Women's Project Supervisor

Women's Project Supervisor
Hours of work: Full-Time, 37.5 per week (Monday - Friday)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £31,475 to £33,475 per annum
Location: Overstream House, Cambridge CB4 or at other locations within Cambridge

About Us

Wintercomfort works with people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or with a history of homelessness. We provide services to aid every stage of recovery - from immediate basic welfare needs to long term help in identifying and dealing with the problems which are undermining their stability, and enabling them to engage with education, employment and specialist health services. National statistics rank the numbers of rough sleepers in Cambridge within the highest 20 UK local authorities.

Wintercomfort is the only day-time service in the city, providing year-round advice and support for homeless or vulnerably housed people. Over the past three decades Wintercomfort has continued to grow and adapt to meet the needs of the homeless community.

Our specialist Housing Team provides expert advice and support to help people successfully navigate the search for housing and crucially, support them to sustain life away from the street.

The Women's Project at Wintercomfort is dedicated to empowering vulnerable women from diverse backgrounds who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Our objective is to provide comprehensive support across various critical areas, including assistance with domestic and sexual abuse, housing, benefits, debt management, and employment.

About you and the Role

The Women's Project Supervisor role is to work with and when appropriate deputise for the Services Manager to maintain, develop, and expand services to ensure that Wintercomfort can meet its objectives of supporting vulnerable, homeless or at risk of homelessness women to make positive changes in their lives. In addition to supporting the Services Manager with the day to day running of the centre the role holder will have line management responsibility for the Women's Project Worker team.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide advocacy, support and information to women who have had previous experience or have experienced difficulties in interpersonal relationships including domestic abuse, sexual abuse, loss of children and relationship break down to improve self-esteem, self-confidence and general wellbeing.
• To coordinate a wide range of engaging opportunities to access practical support on a 1:1 basis, such as basic life skills. To work with the Project Worker team to ensure women Service Users have access to other specialist practical support in order to find meaningful occupation - employment, education/ training, volunteering, social activities
• To provide regular 1:1 key working session which will include discussing subjects such as long-term goals, financing and budgeting, benefits and other areas of problematic life in order to provide emotional and practical support needed to make positive progress in their lives.
• To oversee and manage staff attending outreach services at different venues as appropriate. Including signposting to relevant provision in the city.
• To work closely with other agencies to meet women's support needs including but not limited to social care, CPFT, GP's, CPN's, MIND, Women's Aid, Cambridge Women's Resources Centre, Women's Haven, City Council - housing and homeless departments, Police, Landlords, welfare benefits, advocacy groups such as Centre 33 and CIAS.
• To provide specialised support to those experiencing sexual violence, by conducting the necessary safeguarding and risk assessments and referring to ISVA, Women's Aid, police. Working with statutory services as and when needed.
• To work with the Services Manager on stakeholder relationships relating to women only services. To actively participate in a range of partnership working groups in order to keep updated on development of women's only services.
• To have line management responsibility for the Women's Project Workers team. This would include monitoring and overseeing caseloads, key working, activities and outreach timetables, team meetings. Project admin being logged accurately and conducting regular supervisions and appraisals with each member of the team.
• To be responsible for managing the women's service budget, to ensure that spending is on target and to identify free resources.
• To organise and manage the women's group via a scheduled timetable of various engaging activities, liaising with specialist volunteers to conduct skills or development-based workshops, host special events and to advertise this with local partnerships and service users for optimal engagement.
• To ensure that accurate records are kept documenting the support services provided to Wintercomfort's Service Users. Ensuring that record keeping meets the requirements of internal and external monitoring of outcomes, assisting with reports and case studies to funders.

One of our core values at Wintercomfort is to recognise and reward our staff as our greatest asset. We realise that it's our people who have helped us to become a well-respected charity that helps to make a positive change to homeless people's lives. We want to continue to deliver excellent, relevant services for the homeless in Cambridge by attracting and retaining talented and motivated people.

If you choose to come and work with us, you will find that we offer:

• Benefits - You will be eligible for benefits and services, including pension scheme, death in service benefit and free counselling and clinical supervision.
• A supported work environment - You will receive a comprehensive induction, and you will have a probation period to provide a supportive framework for reviewing your progress and discussing your training and development needs. You will be expected to have developed the skills to fulfil all role requirements within this period. Appropriate objectives will be discussed, agreed and reviewed regularly with your Line Manager so that your performance can be measured against these.
• Training - We recognise the importance of having a motivated and effective staff team. We offer on-going training to support you in your role.

Closing date: Midday, Friday 30th October 2026
Interviews will be held on Friday 6th of November 2026.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

We are committed to a proactive approach to equality, which includes supporting and encouraging all underrepresented groups, promoting an inclusive culture and valuing diversity. We make selection decisions based on personal merit and an objective assessment against the criteria required for the post. We do not treat job applicants or members of staff less favourably than one another on the grounds of sex (including gender reassignment), marital or parental status, race, ethnic or national origin, colour, disability (including HIV status), sexual orientation, religion, age or socio-economic factors.

This role requires an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and references. Any offer of employment we make to you will be conditional upon the satisfactory completion of this check; whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by Wintercomfort for the homeless.

No agencies please.