Counselling jobs in Bridgwater

Group Facilitator for Adult Survivors of Domestic Abuse Based in North Somerset Domestic Abuse Counsellor

Service: Family Action Domestic Abuse Healing and Empowerment Counselling Service North Somerset

Location: North Somerset office based (Weston-Super-Mare tbc.) with travel across the area.

Hours: 14.8 hours per week (part-time). We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Salary: Grade 3 Point 20: £11,553.60 - £12,679.20 per annum for part-time, 14.8 hours per week

Contract Type : Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:

At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the

importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

Main responsibilities

Family Action are looking for a Group Facilitator to join our exciting new team. Our services include individual counselling, face-to-face and online support. Therapeutic interventions may include counselling, and wrap-around therapeutic support and interventions will include, pre and post-group support with you. This may include self-care strategies such as meditation, yoga, and mindfulness as well as a pattern changing program. You will also provide training for support staff/professionals in the local area.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service that amplifies the voices of survivors and advocates for an inclusive, progressive approach to healing. Your role will be key in driving forward our work in North Somerset, while ensuring our services remain rooted in intersectional feminism and anti-oppressive practice. Through this work, you will help create a more inclusive and supportive community for those who have experienced Domestic Violence.
Clinical supervision and ongoing professional development are core to this role, with both clinical and line management support. This position requires a commitment to working within a trauma-informed framework, centred on healing, resilience, and the empowerment of survivors.

Family Action welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):

• This is an exciting opportunity, for an experienced facilitator to work on group-based provision for adult survivors of sexual violence.
• You will be responsible for delivering trauma informed groups both remote and in-person and supporting a small group of volunteers to co-facilitate you in your role.
• You will lead the promotion, delivery and evaluation of psycho-educational pre-therapy groups and post-therapy drop-in groups
• You will provide training for support staff/professionals. This will focus on early identification, appropriate referrals/signposting and links to other vulnerabilities such as chronic illness.
• There will be 3 hours per month of paid clinical supervision plus line management supervision with the Clinical Service Manager.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (enhanced)

Benefits:

- A pro-rated annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays

- up to 6% matched-pension contributions

- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment

- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions

- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers

- cycle to work scheme

- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:

· Please visit our website: www.family-action.org.uk/careers

· Closing Date: Wednesday 28th October at 23:59pm

For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: lisa.platts@family-action.org.uk

All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Actionbecause we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £11,553.60-£12,679.20 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexitime
• Free flu jabs
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person