Job summary
- Main area
- Patient Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 19 months (Fixed till 31/03/2027 due to funding)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC157-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Across all of CTM
- Town
- CTMUHB
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Independent Domestic Violence Advisor
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Health IDVA to work across CTMUHB. The post is funded until 31st March 2027.
The post will be expected to deliver advocacy support and advice within the Health Board (CTMUHB), to clients of ages from 13 years old to adulthood, who have experienced or at risk of domestic or relationship abuse in the Health Board region.
To provide targeted support, helping adults and young people to be safe from harm and develop their understanding of healthy relationships.
Work within professional guidelines to deliver specialist advocacy and high-quality support to those at the highest risk of Domestic or relationship abuse, and Sexual Violence.
Work in partnership with the Local Authority, Police, Crown Prosecution Service and Third Sector Agencies to ensure that clients are adequately supported through health and psychological services and where necessary, criminal justice and follow-on support agencies.
Prioritise, assess, plan, implement and evaluate all relevant aspects of care to an expected high standard. They will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to the clinical governance process.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Health IDVA to work across CTMUHB. The post is funded until 31st March 2027.
• Identify and assess the risks and needs of Domestic and relationship Abuse, and Violence (DA&V) survivors using an evidence-based risk identification checklist.
• As the subject matter expert for DA&V, provide face-to-face and telephone support to clients, both short and long term.
• Work with all levels of DA&V risk, facilitating access to services to keep them and their children safe. A new project involving young people aged 13-18 years may be included in the duties and therefore prior experience of working with this age group would be of benefit.
• To contact clients within 72 hours of initial attendance at Emergency Department (ED) to offer advocacy.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2). We don’t need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and MARAC, and awareness of legal issues relating to DA&V
Desirable criteria
- Counselling skills qualification. Child protection training
- Welsh Language Speaking/Listening Skills Level 3 or above
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people who have been or are experiencing DA&V
Desirable criteria
- Experience of carrying out risk assessments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire O'Keefe
- Job title
- Head of Safeguarding / Pennaeth Diogelu
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 744858
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