Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Team Manager

As Team Manager, you will lead a team of skilled practitioners, creating a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture where staff can thrive and residents receive the highest standards of support and protection.

You'll Have The Opportunity To

• Lead and manage a specialist domestic abuse and safeguarding team to deliver high-quality, person-centred services.
• Provide expert consultation, advice, and guidance on complex domestic abuse and adult safeguarding cases.
• Drive best practice across Adult Social Care and partner agencies, helping to shape the city's response to domestic abuse.
• Work closely with voluntary sector organisations, safeguarding partners, health colleagues, and criminal justice agencies.
• Identify emerging risks and patterns of harm within Manchester's communities and develop effective interventions.
• Lead learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews and help ensure that lessons are embedded into practice.

We're looking for a confident and compassionate leader who combines professional expertise with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

You'll Bring

• ✅ A recognised Social Work qualification.
• ✅ Registration with Social Work England.
• ✅ Significant experience in adult safeguarding, domestic abuse, and complex risk management.
• ✅ Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, safeguarding frameworks, and multi-agency working.
• ✅ Proven leadership and people management experience, with the ability to develop high-performing teams.
• ✅ Excellent communication, analytical, decision-making, and partnership-working skills.
• ✅ Experience as an Experienced Social Worker, including Practice Educator, Best Interest Assessor, or Approved Mental Health Professional.
• ✅ Candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

This is more than a management role. It's an opportunity to lead meaningful change, strengthen safeguarding across Manchester, and make a lasting impact on the lives of adults experiencing abuse, exploitation, and harm.

To discuss this role in further detail, please contact Danielle Comerford, service manager for Adult Safeguarding at Danielle.comerford@manchester.gov.uk

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.

To Make Our Ambition a Reality, Every Person We Recruit Needs To Play Their Part. It Takes a Certain Type Of Behaviour, Attitude And Way Of Working To Get Manchester Where It Wants To Be. Our People And Partners Have Agreed Five ‘behaviours’ - The Grounding For How We Must Work Together And Treat One Another

• We take time to listen and understand
• We work together and trust each other
• We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
• We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
• We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.

If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing jobs@manchester.gov.uk. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

Requirements

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
• Have you completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme or any MCC positive action programme?

Accessibility

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.

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When you join us

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.

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