This is a key role in Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis Centre’s Core service that provides specific support services to girls and women. The role requires a strong commitment to anti-discriminatory and equality work and must demonstrate experience working directly with girls and women. The post holder will be comfortable and confident in representing the service externally across agencies. Experience and understanding of working within an organisation within a feminist, equality, and human rights framework is preferable for this role. Joining an already established team, this role will work for the Service Manager for the Project whilst also being accountable for maintaining and applying the values, principles and competencies for the role to the Director of the Centre. This role is possible due to finding received from Delivering Equally Safe.

Location: Glasgow City Centre Head Office and community bases in Glasgow, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire

A PVG check will be undertaken as part of the selection process. Under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010, only women need to apply.

This is a key role in Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis, where your expertise as a supervisory practitioner gained from the provision of therapeutic support services will be utilised to directly assist the Service Management Team with their duties and responsibilities for our Emotional and Therapeutic Support and Triage Service (ETST).

Working under the supervision of a Service Manager, you will provide a first point of contact to ETST workers across our delivery areas, offering direct leadership, advice, support, caseload management, and guidance. This will include undertaking responsibilities in the areas of safeguarding, continuous improvement, and fulfilment and enhancement of practitioner standards in line with professional standards and service objectives.

It is expected that the Team Leader will have a strong commitment to anti-discriminatory work and feminist principles and will be responsible to the overall Director for maintaining the values, principles, objectives, positions and policies of Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To provide effective daily leadership to workers in ETST, ensuring high standards of trauma-informed practice and service are delivered and always evidenced to survivors.
2. Actively review and manage workers' caseloads, ensuring delivery expectations are fulfilled and monitored to achieve service performance outcomes within Head Office facilities and outreach hubs across GCRC’s six local authority delivery areas.
3. Monitor and assess the service's waiting lists, ensuring that initial triage assessments and the subsequent allocation to workers are timely and in line with service performance objectives.
4. To ensure that safeguarding expectations are followed by all workers in accordance with GCRC policy relating to child and adult protection.
5. Monitor workers' practices and compliance with GDPR, communications tone of voice, and organisational policies and protocols.
6. To deliver monthly observational supervision of practice sessions between workers and survivors to assess practice standards and areas of improvement.
7. To recommend to the Service Manager a schedule and focus for service-specific practice development sessions for workers, setting clear expectations of such sessions and how these developments positively impact practice.
8. To support the robust information gathering for reports for funders, Directors, and the GCRC Board, as determined by the Service Manager.
9. To ensure that Head Office Survivor Support Suites are covered following working protocols and that survivors are welcomed safely and by experienced staff.
10. Participate in regular support and supervision sessions with the Service Manager.
11. Always uphold and positively represent GCRC's vision, mission and values.
12. Attend internal meetings as appropriate to the post and represent the organisation in external meetings where applicable.
13. Participate in an ongoing programme of training and continuing personal development to ensure that skills, knowledge, and working practices and skills are up to date.
14. To participate in internal and external training as required.
15. Any other duties that are relevant to the post of and agreed with the line manager or Director/s.

SWAN is an autistic-led Charity run for and by autistic women, girls and non-binary people across Scotland.

The post holder will deliver a range of neuro-affirming services and support for autistic women and non-binary people, as well as training and workshops for professionals and allies wishing to develop their knowledge and understanding of autistic people.

The postholder will have at least 2 years’ relevant experience (e.g. group facilitation, 1-2-1 support, peer support, training delivery and/or working with autistic people or other marginalised communities).

For this Lived Experience role, it is essential that the Project Worker is autistic (by formal diagnosis or self-identified). You will need to be comfortable with openly disclosing and discussing related experiences in group and open online sessions, public and professional meetings and in a training context.

SWAN is a small but very active Charity, so multitasking, time management skills, and the ability to prioritise tasks and function well at busy times are key. The role is interesting and varied and there are opportunities to develop the post in line with your strengths and skills.

SWAN offers staff a neuro-inclusive working environment, and takes a proactive, neuro-affirming approach to adjustments, support and flexible working which seeks to remove barriers and enable you to work to the best of your strengths and abilities.

You can find more information about SWAN on our website and in our Strategy.

Fife Women’s Aid are looking to recruit a part-time support worker to join our Women’s Support Team.

As a service, we are expanding our capacity to better meet the needs of women who have experienced domestic abuse. Candidates should have good communication skills and a passion for supporting recovery from domestic abuse.

The successful applicants will have at least SVQ Level III or equivalent level of qualification in health and social care or other relevant subject, or a willingness to work towards a qualification.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high degree of motivation and have the ability to work on their own as well as part of a team. An ability to cover on-call is an advantage (additional payments are made for this role).

Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA women’s services. This will be at 6.30pm on Tuesday 18th March 2025. Please confirm your attendance to info@fifewomensaid.org.uk and we will send you details of the zoom meeting. We hope to see you there.

If you would like further information about the post, please contact Gill Birtley, Team Manager, at gill.birtley@fifewomensaid.org.uk to arrange a call.

Fife Women’s Aid is a feminist organisation and strives to be a supportive and empowering employer offering competitive terms and conditions.

Membership of Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is a requirement for this post.