DA Caseworker (perpetrators)

Job title: DA Caseworker (perpetrators)

Role summary: We are looking for specialist perpetrator DA Caseworkers to support our exciting domestic abuse team based within Children’s Social Care. Elmore’s domestic abuse service aims to provide a safe space for victim/survivors and perpetrators of abuse. We work with people to recognise, acknowledge, and change harmful and controlling behaviour, to keep whole families safe.

Our perpetrator caseworkers provide structured interventions by delivery of peer group and one to one support for abusive parents, aimed at increasing families’ safety and wellbeing. We aim to challenge and address attitudes and beliefs that support and underpin abusive behaviours. Our perpetrator caseworkers deliver our Programme for Creating Change; a 16-week group programme underpinned by group work and peer-to-peer learning, which focuses on building understanding and skill development in communication skills, respect, conflict resolution, and accountability.

We are looking for candidates who have experience of challenging and empowering individuals to make positive changes to their lives and supporting clients with complex needs in a relevant field (preferably domestic abuse). Successful candidates will need to be compassionate, non-judgemental, skilled in active listening, and experienced in risk management and safety planning, as well as being a skilled communicator able to develop partnership relationships in a multi-disciplinary team.

Job location: OXFORD

Pay Rate: £28840.28 – £32459.00 FTE

Is pay pro rata: Yes

Applications close on: 29th January

Hours: Full time or part time

Contract is: Permanent

Job description: 

Provide a high-quality support service to clients:
• To enable parents to recognise and understand power and coercive control dynamics and patterns of abuse and support them to make future positive choices within children’s timescales where possible
• To ensure the non-judgemental delivery of a range of one-to-one and group interventions underpinned by Motivational

Interviewing (MI) to perpetrators of domestic abuse
• Undertake effective needs and risk assessment of clients
• Manage a caseload of allocated clients, all of whom will be perpetrators of domestic abuse
• Provide crisis intervention as required and ongoing support to families experiencing domestic abuse, while safeguarding individuals (including children) as necessary
• Contribute to multi agency meetings regarding clients (for example, child protection conferences, MARAC and MATAC meetings, professional and strategy meetings)
• Ensure that our services are accessible to all
• Continue your professional development by actively participating in regular supervision sessions/annual appraisals and completing relevant training as agreed by your line manager

Contribute to the high performance of the wider team within the FSP project:
• To work as part of a team, develop relationships and collaborate with all colleagues and partners within the multi-agency framework
• To report to the Team Manager to ensure accountability in the role and appropriate safeguarding procedures are in place for clients
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, communicating openly and attending professional forums and team meetings as required
• Develop a wide knowledge of external multi-agency services to facilitate and support access
• Maintain clear and accurate records of work with families on databases & systems
• To complete relevant monitoring to fulfil contractual needs and to inform ongoing risk assessment and planning
• Work within policies and procedures including Health and Safety, GDPR, and Confidentiality regulations

To apply: Full and part time roles across the county are available for this role. Please contact us to discuss further (Mandy@elmore.org.uk). Please apply by visiting our website here for more information or sending an up-to-date CV and cover letter. We advise you to address the specific points of the person specification within your application. It is very important that you use examples to say why you meet each criteria. Please also complete the equal opportunities form. This is optional but is very helpful, as it enables us to ensure our recruitment process is fair and is not inadvertently discriminating against any particular groups. The form will not be shared with the selection panel or used during the recruitment process.

We look forward to hearing from you.