Nidas Independent Domestic Abuse Advisor

6 months ago


North Walsham, United Kingdom Daisy Programme Full time

**NIDAS Independent Domestic Abuse Advisor (IDVA) - North Norfolk**

Salary £29,734

**Job Purpose**

The IDVA will be part of our team within the Norfolk Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (NIDAS). Which is a community-based service providing an effective, safe, supportive, and confidential support for service users aged 16 plus and their families including children aged 5-18, who assessed as high or medium risk, and living with or fleeing domestic abuse.

The purpose of the role is to work in a multi-agency framework providing a range of support to reduce the risk of further harm posed to service users and support them to safely engage with criminal justice proceedings, Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC's) and The Sanctuary Scheme, if appropriate as part of the NIDAS team.

You will work alongside a caseload of our service users to ensure that they feel safe, happy with the service they are receiving and have the widest opportunities available to them to enhance their lives and improve their safety and wellbeing. You will ensure they receive an excellent level of support that uses a strengths-based and trauma informed approach and is centred around their aims and aspirations.

Your role will be part of a rota system operating over 7 days a week. You will be required to represent the service by providing presentations and attending events as required and support the NIDAS Partnership Board in working towards the best possible outcomes for our service users.

**Key Strategic Responsibilities**
- Work in a multi-agency framework and environment, safeguarding adults and children
- Promote Equality, Diversity, Fairness, and Inclusion at all times.
- Promote a ‘Team NIDAS’ culture across the service delivery.
- Ensure that our service users voices are central to all aspects of service delivery and is evidenced through safety and support planning, risk assessment and reviews.
- Be part of a team of community and family IDVAs and work collaboratively with colleagues throughout the NIDAS Partnership to deliver our visions, values and objectives.
- Be innovative in identifying methods to successfully engage with people across a wide range of backgrounds and with diverse needs.
- Look for opportunities to improve and develop services that we offer.
- To promote collaboration and multi-agency working for service users and maintain up to date knowledge of local services to enable recovery.
- Support our service users to link into statutory, health and social care services to maximise their wellbeing and recovery.
- To implement NIDAS’s strategy on consultation and service user involvement to ensure that all service users are able to participate and contribute to the development of the NIDAS service.

**Key Functional Responsibilities**
- Build a relationship with each service user and engage at their pace and in their preferred way; taking a service user led, flexible approach to providing practical and emotional support and advocacy.
- To manage a case load of the high/medium risk cases, and regularly review support and safety needs in line with the accredited standards.
- Facilitate a holistic assessment with each service user, building a relationship and creating a personalised support plan that incorporates risk and safety, and builds on their strengths and needs.
- Supporting the facilitation of group programmes within the service as appropriate, by enabling colleagues and service users to create and contribute to an environment that makes participation safe, supportive, and fulfilling. May be required to support activities including drop-ins at other services in the community.
- Comply with all Health & Safety policy and procedures and carry out activities in a safe manner.
- Maintain accurate and thorough case records.
- Comply within Data Protection and GDRP legislation and best practice.
- To offer a flexible service over 7 days a week to ensure referrals reach the NIDAS IDVA service as part of a NIDAS Rota system.
- To offer telephone, virtual, group or face to face advice and support to service users who have been assessed as high or medium risk.
- To participate in MARAC meetings and service user groups as required.
- To liaise with other teams within the NIDAS partnership to ensure seamless handover of service between the triage service and other teams within NIDAS.
- To track cases through the Police, CPS, court and other systems to ensure service users have accurate and up to date information in compliance with the GDPR, confidentiality and data protection.
- To provide or coordinate support for criminal justice trials as required.
- To ensure that all Safeguarding issues and concerns are reported and dealt with in accordance with organisational policy and procedure, Legislation, and best practice.
- To promote and work within the policies and guidelines of NIDAS and employing organisations.

**Person Specification**

**Education & Qualifications**
- An accredited IDVA qualifica



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