Make a Change Domestic Abuse and Health Lead

The Role

Position: Domestic Abuse and Health Lead  

Reports to: Head of Make a Change 

Hours: 35 hours per week, 5 days per week

Salary: Point 42, salary starting at £43,626 (£46,925 Inclusive of Inner London Weighting if applicable), plus 6% employer pension contribution, (including a 2% employee pension contribution) and other benefits. 

Location: Home Based with occasional travel to health beacon sites and Respect’s offices as necessary: Voluntary Action Islington, 200A Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JP

Contract:  1 year fixed term. 

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

How to apply

Please complete the application form and equalities monitoring form and send them to [email protected]. This role closes on Monday 3rd June at 9am. The interview date is Friday 7th June. 

Application Form

Equalities Monitoring Form

About Respect  

Respect is a pioneering UK membership organisation in the domestic abuse sector.  Founded in 2000, we have built our expertise over the last 21 years in what was then a fledgling sector, and recently have seen significant and rapid growth.    

 Our vision  

We want a world where everyone is free from domestic abuse. Where it is never ok to control, harm or cause fear. Where those who perpetrate domestic abuse are stopped, held to account and given the chance to change.   

Our mission  

We work with our members, partners and allies to stop the harms done by those who perpetrate domestic abuse.  With innovative practice, robust research and quality data, we build evidence of what works, promote safe, effective practice and drive high standards.  We use our voice, in collaboration with others, to call for a response to domestic abuse that matches the scale of the problem.  We will not stop, until domestic abuse stops.   

Our Focus  

 Respect was founded to focus on perpetrators of domestic abuse and this, including our vital work with young people who cause harm, will remain our key priority.  Our work with male victims will continue as an important, distinct, project.   

Our Values  

Pioneering  

We explore innovative ideas and develop new approaches with curiosity and rigour.  

Collaborative  

We work in partnership with our members, partners and allies to bring about individual, societal and systems change.  

Accountable    

We listen to survivors and centre their needs in our work.  We hold perpetrators to account for their behaviour and hold ourselves and our members accountable for ours.  

Respectful   

We live up to our name.  We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do.  We are honest, compassionate and boldly challenge injustice.   

About Make a Change:   

Make a Change (MAC) is a community-wide, early response approach to people using abusive behaviours (or who are concerned that they might be) towards a current or ex-partner. The model has been developed by Respect in partnership with Women’s Aid Federation England, drawing inspiration from their Change that Lasts approach. It includes three strands: expert support programme for perpetrators with parallel support for survivors, workforce development and community outreach.  

We have partnered with Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA), a national charity bringing communities together to end domestic abuse and transforming how organisations and individuals respond to domestic abuse through the Coordinated Community Response (CCR) approach.  

STADA pioneered the ‘Whole Health’ approach to domestic abuse and tested this initially through their ‘Pathfinder’ project. With funding from the Home Office, STADA are now implementing their Whole Health Approach and ‘Crossing Pathway’ project to deliver interventions across healthcare settings in England as part of establishing a consistent and coordinated whole health system approach. STADA has commissioned Respect to identify, develop and deliver responses to perpetrators within health settings that improves safety and outcomes for survivors and upskills health professionals and builds effective pathways to support.  

About the role:  

This is an exciting opportunity for an aspirational and motivated individual to lead an innovative national initiative that will shape the health’s sector response to perpetrators of domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse and Health Lead will work with Standing Together’s Health team and Regional Leads with up to four beacon sites to develop survivor-centred responses to perpetrators. Project work will be at second tier, which means no direct work with perpetrators but instead with health settings and professionals to build the health sector’s capacity to respond to perpetrators.   

This post will be based with the Make a Change team at Respect and will include cross over with these project sites to lead on initiatives with health settings.  

The postholder will lead on developing and implementing responses within health settings. The postholder will also help shape STADA’s accreditation process for the health sector with an emphasis on the perpetrator response. Both aspects will consider the role of health in responding to both perpetrators as patients and staff members. 

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.