APA Lead – Children and Young People

Category:Children and Young Persons Worker

Type:Full Time

Location:PAN Hampshire

Contract length:Permanent

Stop Domestic Abuse is a trauma informed organisation, the work we do to support those affected by domestic abuse may be triggering for those with past trauma. Please only apply if you are living free from abuse. If you’d like to talk to us about this, please get in touch.

Main purpose and scope of the job

The Adolescent to Parent Abuse Lead is a key member of the team, working to support children and young people displaying unhealthy and abusive behaviours. The work will focus on preventing and breaking the cycle of domestic abuse by providing one-to-one support and delivering preventative groupwork for children and young people in the community

It is essential that the postholder has a driving licence and access to a car for work purposes as this role covers multiple sites across Hampshire.

• To work collaboratively with children and young people, to identify needs and manage risk in an age-appropriate way.
• To work with children and young people on a one-to-one basis to decrease the frequency and intensity of abusive and/ or violent behaviour.
• To co-ordinate and deliver preventative groupwork to children and young people.
• Challenge the beliefs of young people presenting with abusive and controlling behaviours
• Increase understanding of attitudes towards unhealthy/ healthy behaviours.
• To support children and young people in identifying what is going well/areas they would like to improve within their life, directly relating to APA. Developing co-produced plans to support these goals.
• To work collaboratively with, parents, carers and or guardians, to identify and respond to the risks and needs.
• To identify, respond to and appropriately progress, safeguarding concerns relating to women, parents, children and young people.
• To undertake age-appropriate structured activities with children and young people, designed to promote healing and reduce harmful behaviour.
• To have an understanding of, and continue to develop your knowledge around the impact of adolescent to parent abuse/ violence.

Available Posts:

PAN Hampshire:
Reference Number: STOPDA807
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37 – Monday – Thursday 9:30am – 5:30pm, Friday 9:30 – 5pm

Applying for this post

Please download and complete the job pack, equalities monitoring form and job application form listed at the top of this page.

You can apply by:

• Submitting your application and equal opportunities forms via the online form below
• Emailing your completed application and equal opportunities forms to: humanresources@stopdomesticabuse.uk
• Posting your application and equal opportunities forms to: FAO: Human Resources, Stop Domestic Abuse, PO Box 53, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 1UA

There is no closing date for this post, we will keep the vacancy open until we have successfully appointed to the role. Once your application has been reviewed we will contact you to let you know if you have been shortlisted for an interview.

We particularly welcome applicants from BAMER communities that are currently under-represented in our organisation.

Appointment will be on merit alone.

We will recruit the first suitable applicants, so apply early as we may close applications earlier.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.