Domestic Abuse Housing Coordinator

This is a Gloucester City Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Domestic Abuse Housing Coordinator
• Job Location:                    Gloucester City Council 
• Salary:                              £36,124 - £38,626 per annum 
• Hours per Week:              37.00 
• Contract Type:                  Fixed Term 
• Duration:                           23 Months 
• Closing Date:                    21/07/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:  11886 
• This post is open to job share

We are a dynamic local authority providing essential services to the people of Gloucester.

Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day.  We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.

About the Team 

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Gloucestershire Housing Partnership team, based at Gloucester City Council, to coordinate work across the countywide domestic abuse (DA) and housing programme. You will work collaboratively with our strategic partners, including Gloucestershire’s six District Councils, Gloucestershire County Council; Gloucestershire’s Integrated Care Board and the Office for Police and Crime Commissioner. You will be joining a team who work creatively to overcome barriers with a view to ensuring individuals can have and maintain settled, sustainable, and safe homes.

About the Role

As Domestic Abuse Housing Coordinator, your work will help to deliver the priorities and objectives of Gloucestershire’s Domestic Abuse Strategy. You will work closely with housing services and providers across Gloucestershire to support best practice to achieve positive housing outcomes for victims of domestic abuse. This will include supporting stakeholders to achieve Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance accreditation, coordinating training offers and a DA champions network for housing, and identifying innovative solutions to address barriers to support in safe accommodation.

About You

We are seeking an individual who has an understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on individual victims, their families and the community as a whole. Ideally, you will be a collaborative professional with an ability to build effective working relationships to influence change. You will readily share knowledge and actively seek out opportunities to work with colleagues and stakeholders to develop ideas and solutions to improve services. You will have excellent communication skills and experience of managing projects and working to deadlines. We welcome applications from applicants with lived experience of homelessness, DA or refugee.

About us

We offer a range of attractive benefits including:

• Flexible and hybrid working – 90% remote working
• Excellent pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Options to purchase additional annual leave
• Regular job-specific training
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Supportive and positive working environment

How to apply

For an informal discussion about the role, please email caroline.lucasmouat@gloucester.gov.uk.

In your application to us please explain why you are applying for the position and how your experience (whether paid or unpaid), knowledge and skills help to make you a suitable candidate.

Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview week commencing 4th August 2025.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile, please follow the link below:-

Domestic Abuse Housing Coordinator - Job Profile

Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

Equality and Diversity
We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.   

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability. 

We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment to those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantages because of their disability. Please contact the recruitment team if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process recruitement@gloucestershire.gov.uk  

Further information on our commitment to Equality and Diversity can be found Here

If you wish to apply for this position on a secondment basis, please obtain approval from your current line manager that you may be released on a secondment before submitting an application form.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.