House Floating Support Worker
Hammersmith, London

The Company

We are Advance, a women-only organisation dedicated to helping women cope and recover from experiences of domestic abuse, as well as women who are at risk of offending or with short term sentences to reduce offending.

We’re currently looking for a House Floating Support Worker to join our team in Hammersmith, helping users of the service to avoid housing issues and tenancy breakdown.

The Benefits

- Salary of £26,000 - £28,000 DOE per annum
- Pension
- 30 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
- A day off for International Women’s Day
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Various forms of well-being support and access to our Wellness platform
- Perk Box
- Organisation wide Away Days
- Enhanced Maternity benefits (full pay) up to 12 weeks

This is an amazing opportunity for a housing support professional with experience of working with vulnerable women, to support vulnerable women across London.

You will have the chance engage in a vital and fulfilling role where you’ll regularly increase stability for women who have survived abuse, helping them to find sanctuary as you help to secure their housing situations.

We have endeavoured to build a supportive environment, for both our beneficiaries but also our amazing staff whose professional development we aim to nurture as we recognise their commitment and dedication.

The Role

As a Floating Support Worker, you will specialise in working with women for whom housing and risk of tenancy breakdown is a priority. You will provide specialist housing and domestic abuse support to women aged 18 and over.

Specifically, you will advocate for each woman effectively and empathically, whilst liaising with providers and stakeholders to ensure their accommodation needs are met. Whilst ensuring these needs are met, you will respond to women with effective crisis intervention and support.

Additionally, you will co-ordinate the provision of multi-agency support, working with clients to maintain their tenancies and prevent homelessness. As you endeavour to increase stability for our service users, you will establish positive, proactive, and innovative working relationships with housing services and partner agencies.

About You

To be considered as a Floating Housing Support Worker, you will need:

- Experience of supporting women with complex and multiple needs
- Experience of supporting female survivors of domestic violence with housing and accommodation needs
- Experience of working in partnership with other organisations whilst ensuring safeguarding procedures
- Experience of risk management and safety planning
- A excellent understanding of domestic violence and its effects on women and children
- Excellent knowledge of best practice within the domestic abuse and the housing sectors
- The ability to handle sensitive information

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

The closing date for this role is 29th May 2022

Please note, we will review all applications as they arrive and may offer interviews to exceptional candidates prior to the closing date. We look forward to receiving your completed application at the earliest opportunity.

Other organisations might call this position Housing Support Officer, Womens Housing Support Officer, Womens Housing Support worker, Womens Support Worker, Domestic Violence Support Worker, Domestic Abuse Support Worker, Support Worker, Social Worker, Social Care Worker, Social Care Co-ordinator, or Housing Support Worker.

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So, if you feel you could make a difference to someone’s security as a House Floating Support Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.