Complex Needs Worker-Housing & Finance

Role: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week excluding breaks)

Location: working across Bognor and Chichester offices

Salary: up to £26,423.25 p/a

Full Job Description can be found here.

How to apply: Please submit a covering letter and current CV to careers@mysistershouse.info. Please include in your cover letter why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience make you a suitable candidate.    

Owing to the gender specific nature of My Sisters’ House service provision, being female is a genuine occupational requirement under Paragraph 27, Schedule 3 of the Equality Act 2010. 

Closing Date: Vacancy to be kept open until the right candidate for the role has been identified.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at My Sisters’ House Women’s Centre for a Complex Needs Worker in our Finance & Housing team. Applicants should be educated to ‘A’ level or equivalent or be able to demonstrate relevant experience.

What is a Complex Needs Worker for Finance & Housing?

Our Finance & Housing team focuses on empowering women and overcoming barriers to clients living with, fleeing from or who have experienced domestic abuse or other disadvantages. These barriers include finances, benefits, budgeting and housing.

As a Complex Needs Worker for Finance and Housing you will be supporting and advocating for women regarding finances, benefits, budgeting, housing as well as other relevant issues. You will also support the Team Lead in the provision of pop-up workshops and groups as required. We work with women who have experienced multiple disadvantages, for example, historic domestic abuse, mental ill health, poverty and other traumas. You will have experience of working with these women and be non-judgmental and trauma-informed at all times.

You will have a passion to see women’s lives transformed.

Ideally, candidates should have:

·       Educated to ‘A’ level or equivalent

·       At least two years’ experience working with women who have experienced multiple disadvantages

·       Have excellent spoken and written skills

·       Excellent interpersonal skills; be kind, compassionate with good communication and presentation skills; enthusiastic, flexible and resilient

·       Ability to act with integrity and accountability

·       Excellent organizational and problem-solving ability

·       Strong professional boundaries

·       Knowledge and understanding of the importance of multiagency working and GDPR, Confidentiality, Safeguarding, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and the promotion of equalities

·       IT literate and confident with using technology including Microsoft 365

·       Ability to prioritize a busy and dynamic workload and be self motivated as well as work well in a team, a positive, can-do attitude is essential

The post is subject to enhanced DBS Disclosure.

Owing to the gender specific nature of My Sisters’ House service provision, being female is a genuine occupational requirement under Paragraph 27, Schedule 3 of the Equality Act 2010.

Full Job Description can be found here.