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About the Role
Advance Charity is seeking two Peripatetic Independent Domestic Violence Advocates (IDVAs) to support various domestic abuse services across London. This role offers the opportunity to gain diverse experience within a supportive team, providing frontline support and ensuring consistent service delivery. The position is ideal for individuals passionate about advocating for victim/survivors of domestic abuse and comfortable working in fast-paced environments across different teams and roles.
Responsibilities
- Provide frontline support across Advance’s domestic abuse services.
- Cover vacancies across teams to ensure service delivery remains effective and consistent.
- Undertake advocacy and support for individuals experiencing domestic abuse.
- Co-locate with partner agencies.
- Deliver training.
- Undertake triage and assessment work.
- Provide clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles.
Requirements
- Excellent understanding of domestic violence and its effects on women and children.
- Knowledge of best practice within domestic abuse services in various areas of need.
- Particular knowledge of safeguarding and legislation.
- Experience working with complex and multiple needs.
- Skilled in risk management and safety planning.
- Ability to remain calm in a crisis.
- Ability to handle sensitive information on a daily basis.
- Experience of direct work with female survivors of domestic violence.
- Experience supporting women with child safeguarding and needs.
- Experience working within safeguarding procedures.
- Need to adopt and promote a strong partnership approach to service provision.
- Must submit an up-to-date CV with a supporting statement.
- Must apply via the job advert on the Advance careers page.
- Must include a cover letter.
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
- References.
- Confirmation of the right to work in the UK.
Skills
- Advocacy
- Risk management
- Safety planning
- Crisis management
- Handling sensitive information
- Partnership working
- Safeguarding
- Triage
- Assessment
Location
- Various locations across London
- Hammersmith
Work Type
- Permanent
- 35 hours
- Hybrid working (1-2 days per week working from home depending on placement)
Experience Level
- Dependent on experience
- Experienced domestic violence advocate
Education Level
- IDVA qualification (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- £28,000 - £35,000 per annum
Benefits
- 30 days paid holiday per year (pro rata for part time), PLUS public holidays
- Additional days off for International Women’s Day, religious observance and moving home
- Perkbox - employee discount platform
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee eye-care scheme
- Clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles
- Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 for each referral who passes probation
- Organisation wide away days
- Thorough induction and training
- Career development pathways
About the Company
- Advance delivers nationally accredited, high quality domestic abuse services across London.
- Advance's domestic abuse services are community based and include local authority commissioned advocacy services, co-located projects in a range of settings such as housing and children’s social care, and specialist projects for victim/survivors with different intersecting needs including children and young people.
- Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm.
- Advance believes all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe.
- Advance has a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures and practice guidance.
- Advance follows rigorous safer recruitment practices.
Equal Opportunity
- This post is open to female applicants only as this is deemed a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
- Under the Equality Act 2010, we are required to make any reasonable adjustments.
- We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team.
- We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.