Deputy Service Manager - Accommodation

*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.

 Stop Domestic Abuse is a trauma informed organisation, the work we do to support those effected by domestic abuse may be triggering for those with past trauma. Please only apply if you are living free from abuse. If you’d like to talk to us about this, please get in touch.

Salary: £31,978 - £36,547

Location: East Hampshire

Hours: 37 (Monday-9.30am-5.30pm & Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm)

Contract : Permanent

Job Reference Number: STOPDA773

Main purpose and scope of the job:

Managing services that provide support, advice and assistance to adults and their children affected by domestic abuse and are staying in refuge/safe space and ensure that they are provided with secure, high quality accommodation.  To be able to work therapeutically within a communal living dynamic.  

Managing and providing a high-quality and pro-active front-line service to victims of domestic abuse; delivering a pathway of care focusing on support, safety and protection and be responsible for the day to day management of all aspects of services. 

Recruiting, inducting, supervising, leading and developing staff within policy and quality standards and to provide a range of high quality services.  

Working within a multi-agency framework consisting of the Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC), High Risk Domestic Abuse (HRDA) and local partnership responses to domestic abuse.

Recording and maintaining up to date statistics of enquiries and referrals. Also supporting the Service Manager to complete monitoring and financial returns required by funders/commissioners. 

Presenting reports, statistics, updates on staffing, case studies etc to the Senior Leadership Team and/or Board of Trustees as and when required.

Deputising for the Service Manager as and when required.

 As part of this role, you will participate in the delivery of the on-call out of hours service on a rota basis. 

Please click on links below to download an application pack.

Please note there is no closing date for this post, we will keep the vacancy open until we have successfully appointed to the role. Once your application has been reviewed we will contact you to let you know if you have been shortlisted for an interview.

We particularly welcome applicants from BAMER communities that are currently under-represented in our organisation.

Appointment will be on merit alone.

We will recruit the first suitable applicants, so apply early as we may close applications earlier.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.