We are recruiting for a Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault Practitioner (ISVA, IDVA equivalent) who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. Do you enjoy making a difference to patients’ lives? Are you committed to supporting colleagues in providing high-quality, compassionate care to our community? We seek a proactive and driven individual to become a part of the East and North Herts NHS Trust. This role involves collaborating closely with victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault, beginning at the moment of crisis, and delivering exceptional advocacy and support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children. The job will involve working within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership protocols and procedures that prioritise the safety of survivors. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. To provide a combination of advocacy and support to anyone affected by domestic abuse and sexual assault both recent and historic. To provide a prompt response to patients referred to the service. Assess the risk and support needs of victims and survivors and develop individual support plans to address risks/support needs of patients. As part of risk assessments of clients, ensure safety plans are in place with the client’s agreement and are shared with other agencies involved. Liaise with the police, CPS, and other service providers on behalf of the client. Support the client, if they do not wish to report to the police, with understanding their options and helping them to provide intelligence to the police if they choose, as well as then supporting them to get any other help they may need. To identify and respond, as appropriate, to issues relating to safeguarding, child protection and protection of vulnerable adults. To assess if the assault or client’s situation is related to domestic abuse and, when appropriate, carry out a DASH risk assessment. Attend MARAC meetings when necessary. Ensure that clients are aware of the services to which they are entitled and advocate for them to help access services. To make appropriate referrals for follow up care. To participate in the delivery of training sessions for ENHT staff At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.