Domestic Abuse Volunteer Coordinator Jobs in Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
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The post of Sessional Group Facilitator will provide support to victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence within group work provision.
At FearFree we run various trauma-informed groups for victims, such as: Empowering You, an educational domestic abuse online support group; Rediscovering You, a face-to-face emotional wellbeing recovery group; Inspiring Families, a ‘whole family’ approach to support; House to Home, supporting those having to flee domestic abuse; and a children’s and young person’s group work provision.
We are looking for experienced and motivated staff to join our team to help deliver the group work programmes we run around locations in Wiltshire. Groups run in the morning, afternoon and evening. Training for the groups will be provided.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To facilitate group work provisions across the Wiltshire Service.
- A willingness and ability to facilitate groups in the evenings.
- Completing pre and post group assessments and required paperwork, following the procedures in place.
- Write comprehensive case notes following groups about service user involvement, any concerns raised and any action required.
- Identify and take the appropriate action on any disclosures or safeguarding concerns raised within the group with support from the Group Coordinator and/or Wiltshire Duty Manager.
- To work cohesively with a second facilitator both virtually and in person in locations around Wiltshire.
- A willingness and ability to travel around Wiltshire and access to a vehicle with business insurance.
Skills and Qualities
- Experience of working with victims of domestic abuse or sexual violence, or the willingness to increase knowledge and skills in this area.
- Experience of working with vulnerable people.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience running groups, including listening skills, a good sense of timing, sensitivity to overall group dynamics, maintaining group safety and practical elements such as ensuring course material is delivered.
- A willingness to participate in in-house training, including group observation.
General
- Attend supervision as required,
- Attend and contribute to team meetings as required.
- Ensure service user records are kept up to date.
- Contribute to effective team working with a flexible and pro-active approach, including cover for other team members’ holidays and sickness.
- Undertake agreed training and keep updated on changes in legislation, policy and best practice.
Other Responsibilities
- The post holder will deal with highly confidential information relating to vulnerable people.
- Ensure security of data, especially sensitive personal data, in line with the information security policy.
- Work within FearFree’s Policies and Procedures at all times.
- Responsible for security of service user information.
- Employees have responsibilities in respect of health and safety. In particular they will:
o Always co-operate with management in the implementation of and adherence to health and safety policy and procedures.
o Take reasonable care for their own safety and for the safety of others who may foreseeably be affected by their actions at work.
o Not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided for the purpose of health and safety at work.
o Report all health and safety concerns to line managers.
- Any other duties that may be reasonably required.
For a full job description/person specification, and to apply for the role, please follow the links on this website. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis until sufficient, suitable candidates have been found, so early applications are encouraged.
FearFree is committed to encouraging equality and diversity in the workplace. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive place to work where we can all be ourselves and individual differences are recognised and valued.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This role is based within the Wiltshire DVPP (Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme) Team which delivers domestic abuse services across Wiltshire.
This position is based within our Behaviour Change team and focuses on working with low to medium risk perpetrators of domestic abuse on a one-to-one basis, with the aim of supporting people to change their behavior.
In addition, you will support the delivery of the CPR (Choosing Positive Relationships) Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme (DVPP), which is an intensive behaviour change programme, designed to increase knowledge and understanding around domestic abuse, the impact on children and healthy relationships. The course teaches tools and strategies to help someone change their behaviour. The CPR group will require weekly evening work in Wiltshire.
The key duties for this role are to:
- Co-facilitate the delivery of our CPR perpetrator group-work programme one evening per week.
- Deliver one to one support sessions for perpetrators based around: understanding domestic abuse, managing aggressive behavior, recognising the impact that abuse has on others.
- Work closely with the rest of the Behaviour Change to promote a ‘whole family approach’ to addressing domestic abuse and prioritise safety for the victim.
- Work closely with multi-agency partners, particularly Children’s Social Care, ensuring a focus on risk and safeguarding.
For a full job description/person specification and to apply, please follow the link provided on this website. There is no specific closing date for this role and this vacancy will close once a suitable candidate is found, so early applications are encouraged.
FearFree is committed to encouraging equality and diversity in the workplace. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive place to work where we can all be ourselves and individual differences are recognised and valued.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job description
Job title: Fleet Coordinator
Salary: £23-25,000 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Terms: 25 days Holiday (exc. Bank Holidays), 5% pension contribution
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (operating hours between 7.30am - 5pm depending on shift pattern, opportunity for evening or weekend work)
Location: Bristol with occasional travel in the south west region
Do you care about doing something worthwhile with your working day? Are you passionate about supporting people at work and beyond? At FareShare South West, you can make a real difference to the one million people in the south west who are going hungry.
