Job Description

We are looking for specialist victim/survivor 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.

The role will focus on providing a range of one-to-one and group-based victim/survivor focused interventions to empower individuals to safely make positive change and promote the wellbeing of themselves and their children. Interventions are person-centred and underpinned by Motivational Interviewing principles, and will include safety planning and goal setting, from the perspective of the victim/survivor and child's needs.

We are looking for candidates who have experience of 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.

Full and part time roles across the county are available for this role. Please contact us to discuss further. Please apply by sending a cover letter and cv showing specific points which match criteria 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.

Benefits:

5 weeks annual leave (pro rata)

Extra day annual leave for birthday.

Up to 5 extra days annual leave for length of service.

Health Cash Plan

Private medical insurance (optional)

Cycle to work scheme

Salary Sacrifice Car scheme

Enhanced Maternity benefits

Extra leave for dependants

Length of Service awards (monetary)

Enhanced pension allowance around length of service

Casual dress

Buy and sell annual leave scheme

Eligibility for Blue Light Card and further discounted benefits

Key Responsibilities

Provide a high-quality support service to victim/survivor 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 work interventions underpinned by Motivational Interviewing (MI) to victim/survivors of domestic abuse

Undertake effective needs and risk assessment of clients

Manage a caseload of allocated clients, all of whom will be victim/survivors of domestic abuse

Provide crisis intervention as required and ongoing support to people 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 EBI team and 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

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 the advert sooner if recruitment is successful

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 28,840.28-32,459.00 per year

Work Location: In person