Domestic Abuse Practitioner
Salary: £23,223 a year
Location: Stoke on Trent
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract type: Permanent
As a specialist Domestic Abuse Practitioner, you’ll support individuals and families within our safe accommodation services. You’ll provide a tailored, person-centred support package to help customers achieve their goals and live a life free from abuse.
Job requirements
Work with customers to identify their individual support needs and provide a tailored support package. This includes housing, health, wellbeing, finances and safety.
Process customer referrals, including assessments of risk and support needs, to manage allocation of void properties.
Work as part of a multi-agency response to meet the identified needs of customers. This might include providing reports for, or attending, meetings (e.g. MARAC).
Advocate for customers so that agencies understand and meet their needs.
Support the customer to engage with both internal and external agencies to access services and help develop skills so they can achieve their goals.
What we’re looking for
Have a genuine understanding of people in abusive relationships.
Be up to date with current issues and laws within the domestic abuse sector, welfare reform and homelessness.
Have experience delivering support to customers, recognising individual needs and identifying opportunities while meeting deadlines.
Have good ICT, communication and time management skills.
Have experience handling personal data in line with GDPR.
Have a full UK driving license and use of own vehicle for work.
Basic DBS Check required.
Be a catalyst for change and help us impact the way our region addresses abusive relationships. Apply now! - Please note, we will be interviewing as we go along, so the vacancy may close early if we find the right person.
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