Domestic Violence Housing Manager

Position: Domestic Violence Supported Housing Manager
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Location:

Manchester City Centre / Greater Manchester Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 per annum depending on experience

Contract:

Permanent, 40 hours per week Working Pattern:
Flexible working, including evenings, weekends and participation in an on-call rota About the Role We are seeking an experienced and passionate Supported Housing Manager to lead a new dispersed safe accommodation service supporting adult victims and survivors of domestic abuse with complex and intersecting needs, and their children where applicable. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced manager to play a key role in establishing and developing a high-quality, trauma-informed service that provides safe accommodation, intensive specialist support, safety and recovery work, and proactive move-on assistance.

You will provide visible, hands-on leadership and take overall responsibility for ensuring the service is safe, effective, person-centred and outcome-focused. You will lead a dedicated team, oversee complex casework and safeguarding, manage service performance and partnerships, and ensure residents receive the right support to rebuild their lives and move towards sustainable accommodation and greater independence. The successful candidate will be confident managing high-risk domestic abuse and safeguarding situations and will bring a strong understanding of DASH assessments, MARAC, coercive control, trauma-informed practice and multi-agency risk management.

Key Responsibilities As Supported Housing Manager, you will:
Lead, motivate and develop a specialist team, ensuring high standards of practice and support. Create a psychologically safe and reflective working culture that promotes learning, professional curiosity and continuous improvement. Provide management oversight of complex and high-risk domestic abuse, safeguarding and MARAC cases. Ensure high-quality risk assessments, DASH assessments, safety plans, support plans and case records. Ensure support is trauma-informed, strengths-based, culturally responsive and centred around survivor choice.

Act as the service safeguarding lead, ensuring concerns are appropriately identified, recorded, escalated and managed. Oversee serious incidents, emergency arrangements, risk management and business continuity. Manage referrals, assessments, eligibility, placements, vacancies, waiting lists and occupancy. Develop strong relationships with local authority commissioners, police, MARAC partners, domestic abuse services, health, housing and other statutory and voluntary-sector organisations. Ensure every household has a clear and achievable move-on plan, with early intervention where barriers to move-on arise.

Oversee housing management, rent and arrears, property compliance, health and safety, repairs and accommodation standards. Lead on contract performance, KPIs, audits, quality assurance, service reporting and improvement planning. Manage budgets and resources effectively, ensuring value for money and appropriate financial oversight. Ensure residents have meaningful opportunities to influence service development, recruitment, support and continuous improvement. Represent the service professionally with commissioners and external partners.

Participate in an out-of-hours management/on-call rota and respond appropriately to serious incidents and service emergencies. About You We are looking for an experienced manager with a strong background in supported housing, domestic abuse, homelessness or another comparable service supporting people with complex needs. You will ideally have:
Proven experience managing and developing teams through supervision, reflective…