Domestic Abuse Specialist — Family Court & FDAC Program

Women; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

BSWA in Birmingham is seeking a Domestic Abuse Specialist to join the Family Drug and Alcohol Court as part of the Intervention Team. You will bring expertise on domestic violence into multi-agency plans, focused on the safety and wellbeing of women and children affected by abuse.

The role involves assessment and support, caseload management, facilitating group work, preparing high-quality reports, and contributing to service development. 37 hours per week with some out-of-hours work.

Responsibilities

• To be an active member of multi professional network meetings, in order to generate and share multi-agency intervention plans for each family, prioritising the children’s needs and safety.
• To provide specialist assessment and support to women and children experiencing domestic abuse and involved in the FDAC
• To hold a caseload of families who are part of the FDAC and work with them to secure positive engagement, providing interventions to support families to make required and sustainable changes
• To facilitate group work programmes for women engaged in the FDAC process
• To maintain a high standard of records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies as required and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved
• To promote children, young people and women’s participation in all aspects of service delivery and development
• To work effectively with partners from a range of children and adults’ services in order to meet needs and improve outcomes for children, young people and their families who are in need of additional support
• To produce comprehensive and timely court reports on families that are of a high quality as appropriate and to attend court as necessary.
• To be trained in drug and alcohol testing and employ this with parents.
• To keep up to date with current legislative changes for dissemination within the staff team and for use when working with women and children around their rights
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through participation in research, service evaluation and audit

Job description

BSWA in Birmingham is seeking a Domestic Abuse Specialist to join the Family Drug and Alcohol Court as part of the Intervention Team. You will bring expertise on domestic violence into multi-agency plans, focused on the safety and wellbeing of women and children affected by abuse.

The role involves assessment and support, caseload management, facilitating group work, preparing high-quality reports, and contributing to service development. 37 hours per week with some out-of-hours work.