Trauma Narrative Support Worker

Job Description / Application Pack
Role: Trauma Narrative Support Worker for Creative Professional
Contract length: Permanent contract with immediate start (w/c 21 July 2025). Following assessment of the role’s efficacy, this post is to be reviewed with regards to indefinite extension, in line with future Access To Work grant renewal.

Rate of pay: £30 per hour. This is a self-employed role as ‘Support Worker’ paid for by Access To Work. Payment occurs monthly following invoicing to Access To Work.

Hours: This role requires visits to the Creative Professionals home in North West London (Finchley Road). Visits will consist of 2-3 hour sessions. Travel time will be paid up to 1 hour each way. Sessions will occur once per fortnight. Budget allows for 6-hours worth of working time per fortnight, including travel time.

Working hours: Flexible to the Creative Professionals needs. Due to access requirements, the Creative Professional doesn’t work in the mornings, so meetings and dialogues in the afternoon are necessary. Some evenings/weekend check-ins may be required.

Reports to: The Creative Professional.

Key relationships: The Creative Professional via regular meetings and the Creative Access Manager (fellow support worker team member).

Probationary: 8-weeks.

Place of work: in-person, home-visits in London. Some administrative/catch-ups may be required around the in-person home visits, which can be completed remotely. Please note: due to the nature of this role, we will not be accepting applications from candidates who are unable to facilitate home-visits.

Full Job Description

Summary:

The Trauma Narrative Support Worker role sits within a wider team of key Support Workers engaged by the Creative Professional.

The Creative Professional is experiencing a period of ill-health at the moment. They are taking a break from work in the short term in order to get some much needed rest and recovery time, away from the constraints and tensions of work. The Creative Professional and their support team are looking for somebody who can administer home visits and can support them as a Trauma Narrative Support Worker.

The Trauma Narrative Support Worker will:

• Attend fortnightly sessions in-person.
• Have robust and healthy, inspirational conversations, inspiring creativity and somatic healing.
• Understanding, reflecting and holding the narrative of the Creative Professionals current situation, with an understanding and integration of the nervous system.
• Support with any narrative and executive function support for the Creative Professional as required, in-person. This includes holding key pieces of information about the Creative Professionals health position and professional practice, so that they don’t have to.
• Anticipate the needs of the Creative Professional, being as intuitive and proactive with those needs and reporting any required actions back to the other Support Worker team members.
• Medical advocacy (e.g. tracking appointments, drafting letters, requesting adjustments).
• Adjust support in real-time.
• Give the Creative Professional a buffer from the world, so healing can happen.
• Keep in touch between sessions.

With a small but supportive team, the Creative Professional is keen to cultivate a harmonious, inclusive, kind and enthusiastic team to support the day-to-day, as well as ongoing creative practice.

Rest and recovery is key right now. We feel that this role is essential in supporting the Creative Professional to achieve this, enabling a meaningful, productive and sustainable recovery.

Experience/perspectives desired:

• Knowledge of networks of creative/music/healing/holistic/therapies supports in Greater London (essential)
• Trauma-informed
• Awareness of nervous system
• Awareness of disability
• Awareness of neurodiversity
• Awareness of barriers faced by those in marginalised communities
• Empathy informed decision-making
• Understanding of somatic healing practices
• Understanding of health system barriers
• Strong advocacy skills

We understand that this list is diverse and we would encourage candidates to apply if they feel like they cover most of these points. Your professional background may be in health, trauma, social work, safeguarding, somatic/nervous system practices, therapies, medicine, or something else entirely… We hope that the right candidate will demonstrate strong advocacy and willingness to create structures for rest and recovery. (Additionally, if you have a friendly dog and would be willing to bring them along for home visits, then this would be a wonderful “nice to have”!)

The Creative Professional utilises a variety of communication style including in-person meetings, online video-calling and WhatsApp messages & voice notes. The successful candidate will be comfortable using a variety of communication styles in the post.

How To Apply
Please send the following with the SUBJECT: Trauma Narrative Support Worker to: georgesoave21@gmail.com by 08:00am, Wednesday 9th July 2025:

• CV
• Video application: no more than 3 minutes. This is your opportunity to demonstrate your alignment and passion for the work. This does not need to be a high-tech video. A front-facing camera video on your phone will suffice. Feel free to keep it informal, this is mainly about us getting a picture of who you are. Please discuss:
  • introducing yourself and why you are suited to the role
  • an overview of your experience
  • what you can offer that is unique to you
  • where you’re currently based
    Note: if you have challenges sending over your video, please try via either a WeTransfer link, or by uploading to a cloud service such as Google-Drive or DropBox and sharing an accessible and open-source link.
• Interview dates: shortlisted candidates will be interviewed (30-mins) which will take place during the week commencing 14th July, between the hours of 14:00-17:30. Please outline your Monday-to-Friday interview availability in your cover email.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch prior to submitting an application.

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