We are looking for Brent and Ealing Manager to join our Brent team.

Salary: £31,000 - £35,000, depending on experience.

Location: Brent Civic Centre

Hours: 35 hours, Full Time. 10am to 6pm including occasional late duty on a Thursdays.

Contract: Permanent

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

About us:

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.

About the role

Advance is a well-respected and well-established charity working to support women to cope and recover from experiences of domestic abuse and supporting women who are at risk of offending or with short term sentences to reduce offending. Established in 1998 to work within domestic abuse, we specialise in a range of services which support women at risk through services based at our Hammersmith offices and at co-located offices across West London boroughs. Some years later we diversified our services to start our successful Minerva project, which offers support to women offenders, many of whom are also experiencing domestic abuse. In 2017 Advance began a domestic abuse advocacy service in Brent and in 2019 we will initiate a domestic abuse advocacy service in Ealing.

The Manager will work with Senior Service Manager to ensure the protection of women and children’s rights. She will represent Advance in partnership meetings and deputise for the Senior Service Manager as required. She will work closely with partners such as the Police and Health agencies to improve services for survivors of Domestic Abuse. She will have responsibility for supporting and line-managing, including performance management, domestic violence frontline workers to provide a high-quality front-line service to women experiencing violence against women and girls while ensuring that Advance’s values, policies and procedures are embedded into service delivery. The post-holder will also take the lead in day-to-day crisis situations and provide day to day advice and guidance on casework, safeguarding and information sharing concerns. The Team Manager will oversee and improve the duty system while also overseeing rota systems including ensuring there is regular attendance at the MARAC and specialist court.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have an excellent Staff and Resource management experience

• Support and line-manage domestic violence frontline workers to provide a high-quality front-line service to women experiencing violence against women and girls while ensuring that Advance’s values, policies and procedures are embedded into service delivery
• Recruit, induct, train, develop and performance manage the domestic abuse frontline workers, including appraisals, supervision, and probation reviews to ensure that work is of a consistently high quality
• Create rotas and oversee the duty system to ensure all aspects of the service are adequately covered
• Ensure the service is adequately staffed, partake in the duty system, and provide cover where necessary
• Provide day to day guidance and advice to staff on practice matters and case management to ensure staff are aware of their responsibilities in relation to agreed codes of practice and safe methods of work, and that clients receive a service that is appropriate to needs, risk and safety

Provide support to front line staff in cases where there are adults at risk or child protection concerns, liaising regularly with the Senior Services Manager or other relevant managers, consulting with and informing them as required

• Ensure line managed staff work within the organisation’s case management and performance management framework. This includes supervising client casework to meet agreed standards and to ensure organisational objectives are translated into individual work plans with clear and realisable targets.
• Assess referrals and partake in administrative duties as required.

We recognise that women often only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the criteria. We encourage you to demonstrate how your skills and experience would make you an asset to the role, and if you don’t have the exact skills/experience, tell us in your cover letter how you think you might grow and develop in the role.

How to apply:

Please submit your up-to-date CV with a supporting statement. Please note that only applications made via the job advert on the Advance careers page, and those that include a cover letter will be considered.

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  Closing Date for Applications: Wednesday, 21st December 2022
• Interviews are taking place on rolling basis

What we can offer you - Employee Benefits:

• An exceptional 30 days of paid holiday per year, 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
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Yoga/Meditation and many more activities on our wellbeing online platform
• Employee eye-care scheme
• Clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles
• Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 for each referral who passes probation
• Organisation wide away days
• Thorough induction and training
• Career development pathways

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Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.