Outreach Worker 

Reports to: Advocacy & Outreach Manager
Hours of work: full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Location: Hybrid (East Berkshire area) 
Salary: £25,000 – £26,000 per annum dependent upon experience.
Contract: Permanent
Holidays: 25 days + Bank Holidays + 1 day for birthday
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on receipt on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as possible.
Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per annum (+ bank holidays), plus up to 5 days additional leave for length of service.
• Birthday off + 1 ‘charity day’ day agreed by the trustees for all staff (usually last working day before 25 December)
• Christmas closure days given as additional leave (subject to annual Board agreement)
• Access to benefit platform for a wide range of discounts on everyday spends plus gym discounts.
• Access to private healthcare scheme
• Holiday buyback scheme

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Outreach Worker to join our successful team. We’re looking for someone who is focussed, hardworking and passionate for the cause and ideally has previous experience of working with clients experiencing domestic abuse.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a local domestic abuse charity with a huge influence and reach. For almost 50 years The Dash Charity has been supporting individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse, empowering women, men and children to recognise the tactics of abuse, break the cycle, and take back control of their lives.

We were one of the first charities in the UK to be awarded Leading Lights status for our Advocacy and Outreach Services by SafeLives, and pioneered healthy relationships workshops in schools over a decade ago.

We run three refuges that offer a sanctuary to women and children escaping violence and abuse, offering specialist children’s support and one to one support for women.

Key responsibilities:

As the Dash Charity’s Outreach Worker, you will provide proactive and structured support to a caseload of clients living in the East Berkshire area, assessed as being standard to medium risk.

You will develop tailor-made support plans, focusing not only on maximising safety and reducing risk, but also improving the physical, emotional and sexual health of the clients you work with. You will be required to advocate for your client and provide assistance in pursuing civil and criminal remedies.

You will be expected to work closely alongside our multi-agency partners in order to deliver this support, with a particular focus on developing relationships and pathways with specific agencies. You will also develop and deliver training to professionals and provide guidance to staff where appropriate as well as delivery of awareness workshops within the wider community.

Previous experience of working with vulnerable clients is essential and ideally you will be trained to SafeLives standards, or equivalent.

You may have some experience of training with excellent communication and presentation skills.

You will have a full clean driving license and access to your own private vehicle for work use.

To maintain accurate, professional and confidential case management records and databases and ensure all monitoring and evaluation records/tools are completed in a timely and accurate manner.

To understand any grant, funder or contractual requirements pertaining to the funding of the individual post, ensuring data and outcomes are gathered to inform periodic reporting as and when required. To contribute to the preparation of any grant/contract reporting as required.

Support colleagues and partner agencies, through awareness raising and institutional advocacy, in order to provide the best possible service for victims of domestic abuse.

To work with a strong multi agency focus liaising with other agencies and professionals both internally and externally to ensure client’s needs are met.

How to apply:

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. If you have any questions about the role, please do not hesitate to contact us.

To apply for this position, please review the full job description and then apply by emailing your CV and a cover letter to the Advocacy & Outreach Manager.