Vacancy Detail

Part-Time Domestic Abuse Marginalised Communities Worker

Role:               Domestic Abuse Marginalised Communities Worker

Based:            Portsmouth based – working across multiple locations

Rate:                   £25,614.24 - £27,720.54 pro rata (Actual Salary : £12,807.12 - £13,860.27)

Start Date:      ASAP

Duration:        Permanent

Hours:             18.5 hours per week

Our client, a specialist Domestic Violence charity, is looking to recruit a Domestic Abuse Marginalised Communities Worker to provide support and interventions to those affected by domestic abuse to empower and support and break the cycle of domestic abuse, regardless of risk.

Synopsis of duties:

• Process referrals, accept when eligible and commence an initial need and risk assessment with the client within the specified timescales initiating plans to manage and address risks, needs and immediate safety.
• To manage a caseload of clients, assessing, co-producing and delivering support to high and medium risk clients and their family on the basis of risk and need.
• To provide support to clients and their families living in the community in line using mandated best practice tools and assessments, this may include supporting clients with Whole Family Plans.
• To ensure clients have in place, and continuously review (in line with timeframes specified) robust safety and risk management plans.
• To work closely with external partner agencies, advocating on behalf of the client to meet their individual support needs where those needs are specialist e.g. Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Legal etc. and signposting and supporting clients to access the community based services. Ensure excellent professional relationships are forged and maintained with both the clients and agencies.
• To ensure you work in close partnerships with other professionals and organisations in the locality effectively integrating with their services where this enables us to better reach visible and hidden clients.
• To ensure that children’s and vulnerable adults’ welfare is ensured in accordance with Policy, the Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Board and the Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board policies and procedures, including making appropriate onwards referrals when required.
• To complete whole family plans with families utilising the agreed template and guidance.
• To complete target hardening assessments for community based clients, issuing basic safety devices (when available), liaising with landlords to secure installation of larger security measures, advising clients of safety measures and making referrals to external agencies to complete larger security improvements as required.
• To work within Portsmouth’s ‘Team Around the Worker’ approach, both as the Lead Professional and where another agency is taking the Lead Professional role.
• Working as part of the Portsmouth team to ensure the day to day running of the service, fulfilling whatever role is allocated to you by your line manager, including ensuring that all Health and Safety requirements are managed appropriately and the facilities are clean, welcoming and resourced at all times.
• To maintain excellent confidential records, provide detailed handover reports to colleagues, appropriate referral information when working in partnership with other agencies and ensure that consistent and accurate monitoring systems are maintained.
• Ensure that all monitoring data is completed accurately and on time.
• To write case studies and monitoring reports as required by managers and funders.
• To work in a way that is inclusive, and supportive of women, children, and parents with additional needs and or impaired ability. 
• To promote, facilitate and develop, individual and family cohesion, adopting a whole family/whole person approach to risk and need, assisting with budgeting, healthy eating initiatives and other elements of personal independence. 
• To promote, facilitate and encourage, individual empowerment, working to actively reduce isolation. 
• To work in a way that is safe, non-judgemental, non-discriminatory, inclusive and seeks to actively remove barriers. 
• To promote, facilitate and create opportunities to reinforce trust in self and judgement. 
• To work flexibly and in a way that is responsive to the needs of the service and those that it exists to serve. 
• To work in a trauma informed, person-centred way, ensuring that the environment supports these principles.
• To possess and maintain knowledge of SMART goals, ensuring that change is realistic, attainable and sustainable.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience of working with vulnerable groups.
• Experience of managing a caseload of High and Medium risk victims of domestic abuse.
• Experience of recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns.
• Experience of working within a multi-agency and legislative framework
• Experience of working with those affected by domestic abuse.
• Experience of working in a whole-family approach
• Experience of writing reports, briefings, newsletters and case studies.
• Driving license with access to own car

Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.

 

Location: Portsmouth | Salary: 12807 - 13860 per year | Job type: Permanent | Posted: 08/08/2024