DA Housing Manager

Salary: £38,000 - £44,000

Please note that we advertise our full salary banding for each role to provide transparency about our pay rates. The actual offer will be within that band and dependent on skills and experience.

Location:

Hammersmith, we operate a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and up to 2 days working from home each week

Contract:

Permanent

Hours p/w 35 hours

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Any offer of employment will be made subject to references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK, and satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse and supporting women with short-term sentences to reduce offending. We believe in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community.

We are a community-based organisation who lead in best practice approaches to supporting women in their local community. We achieve this by being available to meet and support women in local settings and at our women’s centres, and by working in close partnership with other agencies.

Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

You will be working for Advance service as a Domestic Abuse Housing Manager responsible for overseeing the delivery of the London Whole Housing Service. You will be responsible for line managing and performance managing project staff including annual appraisals and supervision.

You will support in recruiting, training and developing a team of competent and highly skilled IDVAs to provide a consistently high-quality service to women, and support the IDVAs to ensure that Advance’s values, policies and procedures are embedded into service delivery.

In addition you will oversee the management of caseloads and casework to a high-quality standard and monitor the performance of your team, offering continuous coaching and feedback to ensure that Advance meets the specific KPIs and outcome measures for the contract, taking immediate action to manage poor performance as necessary.

To be successful as the Domestic Abuse Housing Manager you will need the below experience and skills:

You will bring your management experience of providing services to women experiencing Domestic Violence and Abuse. With a significant experience of managing, developing and leading teams across a geographically dispersed region and remotely, including harnessing the strengths and potential of staff at all levels, building a strong team culture and maintaining staff motivation, particularly through periods of change. You will have substantial delivery of collaborative working with external agencies, stakeholders, subcontracted partners and extensive management of frontline workers.

• A 35-hour working week
• An exceptional 30 days of paid holiday per year (pro rata for part time), PLUS public holidays on top (that's nearly 40 days paid holiday per year!)
• Additional days off to celebrate International Women’s Day, and for religious observance and moving home
• Perkbox - an employee discount platform where you can receive free rewards as well as take advantage of savings on clothes, groceries, travel, leisure and more
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee eye-care scheme
• Clinical…