Male Outreach Worker - (Thames Valley Base), Kent, Surrey, Sussex
This Male Outreach Crisis Worker role is critical in providing victims of sexual assault with the dedicated support and care required.
Acting as the advocate for patients who attend the centre, you will empower them to feel in control and, where applicable, support them during the forensic examination process.
Main duties of the job
This Male Outreach Crisis Worker role will include:
* Proactively engaging relevant stakeholders and partners to maintain good communication.
* Identifying gaps in service and developing new pathways, promoting the services available at the SARC to support male survivors through presentations, meetings, and participation with activities arranged with the wider communications team.
* Providing on-call support as a dedicated crisis worker to support male service users (through Police or self-referral processes).
* Providing telephone support, administration, and management of the services at the SARC (for male clients).
* Taking an active role and providing assistance with the collection of forensic evidence and examinations, including the use of the colposcope, medical care, and providing advocacy support.
About us
Founded by passionate clinicians on a mission to provide expert patient-centred services, Mountain Healthcare leads the clinical forensic healthcare provisions sector in the UK.
A premier partner of NHS England and the police, our unique provisions include Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), Police Custodial Healthcare, Secure Estate Healthcare, and clinical telephone advice.
Driven by our values 'Be Kind' and 'Do the Right Thing', Mountain Healthcare provides holistic and trauma-informed care that improves the immediate and long-term health outcomes of patients across the criminal justice system.
Join the Best Provider, Make the Greatest Difference. Clinical forensic healthcare is a rapidly growing career path as demand for specialist critical services has greatly increased in recent years.
At Mountain Healthcare, we understand that to provide the highest quality services for our patients and customers, our people must be the best in the field.
We are proud to offer unrivalled staff training and development opportunities such as our unique Forensic Practitioner Gateway, our wide range of accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses, and access to events across the health and justice sector.
Job responsibilities
This post will be Regional, based at Thames Valley SARC but will be needed at the Kent SARC, Surrey, and Sussex SARC.
We are looking for passionate individuals who will drive national awareness of the services which are available at the SARC, to support male victims, in order to increase user engagement.
In addition to outreach work, the Male Outreach Crisis Worker will provide front-line advocacy support for service users and be the main point of contact for all SARC activities.
This is a full-time vacancy of 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday (9:00am - 5:00pm - with some flexibility).
As an organisation that 'does the right thing', we believe you will be empowered to make a difference.
Company Benefits
* Enhanced sickness pay scheme
* Enhanced Maternity Pay after 1 year's service
* Advanced rota planning for better work-life balance
* 6 weeks annual leave
* Pension Scheme
* Bonus Scheme
* Life Assurance
* Employee Assistant Programme
* Long Service/Team of the Month Awards
* A range of accredited and CPD training courses and masterclasses
* Funding for higher education courses after one year's service
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A full UK driving licence is essential to this role.
Experience
* This Male Outreach Crisis Worker role would suit candidates with experience, or an enthusiasm for developing their skills in outreach, care, sexual health care, counselling, social care, or as a Crisis or Support Worker.
* While there are currently no associated qualification requirements for this vacancy, experience of dealing with victims of sexual assault, or a background in sexual health, GU medicine, counselling, social work, or any other related area of work would be desirable though not essential as full support and substantive training will be provided.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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