domestic abuse; families; professionals and other users of the helpline. 

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience of providing telephone or 1-1 support to vulnerable people
• An understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on women and children
• The ability to assess risk and need and support the victim to put an action plan in place 
• The ability to provide respectful, non-judgemental, and confidential support to women and their children
• The ability to respond effectively in a crisis situation

Closing Date: Friday 28^th October 2016 at 9am

Interview Date: Thursday 3^rd November 2016

How to apply:

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