Community Empowerment Practitioner

This is a floating support service with the main office base being at our Liverpool DA Services. The hours of support are Monday - Friday 37.5 hours and with the requirement including bank holidays and may include occasional weekends., The post holder will provide floating support to women and men and their dependent children fleeing or at risk of domestic violence.

YMCA Safe Lives will support clients experiencing medium risk Domestic Abuse, as identified though MERiT Assessment, and will offer a targeted 5-week programme of enablement and empowerment, using the Recovery Toolkit as our platform to help ensure that people who have experienced Domestic Abuse understand their options and are empowered to make positive choices to shape their future. Our project aims to help people experiencing Domestic Abuse to recognise the signs of abuse and provide them with the resources and knowledge to access further support to reduce escalation of abuse, to get safe and stay safe.

Our vision for the Services is one that breathes hope and ambition and promotes choice and independence. The support service we deliver will be psychologically informed and underpinned by two approaches, cognitive analytical therapy (CAT) and trauma informed care.

The post holder will ensure that the services operate in a Psychologically Informed Environment and will maintain high levels of support, recording and reporting and professionalism at all times. The post holder will provide trauma informed care, help and support to ensure that women and children are empowered to lead independent lives., The Empowerment Practitioners (EP) will be skilled in delivering a range of interventions to adults, children and young people to build strength, enhance resilience and encourage progress. The post holder will be responsible for managing a floating case load of households and will have the primary role of providing and co-ordinating support interventions and multi-agency activity.

YMCA Together is a registered charity and company Limited by Guarantee. We were founded in 1846 and so we build on a long history of providing a place for people experiencing challenging times in their lives. YMCA Together is a truly value driven organisation. Our vision is that everyone should feel safe, understood, empowered and positive for their future. We meet our vision by working within our values of Strength, Humility, Respect, Empathy and Kindness. These SHREK values run through all that we do from recruitment to how we work alongside people in our services to our partnership approach with other providers. Our clear vision and values come together to help us in our mission to inspire and support people to change their lives by instilling hope, valuing the person and maximising potential.

YMCA Together have been developing our Psychologically Informed Services for over 8 years. We have been using Cognitive Analytical Therapy as a framework for supporting those people who use our services, the staff team and the organisation. Following significant growth, we now wish to recruit someone to work with us to continue to reflect on and grow and develop how we use CAT across the organisation. We use CAT both as a case management tool with service users, teams and the organisation and as a direct intervention in our rehabilitation service. We require someone to work alongside us to facilitate a number of supervision sessions and facilitate training both internally and externally.

£27,111.08 p/a

33 days annual leave including bank holidays per annum (pro rata for part time)

• Paid Medicash support


• Birthday day off


• Charity day of your choice


• Well-being Hours


• Cycle To Work Scheme


• Refer a Friend Scheme


• Company Pension Scheme 4%


• Funded Training Opportunities