Domestic Abuse Lead and Commissioning Manager
| Posting date: | 09 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £47,532 to £55,620 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton, London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | London Borough of Sutton |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 3579 |
Summary
About the Role and our Ideal Candidate
We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Domestic Abuse Lead and Commissioning Manager within Children's Social Care at the London Borough of Sutton. This opportunity is available on a secondment for 12 months, with a view of extending. Our objective is to support those experiencing domestic abuse and to ensure support is visible to all. Reporting to the Service Manager, you will lead on the development and implementation of strategies to address domestic abuse, ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young people. You will also oversee the commissioning of services aimed at supporting victims and their families, working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders to deliver effective, evidence-based interventions.
. Your responsibilities will include::
Leading on the development, implementation, and review of domestic abuse strategies within children’s social care.
Managing the commissioning process for domestic abuse services, ensuring value for money and service quality.
Work closely with multi-agency partners, including police, health, and voluntary sector organizations, to coordinate responses to domestic abuse.
Provide expert advice and guidance to social care teams on domestic abuse issues affecting children and families.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of commissioned services and make improvements as necessary.
Lead on training and awareness initiatives to improve understanding of domestic abuse within the organization.
Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and safeguarding standards.
In this role, you will coordinate multi-agency partnerships, represent the council in strategic groups, and actively identify funding opportunities to enhance our domestic abuse response. You will oversee provider management to ensure that services meet high standards of quality, deliver value for money, and remain in full contractual compliance. Additionally, you will support emergency planning arrangements related to domestic abuse, ensuring effective preparation and coordination during crises. Managing budgets effectively, you will deliver savings and support financial planning initiatives that align with the council’s strategic objectives, ensuring sustainable and impactful service delivery. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to make a real difference to the way we deliver our service, to address issues of domestic abuse and provide the necessary expertise to the delivery of high quality management of commissioned domestic abuse services within Children’s Social Care.
The Ideal Candidate
This role is a great opportunity for
an experienced practitioner with experience of working within a domestic abuse setting and is looking to step-up into a new role with added responsibility and autonomy within a Local Authority.
an established Commissioning Manager that’s looking to gain experience within a different sector and/or service area.
The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse legislation, safeguarding policies, and multi-agency partnership working. Experience in delivering commissioning services, contract management, and performance monitoring, with a good understanding of trauma-informed approaches and funding opportunities related to domestic abuse. The candidate must be an effective leader and collaborator, able to build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, and demonstrate strategic thinking. Character-wise, they should be empathetic, proactive, and resilient, with excellent communication and negotiation skills, and a committed approach to safeguarding and improving outcomes for vulnerable communities.
About Us
The London Borough of Sutton “is uncompromising in its focus on improving quality of frontline social work” – Ofsted
London Borough of Sutton works closely with Kingston University and regional partners as part of the Developing Together Social Work Teaching Partnership (SWTP). The partnership offers staff a wide range of pre and post qualifying education opportunities to promote continuous learning and development. This includes staff being encouraged to support the practice education of Social Work students and those in the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE). Staff are also given the opportunity to attend conferences, workshops and have access to research and practice resources to support their ongoing professional development.
Children's Social Care is going through an important change to meet the growing needs of the children and families we support. We are making many improvements to ensure that care for children is better and to create positive working environments for our staff. With committed leaders and experienced managers, we are bringing fresh ideas to our work and are helping to make real improvements in how we support children and families. Our aim is to provide high-quality care that helps children thrive while also creating an inclusive, diverse, and supportive environment for our staff to develop their careers.
We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Domestic Abuse Lead and Commissioning Manager within Children's Social Care at the London Borough of Sutton. This opportunity is available on a secondment for 12 months, with a view of extending. Our objective is to support those experiencing domestic abuse and to ensure support is visible to all. Reporting to the Service Manager, you will lead on the development and implementation of strategies to address domestic abuse, ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young people. You will also oversee the commissioning of services aimed at supporting victims and their families, working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders to deliver effective, evidence-based interventions.
. Your responsibilities will include::
Leading on the development, implementation, and review of domestic abuse strategies within children’s social care.
Managing the commissioning process for domestic abuse services, ensuring value for money and service quality.
Work closely with multi-agency partners, including police, health, and voluntary sector organizations, to coordinate responses to domestic abuse.
Provide expert advice and guidance to social care teams on domestic abuse issues affecting children and families.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of commissioned services and make improvements as necessary.
Lead on training and awareness initiatives to improve understanding of domestic abuse within the organization.
Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and safeguarding standards.
In this role, you will coordinate multi-agency partnerships, represent the council in strategic groups, and actively identify funding opportunities to enhance our domestic abuse response. You will oversee provider management to ensure that services meet high standards of quality, deliver value for money, and remain in full contractual compliance. Additionally, you will support emergency planning arrangements related to domestic abuse, ensuring effective preparation and coordination during crises. Managing budgets effectively, you will deliver savings and support financial planning initiatives that align with the council’s strategic objectives, ensuring sustainable and impactful service delivery. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to make a real difference to the way we deliver our service, to address issues of domestic abuse and provide the necessary expertise to the delivery of high quality management of commissioned domestic abuse services within Children’s Social Care.
The Ideal Candidate
This role is a great opportunity for
an experienced practitioner with experience of working within a domestic abuse setting and is looking to step-up into a new role with added responsibility and autonomy within a Local Authority.
an established Commissioning Manager that’s looking to gain experience within a different sector and/or service area.
The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of domestic abuse legislation, safeguarding policies, and multi-agency partnership working. Experience in delivering commissioning services, contract management, and performance monitoring, with a good understanding of trauma-informed approaches and funding opportunities related to domestic abuse. The candidate must be an effective leader and collaborator, able to build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, and demonstrate strategic thinking. Character-wise, they should be empathetic, proactive, and resilient, with excellent communication and negotiation skills, and a committed approach to safeguarding and improving outcomes for vulnerable communities.
About Us
The London Borough of Sutton “is uncompromising in its focus on improving quality of frontline social work” – Ofsted
London Borough of Sutton works closely with Kingston University and regional partners as part of the Developing Together Social Work Teaching Partnership (SWTP). The partnership offers staff a wide range of pre and post qualifying education opportunities to promote continuous learning and development. This includes staff being encouraged to support the practice education of Social Work students and those in the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE). Staff are also given the opportunity to attend conferences, workshops and have access to research and practice resources to support their ongoing professional development.
Children's Social Care is going through an important change to meet the growing needs of the children and families we support. We are making many improvements to ensure that care for children is better and to create positive working environments for our staff. With committed leaders and experienced managers, we are bringing fresh ideas to our work and are helping to make real improvements in how we support children and families. Our aim is to provide high-quality care that helps children thrive while also creating an inclusive, diverse, and supportive environment for our staff to develop their careers.