ADViSE Advocate Educator

As a dedicated and skilled Advocate Educator you will work alongside a dedicated clinical lead, working closely with staff at the sexual health clinic, delivering training and promoting the service and generating referrals into service. You will also support victim/survivors of domestic and or sexual abuse, identified and referred in, being their mentor and coach. You will assess and manage risk and co-produce personalized action plans to aid victim-survivors recovery, improving their situation and challenges they face.

You will deal with new referrals, complete assessments and co-ordinate interventions working with victim-survivors to identify the most appropriate course of action. You will deliver face to face and telephone/ video call support and support delivery of group interventions.

You will have experience of working and supporting people with multiple and complex needs including domestic abuse. You will need to be highly organised, self-motivated, engaging, supportive and be confident in using case management systems. You will also be confident and experienced in delivering training to professionals.

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 35,000 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality; low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

About the department:

Jigsaw Support brings together our support services from across the Jigsaw Group. We work with communities, families and individuals across the Northwest of England.

We provide:

• Homeless Prevention and Supported Accommodation



• Community Outreach and prevention



• Property Management


We operate across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and the Liverpool City Region.

Our services are as diverse as the needs of the people we support and include homelessness support, domestic abuse support, employment services, supported housing and agency managed properties.

We work with a number of Local Authorities including Tameside MBC, Wigan Council, Lancashire County Council, and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

About the service:

The ADViSE Programme is a project within Jigsaw support, which sits with the wider commissioned Domestic Abuse and IRIS projects.

ADViSE was commissioned in Tameside in 2021 as part of a pilot programme in Greater Manchester.

The ADViSE (Assessing for Domestic Violence and Abuse in Sexual Health Environments) programme supports sexual health clinicians to identify and respond to patients affected by domestic violence and abuse (DVA) and provides them with a simple referral pathway to specialist services.

ADViSE has grown from a successful, evidence-based programme in general practice which responded to female patients affected by domestic violence and abuse, IRIS (Identification and Referral to Improve Safety). Whilst the positive impact of IRIS was rapidly expanding, it was recognised that there were some diverse and harder to reach patient groups who may not come into contact with general practice or other primary care services.

ADViSE adapts the IRIS programme for use in sexual health clinics to support sexual health staff to recognise the signs and symptoms of patients affected by DVA, ask them whether they are affected, give a validating response and then offer and make referrals to specialist services in line with British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) DVA guidance.

££32,309.68 Per Annum
35 flexible hours per week, Monday - Friday.
Fixed term Fixed Term until 31/03/25, with the possibility of extension subject to funding., Would you like to work for a company who is accredited as an outstanding company to work for in Best Companies 2023?

Jigsaw Homes Group offers employees a very competitive 27 days holiday per annum, including 3 days for Christmas closure (5 day working week) plus bank holidays plus additional days after 2 years continuous service (to a maximum of 5 days).

We offer our employees the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra leave per year and we offer compressed hours of work with the option to work a 4 day working week in a number of our roles, with 50% of your time working from home upon completion of a satisfactory probation period. This allows for a great work/life balance for many employees.

As a Jigsaw employee you will also receive Incremental salaried pay, occupational sick pay, access to the Social Housing Pension Scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, Simply Health membership, access to on-site gyms and training/development opportunities.

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