BWC is seeking a fixed term KSS Women’s Secure Pathway Senior Enhancement Worker for secure mental health facilities.
The Women’s Secure Pathway Project: Senior Enhancement Worker will be responsible for short-term support, working one-to-one, with 4 women on a weekly basis. The focus of these sessions will be led by each woman with the overarching aims of supporting engagement with key links between secure inpatient services and the outside community, such as the Occupational Therapy Team, Community Mental Health Team, Forensic Outreach Liaison Service (FOLS) and Social Workers, working in in a trauma-informed way to enhance any existing support plans. The primary objectives are to further build women’s knowledge, confidence and strategies to prepare them for the transition into the community and to connect them with services and professionals who can offer ongoing support within the community.
The Women’s Secure Senior Enhancement Worker will work with a women-centred, trauma-informed, and holistic approach. She will create a safe, non-judgmental environment in which to co-produce support across a range of pathway needs, including recognising domestic abuse and understanding healthy relationships, welfare benefits, housing, parenting and families, physical and mental health services, employment, and education. The Women’s Secure Pathway Enhancement Worker will do this in partnership with other professionals to eg Social Workers, Occupational Therapy Team to ensure joined up support around each woman.
She will provide trauma-informed strengths-based line-management to the team of Women’s Enhancement Workers based in other hospitals.
They will be informed by BWC’s values, policies and procedures and will understand the importance of building trust and sense of worth with service users, to enhance recovery and engagement with services in the community. She will complete all reporting requirements on the BWC database.
Employer: Brighton Women’s Centre
Job Title: Women’s Secure Pathway Project: Senior Enhancement Worker
Responsible to: Health and Wellbeing Strategic Lead
Responsible for: Women’s Secure Pathway Project Support Workers
Purpose of role: To support with the management of the day-to-day operation of the Women’s Secure Pathway project. You will be delivering one to one support for a small caseload of women in the hospital as well as co-designing and delivering a weekly group activity. You will also be responsible for providing line management to a team of 3 Women’s Enhancement Workers delivering support in other women’s secure hospitals.
Salary Grade: £30,224.25 FTE (Actual Salary £18,134.55)
Working hours: 21 hours per week within normal office hours 9am – 5pm. Occasional out of hours may be required. Travel across Sussex, Kent and Surrey will be expected
Work locations: Based in either Hazel ward at the Chichester Centre in Sussex or Walmer Ward at the Trevor Gibbens Unit in Maidstone, Kent Blossom Ward Hellingly Centre, Hailsham secure forensic hospital. Travel to other Women’s Secure Pathway Project wards and BWC locations will be expected.
Contract Details: Fixed term until 31st March 2027 with possibility of extension subject to agreement
Closing date: Noon, 8th July 2025
Interview dates: c. 11th or 15th July 2025 tbc
To Apply
For the full job description, person specification and more information on BWC please download the Job Application Pack.
To apply please complete an application form and equalities monitoring form and return these to [email protected] before the deadline clearly specifying your preferred location of work.
We do not accept CVs.
BWC is committed to inclusion and diversity and actively encourage applications from women from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from women who have personal experience of the criminal justice system, those from Black or Racially Minoritised Communities who are currently under-represented in the organisation as well as people with LGBTQ+ identities.
*This post is restricted to women only as a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9 paragraph 1, Equality Act 2010 and is subject to an enhanced DBS check.