Child and Youth Domestic Violence Advocate

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $43,000-$48,000 a year

Summary :

The Child and Youth Domestic Violence Advocate provides direct and indirect services to child and adult survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Services include counseling, court advocacy, safety planning, hospital accompaniment, and crisis intervention. Travel to King William and King & Queen Counties is required.

Serves in an on-call capacity as required. This is a full-time, benefit eligible, 40 hours per week, exempt position (FTE 1).

Essential Functions :

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions :

• Provides supportive counseling to child and youth survivors of domestic and sexual violence;
• Provides advocacy on behalf of clients working within various systems such as court, DSS, and mental health agencies;
• Provides court advocacy and case management such as assistance filing for protective orders, accompaniment to civil court hearings, and referrals to attorneys;
• Prepares reports and other types of correspondence; prepares and maintains files and records; submits reports to appropriate agencies;
• Provides training to professionals in education, law enforcement, court services, and other community-based organizations regarding domestic and sexual violence
• Participates in trainings related to domestic and sexual violence and stalking to stay current on best practices.

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree with coursework in psychology, social work, human services, counseling, or related field and moderate experience in providing indirect services to at-risk families, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience required.
• Master's degree and license eligible (LCSW or LPC) preferred.
• Valid driver's license in the Commonwealth of Virginia

Physical Requirements :

• This work is sedentary and requires little to no exertion of force; work regularly requires sitting, frequently requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel and occasionally requires standing and walking;
• work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word;
• hearing is required to understand words spoken at a normal volume; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data;

work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Thrive Virginia is a drug-free workplace environment.

Additional Eligibility Requirements :

• Successful background check
• Ability to travel locally and statewide
• Ability to maintain flexible schedule including night and weekend hours

All employees who operate a vehicle as part of their work responsibilities must undergo a review of :

• The employee driver's license for currency and validity,
• any license restrictions that might render the employee or volunteer ineligible as a driver,
• The individual's motor vehicle record (MVR), and
• Proof of adequate personal automobile insurance

Thrive Virginia only contacts short list candidates.

Affirmative Action / EEO Statement :

Thrive Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is a drug-free, smoke-free workplace. People traditionally marginalized in the workplace are strongly encouraged to apply.

The organization does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.