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Advocacy/support (Ethnically Diverse Women)

4 months ago

Cardiff City, United Kingdom Safer Wales Full time

**Whole System Approach
- Case Worker based in Cardiff.**

**Job Outline**:

- **To identify and inform on issues, needs and gaps in services for Ethnically Diverse women.**
- To provide specialist gender specific support and advocacy to ethnically diverse women involved in the criminal justice system including women who have experienced domestic/sexual violence.
- To deliver specialist, trauma-informed support, working with other partners and agencies, both statutory and non-statutory: enhancing the response to ethnically diverse women in the criminal justice system

**Salary**: £24,302..07 - £25,828.61 pa (full time eqv)

**Hours: Part time 21.75 flexible hours (3 days week) **on a permanent basis to 31 March 2025 **may be extended pending further funding**.

*This vacancy is only **open to female applicants** as an occupational requirement exception under Sch 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

The Whole System Approach (WSA) forms part of the Future 4 consortium remit and is part of the Women’s Pathfinder. The service is designed to deliver a woman specific integrated approach to supporting women who come into contact (or are at risk of coming into contact) with the criminal justice system in South Wales and Gwent area.

WSA supports women to avoid any further involvement in the criminal justice system and build better lives. It helps women access the right support, at the earliest opportunity, to prevent them from coming into further contact with the criminal justice system. The scheme is based in the police custody suites and across community settings. It consists of identifying, assessing, engaging and providing support packages for women.

**Are you an active listener with experience of supporting Women from different communities. ** If so Safer Wales is looking for someone who can **identify** and **inform** on **issues, needs** and **gaps in services for Ethnically Diverse women**. You shall operate as part of a team and take overall responsibility for a **caseload of women** who have been referred to the scheme.

You shall facilitate programmes of interventions and provide support packages, working with other partners and agencies both statutory and non-statutory. You will be responsible for the case management of women either active or within partner agencies who remain under the scheme**.**

**Working for Safer Wales**

Safer Wales is committed to taking a restorative approach, providing a supportive and pleasant working environment through policies which acknowledge work/life balance, including:
Our **Employees benefit** from:

- A competitive salary
- Flexible working and part-time working hours (family-friendly) where possible
- **Generous personal pension scheme** - **Safer Wales pays 10%, **the employee pays 5% of salary.
- Life Assurance Scheme - death in service benefit of **four times salary**:

- An annual leave entitlement of 22 days annual leave pro rata, which increases by 1 day at January up to a maximum of 27 days, plus 11 privilege/public and bank holidays
- Westfield **Health Foresight Care Cash Plan**:

- Free refreshments for all staff (at the base)

A commitment to continuing professional development and lifelong learning which includes:
- Corporate induction programme
- Comprehensive in-house core skills training programme
- Mandatory training programme
- Regular supervision
- Annual Appraisal
- Payment of professional fees - where appropriate
- Paid study and exam leave - where appropriate
- Funding for external training courses relevant to role
- Funding for additional vocational and professional qualifications relevant to role
- Conference/training attendance relevant to role

**Closing date 20 August 2023, Interviews 24th and 25th August 2023**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 21.75 per week

**Salary**: £24,302.07-£25,828.61 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free or subsidised travel
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- case management of women: 1 year (preferred)
- criminal justice system in South Wales and Gwent: 1 year (preferred)
- supporting women in crisis: 1 year (preferred)
- assessment, support and interventions with women: 1 year (preferred)
- Identify gaps in services for Ethnically Diverse women: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 20/08/2023
Reference ID: WSA- SPOC