Domestic Abuse Practitioner

The Domestic Abuse Practitioner will provide a high quality specialist domestic abuse service across the Trust, supporting patients, carers, visitors and staff.

The postholder will work within the corporate Safeguarding Team, delivering expert advice, coordinating responses to domestic abuse, and ensuring robust risk assessment and safety planning.

• Provide specialist domestic abuse advice, support, and education to multi professional teams.
• Enable safe, appropriate and trauma informed responses to victims of domestic abuse.
• Empower patients to seek support and understand their options in relation to domestic abuse
• Support staff in completing high quality DASH risk assessments and ensure Trust representation at MARAC.
• Work closely with the wider safeguarding team to include Adult Safeguarding, Midwifery, Children & Young People Safeguarding, Learning Disability and mental health leads.
• Liaise with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure coordinated support and advocacy for victims.
• Participate in multi agency safeguarding meetings, including MARAC, as required.
• Deliver training to frontline staff on recognising and responding to domestic abuse.
• Contribute to Trust wide safeguarding education programmes. Support the implementation of domestic abuse pathways, policies, and Trust wide initiatives.
• Work within national and local safeguarding legislation, policies, and evidence based practice frameworks.
• Support monitoring and compliance with the Trust Domestic Abuse and Sexual Safety policies.
• Assist in quality improvement, audit and service development initiatives.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Simone Rushton

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Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Email address:  Telephone number: