Closing date: 26 October 2023
Domestic Abuse Trainer (Housing)
Hybrid home working / London
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Participants in our training courses are expected to:
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If you are unable to attend and would prefer to postpone, we may be able to offer you a place on another course that takes place within 12 months from the original date.
If you cancel your booking the following charges will apply:
Time of cancellation |
Refund |
More than 14 days |
Full, minus 10% administration fee |
7 to 14 days |
50% refund |
Less than 7 days |
No refund |
Non-Attendance |
No Refund |
For any of the above changes, please contact us
Please note that we operate a different cancellation policy for bookings made by organisations for their staff team.
The cancellation policy applies to both online and in-room courses.
If, due to not having the minimum number of learners required to deliver the course, we will postpone and reschedule the course to a later date within a 12-month period. We will notify learners at least 14 days in advance of the course delivery date.
If, for unforeseen circumstances there may be a need to cancel and this is not rescheduled, the individual booking onto the course will be offered a full refund.
Level – Intermediate
(DAHA can offer an additional half-day foundation course that can upskill or refresh Champions if requested)
This course is for:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Course Duration:
This course contains 2 modules and is split over 2 mornings (7 hours total).
DAHA require Champions to schedule a meeting between the 2 Modules (organised and facilitated internally) to review the resource pack and familiarise themselves with their domestic abuse procedure ahead of Module 2
Before you book this training, please ensure you meet the following criteria
Cost:
Group booking of 20 Delegates or less: £2,000
(This course cannot exceed 20 delegates)
This excludes the DAHA Membership discount (5% Affiliated Members, 10% Accredited/Accreditation Members)
(DAHA Training courses are exempt of VAT)
Level – Beginner/refresher
This course is for:
Teams who interact with residents’ face to face, make home visits and have an opportunity to safely ask about domestic abuse e.g.- housing officers/neighbourhood teams
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Course Structure:
This course contains 3 modules and is split over 3 mornings (10.5 hours total).
Delegates must attend all 3 mornings to meet the learning outcomes and receive their CPD certificate.
Training costs:
Group booking of 20 Delegates or less: £2,800
£140 per additional delegate - Maximum 25 delegates per course
Open courses will become available to book in 2023
(DAHA Training courses are exempt of VAT)
This excludes the DAHA Membership discount (5% Affiliated Members, 10% Accredited/Accreditation Members)
Level – Beginner/refresher
This course is for:
Teams who take calls from residents and have an opportunity to identify domestic abuse over the phone, safely ask and pass concerns on to the relevant team/agency
e.g – phone-based customer service teams, call centre teams.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Course Structure:
This course contains 2 modules and is split over 2 mornings (7 hours total).
Delegates must attend both mornings to meet the learning outcomes and receive their CPD certificate.
Training costs:
Group booking of 20 Delegates or less: £2,000
£100 per additional delegate - Maximum 25 delegates per course
Open courses will become available to book in 2023
(DAHA Training courses are exempt of VAT)
This excludes the DAHA Membership discount (5% Affiliated Members, 10% Accredited/Accreditation Members)
Level – Beginner/refresher
This course is for:
Frontline homelessness professionals working with survivor/victims experiencing multiple disadvantages, across a range of homelessness support settings e.g., supported accommodation, outreach teams, assessment centres and Housing First teams.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Course Structure:
This course contains 2 modules and is split over 2 mornings (7 hours total).
Delegates must attend both mornings to meet the learning outcomes and receive their CPD certificate.
Training costs:
Group booking of 20 Delegates or less: £1,100
£55 per additional delegate - Maximum 25 delegates per course
Open courses will become available to book in 2023
(DAHA Training courses are exempt of VAT)
This excludes the DAHA Membership discount (5% Affiliated Members, 10% Accredited/Accreditation Members)
This foundation-level course is the first step to upskilling your response to domestic abuse. This course will help you to identify coercive and controlling behaviours and consider the impact of living with abuse from a partner, ex-partner or family member.
Ever wondered why so many people are coerced into abusive relationships? Interested to learn more about why it is so hard to leave an abusive relationship? This course will explore the tactics that perpetrators often use to create dependency, manipulate and control the victim/survivor.
72% of DHR's recommended raising awareness about domestic abuse to staff
This course will cover:
Who is this course for?
