IRIS Bromley Senior Advocate Educator

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Client:

Bromley & Croydon Women's Aid Help for women fleeing from domestic abuse

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London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Education

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

Hours: Full-time 35 hours per week OR Part-time 28 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract to 31st March 2027
Salary: £35,000 to £36,000 per annum (FTE) – depending on experience
Application Deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024 at 11.00pm
Interviews: week commencing 8th July 2024
Location: BCWA’s Head Office in SE20 and GP practices within Bromley borough

Employee benefits we offer:
– A friendly, flexible and values-led organisation
– Competitive salary
– 25 days of annual holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)
– Birthdays and Wellbeing leave
– Contributory pension scheme (5%)
– Training to help you perform your role and support your professional development
– Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Counselling and wellbeing support
– Health care cash back schemes

Who we are: Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid is a well-established, innovative and forward-thinking local domestic abuse service. We are seeking a self-motivated, flexible and experienced individual to join our dynamic team to help us deliver excellent services to vulnerable women who have experienced domestic abuse and be committed to working in a non-discriminatory manner.

About the role: We are recruiting a Senior Advocate Educator to work closely with GP practices in Bromley borough. You will promote the IRIS programme and offer training to GP practice staff, as well as providing one to one emotional and practical support to a caseload of clients experiencing domestic abuse. IRISi is an evidence-based domestic abuse training and referral programme developed specifically for general practice, currently being delivered across 30+ areas of England and Wales. For more information on the IRIS programme please visit: www.irisi.org. You will manage one other member of staff in the IRIS team and contribute to service plans and reports on the IRIS service.

The successful applicant will have:
Experience of working with victims and survivors of domestic abuseand an understanding of the barriers to accessing support services
Experience of promoting services and building strong working relationships with external organisations
Experience of delivering training to a range of professionals
A full driving licence and access to a vehicle in order to travel to GP practices across Bromley

All staff have access to hot-desking at our offices as needed. We do our best to accommodate flexible working practices at BCWA. We are all women with busy lives and families, and we understand that flexibility can be crucial in supporting women in the workplace.

Location: BCWA’s head office in SE20 and GP practices within Bromley borough

Wellbeing: As a trauma-informed charity we take mental health and wellbeing seriously. We offer clinical supervision to our frontline team, regular staff wellbeing sessions, use of our Employee Assistance Programme and an additional wellbeing platform which offers a range of advice and support.

Notifying candidates: We apologise in advance that we will not be able to notify candidates who are not shortlisted. If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks from application deadline, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.

We reserve the right to terminate this recruitment process should we receive a large number of applications.

Female applicants only: In light of the nature of work, the candidate’s gender is considered to be an occupational requirement in accordance with Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: BCWA is committed to supporting and promoting equality & diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. To achieve this, we seek to employ a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds to better represent the communities we serve.

BCWA are an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Reg. Charity No.1068007.