Role: Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA)
Based: Hart and Rushmoor – Hybrid (2 days office, 3 days home)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Rate: £27,720.54 (Qualified) or £24,969.60 (Unqualified) per annum
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Permanent
Essential: Full Clean UK Driving Licence and access to your own vehicle
Our client, a well-respected charity, is looking for a dedicated and highly organised Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA) to provide frontline services to victims of domestic abuse. This role involves working within a multi-agency framework to ensure the safety and protection of those at high risk of domestic homicide, empowering victims to make positive choices, and offering tailored support services.
Synopsis of duties:
- Provide a high-quality, proactive service to victims of domestic abuse, focusing on safety and protection.
- Develop and maintain multi-agency links to ensure safety is central to services.
- Work within frameworks such as HRDA, MARAC, and SDVC to support high-risk victims.
- Assess risk and deliver services appropriate to the level of risk, with a premium service for high-risk clients.
- Advocate for victims with statutory and non-statutory services, providing emotional and practical support.
- Manage a caseload, ensuring each client receives individualised support, focusing on safety planning and transitioning to independent living.
- Participate in HRDA meetings on a rota basis.
- Support clients through the Criminal Justice and MARAC systems, explaining procedures, and providing necessary advocacy.
- Empower clients to recognise and address the dynamics of domestic abuse in their situations.
- Develop and promote projects in the community, facilitating support groups and awareness campaigns.
Requirements:
- Proven experience of providing support to vulnerable people, advocating for them, and developing new services.
- Strong understanding of the needs of domestic abuse victims, child protection issues, and the principles of risk assessment and safety planning.
- Knowledge of civil and criminal justice remedies, the benefits system, and housing issues affecting families escaping domestic abuse.
- Ability to build rapport, work constructively with nonviolent parents/guardians, and maintain professional boundaries.
- Strong crisis management skills, ability to work flexibly and manage a caseload.
- Commitment to equal opportunities, user-focused services, and personal development.
- IDVA qualification (CAADA IDVA/Women's Aid DAPA) would be highly desirable, willingness to undertake relevant study is essential.
- Flexibility required to attend events in the evenings and weekends as and when required
- Full Clean UK Driving Licence and access to your own vehicle.
- Enhanced DBS registered on the Update Service would be advantageous.
- This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
For more information, please call the team
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