Domestic Abuse Support Worker

Domestic Abuse Support Worker Location: Brighton and Hove Refuge Salary: £26,208 per annum Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week) Brighton Women s Refuge is a safe haven for women and their children, fleeing domestic abuse. As a Domestic Abuse Support Worker, you ll manage a caseload of customers who have complex needs, through their journey with Stonewater s supported housing service, ensuring a strengths based, trauma informed approach that enables them to realise their potential. You ll work closely with key partners, delivering quality, outcome focused coaching support sessions in one-to-one and group settings, providing both emotional and practical support. This will include sessions on keeping safe, healthy relationships, substance use, mental health and wellbeing, finance and budget management, and employment skills. You ll ensure that our customers are supported to stay safe and are aware of their rights to legal protection for themselves whilst identifying and signposting customers to any other services that they may benefit from that is available from partner agencies. The ideal candidate will: Have proven experience of working with people who have multiple complex needs and/or domestic abuse. Have experience of completing CAADA DASH risk assessments and carrying out robust safety planning. Have an understanding of the practical, emotional, economic and social issues of those experiencing domestic abuse, particularly those who have complex needs. ..... full job details .....