(Please note – This is an awareness course and will not give you the skills and tools to safely ask customers about domestic abuse and how to validate, assess and take action. If you have a customer facing role, it is best practice that you attend further training on responding to domestic abuse)
18 May 2023
Yesterday, the long-awaited Renter’s Reform Bill had its first reading in Parliament, fulfilling many of the ambitions set out within the Renter’s Reform White Paper, to ‘reset the balance of rights and responsibilities between tenants and landlords’. The most prominent and welcomed aspect of the bill is the end of Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, which has caused housing insecurity and homelessness for many private renters, including victims of domestic abuse living in the private rented sector (PRS).
There are now more victims of domestic abuse living in the PRS than ever before, in part due to the growth of the PRS, but also due to a significant lack of social housing, with many victims of domestic abuse having no other choice but to take on PRS tenancies, which have often been insecure, unaffordable, and, unsafe. In the context of a cost-of-living crisis, including soaring rents, and local housing allowance rates that do not meet rental demands, many victims of domestic abuse (many of whom are single women with children) are placed in positions of great hardship and the risk of homelessness, in addition to the ever-present threat of harm and homicide.
By removing Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, and the government’s commitment to take future action to address discrimination against tenants with children, we hope victims of domestic abuse will face fewer housing barriers to achieving safety. However, we continue to be concerned that this will be undermined by the changes proposed within the bill to make it easier for landlords to evict on grounds of anti-social behaviour (ASB) and rent arrears. This includes, broadening the discretionary ASB ground for eviction to ‘’any behaviour capable of causing nuisance or annoyance’’ as well as introducing a new mandatory ground for repeat serious arrears, as detailed within the White Paper.
Victims of domestic abuse are significantly more likely to have ASB complaints made against, often due to the misidentification of domestic abuse as ASB. Victims of domestic abuse are also more likely to be in rent arrears, both as a direct result of economic abuse, and due to the economic and practical burden of fleeing abuse and becoming homeless, often with their children (victims of domestic abuse in their own right). With no proposed safeguards in place to protect victims of domestic abuse from evictions related to domestic abuse, we fear this will lead to harm and homelessness. As a result, victims of domestic abuse may become more dependent on their abuser and make it even more difficult to leave.
We have worked closely alongside the DAHA-led National Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy and Practice Group to publish a detailed briefing on the impact of the proposed changes through the RRB on victims of domestic abuse in cases of ASB. We make clear recommendations for how the government can safeguard victims of domestic abuse and other vulnerable tenants, including those at risk of other forms of abuse or exploitation or in need of health or social care support. These recommendations included:
We look forward to further scrutinising the bill, which will undoubtedly lead to further recommendations from our National Group, particularly in the areas of rent arrears. We want to work with sector partners, government, and parliamentarians to ensure the bill works to protect all renters, which must include victims of domestic abuse living in the PRS who already face far too many barriers to safety and housing insecurity.
For more information and any press enquiries, please contact the DAHA National Group Chair and Senior Housing Manager, Deidre Cartwright, by emailing: d.cartwright@standingtogether.org.uk
The DAHA team is continually growing and looking to bring on new members who can add to the wealth of our experience and knowledge in our team.
We value and recognise the skills of those who have lived experience of domestic abuse, although this is not essential, and you will never be asked to disclose your own personal experiences. We also welcome anyone who identifies as being part of an under-represented community, particularly those from Black and minoritized communities.
If you have any questions about our roles please email daha_team@standingtogether.org.uk
Closing date: 26 October 2023
Hybrid home working / London
Closing date: 20 November 2023
Home or London office based, with travel to London and nationally when required
Closing date: 20 November 2023
Home or London office based, with travel to London and nationally when required
About the role
The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced, passionate, and engaging professional to join our team!
We are looking for someone who can work with our Training Lead to support the design & delivery of top quality, bespoke training packages to housing professionals. Are you someone who perhaps works, or has worked, frontline in the domestic abuse and/or housing sector who is looking for their next step? Would you like to be part of the change we need to see to empower, through knowledge, other professionals to identify domestic abuse early and provide the right response, first time, EVERY time? Imagine the difference this can make to the lives of those survivor/victims of domestic abuse who are, as yet unseen.
We value and recognise the skills of those who have lived experience of domestic abuse, although this is not essential, and you will never be asked to disclose your own personal experiences. We also welcome anyone who identifies as being part of an under-represented community.
Interested? Please read on and apply.
