Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner

Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner

£28,598.62

Stoke-on-Trent

Permanent

Full-Time

As a Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner, you’ll support adults and families living in our safe accommodation services. You’ll deliver focused and tailored one-to-one support to help them live a life free from abuse.

What you’ll do:  

• Process customer referrals, identify risk and support needs, and deliver tailored practical, emotional and advocacy support for both male and female service users. 
• Line manage staff and contribute to a safe, flexible, and high-quality support service.
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners, attending meetings (e.g. MARAC/CYP) and advocating for customers.
• Support customers with housing, benefits, tenancy responsibilities, and progression towards independence.
• Assist with service delivery, including rota management, on-call support, reporting, and meeting targets/funding requirements.
• Happy to clean and prepare voids.  

Who you are: 

• A good level of education such as GCSE English and maths, or equivalent.
• Experience delivering support to customers, recognising their individual needs, making sure they have access to opportunities, all while meeting set deadlines.
• Experience supporting adults with complex needs such as relationship abuse and mental health.
• Knowledge of safeguarding.
• Experience of supporting a team, completing appraisals and check-ins.
• Knowledge of housing and health and safety requirements in a safe accommodation setting.
• An understanding of domestic abuse, including the impact on those affected by it and the legal and practical remedies available to them.
• The ability to work well under pressure and in complex situations.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good computer skills. 
• Domestic abuse and safeguarding qualifications. 
• A full UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle for work.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check.

Apply now! We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.  
 

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