Accommodation Domestic Abuse Practitioner

4 months ago

Huddersfield, United Kingdom Pennine Domestic Abuse Partnership Full time

**Role Profile**

**Role**: Accommodation Domestic Abuse Practitioner

**Term**: Fixed term

**Salary**: 24-26k

**Responsible to**: Accommodation Manager

**Pension**: 6% employer contribution

**Health**: Cash Plan Health Scheme and Health & Wellbeing Assistance Programme

**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week

**Annual Leave**: 30 days (inclusive of birthday) & 8 bank holidays

Last year Pennine Domestic Abuse Partnership (PDAP) provided support to 1662 victims across Kirklees and believes that everyone has a right to a life free from fear and abuse. Do you want to take on a role in an organisation that places the victim’s voice at the centre of their work and offers safe, effective and high quality support to all those suffering domestic abuse? This charity is inclusive and responsive and is looking for a domestic abuse practitioner to join the team to contribute to supporting clients to rebuild their lives.

**Key aspects of the role**
- To work within a skilled team providing high quality frontline specialist support services to victims of domestic abuse. PDAP Accommodation services work with female victims of domestic abuse aged 16+ living in one of PDAP’s safe, emergency, temporary accommodation.
- To establish and maintain positive, proactive and innovative working relationships, pathways and referral routes with partner agencies to reduce barriers arising for women and families with complex and multiple support needs.
- To work alongside the team and effectively provide support to women and families.

Advocate for victims of domestic abuse with relevant agencies, by:

- Understanding the role of all relevant statutory and non-statutory services available to domestic abuse victims with particular knowledge of services and how this role can work in partnership with them.
- Providing advocacy, emotional and practical support and information to victims of domestic abuse including; mental wellbeing, substance misuse, housing support, health and finance
- Working directly with all PDAP services and key agency partners to address the safety of risk to victims and ensuring that their safety plans are coordinated through multi agency protocols.
- Be creative, flexible and robust in supporting clients to achieve positive outcomes, independence, safety, health and increased confidence.
- To maintain accurate and confidential records of all work undertaken
- To manage a case load ensuring each client receives the appropriate service individual to their personal circumstances and support needs.
- To hold regular key working sessions that are in line with the support plan.
- Support the empowerment of the client and assist them in recognising the features and dynamics of domestic abuse present in their situation, and help them regain control of their own lives.
- Support colleagues and partner agencies, through awareness raising and institutional advocacy, in order to provide the best possible service for clients.
- Respect and value the diversity of the community in which the services work in, and recognise the needs and concerns of a diverse range of victims ensuring the service is accessible to all
- To adhere to defined service standards and accreditation frameworks and remain up-to-date and compliant with all organisational procedures policies and professional codes of conduct and uphold standards of best practice.
- To promote PDAP ethos and values across the organisation
- To liaise with other agencies on behalf of the organisation, volunteers and service users and represent the wider complexities of those experiencing domestic abuse.
- To represent PDAP operationally where required, attending advisory groups and participating in local forum meetings with a view to influencing how stakeholders respond to domestic abuse.
- To develop and maintain good positive working relationships and referral pathways with relevant agencies and professionals
- To attend and participate positively in relevant meetings, training, supervision and annual appraisals.

**Promoting equality, diversity & inclusion**
- Ensure that the views of Pdap’s clients, those with lived experience of domestic abuse and stakeholders are at the core of all our work and to take full account of these in the development of new services.
- Contribute to regular review and updating of equality action plans identifying areas we can further improve.
- Champion equality and diversity principles in practice.
- Actively and appropriately challenge all forms of discrimination.
- Proactively promote equality and diversity in all work with clients, ensuring fair access to services for all.
- Ensure effective implementation of Pdap’s Equality and Diversity policies and ensure integration of an equalities and human rights agenda in all areas of work.

**It is essential to the development of Pdap service delivery that the post holder is able to respond flexibly to changes in the requirements of this post. This job description is therefore a guide and not a

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