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Job Title: Floating Support Worker Warwickshire - Hybrid working between staff offices across Warwickshire, Dispersed Accommodation (mainly based in the North of Warwickshire and Rugby) and occasional home working Contract type: Full Time, Permanent This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Floating Support Worker to provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children living in our dispersed refuge accommodation in Warwickshire. In this role, you will be forming a team that makes up the Warwickshire Dispersed Safe Accommodation service. This service will provide emergency accommodation across Warwickshire with high-quality domestic abuse support, ‘by-and-for’ services for survivors of domestic abuse and their children. The post holder will provide high quality support and safety planning to survivors and their children who are fleeing domestic abuse. This includes enabling survivors to access housing, welfare, benefits and legal advice. A key requirement is to provide personal welfare support and to ensure that survivors are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles. The Floating Support Worker (FSW) will carry a caseload of survivors of domestic abuse to enable them to provide a more holistic and intensive support package. They will work closely with survivors from the point of crisis through to move on from the emergency accommodation. As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota. This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role.