DRIVE Case Manager - Maidenhead

DRIVE Case Manager - 35 hours a week - Hybrid Opportunity!

We are seeking a dedicated DRIVE Case Manager to join our team. In this role, you will deliver the Drive DVA programme and interventions, working one-on-one with high-risk perpetrators identified at MARAC and through the Thames Valley Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Panel (DAPP).

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively engage and influence attitudinal and behavioural change in perpetrators.
• Design and implement individual intervention plans in collaboration with existing agencies.
• Work closely with IDVAs to review risk, develop safety plans, and improve outcomes.
• Deliver long-term behaviour change outcomes (3-12 months per service user).

Essential Experience:

• Direct work with vulnerable service users.
• Public protection/safeguarding multi-agency setting experience.
• Safeguarding issue management.
• Writing and presenting information for diverse audiences.
• Working within legislative frameworks and promoting partnership working.
• Conflict management continuum experience.
• Reliable and timely reporting.

Desirable Experience:

• Work with victims/perpetrators of domestic abuse.
• Experience with service users with complex needs or challenging behaviour.
• Working with diagnosed mental health issues/substance misuse.
• Working with young people aged 16-25.
• Pro-social modeling and motivational interviewing.

Abilities and Attributes:

• Confidence in decision-making.
• Collaborative team player with initiative.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Belief in perpetrator behaviour change.
• Comprehensive understanding of risk.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Capacity to manage raw emotions, conflict, challenge, and trauma.

Liaison and Partnership:

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Strong relationship management in multi-agency work.
• IT skills, including Microsoft Office.
• Relevant degree, vocational qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Strong advisory, negotiation, and persuasive skills.
• Empathy and excellent conflict and crisis management skills.

Knowledge:

• Excellent understanding of domestic abuse and its impact.
• Familiarity with legal and practical remedies.
• Understanding of public protection arrangements and multi-agency working.
• Knowledge of effective ways of engaging with perpetrators.
• Thorough understanding of IDVA work, including risk assessment and safety planning.
• Theoretical and procedural knowledge of services in the response to domestic abuse.
• Understanding of Marac process at an operational level.
• Knowledge of the child protection system.

If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of those affected by domestic abuse, we invite you to apply. Join us and contribute to achieving positive outcomes in the community.

Please note, you will need to be a car driver for this role!

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