CYP Development and Support Officer
(Maternity Cover)

Your role will be to work within our Children and Young People’s Team to provide a comprehensive support service to those who are impacted by domestic abuse. To deliver a range of programmes, sessions and activities to assist children and young people to come to terms with what they have experienced and improve their mental, physical and emotional well-being. You will have a good understanding of the risks and support needs of families experiencing domestic abuse, and an ability to make service intervention decisions.

You will be someone who can provide high level specialist support to children and young people, ensuring that service standards are excellent. You will model high quality practice in your work, ensuring that a child centred approach is embedded in the support that you give. You will facilitate and develop 1 to 1s and a range of programmes to be delivered through group sessions. Furthermore, you will encourage their caregivers to understand the impact that domestic abuse has had on their behaviour, emotional wellbeing and bonding.

You will maintain links with key partners to ensure a comprehensive package of support is available for those with complex needs and referral pathways into specialist’s services are observed. You will attend statutory meetings (such as core groups and child protection conference) where relevant and you will ensure that information is shared appropriately and in line with GDPR confidentiality procedures.

You will be key in recording accurate service outcome data for use in reports to funders and ensure that comprehensive records of outcomes and activities of the service are uploaded to our data management systems.