About DAHA
The Domestic Abuse housing Alliance (DAHA) is a partnership between Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA), Gentoo and Peabody housing associations. We are the leading specialist domestic abuse organisation supporting housing providers to improve their response to domestic abuse, through our membership model, accreditation framework and training packages. We use our practice-based experience to work alongside partners across the housing and domestic abuse sector to influence policy and national decision making through our DAHA-led National Domestic Abuse & Housing Policy and Practice Group
About Standing Together Housing Team
DAHA is a part of our wider Housing Team at STADA, which includes our Whole housing Approach Team, Housing First and Homeless team and DAHA. We work with housing providers across all tenure types to ensure that survivors in any housing circumstances, and with a variety of housing needs, receive an effective, safe and support response from housing providers, as a part of a wider Coordinated Community Response to domestic abuse.
How to apply
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please feel free to contact our Senior Training Lead, Emily Wood, by emailing her at e.wood@standingtogether.org.uk, or directly applying by using this link. Please note this is an employed role and we are not looking for freelance trainers for this position.
To apply we ask you to follow the link to Hireful and write a statement, in no more than 1500 words, detailing why you want this role and how you meet the criteria outlined in the person specification which you’ll find in the job description below.
If you prefer to apply by post or email or speak to our team about the role, please contact hr@standingtogether.co.uk to receive the application and address.
Application deadline: 9am 26 October 2023.
Interview: likely to be w/c 6 November 2023
Job Description
Responsible to: Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) Lead, with operational oversight by the DAHA partnership board and Senior Housing Manager
Work location: London - remote working/office based. Some travel to other locations in the UK for Team working
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Grade 4 £30,000 - £32,139 (based on experience)
Annual Leave: 25 days
Standing Together is committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse population and is therefore committed to increasing representation of staff of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds across all roles and at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from within Black and minoritised communities.
About Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse
Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) is a UK charity bringing communities together to end domestic abuse. We support organisations, including community and faith-based partners, criminal justice partners, housing, social services, healthcare workers and charities, to identify and respond effectively together to domestic abuse. Our aim is to help these communities, services, and agencies to work in partnership, so that people receive the best support at the time they need it. We do this through an approach that we pioneered, called the Coordinated Community Response (CCR). The CCR brings services together to ensure local systems truly keep survivors safe, hold abusers to account, and prevent domestic abuse. Our model of a coordinated local partnership to tackle and ultimately prevent domestic abuse is now widely accepted as best practice.
About the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)
The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) was established in 2014 as a partnership between three agencies who are leaders in invocation in address domestic abuse within housing: Standing Together, Peabody and Gentoo housing associations. DAHA’s mission is to improve the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse through the introduction and adoption of an established set of standards and an accreditation process for London Boroughs and registered social housing providers in the London. DAHA is now a Membership model which means we are self-funded through our membership. The project and team have grown over the last 2.5 years and we are now reaching nearly 2 million households with the programme.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to promote and support DAHA Accreditation amongst London Boroughs and Registered Social Housing providers seeking accreditation, the post holder will offer support and guidance to members in adopting and embedding standards of good practice in response to domestic abuse and throughout their journey to achieving accreditation. The post holder will work with the wider Standing Together Housing Team to develop and maintain relationships with strategic and operational housing partners and to continually develop new housing initiatives and responses to domestic abuse.
About You
You will be passionate about ending domestic abuse and determined to be involved in the work to improve the housing response to survivors. You may be looking for your next career move from frontline domestic abuse /housing work. This could not be a more exciting time to join us as we evolve & grow. We are a largely remote team, but we work closely together ensuring that no one feels isolated or alone. We are supportive of each other, inclusive, and collaborative. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a great team on a project that has a national impact driving system change. Ideally, you will be London based or have easy access to the city and have some experience of working with or in London Boroughs so that you understand the unique challenges faced by housing services and providers in London.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Identify regional housing providers and local authorities and actively promote DAHA accreditation in line with the business plan. This includes maintaining a clear record of contacts and engagement with providers, providing resources on the accreditation process, leading promotional presentations and workshops and regularly meeting with strategic and operational leads to encourage commitment.
• Once a housing provider or local authority commits to accreditation, support them through the accreditation and assessment process. This includes scheduled DAHA accreditation assessments, maintaining contact with the staff leading on implementing the accreditation, attending steering group meetings, and offering regular guidance on accreditation progress.
• Deliver regular workshops/webinars on the 8 priority areas of DAHA standards. Plan, organise and deliver these workshops/webinars throughout the year.
• To promote and support housing providers and local authorities to seek DAHA membership, and play a vital role in the delivery of membership agreements
• To independently monitor and evaluate the delivery and outcomes of our work, including gaining feedback from housing providers and local authorities on the accreditation process to identify good practices and areas for improvement.
