Domestic Abuse Specialist Practitioner

Contract: September 2026 / 37 hours a week

Weekends and evening work expected

RISE strives for a world where people can lead safe, purposeful lives as a result of better relationships within families and communities; where harmful behaviour is marginalised and fewer people are victims of crime. In order to create safe communities, RISE empowers people to break their cycle of harmful behaviour. RISE’s programmes challenge attitudes and facilitate long‑lasting behaviour change and are driven by the belief that people can make better decisions, given the right support. RISE are specialists in designing and delivering evidence‑based, transformative behaviour change courses within the criminal justice system and wider community.

With the main objectives of reducing re‑victimisation and reoffending, and helping to protect the public, the RISE practitioner will deliver a range intervention (individual and group), both in the community and in custody.

We are commissioned to deliver 1-2‑1 Domestic Abuse programmes in 8 London Boroughs.

This position will predominantly focus on delivering the Culturally Integrated Family Approach (CIFA) to domestic abuse with both face to face and online programme delivery.

The post holder will be expected to cover boroughs within that area where business required. The CIFA project will involve a multi‑layered integrated approach to working with victim/survivors and those causing harm, alongside our multi‑agency partners such as IDVA services, statutory and non‑statutory agencies.

Key accountabilities

• Deliver a wide range of interventions, predominantly one to ones, embedding in a culturally informed and multi‑agency approach to domestic abuse in the area.
• Ensure delivery is in accordance with tasks outlined in the RISE Domestic Abuse Perpetrator manual and process mapping.
• Adhere to relevant CIFA and other manuals and deliver programme sessions to ensure the integrity of delivery, which is overseen by the Advanced Practitioner and Team Leader.
• Apply specialised materials to support your delivery to racialised and marginalised communities.
• Be responsible and accountable for working with Advanced Practitioner, Domestic Abuse safety advice and line manager to ensure risk is reviewed on a weekly basis.
• Practitioners will comply with the appropriate audit standards when working with perpetrators in line with RESPECT or HMPPS’s requirements.
• Use motivational interviewing techniques and strength‑based approaches in building a range of therapeutic skills to engage with service users to address their abusive behaviour.
• Encourage and facilitate learning with participants on 1‑2‑1 or group setting, including proactively working to elicit behavioural change and acceptance of their behaviour towards their partner, or ex‑partner.
• Work closely with other professionals to ensure appropriate steps are taken to protect where there is an imminent risk to another person. Apply RISE’s escalation procedures.
• Be personally accountable for the completion of assessments, mid‑way reports, and End of Intervention reports, and ensure they are to a high standard.
• Provide support and consultancy to other professionals to ensure appropriateness of referrals and improve understanding on domestic abuse.
• Ensure effective planning for the delivery of each intervention with a co‑practitioner (if groupwork) in advance of the session.
• Participate in and pass the necessary training to be able to deliver all interventions.
• Assist or lead on the delivery of training courses.
• Create and maintain an effective partnership working with statutory, private, and voluntary agencies to address the issue of domestic abuse.
• Work with families and extended family members to tackle abuse within the home.
• Where appropriate, apply pre‑session motivational or Deniers sessions prior to attendance on the main course or groupwork intervention.

Integrating the Safety Support Service

• Liaise and engage closely with the Domestic Abuse Safety Advisor to increase the safety of partners, ex‑partners and children of the service user to manage the risk and develop treatment goals.
• Prior to delivering Domestic Abuse Interventions, liaise and share information with RISE Domestic Abuse Safety Officers to ensure an integrated and culturally sensitive approach is applied to risk management.
• Attend monthly risk review meetings with Domestic Abuse Safety Advisor and Senior practitioners to ensure effective risk management procedures are always applied.

Recording and administrative tasks

• Ensure timely and accurate recording of all relevant data (attendance, feedback, midway and end of intervention reports) using systems provided and in line with performance standards.
• Maintain an accurate audit trail of all relevant communication with partner organisations involved.
• Complete specialist risk and vulnerability assessments, and reports as per templates provided.
• Ensure completion of pre and post questionnaires in line with RISE’s Social Impact strategy.
• Contribute to the evaluation and evidencing of social impact, including questionnaires and service user case studies.
• Develop excellent relationships with customers and respond positively to their needs.
• Be a strong advocate for RISE interventions, representing RISE and its interventions.
• Attend Clinical Consultancy to support safe practice and develop resilience during the delivery of demanding work as directed by the Team Leader.

Confidentiality and Information Security

• Adhere to the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts and comply with the terms of RISE’s Privacy, IT and Data protection policies, and that of our partners where relevant.
• Comply with security measures in accordance with RISE policies and our partner’s Email and Internet use.

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

• RISE is committed to keeping children and vulnerable adults safe. Post holders with direct service user contact are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults s/he is responsible for or comes into contact with. Post holders not in direct offender contact have a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Other duties

• Undertake other duties as may be required which are commensurate with the grade and nature of the post.
• Cover for other posts as appropriate, and willingness to be trained in new interventions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Experience

• Effective interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Good understanding of race, culture and equality issues and impact on communities.
• Ability to effectively undertake risk assessments.
• Ability to write high quality reports.
• Experience of delivering domestic abuse and/or trauma interventions or case work.
• Experience and knowledge of multi‑agency liaison risk management.
• Experience of working with both families, children and service users.
• Ability to motivate and engage a difficult client group while undertaking interventions. This may be as part of one‑to‑one basis or group work.
• Openness to new ideas and ways of working.
• Ability to relate positively and empathetically but without collusion.
• Ability to appropriately challenge negative attitudes, thinking and behaviours.
• Willingness to learn and develop from feedback about performance.
• Experience of effective team working.
• Ability and willingness to use new technology.
• An Enhanced DBS Check is required for this role.
• Ability to develop new interventions
• A relevant qualification, e.g. social work, probation studies or cognitive behaviour therapy or family therapy