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Job vacancies at our member centres

Scroll through to find out about job vacancies at some of our 36 Rape Crisis member centres.

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Rape Crisis South London

Frontline Programme SOP Freelance Writer

  • £7,000
  • Three-month project
  • Closing date: 31 May 2026

We are now seeking a Frontline Programme SOP Freelance Writer to join our Programmes Department on a temporary basis at this pivotal time for the organisation.

The successful candidate will be a highly skilled and sensitive Programme SOP Writer, responsible for developing clear, ethical, and trauma‑informed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across our services, ensuring consistency, safeguarding, and best practice in service delivery.

This role is critical to ensuring safe, consistent, and high-quality support for survivors, while strengthening safeguarding, compliance, and operational excellence.

You will work closely with frontline staff, safeguarding leads, and leadership to document and improve processes across support services, ensuring all procedures reflect feminist principles and survivor-centred care.

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SARSAS

Executive Assistant

  • £31,836 FTE
  • 25-30 hours per week
  • Closing date: 31 May 2026

The Executive Assistant will provide high-level, proactive support to the CEO and Board, requiring discretion, confident communication, and the ability to anticipate needs and manage competing priorities.

Working in close partnership with the CEO, you will bring structure, oversight, and clarity to a varied and fast-paced workload, ensuring that priorities are well-managed, time is used effectively, and key pieces of work progress at pace. This will include managing a complex diary and inbox, acting as a gatekeeper and facilitator, and ensuring that communication and information flow smoothly across the organisation.

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Pathway Navigator

  • £28,626.30 per annum (FTE)
  • 37 hours per week
  • Closing date: 31 May 2026

You will carry out trauma-informed assessments with new clients to ascertain their best options for support, whether internal or external.

Your key responsibilities include, providing a trauma-informed telephone, video, and face-to-face triage service for survivors referred to SARSAS, including self-referrals. You’ll ensure initial needs and risks are assessed and understood. Where appropriate, carry out short term risk management and safety planning. You will also provide information about what support services are available and refer/facilitate access to internal, or external support services.

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RASAC - Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield

CHISVA

  • £28,611
  • Full-time
  • Closing date: 1 June 2026

The role of an West Yorkshire Rape Crisis Partnership ChISVA is to provide independent, trauma‑specialist advocacy, including practical and emotional support, to children and young people who have experienced rape or sexual violence, alongside their loved ones, ensuring their safety, explaining their options, coordinating access to specialist services, and supporting those who choose to engage with the Criminal Justice System, while liaising across agencies to uphold their rights and wellbeing.

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ISVA (West Yorkshire Rape Crisis Partnership)

  • £28,611
  • Full-time
  • Closing date: 1 June 2026

The role of an ISVA is to provide independent, trauma‑specialist advocacy, including practical and emotional support, to survivors of rape and sexual violence, ensuring their safety, explaining their options, coordinating access to specialist services, and supporting those who choose to engage with the Criminal Justice System, while liaising across agencies to uphold their rights and wellbeing.

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ISVA Triage Worker

  • £28,611
  • Full-time
  • Closing date: 1 June 2026

The ISVA Triage Worker is responsible for managing and triaging incoming referrals to the RASAC ISVA service, ensuring survivors are responded to promptly, safely, and appropriately.

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Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland (RCTN)

Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA)

  • £34,434-£36,363 per annum (pro rata for part time employees).
  • Up to 28 hours per week
  • Closing date: 4 June 2026

We are seeking an experienced ISVA to join our specialist service supporting survivors of sexual violence across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland.

This is a frontline role providing trauma-informed, survivor-centred support to individuals navigating the Criminal Justice System and wider recovery journey. You will hold a caseload, provide advocacy and practical support, and work collaboratively with internal colleagues and external statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure coordinated support for survivors.

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nia - (East London Rape Crisis)

Move On & Resettlement Worker – Specialist Refuges

  • £29,000 – £32,000 (dependent on experience and qualification)
  • 35 hours per week
  • Closing date: 5 June 2026

You will support women living in nia’s refuges to move on into accommodation and support them to resettle and build resilient support networks. We’re looking for a highly organised and self-motivated woman who is passionate about ending violence against women, girls and children. You’ll have a ‘can-do’ approach and demonstrable commitment to nia’s approach to prioritising women, upholding and promoting feminist, trauma-informed and anti-racist practice.

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Administrator

  • £27,000 – £29,000 per annum (dependent on experience and qualification)
  • 35 hours per week
  • Closing date: 8 June 2026

We are looking for a conscientious and skilled Administrator who understands how vital administrative tasks are to a well-functioning, smooth running organisation. You will be based in our Head Office to help ensure that all of the services run efficiently, be a team player with the ability to work independently. You will be responsible for providing a courteous and efficient reception service, answering and redirecting telephone phone calls, respond and distribute emails, ordering of office supplies and providing recruitment administration and other general administrative duties.

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Young Women and Girls Counsellor

  • £12,600 – £14,000 per year (£31,500 – £35,000 FTE per year dependent on experience and qualifications)
  • 14 hours per week
  • Closing date: 8 June 2026

In the role of Young Women and Girls Counsellor, you will provide one to one counselling and group therapy to young women and girl survivors of sexual violence aged 11-17 years old. You will specifically be championing the development of the counselling offer for young women and girls. You will work as part of a growing feminist Rape Crisis service that is developing to meet the needs of women and girls.

We’re looking for a highly organised and self-motivated woman who is passionate about ending violence against women, girls and children. You’ll have a ‘can-do’ approach and demonstrable commitment to nia’s feminist approach to supporting women and girls. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minoritised women, young women with lived experience and those who have experience of accessing services as a young woman/girl.

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Anti-Racism Development Officer

  • £18,600 – £19,800 (FTE £31,000 – £33,000 dependent on experience and qualification
  • 21 hours per week
  • Closing date: 8 June 2026

nia is committed in becoming an Anti-Racist organisation and we are seeking a Development Officer to support us with this work. The Anti-Racism Development Officer will play a key role in the delivery of the Anti-Racism action plan and in embedding Anti-Racist practices across the organisation.

Part of this role includes the coordination with the nia’s Anti-Racism Working Group to co-produce tangible outcomes; harnessing the expertise of those.

We’re looking for a highly organised and self-motivated woman who is passionate about ending violence against women, girls and children. You’ll have a ‘can-do’ approach and demonstrable commitment to nia’s approach to prioritising women, upholding and promoting feminist, trauma-informed and anti-racist practice.

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CARA - Essex

Sessional Play Therapist

  • £37.50 per session
  • Up to 8 CARA clients per week
  • Closing date: 19 June 2026

We are currently seeking a sessional Play Therapist to work with CARA, supporting clients age 4 and over who have experienced any form of sexual violence. 

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Volunteering opportunities

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