Trauma & Resilience Informed Practice Lead in Belfast

About The Role

We are recruiting a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice Training Lead to be part of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR).

You will play a vital role in building and integrating the Commission’s trauma and resiliency-informed approach as set out in the ICRIR Framework for Implementing the Trauma and Resiliency Informed Model (TRIM) - Independent Commission for Reconciliation & Information Recovery. You will deliver TRIM trainings, based in the Community Resiliency Model, work with other staff to develop and improve existing trainings and contribute to the life of the team overseeing the Commission's co-designed trauma-informed and resiliency-focused workplan. With the team under the leadership of the Assistant Commissioner: Support & Engagement, you will engage in a unique opportunity to make a significant contribution to an organisation that is undertaking complex and important work.

The end-to-end journey of an investigation is all about the people who will eventually benefit from information recovery. There are three phases through the information recovery process: Support, Information Recovery, and the Chief Commissioner’s Reporting and Findings team. At every stage, victims, survivors, and families must be able to understand what is happening and what progress is being made. The Commission will give anyone who makes contact a clear understanding of how the Commission works, the powers it has at its disposal and what that work might lead to. TRIM support, TRIM-guided engagement, education and reflection, should be delivered consistently across the investigative journey and as the TRIM training lead you will play your part in ensuring this happens.

The post sits within the Investigations Directorate in the Commission, headed by the Commissioner for Investigations, Peter Sheridan. The Directorate undertakes all engagement activity with requesting individuals, undertakes investigations and presents evidence to the Reporting and Findings Team so that determinations can be made for reports produced on the authority of the Chief Commissioner. The Directorate is multi-disciplinary with a mix of backgrounds and skills, and the successful individual will be expected to play their part in setting a culture reflecting the Commission’s mission and values and overall objectives.

You will work within a team that excels as trainers and experts in the Community Resiliency Model, working collegially to support other aspects of the team’s work, including TRIM support for staff, TRIM case conferencing, TRIM learning and development. You will contribute to the team's overall mission to build a trauma-informed and resiliency-focused Commission focused on supporting victims, survivors and their families.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate the Commission’s Trauma and Resiliency Informed Model (TRIM), delivering existing training, developing new training bespoke to teams and using the TRIM skills and concepts across the Commission, continuously improving and using co-design approaches.
• Support the development of teams across the Commission to effectively apply TRIM, learn and embody the TRIM skills and develop Commission resilience.
• Integrate into the work of investigator teams to support TRIM approaches to everyday interactions and increase understanding and mutual learning, including working with investigator teams to ensure a case management model that is trauma-informed and resiliency-focused.
• Assist facilitation of the reflective, learning aspects of TRIM for staff, including providing spaces for reflective learning with colleagues, group-based sessions and provide input to TRIM focused case conferencing.
• Assist the Commission to maintain a focus on victims, survivors and witnesses and provide support to the Assistant Commissioner where needed to achieve continuous learning and improvements.
• Promote the TRIM approach and the TRIM principles across the Commission.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• A relevant health-related qualification, for example, counselling, psychotherapy, social work, mental health or equivalent, with 3 years’ experience. (Please specify on your application)
• Recognised and accredited Training qualifications with significant experience of delivering training within the last 10 years. (Please specify in your application)
• 5 years’ experience in an organisation where trauma and its impact were at the forefront of service delivery. (Please share information to demonstrate the minimum 5 years required, in your application)
• Knowledge and experience of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM®) as developed by the Trauma Resource Institute, California.
• Working knowledge of models for providing trauma-informed care. Please provide information about the models you know/use.
• Evidence of experience working in a complex environment*, with people from diverse disciplines.
• Experience of working in an investigative or healthcare setting.
• Agree to be trained as a Community Resiliency Model teacher and to employ work practices in harmony with CRM®.
• Understanding of safeguarding practice and of how to make significant safeguarding decisions and implement responses.
• Current Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance and willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance, if not already cleared.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working with survivors of Troubles/Conflict related trauma or comparable experiences of working with impacts of sectarian violence, traumatic bereavement and serious injury.
• Experience of supporting people through the criminal justice system.
• Experience of working in organisations dealing with complex situations** and providing a complex picture of support and engagement.
• Experience of designing or delivering staff focused interventions to ensure a trauma informed working environment.
• Experience of working with contracted providers and third parties.
• An understanding what it means to work under public scrutiny and to flex to a public service working environment.
• Experience of working in settings where safeguarding is prominent and of making significant safeguarding decisions and implementing responses.

*Complex working environments include a diversity of stakeholders from different disciplines and multiple internal teams with diversified cultures and purposes with the requirement to navigate across all types of teams and stakeholders.

**Complex situations are situation in which multiple stakeholders and interest groups play a part.

Travel to all locations will be required, but hybrid working arrangements will help us support a range of flexible working patterns.