Safespace Project Worker
Hours: 18 hours per week (3 x 6-hour shifts). Daytime and evening shifts on rota; regular evening and weekend shifts will be required. Shifts are 12 – 6pm and 5 – 11pm.
Salary: £15 per hour + 5% pension; £14,040 actual salary (£29,250 pro rata). Post funded to September 2027.
Deadline for completed applications: 9.00am on Monday 29th September 2025
Safespace is their crisis support service, providing ‘in the moment’ emotional support for anyone in Calderdale aged 16+. Safespace runs every day of the week to try to ensure that people can get support when they need it: there are no referral criteria and no waiting lists.
This is a busy and demanding role. You will be supporting people who are distressed and may be in crisis for all sorts of reasons. The aim is to make sure that people can have immediate support and be kept safe, with time and space to talk through what is happening and find ways through.
As part of a project based in the centre of Halifax you will work in a team to provide a point of access for people aged 16+ who are experiencing emotional distress. The initial intervention/contact may provide an alternative option for people who may otherwise come under NHS, the Police or other statutory services duty of care. Project Workers support Safespace callers and visitors to consider, agree and arrange appropriate support for people’s immediate and longer-term emotional health and wellbeing.
Safespace offers a mixture of telephone, text, Facebook and in-person contact. The service is offered from their premises in Halifax and at drop-in sessions in community venues across Calderdale. Each shift is 6 hours long: 12 – 6pm and 5 – 11pm. Service opening times are 12.30 – 10.30pm, 7 days a week.
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If you would like to chat to someone about this role, please get in touch with Dianne Darby or Daisy Woollett on 01422 345154.
Interviews will be held in the following week.
