Young Persons Independent Domestic Violence Advisor
2 months ago
**Salary**
£38,364 - £40,833 per annum.
**Package**
Fixed-Term/Secondment until 31st March 2025, Full-Time, 36 hours per week.
**Job category/type**
Community Safety
**Date posted**
27/11/2023
**Job reference**
R0006210
**About us at Hounslow**
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
**About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
**Our Benefits**
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.
**About The Role**
We are excited to be recruiting for a Young People Independent Domestic Violence Advisor to join a dynamic team. This role will provide crisis intervention and longer-term support to young people age 16-25 who are experiencing interpersonal domestic abuse. You will provide Healthy Relationship sessions to young people and assist with the development of groups for young people.
You will work directly with young people to provide them with an understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse, address the impact and empower them to move forward to live a safer and enriched life.
Part of the role will also be to establish positive, proactive and innovative working relationships with services providing support to young people and provide training and advise on the safeguarding of young people.
**About The Team You’ll Be Working In**
If you are passionate about ending domestic abuse, believe in prevention, intervention, safeguarding and support this could be a great opportunity for you to help keep Hounslow residents safe.
As the Young People Independent Domestic Violence Advisor you will be joining Hounslow Domestic and Sexual Violence Outreach Service. Hounslow Domestic and Sexual Violence Outreach Service exists to end the harm done through domestic abuse. Our aim is to prevent abuse as well as provide services to meet the individual needs of survivors. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent and safe lives.
Hounslow Domestic and Sexual Violence Service sits within the Community Safety Team which is responsible for providing life-saving frontline services, co-ordinating work across different disciplines, strengthening partnership and collaborative work, implementing innovative projects and ensuring the Council fulfils its statutory duties to make Hounslow safer for everyone.
Within the service are a team of Independent Domestic and Sexual Violence Advisors, Parent and Child Domestic Abuse Workers and a dedicated team developing and facilitating groups addressing Violence Against Women and Girls in the borough. You will work alongside these workers jointly promoting the service and assisting with the Hounslow One Stop Shop, training sessions to partners and co-facilitating groups.
You will receive the full support from an experienced line manager and can expect a variety of development and training opportunities. You will also have access to external clinical supervision and peer support meetings.
**About You**
Do you feel passionate about keeping young people safe, are you a confident people person with the drive to ensure the voice of young people forms every stage of your work. If yes, this could be the opportunity for you.
**You will**:
- Have the ability to explain to young people the dynamics of healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships
- Have experience in identifying risk levels using the Safelives Risk Assessment and developing safety plans
- Have the ability to explain clearly to clients, aged 16 - 25 how the criminal justice system, housing, benefits and key statutory agencies work in relation to domestic abuse
- Have the skills to gather information between agencies and then advocate the needs of young people with the ability to negotiate areas of
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