Permanent, Part Time (20 hours) Pay £13,988 per annum (FTE £27,976 per annum) and great benefits including: 26 holiday per year with the option to trade and buy more Health plan Discounts in high street shops including technology Cycle to work scheme No weekend working Casual dress code Local and national training opportunities Stonewater, a place to be yourself Do you want to work for a company that encourages you to bring your whole self to work? Do you want to work with a team that truly puts the survivors at the heart of everything they do? If the answer is yes, then Stonewater is the place for you. Our Refuge in Southampton provides an excellent opportunity for you to become a Children, Young People & Families Development Worker, where you will be empowered an encouraged to support children young people and families to reach their full potential and work with a dynamic team of specialist domestic abuse support workers. Your unique skills and attributes will be used to support children and young people on a day-to-day basis, allowing them to gain the tools to live a life free from abuse. Typical Day as a Children, Young People & Families Development Worker Daily team brief with your team Using My Star to create support plans with the children and young people. Offer emotional support and wellbeing interventions. Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, actions and goals setting and regular reviews. Organising activities and play groups for the younger children and an afterschool club for the older children. Assisting the families to source education for the children and young people Attending multi-agency meetings Work in partnership with the Play Therapy Worker. You will bring; Passion to support our survivors to live their best life, working collaboratively with an eye for detail. We understand that not everyone has all the experience we’d like so if you have a “can do” positive attitude and a zest for supporting people, the rest we can teach you! We’d like experience of creating person-centred support plans and supporting survivors to work to the plans. You’ll have the ability to work using your initiative, remaining calm under pressure and have a resilient approach. If you’re new to our sector, tell us about your transferrable skills. Job Description - Children, Young People & Families Development Worker This post is restricted to female applicants only under the provisions of the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1. The role is based within a female-only domestic abuse refuge, where the provision of services requires a female worker to ensure the privacy, dignity, and safety of residents Job Details; You will be required to work 20 hours a week we can be flexible in the days that you work. You will be based in our South Hampshire Women’s Refuge, Southampton. You will need to be confident using technology for creating and updating support plans, collaborating with colleagues and completing online training You will need an enhanced DBS check done and Stonewater will arrange for this. Discover Stonewater: Stonewater have 20+ years’ experience delivering refuge, safe accommodation and community based domestic abuse services. Our services include Women and Children’s Refuges, LGBTQ+ Safe Space, a South Asian Women’s Refuge and dispersed accommodation to support those that are unable to access traditional Refuges such as male survivors, those with pets and those facing multiple and complex disadvantage. Our dispersed model of safe accommodation ensures equal access for all. Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 survivors across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme. Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market. We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 800 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives. We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation. Are you ready to #DiscoverStonewater? Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.