National Peripatetic Domestic Abuse Workers

Job Description

Role Overview

We are recruiting for National Peripatetic Domestic Abuse Workers who will work at all our refuges, outreach, and advocacy and any other Refuge schemes dependent upon the needs of the services to provide high quality support and safety planning to women and children in crisis, this includes enabling women to access housing, welfare, benefits, and legal advice.

A key requirement is to provide personal welfare support and to ensure that women are provided with a safe, supportive, and welcoming environment in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles.

Job Title: National Peripatetic Domestic Abuse Workers

Location: Nationwide

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services, and we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. For more information on our work, please visit www.refuge.org.uk.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality professional service to survivors of domestic violence.
• Work from any of our national sites.
• Providing cover for services who need additional staff.
• Required to travel including some Monday – Friday overnight stays during your assignments.
• Providing practice and emotional support to men, women, and their children.
• Advocating on their behalf in areas such as welfare, housing, courts, and police.
• Providing emotional support as well as supporting clients to move to safe permanent accommodation.
• Conducting key work sessions and keeping casework records up to date.
• Working within a multi-agency framework to develop referral, joint working and information sharing protocols.

Essential Skills or Experience

• Experience of providing emotional, practical and welfare support.

• Up-to-date knowledge of housing, criminal, civil and welfare rights legislation relating to domestic violence.
• Strong casework management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with a non-judgmental and confidential approach to supporting clients.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to use own initiative.
• Must be able to travel nationwide.
• Ability to work as part of an on-call rota.
• A commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality.

Desirable Skills or Experience

• A recognised social work/housing/legal/ counselling or other relevant qualification.
• Experience in attending court in a professional capacity.
• Experience of identifying and responding to the risks to and needs of survivors of domestic violence and other forms of violence and abuse.
• Experience of working in a residential setting/ refuge.

Benefits

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.

Other information

Closing Date: Monday 02 May 2022 at 09.00 am

Interview Date: Monday 09 May 2022

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

Refuge is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Note: Overnight accommodation and travel will be provided by Refuge where assignment is away from home.