Trauma-Informed Women’s Support Practitioner (Hybrid)

Homeless Link; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous training budget, plus an ann.

Enhanced Sick Pay Policy

Enhanced family friendly policies

Day off for moving house

Hybrid working (depending on role)

Pension - 5% Employer, 3% Employee

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Employee Assistance Programme

Reward Gateway discounts

Job summary

The Connection at St Martin’s in London is launching Daylight Women’s Day Centre, a new gender-specific service for women who are long-term rough sleepers. The role focuses on delivering a safe, supportive, person-led program to improve health and wellbeing and help move women into accommodation away from the streets.

We value lived experience, trust-building, and trauma-informed care, with strong collaboration with partners and volunteers to deliver holistic support.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience delivering a person-led, psychologically informed service to women who are street homeless.
• Excellent at building and strengthening trust in relationships.
• Problem solver with a positive attitude towards change and service development.
• Committed to embedding co-production in service design and engaging volunteers in delivery.

Responsibilities

• Building trusting relationships with women facing multiple exclusion and rough sleeping in London.
• Understanding the needs of the women accessing DayLight, providing one to one support, harm minimisation opportunities, access to healthcare and treatment.
• Helping women to move into accommodation and away from the streets.
• Developing strong working relationships with a wide range of partners, ensuring The Connection’s DayLight service is a highly respected part of the response to women’s rough sleeping in London.
• Implementing this pioneering new service and sharing our learning with others.

Job description

The Connection at St Martin’s in London is launching Daylight Women’s Day Centre, a new gender-specific service for women who are long-term rough sleepers. The role focuses on delivering a safe, supportive, person-led program to improve health and wellbeing and help move women into accommodation away from the streets.

We value lived experience, trust-building, and trauma-informed care, with strong collaboration with partners and volunteers to deliver holistic support.