Domestic Abuse Co-ordinator

**Hours: 37 per week**

**Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31/3/24**

**Service Area: Regeneration & Housing**

**Department: Housing Strategy & Commissioning**

B&NES Housing Services is improving how we respond to people needing to flee their home due to domestic abuse. We are re-shaping provision for single people and families in light of our Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment and are seeking someone to manage the procurement and contracting process, following up with performance management and liaising with local partners. We will be working together on re-commissioning shared and dispersed refuge and floating support provision, working as part of the B&NES Domestic Abuse Partnership.

We are committed to making lives better and safer and need a focused and well-organised individual to dedicate to the task. If you have experience of managing and monitoring contracts and are interested in getting good outcomes for vulnerable people, we’d like to hear from you.

Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.

**Why B&NES Council?**

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

- A competitive salary package
- A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
- A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
- The Local Government Pension Scheme
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme - whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
- Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
- Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

**Interested to find out more?**

**To apply**

Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose - to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be **Bold, Empowered, Supportive **and** Transparent**.

**As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.**

**Interview Date**:10/11/23**

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.

As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.