Safety Worker - London, United Kingdom - tower Hamlets

tower Hamlets

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Safety Worker - Children's Services:

Positive Change Service - the domestic abuse intervention service for LBTH children's social care - is seeking a 3 day pw, male, Sylheti speaking safety worker to work with fathers to address their use of domestic abuse.
Positive Change Service deliver psycho-educational interventions with perpetrators, survivors and children impacted by domestic abuse.

We are a creative, supportive and motivated team, working for systems change alongside personal change, to improve the lives of families in Tower Hamlets.

Positive Change Service delivers psycho-educational interventions with perpetrators, survivors and children impacted by domestic abuse.

We are a creative, supportive and motivated team, working for systems change alongside personal change, to improve the lives of families in Tower Hamlets.

The service is part of the Children's Social Care, MASH and Assessment & Intervention Service. We are currently looking for staff who are experienced in working with perpetrators, survivors and their children impacted on domestic abuse.

Positive Change Service are seeking Safety Workers for both the perpetrator, survivors and children's work.

The role of Safety Worker includes direct client work (leading on both group and individual work) and liaising with other stakeholders such as referrers.

Some, but not all, of our Safety Workers will be required to deliver interventions in Sylheti as well as English to meet the needs of the local community.

Our usual work with clients runs for around 6 months to a year. The work may involve a combination of assessment, groupwork, individual work and even co-parenting work between (ex)-partners. All of the work is aimed at increasing the safety of children and adult survivors of domestic abuse.

We are self-reflective team, providing a strong level of clinical supervision, training and development. You will be supported to develop your skills and expected to be open to ongoing learning. You will be delivering structured and specialist interventions using a broad range of therapeutic approaches.

Positive Change Service deliver psycho-educational interventions with perpetrators, survivors and children impacted by domestic abuse.

We are a creative, supportive and motivated team, working for systems change alongside personal change, to improve the lives of families in Tower Hamlets.

Our offer:

We will support you to develop a specialism in psychoeducational approaches to DVA
We will provide you with opportunities for support, selfreflection, and learning
We offer a competitive salary
Grade i
Up to 31 days annual leave rising to 32 days with 5 years continual service and 8 bank holidays
A manageable and diverse caseload
The chance to work long term with clients so that you can really make a difference in their lives

Additional Details

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough.

We want people who aspire to our TOWER values:
Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups.

We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

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