Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner
£28,598.62 a year
Staffordshire Moorlands
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. xiskglj
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