Job Title: Modern Slavery Safehouse Advocate

Position type: 1 Full-time position (37.5 hours), based in the West Midlands

Salary: £25,287.91 – £27,993.18

Closing date: 07 August 2026

All interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams

Is this you?

We are looking for a highly skilled Modern Slavery Safehouse Advocate with excellent communication skills, compassion and understanding of the impact of abuse and exploitation.

We are looking for an innovative candidate who has experience of working with adults, who have experienced trauma and abuse.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys problem solving and developing their leadership skills.

The Role

The successful candidate will provide a high-quality frontline service to both female and male victims of Modern Slavery (international human trafficking) and their children within the West Midlands area. You will be involved in all aspects of case management including: risk assessment, needs assessment, journey planning, outcomes and case review when supporting clients through their recovery and reflection period. You will also be involved in all aspects of accommodation, including; health and safety, requesting maintenance support, ensuring fire safety etc.

If you are self-driven, conscientious, hardworking with lots of ambition we would love to hear from you.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete an online application form, providing examples/evidence for each of the criteria in the person specification and return to recruitment@blackcountrywomensaid.co.uk. Please see full job description for more information.

CVs will not be accepted.

An Application Pack Can Be Found Below

JD Template 2021 v1 MDS Safehouse Advocate May26

BCWA 063 Application form v3

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES MONITORING FORM

BCWA-Privacy-Notice-for-applicants v4 final

Important information for all positions

Black Country Women’s Aid is committed to safeguarding and promoting then welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All posts are subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. It will be necessary for an enhanced disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service for details of any previous criminal convictions.

Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies. The post holder must be female.

Employment checks

Responsibilities

As a responsible employer we adhere to safer recruitment practice and all our employees are subject to the following recruitment checks:

Right to work in the UK

Under Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act, we, as a responsible employer need to ensure that we do not employ anyone illegally. To avoid discrimination we treat all job applicants equally.

We therefore ask all candidates selected for interview to bring original documentation to show their Right to Work in the UK. A copy of these will be taken. Once the successful candidate has been appointed the unsuccessful candidates documents will be destroyed confidentially. You may be refused an interview if you do not bring the correct documents with you.

References

Following your interview, two employment references will be sought. One of these should be your current or most recent employer.

If you have finished full time education and you have no employer reference, we will accept a reference from:

a professional from your centre of study, for instance a teacher, lecturer or headteacher GP or health visitor a character reference from a person who knows you a civil servant from a government agency a bank manager

DBS

All positions are subject to DBS checks at the relevant level.