We are looking to recruit a Women's Hub Support and Trauma Worker (25 hours per week) The ideal candidate will have significant experience in providing support to people using trauma informed support skills and have a sound knowledge of the impact of rape, sexual abuse and exploitation on survivors.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent terms and conditions and the opportunity to gain invaluable skills and experience.

Dundee Women’s Hub is a newly developed multi-agency support hub for women impacted by substance use, as well as multiple disadvantages that women face alongside this such as gender-based violence, housing issues, benefits and debt, health and wellbeing, relationships with children and family, and extensive experiences of historical and ongoing trauma. The Hub will improve access to substance use and related services for women with the overall goal of improving physical and emotional wellbeing for women and supporting to empower women to make informed choices.

Our DAYS Service supports all young people of any gender aged between 8 and 18 who live in Dundee or Angus and have experienced any type of sexual abuse.

We take a flexible approach to planning support to best meet the needs of the young person, this can be school, home, community or at our office. We offer a variety of support for young people and are led by the individual.

1:1 Support - We offer emotional support to survivors. Each session is a safe and confidential space for survivors to process the trauma they have experienced at their own pace. We do this by using a range of therapeutic interventions and tools which are survivor centred.

Group work support - We various creative groups and peer support groups all of which aims to reduce isolation and extend social circles. The aim of these are to build survivors support networks and build survivors confidence, reducing isolation and feelings of blame and shame.

Family and Friends -We can also provide support to family, friends, partners and agency workers to help them understand the impact of sexual violence and cope with their feelings whilst supporting a survivor.

We are looking to recruit a Sexual Violence Support & Trauma Worker – Initial Referral team (25 hours per week) The ideal candidate will have significant experience in providing support to people using trauma informed support skills and have a sound knowledge of the impact of rape, sexual abuse and exploitation on survivors.

Salary: £19,552 moving to £21,034 after successful completion of a probationary period.

Hours; 25 hours per week fixed term until 31st March 2025 with the possibility of extension should funding be secured.

Probation: This post is subject to 6-month probationary period if offer of permanent position is made.

Holidays: 33 Days plus 5 Public Holidays days for Festive Period. Please note this is pro rata for the 25 hour role.

Pension: Employer contribution at 6% to CIS pension fund.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent terms and conditions and the opportunity to gain invaluable skills and experience.

The Role

Scottish Women’s Aid has an opportunity to join their team as Communications Lead on a maternity cover basis. Our Communications Lead is responsible for developing and delivering the messages that reflect our core values and strategic priorities, communicating with media partners, stakeholders, and wider communities. The role holder works closely with our Communications Assistant.

Background

Scottish Women’s Aid is Scotland’s leading voluntary sector organisation working to prevent domestic abuse and promoting effective policy and practice responses for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. We are the umbrella organisation for 34 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland.

What You’ll Do

Working closely with colleagues across the organisation you will create, manage and develop a strong social media presence for Scottish Women’s Aid. You’ll co-ordinate the planning and delivery of media responses as well as external PR communications to member organisations, non-members partners and other stakeholders. Local and national campaign management will be integral to the role, as is working closely with the policy team to identify ways to publicise key issues for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse and the work we do to address these issues.

What We Need

We’re looking for someone with experience in a similar communications role, with specific experience of campaign and political, parliamentary or public affairs work. Excellent written and verbal communications skills goes without saying: you’ll be skilled in the ability to write to suit a range of different audiences and assist your colleagues with writing and producing marketing materials.

We’re looking for someone who has;

· An understanding of the benefits of social media and content management systems

· Ability to manage all communications in relation to different external projects and services provided

· Experience using social media, website and content management systems

· An understanding of political and parliamentary processes

· Awareness and understanding of the feminist analysis of domestic abuse

What we offer

There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attracts a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:

Flexible working

We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking. We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.

Pay

SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.

Annual Leave

We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.

Pension

SWA believes it's important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.

Learning and Development

SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.

Wellbeing

As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.

Bike 2 Work

An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.

Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies

Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.

POSITIVE ACTION

Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, all women, including women with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, may apply for women-only roles.

SWA are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the people we serve.

We are taking positive action to address an under-representation of both disabled and Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employees within our workforce. We offer Disabled and BAME applicants the option of requesting that their application is considered under the terms of our Disabled or BAME Guaranteed Interview Schemes. You will be asked if you wish to be considered under the Disability/BAME Guaranteed Interview scheme when you complete our application form.