*INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY* VAWG Prevention Worker in Walthamstow

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO2 £42,771 - £45,750

Contract Type: Full Time/Fixed Term (18 months, with the potential of extension)

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 01/04/2026

Proposed Interview Date(s): TBC

Reference: 2049

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work. We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

About the role:

We are looking for someone to join the VAWG Team as a VAWG Prevention Worker, to support the ongoing expansion and development of our work. The post holder will provide training and awareness-raising on addressing VAWG and disrupting misogyny to professionals, local businesses, and communities; cover regular VAWG drop-ins; provide case consultations and guidance to professionals from a range of sectors; and take part in community outreach. Working closely with community settings to build and maintain these relationships is an essential element of this role.

The post holder will also co-ordinate and support the VAWG Advisory Panel to ensure that the expert knowledge and views of experts by experience are included in service and policy design and evaluation.

We are looking for self-motivated individuals who can work independently and are willing to take initiative where needed. You should have experience of working with VAWG and be keen to be part of the development of this community-based approach.

• Identify and build relationships with businesses, organisations and other settings across the Borough interested in partnering with the VAWG Team
• Work with settings to increase awareness of specialist VAWG services and how to safely and appropriately signpost survivors or perpetrators
• Work with settings to build confidence in identifying misogynistic and abusive behaviour and how to safely challenge it
• Carry out community outreach with the VAWG Team
• Promote the need for early intervention and the importance of prevention focused work
• Provide case consultations and guidance to professionals on providing safe, effective, appropriate responses to survivors and perpetrators of VAWG
• Work with colleagues in the VAWG Team and specialist VAWG providers to co-ordinate the regular VAWG drop-ins at the Family Hubs
• Offer signposting, information, and education where appropriate and refer survivors to specialist support where needed
• Work with colleagues in the VAWG Team to develop and deliver specialist VAWG training sessions and awareness-raising events to professionals and local communities in response to identified need
• Provide co-ordination and support to the VAWG Advisory Panel, including facilitating meetings and supporting members to engage with pieces of work as needed

Qualifications and Requirements:

• A good understanding of VAWG
• An understanding of how violence and abuse disproportionately affect women and girls and how VAWG is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality and a manifestation of misogyny
• Experience carrying out frontline VAWG work is essential
• Experience carrying out community work is desirable
• Experience developing and delivering training is desirable
• Good organisation skills and an ability to develop a consistent, systematic approach to working with each of the community settings
• Ability to use own initiative and work independently
• Ability to build robust and effective relationships with community settings
• Effective communication skills including the confidence to communicate verbally in new settings and with new individuals on a regular basis
• Ability to be flexible and to conduct regular travel within the borough

Terms and conditions:

• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
• Satisfactory declaration of interest;
• This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/or vulnerable adults;
• Satisfactory DBS check;
• As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives:

• Promoting equality of opportunity
• Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage
• Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels.
• Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.

Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.