Domestic Abuse Team Manager

About the Team:

The Domestic Abuse Team is a skilled, trauma‑informed service, dedicated to supporting adults and children impacted by domestic abuse through compassionate, relational and restorative practice. The team specialises in risk assessment, safety planning and multi‑agency working, and is known for its strong values, collaborative culture and commitment to achieving lasting, positive change.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire's Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council's Children and Families Service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas

About the Role:

We are recruiting for the role of Team Manager in ourDomestic Abuse Team coveringWarwickshire for a 12 month fixed term maternity cover.

Key points of the Domestic Abuse (DA) Team Manager role:

• Operational leadership - Lead and manage the Domestic Abuse Team, ensuring high‑quality, safe and effective services are delivered to children and families affected by domestic abuse.
• Staff management and development - Provide strong supervision, support and performance management, promoting reflective, trauma‑informed and restorative practice across the team.
• Safeguarding and risk oversight - Hold oversight of complex cases, risk management, thresholds and statutory responsibilities, ensuring robust safeguarding and timely decision‑making.
• Multi‑agency partnership working - Build and maintain effective relationships with police, health, education, housing and voluntary sector partners to deliver coordinated responses to domestic abuse.
• Service development and quality assurance - Contribute to strategic development, monitor outcomes and performance, and ensure practice meets legal, policy and commissioning standards.

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Key Requirements:

Travel expectations: Regular travel across the county to meet with families, staff, partners and attend multi‑agency meetings, with flexibility to work from community and partner locations

Key requirement: Experience of working within a domestic abuse setting, with a strong understanding of risk assessment, safeguarding, trauma‑informed practice and multi‑agency responses

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire's Children and Families service.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

Domestic Abuse Team Manager

Working for Warwickshire - This is the difference you make:

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

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Additional Information:

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

To discuss the role please contact Derri Coupland (Service manager for Early support, Domestic Abuse and Different Futures, derricoupland@warwickshire.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 08th June 2026

Interview Date: 22nd June 2026

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more

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Location: Warwick

Region: Warwick

Salary: £48,226 - £50,269 per annum

Job reference: RA0007710

Apply by: 08/06/2026

Package: Full Time, Fixed Term

Contractual hours: 37

Basis: Full time