Health Advocate - Dorchester

The YOU Trust; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Travel time paid

Enhanced annual leave

Pension contributions

Sick pay

Training opportunities

Employee assistance program

Equipment provided

Staff discounts

Job summary

The YOU Trust is seeking a Health Advocate in Dorchester and surrounding areas to join the PARAGON team. This permanent, full-time role focuses on improving referral pathways for victims of domestic violence and abuse, delivering high-quality advocacy, and coordinating with health colleagues and local partners to provide comprehensive support packages.

Applicants should have a relevant qualification or equivalent experience, be able to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends, and be

Qualifications

• Qualification or equivalent to Diploma/Degree/NVQ4 or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting women, men and children affected by domestic violence and abuse.
• Experience with multi-agency working and person-centred service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Share knowledge with health colleagues to improve referral processes.
• Carry a caseload of victims of domestic violence and abuse.
• Engage with local partners to ensure co-produced support packages.

Skills

Domestic violence awareness

Multi-agency collaboration

Flexible hours

Education

Diploma/Degree/NVQ4 or equivalent

Job description

Health Advocate

Location: Dorchester and surrounding areas

Salary:£34,332

Permanent, Full Time

The first suitable applicant will be appointed.

PARAGON are a specialist team within The YOU Trust and our mission is ‘together empowering change’ for individuals, families, and our communities. We are committed to ending violence against adults and children, and do this through empowering individual and communities to change.

Essential Requirements:

• Relevant qualification or equivalent to Diploma/Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent work level experience
• Experience of supporting women, men and children who have been subject to domestic violence and abuse
• Experience of effective multi-agency and partnership working, person-centred service delivery and enabling client involvement
• Knowledge of local, regional and national domestic violence and abuse agencies Ability to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, when planned and required
• Ability to work flexibility and deliver a 24/7 on call service with others, if required
• Ability to work across the geographical location of the project and travel for training and meeting purposes
• Car driver with use of car for work purposes

The Role:

The role of the DVA Health Advocate is to work closely with health colleagues to share knowledge and skills and improve their referral processes into existing commissioned services, which will lead to increased referrals. The DVA Health Advocate will carry a caseload and work directly with victims of domestic violence and abuse, receiving referrals across all risk categories with a focus on medium and high risk, utilising existing services and referral pathways for standard risk clients. DVA Health Advocates work from the point of crisis to provide high quality advocacy and support and engaging with local partners ensuring each person has a co-produced support package.

About You:

• You will be trustworthy in all that you do and act with integrity, treating people with dignity and respect.
• You will have a can-do approach asking how you can achieve things rather than whether we can.
• You will work as part of a team
• You will be warm friendly and approachable to clients and internal and external colleagues.

Our Benefits:

• * 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.
• * Real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• * Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• * Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• * Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.

Please note we do not offer sponsorship for this role.