Community Domestic Abuse Practitioner
3 weeks ago
**Closing Date: Midday 11/08/23**
**Job Title: Community Domestic Abuse Practitioner (CDAP)**
**Location: Hertfordshire**
**Salary: £23,833 pa (pro-rata for part-time)**
**Report to**: Service Manager
**Responsible for**: May oversee work of volunteers
**About Us**
At Safer Places our team is our most important resource and asset. Having a highly competent survivor focused, experienced and resourceful team is key to delivering a high quality service. We are committed to supporting our staff and to providing continued professional development and offer an excellent range of training and qualification packages.
**Main Purpose**:
To work as part of a team in the given locality delivering specialist high quality, safe and effective domestic abuse support to women, men and their children living in the locality.
**Key Responsibilities**:
**Corporate**
1. To maintain and demonstrate a commitment to the Organisation’s vision and values and strategic aims and objectives.
2. To maintain high standards of professionalism and keep abreast of current legislation, standards, best practice and maintain a focus on continuous improvement.
3. To maintain knowledge of the Organisation’s operating environment.
**Main Tasks**
1. To accept referrals allocated by the service manager or senior DAP 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
2. Managing own case load, planning and delivery of support to clients and their children on the basis of risk and need
3. To provide support to clients and their children living in the community in line with a structured plan that is driven by the risks posed to the client and the needs and preferences of the individual client, which is regularly reviewed with the client and line manager to ensure it reflects their current situation and priorities across the caseload as a whole, using mandated best practice tools.
4. To ensure clients have in place, and continuously review with them and the line manager, robust risk management plans to support them living safely and ensure that they always have 24 hour access to support in the event that a crisis arises and they need to be made safe using additional support.
5. To work closely with external partner agencies, advocating on behalf of the client to meet their individual support needs in particular 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.
6. 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
7. To ensure that all Safeguarding measures are delivered in respect of the client and their children and that at all times you adhere strictly to Safer Places policies and procedures in respect of Safeguarding Adults and Children
8. To support clients to improve their resilience and prospects by encouraging engagement with the various programmes and opportunities offered within the service such as specialist programmes for people who have experienced domestic abuse (triple R), improving numeracy and literacy, ESOL, Employability and other programmes provided in house or by other community partners.
9. Ensure that all monitoring information is delivered on time, that KPI’s are met
10. Working as part of a team take responsibility as part of that team for 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.
**General**
1. The role holder will be expected to perform any other duties that may reasonably be asked of them.
2. To participate fully in “on call” on a rota basis or as required in the delivery of out of hours service.
3. The role holder will be able to work within the Safeguarding arena following organisation policies and procedures, be able to Recognise; Respond to; Report and Record
Safeguarding issues and understand and make quality Safeguarding Referrals.
4. Comply with data protection legislation, information sharing policy and procedures and all legislation connected to your work. Act in a manner which preserves the confidentiality of all stakeholders.
5. Respect and value the diversity of the community in which the services works in, and recognise the needs and concerns of a diverse range of survivors ensuring the service is accessible to all.
**Person Specification**
**Experience**
Experience of working with vulnerable groups - **Essential**
Experience of managing a caseload - **Essential**
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