Early Intervention and Diversion Key Worker

**The role is only open to women, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.**

**Applications will only be considered if you provide both a CV and a detailed Cover Letter outlining how you meet the role requirements.**

**Early Intervention and Diversion Key Worker**

**Salary**:£28,266

**Location**: Bradford

**Hours**:37 hours, full-time

**Closing Date**:Monday 29th September 2025, 12pm

**Interview Date**:Monday 13th October 2025

Together Women is looking for an outstanding Key Worker to be part of our Early Intervention and Diversion service in Bradford.

**About Us**

Together Women is a regional, award-winning charity which provides independent, holistic, gender-specialist support to women facing multiple disadvantages, including women involved in (or at risk of being involved in) the criminal justice system. We work in prisons, the community and ‘through the gate’, supporting women leaving prison and in the community to address the root causes of offending. We run Women’s Centres and ‘hubs’ for services across Yorkshire and Humberside.

**Join Our Team**
- Are you passionate about helping women overcome disadvantages that lead them into involvement with the Criminal Justice System?
- Can you use your skills to engage with women affected by multiple disadvantages and complex trauma?
- Do you want to engage with the police and the courts to help women into support services and divert them from a path of custody and cycles of re-offending?

If so, we would love to hear from you

**What we can offer you**

Employee Benefits:

- 25 days holiday increasing by one day per year to a max of 30 days, plus public holidays
- Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
- Annual cost of living increase up to 4%
- Enhanced Training and Induction programme covering all areas of Together Women’s work
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme with discount offers and free telephone counselling service
- Access meditation and other online wellbeing support on our wellbeing platform
- Employee eye-care scheme and free eye tests
- Organisation-wide away days
- Career development pathways

**Role Summary**

Based in our Women’s Centre in Bradford, this role will focus on early intervention, diverting women away from the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and into support services.

This post, funded by the Ministry of Justice, will work within our Women’s Centres providing early intervention as women enter the CJS. The Key Worker will work in courts, and with the police to divert women away from CJS and into relevant support services. Advocacy, one-to-one support and group work will all be key features of the role in supporting women to help them build upon their strengths and dismantle barriers that are preventing them from progressing and achieving their potential.

This role will include partnership working with key agencies in the CJS and support services within the voluntary sector.

**The Keyworker will**:
1) **Provide support to women in custody suites**: identifying immediate and crisis needs and undertaking actions to address these; liaising with arresting officers to promote the use of conditional cautions, which can be delivered in our Centres (where suitable); accompanying women to any immediate appointments after their discharge from police custody; providing family liaison and support, and referrals to relevant support services (e.g. substance misuse, local authority housing, peer mentoring).

2) **Provide interventions/activities for women who have been served conditional cautions** (frequency and attendance will be determined in partnership with the police during service implementation): engaging and enrolling women with broader services available in our Centres, including potentially external courses or signposting to relevant organisations; liaising and sharing information with police on progress and outcomes.

3) **Support women at court appearances**: providing advocacy on behalf of women (including to enable progress and engagement with services), providing information to criminal justice professionals to feed into pre-sentence reports (including advising on alternative solutions to custodial sentences), providing family support and contact, and liaising with children’s/adult services and legal representatives.

4) **Sentencer engagement**:in agreement and partnership with Probation Services, we will contribute to Magistrates’ liaison events, demonstrating the benefits of Women’s Centres, providing case studies and success stories and progress reports where women have been sentenced to a community alternative to custody.

5) **Support women to avoid further custodial sentences**:where women are sentenced to custody, we will be available to provide family support and information, and notify our Centre in HMP New Hall to ensure a member of the team visits the woman during her induction and supports her engagement with our services and pre-re