Safety Planner – MASH

Harrow, Middlesex
Hestia Housing and Support
About the Service / Department

Hestia provide domestic abuse accommodation services in West London as well as IDVA, Safety Planning and outreach services based in community settings, police stations and social services. The key aims of our services are to: Improve each client and their children s safety and wellbeing by providing emergency accommodation services. Provide relevant support in accordance with the Safe Lives risk assessment and ISSP (Individual Safety & Support Planning), High, Medium and standard risk. Encourage and promote a Multi-agency approach of working to ensure the needs of the clients are met to a high quality which will include partnership working within all aspects of service provision included when relevant, support planning. With particular focus on MARAC (Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference). Provide a responsive service adaptable to service requirements. All: direct quality case management high risk – co-produce effective safety planning for 100% of clients, coordinating interventions: face to face, digital, phone.

About the role

• Experience of working in partnership with social services in order to provide safety planning advise to service users and Social Workers
• Ability to develop trusting relationships with partner agencies, domestic abuse agencies and service users
• Knowledge of the dynamics and impact of the VAWG abuses
• Up to date knowledge of housing, criminal, civil and welfare rights legislation relating to domestic abuse or other elements of VAWG strands
• To establish the risks to and the needs of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, identifying and prioritising those at the highest risk
• To ensure that support planning is outcome focused and that clients inform
• The type and level of support that they receive
• To support the empowerment of survivors, assisting them to recognise the dynamics of domestic abuse present in their own situation, and to help them regain control of their lives
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues and ability to address them appropriately
• Section 7(2) b & e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975

Please note
If offered a role with Hestia, you will be issued a conditional offer based on satisfactory references and an Enhanced disclosure/DBS check.

Disability confident
Hestia is a disability confident employer, committed to the employment and career development of individual with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role they have applied for. We will also accommodate reasonable adjustment during the selection and interview process and throughout your employment with us.

Hestia positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. But we particularly welcome individuals from an ethnic minority background and those with disabilities to apply. As an organisation, we are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the skills, abilities, talent and experiences, different people and communities bring to our organisation.