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Senior IDVA Advisor / Senior Independent Domestic Violence Advisor
£38,133 - £46,206 per annum
Fixed Term / Secondment (12 months)
Full Time
Richmond and Wandsworth

Do you have experience working in the domestic abuse field to implement change and ensure best practice? As a Senior IDVA Advisor, you will be working closely with the Vulnerabilities Manager to facilitate the transition from one provider to another for the IDVA Service. You will gain experience in contract mobilization and management and be unafraid of challenging partners with the service user’s voice at the heart of your work, ensuring the best outcome for them. Your support will be crucial in service transition and delivery, risk mitigation, lead investigations into any safeguarding concerns, where appropriate taking over management of such cases to ensure best practice.

About the role

Richmond and Wandsworth are in the process of recommissioning their IDVA Service, and there will be a transitional phase where the Council must ensure that service users’ experience of the service is not impacted.  You will be responsible for holding the providers to account, ensuring best practice and preventing safeguarding issues from arising. 

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their skills and understanding of contract management. You will report directly into the Vulnerabilities Manager and will work closely to ensure appropriate escalation of any issues and oversee contract delivery and mobilisation when the new provider takes over.  When the new provider is in place the Senior IDVA Advisor will have the exciting opportunity to ensure this service gets off to the best start possible, creating the necessary networks to deliver the contract. 

Where necessary, this role will hold or oversee cases if there are concerns that the service user could be high risk or impacted by the service provider change.  

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Understanding of domestic abuse and how to respond and safeguard in line with national recommended standards (SafeLives).
• Understanding of the role Local Authorities have in responding to domestic abuse.
• GDPR and handling of sensitive information.
• Safeguarding experience in the context of domestic abuse.
• Working in partnership with stakeholders both inside and outside of the local authority with positive outcomes.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to build strong relationships quickly.
• Organisation and time management, ability to prioritise own workload with competing and fast changing demands.

Closing Date: 25th August 2024
Shortlisting Date: 26th August 2024
Interview Date: 2nd September 2024

If you are a passionate, self-starting individual who can work autonomously with strong attention to detail and is unafraid of challenge, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Miranda Hibbert, Vulnerabilities Manager at miranda.hibbert@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

All internal applicants for this secondment must seek permission from their current line manager before applying. Failure to do so may result in the secondment not being authorised

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. 

 We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.  

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