Specialist Project Worker - Womens Housing

We are recruiting a Specialist Project Worker Gender Specific Women’s Project to join a brand-new, forward-thinking team supporting women with multiple disadvantages, including homelessness, mental health issues, or substance misuse through a gender-specific, trauma-informed approach. So if you are you a passionate, proactive individual with a clean driving licence and a commitment to supporting women facing complex challenges? This is your chance to make a lasting difference in your community

Benefits:

  • Salary; £29845 - £32439
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • 37.5 hours per week (Willingness to work some evenings and weekends)
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Training and Development

About the Job:

Working within a dedicated team of five, you’ll help shape a person-centred support service in a psychologically informed environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of something powerful and impactful from day one.

  • Build trusted, empowering relationships with women in supported accommodation
  • Deliver personalised support and recovery-focused plans
  • Provide intensive housing management and welfare advocacy
  • Lead co-produced group activities and community-based support
  • Liaise with partner agencies and professionals as part of a multi-agency model
  • Mentor peers and contribute to the development of best practices

About you:

  • A trauma-informed approach and minimum 2 years' experience with complex needs
  • Strong safeguarding knowledge and confident working autonomously
  • Ability to advocate and empower women through rights-based support
  • NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care, Housing, IAG—or equivalent (desirable)
  • Patience, flexibility, and emotional resilience
  • Willingness to work some evenings and weekends

Why apply?

This is more than a job—it’s a chance to be a vital part of a project built on compassion, recovery, and hope. You’ll work with a team that’s as committed as you are to changing lives for the better.

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Town
Southend-on-sea
Salary and benefits
£29845.00 - £32439.00 Per Annum
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