Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner
Salary: £28,598.62 a year
Location: Staffordshire Moorlands
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract type: Permanent
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:
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Process customer referrals, identify risk and support needs, and deliver tailored practical, emotional and advocacy support.
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Line manage staff and contribute to a safe, flexible, and high-quality support service.
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Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners, attending meetings (e.g. MARAC/CYP) and advocating for customers.
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Support customers with housing, benefits, tenancy responsibilities, and progression towards independence.
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Assist with service delivery, including rota management, on-call support, reporting, and meeting targets/funding requirements.
Who you are:
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A good level of education such as GCSE English and maths, or equivalent.
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Experience delivering support to customers, recognising their individual needs, making sure they have access to opportunities, all while meeting set deadlines.
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Experience supporting adults with complex needs such as relationship abuse and mental health.
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Experience of supporting a team, completing appraisals and check-ins.
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Knowledge of housing and health and safety requirements in a safe accommodation setting.
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An understanding of domestic abuse, including the impact on those affected by it and the legal and practical remedies available to them.
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The ability to work well under pressure and in complex situations.
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Good written and verbal communication skills.
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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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Who we are
We’re part of Honeycomb Group, a team of social-minded brands championing happy homes in our region by providing services and support that help people across Staffordshire and its surrounding areas feel secure, connected and confident.
Glow is the catalyst for change in our community and our sector. We’re working to systematically impact the way our region and our sector addresses abusive relationships. Everything we do is driven by a deep desire to change the future of relationships for the better. This is the start of something great