Female Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Worker

Female Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Worker (Internally known as DVA Worker)

Location: SWINDON

Salary: £10,768 + £1,000 R&R allowance (£26,920 + £2,500 FTE)

Permanent, Part Time (16 hours per week)

The first suitable applicant will be appointed.

Please note that, in line with the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a female worker.

PARAGON are a specialist team within The YOU Trust and our mission is ‘together empowering change’ for individuals, families, and our communities. We are committed to ending violence against adults and children, and do this through empowering individual and communities to change.

Essential Requirements:

• Health & Social Care qualification or equivalent to NVQ level 3 or equivalent work level experience

• Experience supporting women, men and children who have been subject to domestic violence and abuse on 1;1 or group work basis

• Car driver with willingness to work across the county and to travel beyond occasionally for meetings and training

• Understanding of domestic violence and abuse issues affecting families

• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding adults and children

The Role:

PARAGON Domestic Abuse Workers are part of a team providing practical and emotional support to individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse. Domestic Abuse Workers work with individuals, parents and others to develop and deliver a range of effective interventions and with partners to ensure a whole family approach, where indicated. This may be via proactive in-reach support to people living in refuge, and outreach, move on and resettlement support, providing a flexible, trauma informed, client centred risk led service. Workers lead on assessments, facilitate drop ins, develop a range of parenting support interventions, lead on and arrange campaigns and awareness raising events and design, develop and facilitate group work in accommodation and community settings.

About You:

• I will be trustworthy in all that I do, acting with integrity and treating people with dignity and respect.

• I will be person centred ensuring the service is designed around what matters to clients and that people are in the centre of the support they receive.

• I will be innovative in my approach and embrace new ways of working to ensure the service is always at the forefront of practice

• I will have the ability to work client focused flexible hours, including evenings, nights as required and weekends and form part of an on call rota which may require night time call out.

• I will be ready to work as part of a team of committed individuals dedicated to making a positive change.

Our Benefits:

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.
• Real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.

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