Location: Greater London (Hybrid)

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term Contract / Full Time

Application Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025

Interview Dates: Tuesday 12th August and Thursday 14th August 2025

Job Summary

Location: CamdenRefuges

Salary: Unqualified: £28,255 - £29,913 per annum
Qualified: £29,923 - £32,623 per annum

(Applicants are usually appointed at the bottom of the relevant band)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract: Fixed Term Contract (Until 29th September 2026)

Closing Date: Friday 1st August 2025

Closing Time: 00:00

Are you looking for a rewarding role working for an intersectional feminist organization? If so, we have an incredible opportunity for you to join our team as a Family Support Worker (Maternity Cover) at Solace Women's Aid.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men, and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

Our core values reflect our history and were developed in consultation with staff and service users. Feminism and intersectionality are key to our work, and we are committed to principles of being survivor-led, trauma-informed, empowering, diverse, anti-racist, and anti-discriminatory.

About the Service

Solace provides safe refuge and move-on accommodation to hundreds of women and children made homeless through domestic or sexual abuse. We run 22 refuges across London, including specialist spaces for women with multiple needs. This role involves working across two refuges in Camden, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

About the Role

The primary role of a Family Support Worker is to provide effective, efficient, and supportive services to children and their mothers residing in refuge with Solace Women’s Aid. The staff member will lead on developing a child and family-centered approach, including:

• Developing and delivering trauma-informed services to children (0-17 years) and their mothers, both in refuge and upon resettlement.
• Ensuring ongoing development of age-appropriate children’s activities.
• Completing comprehensive assessments of family needs and risks, ensuring an integrated approach with other services.
• Promoting ‘Integrated Working’ in partnership with colleagues and community agencies.
• Coordinating activities through session staff, volunteers, and placements.

About You

The ideal candidate will have experience working with vulnerable children, young people, and families, and knowledge of domestic abuse effects on young people. You should be familiar with assessment, action planning, evaluation, and record-keeping. Ability to work independently and with other agencies to promote family and child wellbeing is essential.

In return, we offer employee benefits including a 3% employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement, and focus on learning and development.

What We Offer

• Flexible working
• Learning and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Employer pension contribution
• Family-friendly leave and enhanced maternity pay
• Inclusion Networks
• Clinical debriefing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff discounts and benefits platform
• Yoga classes and meditation sessions
• Cycle to Work Scheme

How to Apply

Highlight in your supporting statement how your values, knowledge, skills, and experience align with the sections of the Job Profile Document on:

• Values, Behaviours & Competencies
• Knowledge, Experience and Skills

We value diversity, promote equity, and challenge discrimination. Applications from diverse candidates are encouraged. We are a Disability Confident Employer and support inclusive recruitment. The service is women-only per legal requirements, and the post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Pre-employment checks include references, DBS, and right-to-work verification. No agencies.