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Crossroads Derbyshire

Abbie Carr — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:51:50 +0000

Crossroads Derbyshire

Male and Female Group Facilitators (Changes Perpetrator Programme)

Crossroads Derbyshire provides domestic abuse services to adults, children and young people across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales.

We are a fast-growing, passionate domestic abuse service who puts survivors at the heart of everything we do. We serve a large rural community – supporting adults and children in Derbyshire and beyond. We strive to prevent abuse by raising awareness and promoting change that lasts.

The Changes Project is a Respect Accredited structured programme-based intervention for both male and female perpetrators of domestic abuse, assessed as medium or standard risk, who have acknowledged their behaviour and demonstrated a desire to change. Working alongside a Partner Safety Worker to ensure our survivors and their children are at the heart of the intervention. You will deliver a programme that aims to hold perpetrators of domestic abuse to account, support individuals to reduce incidents of abuse and help develop skills and strategies to engage in healthy, non-abusive relationships.

We are looking for male and female group facilitators who can work empathetically, within strict professional boundaries, and are committed to building strong relationships with a wide range of professional agencies.

Salary Scale NJC point 18: £27,344 (rising within NJC Scale 6 with successful appraisal)

Service Location: The post holder will work with our clients across the High Peak or Derbyshire Dales but will be based in our advice centre in Glossop.

Hours: 37 hours per week

How to apply

For more information about the role and how to apply please go to the Crossroads Derbyshire website.

Closing date: Monday 19^th June

Interviews week beginning the 3^rd July

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Children and Young Person’s Counsellor x 2 (Sessional)

Abbie Carr — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:09:46 +0000

Crossroads Derbyshire

Children and Young Person’s Counsellor x 2 (Sessional)

Crossroads Derbyshire provides domestic abuse services to adults, children and young people across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales.

We are a fast-growing, passionate domestic abuse service who puts survivors at the heart of everything we do. We serve a large rural community – supporting women, men and children in Derbyshire and beyond. We strive to prevent abuse by raising awareness and promoting change that lasts.

We provide counselling services for our adult survivors and children who have experienced domestic abuse . We are looking for 2 enthusiastic, creative, and experienced counsellors to provide direct work with children and young people who are currently in service.

Children and Young Person’s Counsellor x 2 (Sessional)

Qualification requirements: Diploma in Counselling Level 4 or above and additional qualification in counselling children and young people or significant experience of working within the specified age range and 200 or more post qualifying hours. Registered Member of the BACP or equivalent.

Salary: £26.50 per hour .

Premises and resources will be provided.

Hours: Sessional – min 4hrs per week term time (40 weeks per year)

This post will require flexible working, use of a car and a current driving licence.

Location: 2 post available- 1 covering the High Peak and 1 covering Derbyshire Dales (Matlock/Ashbourne)

Closing date for this post is Tuesday 2^nd May 2023

Interviews commence week beginning 8^th May 2023

How to apply

For information, please visit our website OR email: admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org

Crossroads Derbyshire strives to be an Equal Opportunities employer and we welcome applications from minority groups. This post is open to both men and women.

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Change that lasts briefings

Jess Milton — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:33:01 +0000

Change That Lasts Impact Briefings

The first briefing includes early findings of the our new approach, Change That Lasts detailing the awareness raising activities and support provided by ambassadors and professionals.

The second briefing includes further findings from our delivery of Change That Lasts. It details the support provided by ambassadors and professionals.

The third briefing includes further findings from our delivery of Change That Lasts. It details the support provided by ambassadors and professionals.

The fourth briefing includes findings from the delivery of our Change That Lasts programme from December 2018 to December 2019. The Change That Lasts approach aims to increase the number of women and children living free from abuse by improving the community, professional and specialist responses they receive, from the very first time they speak about the abuse to freedom and long-term safety.

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Research and Reports

mcadmin — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:31:53 +0000

Research and Reports

All of our work is underpinned by a solid evidence base. Throughout the year we conduct research projects, support research in universities and publish data on key issues to ensure that we are leading the way in evidence and data on domestic abuse. Below are our most recent research reports.

For resources, leaflets, posters and t-shirts, visit the resource centre.

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Domestic abuse reports

The Domestic Abuse Report is a series published by Women’s Aid that brings together the most comprehensive set of data on domestic abuse in the country.

Nowhere to turn reports

Our Nowhere to Turn series draws on findings from Women’s Aid’s No Woman Turned Away (NWTA) project. The NWTA has been funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) since 2016, and supports survivors who face barriers and structural inequalities when searching for a refuge space.

Change that lasts impact briefings

Change That Lasts Reports detail the awareness raising activities and support provided by ambassadors and professionals.

The Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm have produced this briefing paper for survivors of domestic abuse from the evaluation of the Roadmap Programme for system change. It reports key messages from the evaluation for domestic abuse services and for those who use them.

Our impact

With the help of our dedicated supporters we have achieved so much. Find out more in our Impact Reports.

Connect Centre briefings

Economic abuse and the economic impact of abuse

Economic abuse is often misunderstood but it is a key tactic used by perpetrators of domestic abuse to control their partner and stop her from leaving.

Funding and commissioning

Funding life-saving specialist domestic abuse support services, will cost £393 million per year. This investment would be a fraction of the estimated £66 billion annual cost to society. Women’s Aid examines the cost of fulfilling the commitment to delivering a Statutory Duty on local authorities to fund refuge services and sustainable funding for wider specialist domestic abuse services.

Child first

Since our campaign began in 2016 we have been calling on the government, all family courts professionals, and involved agencies to make the family court process safer for women and children survivors of domestic abuse. We wanted an end to avoidable child deaths as a result of unsafe child contact with dangerous perpetrators of domestic violence, and to ensure that children are always put at the heart of contact decisions made by the family courts.

Children and young people

Covid-19

Women’s Aid have produced a number of short reports based on our surveys of survivors and services during the Covid-19 pandemic. These include our 2020 initial surveys looking at the impact of the first lockdown, and a series of briefings which look at the lasting impact of the pandemic.

Deserve to be heard

This campaign is calling for greater recognition of the impact that domestic abuse has on the mental health of women and their children, and the importance of providing support that meets their needs. Research was conducted with a view to understanding what domestic abuse survivors want from mental health support, and what an effective response looks like.

Sexism/misogyny and attitudes to domestic abuse

Woman’s Aid have conducted research into UK adults’ attitudes to domestic abuse in order to better understand where and why domestic abuse is ‘tolerated’ in our society. Themes surrounding gendered experiences of justice and domestic abuse have been explored in relation to household roles, sexuality and intimate partner relationships and mental health. Our research adds to a wide body of literature on how sexism and misogyny set the scene for male violence against women.

Access to support and justice

Woman’s Aid has published key findings on domestic abuse services and the women and children they support. Themes surround access to support in relation to Covid-19, travel, refuges with information drawn from Routes to Support, the UK violence against women and girls service directory, and from On Track, which is Women’s Aid’s case management and outcomes monitoring system.

Technology and domestic abuse

The violence women experience from online abuse, stalking and harassment is completely unacceptable; the impact that this online abuse has on women’s lives has been underestimated by all statutory services. Women’s Aid believes that the responses that women victims of online abuse, harassment and stalking receive from the police, criminal justice system and social media providers are currently inadequate.

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Violence and Abuse

The APPG on Domestic Violence and Abuse conducts in-depth inquiries into key issues raised through APPG meetings. The inquiries include evidence submissions from survivors of domestic violence, domestic violence professionals, academics, politicians and charities.

Cost of Living

As the cost of living crisis in the UK dominates political and media agendas, Women’s Aid needs to respond and influence from a position informed by the voices and experiences of survivors and members.

Impact of our work

Refuge services in London

On Track briefings

Resources for commissioners

Measuring Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)

This briefing is to start a conversation with policy makers and experts on the different considerations when measuring VAWG, and limitations to current metrics. We welcome the government’s commitment to halve VAWG in a decade.

We believe this is an ambitious mission which requires dedicated leadership and investment. We re-assert the VAWG sector manifesto call for a comprehensive, whole-society approach to tackling VAWG that looks beyond the criminal justice system and centres those who face the greatest barriers to support and protection.

This briefing has been endorsed by over 80 leading organisations and experts in the VAWG sector.

Live Data

Explore service provision across England with our new live data dashboards.

Click on the links below to view our live data dashboards:

Domestic abuse provision: referrals to services

Information on referrals to local services and the challenges they faced from the Women’s Aid Annual Surveys (2017 to 2019).

Domestic abuse provision: Routes to Support

Information on service types and refuge spaces from snapshots taken from Routes to Support in May each year (from 2010).

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Community Development Worker

Abbie Carr — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:50:18 +0000

My Sisters Place

Community Development Worker

JOB TITLE: Community Development Worker/Ask Me Project Coordinator

RESPONSIBLE TO: Chief Officer

RESPONSIBLE FOR: Early Intervention and Prevention Work

JOB PURPOSE: To support delivery of My Sisters Place Ask Me project and Volunteering programme

SALARY: 6-SCP19 £25,481 to 27,041 – Pay Review Pending

Fixed Term Contract

My Sisters Place are currently recruiting a Community Development Officer / Ask Me Project Coordinator to support delivery of the Ask Me Scheme in Middlesbrough.

