Female Children’s Community Worker

We have a rewarding opportunity available for a Female Children’s Community Worker to join our community outreach team based in Bristol. You will join us on a part-time, permanent basis working 18.75 hours per week with some out of hours and weekend work on occasion. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £24,496 pro rata per annum plus benefits.

Would you like to join the largest provider of women-only services in Bristol bringing innovation, expertise and extensive experience? Established in 1983, BRISTOL MISSING LINK (incorporating Next Link and Safe Link) is a leading provider of women’s support services in Bristol.

In return for joining us as our Female Children’s Community Worker, we will offer you the following fantastic benefits:

• Up to 30 days annual leave (depending on length of service)
• 3 extra holidays including International Women’s Day
• Excellent development and training opportunities
• Employer pension contribution (minimum 5% of your gross salary)
• Mindful Employer Plus Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Wellness Awards

Please refer to our Employee Benefits leaflet which can be found in the application pack.

About the Female Children’s Community Worker role:

We are looking for a positive and dynamic Female Children’s Community Worker to join us and work within our dynamic, fast paced community outreach team, providing play sessions and 1-1 support to children who have experienced domestic abuse. This will be through both structured sessions and free play.

Key duties and responsibilities of our Female Children’s Community Worker:

• Working with children and young people (CYP) aged 0 – 17 who may have experienced or witnessed domestic violence and abuse and are supported in Next Link’s Resettlement and Community services
• Provide a high quality service and co-ordinated package of on-going emotional and practical support to CYP who are suffering effects from the trauma of, or have experienced domestic abuse
• Provide personal welfare support to CYP and to ensure that families in the safe house are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment and to maximize the family’s safety when providing support in the community
• Help children begin the healing process of working through their traumatic experiences of domestic abuse and change
• Report child protection concerns or issues without question and to ensure that child welfare is ensured in accordance with Next Links Safeguarding Policies
• Ensuring the confidentiality of client information is maintained, in accordance with Next Link’s Confidentiality Policy
• Provide personal welfare support to CYP and to ensure that children in families are safe, supportive and welcoming environment and to maximize the family’s safety and when the family move onto new homes ensuring the needs of the child are met

This is not an exhaustive list of your duties and outlines the general ways in which it is expected you will meet the overall requirements of this post.

What we are looking for in our ideal Female Children’s Community Worker:

• Numeracy and literacy to GCSE level/NVQ 2 or equivalent
• Ability to maintain accurate and up-to-date records of contact with service users, other support related information and to communicate with colleagues and stakeholders using common Microsoft Office packages, e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook and other IT software
• Ability to assess the support needs of families, specifically children and young people who have experienced or witnessed domestic abuse
• Ability to proactively organise and develop child centred activity programme that meets the needs of diverse CYP

Closing date: 9am Friday 17th March 2023
Interviews will be held on w/c 20th March 2023

If you are motivated, resourceful and passionate about empowering female victims of domestic abuse, please apply now to join us as our Female Children’s Community Worker and contribute to the valuable work Missing Link and its wider services, delivering hope and support to survivors of domestic violence and abuse.

Missing Link is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Missing Link is committed to Equal Opportunities. *Due to the specific requirements of this role, this post is exempt under the Equality Act (2010), Part 1, Schedule 9 (Genuine Occupational Requirement.)