Refuge Worker
Salary: £32,076 full time
Hours of Work: 35 hours a week
IKWRO - Women’s Rights Organisation is a registered charity (number 1151507) which supports Middle Eastern women and girls living in the UK who are facing “honour” based violence, forced marriage, domestic violence or female genital mutilation. As well as providing support to individual women and girls, we run training for professionals and campaigns for better laws and policies to protect women’s rights. We are recruiting a refuge support worker, who is able to model skills in safely engaging women based on mutual collaboration, trust and empowerment.
The post-holder will be responsible for providing intensive case work including risk assessments, safety planning, support, safety, assistance and follow up work to women and girls who are high risk of “Honour” Based Violence (HBV), forced marriage, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and domestic violence. This will entail receiving and assessing referrals, practical assistance, emotional support and a safe environment to ensure that women and girls settle in the safe accommodation while promoting independence and well-being.
This post is open to women only and are exempt under the Sex Discrimination Act 7(2) (d) and (e) and the Race Relations Act 5(2) (d) 1976. No agencies please.
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11 - 20
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About BDCA: BDCA is a dynamic community-led charity that has been serving the residents of the London Borough of Newham since 1998. Our motto is, “working together to change lives and transform our community” and over the past two decades we renovated four previously dead, disused spaces into lively local hubs. From these venues, our diverse team of locally-based staff and volunteers deliver targeted activities for people of every generation from children and their parents, young people and elders too. We also run programmes providing accessible sports, healthy food, poverty support and volunteering. Across all these projects, our mission is to break down barriers, bring people together and build people up.
Job Aim:To lead a fun, engaging and exciting programme of activities for young people across the economically disadvantaged but beautifully diverse E6 area within the London Borough of Newham. You will lead the delivery of BDCA’s Youth project, in line with our commissioning contract with Newham Council’s Youth Empowerment Service. Our project provides the following youth activities in East Ham over 49 weeks of the year for young people aged 9-19:
- Three outdoor Multi Use Games Area sports sessions per week in BDCA’s sports field.
- Three indoor youth hub sessions per week in BDCA’s sports pavilion, which includes workshops such as Junior Gym, screen acting, Muay Thai, healthy cookery sessions, calming crafts and sports.
- Weekly EKO Pathways after school youth club session specifically supporting children who have been excluded from mainstream education due to social, emotional, behavioural and mental health needs.
- Two outdoor parks MUGA session.
- Weekly Youth Theatre Club, led by a local acting workshop facilitator.
- Three-week summer holiday scheme for up to 120 children per day.
- Annual ‘Stepping Up’ youth leadership programme offering training/ mentoring/ paid work experience / accredited Sports Leaders Awards for up to 30 young people each summer.
- Several offsite trips and residentials throughout the year - as often as match funding allows.
You will be part of a team who are passionate about BDCA’s values of: INCLUDING all local young people by welcoming them into safe spaces and positively engaging with those who often get left out. CELEBRATING their creativity and skills so they have confidence and support to thrive despite their challenges. EMPOWERING them to step up and speak out as local leaders who make positive change in our community and beyond.
