Male Facilitator for Domestic Abuse Programme

DMAT deliver Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes and Domestic Abuse Awareness Programmes.

DMAT and Causeway are working in partnership to deliver an early intervention, low risk/low harm domestic abuse awareness program across the Merseyside region.
The Refocus Programme will introduce a holistic, early intervention pathway, which will provide both education and support for individuals who have displayed early signs of potentially abusive or coercive behaviours.

Our program "see the signs" is a program is designed for individuals who are displaying abusive behaviours, an essential course will look to identify and educate individuals about coercive control and abusive behaviour.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• To deliver domestic abuse awareness raising workshops with a co-facilitator to groups of approximately ten participants.


• To use motivational interviewing when delivering workshops.


• To ensure safeguarding and risk management is always considered when delivering workshops.


• To ensure sessions are recorded, where required, for monitoring purposes.


• To ensure that session planning, de-brief and evaluation is undertaken and recorded on Oasis.


• To undertake practice supervision


• To undertake ongoing training and development as and when required.


• To liaise with external agencies as and when required and attend meetings/ report to other professionals.
  
  Essential -Experience of working with domestic abuse perpetrators/offenders and/or victims.


• Essential - Experience of group work and motivational interviewing


• Desirable - Experience of facilitating domestic abuse perpetrator/offender group work


Skills and Abilities

• Well-developed communication skills and excellent IT skills


• Good administrative and organisational skills.


• Good planning and time management skills.


• Group facilitation skills.


• Ability to self-evaluate, work as part of a team, reflect and improve practice with service-users and learn from constructive feedback.


Driving licence preferred as travel will be required as part of this role.

Education/Training/Qualifications

• Essential - Good standard of Education, GCSE's or equivalent


• Desirable - Relevant degree or professional qualification.