Male IDVA
| Posting date: | 02 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,275 to £28,275 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 November 2024 |
| Location: | Wolverhampton, West Midlands |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | St. George's House Charity |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | DAHR |
Summary
To support high risk male victims of domestic abuse across the Wolverhampton area, delivering a proactive, person-centered independent service, empowering choice through informed decision making. Providing a high quality and pro-active front-line service to address the safety of victims at high risk of harm from intimate partners, ex-partners, or family members. To work within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership responses to domestic abuse.
Key elements of the role include:
Providing priority support to male victims of domestic abuse.
Risk assessing and helping to keep male victims safe through safety planning.
Enabling male victims to access statutory and other services.
Engaging with and supporting the MARAC process, to ensure that the voice of male victims is heard.
Managing a caseload of high-risk male victims and working proactively to support them and their families.
You will support male victims to live safely in their homes, and assist with implementation of safety measures, including court orders, security to the home and look at move on accommodation where required.
You will initiate, develop, maintain, and monitor multi-agency links through attending meetings such as MARAC and DA (Domestic Abuse) Forums to keep safety central to all services for men suffering/have suffered domestic abuse. You will specialise and be a leading practitioner for male victims of domestic abuse, providing advice, guidance, and single point of contact for male victims. Be willing to co-facilitate workshops across the service to ensure all clients are given the relevant advice in a timely manner.
You will be confident in your DVPO, DAPO, occupational, restraining, and non-molestation order knowledge. Be competent in completing the following forms- DASH (Domestic abuse, stalking and ‘honour’ based abuse), UPOA (Understanding picture of abuse), RESPECT Toolkit, UPOAP (Understanding picture of a perpetrator) and ISSP (Individual safety support plans).
Do you enjoy a challenge? If yes, then we'd love to to hear from you.
Person Specification
Essential:
You will be able to demonstrate the following key knowledge, skills, behaviours, and experience:
• Hold a Safe Lives IDVA accredited training certificate or be willing to study to obtain one (training will be funded).
• Demonstrable experience of working with and supporting individuals and families who have experienced domestic abuse.
• Have computer literacy skills and experience of working with databases.
• Experience of reporting on project outcomes, milestones and within specified
frameworks.
• Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary and agency partnership liaison.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and advisory skills, both written and verbal when interacting with a range of agencies and individuals.
• Have strong crisis management skills and the ability to deal with stressful and
difficult situations.
• Have theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of civil and criminal justice remedies for victims of domestic abuse and their children.
• Well-developed organisational and administrative skills.
• Understanding of domestic abuse and its effects on children and young people and families.
• Proven ability to work effectively and appropriately with confidential issues.
• Ability to meet deadlines and the ability to prioritise workload whilst under pressure.
• An understanding of equal opportunities and its practical application.
• A proven ability to work as a member of a team.
• A flexible approach to working hours.
• Experience of needs assessment, risk assessment and risk management.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation concerning adults, children, and young people.
• The ability to travel efficiently within and between the project areas of Wolverhampton and the West Midlands region as workload determines.
Desirable
• Degree or equivalent in a relevant field, i.e. social care or health and/or Management qualification.
• Project management qualification.
• Qualification or training in domestic abuse.
• Preventing and Tackling Domestic and Sexual Abuse/Violence qualification.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation within the field of domestic abuse.
• Experience of advocating for vulnerable people.
• Experience of working within the Voluntary /Third sector.
• A willingness to undertake and successfully complete further qualifications as
deemed necessary.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding criteria and referral process.
Application Process:
Please submit your CV alongside a covering letter no more than one A4 page detailing exactly why you would like to join our team to:
Fazia@st-georges-house.org.uk
Please note we may close the application process early should we receive sufficient and suitable applications. Therefore, please submit your application as soon as possible.
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure and satisfactory references.