Job Opportunity
Job role: LGBTQ+ ISVA
Special Terms: Fixed term to March 2025 (Subject to continuation of funding).
Permanent Subject to Funding
Hybrid working (ideally one day in our base in Manchester)
Salary: £29, 210 (Pro Rata) (+ 10% Pension)
Accountable to: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Programme Manager
Accountable for: Volunteers
Closing Date: 9 am, Monday the 4th of November
Interview Date: Thursday the 14th of November
Role Summary
LGBT Foundation has based its services on well-developed expertise around the key health and social care issues affecting LGBTQ+ communities, including Domestic Abuse , Sexual Violence , Mental health , Sexual health, Wellbeing, Community safety , Substance misuse recovery and Indigo Gender Service.
Our integrated Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Programme (DASV) offers support to LGBTQ+ victims-survivors at high, medium, standard and non-recent risk of domestic abuse and sexual violence. This includes the provision of a holistic assessment of risk and need, safety and support planning, casework sessions, support with reporting options and navigating the criminal justice process, legal options, housing advice/support, advocacy, emotional and practical support.
Key responsibilities of our ISVA:
We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans, non-binary and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.
* Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross dressers and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth. hat which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross-dressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth
