Health IDVA / DA Practitioner

TipTopJob; Exeter; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

North Devon Against Domestic Abuse Exeter Health IDVA (HIDVA) will work with the Devon Domestic Abuse Alliance to ensure effective access to services for victims of domestic abuse across Devon. The role involves multi-agency collaboration and training delivery.

They will assist health services, provide advocacy, safety planning, and coordinate with partners to keep high-risk victims and their children safe within the MARAC framework.

Qualifications

• At least two years experience as a practitioner supporting people with safeguarding knowledge and risk assessments.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and mental health issues.
• Excellent understanding of active listening and the ability to understand the needs of others.
• Trauma-informed working training.

Responsibilities

• Risk assessing and regularly reviewing risk assessments.
• Explain housing, financial, civil, and criminal legal options to clients.
• Undertaking safety planning and developing individual care plans.
• Providing advocacy, emotional and practical support to victims.
• Creating a team around the person approach and coordinating with DDAA.

Skills

Active listening

Risk assessment

Advocacy

Multi-agency collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Good standard of education

IDVA/ISVA qualification

Job description

Location: Exeter

Salary : A GBP 25,964 : A GBP 28,104 depending on experience

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term for 3 years (37 hours per week, Monday : Friday)

North Devon Against Domestic Abuse is committed to equity and diversity and strongly encourages applicants with a disability, from ethnically diverse backgrounds and the LGBT community, as these groups are currently under:represented in our organisation.

The Exeter Health IDVA (HIDVA) will work alongside the DDAA (Devon Domestic Abuse Alliance), ensuring effective access to services for victims of domestic abuse across Devon County. The HIDVA will work in partnership with the second HIDVA (North) and Specialist Suicide Prevention IDVAs in Devon. This role involves multi:agency working and service flexibility to encourage engagement with the service.

They will assist health services to respond more effectively to domestic abuse, including primary, community, specialist and acute services. The work will include training and presentations, sometimes in partnership with stakeholders, so requires creativity and initiative.

Main Duties

• Risk assessing and regularly reviewing the risk assessment, delivering service in keeping with the result.
• Explaining housing, financial, civil, and criminal legal options to clients and empowering them to make their own choices.
• Undertaking safety planning with clients (both crisis and long:term) and developing individual care plans to meet their identified risks and needs.
• Providing advocacy, emotional and practical support and information to victims including in relation to legal options, housing, health and finance.
• Creating a team around the person approach, linking in support from other elements within DDAA and the wider system, with the clients voice at the centre.
• Managing a caseload and maintaining up:to:date records on an electronic case management system.
• Engaging with supervision; clinical and line management, in order to help process vicarious trauma, reflect on practice and identify any support or training needs.
• Working harmoniously with other team members, member organisations within DDAA and the wider system.
• Refer non:high:risk cases into the wider NDADA service after initial assessment
• Work with high:risk victims of domestic abuse to help them access services to keep them and their children safe.
• Advocate for high:risk victims with agencies who can help to address the domestic abuse by understanding the role of all relevant statutory and non:statutory services available to domestic abuse victims and how your role fits into them
• Working directly with all key agency partners to address the safety of high risk victims and ensuring that their safety plans are coordinated particularly through the MARAC.

Please note, this is a brief list of the jobs responsibilities. Duties may change over time without altering their general nature or responsibility level. Such changes dont warrant a re:evaluation of the posts grading.

Essential

Knowledge and Qualifications:

• At least two years experience as a practitioner supporting people in a role which requires extensive safeguarding knowledge and risk assessments. Or IDVA/ISVA Qualification
• A good standard of education
• Knowledge of safeguarding
• Excellent understanding of active listening and the ability to understand the needs of others.
• Knowledge and understanding of mental health issues
• Trauma informed working training

Desirable

• IDVA/ISVA Qualification in addition to 2 years experience.
• Degree level qualification
• Level 2+ Safeguarding training
• Level 2+ counselling qualification or therapy qualification.
• Mental Health First Aid training
• Trauma stabilisation training or PATH Training

General

• Full driving license, with access to a car for full working hours, enabled for business use.
• Clear boundaries and a willingness to accept line management and make effect