Job Description

We are looking for specialist perpetrator DA Caseworkers to support our exciting domestic abuse team based within Children's Social Care. Elmore's domestic abuse service aims to provide a safe space for victim/survivors and perpetrators of abuse. We work with people to recognise, acknowledge, and change harmful and controlling behaviour, to keep whole families safe.

Our perpetrator caseworkers provide structured interventions by delivery of peer group and one to one support for abusive parents, aimed at increasing families' safety and wellbeing. We aim to challenge and address attitudes and beliefs that support and underpin abusive behaviours. Our perpetrator caseworkers deliver our Programme for Creating Change; a 16-week group programme underpinned by group work and peer-to-peer learning, which focuses on building understanding and skill development in communication skills, respect, conflict resolution, and accountability.

We are looking for candidates who have experience of challenging and empowering individuals to make positive changes to their lives and supporting clients with complex needs in a relevant field (preferably domestic abuse). Successful candidates will need to be compassionate, non-judgemental, skilled in active listening, and experienced in risk management and safety planning, as well as being a skilled communicator able to develop partnership relationships in a multi-disciplinary team.

Benefits:

5 weeks annual leave (pro rata)

Extra day annual leave for Birthday

Up to 5 days extra annual leave for length of service

Cycle to work scheme

Health Cash Plan

Private Medical insurance (optional)

Salary sacrifice Car scheme

Extra leave for dependants

Enhanced Maternity allowance

Company sick pay

Eligibility to Blue Light Card and other discounts

Casual dress

Enhanced Pension scheme around length of service

Length of Service awards (monetary)

Key Responsibilities

Provide a high-quality support service to clients:

To enable parents to recognise and understand power and coercive control dynamics and patterns of abuse and support them to make future positive choices within children's timescales where possible

To ensure the non-judgemental delivery of a range of one-to-one and group interventions underpinned by Motivational Interviewing (MI) to perpetrators of domestic abuse

Undertake effective needs and risk assessment of clients

Manage a caseload of allocated clients, all of whom will be perpetrators of domestic abuse

Provide crisis intervention as required and ongoing support to families experiencing domestic abuse, while safeguarding individuals (including children) as necessary

Contribute to multi agency meetings regarding clients (for example, child protection conferences, MARAC and MATAC meetings, professional and strategy meetings)

Ensure that our services are accessible to all

Continue your professional development by actively participating in regular supervision sessions/annual appraisals and completing relevant training as agreed by your line manager

Contribute to the high performance of the wider team within the FSP project:

To work as part of a team, develop relationships and collaborate with all colleagues and partners within the multi-agency framework

To report to the Team Manager to ensure accountability in the role and appropriate safeguarding procedures are in place for clients

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, communicating openly and attending professional forums and team meetings as required

Develop a wide knowledge of external multi-agency services to facilitate and support access

Maintain clear and accurate records of work with families on databases & systems

To complete relevant monitoring to fulfil contractual needs and to inform ongoing risk assessment and planning

Work within policies and procedures including Health and Safety, GDPR, and Confidentiality regulations

Full and part time roles across the county are available for this role. Please contact us to discuss further. Please apply by send a cover letter and cv stating how you match criteria for this role or by visiting our website (www.elmorecommunityservices.org.uk) for more information. We advise you to address the specific points of the person specification within your application. It is very important that you use examples to say why you meet each criteria.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note we will be interviewing and filling vacancies as we receive applications. Please apply early so as not to miss out on this opportunity.

Closing date for applications: Monday 9th Feb at 9am we may close this advert at any time prior to this if recruitment has been successful.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 28,840.28-32,459.00 per year

Work Location: In person