About the role
As the DAHA Accreditation Project Lead, you will act as West Northamptonshire’s Domestic Abuse Housing Champion, driving the achievement of DAHA accreditation and embedding best practice across housing services. Reporting to the Community Safety Strategy Manager, you’ll work collaboratively with housing teams and partners to ensure residents affected by domestic abuse receive timely, consistent, and compassionate support with their housing needs. This is a specialist role focused on shaping policy, improving interventions, and leading service development to strengthen our community response.
Interviews will take place w/c 2nd February 2026
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate. It is also a regulated activity and will be subject to a Children and Adults Barred List check. West Northamptonshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
This role sits within the Community Safety and Housing team, contributing to West Northamptonshire Council’s vision of safe, thriving communities. You’ll lead the DAHA accreditation process, review and develop housing policies, champion best practice, and design learning initiatives. The position requires collaboration across housing, community safety, and external partners to embed a consistent domestic abuse response. While primarily office-based, there is some flexibility for remote working. The role does not include budget or people management responsibilities but offers significant scope to influence service delivery and outcomes for residents.
About you
You are an experienced professional with a strong background in housing and domestic abuse services. You bring:
- Expert knowledge of the DAHA framework, Domestic Abuse Act 2022, and related housing legislation.
- Proven experience in social housing or homelessness services, including supporting those affected by domestic abuse.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, able to influence, advise, and train staff across multi-agency partnerships.
- The ability to manage complex workloads, interpret legislation, and deliver service improvements. Educated to degree level or with equivalent extensive experience, you are passionate about empowering vulnerable people and driving organisational change.
Our benefits
You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council
About us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
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