Women’s Workshop
This post is for a dynamic support worker to join the Women’s Workshop team to focus on our outreach work with women. The Women’s Workshop supports a wide range of women who face challenges, and this post is to assist in offering support and opportunities to women to establish and maintain their own peer support groups, with a target of four groups. These will be in village and/or thematic group settings and the post holder will help them take part in local and core programmes.
This includes:
- Setting up new and maintaining existing peer support groups in up to four settings in partnership with local community venues
- Helping set up local programmes based on local women’s interests and preferences, offering practical support to enable women to take part and to
- move towards maintaining their own programme.
- Making contact with organisations and services and inviting them to promote their programmes to women including taster sessions.
- Managing the outreach session budget to cover venue, refreshments and visiting tutors.
- Encouraging women to take part in the Women’s Workshop core programme, including referring individual women for 1-2-1 support to the Women’s Workshop Practical and Emotional Support Manager
Salary
Pro rata £24,000
Hours and terms
12 hours minimum 12 month contract.
Conditions include pro rata of 30 days paid leave (i.e. 10 days plus bank holidays); travel costs from work to external meetings; pension contributions; occasional home-based time permissible by arrangement.
Hours can be worked flexibly by negotiation, with attendance at team and programme meetings at definite times.
Location
Main base is Women’s Workshop Office Base, Rooms 4 & 5, Fourways 2, Dilston Terrace Amble NE65 0DT, and at outreach locations
Closing date for applications
20th May 2024
How to apply
You can find all of the relevant information and an application form at our website – click here.
More information
The Women’s Workshop is a progressive independent women’s organisation. We promote better outcomes for local women, particularly women who are disadvantaged by living in rural coastal areas. Our main base is a unique women’s self-build in Amble. We offer workshops, personal development, therapeutic spaces, well-being programmes and accredited learning into vocational routes such as people skills, enterprise and industries where women are under-represented. We also run an outreach programme in village settings, and a HERitage project which sells local women’s products at stalls and events to provide income for the organisation. Over time we have trained many women as peer mentors, to support and develop groups of women who face barriers as a result of domestic abuse, ethnicity, addiction, family crisis, offending, mental health, neurodivergence, disability, age or sexual orientation. We are an approved Learning provider with the National Open College Network and take a lead on the Thriving Together Northumberland Women’s Network. You would be working in a challenging, varied but fun environment in a very supportive setting.