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Domestic Abuse Practitioner
Salary: £23,223 a year
Location: Stoke on Trent
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract type: Permanent
As a specialist Domestic Abuse Practitioner, you’ll support individuals and families within our client’s safe accommodation services. You’ll provide a tailored, person-centred support package to help customers achieve their goals and live a life free from abuse.
Job requirements
- Work with customers to identify their individual support needs and provide a tailored support package. This includes housing, health, wellbeing, finances and safety.
- Process customer referrals, including assessments of risk and support needs, to manage allocation of void properties.
- Work as part of a multi-agency response to meet the identified needs of customers. This might include providing reports for, or attending, meetings (e.g. MARAC).
- Advocate for customers so that agencies understand and meet their needs.
- Support the customer to engage with both internal and external agencies to access services and help develop skills so they can achieve their goals.
What they’re looking for
- Have a genuine understanding of people in abusive relationships.
- Be up to date with current issues and laws within the domestic abuse sector, welfare reform and homelessness.
- Have experience delivering support to customers, recognising individual needs and identifying opportunities while meeting deadlines.
- Have good ICT, communication and time management skills.
- Have experience handling personal data in line with GDPR.
- Have a full UK driving license and use of own vehicle for work.
- Basic DBS Check required.
Be a catalyst for change and help them impact the way their region addresses abusive relationships. Apply now! - Please note, they will be interviewing as they go along, so the vacancy may close early if they find the right person.
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