University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Domestic Abuse Practitioner
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Role Overview
The Domestic Abuse Practitioner will provide a high-quality specialist domestic abuse service across the Trust, supporting patients, carers, visitors, and staff.
Key Responsibilities
- Work within the corporate Safeguarding Team, delivering expert advice, coordinating responses to domestic abuse, and ensuring robust risk assessment and safety planning.
- Provide specialist domestic abuse advice, support, and education to multi-professional teams.
- Enable safe, appropriate, and trauma-informed responses to victims of domestic abuse.
- Empower patients to seek support and understand their options in relation to domestic abuse.
- Support staff in completing high-quality DASH risk assessments and ensure Trust representation at MARAC.
- Work closely with the wider safeguarding team to include Adult Safeguarding, Midwifery, Children & Young People Safeguarding, Learning Disability, and mental health leads.
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure coordinated support and advocacy for victims.
- Participate in multi-agency safeguarding meetings, including MARAC, as required.
- Deliver training to frontline staff on recognizing and responding to domestic abuse.
- Contribute to Trust-wide safeguarding education programmes.
- Support the implementation of domestic abuse pathways, policies, and Trust-wide initiatives.
- Work within national and local safeguarding legislation, policies, and evidence-based practice frameworks.
- Support monitoring and compliance with the Trust Domestic Abuse and Sexual Safety policies.
- Assist in quality improvement, audit, and service development initiatives.
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About University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and are highly regarded for our facilities, teaching, and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM, and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
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UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients, and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, we know that investing in, supporting, and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Simone Rushton
- Job Title: Lead Nurse for Safeguarding
- Email Address: Simone.rushton@uhnm.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01782 675477
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