Domestic Abuse Support Officer – HALTED

We are currently recruiting for a Domestic Abuse Support Officer in Greater Manchester.

Pay rate: £13.08 – £15.41 per hour.

Hours:  Monday to Friday – office hours (37 hours per week)

Location: Hybrid working – across community venues in Stockport and in the office in Stretford

Contract duration: Temporary ongoing

Purpose:

• Provide comprehensive, bespoke, person-centred support to people experiencing domestic abuse, facilitating improved well-being, resilience, and independence.
• Undertake safety focused support work with the partners and ex-partners of clients who attend prevention programmes. To take a role in the ongoing development of this service within the borough of Stockport.
• The service aims to reduce the harm caused by domestic abuse by providing a range of support, across the life course, spanning the spectrum of need and risk. At the heart of all work is the absolute focus of increasing safety for victims, moving them from a place of crisis to a place of safety – while holding perpetrators to account for their behaviour. The partnership will work with each individual in a way that addresses underlying and long-term issues, builds self-esteem, personal resilience, and wellbeing with the aim of ending abuse for those subjected to it and those responsible for it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with victims of abuse to assist in managing the demand on the service ensuring that victims of abuse are supported at the earliest opportunity.
• Conduct initial assessments with victims, focusing on risk assessment and risk management working towards a reduction in the harm caused to the people we are supporting.
• Conduct face-to-face or telephone appointments which will include safety planning sessions, jointly devising, and setting goals based on support needs and providing advice and signposting as appropriate.
• Attend risk review meetings with colleagues delivering behaviour change interventions to partners or ex-partners to ensure work is coordinated with the safety of the victim always the priority.
• Use digital case management systems to record information from client meetings, contact with professionals, case specific supervision, multi-agency working agreements and reviews of risk and need.
• Ensure individual key performance indicators are met and contribute to the delivery of service key performance indicators.
• Provide high quality reporting as requested by Service Manager to demonstrate the impact of the role through data and case studies.
• Advocate on behalf of clients within multi-agency meetings, including Child Protection meetings and professionals’ meetings.
• Support clients to apply for Court Orders where necessary and where appropriate, support them to attend Court for both civil and criminal proceedings.
• Attend weekly triage meetings to engage in case discussion and support service demand management.
• Attend clinical and practice supervision.
• Undertake other duties as reasonably requested.

Apply online or contact Lucia De Felice on 07425 757587. You can also email lucia@peelsolutions.co.uk for more information on this role.