Domestic Abuse Worker

**Permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week, Monday - Sunday | £30,559 to £32,654 per annum (Grade G) | King’s Lynn**

**Domestic Abuse Worker**

Do you want to help support Norfolk’s most vulnerable families?

Are you passionate about providing children and their families with the guidance and support they need to live within the community and thrive within the family home?

We are looking to recruit a dedicated resilient practitioner to join our Family Help team with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.

As a Domestic Abuse Worker, you will undertake specialist support to families and individuals experiencing domestic abuse, working alongside Social Workers/Family Practitioners to promote safety and well-being and prevent escalation of need. You will embrace Norfolk Vital Signs for children as an approach that underpins your work with children and families.

You will contribute to multi agency working and provide specialist knowledge in the field of domestic violence to ensure positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.

You should have a minimum of three years’ experience of working directly with children and families.

You will be confident delivering interventions one-to-one with families or on a group basis, have experience of face-to-face work with victims and/or perpetrators of domestic abuse and their families, understand domestic abuse including the impact on victims and their families and understand the principles of risk assessment, safety planning and risk management for victims of domestic abuse and their children.

In order to support families when they most need it, Domestic Abuse Workers are contracted to work 37 hours per week, from Monday to Sunday. You will be required - on occasion - to work outside of normal office working hours, including evenings, mornings and weekends.

You will be required to travel as part of your duties and you may be required, at short notice, to transport young people between a variety of rural and urban locations.

This is a great opportunity to join an innovative service providing the best possible support to parents and families to ensure children thrive in their care.

The interview process will consist of a competency-based interview. If this is successful, a further safe care (Warner) interview will follow.

Please ensure when submitting your covering letter, you evidence fully how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of the role.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full **Job Description and Person Specification**to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria we are looking for.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:

- ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 09 February 2025

**Closing date: 16 February 2025