About the role:

Domestic Abuse Practitioner, refuge based – Full time based in Basildon Refuge – 37.5 hours per week plus on call rota duty – £26,222,22 – Permanent

The post holder will be responsible for delivering high standards of support and advocacy for women and their children resident in Changing Pathways refuge accommodation. The post holder will be responsible for providing holistic support for their service users ensuring their safety, well-being and recovery from domestic abuse.

About you:

You will be empathetic, non-judgemental and committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies and practices.
You will also have an understanding of our core values:

• Empower individuals to make their own choices in a safe environment to enable them to regain their independence.
• Work with respect and dignity, valuing each individual’s experiences and circumstances and advocating for their unique needs.
• Educate on the devastating impact that domestic abuse has on individuals, local communities and society.
•  Collaborate and work in partnership with other organisations to provide the best support for those impacted.

In return, we offer great employee benefits including employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

How to Apply:

For an informal discussion please contact Natasha at welcome@changingpathways.org or call 01268 729707.
Applications should be received no later than 5pm on 24th January 2025. This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Interviews will be held face to face.

Changing Pathways is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

The post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and is open to women only (*Exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1).

For information in alternative formats (for example, in braille, large print or an electronic format), please email welcome@changingpathways.org

Basildon Refuge DAP JD – 2025

1.Organisational-Info-for-Applicants

2.DBS-Policy-Statement

3.Recruitment-of-Ex-Offenders-Policy

4.Application-Form-Guidance

5.Application-Form

6.ED-Monitoring-Form

Executive Assistant & HR Officer – Full time – £32,130.09 – Parklands / Hybrid (you will be required to attend appointments and meetings in person even at short notice at our Basildon office and various locations) – Permanent

About the role:

Main duties

• Provide advanced calendar management for the CEO. Prioritise complex inquiries and requests while troubleshooting conflicts and make judgments/recommendations to ensure smooth day-to-day engagements.
• Provide administrative support to the CEO collating contributions into a report or briefing as needed and producing first drafts of basic correspondence.
• Work as a bridge for smooth communication between the CEO and internal departments; to maintain credibility, trust and support with senior leadership.
• Manage all core HR departmental areas, including employee relations, HR admin, learning and development, internal recruitment, employee engagement, and maintaining and improving HR systems.
• Supports logistics or other requirements of events where necessary – booking venues, catering, and on-the-day support, e.g. setting up, ordering materials, etc. Attend face-to-face meetings where required; minute taking, sharing decisions and ensuring action log is cleared
• Ensure a seamless and close working relationship with the payroll team to manage employee pay related disputes, grievances and legal processes that require employment law compliance.
• Current regulation compliance, including accepted professional standards, policies and procedures and legislation (including legislation on data protection, the Equality Act and health and safety).
• Manage the implementation of employment policies.
• Ensure employment law, HR policy, best practice and workforce development are applied.
• Ensure the onboarding process is handled in a professional manner to expedite the settling in period.
• Manage the execution of the HR Strategy to ensure achievement of the objectives.
• Continuously improve engagement and welfare activities, maximising productivity, devolving HR responsibilities to line managers and building leadership capability.
• Monitor staff sickness based on the Bradford rating and carry out Return To Work interviews.
• Identify staffing needs and manage the creation of job descriptions and handbooks.
• Develop and implement management talent planning.
• Develop the organisational structure to support future growth, using best practice principles.
• Manage the company’s employee programmes, staff benefits and packages.
• Control the performance review programme to deliver continuous employee development.
• Identify individual strengths and development needs
• Ensure employee training requirements are well managed and monitored.
• Manage the training and development plans and ensure they are of a high standard.
• Conduct annual remuneration and benefit surveys and reviews.
• Regulate any relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for incentive schemes.
• To lead on staff complaints and grievances.
• Manage the diversity, equality, and inclusion values and practices within the company.
• Enable all team members to access appropriate guidance and information to manage their workload.
• Ensure the offboarding process is handled in a professional manner to ensure everyone is consistently treated fairly.
• Manage the allocation of HR budgets.
• Ensure internal HR communications, including any issues, initiatives and programmes are well planned, coordinated, relevant, timely and adhere to the company’s values.
• Make sure that company values and approach are utilised to strengthen the organisational culture.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships to encourage retention and ensure the team perspective is fully represented in decision making.
• Escalate complex issues to our external HR insurance team.
• Yearly one to one half hourly meetings with staff for wellbeing.

About you:

You will be empathetic, non-judgemental and committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies and practices.
You will also have an understanding of our core values:

• Empower individuals to make their own choices in a safe environment to enable them to regain their independence.
• Work with respect and dignity, valuing each individual’s experiences and circumstances and advocating for their unique needs.
• Educate on the devastating impact that domestic abuse has on individuals, local communities and society.
•  Collaborate and work in partnership with other organisations to provide the best support for those impacted.

In return, we offer great employee benefits including employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

How to Apply:

For an informal discussion please contact Tania at welcome@changingpathways.org or call 01268 729707.
Applications should be received no later than 5pm on 7th February 2025. This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Interviews will be held face to face.

Changing Pathways is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

The post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and is open to women only (*Exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1).

For information in alternative formats (for example, in braille, large print or an electronic format), please email welcome@changingpathways.org

Executive Assistant and HR Officer – Job Description – 2025

1.Organisational-Info-for-Applicants

2.DBS-Policy-Statement

3.Recruitment-of-Ex-Offenders-Policy

4.Application-Form-Guidance

5.Application-Form

6.ED-Monitoring-Form