CoLab Women Support Worker - Brave Spaces Project

Job Reference: BSPW/0124

Responsible to: Brave Spaces Project Manager

Salary: £25,292

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract: Fixed Term until 31 March 2025

Location: Exeter

DBS Disclosure required: Yes

Project Summary:

CoLab Women has been supporting women in Exeter since 2017, developing positive pathways for those who find it most difficult to engage with services. We support women with a range of complex needs, including homelessness, domestic and sexual violence and abuse, trauma and poverty towards sustainable connection and recovery. Brave Spaces is a two-year project offering women experiencing homelessness or living in temporary accommodation point-of-contact wraparound support that aims to improve their safety and access support including domestic and sexual violence and abuse, and trauma stabilisation. We are delivering this with our partners Encompass South-West in North Devon to create a new type of offer that reduces the barriers women often face when trying to engage with services by meeting them where they feel most comfortable and signposting them towards a range of recovery options.

Role Summary & Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking to appoint an additional project worker who has a focus on working in a range of settings, including occasional working during evenings and weekends. Working as part of our Brave Spaces team, you will be required to work flexibly, stepping in where and when needed and offering support to women. Your role will involve working with partner agencies across Exeter to improve the safety of women, and to working as part of a small team to ensure a consistent wrap-around and trauma informed support offer is available, particularly during evenings and weekends.

Please refer to the job description for full details. We offer a generous range of benefits, including 27 days holiday for all from day one (or pro rata equivalent), an Employee Assistance Programme, additional days leave for your birthday and two volunteering days per year.

How to apply:

Please submit an up-to-date CV or a Magna Vitae (MV) plus a covering letter that is no longer than 2 sides of A4, summarising why you are interested in the role and how your experience, skills, and values align with the job description and person specification. CoLab is committed to promoting a positive approach to equality, diversity and inclusion, and values the benefits of employing a diverse range of talented people.

To apply, please submit applications quoting the job reference with the requested documents and a completed diversity monitoring form to recruitment@colabexeter.org.uk

Application Deadline: Sunday 19 May 2024

Interviews: TBC