The overall purpose of this role is to work with families, where there is an ongoing history of domestic abuse to achieve their goals and improve outcomes for families.
Location:
Bridgwater, Somerset
Date Posted:
Salary:
£29,919pa for 40 hours per week
Closing Date:
The successful Family Safeguarding Domestic Abuse worker will have:
- A full UK driving licence
- 1 years experience in safeguarding adults or children
- Be female
The overall purpose of this role is to work with families, where there is an ongoing history of domestic abuse to achieve their goals and improve outcomes for families.
The skilled and experienced post holder will be dual located, primarily working as part of a multi-agency team (Family Safeguarding Team - FST) sat within social care with agreed time located within the local DA team.
The post holder will be responsible for engaging the whole family, to complete needs led assessments, to design and deliver agreed interventions to safeguard adults and children and to broker additional support, where indicated.
The post holder will be confident in their knowledge and responsible for raising awareness of and supporting others in the FST to understand the dynamics of domestic abuse and its impact on individuals and their children.
- You will be experienced, skilled and enthusiastic.
- You will be used to working in a fast-paced environment.
- You will be passionate about working with victims/survivors of domestic abuse.
- You will work alongside our clients as an equal partner and give advice and guidance at a level matching the person’s skills and strengths.
- Developing positive working relationships with the local community and support agencies to create a network of support for your clients will be central to the work you do.
- This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
- You 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
If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:
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