Group Facilitator

Job Reference: 1892

Location:

Somerset

Hours of Work: 14.8 hours per week (part-time)

Salary: £28,884 - £31,698 FTE per annum (£11,553.60 - £12,679.20 per annum, pro rata)

Contract Type:
Permanent

Closing Date: 28 Oct 2026

Job title:

Group Facilitator

Service:
Domestic Abuse Healing and Empowerment Counselling Service North Somerset

Salary:
Grade 3 Point 20-23: £28,884 - £31,698 FTE per annum (£11,553.60 - £12,679.20 per annum, pro rata)

Location:

North Somerset office based (Weston-Super-Mare tbc.) with travel across the area.

Hours:

14.8 hours per week (part-time). We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract Type:
Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities. We see first‑hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policy making, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

Main responsibilities Family Action are looking for a Group Facilitator to join our exciting new team. Our services include individual counselling, face‑to‑face and online support. Therapeutic interventions may include counselling, and wrap‑around therapeutic support and interventions will include, pre and post‑group support with you. This may include self‑care strategies such as meditation, yoga, and mindfulness as well as a pattern changing program.

You will also provide training for support staff/professionals in the local area. 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 North Somerset, 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 Domestic Violence. Clinical 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, centred on healing, resilience, and the empowerment of survivors.

• 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.
• You will provide training for support staff/professionals. This will focus on early identification, appropriate referrals/signposting and links to other vulnerabilities such as chronic illness.
• There will be 3 hours per month of paid clinical supervision plus line management supervision with the Clinical Service Manager.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (enhanced).

• A pro‑rated 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…