We are now at an exciting time in developing the project further, looking to reach new communities and maximise our impact. This is an enormously rewarding role for someone who has a flair for community development and wants to make a difference through their work within a supportive organisation.

Based in central Middlesbrough, we provide specialist services to increase the safety of women and their children. Our frontline responsive service supports on average over 1000 women each year through practical and emotional support, therapeutic interventions, women’s groups and sanctuary scheme interventions.

The organisation is piloting the ‘Change That Lasts Ask Me’ project, an exciting new response to domestic abuse that will widen the opportunities for survivors to access help in their local communities.

The successful candidate will:

Listen to and engage with local people
Harness the power of community action to raise awareness of domestic abuse
Support disempowered communities to challenge the status quo
Support the development of volunteering opportunities and implement a training programme for new and existing volunteers
Have an excellent understanding of how to develop the collective power of communities
Have an insight into the needs of survivors, and the challenges they face in accessing support
Have an in-depth understanding of the needs of Middlesbrough’s diverse community, how to recruit and manage volunteers and how to engage with community groups

Experience of this role doesn’t need to come from previous paid work and could be from volunteer roles or from relevant transferable skills.

My Sisters Place is committed to quality, equality and valuing diversity. We particularly encourage applications from women from black and minority ethnic communities, people under represented in similar roles and people without university degrees who have the skills described in the person specification. Women only need apply under schedule 9 (Part1) of the Equality Act 2010.

How to apply

For more information about the role and how to apply please go to the My Sisters Place website.

Closing date for applications 30^th November 2022

Interviews will be held week commencing 12^th December 2022

If you would like to know more about our work see www.mysistersplace.org.uk

Application process: CV plus choice of cover letter (maximum two pages) or video (maximum five minutes long) detailing how you meet the person specification. Please apply by email to recruitment@mysistersplace.co.uk.

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Young Persons Worker

Jess Milton — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:58:15 +0000

Crossroads Derbyshire

Young Persons Worker

Crossroads Derbyshire provides domestic abuse services to adults, children and young people across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales.

Young Persons Worker

We are looking for an experienced and dedicated individual to join our Children and Young Person’s team. You will be part of an exciting new project Choices, delivering one-to-one and group work to young people aged 11-18 around healthy relationships and also working with families where there is child to parent violence.
This post will require a degree of flexible working, use of a car and a current driving licence.

Ideally you will have experience of supporting hard to reach young people within this age group.

Service Location: The post holder will work with our clients across the High Peak or Derbyshire Dales but will be based in our advice centre in Glossop.

Hours: 37 hours per week however due to the nature of the role, flexible working or term-time hours can be considered.

Salary: Scale 5 £22,183
Rising to scale 5 point 17 subject to successful appraisals – £24,491

Closing date for this post is 9am Monday 29th November
Interviews commence Week Beginning 6th December

How to apply

For information, please visit the website or email: admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org

Crossroads Derbyshire strives to be an Equal Opportunities employer and we welcome applications from minority groups and all suitably qualified persons

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Community Outreach Domestic Abuse Worker

Jess Milton — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:49:11 +0000

Crossroads Derbyshire

Community Outreach Domestic Abuse Worker

Crossroads Derbyshire provides domestic abuse services to adults, children and young people across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales.

We have a vacancy for a Domestic Abuse Outreach Worker to work with both adults and children who are victims and survivors of domestic abuse. This post will require flexible working, use of a car and a current driving licence.

Service Location: The post holder will work with our clients across Buxton and the surrounding villages but will be based in our Advice Centre in Glossop

Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: Scale 5 £22,183
Rising to scale 5-point 17 subject to successful appraisals – £24,491

Closing date for this post is 9am Monday 29th November
Interviews commence Week Beginning 6th December

How to apply

For information, please visit the website or email: admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org

Crossroads Derbyshire strives to be an Equal Opportunities employer and we welcome applications from minority groups and all suitably qualified persons

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The Impact of Change That Lasts

Angharad — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:55:53 +0000

Change That Lasts

Change That Lasts reached the end of its five-year pilot in the summer of 2021, with the evidence confirming its potential to create a step change in society’s response to domestic abuse.

Find out more about the project here, and email training@womensaid.org.uk to find out more about our current community-based response training.

community ambassadors trained through our Ask Me programme to raise awareness of, and take a stand against, domestic abuse in their communities.

front-line practitioners equipped with the skills to change policy and practice through our Trusted Professional training.

survivors supported via our Expert Voices scheme.

"It’s made an enormous difference in the way we talk about domestic abuse in Surrey. We are getting better work done with survivors and our workers are feeling much more confident."

"When I was doing a support plan, I felt it was my space to speak about my fears and concerns about my life and future. My voice was the only voice that mattered. I chose what was important for me at that time."

"Change That Lasts is changing the culture of the way we’re talking about domestic abuse and what we want to achieve as a movement. It will influence tangible opportunities for how we better resource and plan services."

"It was so obvious that everyone doing the training was passionate about raising awareness of domestic abuse. Some people have powerful lived experiences and many had useful contacts within their communities."

Delivering a substantial social return on investment

When examining the difference each programme makes in terms of financial savings – and taking into account the value for the individual, community and wider stakeholders – for every £1 invested:

Ask Me created a social value of £5.13

Trusted Professionals created a social value of £5.31

Expert Voices created a social value of £5.50

– University of Central Lancashire evaluation, 2021

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Domestic Abuse Worker (Young People)

Admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:41:47 +0000

Crossroads Derbyshire

Domestic Abuse Worker (Young People)

Crossroads Derbyshire provides domestic abuse services to adults, children and young people across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales.

Domestic Abuse Worker (Young People)

We are looking for an experienced and dedicated individual to join our Children and Young Person’s team. You will be part of an exciting new project Choices, delivering one to one and group work to young people aged 11-18 and their families where appropriate. Our Choices programme focuses on three core themes, supporting young people to keep themselves safe within intimate relationships; supporting young people who are already exhibiting or are at risk of perpetrating abusive behaviours, and supporting children and families where there is child to parent violence within the home.

Ideally you will have experience of supporting hard to reach young people within this age group.

The job description attached is generic. Whilst this position is to primarily work within the remit of the Young Persons Choices programme, this role is not exclusive, and you may be required to support both younger children and adult clients where appropriate.

Service Location: High Peak and Derbyshire Dales

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: Scale 5 £22,183-£24,491 p.a

This post will require a degree of flexible working, use of a car and a current driving licence.

How to apply

Closing date for this post is 9am Monday 9th August.

Interviews commence week beginning 16th August.

For information, please visit the website.

OR email: admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org

Crossroads Derbyshire strives to be an Equal Opportunities employer and we welcome applications from minority groups and both women and men

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Ten ways to help end violence against women and girls

Angharad — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:39:06 +0000

Ten ways to help end violence against women and girls

The tragic death of Sarah Everard has sparked a national conversation about the violence and abuse that women and girls experience daily. We receive many questions asking how the public can help to end violence against women and girls. We’ve created a list of ten ways to help.

Call out sexism

Sexism and misogyny underpins violence against women, challenge safely where you can. Tell your friends that sexist jokes are not funny and challenge them where you safely can, if they speak about women in a derogatory way. To end violence against women, we need to address the root causes together.

Campaign with us

We are building a network of campaigners who we send campaign actions to monthly, letting you know the best way you can support survivors of domestic abuse throughout the year. Become a Women’s Aid campaign champion You can also sign and share our petition which asks the government to ensure that local authorities fund desperately needed women’s refuges and domestic abuse services.

Support your local domestic abuse service

Visit our website today to support your local service, local charities need ongoing funding and support to provide services for survivors.

Make a difference in your community

Register your interest to become part of our Change That Lasts programme, which trains community ambassadors to signpost survivors to the most appropriate services and learn about the attitudes that underpin abusive behaviour in relationships.

Promote healthy relationships with young people

Download and share our Expect Respect Healthy Relationships toolkit– we have developed a free to download education toolkit with YSL Beauty, which is for anyone working with children and young people aged 4-18. You can sign up to become an Expect Respect Advocate if you’d like free training on how to speak to young people about healthy relationships and challenging sexism.

Share expert research

Share Women’s Aid statistics when raising awareness of domestic abuse on social media or in blogs. All of our work is underpinned by clear evidence which shows the gendered nature of domestic abuse and the frequency of violence against women. We have our Women’s Aid Evidence Hub with up to date information and research.

Survivors can visit our forum

Women who are or have experienced domestic abuse can anonymously share and support each other at our Survivors’ Forum. If you need direct support from an expert domestic abuse support worker, contact our Live Chat service or email helpline@womensaid.org.uk.

Fundraise

Fundraise by taking part in an event or challenge for Women’s Aid, visit our fundraising page to find out more, and ask in your workplace to see if they would like to arrange a group challenge. We also work with companies to provide training and expert advice on domestic abuse policies, if your workplace would like to make a difference.

Social media

Follow our social media platforms and share our posts, we’re on Facebook Instagram and Twitter.

Donate

If you donate £10 a month by direct debit, every time you get paid you will be helping a woman to get lifesaving support from our Live Chat service. We also welcome one off donations, whatever you can give helps us to save lives. Please donate here.

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