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Female Support Worker - South Norfolk Salary: £13.78 per hour; £27,234.89 per annum Hours: 38 hours per week Fixed Term until February 2027 Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday between 9am - 5pm (No weekends) Plus rostered on-call Ref: HP019 Posts restricted to females only. Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies Due to the remote location of the service, a full driving licence is essential. Ready to make a difference? As a Support Worker within our Domestic Abuse Service, you will help create safe, inclusive, and empowering environments for individuals and families seeking support. Whether in refuge accommodation or community settings, you will provide strength-based, trauma informed support that honours each person's goals and experiences. What we are looking for in you: You're someone who cares deeply about supporting people and helping them feel safe, valued, and empowered. You enjoy working alongside customers to create meaningful support plans and help them make positive choices that improve their well-being. You're comfortable managing risk, working with partner agencies, and supporting day to day safeguarding to keep everyone safe. You build strong, trusting relationships and enjoy connecting customers with their community and new opportunities. Most of all, you listen with empathy, respect lived experience and confidently advocate for the people you support. What you'll be doing: Play a key role in helping customers create personalised, outcomes focused safety and support plans that reflect their own goals, strengths, and aspirations. Work alongside customers to manage risk in a supportive, empowering way, helping them make positive choices that enhance their wellbeing. You'll also collaborate with other agencies to ensure their support is truly holistic. Help with referrals, risk assessments, and everyday safeguarding activities, making sure our customers, colleagues, and our spaces remain safe and welcoming by following best practice and current legislation. Build strong relationships with customers and community partners, actively engaging with them to help the service grow, thrive, and continually improve. Support customers to connect with their local community, opening doors to new networks, volunteering roles, learning opportunities, and work that can build confidence and independence. Be a compassionate advocate for our customers, taking time to understand their lived experiences and recognising them as experts in their own lives. More benefits of joining : When you join Orwell, you become part of a values driven team that puts people first. You'll also enjoy a range of benefits designed to help you feel valued, supported, and able to thrive, including: 22 days annual leave (pro rata) No bank holidays. Reward and recognition awards. Free DBS checks. Cashback Health plan. Access to Blue Light Card - membership fees apply. Ongoing training and development & opportunities to progress in your role through the Orwell Academy Wellbeing programme. Person Specification GCSE Maths and English (Grade 9-4 / A-C or equivalent) Interview Date: To be confirmed Before applying Orwell is committed to safeguarding and safer employment and the principles of empowerment. Please note Orwell Housing Association does not provide visa sponsorship. You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply. You will be required to provide the relevant right to work documentation if successfully appointed to the role. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. All new arrivals to the UK must also provide a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC). The definition of new arrival is an applicant who has worked or been resident overseas in the previous five years and this includes citizens of the UK who have worked or lived overseas for a continuous period of six months or more. Apply with Confidence Orwell is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We believe in creating an accessible and supportive environment, where every team member can thrive and contribute. Join us in our commitment to building a workplace that celebrates diversity and empowers all individuals to reach their full potential. We actively welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure equal access and opportunity for all. We know that diverse teams drive innovation and deliver better outcomes. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every requirement. If you're excited about this opportunity but don't meet every listed qualification, we still encourage you to apply anyway. Your unique experiences, perspectives, skills and most importantly your alignment with our culture and values could be exactly what we're looking for. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and supported to succeed. If there is anything that might prevent you from applying for one of our roles, we want to help remove that barrier. Please contact our Talent team by calling or emailing . Orwell Housing Association Limited collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Please see the Privacy Notice - By applying to this job you agree you have read, understand and accept the content of the Privacy Notice - to the processing of your data as part of this application. For more information and career guidance, check our career hub.

Black Country Women's Aid Let us introduce ourselves Black Country Women's Aid (BCWA) is an established charity working across the Black Country and wider West Midlands, providing accommodation and community support services to victims of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and human trafficking. Services range from advocacy, civil remedies, support in court, individual and group support and access to a range of therapeutic interventions. All services are client and needs-led. Centre for the Analysis of Exploitation (CeAnEx) The Engagement Officer will join CeAnEx, and its highly regarded Community Engagement Project, run by Black Country Women's Aid. The Centre, based within BCWA, does innovative work to identify and support women who are sexually exploited in the West Midlands. We are a small, passionate team working on the ground in communities, and we combine this with open source intelligence and traditional academic research methods to identify victims of organised crime. Although we are an independent charity, we work closely with law enforcement and partner agencies. Our work is at the cutting edge, helping to develop new perspectives on human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the UK and beyond. Job Role Job Title: Engagement Officer (Romani-speaker) Position available: Temporary part-time position (16 hours per week) until end of March 2026. Salary: £12,948.48 pro rata (£30,348.00 FTE) Is this you? We are looking for a candidate who can speak English and Romani. The ability to speak Romanian is also beneficial. Experience of working with vulnerable people is an advantage. The Role: This is a unique, exciting and rewarding role, allowing the successful candidate to make a significant contribution to tackling exploitation. You will be involved in a variety of activities, including (but not limited to): Improving our cultural awareness when working with Roma women. Visits to sex work locations throughout the West Midlands Support for victims Involvement in BCWA's FCDO-funded Romania Project, aimed at tackling the trafficking of women from Romania to the UK To be considered for this position, click 'apply' and you will be emailed a link to an application form, job description, and equal ops form, plus details on how to complete your application. Informal enquiries can be made with Louise Brown, CeAnEx's Director. Please contact to arrange a call. CVs will not be accepted. Important information for all positions Black Country Women's Aid is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. It will be necessary for an enhanced disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service for details of any previous criminal convictions. Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies. The post holder must be female. Employment checks As a responsible employer we adhere to safer recruitment practice and all our employees are subject to the following recruitment checks: Right to work in the UK Under Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act, as a responsible employer, we need to ensure that we do not employ anyone illegally. To avoid discrimination, we treat all job applicants equally. We therefore ask all candidates selected for interview to bring original documentation to show their Right to Work in the UK. A copy of these will be taken. Once the successful candidate has been appointed, the unsuccessful candidates' documents will be destroyed confidentially. You may be refused an interview if you do not bring the correct documents with you. References Following your interview, two employment references will be sought. One of these should be your current or most recent employer. If you have finished full-time education and you have no employer reference, we will accept a reference from: a professional from your centre of study, for instance, a teacher, lecturer or headteacher GP or health visitor a character reference from a person who knows you a civil servant from a government agency a bank manager DBS All positions are subject to DBS checks at the relevant level.