No more applications are being accepted for this job

Domestic Abuse Children's Support Worker - Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom - RSR Justice

RSR Justice

Verified Company

Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Domestic Abuse Children's Support Worker

Permanent

P/T 18.5 Hours

£ £ pro rata for p/t hours)

A Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) young people's specialist, you will work pro-actively with children and teens, who have experienced DVA offering risk assessed, strength based, and needs led support.

You will work alongside each child/young person ensuring an age appropriate response and liaising closely with the mother/carer/non-abusive parent and as well as nursery/school and other appropriate agencies, to meet a range of needs.

To work as part of a team providing first-response to callers experiencing domestic violence and abuse

24 hour 7 days a week 356 days a year. You will be required to covering all shifts including on call overnight from home on a rota basis.

Responsibilities & Duties:

Provide high quality casework support to children and teen survivors of DVA who are living in accommodation services
Carry a varied caseload, working with each survivor, managing and prioritising cases effectively to support the child/young person to transition to life without DVA.
Work with the whole family (where appropriate) to agree risk and needs assessments and develop and implement personal safety plans
Carry out risk assessments with the child/young person including the Teen DASH RIC and refer to the MARAC where an assessment is high risk
Advocate on behalf of the child/young person to other agencies and/or support survivors to selfadvocate, linking those to appropriate agencies and communitybased support.
Plan and provide creative sessions which include understanding Domestic Abuse and address the health and emotional wellbeing of the child/young person
Plan, create and deliver therapeutic group work programmes for children and their mothers working closely with internal services and external agencies to ensure safety and wellbeing of attendees
Support the women accommodated within client's accommodation services to meet the needs of their children, offering information and practical support including parenting, addressing challenging behaviour from their children, registering with appropriate agencies including nurseries/ schools and attendance at meetings.
Attend case review and team meetings and contribute to effective team communication.
Keep and maintain accurate and confidential records of all work undertaken.
Contribute to the collection of service outcomes and use clear and coherent targets and monitoring systems to provide reports with evidence that survivor's outcomes have been met
Ensure effective implementation of the client's Equality and Diversity policies and awareness and integration of an equalities and human rights agenda in all your work
Contribute to Survivor feedback and voice in service delivery and service development.
Ensure service standards are maintained and all policies and procedures complied with.
Ensure the service is delivered in line with the service SLA and contract

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.