Perpetrator Prevention Worker - Domestic Abuse, Harlow

Perpetrator Prevention Worker - Domestic Abuse

Fixed Term, Full Time

£31,931 to £36,423 per annum

Location:

Harlow

Working Style:
Community-based worker

Closing Date: 15th March 2026

Please note that this position is being offered as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity until February 2028.

Are you ready for the challenge of being at the forefront of innovative and impactful practice? This is an exciting opportunity to join our innovative Multi‑Disciplinary Team (MDT), working at the forefront of impactful practice within Children's Social Care.

Join our Children and Families Service, a team built on collaboration, integrity and compassion. We deliver early help, family support and evidence‑informed interventions that protect children and young people from harm and help families build safer, brighter futures.

The Team

The Multi‑Disciplinary Team (MDT) brings together specialists in housing, domestic abuse, education, substance misuse, youth work and adult and child mental health.

Based within frontline Social Work teams, the MDT provides tailored interventions in the community and in family homes. MDT practitioners offer focused expertise and therapeutic insight that re‑engage families, restore hope and support lasting change. This team's work is not only impactful - it's transformative.

If you have the drive, creativity and enthusiasm to enhance and improve the lives of Children and Families, we want to hear from you.

To read more about us please visit:
Children & Families

Please take a look at our 'No Magic' Children & Families video

The Opportunity

As a Perpetrator Prevention Worker (Domestic Abuse), you will work directly with individuals who cause harm, reducing risk, challenging abusive behaviours and improving safety for victims/survivors, children, and vulnerable adults. Safeguarding is central to this role.

You will work alongside our Assessment & Intervention and Family Support & Protection Teams, delivering tailored interventions within homes and communities, contributing to multi‑agency risk management, and promoting meaningful behaviour change.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the multi-agency partnership structures and work within these settings.
• Establish ongoing multi-agency connections and relationships for the benefit of children and their family.
• Support the empowerment of service users and assist them in recognising the features and dynamics of domestic abuse present in their situation and support them effect change.
• Deliver behaviour change interventions using a range of skills to engage service users and reduce risk to victim/survivors and children.
• Maintain timely, accurate and confidential case management records and contribute to the work of the team.
• Participate in regular case management reviews within the Multi-Disciplinary Team and your line manager based on a review of risk and abuse which feeds back into action planning to further progress, signpost, or close cases, and provides feedback to your clients/agencies and informs future case management.
• Contribute to data and written reports with effective case data input and through the provision of case studies to illustrate the impact of the service for domestic abuse victims, survivors and children.
• Engage in supervision both individually and through group supervisions.

If you are passionate about reducing perpetration, improving outcomes for families and creating safer environments for children, we'd love to hear from you.

About You

We are looking for someone with drive, creativity and a commitment to preventing future harm. You will bring a therapeutic, perpetrator‑focused approach, strong relationship‑building skills, and the ability to challenge harmful behaviours while supporting long‑term change.

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

• Significant experience of direct work with perpetrators of domestic abuse within a criminal justice and/or wider supportive service(s).
• Experience and knowledge of effective ways of working/engaging with perpetrators of domestic abuse using a range of approaches.
• To develop and deliver effective interventions for perpetrators and facilitate discussions to achieve a positive outcome.
• Excellent…