Current Vacancies
Domestic Abuse Accommodation Support Worker
Location: Canterbury, Kent
Hours: 22.5 hours a week (hours and days TBC)
Salary: £23,400 – £25,192 pa FTE, pro-rated to £14,040 – £15,115 for part time hours
Contract: 1 year fixed term, with the potential for extension
Closing date: Monday 2nd December 2024
Liberty House provides housing and support for up to 5 homeless young women aged 16-24 who are single, pregnant or have a young child and have experienced domestic abuse.
The support worker will be required to take on key-working responsibilities for the residents at Liberty House, as well as delivering other support work within the house and within the wider Liberty team. This could be related to pregnancy and parenting, life skills, psychoeducational support, understanding healthy relationships and building supportive peer relationships within the home, and supporting them to live independently.
The post holder will work to provide a secure, stable and homely environment and to act as a positive role model to residents. They will build professional and supportive relationships with residents and colleagues.
The project works to empower residents, providing them with information relating to their rights and enabling them to make decisions based on their options using a trauma informed approach.
As a member of the Liberty Team (16 – 24 year olds), the successful applicant will work collaboratively with the rest of the Children and Young People’s team, as well as the wider Rising Sun team to support other programmes delivered within the organisation.
Please download the job pack for the full job description, person specification and application form: click here to download the job pack.
Completed applications should be returned to claire@risingsunkent.com by the end of Monday 2nd December 2024.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so you are advised to apply early: we reserve the right to close the role before this date.
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Benefits
We value our team’s wellbeing, and in order to support it, we offer a number of benefits, including:
- 25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part time hours)
- A bonus day of leave for your birthday
- 3% matched pension contribution
- Access to Rising Sun’s counselling service
- Clinical supervision
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health care cash plan for you and your children for a number of health treatments (e.g. dental, optical, physiotherapy etc.) as well as discounts in shops and attractions
- Up to four weeks sick pay in any 12 month period (eligible after probation period)
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