Women’s Alliance Caseworker

Are you passionate about supporting women to overcome challenges and make positive changes in their lives? Do you have experience delivering person-centred support, mentoring, advocacy, or casework? If so, we'd love to hear from you. 

We're looking for a dedicated Women's Alliance Caseworker to join the newly established York and North Yorkshire Women's Alliance Service, a partnership between St Giles Trust, Waythrough, and Changing Lives. Together, we're providing holistic, trauma-informed support to women across North Yorkshire, helping them build safer, healthier, and more fulfilling futures.  

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

Essential Requirements 

• Female applicants only (occupational requirement). 
• Full clean driving licence. 
• Confidence driving a transit-sized vehicle. 
• Ability to obtain Enhanced DBS clearance and relevant vetting checks

About the role
As a Women's Alliance Caseworker, you'll provide tailored support to women facing a range of challenges, including homelessness, exploitation, substance misuse, domestic abuse, involvement with the criminal justice system, and social isolation. You'll: 

• Deliver trauma-informed assessments and individual support plans. 
• Provide one-to-one and group-based interventions. 
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies including police, probation, health services, and specialist support organisations. 
• Support women through community drop-ins and outreach services. 
• Travel across rural communities using the Liberty Links outreach vehicle to engage women who face barriers to accessing support. 
• Maintain accurate case records and work towards key service outcomes and targets.  

What We're Looking For 
We're seeking someone who is: 

• Experienced in casework, support work, mentoring, advocacy, or a related role. 
• Skilled in building trusting relationships with women who may have experienced trauma or disadvantage. 
• Compassionate, resilient, and able to work independently and as part of a team. 
• Comfortable working in partnership with a range of agencies and stakeholders. 
• Confident using IT systems, including Microsoft Office and online communication platforms. 
• Committed to safeguarding, equality, diversity, and inclusion.  
• Relevant qualifications in social care, youth work, advice work, or equivalent experience are welcomed.  

Lived Experience Welcome 
We particularly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of challenges such as homelessness, substance misuse, debt, criminal justice involvement, or gang affiliation, where this experience can positively inform support for women accessing our services.  .  

Why Join Us?
At St Giles, we believe in creating an inclusive, supportive, and empowering workplace where people can thrive. Our values are at the heart of everything we do: 

Empowering • Supportive • Creative • Empathic • Inclusive • Communicating  

Join us and become part of an innovative service making a genuine difference to the lives of women across North Yorkshire. Apply today and help women build brighter futures. 

An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

The role is fixed term until 05/05/2028. 

Due to the nature of the service, the role is only open to female applicants and the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1 applies to this post. 

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.