Women's Support Worker - Community Intervention Team North

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Women’s Justice Support Worker 
Women’s Community Justice Centre

Salary: £24,890 - £28,854 per year
Hours: 36 per week

Edinburgh Justice Services are committed to providing high quality services while ensuring a compassionate approach to people accessing our services and supporting staff wellbeing. We offer a high level of training to support continuous professional development and to deliver a broad range of interventions, including established accredited group work programmes. We are implementing Trauma Informed Care, Safe & Together™ and Restorative Justice practice models and interventions across our services and are establishing a Women’s Centre, where all Justice Services for women will be delivered from, to reduce barriers and meet the needs of women involved in the Justice System.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be part of the newly formed Women’s Justice Centre where we offer trauma informed, gender specific services and operate in line with the evidenced based key principles established by the Willow Service. Women that are aged 18 and above can attend as part of a statutory order or voluntarily, including women entitled to support due to their partner’s/ex-partner’s involvement with the Caledonian system. The team is multi-disciplinary and includes support workers, social workers, psychologists, nursing staff as well as key 3rd sector partners and peer supporters, all of whom contribute to the delivery of a range of interventions and support offered to the women in an integrated way. This includes the provision of one to one and group work interventions as well as community outreach support.

The post holder will be an experienced support worker, with an understanding of the issues facing women involved in the Justice System, many of whom have mental health difficulties and experiences of trauma. The post holder will have some experience of supporting individuals with similar challenges and/or complex difficulties.

The post is open to female candidates only (Occupational Requirement exception under Equality Act 2010).

This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children and/or Protected Adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by the City of Edinburgh Council.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.  For roles in grade 5 or above, annual increments in our contribution zones are dependent on achieving agreed performance goals.

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