DRIVE Case Manager (Oxfordshire)

Role:               Perpetrator Programme Facilitator

Based:            Oxfordshire

Rate of Pay:    £27,000 – 29,000pa

Start Date:      ASAP – Jan/ Feb 2025

Duration:        Permanent

Hours:             35 hours/ Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm/4.30pm

Hybrid:            1 day in the office/ 4 days home based with regular travel across the County

Supporting Futures are recruiting on behalf of an inspirational national charity who have over 50 years’ experience supporting people to rebuild their lives and empowering positive change.

They have excellent training and development programmes and actively work to develop and promote their staff.

They are looking for a Perpetrator Support Practitioner to work with high risk/ high harm perpetrators of domestic abuse through targeted and intensive 121 work.

The services forms part of an innovative national project that aims to improve the lives and safety of victims and children, by holding high-risk perpetrators to account. The project combines case management of perpetrators with a co-ordinated multi-agency response.

Synopsis of duties:

• Working on a one-to-one basis with perpetrators whose victims have been identified as high risk at MARAC/ high harm perpetrators at the Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Panel (DAPP)
• Carrying out intensive and targeted support which promoted attitudinal and behavioural change
• Supporting clients with additional practical needs which may impact on their behaviour including substance misuse, mental health, finance, housing etc
• Making referrals and linking clients to complementary services
• Working closely with existing 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
• Working closely with the IDVA service to review risk, develop safety plans and improve outcomes for all parties involved
• Responsible over the long term for delivering outcomes, working typically for between 3 and 12 months to achieve behaviour change with each service user

Extensive training will be provided which may include the opportunity to gain accreditation for working with perpetrators of DVA.

The role will involve extensive travel across Oxfordshire to meet with clients and professionals and the successful candidate will need a driving license and access to a car.

What they are looking for:

• Candidates who are passionate and committed to working within a multi-disciplinary team and will have a demonstrable track record of working with complex need service users
• Experience within the field of domestic abuse, and/or mental health, substance misuse and offending (this can include Mental Health/ Substance Misuse Services, Prison, Probation, YOT, Care Leavers, Supported Housing/ Hostel and/ or Social Services)
• An understanding of domestic abuse and it’s impact
• The successful candidate will need to have driving license and access to a car and will need to have a DBS on the update service/ issued within the last 12 months

For more information, please call the team on (phone number removed) and ask to speak to Ria or email your CV at (url removed)

Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.