Sexual Violence Liaison Officer (Maternity Cover)

Role Description

Department

As the Sexual Violence Liaison Officer, you will be supporting students who have experienced sexual violence, delivering training to students and staff on various topics including consent, responding to disclosures, and bystander intervention, and contributing to campaigns to raise awareness of support available to students. You will be working within the Student Life and Wellbeing team, and interacting with colleagues from across the institution, as well as working in partnership with our student union and external providers such as SARCs and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs), to ensure that our students have access to the support and information they need.

Role

You will manage a varied caseload, working one to one with students to ensure that they have access to the information they need, supporting them to make informed choices, and helping them to access appropriate

University-based and external specialist support. You will advise colleagues on their response to students who disclose sexual violence. You will contribute to an institutional-wide effort to raise awareness about the impact of sexual violence and the support available to students, through the development and implementation of training, campaigns and resources.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

If you are looking for a role where you can make a difference and contribute to the promotion of a culture of respect, we would like to hear from you. You must have high levels of personal resilience, a firm understanding of criminal justice and sexual violence and be able to work effectively in a crisis. You will need to have strong interpersonal skills, clear professional boundaries, an eagerness to learn, and be skilled at effectively prioritising a varied workload.

This post is on a fixed-term basis for up to 14 months to cover maternity leave.

Interview date: TBC

For informal enquiries: please contact Sophie Blyth-Bristow on sophie.blyth-bristow@york.ac.uk

Condition of employment

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Consequently, all applicants will be asked to declare both unspent and spent convictions on their application form.

Appointment of the successful candidate will be conditional on a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork