Violence Against Women and Girls Advocate

4 weeks ago

Ipswich, United Kingdom P.H.O.E.B.E Full time

**Skills, Aptitude, Knowledge and Experience**
- Must be willing to learn and can be a new graduate. Passion and commitment to women's welfare is key in this role
- Must be Portuguese(prefered) speaking woman with an understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on survivors and their children;
- Willingness to learn providing emotional and practical support to survivors of abuse;
- Basic knowledge of casework management skills and an ability to prioritise a busy workload;
- Passionate and strong advocacy skills on behalf of BME women survivors of abuse and those on rehabilitation
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to express empathy and understanding with the survivors;
- Tolerance and respect for different cultures and an open mind to how abuse may present differently in different cultures and ethnic backgrounds;
- An understanding of the specific types of abuse faced by migrant women;
- Ability to learn to work from a woman-centred, trauma-informed and survivor-led approach;
- Providing advice, advocacy, and other available support for the female ex-offenders, as indicated by PHOEBE’s CEO.
- Learn to Assess clients’ needs and create individual support plans, carry out risk assessments, and safety planning and accompany clients to their court meetings if required
- Monitoring data and completing registers as per given instructions and promote our projects and increase awareness in the community.
- Promote our projects and increase awareness in the community and follow our safeguarding policy, data protection policy, and other relevant policies (which will be provided upon your employment).
- Ability to forward plan and think strategically
- Good organisational, record keeping and planning skills;
**Personal Qualities**
- Enthusiasm for working with individuals from African, Asian migrant backgrounds;
- A positive approach to learning and gaining new skills through teamwork and training opportunities;
- Ability to work independently using own initiative.
- Patience;
- Reliability and trustworthiness;
- Proactive and positive team player. You should be able to work constructively as part of a team to understand roles and responsibilities within the setting and own position within the team.

**Qualifications**
- Preferably educated to diploma or degree level in relevant area (e.g Psychology, Sociology or related degree);
- A positive approach to completing relevant short courses and qualifications. Some understanding of the importance of Safeguarding in the workplace will be beneficial

**Key duties and responsibilities**
- Managing a busy caseload in a fast-paced environment;
- Providing advice and advocacy support for survivors of violence against women and children. This includes assisting in securing safe, temporary accommodation in refuges for women and children feeling abuse;
- Providing effective crisis intervention;
- Carrying out risk assessments, safety planning, assessment of needs and individual support planning;
- Providing advice, advocacy, and other available support for the PHOEBE beneficiaries, as indicated by PHOEBE’s manager.
- Accompany clients to their court meetings if required
- Monitoring data and completing registers as per given instructions.
- Promote our projects and increase awareness in the community.
- Follow our safeguarding policy, data protection policy, and other relevant policies (which will be provided upon your employment).
- Supervise the progress clients make while using Phoebe’s services.

**Additional responsibilities**

1. The nature of Phoebe’s work is such that tasks and responsibilities can be unpredictable and/or varied. All staff are therefore expected to work in a flexible manner when tasks that are not specifically covered in their job description have to be undertaken;
2. The post-holder will, as required, contribute to materials/resources/publications/newsletters/ website and team meetings

**Enhanced CRB required**

**There is an occupational requirement under Schedule 9 (Part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 for this post to be held by a female.**

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 24 per week

**Salary**: £20,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Social listening and support: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 01/09/2023

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