Senior Support Worker
Job ref: SSWBH/Apr23

37 hours per week
Located in Brighton & Hove
27 days’ annual leave, additional three days at Christmas and all statutory public holidays.
Salary: Impact Band 4 / Starting at NJC Spinal Point 19 / £27,852 per annum
Permanent employment contract

Are you looking for a new challenge and a genuinely rewarding job? We are seeking a Senior Support Worker to join our expert team.

Stopover provides Brighton & Hove and West Sussex’s only female-specific young person’s housing and support through trauma-informed care.

You will be working in our Brighton and Hove service, which provides a pathway through high, medium, and low-level support. The role will be based at our intensive support project, whilst also providing senior oversight for Support Workers working in our low-level support mother and baby projects.

The young women we work with often have a history of negative and damaging relationships including abuse and domestic violence as well as mental health issues, behavioural issues and substance misuse. The role of the Support Worker is to provide a consistent positive professional relationship that will allow the young women to start to trust, open up, and address the issues in their past.

You will:

- Be committed to fostering positive professional relationships with the young women.
- Have an understanding of the effects of early trauma on young women.
- Be able to provide on-going support through the transition within the Stopover accommodation pathway.
- Provide senior support to and oversight of the mother and baby accommodation team.

In return we offer:

- Ongoing support and training.
- Reflective practice with external facilitator.
- Restorative circles with external facilitator.
- Mindfulness, resilience, and self-care with an external psychotherapist.
- Generous annual leave allowance.

To view the full job description/person specification and details on how to apply, please select the apply button shown.

If you would like to chat to someone about the role, please contact Stopover.

Closing date for applications: 9.00AM on Monday, 10th April 2023.
Interviews take place during week commencing 17th April 2023.

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