Domestic Abuse Team Leader
Description
Number of Vacancies
0
Time Type
Full time
Worker Type
Regular
Proposed Interview Date
Monday, October 12, 2026
Hours of Work
37
Hiring Manager
Vicki Paddison
Contact Number
01482 615413
Job Description Summary
This is a Full Time Permanent Position
Interviews will take place week commencing 12 October 2026
Hull City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment.
Hull City Council is a White Ribbon Accredited Organization.
ROLE AND PURPOSE
The post holder will work across the Authority’s domestic abuse services, DAP victim service and Strength to Change perpetrator service.
The post holder will lead and manage the frontline operational delivery of the Domestic Abuse Service (DAP) and Strength to Change team of specialist staff ensuring trauma informed, strength based, victim focused high-quality services are delivered for male and female victims / survivors across all risk levels, including high risk victims of domestic abuse and for perpetrators of domestic abuse who pose a risk to their partners / ex-partners.
They will be responsible for ensuring the overarching aim of the Strength to Change service is at the centre of all decision making and service delivery, which is to safeguard victims and their children.
They will also have responsibility and accountability for ensuring the operational delivery of high-quality support and advice services are offered and provided to the partner / ex-partners of men accessing the Strength to Change service.
They will also have responsibility for providing supervision, case reviews, reflective practice, mentoring and identifying the development needs of all staff to ensure high quality support and advice services are offered and provided, including for the partners / ex-partners of men accessing the Strength to Change service.
They will be responsible for overseeing policy and processes for the sharing of information between the Strength to Change male and female service provisions to ensure risk is identified and appropriate risk management strategies and complex decision making is made taking into account any adult and child safeguarding concerns. They will be responsible for escalating service level risks to the Strength to Change Operational Lead.
They also will be responsible and accountable for providing supervision, case reviews, reflective practice and personal and professional development for practitioners working with male victims / survivors.
The post holder will oversee and lead on training and development of both specialist staff teams ensure they have the required high-level knowledge and expertise to undertake their specialist roles. They will also ensure that both the DAP and Strength to Change specialist teams work seamlessly together to achieve the common goal of safeguarding victims and their children.
They will participate and facilitate effective partnership working and ensure commonality of approach and adherence to policies and procedures which inform and guide service delivery. Provide professional support, information and challenge to colleagues across the partnership and advocating on behalf of victims / survivors.
On a daily basis they will process all referrals received and undertake high level decision making in line with service threshold criteria and allocate to DA Practitioners according to need and level of complexity. They will liaise with referrers for high level information to be gathered and analysed to inform decision making, service options to ensure victims and their children’s needs are met
They will co-ordinate and chair multi-agency meetings required to share information, pool resources and enhance partnership working, providing effective challenge and advocating on behalf of clients to ensure the needs of victims and their children are met.
On a daily basis they will provide high level specialist safeguarding advice, guidance and direction to partner agency staff, including in relation to safeguarding adults and children. They will make decisions when to initiate safeguarding escalation procedures and act accordingly.
They will raise awareness of domestic abuse and evidence based good practice in relation to safeguarding and service provision in this specialist and complex area of work.
The post holder will lead on the delivery of high quality impactful domestic abuse training and development for internal staff across the council and external agency staff.
They will project manage, oversee and facilitate group work sessions with victims / survivors or perpetrators according to their specialism, who are referred to Domestic Abuse Services from a variety of organisations, e.g. Children/ Adults Social Care, courts, health etc. and self-referrals from clients seeking support.
They will ensure domestic abuse specialist risk assessment tools are used to inform high level and often complex decision making and ensure appropriate information sharing to safeguard victims and their children. The post holder is expected to work in line with the Respect Practice Standards, SafeLives and women’s Aid National Service Standards for Domestic Abuse.
The post holder will be expected to develop a system thinking, strengths-based solutions focussed approach to the delivery of highly specialised services for victims / survivors of domestic abuse and perpetrators.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults
2. Strategy – Contributes to continuous professional development activity, through training, workshops, coaching & mentoring, to ensure that the DAP and Strength to Change staff and wider co-located agency staff maintain and develop their knowledge and skills, in order to sustain safe, effective, ethical and lawful practice in relation to victims / survivors and their children and perpetrators.
Contributes to the development of the domestic abuse / VAWG strategy by sharing victim’s views and practice barriers and challenges and trends to influence practice and service delivery.
Develop effective working relationships with colleagues across the partnership to ensure that the voices and experiences of all victims / survivors are heard, and that co-production is maximised to influence developments and improvements across policy development, partnership working and service delivery. Support the development and co-ordination of lived experience advisory panels.
Provides professional practice advice and support to partner agencies to ensure that that the service and wider partnership are fulfilling statutory obligations under the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Identify and escalate poor practice for remedial action to be taken.
Will work independently using own initiative making key service decisions on a daily basis to ensure the service provides high quality specialist services.
3. Customer Focus – To line manage, supervise and support, the Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Men’s Practitioners and Assessment & Support Practitioners to ensure they are highly efficient, effective trauma informed and take a strength-based client centred approach to service delivery. To co-ordinate and plan the day-to-day operations of specialist domestic abuse services and staff teams in order to achieve ongoing service delivery and continuous improvements within the service. Remain mindful of and ensure the application of national evidenced based best practice and minimum standards ensuring ongoing service improvements are adopted and implemented.
Ensure access to services for adults as defined in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, aged 16 years and above, and who may have multiple protected characteristics and understand how these intersect.
To manage complex cases that require high levels of expert knowledge and expertise and give practice guidance to staff who