Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker
Reference: MAY20261421 Expiry date:00:59, Fri, 22nd May 2026Location:LeylandSalary:£26,806.00 - £27,743.00 Per AnnumBenefits:A benefits package focused on work-life balance. 25 days paid leave (FTE) plus bank holidays. Access to Employee Assistance Programme EAP Health Cash Plan via Medicash.Attachments:
At Key Unlocking Futures, we support people across Lancashire to overcome some of life’s most difficult challenges. For more than 30 years, we’ve delivered vital services including homelessness support, domestic abuse services and youth counselling - helping over 7,000 people each year to move forward safely and with confidence.
We’re now looking for a Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker to join our dedicated team in Leyland. This is a rewarding opportunity to support survivors of domestic abuse through trauma-informed, person-centred interventions that genuinely change lives.
As a Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker, you will provide high-quality, survivor-centred support to individuals and families affected by domestic abuse. Working in line with our values of kindness, dignity, empowerment and partnership, you will help people to increase safety, rebuild independence and achieve longer-term stability.
You will:
- Deliver one-to-one and group-based outreach support to people experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse
- Manage a varied caseload, completing risk assessments, safety plans and tailored support plans
- Provide practical and emotional support, ensuring survivors feel heard, respected and empowered
- Work closely with partner agencies including housing, health, safeguarding, children’s services and criminal justice
- Support access to safe accommodation options such as refuge, sanctuary schemes, respite, move-on housing and resettlement
- Contribute to outreach, early intervention and awareness-raising activity within the community
This role combines advocacy, emotional support and practical problem-solving to help survivors move forward with confidence.
- Salary of £26,806 - £27,743 depending on experience
- 25 days annual leave (full-time equivalent) plus bank holidays
- A benefits package that supports work-life balance
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Health Cash Plan through Medicash
- Experience or understanding of working with people affected by domestic abuse and complex needs
- Ability to manage a mixed caseload, including risk, safeguarding and crisis situations
- Knowledge of housing pathways, including refuge, move-on accommodation, independent tenancies and safe return home
- Confidence delivering high-quality casework, including support planning and safety planning
- A compassionate, non-judgemental and inclusive approach to working with survivors
- Strong partnership-working skills with statutory and voluntary agencies
- Ability to build trusting relationships and support people to develop independence and resilience
- Willingness to work flexibly across 1:1 support, group work and community drop-ins
- A passion for raising awareness of domestic abuse and improving access to support
- Full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle for work purposes
If you’re passionate about supporting survivors and want to be part of an organisation that genuinely values its people and its communities, we’d love to hear from you.
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We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from people from underrepresented groups.