Number of Vacancies: 1 Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Fixed Term (Fixed Term) Proposed Interview Date: Monday, June 29, 2026 Hours of Work: 37 Hiring Manager: Victoria Macklin Contact Number: 01482 615416
Job Description Summary
FULL TIME, FIXED TERM POSITION: Strength to Change seeks motivated and skilled practitioners for the DRIVE team, delivering an evidence‑based approach to tackling high‑risk high‑harm domestic abuse.
Key Responsibilities
* Work intensively with high‑risk, high‑harm perpetrators of domestic abuse to reduce risk and work toward transformative behaviour change.
* Carry out risk assessments, risk management plans and engagement strategies.
* Develop and deliver individual intervention plans.
* Work collaboratively within a multi‑agency environment (police, probation, social care, domestic abuse services).
* Liaise closely with integrated victim services to ensure victim safety remains central.
* Maintain accurate case records and contribute to monitoring and evaluation of outcomes.
* Attend and contribute to meetings such as MARAC, MATAC, DRIVE PANELS and other safeguarding arrangements.
* Promote a trauma‑informed, strengths‑based and accountable practice approach.
Professional Profile
* Experienced in working with domestic abuse, safeguarding, criminal justice or vulnerable individuals.
* Knowledgeable about coercive control, risk and perpetrator behaviour.
* Skilled in engaging hard‑to‑reach or resistant individuals.
* Able to manage a complex caseload and competing priorities.
* Confident working within a multi‑agency partnership environment.
* Committed and enthusiastic about these areas of work.
Role and Purpose
The DRIVE Case Practitioner works within the Strength to Change service to provide one‑to‑one engagement with high‑risk and high‑harm perpetrators, securing engagement, influencing attitudinal and behavioural change and connecting with partner agency services. The practitioner designs a co‑ordinated, strategic risk‑management and intervention plan, promotes understanding of abusive impacts, and collaborates with co‑located partner services to improve outcomes for all family members involved.
Principal Accountabilities
1. Manage a caseload focusing on high‑risk perpetrators of domestic abuse, providing an assertive, medium‑to‑long‑term service, based on thorough assessment, support planning and the ‘Support or/and Disrupt’ concept. Develop strategies to disrupt continued risk posed by clients and ensure clients understand that the service and partner agencies will hold them accountable for continued abusive behaviour towards others.
2. Maintain a proactive response to clients, continuously providing positive options for behaviour change. Use a combination of motivational work, relationship building and a broad range of therapeutic skills to engage clients and address the broad range of needs that may contribute to the risk they pose to others or act as barriers to addressing that risk (e.g., housing, substance use).
3. Contribute to continuous professional development activity, through participation in supervision, case management, case reviews, clinical supervision, reflective practice, training, workshops, coaching and mentoring, to ensure colleagues and wider agency staff maintain and develop their knowledge and skills, sustaining safe, effective, ethical and lawful practice in relation to victims/survivors and perpetrators.
4. Provide specialist advice, support and guidance (co‑working cases if required) to professionals on all aspects of case management for victims and their children impacted by domestic abuse, and perpetrators. Advise on and take the lead on matters relating to safeguarding adults and children, and prepare and submit reports to courts, CYPS and other agencies to advise on safeguarding and risk management.
5. Ensure consistent delivery of services to identified perpetrators, including comprehensive risk assessment, support planning, referrals to other agencies and Multi‑Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC). Undertake comprehensive assessments of risk, needs and attitudes to inform individual client intervention plans and continually consider the welfare and safety of adults, children and young people victims in all work.
6. Develop and maintain effective partnership working with all partner agencies, embedding effective case management into multi‑agency responses to domestic abuse. Implement institutional advocacy, challenging partner agencies and striving for change to benefit individuals, the service and the sector.
7. Provide a single point of proactive and regular contact for professionals involved with the client, supporting them in responding to clients in line with the aims of Strength to Change DRIVE. Attend and represent the service at Multi‑Agency Public Protection (MAPPA), MARAC, CYPS Case Conferences, strategy meetings, early help meetings, PITSTOP and other forums to research, triage and share information and advocate on behalf of victims.
8. Represent the service at operational multi‑agency meetings, feeding back initiatives and outcomes to the team and contributing to the evaluation of the quality of activities. Contribute to regular service reviews which include monitoring data, evaluations, intake and output policy, practice and workload reviews to inform service developments and improvements.
9. Comply with safeguarding and information‑sharing policies, ensuring clients and colleagues understand and comply with relevant safeguarding frameworks.
10. Oversee the creation, accurate recording, storage, maintenance, retrieval and updating of case records both manually and electronically on local and national case‑management systems (Iizuka), ensuring records comply with council policies, service retention procedures, General Data Protection Regulations and information‑sharing legislation. Make strategic decisions around levels of sensitivity and confidentiality to safeguard clients’ personal and sensitive information.
Compensation and Benefits
Grading: GRADES 7. Pay range: £32,597.00 – £35,412.00. Job classifications: 3 – Not Politically Restricted – Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), 8 – Enhanced & Children & Adults Barring List – (DBS). Benefits include a competitive salary, an excellent pension via the Local Government Pension Scheme, 23 days of annual leave (initially) plus eight public holidays and three additional days off, career development and learning experiences, and a supportive and forward‑thinking culture.
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage. We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.
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