Independent Domestic Violence Advocate
Domestic Violence | 1 |£16.03 per hour (incl. of Holiday Pay) | 1-2 months | Job Ref: BD9010 | Posted: 02/10/2024
Central is currently recruiting for a female only IDVA Practitioner, to work in the Harrow area. The service supports survivors of domestic abuse, improving the safety of service users and linking them with complementary services.
The successful candidate will be required to work 35 hours per week, working Monday - Friday, 9AM - 5PM. Temporary cover is required for approximately 1-2 months. The pay rate for the role is £13.87 per hour, with £2.16 holiday pay, totalling £16.03 per hour.
Please note; this role involves working 2 days from the office/children's centre in Harrow (Monday's and Wednesday's) and 3 days working from home.
In this position, you will responsible for:
- Holding a caseload of 15-20 and working on a one-to-one basis either face to face or online/telephone platforms with survivors/victims of the Harrow Domestic Abuse service.
- Ensuring there is a consistent delivery of services to the identified victims of domestic abuse, including comprehensive risk assessment, support planning and referrals to multi agency panels including MARAC, MASH and MATAC.
- Undertake assessment of risk and needs to inform the individual victim/survivor's intervention plan
- Embedding the integrated partner support/IDVA role into multi-agency responses to domestic abuse in the area
- Effective understanding and implementation of institutional advocacy by pro-socially challenging partner agencies, acknowledging best practice and striving for change to benefit the individual, the service and the sector
- Develop and maintain effective partnership working with statutory, private and voluntary agencies to address the issue of domestic abuse
- Represent the service at operational multi-agency meetings, feeding back initiatives and outcomes to the team and contribute to the evaluation of the quality of activities these services offer.
- Provide a single point of proactive and regular contact for a range of professionals involved in the case of the victim/survivor
- Comply with children and adult safeguarding ensuring that service users and colleagues understand and comply with the service's safeguarding framework
- Attend MARAC (multi agency risk assessment conference)
To apply for this role, you must have;
- Experience working with vulnerable service users and victims/survivors of domestic abuse as well as experience of mental health and substance misuse
- Excellent understanding of domestic abuse, including the impact on victims and their children, and the legal and practical remedies available
- An understanding of public protection arrangements, the provision of policing, child protection, health and social care, housing support and of multi-agency/partnership working
- An understanding of victim/survivor work including risk assessment, risk management and comprehensive safety planning.
- Experience working with service users with complex needs and/or challenging behaviour and have good conflict and crisis management skills
- Experience working within a public protection/ safeguarding multi-agency setting .e.g. Child protection, vulnerable adults, MARAC, MAPPA
- Understand multi-agency partnerships in relation to domestic abuse
- Experience managing safeguarding issues and procedures and a comprehensive understanding of risk
Please note; this role is female only. Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement - Equality Act 2010.
Candidates must confirm their interest as soon as possible, with interviews scheduled shortly after and the appointed candidate expected to start as soon as possible
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