Female Support Worker

2 days ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Life Charity Full time

We're currently seeking a compassionate and experienced Female Support Worker to join our team in Belfast on a maternity cover basis. The Support Worker role is integral to ensuring positive outcomes are achieved for all women and children during their time with Life.

To be successful you need to be passionate about supporting women to thrive. You will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. Be able to demonstrate empathy and understanding of the needs and barriers of dealing with pregnancy or bringing up a young child.

You will have a sound understanding and experience of delivering person-centred services, ideally in a trauma informed way, to ensure independence, choice, and control for Life's service users. (Training on Trauma Informed Practice will be provided)

You will be committed to providing a high-quality service in line with organisational aims and principals. Bringing enthusiasm, energy and a can-do attitude to everything you do.

Basic IT skills, excellent interpersonal skills and understand the importance of working within equal opportunities, safeguarding and confidentiality guidelines are essential.

If you have a genuine passion for working with women and their children and a desire to learn, we can give you the training to succeed and develop

About Life:

Life is a national pregnancy support charity that helps over 60,000 people a year. Through our services, we help people – whoever they are – to meet pregnancy or pregnancy loss with courage and dignity so they can flourish.

Our services include

  • Supported housing and community support
  • Counselling and skilled listening
  • Free pregnancy tests and baby supplies

Our values

All our work is underpinned by the following universal human values:

  • Humanity – All people are special and equal
  • Solidarity – We're with you and for you
  • Community – We're better together
  • Charity – Doing good for one another
  • Common good – Building a better world

Information about the role:

For further information, please see the job description on our website.

Salary: £12,698.40 per annum

Hours: 20 hours per week

Contract Type: Maternity Cover

Location: Belfast

Benefits

At Life we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our:

  • Generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time hours)
  • Birthday Leave (applicable after 1 years service)
  • Extra annual leave for long term service
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Signed member of the Menopause Workplace Pledge

Safeguarding and Equality

Life is committed to protecting all staff, volunteers and service users from harm of any kind. Life expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and equality within our organisation by encouraging applications from all backgrounds.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. Life takes its obligation to protect the rights of children and vulnerable people very seriously; therefore, the successful candidate for this post will be also subject to extensive background checking, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) which is paid for by the Charity.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £12,698.40 per year

Expected hours: 20 per week

Benefits:

  • Additional leave
  • Company pension
  • Sick pay

Experience:

  • Supported Housing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

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