Child to Parent Abuse Practitioner
Posting date: | 10 September 2025 |
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Salary: | £12.50 to £13.50 per hour |
Hours: | Part time |
Closing date: | 10 October 2025 |
Location: | Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
Company: | PEGS |
Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
This role is available working from home in England or Wales, the team meets up once a month in Shrewsbury.
Job Description:
We are seeking a dedicated Child to Parent Abuse (CPA) Practitioner to provide specialist support to parental figures experiencing child-to-parent abuse. The successful candidate will have experience working with vulnerable individuals, delivering interventions, and facilitating workshops. Note that we do not work with children.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing a personal caseload, working 1:1 with parental figures to provide tailored support, this will include on the telephone, video calls, texting, emailing and where outreach is applicable, in person.
- Developing and working through support plans with parents, ensuring safety and risk management are prioritised.
- Completing relevant documents, providing emotional support, and offering advocacy in meetings and written communications.
- Facilitating practitioner-led sessions as part of a rota, this will include evening sessions
- Delivering workshops and structured programmes for parents this may at times include evening sessions
- Maintaining accurate records and ensuring all casework is up to date.
- Managing a personal diary and associated administrative tasks.
- Attending practitioner meetings, supervision sessions, and team meetings regularly.
- Collating monthly reports, outcomes, and impact data.
- Engaging in continuous professional development and implementing training learnings into practice.
- Representing PEGS at external meetings and events where appropriate.
- Supporting the triage process during busy periods.
- Any other reasonable task
Job Specification:
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- A person-centred trauma informed approach, with experience supporting vulnerable individuals.
- Ability to deliver and develop workshops and training programmes or be willing to learn
- Proficiency in record-keeping, report writing, and administration.
- Excellent computer skills, including managing case records and reports.
- Experience in advocacy and supporting individuals in meetings.
- Ability to work independently and manage a caseload effectively.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Experience working within domestic abuse, safeguarding, or support services.
- Knowledge of child-to-parent abuse and barriers associated for parental figures experiencing child-to-parent abuse
- Experience in triage and risk assessment.
- Understanding of data collection and impact reporting.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to parental figures experiencing child-to-parent abuse. If you have the skills and passion for this role, we look forward to hearing from you.
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