Refuge Worker
- Recruiter
- PROSPECTUS-4
- Location
- Derby
- Salary
- 22643.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 23 Jun 2021
- Closes
- 28 Jun 2021
- Sectors
- Sport & Leisure
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, the UK's leading charity protecting women and children against domestic violence, is currently recruiting for an experienced and passionate Refuge Worker to join their team in Derby, initially on a fixed term contract until April 2022.
As Refuge Worker you will provide practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic violence and other forms of violence and abuse. This will include conducting keywork sessions on a regular basis and keeping casework records up to date. You will welcome new residents, explain and arrange for them to sign occupancy agreements, ensuring that they are aware of their options for moving on to more permanent accommodation and to develop a proactive move-on strategy for individual residents. You will collect rent payments promptly, record properly, and bank within agreed timescales. You will ensure that rooms becoming vacant are re-let as soon as possible, taking all appropriate steps to enable new referrals into the service. You will empower survivors to make decisions, increase their options, their confidence and their safety, and will work within a multi-agency framework to develop referral, joint working and information sharing protocols.
To apply for this role you will have demonstrable experience of providing emotional, practical and welfare support. You will have experience of identifying and responding to the risks to and the needs of survivors of domestic violence and other forms of violence and abuse. You will have experience of working in a residential setting/refuge and will have the ability to build and develop supportive relationships with individuals who may have complex needs.
Please apply with your CV only in the first instance (in Microsoft Word format). Cover letters are not required at this stage. We are reviewing CV's on an ongoing basis so it is highly recommended to submit your application as soon as possible.
Please also note, this post is restricted to women only as a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9 paragraph 1, Equality Act 2010.