Drive Partnership DAPO Triage IDVA x 2

The Role

Position: Drive DAPO Triage IDVA 

Reports to: DAPO Triage Team Leader 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 5 days per week, with funding until 2026 and with a desire to extend this, based on securing additional funding.

Salary: Point 31-34 - £34,016 to £36,754 (a London Allowance will be applied to employees who live in London, plus 6% employers pension subject to an additional 2% contribution by the employee)

Location: London or Manchester (We are recruiting two roles: one based in London, and one based in Manchester)

Travel: You will be required to travel when the role requires it 

Contract: Fixed term to March 2026.  

Benefits: A generous package including 25 days holiday a year and public holidays, employee pension scheme with employer contribution, cycle to work scheme

Full job description and person specification

Further detail on the model and staffing structure

How to apply

Please complete the application form and equalities monitoring form and send them to [email protected]. This role closes on 13th May at 8am, with interviews W/C 20th May.

Application Form

Equalities Monitoring Form

About Respect  

Respect is a pioneering UK domestic abuse charity, leading the development of safe, effective work with perpetrators, with young people who are abusive and with male victims.  

Respect supports frontline organisations across the UK, so that together we can end domestic abuse. Our work is wide ranging: we offer accreditation of specialist services; we provide training for individuals and organisations working in the sector; we work in partnership with others to innovate and develop practice; we provide two helplines to enable service users to get the help and advice they need; we lobby influencers to improve policy and practice; we support up-to-date research undertaken by specialists in the field; and we fundraise to ensure important work continues to happen.  

Respect has seen rapid growth over the last few years, and we now have 30+ staff running a range of projects and core activities and have ambitious plans for further growth and influence.  

This role is based within the Drive Partnership and be part of the pilot for the roll out of the positive requirement element of the DAPO’s.  

We would particularly welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and across all protected characteristics1, particularly from people from the following under-represented groups:  

• Black and minoritised people  
• Disabled people  

We always welcome and support applications from those who have personal experience of domestic abuse.  

About The Drive Partnership

The Drive Partnership, formed by Respect, Safe Lives and Social Finance, is working to transform the national response to perpetrators of domestic abuse. We work to end domestic abuse and protect victims by disrupting, challenging, and changing the behaviour of those who are causing harm. Together we have developed the Drive Project to address a gap in work with high-harm, high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse. We also work to advocate for systems and policy change- to develop sustainable, national systems that respond more effectively to all perpetrators of domestic abuse.  

Background for the role 

In April 2021 the Domestic Abuse Act received Royal Assent. The Act introduces a new civil Domestic Abuse Protection Notice (DAPN) to provide immediate protection following a domestic abuse incident, and a new civil Domestic Abuse Protection Order (DAPO) to provide flexible, longer-term protection for victims. DAPOs can impose both prohibitions and positive requirements on perpetrators. 

Positive requirements can be in the form of interventions aimed at reducing and managing risk, meeting the needs of an individual (for the factors that are not the causation of abuse but impact on risk e.g. mental ill health, substance misuse) and behaviour change interventions. 

We were commissioned by the Home Office to design a triage model that will assess individuals for the suitability of these interventions, this triage model will be rolled out in the pilot sites which are going live in May 2024 and will be tested and evaluated in order to prepare for national roll out in 2026.  

Purpose of the Role 

The Triage IDVA will work as part of the Triage Team in their pilot area, reporting to the Triage Team Leader and working alongside the Triage Worker. They will be responsible for supporting and presenting the voice of the victims and their children in cases where the perpetrator has been referred to the team for an assessment of suitability for a Positive Requirement during an application for a DAPO. 

They will be responsible for attempting to contact the victims to carry out the relevant safety checks, risk assessments and provide advocacy during the assessment stage and make onward referrals for further support for the victim. They will capture the voice of the victim as part of the overall assessment for a positive requirement and feed their views and any relevant information about risk or need into the overall recommendation.
The IDVA’s work and expertise will ensure that the risks and needs for both the Perpetrator and Victims/families are considered so that a co-ordinated and individual intervention plan can be created when appropriate and safe to apply as part of the DAPO.