Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner
25 days ago
Stoke-on-Trent
Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner Salary: £28,598.62 a year Location: Staffordshire Moorlands Hours per week: 37.5 Contract type: Permanent As a Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner, you’ll support adults and families living in our client’s safe accommodation services. You’ll deliver focused and tailored one-to-one support to help them live a life free from abuse. What you’ll do: • Process customer referrals, identify risk and support needs, and deliver tailored practical, emotional and advocacy support., • Line manage staff and contribute to a safe, flexible, and high-quality support service., • Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners, attending meetings (e.g. MARAC/CYP) and advocating for customers., • Support customers with housing, benefits, tenancy responsibilities, and progression towards independence., • Assist with service delivery, including rota management, on-call support, reporting, and meeting targets/funding requirements. Who you are: • A good level of education such as GCSE English and maths, or equivalent., • Experience delivering support to customers, recognising their individual needs, making sure they have access to opportunities, all while meeting set deadlines., • Experience supporting adults with complex needs such as relationship abuse and mental health., • Experience of supporting a team, completing appraisals and check-ins., • Knowledge of housing and health and safety requirements in a safe accommodation setting., • An understanding of domestic abuse, including the impact on those affected by it and the legal and practical remedies available to them., • The ability to work well under pressure and in complex situations., • Good written and verbal communication skills., • A full UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle for work. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check. Apply now! They may close this vacancy early if they receive a high volume of applications. #DomesticAbuse #RelationshipAbuse #Staffordshire #JobsThatGiveBack #SeniorDomesticAbusePractitioner #GreatBenefits