DA Caseworker (victim/survivor)
Job title: DA Caseworker (victim/survivor)
Role summary: We are looking for specialist victim/survivor 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.
The role will focus on providing a range of one-to-one and group-based victim/survivor focused interventions to empower individuals to safely make positive change and promote the wellbeing of themselves and their children. Interventions are person-centred and underpinned by Motivational Interviewing principles, and will include safety planning and goal setting, from the perspective of the victim/survivor and child’s needs.
We are looking for candidates who have experience of 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 victim/survivor 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 work interventions underpinned by Motivational Interviewing (MI) to victim/survivors of domestic abuse
• Undertake effective needs and risk assessment of clients
• Manage a caseload of allocated clients, all of whom will be victim/survivors of domestic abuse
• Provide crisis intervention as required and ongoing support to people 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 EBI team and 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.