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Advocacy Worker

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Job Description

An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for an Advocacy Worker to join our ASSIST Service on a fixed-term basis until 31 March 2027, based on Scottish Government funding.

Position Details

Established in 2004, ASSIST (Advocacy Support Safety Information Services Together) is a specialist domestic abuse court advocacy service that supports people whose partner, or ex-partner, has a domestic abuse case going through the criminal court. Whilst part of Glasgow City Council, ASSIST support people in Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire (East, North, and South), Dumfries and Galloway, Glasgow, Dunbartonshire (East and West), Inverclyde, Lanarkshire, and Renfrewshire (including East Renfrewshire).

Our Advocacy Workers provide a sensitive, pro-active short to medium term advocacy, support, and information service, primarily by telephone, to victims/survivors of domestic abuse who are referred to ASSIST, focussing on those most at risk.

Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Job Description for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.

Minimum Requirements

An SCQF Level 7 qualification in a relevant field (domestic abuse, violence against women, social care, counselling, advocacy, social services, etc.) or a demonstratable proven track record of providing direct support to vulnerable individuals in crisis intervention is an essential requirement for this role. Having completed IDAA training is desirable.

Contract Details

Weekly Hours: 35

Work Pattern: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm inclusive of a 1-hour unpaid break

Annual Salary: £36,488.30 - £43,855.41 on an incremental scale

This is a peripatetic role and could be based across any of the locations from which ASSIST deliver a service. Additionally, hybrid working is available in this role (currently a maximum of 50% home working) and if you're shortlisted for the post we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance.

Key Pre-Employment Information

The position requires membership to the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme (Vulnerable Adults & Children). For further information on this scheme, please visit this link. The cost of membership, or scheme record update, will be met by the successful candidate(s).

As part of the pre-employment checks for this post the successful candidate(s) will have to undergo a Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 2 check which assesses the honesty, integrity, reliability, and overall suitability for clearance of non-police personnel who have unsupervised physical and/or remote access to police premises, classified police information and/or intelligence, financial or operational assets, and/or police systems.

Benefits Of Working With Us

Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If you're successful in your job application, you'll have access to these benefits which include:

  1. A full-time equivalent entitlement of 26 days (182 hours) paid annual leave, rising to 29 days (203) hours after 5 years' service
  2. A full-time equivalent entitlement of 12.5 days (87.5 hours) paid public holidays each year
  3. Local government pension scheme
  4. Life and Personal Accident Insurance
  5. Occupational Sickness Pay
  6. Staff Benefit Scheme
  7. Glasgow Credit Union

For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit this link.

Application Packs

The following alternative Application Packs can be requested in other format for example, Braille, Audio and other languages. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 0141 287 1054. Packs will be posted out to you 2nd class within 3 working days of receiving your telephone request. Please note the closing date of the job advert if requesting this to ensure that you give yourself plenty of time to complete your application form and return to us.

Further Information

Please note that Glasgow City Council is currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure which may impact on current salaries quoted in job adverts, see GCC Job Evaluation.

For further information about working for us please refer to our website GCC HR Policies.

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