Domestic Abuse Office
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £32.04 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Swindon, Wiltshire |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Nations Recruitment |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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Job title: Domestic Abuse Office
Job Category: Social Care Non-Qualified
Job location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JG, Swindon Borough Council
Hours per week: 8
Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £32.04 per hour
You are required to be a qualified probation officer for this role.
Job description
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
To provide high quality assessment and interventions to the highest risk families as part of the Family Safeguarding Team within a context of ensuring the personal safety of those involved. This includes working with perpetrators of domestic violence and supporting victims.
MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
Service Users:
• Work with other professionals within the Family Safeguarding Team, to develop and deliver services to perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse in a timely manner.
• Assess and contribute to the management of risk of harm to ensure the safety of family members including the development of a written safety plan.
• Plan, supervise, enforce and review the behaviours and levels of risk of perpetrators of domestic abuse by working as part of a multi-agency team to match levels of resources to assessed risk.
• Work with the perpetrator and the family to assess and manage risk of further harm ensuring that the perpetrator accepts responsibility for their actions and is working to change their behaviour.
• Work closely with professionals in the Family Safeguarding Team, the police, probation service, mental health service MARACS and MAPPA to ensure that increases in risk of harm are escalated rapidly and a multi-agency plan is in place.
• Contact prisoners and contribute domestic violence and safeguarding plans as part of sentence planning, to reduce the risk of re–offending; contribute to recall
• decisions in consultation with the probation offender manager and SPO for prisoners in breach of licence, attend appeal hearings if required.
• Undertake home visits as required as part of risk assessment and management.
• Establish a “Thinking Skills” Group to deliver cognitive behavioural therapy for appropriately assessed perpetrators, evaluate and report on the impact of this group, drawing in other professionals as required.
Qualifications and
Probation officer relevant qualification
Knowledge
Working effectively with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence with
Knowledge and/or
demonstrable outcomes.
Experience of:
Representing organisations in formal settings with a range of stakeholders to advocate for victims of domestic violence with confidence, authority and credibility to achieve positive outcomes for them.
Building positive and respectful working relationships with a range of stakeholders and service users.
Having undertaken good quality and appropriate risk assessments of victims of domestic violence which respond to their specific needs and protect them and their families from harm.
Working with service users either individually or in groups who may present with difficult and challenging problems.
Knowledge and applied
Knowledge of the risk assessment and management dynamics and impact of domestic
understanding of:
violence and how best to support victims.
CBT based approaches.
Motivational Interviewing.
Personality disorders and how they may affect risk.
Up to date knowledge of housing, criminal, civil and welfare rights legislation relating to domestic violence.
Job Category: Social Care Non-Qualified
Job location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JG, Swindon Borough Council
Hours per week: 8
Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £32.04 per hour
You are required to be a qualified probation officer for this role.
Job description
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
To provide high quality assessment and interventions to the highest risk families as part of the Family Safeguarding Team within a context of ensuring the personal safety of those involved. This includes working with perpetrators of domestic violence and supporting victims.
MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
Service Users:
• Work with other professionals within the Family Safeguarding Team, to develop and deliver services to perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse in a timely manner.
• Assess and contribute to the management of risk of harm to ensure the safety of family members including the development of a written safety plan.
• Plan, supervise, enforce and review the behaviours and levels of risk of perpetrators of domestic abuse by working as part of a multi-agency team to match levels of resources to assessed risk.
• Work with the perpetrator and the family to assess and manage risk of further harm ensuring that the perpetrator accepts responsibility for their actions and is working to change their behaviour.
• Work closely with professionals in the Family Safeguarding Team, the police, probation service, mental health service MARACS and MAPPA to ensure that increases in risk of harm are escalated rapidly and a multi-agency plan is in place.
• Contact prisoners and contribute domestic violence and safeguarding plans as part of sentence planning, to reduce the risk of re–offending; contribute to recall
• decisions in consultation with the probation offender manager and SPO for prisoners in breach of licence, attend appeal hearings if required.
• Undertake home visits as required as part of risk assessment and management.
• Establish a “Thinking Skills” Group to deliver cognitive behavioural therapy for appropriately assessed perpetrators, evaluate and report on the impact of this group, drawing in other professionals as required.
Qualifications and
Probation officer relevant qualification
Knowledge
Working effectively with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence with
Knowledge and/or
demonstrable outcomes.
Experience of:
Representing organisations in formal settings with a range of stakeholders to advocate for victims of domestic violence with confidence, authority and credibility to achieve positive outcomes for them.
Building positive and respectful working relationships with a range of stakeholders and service users.
Having undertaken good quality and appropriate risk assessments of victims of domestic violence which respond to their specific needs and protect them and their families from harm.
Working with service users either individually or in groups who may present with difficult and challenging problems.
Knowledge and applied
Knowledge of the risk assessment and management dynamics and impact of domestic
understanding of:
violence and how best to support victims.
CBT based approaches.
Motivational Interviewing.
Personality disorders and how they may affect risk.
Up to date knowledge of housing, criminal, civil and welfare rights legislation relating to domestic violence.