We are the region’s largest food charity. We join the dots between food waste and hunger, transforming an environmental problem into social good.
Working mainly from Bristol, the Fleet Coordinator is fundamental to our operations. The right person will combine a love of vehicles, logistics and a passion for reducing food waste. In return, you will be part of an inclusive and friendly team in a small but fast-growing charity doing impactful and rewarding work.
FareShare South West (FSSW) is part of the national FareShare UK (FSUK) network of surplus food redistribution charities. We fight food poverty by tackling food waste. We source quality surplus food – from food retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers – engaging volunteers to redistribute to local charities and community groups that provide meals to vulnerable people (individuals who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated, recovering from addictions, etc.). Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly, and keyworkers.
Purpose of the role:
Our Fleet Coordinator will work with our warehouse teams and the wider FSSW team to keep the wheels turning so we can deliver much needed food to frontline organisations. They will operate across the West of England, Devon and Cornwall to support the smooth running and upkeep of our fleet of vehicles and ensure minimal disruption on our operations. This role involves coordinating the servicing, maintenance, and repairs of vehicles, administrative duties and delivering change projects to ensure the continuous improvement of our fleet management. Our small fleet currently includes 13 vans, one car, one 7.5t truck, 4 forklift trucks and multiple pump trucks, distributed between Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth. This role will be working with and alongside a diverse group of volunteers, in particular working with volunteer driving crews to provide training and support.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Fleet Coordination
- Vehicle Servicing, Maintenance and Repairs
- Liaise with external and internal contractors to arrange breakdown support, MOTs, services and repairs.
- Develop relationships with contractors to build a list of trusted companies.
- Triage and identify vehicle issues, then work with external contractors to resolve them.
- Coordinate and undertake vehicle movements between sites and garages.
- Carry out analysis of the fleet and its equipment including weekly vehicles checks and performing basic maintenance duties e.g. tyre pressures and topping up of vehicle fluids.
- Be the point of contact for external service providers such as leasing companies, insurers, fuel card companies and breakdown cover providers.
- Administrative duties
- Manage our vehicle accessories and consumables.
- Keep accurate records relating to the fleet and our drivers (repair log, vehicle checks, driving licence checks and incident forms)
- Download of tachograph data for analysis
- Manage CAZ payments.
- Administer insurance policy changes and claims involving our fleet and/or third parties.
- Gather and report on appropriate metrics to monitor the health of the fleet.
- Propose and deliver continuous improvement projects for the fleet.
- Register and onboard new drivers by delivering volunteer and staff driving assessments and agency driver inductions.
- Support and develop the volunteer driving crews.
- Model and promote best practice in all van duties.
- Work with the volunteer recruitment team to identify driver shortfalls and support recruitment of drivers.
- Work with temporary staffing companies to arrange short term hire drivers when needed.
Compliance and Health & Safety
- Support the Warehouse Managers to ensure compliance with relevant food hygiene, health & safety and other standards applicable to FareShare vehicles and operations.
- Undertake relevant training in food hygiene and health & safety as required.
- Work with the Head of Compliance and wider FSSW team to ensure continuous improvement and high levels of compliance for the fleet of vans.
General
- Respond to/answer any enquiries/communications via phone, email, in person or via inhouse IT/systems.
- Support and enable volunteers.
- Be willing to receive and engage positively with any visitors to the warehouse.
- Carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required in support of the main purpose of the role, including liaising with the wider FSSW team.
- Uphold high quality customer care and standards of conduct when dealing with all stakeholders and the general public.
Person Specification
Essential knowledge, skills and experience
- Experience of working in an administrative role.
- Ability to develop, initiate and maintain systems and procedures.
- Interest in and understanding of vehicle maintenance and repair.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Problem solver and competent decision maker.
- Full clean UK driving licence.
- Experience of delivering training.
- IT competent and able to use various IT platforms/systems.
- A clear commitment to the ethos of FareShare South West, our vision and mission.
Desirable knowledge, skills & experience:
- Voluntary sector experience.
- Experience of working in logistics.
- Experience of working with people who require support.
- Experience of working within a food operation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.