ID: 1590 Group Facilitator
Service: PARCS (Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service)
Salary: £25,221 FTE per annum (£6,816.49 pro rata per annum)
Location: Based in Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire
Hours: 10 hours per week (part-time)
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Temporary contract until March 31st 2029
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
Family Action has been supporting individuals and families through challenges and crisis for over 150 years. As part of our ongoing mission to provide inclusive, trauma-informed support, we are seeking a passionate and experienced Group Facilitator to join our team. This role focuses on empowering adult survivors of sexual violence through group-based support, with a strong emphasis on community-building, intersectional feminism, and anti-oppressive practices.
PARCS merged with Family Action in 2021, and we are continuing to build a team motivated to provide progressive and inclusive support, focused on quality, care and resilience, developing our excellent longstanding reputation in Portsmouth and extending our reach within the local area and beyond. We currently work with adults, as individuals and groups within the community and provide a range of specialist, trauma-informed support services to young people and adults of all genders including a telephone helpline, support work, training and co-production projects.
The Group Facilitator will be responsible for creating opportunities for adult survivors of sexual violence to connect, share experiences, and access meaningful support. By promoting a community-focused, humanistic approach, you will lead and facilitate trauma-informed groups both remotely and in-person. You will also work collaboratively with a small group of volunteers and be involved in the development of co-produced initiatives that centre lived experiences.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service that amplifies the voices of survivors and advocates for an inclusive, progressive approach to healing. Your role will be key in driving forward our work in Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire, while ensuring our services remain rooted in intersectional feminism and anti-oppressive practice. Through this work, you will help create a more inclusive and supportive community for those who have experienced sexual violence.
Supervision and ongoing professional development are core to this role, with both clinical and line management support. This position requires a commitment to working within a trauma-informed framework, cantered on healing, resilience, and the empowerment of survivors.
Main Responsibilities: (for details check the job description and person specification):
• This is an exciting opportunity, for an experienced facilitator,
• To work on group-based provision for adult survivors of sexual violence. You will be responsible for delivering trauma informed groups both remote and in-person and supporting a small group of volunteers to co-facilitate you in your role.
• You will lead the promotion, delivery and evaluation of psycho-educational pre-therapy groups and post-therapy drop-in groups
• Supporting as part of the clinical team with the coproduced steering group for lived experiences for adult survivors of sexual violence in Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire.
• There will be 1.5 hours per month of paid clinical supervision plus line management supervision with the PARCS Adult Team Manager and Clinical Lead.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Closing date 13th October 2025 at 23:59
Interviews are scheduled to take place from virtually 20th October 2025, with slots throughout the working day and early/late slots available.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: ester.wheeler@family-action.org.uk
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
