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About the Role

This role supports neurodiverse women and those presenting with neurodiversity symptoms, focusing on their transition and ongoing support within the community. The Lead will collaborate with healthcare professionals, act as a specialist in a multi-disciplinary team, and facilitate pathways for women with complex needs, including mental health and neurodiversity. The role involves accepting referrals, linking prison and community support, and co-designing person-centred plans.

Responsibilities

Identify and support women who are identified as being neurodiverse or presenting with symptoms of neurodiversity and will be returning to the community.
Focus support on women with a neurodivergent need and improve their transition into the community, with ongoing community support.
Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to develop support plans.
Work in a multi-disciplinary way, including attending the weekly complex case meeting and/or the Safety Intervention Meeting (SIM) as appropriate.
Act as a specialist member of the wider Advance Criminal Justice Service - London team.
Facilitate a pathway for women with complex needs including mental health and neurodiversity needs.
Accept referrals from the Advance Criminal Justice Community team and prison services.
Create a link between prison and the community, helping women to navigate support services and to positively re-integrate into their community upon release.
Co-design a person-centred support and action plan with women accessing support.
Enable support for women to address their needs and any risks.
Utilize a casework-based approach.
Provide a signposting and advice service for women.

Requirements

An excellent understanding of mental health, neurodiversity needs, violence against women and girls, and its links to women in the criminal justice system.
Ability to complete trauma-informed support and action plans in collaboration with the woman.
Ability to support women in addressing their multiple and individual needs.
Ability to enable women to engage with services, which will result in timely and prescribed outcomes being achieved.
Excellent organisational skills.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to work in a prison environment whilst remaining calm.
References.
Confirmation of the right to work in the UK.
Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
EL2 vetting.

Skills

Mental health understanding
Neurodiversity needs understanding
Violence against women and girls understanding
Trauma-informed support planning
Support planning
Action planning
Collaboration
Organizational skills
Communication skills
Working in a prison environment
Calmness under pressure

Location

Advance Head Office in Hammersmith
Women’s centres across London
HMP Bronzefield

Work Type

Fixed Term
35 Hours per week

Experience Level

Not specified

Education Level

Not specified

Salary/Compensations

£33,000- £38,000

Benefits

30 days of paid holiday per year (pro rata for part time), PLUS public holidays on top (that's nearly 40 days paid holiday per year!)
Additional days off to celebrate International Women’s Day, and for religious observance and moving home
Perkbox - an employee discount platform
Pension scheme
Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
Employee eye-care scheme
Clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles
Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 for each referral who passes probation
Organisation wide away days
Thorough induction and training
Career development pathways

About the Company

Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998.
Provides emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse.
Supports women with short-term sentences to reduce offending.
Believes in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community.
Is a community-based organisation who lead in best practice approaches to supporting women in their local community.
Achieves this by being available to meet and support women in local settings and at our women’s centres, and by working in close partnership with other agencies.
Values include: listen and support, empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

Equal Opportunity

Under the Equality Act 2010, we are required to make any reasonable adjustments.
If you have a disability as defined under this act and/or have special needs, please email the Talent Acquisition Team via the Advance website and will aim to make the necessary arrangements to accommodate your needs.
We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team.
We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.
Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm and expects all staff, including volunteers to share this commitment.
We believe all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe.
We have a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures and practice guidance, accessible to all staff, which promotes safeguarding and safer working practices across all our services and activities.
When we recruit staff, we follow rigorous safer recruitment practices, this involves carrying out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, and identity checks.
We ensure all staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities, to empower them to be competent and feel confident in recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding issues and promote wellbeing.