Enhancement Worker

We are hiring 3 x Enhancement (Activities) Workers. 

Anawim/Ardenleigh Blended Service

BIRMINGHAM

• This post is exempted from Rehabilitation of Offenders act 1974
• Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
• 2 year fixed term contract

Job Purpose

Enhancement Worker (Dawn House)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a team of creative and innovative Enhancement (Activities) Workers to be part of a tailored project based at Dawn House – a 7-bed step-down accommodation service delivered in partnership between Anawim – Birmingham’s Centre for Women and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT).

This project aims to support women transitioning from secure or acute mental health care into the community, promoting recovery, wellbeing, and social inclusion. Dawn House offers a trauma-informed, gender-responsive environment focused on rehabilitation, independence, and reintegration.

Anawim is an award-winning women’s centre based in Balsall Heath, originally founded in 1986 to support the needs of sex workers.

It now provides a comprehensive range of services to women with multiple and complex needs, including those related to trauma, homelessness, substance misuse, offending behaviour, and mental health.

Anawim works with women across community and secure settings, passionately promoting women supporting women.

Enhancement Worker (Ardenleigh)

The Enhancement (Activities) workers provide support across all three wards (2 x acute and 1x rehabilitation) based at Ardenleigh.

As part of this team you will deliver exciting, engaging and innovative social, recreational and leisure activities alongside the ward and other staff, to women with severe, enduring mental health conditions and criminal justice involvement within Ardenleigh Women’s Blended Service and Anawim Women’s Centre.

You will be expected to facilitate and participate in planned and ad hoc group and individual activities with women, in addition to this you will be required to motivate and negotiate with service users who may be unwilling to participate in an activity and to promote the benefits and outcomes that participation could generate, i.e. social interaction, well-being and independence.