ITRS Practitioner (South Devon)

Fear Less; England; Hybrid; Part time

Job summary

A community support organization in the United Kingdom seeks an Interpersonal Trauma Response Service worker to provide advocacy and support for individuals affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence. This role requires collaboration with GP practices for training and support, ensuring effective responses to trauma. The position offers flexible hours and is a mixture of home and office-based work, with a focus on improving safety and wellbeing for all service users. Early applications are encouraged as vacancies will close once filled.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing support around domestic abuse and sexual violence.
• Ability to work with GP practices effectively.
• Flexible to travel and work outside normal hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide advocacy and support for patients experiencing abuse.
• Conduct training for general practice teams.
• Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness.

Skills

Advocacy

Emotional support

Training delivery

Data collection

Communication

Job description

General Overview

FearFree delivers services across the Southwest for victims, children and perpetrators of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking, with the aim to break the cycle of abuse and support all to live free from fear. We provide trauma‑responsive support, and this post will be fundamental to ensuring service users, stakeholders and partners experience this in our daily delivery.

The aim of the Interpersonal Trauma Response Service is to improve the health, wellbeing and safety of people who have been exposed to trauma arising from sexual violence and abuse and/or domestic abuse.

You will work across a specified number of GP practices in South Devon, to offer support to health professionals working in practices, people who have experienced interpersonal trauma arising from sexual violence and abuse and/or domestic abuse, and to a service for people at risk of perpetrating abuse.

You and the team will provide training to GP surgeries to improve identification, enquiry, and response for patients. You and your team will also support adults and children who have been impacted by interpersonal trauma with emotional and practical support, focusing on trauma stabilisation. The team will be responsible for facilitating timely access to further appropriate support services where needed.

FearFree is committed to flexible and hybrid working and this role will be a mix of home‑based and office‑based, alongside requiring travel to GP practices and for multi‑agency meetings and other deliverables.

This role may include evening and weekend work when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist, individual and needs‑led domestic abuse and sexual violence advocacy and support to patients who are or have experienced abuse, and to provide onward referrals where appropriate.
• Provide direct assessment, casework support, advice, information and advocacy through telephone contact, and/or meetings at the relevant practice.
• Support individuals to increase personal safety, and that of any children, and inform them of their rights and options in terms of housing, legal and welfare rights.
• Provide signposting and onward referrals to patients.
• Provide ongoing specialist advice and support around Domestic Abuse (DA) and Sexual Violence (SV) to practice teams.
• Encourage general practice health professionals to ask patients about their experience of abuse and respond, record, safety check and refer.
• Provide feedback on case outcomes to referring clinicians.
• Collect and collate performance and monitoring data for reporting purposes.
• Provide in‑house training and refresher training for general practice teams on understanding, recognising, and responding to DA and SV.
• Develop good working relationships and liaise with outside agencies where needed.
• Keep accurate records of all referrals received and of work done with or on behalf of service users.
• Deliver DA and SV training to clinicians and non‑clinical staff in participating general practices.
• Develop a good relationship with all general practice staff and work effectively as part of the practice team.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the programme, collecting required data and producing written reports as requested.

Application

To apply for this role, please download and read the full job description/person specification and, if you feel you meet the criteria, download an application form and return it, along with the optional equality monitoring form, to: [e-mail].

There is no specific closing date for this role and the vacancy will close once a suitable candidate is found, so early applications are encouraged.

Hours

22.5 – 30 hours per week; full time may also be considered.

Equal Opportunities

FearFree is committed to encouraging equality and diversity in the workplace. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive place to work where we can all be ourselves and individual differences are recognised and valued.