Domestic Abuse Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Shrewsbury, United Kingdom Parental Education Growth Support (PEGS) Full time

Parental Educational Growth Support (PEGS) is looking to expand its team.

PEGS is a social enterprise working to reduce the individual and societal impact of Child to Parent Abuse (CPA). The organisation has four main aims: supporting parents, training professionals, raising awareness, and influencing policy.

PEGS specifically supports parents, carers and guardians impacted by CPA (thought to be at least 3% of UK households) and does not work directly with the child, although we do refer to many other organisations to ensure the child is also receiving appropriate support.

Our core values centre on creating safe spaces for parents to be able to share their experiences, supporting anyone no matter the age of their child (including adult offspring), and ensuring parent services remain free for anyone using them so there are no financial barriers to access help.

We are looking to appoint 2 x Child to Parent Abuse Practitioners part time. (Post 1 will be 12pm to 5pm Monday and Tuesday and 11am to 5pm on Wednesdays. Post 2 will be 9am to 3pm on Wednesdays and 9am to 2pm on Thursdays and Fridays.) These posts are on a 1 year fixed term contract to provide high-quality, person-centred support to parents, carers and guardians, ensuring their voices are heard. This will be through consultations, advocacy, delivery of our bespoke group support programmes and facilitating virtual drop-in sessions offering peer group support. To uphold PEGS ethos and values at all times. Duties will include:

- Providing support to Parents affected by child to parent abuse
- Undertake risk assessments and formulate safety planning in conjunction with parents
- Attend meetings as required
- Consultations with parents
- Facilitating/Co Facilitating group sessions
- Listen, support and empower clients to make informed choices
- Must be able to manage own caseload including calendar; accurate record keeping; report writing
- Multi-agency working
- Weekly check in with Lead Practitioner
- Liaising with agency partners when required.
- Proficient IT skills to include Google Drive, online platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom. and databases
- Support of programmes/workshops
- Must be flexible and able to cope under pressure
- To carry out any other reasonable task as requested by your line manager

Hours of work are:
16 per week, over 3 days.
- The post holder will be based at our office in Shropshire, SY2.
- Salary 16 hours, part time £10,400
- Start date; March 2023.
- Upon successful completion of your probation period, you will be entitled to make use of a Paycare Health Cash Plan, paid for by PEGS. This allows you to claim cash back on a range of everyday healthcare such as optical and dental appointments, physiotherapy and chiropody. In addition, Paycare has a 24/7 GP appointment service, a confidential telephone support and counselling line (also known as an Employee Assistance Programme), and a discount scheme with offers on everything from utility and the weekly shop to holidays and sports equipment
- We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer | The DWP Disability Confident scheme aims to improve the experiences of disabled people in the workplace. PEGS is currently at Level 1 of the three-part programme and is working towards Level 2. Goals include increasing our understanding of disability, removing barriers which might be preventing people accessing employment, and playing our part in ensuring disabled people have opportunities to fulfil their potential

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Part-time hours: 16 per week

**Salary**: £10,400.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking
- Wellness programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Shrewsbury

Application deadline: 31/03/2023
Reference ID: PT Practitioner



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