• To lead DAHA Regional Group for London bringing housing providers and local authorities together to share best practice, problem solve and identify key themes in domestic abuse and housing policy and practice to feed into the DAHA-led National Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy and Practice Group.
• To represent Standing Together and DAHA at relevant meetings as appropriate, including public speaking engagements.
• Support the team with updating DAHA resources and materials including the business case, workshops, website, and online toolkit.
• Support the team to review and update DAHA accreditation for social housing providers, and to develop, pilot, and embed DAHA accreditation standards for local authorities and Supported/Sheltered Accommodation providers.
• Maintain regular contact with the other DAHA Regional Leads in other project sites to share information and join up working with housing providers that cross multiple project sites
General Responsibilities
• To attend and participate in staff and housing team meetings. For housing team meetings, includes sharing in chairing and minute taking by rota
• Sharing information with colleagues (e.g. feedback from conferences and reports); keeping colleagues informed about issues arising from your work; consulting with colleagues.
• Active participation in the Standing Together team linking individual project learnings with the wider organisation and sharing in responsibilities such as training, attendance at external meetings, etc.
• To self-manage your workload administration e.g. typing, photocopying etc.
Accountability to DAHA Programme Manager
• To keep the DAHA Manager through your Senior Regional Lead line manager always advised about progress.
• To work to the milestones and time scale agreed with your line manager on
behalf of DAHA.
• To undertake any other tasks as requested by the DAHA Programme Manager
All these duties to be carried out in line with
• The STADA Equal Opportunities Policy
• The STADA Confidentiality Agreement
• The STADA Information Sharing Protocol
• The STADA Safeguarding Policy
and in a way which always respects:
• The independence of each individual agency participating in the project, whether from the statutory or the voluntary sector, and their status as equal partners in the project.
• The key principles, which guide and inform the project (survivors’ and children’s safety; offender accountability; clear messages that domestic violence is a crime which will not be tolerated in our community).
How to Apply
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please feel free to contact our Senior Regional Lead (London & South), Jessica Tier, for an informal and confidential chat by emailing her at j.tier@standingtogether.org.uk
To apply we ask you to follow the link to Hireful and write a statement, in no more than 1500 words, detailing why you would be good in this role and how you meet each criterion outlined in the person specification which you’ll find in the job description below.
If you have any issues with Hireful or submitting your application, please contact hr@standingtogether.co.uk for help
Application deadline: 20th November 2023
Interviews will take place on week commencing 27th November 2023
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
Job Description
Responsible to: Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) Lead, with operational oversight by the DAHA partnership board and Senior Housing Manager
Work location: Remote working/office based. Some travel to other locations in the UK for Team working
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Grade 4 £30,000 - £32,139 (based on experience)
Annual Leave: 25 days
Standing Together is committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse population and is therefore committed to increasing representation of staff of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds across all roles and at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from within Black and minoritised communities.
About Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse
Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) is a UK charity bringing communities together to end domestic abuse. We support organisations, including community and faith-based partners, criminal justice partners, housing, social services, healthcare workers and charities, to identify and respond effectively together to domestic abuse. Our aim is to help these communities, services, and agencies to work in partnership, so that people receive the best support at the time they need it. We do this through an approach that we pioneered, called the Coordinated Community Response (CCR). The CCR brings services together to ensure local systems truly keep survivors safe, hold abusers to account, and prevent domestic abuse. Our model of a coordinated local partnership to tackle and ultimately prevent domestic abuse is now widely accepted as best practice.
About the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)
The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) was established in 2014 as a partnership between three agencies who are leaders in invocation in address domestic abuse within housing: Standing Together, Peabody and Gentoo housing associations. DAHA’s mission is to improve the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse through the introduction and adoption of an established set of standards and an accreditation process for social housing providers in the South. DAHA is now a Membership model which means we are self-funded through our membership. The project and team have grown over the last 2.5 years and we are now reaching nearly 2 million households with the programme.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to promote and support DAHA Accreditation amongst Local Authorities and Registered Social Housing providers seeking accreditation in the South of England. The post holder will offer support and guidance to members in adopting and embedding standards of good practice in response to domestic abuse and throughout their journey to achieving accreditation. The post holder will work with the wider Standing Together Housing Team to develop and maintain relationships with strategic and operational housing partners and to continually develop new housing initiatives and responses to domestic abuse.
