DOMESTIC ABUSE WORKER | 8590 | PERMANENT CONTRACT | 18.5 HOURS PER WEEK | £31,537 TO £33,699 PER ANNUM PRO RATA | GRADE G | NORWICH & SOUTH LOCALITIES BASED AT COUNTY HALL, NORWICH

Do you want to help support Norfolk’s most vulnerable families?
Are you passionate about providing children and their families with the guidance and support they need to live within the community and thrive within the family home?
We are looking to recruit a dedicated resilient Practitioner to join our Family Help team with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.
As a Domestic Abuse Worker, you will undertake specialist support to families and individuals experiencing domestic abuse, working alongside Social Workers and Family Practitioners to promote safety and well-being and prevent escalation of need. You will embrace Norfolk Vital Signs for children as an approach that underpins your work with children and families.
You will contribute to multi agency working and provide specialist knowledge in the field of domestic violence to ensure positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
You should have a minimum of three years’ experience of working directly with children and families.
You will be confident delivering interventions one-to-one with families or on a group basis, have experience of face-to-face work with victims and/or perpetrators of domestic abuse and their families, understand domestic abuse including the impact on victims and their families and understand the principles of risk assessment, safety planning and risk management for victims of domestic abuse and their children.
With an NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, you will also undertake Signs of Safety, Restorative Practice and Solihull training. You will have relevant experience of providing services for children, young people and their families, and a thorough understanding of child development from birth to 19 including factors which impede overall development.
In order to support families when they most need it, Domestic Abuse Workers are contracted to work 37 hours per week, from Monday to Sunday. You will be required - on occasion - to work outside of normal office working hours, including evenings, mornings and weekends.
You will be required to travel as part of your duties and you may be required, at short notice, to transport young people between a variety of rural and urban locations.
This is a great opportunity to join an innovative service providing the best possible support to parents and families to ensure children thrive in their care.
The interview process will consist of a competency-based interview. If this is successful, a further safe care interview (known as a Warner interview) will follow.
Please ensure when submitting your covering letter, you evidence fully how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of the role.
If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Team Manager, Victoria Youngs on victoria.youngs@norfolk.gov.uk or email donna.mills@norfolk.gov.uk
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
• ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
• A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
• Relocation expenses (where applicable)
• An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

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