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Role: Independent Stalking Advisor Caseworker (ISAC)
Based: Waltham Cross /Hybrid
Salary: £25,500 - £27,000 depending on experience
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week -2 days from home and offices around Hertfordshire ( travel from base paid for)
Our client, a well-respected domestic abuse charity is looking to recruit an Independent Stalking Advisor Caseworker (ISAC)
Synopsis of duties:
- Identify and assess the risks and needs of stalking victims using an evidence-based risk identification checklist.
- Focus on and prioritise high-risk cases and provide a pro-active intervention service through individual safety planning and personal support.
- Work with high-risk victims of stalking to help them access services to keep them, their children, and ‘secondary’ victims safe.
- Advocate for victims with agencies who can help to address the stalking by:
- Understanding the role of all relevant statutory and non-statutory services available to you and how your role fits into them.
- Providing advocacy, emotional and practical support, and information to victims concerning legal options, housing, health, and finance.
- Offer guidance to key agency stakeholders to ensure the safety of victims is paramount and safety measures are implemented.
- Manage a caseload ensuring each client receives the appropriate service to their needs
- Support the empowerment of the client and assist them in recognising the features and dynamics of stalking present in their situation, to help them regain control of their lives.
- Understand multi-agency partnership structures and work within a multi-agency setting where possible, supporting effective risk management strategies, while maintaining an independent role on behalf of your client, keeping their safety as central to any response.
- Contribute to monitoring information for the service.
- Working within the organisation’s Case Management system OASIS, ensure your client records are complete, up to date, and contemporaneous cases are regularly reviewed so that caseloads can be managed efficiently and effectively.
- Act in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of all stakeholders.
- Comply with the code of conduct and uphold standards of best practice.
- Support colleagues and partner agencies, through awareness raising and institutional advocacy, in order to provide the best possible service for victims of stalking.
- The role holder will be expected to perform any other duties that may reasonably be asked of them.
Essential requirements:
- Have a good understanding of stalking including the impact of domestic abuse, sexual violence, and gender-based violence on victims/survivors and their children
- Experience of working with vulnerable groups.
- Experience managing a caseload
- Experience in recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns
- Experience working within a multi-agency and legislative framework.
- A fully enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months or on the update service
Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.
