Practitioner

RISE Mutual CIC; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community organisation seeks an NVR practitioner to work with families affected by violence and abuse. This role involves delivering sessions utilizing Non Violent Resistance techniques and supporting both parents and children in managing challenging behaviors. Candidates will collaborate with various professionals to ensure children's safety and the effectiveness of interventions.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering non-violent support techniques.
• Skills in managing family dynamics and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for children’s rights and deliver support sessions.
• Collaborate with professionals to ensure child safety.
• Complete assessments and maintain high standards of reporting.

Skills

Motivational interviewing

Trauma informed CBT methods

Non Violent Resistance techniques

Family engagement

Job description

The NVR practitioner will work with the parent/care giver predominantly, other members of the family who are impacted or experiencing the abuse from their sibling or grandchild, and if willing, with the young person causing harm.

RISE specialises in designing and delivering behavioural change and pyscho-educational programmes. We strive for a world where harmful behaviour is marginalised and fewer people are victims of abuse and crime; a world where people can lead safe, purposeful lives as a result of better relationships within families and communities.

Specialist Child To Parent Violence Delivery

• Advocate for the rights of children to be respected, heard and protected.
• Deliver sessions for parents using Non Violent Resistance (NVR) techniques and child and family members, applying a systematic family approach to managing violence and abuse in the home.
• Adhere to the relevant programme manuals for parents as well as for the children and young people.
• Use motivational interviewing techniques and strength based approaches to engage with families.
• Support parents and young people to learn skills and knowledge to deal with behaviour in a non-violenct way, using NVR and trauma informed CBT methods.
• Work closely with other statutory and voluntary professionals to ensure appropriate steps are taken to protect where there is an imminent risk to another person. Apply RISEs escalation procedures.
• Be responsible and accountable for working with Team leader and/or Service Manager and Advanced practitioner to ensure risk is reviewed on a weekly basis.
• Attend monthly risk review and practice development meetings with Team leader or Advanced practitioner to ensure effective risk management procedures are applied at all times.
• Attend training sessions to enhance their delivery and understanding of NVR.
• Be personally accountable for the completion of assessments, pre and post questionnaires, and End of Intervention reports, and ensure they are to a high standard.
• Provide support and consultancy to other professionals to ensure appropriateness of referrals and improve understanding on NVR and CBT techniques and working with families (parents and children and young people.
• Ensure effective planning for the delivery of each intervention in advance of the session.
• Partake and pass all relevant NVR and other child, young people and parent centred training to undertake this specialist work.
• Deliver community training as required.
  
  

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