Sexual Violence Prevention Worker

Sexual Violence Prevention Worker

Salary: £39,855 – £42,324 per annum

Grade: PO1

Employment: Fixed-term contract and secondment (internal) until 30/03/2029

Job Reference: R0006933

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential.  We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock.  All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”.  It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.  There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.  Read more about these on our website.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team as a Sexual Violence Prevention Worker. 

In this unique role, you will primarily support victims of sexual abuse and harassment.

This role includes developing and delivering multi-agency community-based training to raise awareness of sexual abuse and harassment.

Part of the role will also be to establish partnership with Police, Sexual Health clinics and other relevant services to create a referral pathway for victims of sexual abuse and harassment.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

As the Sexual Violence Prevention Worker, you will be joining the Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team.  This service exists to end the harm perpetrated through domestic abuse. Our aim is to prevent abuse as well as provide services to meet the individual needs of survivors.

The Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team sits within the Community Safety Team which is responsible for providing life-saving frontline services, co-ordinating work across different disciplines, strengthening partnership and collaborative work, implementing innovative projects, and ensuring Hounslow Council fulfils its statutory duties to make Hounslow safer for everyone.

The Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team are a team of Independent Domestic and Sexual Violence Advisors, Parent and Child Domestic Abuse Workers and a Domestic Abuse Programme team who are dedicated to addressing Violence Against Women and Girls in Hounslow borough. You will work alongside these workers jointly promoting the service and assisting with the Hounslow One Stop Shop, training sessions to partners and co-facilitating groups.

You will receive the full support from an experienced line manager and can expect a variety of development and training opportunities. You will also have access to external clinical supervision and peer support meetings.

If you are passionate about ending domestic abuse, believe in prevention, intervention and safeguarding, this could be a great opportunity for you to help keep Hounslow residents safe.  

About You

If you feel passionate about Sexual Violence Prevention work, are a confident people person with the drive to ensure the voice of survivors forms every stage of your work. Then this could be the opportunity for you. 

You will: 

1. Have the skills to provide effective crisis intervention and carry out risk assessments and safety planning.  
2. Have experience of forming and delivering training to professionals and survivors
3. Are driven to work in partnership with Police, Sexual Health clinics and other relevant services to create a referral pathway for victims of sexual abuse and harassment.  
4. Able to remain calm and resilient whilst managing a busy caseload.

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:  

1. You want to work as part of a team.
2. You want to make a difference every day.  
3. You want to work effectively with a focus on victim safety and support.  
4. You want to contribute to the change and improvement on the lives of survivors.

Qualifications:

Safelives (or equivalent) ISVA qualification desired.

Essential for The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!9

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Charlotte.Roffey@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 8583 4156

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 3rd June 2025.

In light of the nature and context of the work, the organisation considers that the candidate’s gender (woman) to be an occupational requirement in accordance with Para 1, Schedule 9, of the Equality Act 2010.

Closing date is 20th May 2025.

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