Responsibilities
Interagency work
Work to embed the Case Manager role into multi-agency responses to domestic abuse in the area.
Effective understanding and implementation of institutional advocacy by pro- socially challenging partner agencies, acknowledging best practice and striving for change to benefit the individual, the service and the sector.
Support other professionals in responding to service users in a way that is coterminous with the aims and ethos of the Drive Project.
Working closing with other professionals to ensure that risk management and safeguarding duties are effectively met.
Develop and maintain effective partnership working with statutory, private and voluntary agencies to address the issue of domestic abuse.
Represent the service at operational multi-agency meetings, feeding back initiatives and outcomes to the team and contribute to the evaluation of the quality of activities these services offer.
Provide a single point of proactive and regular contact for a range of professionals involved in the case of the service user.
Be flexible and willing to work in all types of environments.
Case management
Comply with child protection and information sharing policies, ensuring that service users and colleagues understand and comply with the services safeguarding framework.
Manage a case load focusing on high risk perpetrators of domestic abuse to provide an assertive, medium to long term service, based on thorough assessment and individual support planning that adopts the principles of both Support (change) or/and Disrupt (continued offending) concept.
Contribute to regular service reviews which include monitoring data, evaluations, intake and output policy, and practice and work load reviews for the whole service.
Attend monthly case management meeting with the Service Manager .
Attend clinical supervision.
Take appropriate steps to protect where there is an imminent risk to another person.