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About the Role
As a Housing Domestic Abuse Advocate, you will provide intervention, advocacy, and support to survivors of domestic abuse. Working within a fast-paced team, you will help empower women and ensure that the voice of survivors informs every stage of their journey towards improved safety. You will have your own caseload of survivors who hold social tenancies with local authorities or housing associations, and you will encourage them to engage with our service and ensure they have access to support. You will also co-ordinate the provision of multi-agency support which focuses on working with domestic abuse survivors to maintain their tenancies and prevent homelessness.
Responsibilities
- Provide intervention, advocacy, and support to survivors of domestic abuse.
- Empower women and ensure survivor voices inform their journey towards improved safety.
- Manage a caseload of survivors with social tenancies.
- Encourage engagement with the service and ensure access to support.
- Coordinate multi-agency support to help domestic abuse survivors maintain tenancies and prevent homelessness.
Requirements
- Solid experience supporting women who have experienced domestic abuse in all its forms.
- Transferable skills from a relevant sector or a feminist/VAWG degree.
- Keenness to learn and train on the job.
- Good understanding of violence against women and girls, with a focus on domestic abuse dynamics and impact.
- Proven skills and experience in conducting comprehensive needs and risk assessments for survivors.
- Experience in carrying out short risk management and safety planning.
- Experience assessing the needs and safety of children of women using the service.
- Understanding of the criminal justice system and relevant legislation (legal, civil, housing, benefits, matrimonial, children).
- Knowledge of safeguarding practice, procedures, and legislation.
- Good IT literacy.
- Data collection and monitoring skills.
- Experience or training/qualification in substance misuse, criminal justice, law, social work, or domestic abuse is desirable.
- Must be female, as this is a genuine occupational requirement.
- References, right to work in the UK, and enhanced DBS check required.
- Police Vetting required.
Skills
- Intervention
- Advocacy
- Support
- Empowerment
- Caseload management
- Coordination of multi-agency support
- Needs assessment
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- Safety planning
- Child assessment
- IT literacy
- Data collection
- Monitoring
Location
- Hammersmith with travel across London
Work Type
- Permanent
- 35 hours per week
Experience Level
- Experience supporting women who have experienced domestic abuse
- Experience in conducting comprehensive assessments
- Experience in risk management and safety planning
- Experience assessing children's needs and safety
Education Level
- Feminist/VAWG degree (desirable)
Salary/Compensations
- £28,000 - £35,000
Benefits
- 35-hour working week
- 30 days paid holiday per year (pro rata)
- 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)
- One week paid carer's leave
- Organisation wide away days
- Career development pathways
About the Company
- Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998.
- Provides emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse.
- Supports women with short-term sentences to reduce offending.
- Believes in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives.
- A community-based organisation leading in best practice approaches.
- Works in close partnership with other agencies.
- Values include listening and support, empowerment and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
Equal Opportunity
- Under the Equality Act 2010, reasonable adjustments will be made for individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- Committed to providing equality of opportunity.
- Actively seeks to recruit people from groups underrepresented in the current team.
- Policies and processes ensure equal opportunity in recruitment, selection, promotion, training, pay, and benefits.
- Rigorous safer recruitment practices are followed, including pre-employment checks.
- All staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training.