Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker
| Posting date: | 06 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £26,025.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 26025 - 26025 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | Leyland, PR25 2TF |
| Company: | Vacancy Filler |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | FEB20263468 |
Summary
Job Title: Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker Salary: £26,025 (3% increase in April 2026)Location: Leyland Contract: Permanent Hours: 36.5 hours per week Grade: Spot Operations Manager at Key Unlocking Futures KEY At Key Unlocking Futures, we are dedicated to supporting individuals in Lancashire to overcome life's toughest challenges and achieve their potential. For over 30 years, we have provided critical services, including homelessness support, domestic abuse services, and youth counselling, helping over 7,000 people annually. We offer both preventative and crisis intervention services to empower people to rebuild their lives. Joining our team means becoming part of a compassionate and impactful organisation, where every day is an opportunity to make a lasting difference. If you want to help change lives and contribute to a brighter future, we would love to hear from you. Your Role as a Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker for Key: The Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker plays a vital role in delivering high-quality, trauma-informed support to individuals and families affected by domestic abuse. Working in line with the organisation’s values and demonstrating them through every aspect of your practice, you will embody our commitment to kindness, dignity, empowerment, and partnership working. In this role, you will provide specialist one-to-one and group-based support to people experiencing, or at risk of, domestic abuse, ensuring each person receives a holistic, survivor-centred service that promotes safety, resilience, and long-term wellbeing. Under the guidance of the Team Leader/Service Manager, you will manage a varied caseload, complete risk assessments, develop personalised safety plans, and work proactively to reduce harm and prevent crisis. You will work collaboratively with a wide range of statutory and voluntary partners-including housing, health, children’s services, adult safeguarding, and criminal justice agencies to ensure individuals can access the right support at the right time. You will also contribute to community outreach, early intervention work, and awareness-raising activities to ensure support is accessible to those who may face barriers in seeking help. This is a rewarding, impactful role that combines practical assistance, advocacy, and emotional support, enabling survivors to rebuild independence, regain confidence, and move forward with their lives. What You Will Bring: An understanding and ability to manage pathways and barriers for people accessing accommodation within the community, including refuge, move-on or safe house accommodation, independent tenancies, or safely returning to their own homes. Ability to manage a mixed caseload, ensuring all needs are fully assessed, including safeguarding concerns, risk and crisis management, and multiple needs such as mental health, alcohol use, and substance misuse. The desire to promote safe integration within local communities, supporting people to set up and sustain tenancies, and achieve positive outcomes related to recovery, health, finances, education, employment, and life-skills development. Able to provide practical and emotional support to people experiencing domestic abuse, ensuring survivors feel valued, heard, and supported through a fair, inclusive, and non-judgemental approach. Skills to deliver high-quality casework, including support planning and safety planning, for individuals in crisis or requiring safe housing. Willingness to liaise effectively with external organisations-including local authority housing teams, statutory services, and voluntary agencies-to ensure survivors can access suitable safe housing options such as sanctuary schemes, respite, refuge spaces, move-on accommodation, and resettlement support. Ability to build trusting relationships with survivors, helping them gain confidence, maximise independence, define personal goals, and engage with appropriate outreach services. An approach to work sensitively with survivors through 1:1 sessions, group work, and community drop-ins. A passion to raise awareness of domestic abuse through strong partnership working and community engagement.Full UK Driver License and use of your own vehicle for work purposes. What We Offer: A competitive starting salary of £26,025 in recognition of your skill and dedication. (3% increase in April 2026)A benefits package focused on work-life balance.25 days paid leave (FTE) plus bank holidays. Access to Employee Assistance Programme EAPHealth Cash Plan via Medicash. Be Part of Our Next Chapter: As we honour our past and look forward to the future, we invite you to bring your talents to Key Unlocking Futures. Apply now to join us in continuing to make a significant impact in the lives of many. Application Closing Date: 23rd February 2026 Interview Date: 5th March 2026 (provisional date) Key is part of Progress Housing Group. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply and particularly encourage applications from people in underrepresented groups.