Drive Partnership Triage Worker - Manchester

The Role

Position: Drive Partnership Triage Worker 

Reports to: Drive Partnership Triage Team Lead

Hours: 15 hours per week with funding for a 2 year fixed term contract from the pilot start date. 

Salary:  Point 31-34 £34,016 to £36,754 for full time. This salary will be pro rated for part time. The pro rata salary is £13,606- £14, 701 (6% employer’s pension subject to an additional 2% contribution by the employee). 

Location: Manchester- Hybrid Office/Home working. 

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

Contract: Fixed Term -2 Year Pilot  

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

Closing date: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Interview dates: Successfully shortlisted candidates will be offered an interview after 22nd October 2024.

Further detail on the triage model and staffing structure

How to apply

Please complete the application form and equalities monitoring form and send them to [email protected]. 

Successful applicants must reside in the United Kingdom.

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 will support Practice, Development and Learning in relation to one or more of our three strands of work the Drive High Harm High Risk intervention, Restart our early intervention pilot or one of the pilots emerging through our National Systems Change for example the DAPO Triage model. 

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, SafeLives 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.

Purpose of the role

The Triage Worker sits within the Triage Team in the pilot area, working alongside the Triage IDVA. The Triage Worker will focus on all aspects of the case relating to the Perpetrator 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.