Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Officer

Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Officer   

Macclesfield 

£31,000 per annum 

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week (permanent)  

Our client is a Housing Trust in Macclesfield with over 5000 properties across East Cheshire and the surrounding areas. They are passionate about what they do in providing high quality homes and investing in their communities to improve people's lives.    

They are pleased to announce a brand new role of Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Officer based within their Community Support and Enforcement Team. 

You will act as the first point of contact for staff, providing support with safeguarding customers, domestic abuse concerns, carrying out investigations and triaging and managing a caseload. You will also act as a representative for the Trust at internal and external meetings and ensure lessons learnt are implemented. The role will also have a focus on early intervention remedies, multi- agency working and risk assessing.   

To succeed you’ll have experience of proactively managing domestic abuse and safeguarding casework alongside multi-agency relationship building and problem solving. You will also have a good knowledge of relevant legislation and best practice with the resilience to deal with challenging situations and deliver sustainable outcomes.  

They can offer you:  

• A minimum of 28 days holiday per year (plus birthday leave and bank holidays).  

• Agile Working offering flexibility of working hours and hybrid working with a mix of home working and attendance at the office and off site meetings.    

• Attractive Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with Employer’s contributions up to 12%  

• Training and development. Let them know where you want to get to and they’ll help you get there.  

• A focus on your health and wellbeing including access to their Health Cash Plan offering a variety of benefits and discounts.    

• A state of the art modern office with a friendly working environment  

Their Values are at the core of everything they do, so they are looking for someone who’s values agree with theirs and will embed these too!   

They will be assessing applications as they receive them. They will keep the job open until the vacancy is filled.