DHR Partnerships Support Officer

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA / Home working

Worker Category: Hybrid

Salary: 32070 - 34359 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:18.5 hours

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 2nd January 2026

Interview Date(s): 14^th January 2026

An exciting opportunity working with community safety and safeguarding partnerships to support the recommendations and actions from Domestic Homicide Reviews in order to strengthen multi-agency partnership working. To support vulnerable people and victims of domestic abuse and their families to make a real difference.

About the Role

To oversee and monitor the recommendations and actions tasked to individuals agencies and bodies originating from Leicestershire and Rutland Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs). Highlighting and referring to remedial action to support completion. To support the assessment of the impact of these actions.

To support the DHR Chair/Author Panel and Safeguarding Partnerships Business Officer in the development of recommendations/actions during the DHR process which are Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely (SMART).

To retain an overview and organisational memory of previous review recommendations and actions to support the DHR process.

To liaise with stakeholders and other statutory and voluntary agencies to support the DHR process.

To work with the Safeguarding Partnerships Manager and other staff members from the Safeguarding Partnerships Business Office to support specific tasks and projects within safeguarding partnership areas of business.

To work with the Community Safety Manager and Community Safety Team to support the wider partnership work to reduce domestic abuse.

To demonstrate personal responsibility by being self-motivated to produce high quality and timely work when operating without supervision.

The work is mainly office hours but occasionally some flexibility may be required. Some travel may be necessary so it would be useful to have access to transport.

About You

To apply for this post you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement

• Be Educated to NVQ4 level in Project Management/Business Administration or equivalent or appropriate experience to this level.
• Have experience of working in a multi-agency environment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults
• Have experience of working on projects in a supportive enabling role
• Experienced in organising and facilitating key meetings and events with a focus on decisions risks and actions.
• Understanding of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) processes Safeguarding ChildrenPartnership and Safeguarding Adults Board functions and structures.
• Knowledge of domestic abuse and DHR legislation and procedures and their application to statutory private and voluntary sector organisations
• Have excellent organisational skills to support co-ordination across multiple workstreams and completion and evaluation of improvement activity and projects.

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Gurjit Samra-Rai Community Safety Manager

Telephone: 0

To contact me by email please click here.

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.