£28,598 - £31,384 FTE per annum (£15,458.38 - £16,964.32 per annum, pro rata)
ID: 1421 Group Facilitator for Adult Survivors of Domestic Abuse Based in Gloucestershire
Service: Family Action Domestic Abuse Healing and Empowerment Counselling Service
Salary:
- Grade 3 Point 20: £28,598 - £31,384 FTE per annum (£15,458.38 - £16,964.32 per annum, pro rata)
Location: Gloucestershire office based
Hours: 20 hours per week (part-time)
Contract: Ending March 31st 2026 (possible extension subject to funding)
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
Family Action are looking for a Group Facilitator to join our team. Our services include a telephone helpline, counselling, advocacy, outreach and a co-produced, relational activism project.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service that amplifies the voices of survivors and advocates for an inclusive, progressive approach to healing. Your role will be key in driving forward our work in Gloucestershire, while ensuring our services remain rooted in intersectional feminism and anti-oppressive practice. Through this work, you will help create a more inclusive and supportive community for those who have experienced Domestic Violence.
Supervision and ongoing professional development are core to this role, with both clinical and line management support. This position requires a commitment to working within a trauma-informed framework, centred on healing, resilience, and the empowerment of survivors.
Main Responsibilities:
1. This is an exciting opportunity, for an experienced facilitator,
2. To work on group-based provision for adult survivors of sexual violence. You will be responsible for delivering trauma informed groups both remote and in-person and supporting a small group of volunteers to co-facilitate you in your role.
3. You will lead the promotion, delivery and evaluation of psycho-educational pre-therapy groups and post-therapy drop-in groups.
4. You will coproduce steering group for lived experiences for adult survivors of Domestic Abuse in Gloucestershire.
5. There will be 3 hours per month of paid clinical supervision plus line management supervision with the Clinical Service Manager.
6. Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (enhanced).
Benefits:
1. An annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays.
2. Up to 6% matched-pension contributions.
3. Flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment.
4. Enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions.
5. Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers.
6. Cycle to work scheme.
7. Investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities.
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
1. Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form.
2. Closing Date: Tuesday 8th April 2025 at 23:59.
3. To learn more about Family Action: Careers.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: lisa.platts@family-action.org.uk
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
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