Domestic Abuse/ Healthy Relationships Trainer

Job description

Domestic Abuse Training Facilitator (with Healthy Relationships Delivery) Barnardo's Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Domestic Abuse Service - Safer Futures
Location: Cornwall (countywide delivery with opportunities for remote working)

Are you passionate about creating safer communities and improving responses to domestic abuse?
Barnardo's Safer Futures Service is seeking an enthusiastic and skilled facilitator to join our team. This exciting role will primarily focus on delivering high-quality Domestic Abuse Training to professionals and partner agencies across Cornwall, helping to increase knowledge, confidence and best practice in responding to domestic abuse.

Alongside professional training delivery, you will also support our preventative work through the delivery of Healthy Relationships workshops within schools, empowering children and young people to recognise and build healthy, respectful and safe relationships.

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference through both workforce development and early intervention work, contributing to positive outcomes for children, families and communities across Cornwall.
What you'll be doing

• Deliver engaging and impactful domestic abuse training to professionals across a range of sectors.
• Support the delivery of Healthy Relationships workshops to children, young people and school staff.
• Adapt training to meet the needs of different audiences and learning styles.
• Evaluate training delivery and prepare reports demonstrating impact and outcomes.
• Maintain and develop training resources to ensure content remains current and evidence-informed.
• Build positive relationships with schools, partner agencies and stakeholders.
• Support service promotion and communications activity.
• Work closely with the Children's Services Manager and Service Coordinator to ensure a coordinated training offer across Cornwall.
• Contribute to service development, monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Attend meetings, supervision, training and development opportunities as required.

Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience delivering training, workshops or learning sessions to adults.
• Has strong knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on adults, children and families.
• Can confidently engage and influence a wide range of audiences.
• Has excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Is able to facilitate sensitive discussions and manage challenging situations professionally.
• Understands safeguarding responsibilities and trauma-informed practice.
• Has experience of building strong working relationships and collaborating with partner organisations.
• Can effectively manage competing priorities whilst maintaining high-quality delivery.
• Is organised, IT literate and able to maintain accurate records and reports.
• Shares Barnardo's commitment to supporting children, young people and families to achieve positive outcomes.
• Experience of delivering sessions to children and young people, or knowledge of healthy relationships education, would be advantageous.

Why join Barnardo's?
At Barnardo's, we believe in creating safer futures for children, young people and families. You'll join a supportive and passionate team committed to delivering high-quality services and influencing positive change across Cornwall.

In return, you'll benefit from:

• Ongoing training and professional development.
• Regular supervision and support.
• Opportunities to contribute to service innovation and development.
• A flexible and collaborative working environment.
• The chance to make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and adults affected by domestic abuse.

Interested?
If you are passionate about improving responses to domestic abuse, confident in delivering engaging training and committed to promoting healthy relationships, we'd love to hear from you.

When completing your application, please refer to the Project Worker 1 Person Specification and clearly demonstrate how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of this role.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.