Perpetrator Team Manager

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Job Description

Salary: £53,857
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG/Hybrid
Hours per week: 36
Contract Type: Permanent/Full Time
Closing Date: Sunday 9th February 2025 at 23:59
Interview: Week commencing 24th February 2025

About Camden

Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We're home to the most important conversations happening today and we're making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here's where you can help decide a better future for us all.

About the team/service

Camden is establishing a new domestic abuse perpetrator intervention team within the Family Support and Complex Families Service. The team will work closely with Camden's established specialist domestic abuse services for victim/survivors and case-holding teams, undertaking targeted early response and behaviour change interventions with perpetrators who are using abuse within intimate or family relationships, and coordinating multi-agency diversionary and disruption work.

'Safety at home and in the community' is one of the challenges set out in 'We Make Camden', our new community vision for the borough. The continued development of the Council's response to domestic abuse is integral to this. In Camden, we are prioritising the safety of adult and child victim survivors as part of a coordinated community response to gender-based violence, which includes intervening to disrupt abuse and challenging those causing harm to change.

What You'll Be Doing / How You'll Be Involved

We are seeking a creative-thinking and experienced practitioner to lead Camden's new Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Intervention Team. The post holder will support the mobilisation and development of an in-house Perpetrator programme. Managing four Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Intervention Workers, the role will lead on implementation a range of evidence based, risk-led perpetrator interventions. The role will provide management oversight of all referrals into the team, using evidence-based risk assessment tools to decide on suitability, and communicating decisions to referrers. Establishing the team as a hub of specialist knowledge and data collection around perpetrator work, the Team Manager will act as a subject matter expert, communicating insights to senior leaders and influencing wider systems change.

This new role presents a unique opportunity to join Camden on a journey of innovation that began over 20-years ago with the establishment of Camden Safety Net, and more recently the Domestic Abuse Navigator Service. The harm caused by domestic abuse to individuals and society is incalculable, but we must not see this as inevitable or unchangeable. Perpetrator behaviour is always targeted, calculated, and purposeful. It steals opportunities and it ruins lives. In Camden, we want a better future for all. This role will ensure support is available for those that want to change, while ensuring there is a robust survivor/risk led response to those that will not.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.

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All About You

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity the successful candidate will need to have previous demonstrable experience/working knowledge of the following;

• A commitment to working in a survivor and safety-led way; keeping the voice of survivors and lived experience of children at the centre of all work.
• An in-depth understanding of coercive control, patterns of perpetrator behaviour, and the impact of domestic abuse on adult and child survivors
• Experience of managing, leading and maintaining a diverse, strong, and motivated team
• Experience shaping and implementing a new service
• Ability to advocate and promote the service and influence change across the system
• Extensive experience of working directly with domestic abuse perpetrators within a risk and survivor led framework of perpetrator intervention
• Experience of perpetrator case management: maintaining perpetrator accountability and visibility regardless of their engagement with services
• Experience of domestic abuse perpetrator focused risk assessment and support planning
• An understanding of cultural diversity and how to provide safe responses
• An open and reflective approach to intersectionality and a willingness to learn. Recognition of social graces and how they afford people different levels of power and privilege and how this relates to domestic abuse
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective relationships with multiple stakeholders, influencing and negotiating change

What We Offer

At Camden, you'll receive a host of benefits including:

• 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Interest free loans
• Access to our incredible staff networks
• Career development and training
• Wellbeing support and activities

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.

Anonymised Application - in keeping with Camden's commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.