Registered Charity
21 - 50 
About us
Who we are
STARS Dorset is an independent chairty working throughout Dorset to provide specialist support services to anyone living, working or studying in Dorset who has been affected by any form of sexual violence. We have two centres, one in Poole the other in Dorchester. Our frontline services include a confidnetial telephonse supportline; a team of independent Sexual Violence Advisors providing practical and emotional support; therapeutic counselling service providing short and long term support and wellbeing workshops. We are currnelty developing our training offer and work with schools and education providers throughout Dorset. We have over 80 volunteers and 26 staff on our team.
Our culture and values
Vision:
A society free from abuse
Mission:
Where every survivor of abuse is supported on their journey of recovery and to challenge societal attitudes and views that condone or collude with abuse through awareness, education and training
We pride ourselves in being a supportive organisation providing a generous holiday allowance, a day off on your birthday, company pension, opportunities to further develop your professional skills and knowledge as well as on-going support through training, line management and clinical supervision and a focus on wellbeing and self-care. This position offers the opportunity to develop professionally with progression to Clinical Director in the future.
STARS Dorset is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure and acceptable references.
Equality, diversity and inclusion policy
As a charity that values and celebrates people’s diversity and champions opportunities for all, we welcome applications from all sectors of the community. We believe that a diverse organisation is one that is more innovative, more creative and achieves better results.
