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About Women’s Aid

Women’s Aid is a national, feminist organisation working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. We do this by advocating, influencing, training, and campaigning for effective responses to reduce the scale and impacts of domestic abuse on women and children and providing high quality, specialised, integrated, support services.

About the Services Department

The Services Department offers face-to-face supports to women subjected to domestic violence and abuse, through our one-to-one casework support, the Domestic Abuse Information and Support Service in Dolphin House, The Maternity Project Outreach Service and the High Risk Support Project.

Benefits of Working with Women’s Aid

• Annual Leave: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days per annum pro rata.
• Privilege Days: Good Friday and Christmas Eve.
• Pension: Women’s Aid operates a contributory pension scheme, which all employees may join after 6 months in the organisation.
• Maternity Leave: Women's Aid will pay full salary (less Social Welfare benefits) for the period of the 26 weeks paid leave (subject to 1+ year service).
• Parent’s Leave: 7 weeks’ leave topped up to full salary during the first 2 years of a child’s life, or in the case of adoption, within 2 years of the placement of the child with the family for eligible employees.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Women’s Aid provides an extensive employee assistance programme operated by Peninsula.
• VHI: Women’s Aid operates a group VHI scheme, which you may join.
• Death in Service Benefit: Available for all employees to the value of 2 years’ salary.
• Health Services Staffs Credit Union: Employees of Women’s Aid may join the Health Services Staffs Credit Union.
• Trade Union Membership: The staff of Women’s Aid has an option of joining the recognised representative Trade Union Forsa.
• Training Allowance: Annual allowance for staff members to undertake training to enhance skills and expertise (subject to budget availability).
• Travel Supports: Bike-to-work schemes and tax saver commuter tickets.
• Equality and Diversity: Women’s Aid is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and cultural diversity.

About the Maternity Project

Pregnancy is identified as a high-risk period, when domestic abuse often begins or intensifies. Maternal outcomes include injury, fear, anxiety, depression and death. Risks to the baby include miscarriage, premature labour, stillbirth, intrauterine growth restriction, placental abruption, foetal bruising and fracture.

Through engagement with stakeholders in maternal health, Women’s Aid identified a service gap whereby there was a stated desire from maternity hospitals to enhance ability among key staff to identify and respond to pregnant women suffering abuse and refer them for specialist support.

The pilot Women’s Aid Maternity Project commenced in May 2021 with a Project Co-ordinator who is leading on the Training and Awareness strands of the project and supporting the Outreach Worker to build and maintain positive relationships with the three Dublin Maternity Hospitals, whose staff refer women for support as part of the project. Women’s Aid is now seeking to recruit a second full-time Maternity Project Outreach Support Worker, to work alongside the existing Outreach Worker, to continue to provide dedicated, domestic abuse specific support to women, referred by the maternity hospitals.

About the Role

This dedicated Maternity Project Outreach Support Worker post is being recruited in order to continue to maintain and develop established referral pathways and directly respond to referrals for flexible and discrete specialist supports for women presenting to pre-natal and post-natal services, and hospital-based Termination of Pregnancy services, who are in need due to domestic abuse.

Title: Maternity Project Outreach Support Worker

• Reference: 2024 Sces.MatOut
• Reports to: Head of Regional Services
• Contract: Permanent full-time, subject to available funding.
• Hours: 35 hours per week, excluding lunch breaks, during core office hours
• Location: Primarily based at Women’s Aid head office in Dublin 2 but also working in an outreach capacity with Dublin’s maternity hospitals and other suitable community locations to support women. A % of hybrid working will be considered on application and in line with the Women’s Aid Hybrid Working Policy.
• Salary: Budget for this role is €34,891 - €42,453 per annum ( rate commensurate to relevant experience, in line with company remuneration policy) Note: full Women’s Aid Outreach Worker Band: €34,891 - €56,300.

Please see Recruitment Pack and Application Form attached below.

How to Apply

Application Form: Completed application form, clearly referenced 2024 Sces.MatOut in the subject line, should be sent, by email only to lauren.foley@womensaid.ie
Please note that CVs will not be considered.

Closing date: 5pm on Wednesday, May 29th, 2024.
Interview schedule: It is anticipated that first round interviews will be held during the week beginning June 10th, 2024.

Data Protection: All applications are confidentially processed and retained in accordance with the Women’s Aid data protection policy. Applications of unsuccessful candidates will be deleted after 15 months.