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Job Title: Deputy Service Manager
Location: Derby City (on-site role)
Salary: £36,565.90 per annum
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Deputy Service Manager to support survivors who have been impacted by domestic abuse. We are recruiting for a Deputy Service Manager who is passionate about supporting survivors who are impacted by domestic abuse. In this role you will provide line management and support to community-based staff who support survivors of domestic abuse across Derby City. This will include providing supervision on complex casework, overseeing operational emergencies and ensuring high standards of casework.
The Deputy service manager willjoin our management team toassist the service manager in the delivery and development of high-quality support to survivors accessing our community-based services in Derby City. In this role you will ensure the smoothrunning of high-quality service to support survivors of domestic abuse. This will include managing staff teams to ensure effective advocacy is provided to survivors who are at medium/standard risk and their children.
A key requirement is to provide personal welfare support and to ensure that survivors are provided with a safe, supportive outreach service
Suitable candidates must have proven experience of providing direct emotional and practical support, and of managing case work. In addition, you must have experience of managing and motivating staff, knowledge of domestic abuse issues, experience of providing support to survivors, and experience of working in community-based services
As a member of the management team, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call service, on a rota basis, responding to out of hours emergencies.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 1 September 2026
Interview Date: 8 and 9 September 2026 - The interview will be in person – venue to be confirmed at interview invite stage
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Service Development Manager
We are looking for an experienced and resourceful Service Development Manager to work closely with the CEO to establish and deliver a strong presence across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury.
This is an opportunity to join a supportive and purpose-driven team where your work will make a direct difference to families across Gloucestershire.
Position: Service Development Manager
Location: Remote/Gloucestershire, with regular travel across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury and occasional attendance at the Stroud office
Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week
Salary: £38,000 pro rata (£30,811 actual salary for 30 hours per week)
Contract: 24-month fixed-term contract
Closing Date: 20th September 2026. This job opportunity may close early if we find an appropriate candidate before the closing date.
The Role
This is a hands-on role combining direct family support, project management, service development and partnership building. You will hold an appropriate caseload, develop new activity, build strong local referral pathways and help turn the countywide plans into practical support for families.
We need someone who is confident working independently, takes ownership, builds relationships quickly and can find practical solutions when there is no obvious route forward. The initial focus will be Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, but the role is designed to evolve as our countywide work develops.
Key accountabilities include:
- Service development and delivery
- Direct family support
- Project management
- Partnerships and referral pathways
- Funding, monitoring and sustainability
- Safeguarding and quality
The first year will focus on developing and delivering Home-Start services across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury. As the countywide work develops, the focus of the role may evolve to support wider service development across Gloucestershire.
For the first six weeks, the post will be predominantly based at the Stroud office for induction and orientation.
After this, the role will be mainly home and community based, with regular travel across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury and occasional attendance at the Stroud office.
About You
We are looking for someone who is practical, resourceful and motivated by making things happen.
You will be comfortable supporting a family one day and developing a new partnership or service the next and have enough frontline experience to understand what works for families and enough project-management discipline to turn ideas into effective delivery. You will not be joining a finished project with every detail already decided. We need someone who can understand the objective, identify what needs to happen next and move the work forward.
You will have experience of:
- Direct service delivery, ideally with families, children or communities
- Holding a caseload or providing ongoing one-to-one support
- Project management
- Developing or implementing new projects or services
- Building effective relationships with external organisations and professionals
- Working independently and taking responsibility for delivery
- Safeguarding and professional boundaries.
Practical requirements
You must:
- be able to drive;
- be willing and able to travel independently across Gloucestershire;
- be able to work predominantly from the Stroud office during the initial six-week induction period;
- subsequently be comfortable working from home and community locations;
- be confident using standard IT and case-recording systems.
If this sounds like you, then apply today!
About the Organisation
Join a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age. Trained home-visiting volunteers offer regular friendship, emotional, and practical support to help families experiencing a challenging time in their lives. The service is unique and also offers free support peer groups, antenatal, postnatal, and perinatal mental health services.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, faith groups, and socioeconomic circumstances, as well as from people who are disabled, neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, or from different age groups. We also value applications from those with caring responsibilities or non-traditional career paths.
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Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
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The young people, children and families that we support are at the heart of everything we do at Mermaids. The work that we do has significantly expanded and we now need a highly effective and experienced Support Line Manager to join the organisation. The role is a core part of the our management team and will lead and manage our support line services.
Mermaids is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from those with lived experiences (directly or indirectly) and/or close ties to the LGBTQ+ community. We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to join us and shape what we do. We are particularly keen to receive applications from BPOC (black and people of colour) and/or disabled and trans candidates.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Supporting trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children, young people and their families since 1995
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.