Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Manager (Ely, Cambridgeshire, GB, CB7 4DL) bei None

Sanctuary manages rented and shared ownership homes and supports community initiatives for thousands of customers across England. Our staff help make a real difference to the quality of people’s lives

Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Manager

Base office location may vary dependent upon suitable candidate

£49,641 - £52,254 per year

37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday – 9:00am to 5:00pm

We are seeking a Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Manager to join our team. The role sits within housing services who are responsible for managing homes across England, providing general rented housing, shared ownership and home ownership accommodation. It also provides housing related services including lettings, debt management, tenancy management and customer services support.

As Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Manager you will lead and coordinate effective safeguarding activities across Housing functions, ensuring robust reporting, learning and continuous improvement. Aswell as providing oversight of safeguarding compliance and the integration of domestic abuse responses into safeguarding practice.

The role of Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Manager will include:

• Contributing to and supporting the delivery of safeguarding strategy and operations across Housing functions, ensuring alignment with legal and regulatory requirements                                                     
• Reviewing safeguarding cases providing expert advice and guidance on safeguarding and domestic abuse matters to colleagues at all levels                                              
• Embedding domestic abuse awareness, response protocols and support pathways into safeguarding frameworks and frontline practice                                            
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance with safeguarding legislation, internal policies and external standards                                                  
• Supporting, developing and working closely with Safeguarding Champions across the organisation, delivering and coordinating staff briefings and training to drive best practice and local engagement
• Facilitating learning from safeguarding incidents, audits and reviews ensuring training provision is appropriate and up to date and lessons are shared and embedded across Housing England
• Building and maintaining effective partnerships with external agencies and domestic abuse support organisations to promote a culture of safety, accountability and proactive engagement. Ensure gaps and challenges in current practice are identified and recommendations are made to update and refine Sanctuary's policies.                                                    
• Leading on safeguarding data analysis and reporting, identifying any immediate risks or trends and areas for improvement sharing insight with senior management and stakeholders                                                   

Skills and Experiences:

• Degree, mental health, nursing or social work qualification or relevant professional qualification
• Comprehensive knowledge of social care safeguarding good practice principles and current statutory legislation
• Proven experience of analysing and diagnosing problems and implementing effective solutions
• Proven experience of inspection regimes and performance management
• Occasional travel may be requirement of the role, therefore a full valid driving licence is essential

Why work for us?

We are a not-for-profit housing association, and own and manage around 125,000 homes. We foster a diverse and inclusive culture, and nurture and reward talent. Our customers are at the heart of all we do, and colleagues help make a real difference to people’s lives.

Our Benefits    

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays

• A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
• Life Assurance
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans  
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues

• Role salary is £49,641 (rising to £52,254 after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

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Closing Date: 16 November 2025

If you're unsure about any details, have questions about the role or want to discuss a need for adjustments, our fantastic talent team will be happy to help you – [email protected]

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

View more detail about what it’s like to work for our organisation, and what we offer on our Sanctuary careers pages at -  www.sanctuary.co.uk/join-our-team

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference.  We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.  We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Housing Services Limited is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.