High-Risk Domestic Abuse Case Practitioner

Hull City Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

LGPS pension

Leave entitlement 23 days + public hol

Career development

Supportive culture

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Hull City Council is seeking a DRIVE Case Practitioner for a Full Time, Fixed Term 3-year role. You will work with high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse, delivering tailored risk management and intervention plans within a multi-agency framework to enhance victim safety and child welfare.

You will conduct risk assessments, develop engagement strategies, and collaborate with police, probation and other services to drive behavioural change and ensure accountability throughout the programme.

Qualifications

• Experience in working with domestic abuse, safeguarding, criminal justice or vulnerable individuals.
• Knowledge of coercive control, risk and perpetrator behaviour.
• Skilled in engaging hard-to-reach or resistant individuals.
• Able to manage a complex caseload and competing priorities.
• Confident working within a multi-agency partnership environment.
• Committed and enthusiastic about these areas of work.

Responsibilities

• Work intensively with high-risk perpetrators to reduce risk and work towards achieving transformational behaviour change.
• Carry out risk assessments, risk management plans and engagement strategies.
• Develop and deliver individual intervention plans.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-agency environment (police, probation, social care, Domestic abuse services).
• Liaise closely with the integrated victim services to ensure victim safety remains central.
• Maintain accurate case records and contribute to monitoring and evaluation of outcomes.
• Attend and contribute to meetings such as MARAC, MATAC, DRIVE PANEL and other safeguarding arrangements.
• Promote a trauma-informed, strengths-based and accountable practice approach.

Skills

Domestic abuse experience

Safeguarding

Coercive control knowledge

Engagement strategies

Multi-agency collaboration

Caseload management

Commitment and enthusiasm

Job description

Hull City Council is seeking a DRIVE Case Practitioner for a Full Time, Fixed Term 3-year role. You will work with high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse, delivering tailored risk management and intervention plans within a multi-agency framework to enhance victim safety and child welfare.

You will conduct risk assessments, develop engagement strategies, and collaborate with police, probation and other services to drive behavioural change and ensure accountability throughout the programme.