Female* Hospital Based IDSVAs

We are looking for a Female Hospital Based IDSVAs to be based at Southmead or Weston to work closely alongside hospital staff, providing training, expert advice and raising awareness to support the disclosure of domestic violence and abuse. The roles involve empowering survivors to increase their options, make positive choices/decisions, increase their confidence, safety and recovery.,

• Train and support hospital staff to identify and refer victims of domestic/sexual abuse
• Establish and maintain support to survivors, with a victim centred approach, focussing on safety and recovery
• Provide support to enable survivors to safely maintain their current accommodation, access welfare benefits, legal advice alternative housing, and support services
• Maintain an effective support service with the aim of enabling the survivor to develop the skills and resources necessary to move on and maintain independence and self-reliance
• Liaise effectively and collaboratively with all appropriate agencies and community groups to ensure the best access to services and meaningful community engagement for service users
• Promote the service through building positive relationships with the Clinicians and hospital staff to ensure a steady flow of appropriate referrals
• Ensure your work with service users is recovery focused and strengths based, supporting survivors in a creative, consistent and assertive way
• Ensure that survivors currently living in abusive situations are aware of their rights and options
• Maintain up to date, accurate, legible and accessible records of all work and contact with service users, other agencies/professionals and others
• Actively participate in regular one-to-one supervision, reflective practice groups, annual appraisals
• Working occasional Saturdays and out of hours cover on a rota basis
• This is not an exhaustive list of your duties and outlines the general ways in which it is expected you will meet the overall requirements of this post.