Children's Domestic Abuse Group Co-ordinator

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Job description

Children's Domestic Abuse Group Co-ordinator

Salary: £42,840 - £46,041 per annum

Contract: Fixed-term Contract/Secondment until 31 st March 2026.

Hours: 36 Hours per week.

Job Reference: R

About us at Hounslow

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these on our website.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team as a Children's Domestic Abuse Group Co-Ordinator.

In this unique role, you will primarily co-ordinate and deliver a range of group work programmes for children and young people aged 5-18 years affected by domestic abuse.

This role includes developing and reviewing programmes designed to support children and young people using best practice and therapeutic principles and theories.

Part of the role will also be to establish positive, proactive, and innovative working relationships with services providing training and advise on the safeguarding of children and young people.

About the Team You'll Be Working In

As the Children's Domestic Group Co-Ordinator, you will be joining the Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team. This service exists to end the harm perpetrated through domestic abuse. Our aim is to prevent abuse as well as provide services to meet the individual needs of survivors and their children.

The Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team sits within the Community Safety Team which is responsible for providing life-saving frontline services, co-ordinating work across different disciplines, strengthening partnership and collaborative work, implementing innovative projects, and ensuring Hounslow Council fulfils its statutory duties to make Hounslow safer for everyone.

The Domestic and Sexual Abuse Team are a team of Independent Domestic and Sexual Violence Advisors, Parent and Child Domestic Abuse Workers and a Domestic Abuse Programme team who are dedicated to developing and facilitating groups addressing Violence Against Women and Girls in Hounslow borough. You will work alongside these workers jointly promoting the service and delivering training sessions to partners.

You will receive the full support from an experienced line manager and can expect a variety of development and training opportunities. You will also have access to external clinical supervision and peer support meetings.

If you are passionate about ending domestic abuse, believe in prevention, intervention and safeguarding, this could be a great opportunity for you to help keep Hounslow residents safe.

About You

Do you have the drive, enthusiasm, and initiative to deliver a range of age-appropriate support programmes to children and young people who have been affected by domestic abuse. Would you like to design programmes to achieve positive outcomes and safety for children and young people of domestic abuse?

You will:

1. Manage referrals, conduct risk assessments, and record case notes of children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
2. Have a thorough understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people, including how to use legislation and best practice to safeguard them.
3. Provide groups sessions face to face to children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
4. Have substantial experience of working with a broad range of diversity issues including barriers to accessing services.
5. Have proven working experience of delivering a support service to children and young people and an interest in co-ordinating the delivery of groups to achieve better outcomes.

If the points below resonate with you, we'd love you to put in an application:

• Dedicated to ending domestic abuse and keeping families safe.
• Have a can-do attitude.
• Have the passion and drive to help children and young people gain confidence and feel empowered.
• Enjoy working as part of a team.
• Enhanced DBS check is required.

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile.

Optional statement recommended for entry level posts - Don't meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can't tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist. So, if you can do most of what we're looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held and Who to Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email:

Telephone:

Closing Date: 6 th October 2024.

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 14th October 2024.

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