DRIVE CASE MANAGER

Position: Drive Case Manager

Hours: 37.5 Hours a week

Salary: £35,100 for 37.5 hours per an.

Location: Llanelli, Ceredigion or Powys (OFFICE BASED) - NO HOME WORKING DUE TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ROLE

THE ROLE IS CURRENTLY FUNDED UNTIL APRIL 2027 BUT IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE AFTER THIS DATE.

Travel: You will be required to travel extensively throughout Dyfed Powys Police area including Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys.

The Case Manager will strive to work on a one-to-one basis with perpetrators who have been identified as high risk to pro-actively secure engagement, influence attitudinal and behavioural change and connect with complementary services. To do this, the Case Manager will work with local agencies to design a co-ordinated, strategic individual intervention plan to address identified needs and risks and promote understanding of the impact of abusive behaviours. Throughout the intervention the Case Manager will work closely with the local IDVA service to review risk, develop safety plans and improve outcomes for all parties involved.

The Case Manager will be responsible for delivering outcomes, working typically for up to 12 months to achieve behaviour change with each Service User.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Summary of Key Roles and Responsibilities:

The Case Manager will strive to work on a one-to-one basis with perpetrators of domestic abuse who have been identified as high risk to pro-actively secure engagement, influence attitudinal and behavioural change and connect with complementary services. To do this, the Case Manager will work with local agencies (including Dyfed Powys Police services) to design a co-ordinated, strategic individual intervention plan to address identified needs and risks and promote understanding of the impact of abusive behaviours. Throughout the intervention the Case Manager will work closely with the local IDVA service to review risk, develop safety plans and improve outcomes for all parties involved.

The Case Manager will be responsible for delivering specific outcomes online with the needs of the DRIVE programme, working typically for up to 12 months to achieve behaviour change with each Service User engaged.

Direct work with High Risk Service Users

• Maintain a proactive response to Service Users, continuously providing positive options for behaviour change throughout the Service Users’ time in the Drive project.
• Use combinations of motivational work, relationship building and a broad range of therapeutic skills to engage Service Users to address their abusive behaviour.
• Motivate and support Service Users to address the broad range of needs that may contribute to the risk that they pose to others or act as a barrier for them to address that risk. e.g. housing, substance use etc.
• Work to Develop strategies in conjunction with other linked agencies that will disrupt the continued risk of abuse posed by Service Users.
• Ensure that Service Users understand that the community and Drive project will hold them accountable for continued abusive behaviour towards others.
• Ensure that there is a consistent delivery of services to the identified perpetrators of domestic abuse, including comprehensive risk assessment, support planning, referrals to other agencies such as Maracs and MATACs.
• Undertake a continual approach to the assessment of risk the assigned service user poses, their needs required to support positive change and their attitudes to inform individual Service User intervention plans.
• Respect and value the diversity of the community in which the service works in, providing a service that recognises the diverse needs of Service Users and their families.
• Consider the welfare and safety of children and young people in every aspect of your work, addressing parenting needs where appropriate and taking action to safeguard children.
• Develop and maintain effective partnership working with statutory, private and voluntary agencies to address the issue of domestic abuse.
• Work to embed the Case Manager role into multi-agency responses to domestic abuse in the area.
• Work closely with the DRIVE service manager and other professionals to ensure that risk management and safeguarding duties are effectively met.
• Provide a single point of proactive and regular contact for a range of professionals involved in the monitoring of the case and of the Service User.
• Support other professionals in responding to Service Users in a way that is coterminous with the aims and ethos of the Drive Project.
• Work closely with the IDVA’s supporting the partners, ex-partners and new partners, and family members of Service Users in management of risk and developing intervention plans, as set out in the Drive Manual.

FURTHER INFO

For an information pack please see our web site www.Threshold-das.org.uk

Hours : 37.5 hours per week at a salary of £35,100 pa.

Main Location: Threshold-DAS offices, Llanelli Carmarthenshire

Please apply in the first instant by emailing your CV

When required by the CEO, to be available to travel to any venue within Carmarthenshire or any of the Dyfed Powys Police areas as required for the need of programmes promotion and advertisement.

MUST HOLD A FULL DRIVING LICENCE AND HAVE ACCESS TO A CAR

Pay: £35,100.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

• working with those exxperiencing domestic abuse : 1 year (required)
• working with perpetrators : 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 100% (required)

Work Location: In person