Perpetrator Prevention Worker – Domestic Abuse

Fixed Term, Full Time – 37 hours per week

£31,931 to £36,423 per annum

Location: Harlow

Working Style: Community-based worker

Closing Date: 29th March 2026

Please note that this position is being offered as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity until February 2028. 

Are you ready for the challenge of being at the forefront of innovative and impactful practice? This is an exciting opportunity to join our innovative Multi‑Disciplinary Team (MDT), working at the forefront of impactful practice within Children’s Social Care.

Join our Children and Families Service, a team built on collaboration, integrity and compassion. We deliver early help, family support and evidence‑informed interventions that protect children and young people from harm and help families build safer, brighter futures.

The Opportunity

As a Perpetrator Prevention Worker (Domestic Abuse), you will work directly with individuals who cause harm, reducing risk, challenging abusive behaviours and improving safety for victims/survivors, children, and vulnerable adults. Safeguarding is central to this role.You will work alongside our Assessment & Intervention and Family Support & Protection Teams, delivering tailored interventions within homes and communities, contributing to multi‑agency risk management, and promoting meaningful behaviour change.

About You

We are looking for someone with drive, creativity and a commitment to preventing future harm. You will bring a therapeutic, perpetrator‑focused approach, strong relationship‑building skills, and the ability to challenge harmful behaviours while supporting long‑term change.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the multi-agency partnership structures and work within these settings.
• Establish ongoing multi-agency connections and relationships for the benefit of children and their family.
• Support the empowerment of service users and assist them in recognising the features and dynamics of domestic abuse present in their situation and support them effect change.
• Deliver behaviour change interventions using a range of skills to engage service users and reduce risk to victim/survivors and children.
• Maintain timely, accurate and confidential case management records and contribute to the work of the team.
• Participate in regular case management reviews within the Multi-Disciplinary Team and your line manager based on a review of risk and abuse which feeds back into action planning to further progress, signpost, or close cases, and provides feedback to your clients/agencies and informs future case management.
• Contribute to data and written reports with effective case data input and through the provision of case studies to illustrate the impact of the service for domestic abuse victims, survivors and children.
• Engage in supervision both individually and through group supervisions.

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

• Significant experience of direct work with perpetrators of domestic abuse within a criminal justice and/or wider supportive service(s).
• Experience and knowledge of effective ways of working/engaging with perpetrators of domestic abuse using a range of approaches.
• To develop and deliver effective interventions for perpetrators and facilitate discussions to achieve a positive outcome.
• Excellent conflict and crisis management skills with capacity to manage raw emotions including conflict, challenge and trauma.

Desirable:

• Have an understanding of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and a strong track record of multi-agency/partnership working.
• Demonstrate theoretical and procedural knowledge of other services involved in the multi-agency response to domestic abuse such as the MARAC process at an operational level.
• The ability to work under pressure and manage a complex and demanding workload.
• Understand the purpose and use of domestic abuse risk assessment tools e.g., DASH and respond to emerging needs.

The Team

The Multi‑Disciplinary Team (MDT) brings together specialists in housing, domestic abuse, education, substance misuse, youth work and adult and child mental health.Based within frontline Social Work teams, the MDT provides tailored interventions in the community and in family homes. MDT practitioners offer focused expertise and therapeutic insight that re‑engage families, restore hope and support lasting change. This team’s work is not only impactful — it’s transformative.

If you have drive, creativity and enthusiasm and are passionate about reducing perpetration, improving outcomes for families and creating safer environments for children, we’d love to hear from you.

Candidates shortlisted for interview will be invited to attend a face‑to‑face interview on either the 8th or 9th of April at one of our Essex County Council offices.

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

In February 2025, Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government’s devolution priority programme, which will see local authorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority by May 2026. You can read more about devolution and local government reorganisation (LGR) on our careers site.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once you’ve secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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