Tamar Outreach and Support Work Manager (Maternity Cover)

Role outline: 

• Job title: Tamar Outreach and Support Work Manager (Maternity cover)
• Contract: 12-month term contract
• Salary: £36,557 (£29,812 + £6745 London living allowance)
• Location: All Souls Clubhouse, 141 Cleveland Street, London W1T 6QG 
• Hours: 5 days per week (requires flexible evening hours and occasional weekends) 
• Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays 
• DBS Check: Enhanced
• Visa sponsorship: Not available

About All Souls Serve the City 

All Souls Serve the City (ASSTC) is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) which began in 2021 and is based at All Souls Church. ASSTC brings together in one place a number of long-standing ministries serving those who are vulnerable. Our vision is to see all in London flourish in body and soul. We do this by offering the message and ministry of Jesus, focusing on those who are isolated, overlooked and exploited, due to their stage of life or their circumstances. Our ministries reach out from the All Souls parish, to Westminster and beyond. Each ministry is rooted in our values of love, honour and service.

Demonstrating our love for one another and for the city, we seek to bring gospel hope and biblical truth to those affected by homelessness; women involved in the sex industry including those who are affected by human trafficking, modern slavery or sexual exploitation; children at All Souls Church of England primary school and their families; and seniors. Each ministry is rooted in and connected into the life of the church at Langham Place. 

Visit our website for more information: asstc.org.uk

About Tamar 

Tamar is our ministry to those in the sex industry who may have been affected by sexual exploitation, human trafficking or modern slavery. Tamar’s aim is to restore hope and provide unconditional support to these individuals. Formed in 2013 in Westminster, Tamar relies on a broad network of female volunteers who reach out to be-friend people caught up in the sex industry, offering a broad range of practical, emotional and spiritual support, as well as sharing the good news of Jesus.

About the Role 

As the maternity cover for Tamar Support and Outreach Worker, you will manage all of Tamar's client casework and outreach to locations where women are working in the sex industry across the Borough of Westminster and the City of London. This will require proactively building relationships with the women who are engaging in sex work in these locations with a view to offering them the support that Tamar provides, as well as linking them to Tamar’s Outreach Workers. Thus, you will involve being responsible for line managing several Outreach Workers who will be doing client-facing work, in Mandarin/Cantonese, Thai, Portuguese, and maybe Spanish as well.

Specific duties include:

• Overseeing all the case work for all of our clients
• Participating in the recruitment, hiring and induction for the Outreach Workers in conjunction with the Head of Tamar
• Working with the Volunteer Manager on specific aspects of training
• Assuming responsibility for managing and training the Outreach Workers and in specific aspects of client work
• Leading the regular case management meetings with the Outreach Workers and volunteers who are involved in case work
• Proactively reaching out to women, from a wide range of nationalities, working in the sex industry, in all working locations, in Westminster and the City of London.
• Initiating and building relationships with clients, as well as providing and facilitating practical help and support for them, in collaboration with the other Tamar staff and volunteers 
• Managing and following-up on referrals to enable clients to receive the relevant support they require (ie. benefits, legal, medical, etc) 
• Monitoring existing working locations (i.e brothels, massage parlours etc) and identifying new ones in Westminster and the City of London 
• Championing safeguarding across Tamar’s client group

Person Specification:

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• University graduate or equivalent

Desirable

• Independant Sexual Violence Advisor or Independant Domestic Violence Advisor (ISVA or IDVA)
• Social work qualification or equivalent

Experience & Skills

Essential

• Experience of the management of people
• Experience of managing client case work
• Experience of managing caseloads

Desirable

• Experience of reaching and supporting with people in the sex industry
• Lived experience of the sector or similar
• Ability to speak another Language, specifically Mandarin, Portuguese, Thai, or Romanian

Christian Commitment & Personal Qualities

Essential

• Whole of life disciple wanting to know Christ more and grow in grace, obedience and Christ-likeness themselves 
• Has a servant heart and seeks to live a life of Christian integrity
• Evangelical Christian in full sympathy with the vision, mission and values of ASSTC, All Souls Church and the Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith

Employee benefits

• 3 office closure days
• 3 Spiritual Refreshment Days
• Eyecare voucher
• Season ticket loan
• 7.5% employer pension contributions