About You
You will be passionate about ending domestic abuse and determined to be involved in the work to improve the housing response to survivors. You may be looking for your next career move from frontline domestic abuse /housing work. This could not be a more exciting time to join us as we evolve & grow. We are a largely remote team, but we work closely together ensuring that no one feels isolated or alone. We are supportive of each other, inclusive, and collaborative. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a great team on a project that has a national impact driving system change.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Identify regional housing providers and local authorities and actively promote DAHA accreditation in line with the business plan. This includes maintaining a clear record of contacts and engagement with providers, providing resources on the accreditation process, leading promotional presentations and workshops and regularly meeting with strategic and operational leads to encourage commitment.
• Once a housing provider or local authority commits to accreditation, support them through the accreditation and assessment process. This includes scheduled DAHA accreditation assessments, maintaining contact with the staff leading on implementing the accreditation, attending steering group meetings, and offering regular guidance on accreditation progress.
• Deliver regular workshops/webinars on the 8 priority areas of DAHA standards. Plan, organise and deliver these workshops/webinars throughout the year.
• To promote and support housing providers and local authorities to seek DAHA membership, and play a vital role in the delivery of membership agreements
• To independently monitor and evaluate the delivery and outcomes of our work, including gaining feedback from housing providers and local authorities on the accreditation process to identify good practices and areas for improvement.
• To lead DAHA Regional Group for the South bringing housing providers and local authorities together to share best practice, problem solve and identify key themes in domestic abuse and housing policy and practice to feed into the DAHA-led National Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy and Practice Group.
• To represent Standing Together and DAHA at relevant meetings as appropriate, including public speaking engagements.
• Support the team with updating DAHA resources and materials including the business case, workshops, website, and online toolkit.
• Support the team to review and update DAHA accreditation for social housing providers, and to develop, pilot, and embed DAHA accreditation standards for local authorities and Supported/Sheltered Accommodation providers.
• Maintain regular contact with the other DAHA Regional Leads in other project sites to share information and join up working with housing providers that cross multiple project sites
General Responsibilities
• To attend and participate in staff and housing team meetings. For housing team meetings, includes sharing in chairing and minute taking by rota
• Sharing information with colleagues (e.g. feedback from conferences and reports); keeping colleagues informed about issues arising from your work; consulting with colleagues.
• Active participation in the Standing Together team linking individual project learnings with the wider organisation and sharing in responsibilities such as training, attendance at external meetings, etc.
• To self-manage your workload administration e.g. typing, photocopying etc.
Accountability to DAHA Programme Manager
• To keep the DAHA Manager through your Senior Regional Lead line manager always advised about progress.
• To work to the milestones and time scale agreed with your line manager on
behalf of DAHA.
• To undertake any other tasks as requested by the DAHA Programme Manager
All these duties to be carried out in line with
• The STADA Equal Opportunities Policy
• The STADA Confidentiality Agreement
• The STADA Information Sharing Protocol
• The STADA Safeguarding Policy
and in a way which always respects:
• The independence of each individual agency participating in the project, whether from the statutory or the voluntary sector, and their status as equal partners in the project.
• The key principles, which guide and inform the project (survivors’ and children’s safety; offender accountability; clear messages that domestic violence is a crime which will not be tolerated in our community).
How to Apply
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please feel free to contact our Senior Regional Lead (London & South), Jessica Tier, for an informal and confidential chat by emailing her at j.tier@standingtogether.org.uk
To apply we ask you to follow the link to Hireful and write a statement, in no more than 1500 words, detailing why you would be good in this role and how you meet each criterion outlined in the person specification which you’ll find in the job description below.
If you have any issues with Hireful or submitting your application, please contact hr@standingtogether.co.uk for help
Application deadline: 20th November 2023
Interviews will take place on week commencing 27th November 2023
As a member of the DAHA team, you’ll have the opportunity to meaningfully influence the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse and improve the housing and safety options for victims/survivors of domestic abuse.
There are continual opportunities to grow within the organisational, working across our accreditation, membership, training and policy and practice influencing work. We are a small and close-knit team, and there are always opportunities to work across projects to gain experience and knowledge.
We ask interested candidates to apply for the role online. You’ll be asked to complete job and education background, provide references from your last two employers, and then to answer questions about how you meet the personal specification. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to an online interview.
DAHA is committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse population and is therefore committed to increasing representation of staff of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds across all roles and at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from within Black and minoritized communities.
Usually interviews are conducted online, with two members of the DAHA team and the candidate. Most candidates are asked to prepare a task (for example a 10-minute presentation), and then to answer competency and behavioural questions relevant to the personal specification. We encourage applicants to follow the SMART format in responding to questions. We’ll provide interview guidelines ahead of the interview.
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