Family Safeguarding DA Worker
Location: Mendip, Somerset
Salary: £29,047 per year
Contract Type: Permanent and Full-Time (40 Hours)
The first suitable applicant will be appointed.
YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.
Essential Requirements:
The successful Family Safeguarding Domestic Abuse worker will have:

• Have a full UK drivers licence
• Have 1 years experience in safeguarding adults or children
• Be female

The Role:
The overall purpose of this role is to work with families, where there is an ongoing history of domestic abuse to achieve their goals and improve outcomes for families.
The skilled and experienced post holder will be dual located, primarily working as part of a multi-agency team (Family Safeguarding Team - FST) sat within social care with agreed time located within the local DA team.
The post holder will be responsible for engaging the whole family, to complete needs led assessments, to design and deliver agreed interventions to safeguard adults and children and to broker additional support, where indicated.
The post holder will be confident in their knowledge and responsible for raising awareness of and supporting others in the FST to understand the dynamics of domestic abuse and its impact on individuals and their children.
About You:

• You will be experienced, skilled and enthusiastic.
• You will be used to working in a fast-paced environment.
• You will be passionate about working with people experiencing domestic abuse
• You will work alongside our clients as an equal partner and give advice and guidance at a level matching the person’s skills and strengths.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team sharing best practice to achieve better outcomes for families.
• Developing positive working relationships with the local community and support agencies to create a network of support for your clients will be central to the work you do.

YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.
Our Benefits
If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes and real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.
• Online 24/7 access to your personal rota.

How to Apply
If you think you have the skills to provide this service, we can’t wait to hear from you! Please click ‘Apply’ to forward your details on to us; please be sure to include your name, email address, contact telephone number. We will then contact you directly to discuss the role and ask you a few key questions to make sure that this is the right position for you.
If you are successful during this initial screening, you will be invited to an assessment and interview, the date of which will be agreed at this point. Please note; we will select the first suitable applicants for interview and assessment, so don’t delay, apply today!
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £29,047.00 per year
Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Application question(s):

• All applicants need to have competent IT skills and knowledge of client databases

Experience:

• safeguarding adults or children: 1 year (required)
• working with victims of domestic abuse: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 02177/DAWorker/SIDAS