About the role:
Brighton Women’s Centre is seeking a Women’s Secure Pathway Senior Enhancement Worker to lead a small team supporting women in secure mental health facilities. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative, forward-thinking partnership, combining holistic, patient-led care with trauma-informed values and support.

KSS Provider Collaborative provides inpatient secure services to adults across the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex area, including women detained under the Mental Health Act. In partnership with The Women’s Support Centre Surrey, Brighton Women’s Centre (BWC) will be delivering 1:1 wellbeing support and group activities to women based in secure forensic units, aimed at improving their wellbeing, confidence and links into support.

The Women’s Secure Senior Enhancement Worker will hold a small caseload, 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 wider community. Alongside your own caseload, you will provide trauma-informed, strengths-based line-management to a team of 3 Women’s Enhancement Workers based in other hospitals. Together you will be creating safe, non-judgmental spaces in which to co-produce support across a range of needs, building on your service-users knowledge, confidence and connections.

The Women’s Secure Senior Enhancement Worker will be informed by BWC’s values, policies and procedures and will understand the importance of building trust and self-esteem with service users while working collaboratively with key staff and agencies. You will be responsible for promoting this service within the partnership and across external pathways, as well as overseeing and completing all reporting requirements for this project on the BWC database.

The purpose of the role is 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.

Contract details:
Working hours - 21 hours per week within normal office hours 9am – 5pm taken as three days a week, with one of those days being a Thursday. Occasional out of hours may be required. Travel across Sussex, Kent and Surrey will be expected.

Work locations - Based on the women’s ward in either a) Chichester Centre in Sussex or b) Trevor Gibbens Unit in Maidstone, Kent or c) Hellingly Centre, Hailsham. Travel to other Women’s Secure Pathway Project wards and BWC locations will be expected.

The role is fixed term until 31st March 2027 with possibility of extension, subject to agreement.

To Apply:

For the full job description, person specification and more information on BWC please download the Job Application Pack on our website https://womenscentre.org.uk/get-involved/vacancies/. To apply please complete an application form and equalities monitoring form and return these to hr@womenscentre.org.uk before the deadline clearly specifying your preferred location of work.
We do not accept CVs.

Closing date: 25th August 2025
Interview dates: w/c 1st September tbc

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.

If you’d like to talk more about this role, please call Sara Hughes, BWC Health & Wellbeing Strategic Lead, on 07909 234164.