Senior Groupworker - Wandsworth LINKS (Secondment)

Are you a passionate and proactive professional with experience in delivering groups for parents and children about parenting and domestic abuse? Join LINKS Groupwork Service – Changing lives, one conversation at a time.

Imagine a parent, struggling to find a path forward amidst the challenges of domestic abuse. Imagine a child, searching for safety and understanding in a world that feels uncertain. Now, imagine the impact you could have in guiding them toward hope, resilience and a brighter future.

At LINKS Groupwork Service, we believe in the power of connection. In this role, you will help us bring parents, carers and children together in safe, trauma-informed spaces, delivering inclusive group programs that not only inform but transform lives. Through parenting and domestic abuse groups, you will foster healing, growth and empowerment for families across Wandsworth. LINKS also deliver Family Group Conferences and Lifelong Links, however this role is specific to groupwork.

As a Senior Groupworker, you will be the heartbeat of our mission – leading, co-facilitating and shaping the journey of families in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team of professionals across the borough. You won’t just deliver groups – you will be a mentor, a guide and a force for change. You will ensure the highest standard of groupwork delivery for children, young people and their families by demonstrating a thorough understanding of how intersectionality such as poverty, gender and race can impact families.

Embracing opportunity for personal and professional growth in an ever-changing environment, you will be fostering a culture of ongoing learning within the service. You will also promote quality assurance and evaluate the delivery of evidence-based parenting and domestic abuse groups in Wandsworth.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Experience of delivering evidence-based group work with parents and children.
• Significant and substantial experience in the co-ordination, development and delivery of group work including planning, evaluation, quality assurance and the ability to evidence the impact of groupwork.
• Experience of direct work with parents, carers and children.
• Experience of multi-agency and partnership working.
• Relevant qualifications e.g., Youth Work, Early Years, Social Work (desirable).

If you meet the above criteria and you are ready to be part of a team that transforms lives and strengthens communities, we want to hear from you.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Mary Kelly at Mary.Kelly@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Closing date: 8 June 2025
Shortlisting date: 9 June 2025
Interview date: 20 June 2025

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

All internal applicants for this secondment must seek permission from their current line manager before applying. Failure to do so may result in the secondment not being authorised.

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.