Specialist Womens Outreach Worker

Changing Lives; Wolverhampton; Presencial; GBP 21 000 - 27 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Maternity Leave 20w fully paid

Paternity Leave 4w paid

Adoption leave equal to maternity

25 Days Holiday

Wellbeing Days

Your Birthday & Bank Holidays off

Pension

Life Insurance at 4x Salary

Private Health Insurance

Resumo da oferta

Changing Lives is seeking a Specialist Women's Outreach Worker in Wolverhampton to deliver intensive, trauma-informed outreach and tenancy sustainment support for women experiencing homelessness or housing instability. You will work within the WHIRS multidisciplinary team, engaging women who face barriers to accessing services and promoting safety, wellbeing and recovery.

The role prioritises building trust, supporting housing stability, and addressing trauma, mental ill-health, and other

Qualificações

• Trauma-informed outreach experience preferred.
• Experience engaging and supporting women facing homelessness or housing instability.
• Ability to support tenancy sustainment and recovery objectives.

Responsabilidades

• Provide intensive outreach to women facing homelessness or risk of homelessness.
• Build trusting relationships to improve safety and wellbeing.
• Support recovery from substance misuse and promote long-term housing stability.

Conhecimentos

Trauma-informed outreach

Engagement & relationship-building

Housing support & tenancy sustainment

Ferramentas

Driving licence

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About us

Changing Lives is a nationwide charity helping people facing the most challenging of circumstances to make positive change - for good. We believe that everyone deserves a safe home, a rewarding job and a life free from addiction or abuse. We know that given the right support, anyone can change their life for the better.

Our services across the country help thousands of people each year who are experiencing a wide range of complicated challenges, including homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, unemployment, involvement with the criminal justice system, sexual exploitation and domestic abuse. By focusing on their strengths, potential and opportunities, we support the people we work with to overcome their problems and live safe, successful, independent lives.

Our charity is powered by over 600 passionate colleagues who bring a diverse and inclusive environment for our colleagues to grow. We are proud to say that many have actual lived experience of the challenges faced by those we support. We are looking for committed and compassionate professionals to join our team, who share our enthusiasm for changing lives.

About the Service - Women and Children's Services

We run services and dedicated women's centres for those who are at risk or struggling with challenging circumstances, including women in the criminal justice system and those with experience of trauma, selling sex or sexual exploitation.

We understand that women and girls have experiences which are different to men and can experience vulnerabilities that are specific to their gender. Childhood abuse and domestic abuse are common features in the lives of the women we support which impact on their health and wellbeing. Underpinning all our services is an in-depth understanding of trauma and a focus on recovery, resilience and community integration.

About the Job

WHIRS specialist women's outreach is a new role within Changing Lives that has been funded to provide specialist women focused support on the WHIRS project (Wolverhampton Homeless Integrated Recovery Service).

The Specialist Women's Outreach Worker will provide intensive, trauma-informed outreach and tenancy sustainment support to women who are experiencing homelessness, rough sleeping, at risk of homelessness, or struggling to maintain accommodation following a history of rough sleeping.

Working within the WHIRS multidisciplinary team, the candidate will adopt an assertive outreach approach, taking responsibility for engaging women who may face significant barriers to accessing services. The role will focus on building trusting relationships, improving safety and wellbeing, reducing rough sleeping, supporting recovery from substance misuse, and helping women sustain tenancies and achieve long-term housing stability. The service recognises that women experiencing homelessness often face additional barriers and multiple disadvantages including trauma, domestic abuse, exploitation, mental ill-health, substance misuse and social exclusion

Due to the nature of this role, applications are invited from women only. This exemption is claimed under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010, where sex is a genuine occupational requirement.

A full UK driving licence is essential for this role.

Benefits
Maternity Leave 20w fully paid + up to 52w leave total. Paternity Leave 4w paid. Adoption same as Maternity Leave. 25 Days Holiday, +2 Wellbeing Days + your Birthday & Bank Holidays off. Pension, Life Cover at X4 Salary & Private Health Insurance