Job Title: Women’s Complex Needs Worker

Reports to: Community Outreach Services Manager

Salary: £24,012 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Place of Work: Women’s Therapeutic Housing Service

Hours: 37hrs a week - Flexible – not fixed to Monday-Friday – core hours to be agreed

Sex discrimination act exemption required: We have 1 role for a female applicant only to support a women’s’ only therapeutic housing provision service. It is an occupational requirement for the post holder to be female to offer emotional and practical support ensuring privacy and decency enabling women in the service to have a safe and secure environment to live.  

Our Women’s Therapeutic Housing Service is an exciting new service opening in the Bognor Regis area. It will support 5 women to live together and create an empowering community. The women may present with a wide range of challenges, from physical and mental ill-health to drug misuse, offending behaviour and a history of prostitution. We need to support these women to stabilise chaotic lifestyles and coordinate structured support packages that link clients with other specialist interventions and treatment in the community.

The service will work with a tight network of voluntary, statutory and community organisations to ensure the immediate and ongoing health and social care needs of women are met and that all relevant support is available.

Stonepillow are seeking applications from dynamic individuals who have a passion for women’s rights, tenacity in providing extensive support, and to get the women to achieve independence.

You will be proactive, using your own initiative and be creative in your approach to work. It is essential that you have a non-judgmental and enabling approach to supporting homeless and vulnerable women and be willing to learn knowledge of health, housing and work issues facing vulnerable women who have multiple complex needs to live safer.

Closing date: Monday 5^th July 2021

33 days holiday per year, pro-rata based on work pattern
Access to training and development
Wellbeing package
Charity worker discounts
Annual staff away day
Pension
Sick pay

An Enhanced DBS check will be required for this post

• Please view the Guidance Notes for Applicants document
• Please view the Job Description document
• Please view the Person Specification document