The Drive Project: South Wales (Cardiff)
The Drive Project is a community-based intervention for perpetrators (service users) of domestic abuse whose victims are assessed as at a high risk of significant harm or fatality, aged 16 years and over. The service offers a risk and needs led response that proactively works with this potentially involuntary client group in a multimodal way; striving for behavioural and attitudinal change. The service, delivered in the context of multi-agency response, provides a tailored intervention plan that meets needs, addresses offending and motivates active engagement in activities that will produce sustained behavioural change; whilst keeping the risk to victim’s paramount.
Safer Merthyr Tydfil (SMT) in partnership with the Drive Governance Group is seeking to recruit/or consider secondment of a suitably experienced person to the following position: –
Position(s): Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Intervention Coordinator (DAPIC)
Location: Cardiff Bay Police Station
Hours: 20 hours per week (the hours will be worked across all 5 days of Monday to Friday)
Salary: FTE £19,621 (Pro rata £10,621)
Contract: To 31st March 2020 (initially)
The successful applicant will have demonstrable experience of working in a busy office environment and will undertake all administrative functions efficiently and competently to support a multi-agency Drive selection and referral processes.
This post will be subject to suitable employment screening checks which includes eligibility to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and a minimum of two previous employment references. The post will also be subject to additional key partner agency screening processes e.g. Police Vetting.
An Application Form and Job Description are available from SMT website: www.smt.org.uk. Or to request an application pack please contact Safer Merthyr Tydfil on 01685 353999 or email hf@smt.org.uk
For further information please ring Safer Merthyr Tydfil on 01685 353999 and ask for Darren O’ Connell, DRIVE Service Manager.
Please email completed application to hf@smt.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Tuesday 15th January 2019
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Application form SMT-Job-application-December 18
Job Description 2018 11 26 DAPIC JD-
