Support Worker

Support Worker
Ealing, London

About Us

Housing for Women is a registered charity and independent housing association. We champion female empowerment by providing and promoting affordable homes for women and gender-specific support services. Since 1934, we have been working to build a more equal society for women, a world where everyone has a safe roof over their head regardless of circumstance, where violence against women is no longer tolerated.

We are now seeking a Support Worker to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of £34,037.38 per annum
- Attractive pension scheme
- Perkbox
- Buying and selling annual leave
- Health Shield
- Season Ticket loan
- Subsidised gym membership
- Course Funding

This is a meaningful opportunity for a compassionate and skilled individual with experience supporting diverse adults to join our empowering organisation.

In this impactful role, you’ll directly help women rebuild their lives, providing vital support that enables them to access safe housing, healthcare, and opportunities to thrive.

So, if you want to join a mission-driven team where your efforts will contribute to tackling domestic abuse and building a more equal society for women, then apply today.

The Role

As a Support Worker, you will provide practical and emotional support to women and their children who have experienced domestic abuse, ensuring a safe and empowering environment in a refuge or community setting.

Delivering high-quality support services, you will manage a caseload of service users, create and implement individual support plans, conduct risk assessments, and assist with safety planning, housing rights, and welfare applications.

Additionally, you will co-ordinate new referrals, prepare accommodations, and support residents in accessing healthcare, education, and employment opportunities.

Additionally, you will:

- Oversee the upkeep and maintenance of refuge properties
- Facilitate service user participation in decision-making and community engagement
- Represent us at external meetings
- Build positive relationships with partner agencies
- Maintain accurate records to support continuous service improvement
- Assist with managing tenancy agreements, resolving breaches, and ensuring timely rent payments

About You

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

- Experience delivering support to adults from diverse backgrounds and with mixed abilities and complex needs in a supported environment
- Experience undertaking individual assessments including risk assessments and developing and delivering support plans
- An understanding of local and national approaches to tackling domestic abuse
- Demonstrable knowledge of strategies to empower service users to address issues of DVA
- The ability to participate in the out of hours duty rota

Candidates interested in applying should attach a cover letter outlining how they meet the essential criteria specified in the person specification as well as how they think they meet Housing for Women’s EPIC values.

Other organisations may call this role DVA, IDVA, Domestic Violence Advisor, Independent Domestic Violence Advisor, Housing Support Worker, Refuge Support Worker, Refuge Support Officer, or Women’s Support Worker.

Webrecruit and Housing for Women are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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