Women's Support Worker

1 week ago

Sussex, United Kingdom Streetlight UK Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

StreetlightUK is a growing charity, delivering a specialist support service for women in prostitution in London and the Southeast. Taking a woman-centered approach, your role is to provide care co-ordination for women with complex needs who want support, or to exit prostitution.

We are looking for someone with energy, motivation, and experience of working with vulnerable adults; someone who has a highly developed sense of self-awareness, who can work in a gender and trauma informed way. This is a part-time contract based at the StreetlightUK Sussex Office.

Line Manager: Senior Women's Support Worker

Womens Support Worker - Sussex / Surrey

Location: Crawley Office, Manor Royal (2 days remote working from home)

Contract: 18 months contract

**Salary**: £22,750 - £25,480 (Full Time Equivalent)

This post is restricted to female applicants only under Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

**PURPOSE OF THE ORGANISATION**

Ending sexual exploitation and violence towards women involved in prostitution.

Shifting the burden of the law in the UK by influencing policy, practice and public discourse in the UK, alongside survivors regarding prostitution.

**SCOPE OF THE JOB**

Care co-ordination of women with complex needs who want support, or to exit street-based prostitution.

Advocacy and referral to Multi-Agency Meetings, including the Crawley VAWAG Forum, Domestic Violence Multi-Agency Partnerships, along with other support services in East and West Sussex.

Effectively monitoring client work, preparing reports and ensuring funders’ targets are met.

Being on the rota for the outreach shifts and police operations, to ensure smooth delivery of the service and continuity between the outreach and daytime support service.

Representing the organisation at specified events and networks locally.

Participation in StreetlightUK annual fundraising and awareness campaign.

Contributing to the overall client support strategy of StreetlightUK in conjunction with the CEO and Senior Women’s Support Worker.

Preparing research and reports for partners, funders and other stakeholders as directed by and in conjunction with the Senior Women’s Support Worker and CEO.

**DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITES OF WOMENS SUPPORT WORKER**

Work in a flexible, woman-centered, trauma informed and strengths-based approach; recognising the woman as an expert of her own experience.

Support women to build their confidence and self-esteem enabling them to develop strategies to put control, direction and purpose into their lives within a supported environment.

Complete assessments with women to ensure that structured support and care plans are in place and are regularly reviewed, with clear goals and objectives that are client-led and agreed with women.

To provide intensive personalised support with a bespoke, holistic and integrated service to women encompassing a range of risk, health, social and relationship needs.

Support women involved in prostitution to overcome the barriers they face in exiting e.g., mental health, housing, problematic substance use, homelessness, poverty, domestic abuse, sexual violence, the criminal justice system; and to make positive steps forward with their lives.

Commit to taking a multi-agency approach to women’s support. Identify and develop strong working partnerships and links across Sussex’s voluntary and statutory services to improve options for service users.

Enable women to access other support services by building good working links and ensure women are getting the right support.

Take into account the spiritual, religious and cultural needs of women.

Use a range of qualitative and quantitative tools to monitor women’s journey of progress.

**TEAM WORKING**

Invest in the team and work collaboratively in order to share the case load.

Attend staff meetings with the CEO, Senior Women’s Support Worker and internal case management meetings, briefings / debriefing, and handovers as needed.

Attend the annual team days (in London and Sussex) and any other training provided.

Work safely and considerately in StreetlightUK’s office.

Liaise with volunteers to support and increase the impact of the project.

From time to time the employee may be required to perform other duties commensurate with their role and abilities, as reasonably required, to facilitate the smooth running of the charity.

**DATA MANAGEMENT**

Responsible for recording and entering all cases and notes, outreach recording and partner meeting recording forms onto the StreetlightUK remote access management filing system.

Contributing towards data collection and impact recording (via Performance, Outgoings and monitoring (POM) Form and provide data for reports to trustees and other funders.

**SUPERVISION**

Commit to supervision sessions with your line manager and to external supervision.

Commit to a good working relationship with the whole StreetlightUK team (based in London and Sussex/Surrey) supporti

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