Independent Domestic Violence Advisor Jobs in Staffordshire

Drive Partnership Practice Advisor

Location: Homebased

Travel Requirements: You will be required to travel throughout England and Wales, to sites when the role requires it

Responsible to: Program Project Manager/Deputy Director

Responsible for: Triage teams

Salary: Point 42-45 £44,637- 47,667 (a London Allowance will be applied to employees who live in London, plus 6% employers pension subject to an additional 2% contribution by the employee).

We are pleased to offer a starting salary at the beginning point of the salary band. This position offers opportunities for salary increases based on performance and tenure.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 5 days per week with flexible working hours and provision of an out-of-hours response to the Drive Director as needed. We will consider requests for 4 days per week.

Job type: Fixed term

Benefits:

· 25 to 30 days holidays per annum plus bank holidays (depending on length of service and pro-rata for part-time employees)

· Contributory pension scheme including up to 6% employer contribution (subject to employee minimum 2% contribution)

· Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay

· Occupational sick pay of up to 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay over 12 months per year (depending on length of service and pro-rata for part-time employees)

· Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Closing date: This is a rolling recruitment until recruited all the posts we need.

Interviews to take place: Online

About the role:

Working as a key member of the practice team, the Practice Advisor’s role is primarily to support and work alongside sites in the delivery of interventions from the three core strands of our work, to ensure they are delivering high quality interventions in line with the Drive Partnerships model and Respect standards. Tasks include training, quality assuring cases, and supporting and in some cases supervising the service managers and/or team leads in the continued development of their teams. It also includes being a key member of local forums and working with other members of the Drive Central team, local commissioners and local Drive partners, who are often Police Staff, local authorities and local voluntary sector provider, to think about the long-term development and sustainability of the projects.

The Practice Advisor supports new areas and services to mobilise and then works closely with them to ensure they are operating with fidelity to the model and to establish excellent practice. They will also be required to work with the key multi agency partners such as Police, IDVA and social care that are essential in making the project work.

The Drive Partnership is always trying to learn from delivery, and it is important that the Practice Advisor is able to identify themes that emerge across the sites they are supporting. Practice Advisors, alongside the different delivery strands managers, the deputy director and other members of the Drive Central Team look at ways to take these themes forward, continuously developing the models to ensure what is being delivered is best practice and compliments other strands of work such as national policy and systems change.

The Practice Advisors generally support multiple sites at once so need to be able to multitask and build effective communication across teams both internally and externally.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be part of a creative team, where each team member is encouraged to keep learning.  We aim to continuously development our work with perpetrators, keeping victims and children safe, not only within Drive Partnership sites but also through developing resources for the sector, such as online webinars for practitioners.

About you:

The candidate should have the following skills and experience:

· An excellent understanding of the IDVA and MARAC process and best practice when working with high-risk victims of domestic abuse.

· Experience of working with those with related/complex needs, for example substance misuse issues, mental health, offending history.

· Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and the ability to communicate effectively with different audiences.

· The ability to manage a complex workload, across multiple geographic regions, and effectively meet reporting deadlines and the needs of a wide range of stakeholders.

· Belief in the propensity for perpetrators to change their behaviour.

· A demonstrable commitment to improving responses to domestic abuse across all agencies working in the sector.

· Proactive, self-motivated and self-reflective, with a positive response to challenging situations and the ability to make effective use of support and supervision.

About Respect

Respect is a pioneering UK membership organisation in the domestic abuse sector.  Founded in 2000, we have built our expertise over the last 23 years in what was then a fledgling sector and recently have seen significant and rapid growth.

How to apply

Please visit our website for full job description and person specification, where you can find and complete the application form and equalities monitoring form.

Successful applicants must reside in the United Kingdom.

We would particularly welcome applications from people from a wide range of backgrounds and across all protected characteristics[1], particularly people from the following under-represented groups on our staff team:

· Black and minoritised people

· Deaf and disabled people