Domestic Violence Advocate - Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom - RSR Justice

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Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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Domestic Violence Advocate

FTC until 31st March 2024

F/T hours

£ £


Working for one of the largest Domestic Abuse organisations in the UK, you will work pro-actively with women; offering risk assessed, strength based, and needs led support.

You will work alongside each woman, throughout her journey, agreeing individual safety support plans as well as advocating on her behalf to achieve safe and independent living.


Responsibilities & Duties:


  • Working with survivors experiencing domestic violence and abuse
  • Provide high quality casework support to survivors of domestic violence facing housing related issues.
  • You will be providing intervention to work with each woman throughout her journey, managing and prioritising cases effectively.
  • Provide some urgent direct support to women who contact the Housing Department at the point of contact and until the survivor is placed in accommodation but will not provide support beyond this. Support from placement in accommodation onwards will be provided by domestic abuse support services within safe accommodation or communitybased provision.
  • You will have an excellent understanding of domestic violence and abuse and its effects on women and children and of best practice within domestic abuse and housing sectors.
  • You will have excellent knowledge on local authority statutory duty, and how local authorities are required to respond to survivors of domestic abuse.
  • Work with housing service providers and the local authority to introduce the service and encourage practitioners to identify domestic abuse, respond appropriately and refer to the specialist services. This may include being colocated within housing services, offering briefings and information to support and enhance the skills of housing workers and improve their response to domestic abuse
  • Work closely with survivors, carrying out risk and needs assessments to develop and implement a structured individual safety plan, ensuring that all cultural/religious considerations are recognised and accommodated.
  • Coordinate the safety plan and liaise with agencies to ensure the safety plan is robust.
  • Regularly review the DASH and safety plan in line with domestic abuse sector standards.
  • Advocate on behalf of women with external agencies including where appropriate MARAC, courts, housing, children and adult social care, health and other voluntary and community organisations.
  • Attend case review and team meetings and contribute to effective team communication.
  • Work closely with other support workers in the organisation to ensure that service users from marginalised communities have access to the full range of services provided by the Charity.
  • Keep and maintain accurate and confidential records of all work undertaken.
  • Support service users through the legal, criminal or civil justice systems, drafting orders as and when required.
  • Provide practical assistance to clients on safety planning and relevant aspects of independent living, and ensure that they have access to the services that can be provided by other agencies such as housing, health and welfare support.

Requirements:


  • Women's Aid or Safe Lives Level 3 qualification is desirable.
  • A willingness and ability to attend this training and successfully achieve this qualification is essential.
  • Applicants will also need an enhanced DBS is required for this role
  • Full UK driving licence with access to your own vehicle, which is insured for business use and available for use within your role.

If this role is not for you but you do know somebody who would be interested, please feel free to refer them to us We have a "Refer A Friend" bonus scheme and we will reward you retail vouchers for any referrals who are not already known to us and are successfully placed
Red Snapper Justice is a member of the Red Snapper Group.

The Red Snapper Recruitment Group is an equal opportunities employer.
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