Domestic Abuse Family Safeguarding Worker

2 weeks ago

Blandford Forum, United Kingdom The YOU Trust Full time

**Family Safeguarding DA Worker**

**Location: Blandford/Sturminster**

**Salary: £29,047 per year**

**Contract Type: Permanent and Full-Time (40 Hours)**

**The first suitable applicant will be appointed.**

**YOU **is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.

**Essential Requirements**:
The successful Family Safeguarding Domestic Abuse worker will have:

- Relevant qualification or equivalent to Diploma/Degree/NVQ 4 **or** equivalent work level experience
- Experience and knowledge of safeguarding adults and children
- The ability to build rapport quickly with women, children and men participating in the service
- Ability to work collaboratively with other professionals in promoting a coordinated community response to violence

The appointed Family Safeguarding Domestic Abuse worker will:

- Be co-located within a multi-disciplinary team based in children’s social care.
- Co-produce full risk assessments with the client and ensure their needs and circumstances are reflected within all safety and support plans.
- Provide 1:1 support to enable the client to understand the impact of DVA on themselves their parenting and their children.
- Identify and deliver effective interventions to increase safety and reduce risk, and, where required broker a package of support with other organisations.
- Deliver sessions with clients using my skills of Cognitive Behavioural Theory and Motivational Interviewing
- As part of a ‘whole family’ approach, I will identify the underlying behaviours and issues linked to people who harm others and where appropriate link a whole package of support with others in the SFT
- Inform practice by modelling a domestic abuse informed approach and providing information and advice to SFT colleagues regarding the risk and protection factors surrounding families experiencing domestic violence and abuse
- Have the ability to work client focused flexible hours, including evenings, nights as required and weekends.
- Be a car driver with willingness to work across the county and to travel beyond occasionally for meetings and training

**The Role**:
You will be part of a team of professionals from different disciplines to join the Safeguarding Families Together teams, to work side by side with social workers. By bringing experts together we will achieve better outcomes for children and families in Dorset.

The overall purpose of this role is to work with families, where there is an ongoing history of domestic abuse to achieve their goals and improve outcomes for families.

The skilled and experienced post holder will be dual located, primarily working as part of a multi-agency team (Safeguarding Families Together - SFT) sat within social care with agreed time located within the local DVA team.

The post holder will be responsible for engaging the whole family, to complete needs led assessments, to design and deliver agreed interventions to safeguard adults and children and to broker additional support, where indicated.

The post holder will be confident in their knowledge and responsible for raising awareness of and supporting others in the SFT to understand the dynamics of domestic abuse and its impact on individuals and their children.

**About You**:

- _You will be experienced, skilled and enthusiastic._
- _You will be used to working in a fast-paced environment._
- _You will be passionate about working with people experiencing domestic abuse_
- _You will work alongside our clients as an equal partner and give advice and guidance at a level matching the person’s skills and strengths._
- _Work within a multi-disciplinary team sharing best practice to achieve better outcomes for families._
- _Developing positive working relationships with the local community and support agencies to create a network of support for your clients will be central to the work you do._

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Pay: £29,047.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Application question(s):

- Do you hold NVQ level 4 or equivalent work experience?
- Do you have a least 1 year experience working with Microsoft and Case Management Systems?

**Experience**:

- working with adults who are experiencing domestic abuse: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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