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Community Keyworker - Hampshire, Portsmouth
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Client:
Advance
Location:
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
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Job Views:
25
Posted:
18.06.2025
Expiry Date:
02.08.2025
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Job Description:
Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos? Then Advance Charity could be the career choice for you!
We are looking for a Community Key Worker
Location: Portsmouth office based and will cover Hampshire
Contract: Fixed Term until 31st March 2027
This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Please note: Any offer of employment will be made subject to references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK, and satisfactory enhanced DBS check. This role is also subject to Police Vetting.
About us
Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse and supporting women with short-term sentences to reduce offending. We believe in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community.
We are a community-based organisation who lead in best practice approaches to supporting women in their local community. We achieve 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.
Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
About the role:
Are you an excellent relationship builder who can work with women and a diverse range of delivery partners to ensure that she meets her potential and successfully progresses through and beyond her probation supervision? Can you meet a woman wherever she is at in her journey and work with her to create an individualised support package that gives her the best chance of breaking the cycle of offending?
Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for a feminist organisation that understands supporting women in the criminal justice system requires a specialist and gendered approach? Do you believe in our values; to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaborate, innovate, and take accountability?
In your role as a Community Keyworker, you will work with women involved in the Criminal Justice System; those on Probation in the Community and those women being released from Prison as part of their Post Sentence Supervision; providing some in-reach and ‘Through the Gate’ support. You will work in a team of Community Keyworkers in your region. Each Keyworker will provide holistic one-to-one community support to women with a variety of needs.
About You:
To be successful as the Community Key Worker, you will need the below experience and skills.
There will be travel around the region involved in this role, so you will either need to hold a UK driving licence with access to a car that can be used for work purposes, or you will need to be willing to get a driving licence if successful. You should be a creative self-starter who supports the service and looks for innovative solutions to support clients with complex needs. You are a confident professional relationship builder with good awareness of Safeguarding procedures. You have strong administration skills and an understanding of compliant behaviours, as well as experience supporting clients. You will also have good knowledge of the criminal justice system and awareness of other support provisions within the Hampshire area.
The job will be advertised until the 2nd July, and interviews will take place on the 9th and 10th of July.
*Advance reserves the right to close the advert early, or on the appointment of a candidate.
What we can offer you - Employee Benefits:
* An exceptional 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 where you can receive free rewards as well as take advantage of savings on clothes, groceries, travel, leisure, and more
* Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee eye-care scheme
* Clinical supervision for frontline 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
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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 any additional needs, please email [emailprotected] and we will aim to make the necessary arrangements to accommodate your needs.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunities
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.
Safeguarding
Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero tolerance for harm and expects all staff, including volunteers, to share this commitment. We believe all individuals have the right to live free from violence and abuse and to feel and be safe. We have a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures, and practice guidance accessible to all staff, which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all our services and activities. When recruiting staff, we follow rigorous safer recruitment practices, including pre-employment checks such as references, DBS checks, and identity verification. All staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training relevant to their roles to recognize and respond appropriately to safeguarding issues and promote wellbeing.
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