Job Description

Permanent, Part Time 18.5 hours per week.

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children and safeguarding their future? Domestic abuse is the most common reason for a child and their family to require support from a social work service. In Bristol we want to achieve good outcomes for our children. We want to keep children living within their families and families together when it is safe to do so.

We are very excited to be recruiting a Domestic Abuse Practitioner. The position will be co-located in our neighbourhood offices of East Central. We are looking for practitioners with experience of delivering evidence-based domestic abuse interventions who can undertake direct work with family members, undertake joint visits with our teams, prepare chronologies and assessments to deepen understanding of the family context and assist with supporting families in making lasting changes.

In the role you will deliver interventions to parents whose behaviour is harmful or abusive to their partner/children and to non-abusing parents. You will regularly provide reports to multi-agency meetings and may be required to contribute to family court work. You will also provide advice, consultation and training to social care worker and support collection of specific data to assist with the development of domestic abuse services.



You will be a confident and experienced practitioner who wants to work creatively and differently with families who have a child in need and child protection plan due to their experience of domestic abuse. You will be able to use initiative, confidently communicate and engage with all family members and be skilled at engaging individuals who are minoritized or experience significant disadvantage. A key part of the role will be to specifically offer interventions to family members who are causing harm to others in the family.




You will enjoy working in multi-disciplinary teams and providing high quality interventions in the context of high-risk domestic abuse and complex needs.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you'll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you'll be working in a supportive environment where you'll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

What We Offer:

Generous Rewards: Enjoy a competitive rewards package, featuring flexible working, competitive pay, an exceptional Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. Explore more about our benefits on our social work microsite here Unrivalled Career Development: Join an innovative and forward-looking organisation with an excellent training and progression program tailored for social workers. Ongoing Support: Experience a supportive work environment to help you thrive in your new role.

Why Join Us:

Inspiring Culture: An independent review highlighted our robust practice culture dedicated to facilitating effective changes within families. Our staff are highly dedicated to the well-being of Bristol's children and families. Supportive Environment Enjoy a work environment that values support, with high levels of satisfaction reported in supervision (90%), good support from managers in complex situations (95%), and ready access to management support (98%). Learning Culture: Be a part of a team that values continuous improvement, with a 94% belief in Bristol's positive learning culture.

Why Bristol?

Fast Paced and Dynamic

Join a vibrant and fast-paced environment that thrives on innovation and collaboration.

City of Hope:

Explore our short film, "We Are Bristol Now (youtube.com)" to gain insights into our vibrant city and diverse populations.

Our Vision

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Families First transformation supporting us to expand our services in 2025. This is so that we can support children and families at the earliest point, whilst also providing intensive support to children and families when they need it, whether this be at a family help level requiring additional multi agency support or a specialist help level where children and families need that intensive intervention or for children in our care.



Our neighbourhood model and our new specialist teams will enable our family support workers, key workers and social workers to have the recommended number of children allocated to them that will enable them to deliver intensive support whilst also being supported by our new specialist teams when there is harm outside the home and or a child is at risk of needing to come into our care.



As we move into the new year, we are looking forward to building on the brilliant work our teams already do with children by expanding our services to create the conditions for our teams to feel supported, have the time they need to work intensively with children and families, access good training, feel psychologically safe and listened too, whilst experiencing healthy challenge to thrive in their roles in our joint vision with children and families. We will continue our commitment of working with integrity, honesty, kindness, transparency, collaboration and family led decision making as we build on what we do well and learn together to develop our work further.

"We will help families to achieve the change they want to see for themselves and their children. We believe that children should live with their family or someone who knows them best. We act when children need to be protected from harm and we do everything we can to make sure that children in our care and care leavers are set up for life"

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you'll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

For more information or to discuss opportunities, contact Katrina Murphy, Service Manager South, at 0117 3574949 / 07795091412

katrina.murphy@bristol.gov.uk

Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Young people, Black and racially minoritised, Disabled/ LGBTQ+ and Male candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.




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