Part-Time Social Care Independent Domestic Violence Advocate

Role: Part-time Social Care Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA)

Based: Across Westminster Social Care and Hammersmith Head Office

Rate: GBP20 ph umb

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: temp ongoing

Hours: 17.5 hours per week (2 days in Hammersmith day home)

Synopsis of duties:

• Work within a coordinated partnership response to violence against women and girls as part of the Angelou Partnership.
• Establish positive, proactive, and innovative working relationships with housing services and partner agencies.
• Provide high-quality crisis intervention, information, advocacy, and proactive support to women referred to the service, in respect to risk management and safety planning, criminal and civil remedies, housing, health, welfare rights, and children\’s legislation.
• Assess the needs and risks of survivors, carry out short and longer-term risk management, safety planning, and support, and identify and refer to services appropriate to their needs.
• Advise women of their rights and options for seeking help and support from other agencies and proactively advocate to ensure barriers to accessing support and protection are reduced.
• Work as an advocate and educator to raise awareness and upskill professionals within Children\’s Social Care; collaborate with colleagues to successfully develop and deliver training.
• Work within a dynamic, fast-paced, crisis intervention, advocacy, and support service to ensure the voice of survivors informs every stage of the process, specializing in working with clients at high risk.
• Advise women on criminal justice and civil remedies and related matters, support women to attend court where necessary, and coordinate the provision of multi-agency support.

Essential Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of domestic abuse and its effects on women and children, and of best practice within the domestic abuse sector.
• Experienced domestic abuse advocate who has worked with complex and multiple needs.
• Skilled in risk management and safety planning, remaining calm in a crisis, and in handling sensitive information daily.
• Experience in direct work with female survivors of domestic abuse, of supporting women involved in mental health services, and working within safeguarding procedures is essential for this post, as is the need to adopt and promote a strong partnership approach to service provision.
• DBS on the update service.
• Available immediately.

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