Independent Gender Violence Advocate X2

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Refuge Full time

**Location**

Southwark, London

**Service/location/team**

Southwark,London

**Role Overview**

**Job Title**:Independent Gender Violence Advocate

**Location**: Southwark, London
**Salary**: £28,104. Please note that this includes a London Weighting Allowance of £3,000, which may not be applicable depending on your home location and homeworking arrangements.
**Contract type**: Permanent

**Hours**: 37.5

We are recruiting for a Independent Gender Violence Advocate to join our team in Southwark. The independent gender violence advocate will work closely with victims of gender
- based violence from the point of crisis, to provide high quality independent advocacy and support to survivors of gender-based violence at the highest risk and their children.
The role will be part of increasing the ability of partner agencies to recognise, reject and respond appropriately and safely to all forms of gender-based violence (including domestic violence, sexual, financial, and emotional abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honour-based violence).

**Key requirements**:

- Establishing the risks to and the needs of survivors of gender-based violence, identifying and prioritizing those at the highest risk.
- Developing and delivering individual support and risk management plans to address the risk of harm to survivors of gender-based violence and their children, working directly with all key agency partners to ensure that their plans are coordinated through the MARAC
- Advocating, both verbally and in writing, in a range of settings including in civil and criminal proceedings and with criminal justice professionals.
- Working in partnership with other agencies, including participation at the MARAC, and to contribute to the design of interventions and the design of plans which protect survivors and their children whilst maintaining an independent role on behalf of the survivors, keeping their safety central to the plans.
- Being an ambassador for Refuge, working in partnership with other agencies to ensure an effective, coordinated community response to survivors of gender based violence and their children.
- Ensuring that any issues in relation to safeguarding children or adults at risk are brought to the immediate attention of the VAWG Service Manager, or if unavailable another manager.
- Supporting the empowerment of survivors, assisting them to recognise the dynamics of gender-based abuse present in their own situation, and to help them regain control of their lives.

**Responsibilities**

Please refer to the job pack for more details.

**Benefits**

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.

**Other information**

**Closing Date**:09.00 am on 22nd February 2023

**Interview Date**: 1st March 2023

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

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