Domestic Abuse Crisis Advisor
Title: Domestic Abuse Crisis Advisor
Area: Safe in Salford IDVA Team
Reporting to: SIS Adult Service Manager
All paid members of staff are accountable to the CEO, and ultimately the Trustees of TDAS
Place of work: Salford
Hours of Work: 30 hours per week
Salary/scale: Starting £24,204.22 (£29,851.88 FTE)
Benefits:
A generous package including 34 days holiday per year inclusive of bank holidays (FTE), extra holidays, for long service, Employee pension scheme with employer contribution (after 3 months of employment), Cycle2work Scheme, Life assurance benefit, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme
Closing Date: 10am Tuesday 19th May
Date of Interview: Thursday 21st and/or Friday 22nd May
This post is subject to DBS disclosure scheme
Background
Trafford Domestic Abuse Services (TDAS) is a Quality accredited, registered charity offering support to individuals and families who are affected by domestic abuse since 1990. We support families who live/work in the Trafford area and also provide IDVA and Children and Young People (CYP) support services in Salford. We provide both intervention and prevention services and work in partnership with other voluntary organisations to support families across Greater Manchester.
TDAS Values
Innovative: introduce new ideas, are creative and foreword thinking.
Collaborative: work in partnership with key stakeholders to enable people to achieve a defined & common purpose
Openness: create an open culture, provide transparent reporting, good fundraising and governance.
Person centred: provide coordinated, personalized and enabling services to everyone
Empowering: empower our service users to become stronger, more confident, being aware of their rights and privileges and live a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
Purpose of the role
To play an integral and active part in the Safe in Salford community IDVA team. The purpose of the role is to work in partnership with the police, providing intervention and support to victims who have received police intervention on more than one occasion, who are presenting some high-risk factors but not meeting the MARAC threshold. Helping to support Repeat victims of Domestic Abuse and reduce repeat victimisation. The Domestic abuse crisis worker will act as key point of contact between the Safe in Salford team, the police and the victim/survivor. They would provide short term face to face intervention offering immediate risk assessments and crisis interventions and onward referral to further support from Safe in Salford or other support services appropriate to meet the needs identified. They will have full overview of the service offer providing a person centred, trauma informed intervention; aimed at encouraging engagement with specialist services and improving the criminal justice journey.
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Application Criteria and Process
Minimum of 12 months experience of working with adults identified as high risk in a domestic abuse setting.
Experience of working with adults in a crisis situation, demonstrating strong crisis management skills and ability to cope under pressure.
Knowledge and understanding of the effects of domestic abuse on adults, children and young people and relevant legislation.
In depth understanding of safeguarding adults and Child protection.
Equality issues and marginalisation of various groups and communities.
The roles and responsibilities of statutory organisations in relation to DA.
Working knowledge of all relevant Policy and Procedures e.g. risk assessment, support planning and delivery of person-centred services, Health & Safety requirements.
(9) Knowledge of appropriate assessments related to supporting adults.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS.
Applicants with minimum qualifications and experience will only be considered. Please do not send CVs, as they will not be processed.
No agencies please.
For further information please contact sophia.ibrahim@tdas.org.uk Tel: 0161 872 7368. An application pack is available to download from www.tdas.org.uk
We explicitly encourage those with diverse characteristics to apply as we believe that having an inclusive and diverse team leads to better decision making by bringing challenge and perspectives from all of society.
We want to make sure the recruitment process in this search is as accessible for you as possible and can offer adjustments due to difference, condition or disability doing our best to accommodate any adjustments that you may need.