Senior Nurse - Integrated Domestic Abuse Response Team (IDART)

The new Integrated Domestic Abuse Response Team (IDART). IDART jointly manages a risk response to Domestic Abuse within Wakefield in a timely manner completing live time actions and safety planning which will be shared between all partners.

Overall, the aim is to reduce risk, reduce repeats and offer early intervention and prevention.

Effective safeguarding within IDART relies on strong, transparent, and timely collaboration between all partner agencies. You will carry out clinical risk assessments, with a particular focus on identifying vulnerability and the likelihood of repeat incidents. Working closely with NHS and community mental health services, you will help ensure individuals in crisis are signposted to appropriate support and interventions, with the aim of reducing future risk.

The role will also involve contributing to the development of preventative approaches, sharing insights on emerging trends and risks, and supporting the production of regular reports to inform operational and safeguarding responses across the route.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your clinical expertise in a non-traditional setting, making a direct impact on individual wellbeing.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

Main duties of the job

Provide daily safeguarding support within the Integrated Domestic Abuse Response Team (IDART), reviewing overnight domestic abuse reports and responding to live safety actions with police and partner agencies. This includes deploying to live domestic abuse incidents to deliver early intervention, address immediate needs, and reduce risk for victims and suspects.

Share information rapidly with partners to enable a coordinated safeguarding response, while contributing your expertise to upskill the wider team. The role also includes attending key multiagency meetings (DRAM, MARAC, Clares Law Panel, and monthly perpetrator meetings), coordinating and participating in joint visits, and supporting Domestic Abuse Offender Managers with service delivery.

Joint work with IDART and Police, contributing to triage meetings to identify and mitigate risk posed by primary needs. Participate in joint visits where required, both to custody and in the community in live time with partner agencies.

Participate and potentially chair in MARAC and DRAM and something about sitting within the IDART team and actioning urgent safeguarding requests.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.