Black Country Women's Aid
Let us introduce ourselves...
Black Country Women's Aid (BCWA) is an established charity working across the Black Country and wider West Midlands providing accommodation and community support services to victims of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and human trafficking. Services range from advocacy, civil remedies, support in court, individual and group support and access to a range of therapeutic interventions. All services are client and needs-led.
Community Services Directorate
Within this directorate, the following vital services are delivered;
Black Country Women's Aid Community Services include;
- Community Domestic Abuse Support Services (Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley)
- Black Country IRIS (primary care) educator and advocacy service
- Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Services (Black Country)
- Black Country Sexual Abuse Forum
- Black Country Counselling Service
- Domestic and sexual abuse Children and Young person's service (Black Country)
- West Midlands Stalking Service
- Ask Marc (Male abuse referral centre)
This position is located within the Community Rape and Sexual Violence Support Service
The BCWA Rape and Sexual Violence Service is the largest specialist service provider in the Black Country, supporting victims and survivors of sexual abuse. The service offers support to women, men and children who have experienced rape, sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse. Our support is available whether the abuse was recent or years ago, and whether or not the client chooses to report what happened to the police. We provide a trauma-informed approach tailored to the needs of the client. The service covers the Black Country areas Sandwell, Walsall, Dudley & Wolverhampton
The team: Our specialist team combine expertise with a sound understanding of trauma, providing an exceptional service to our clients. As a service, we are focused on proactively engaging clients to provide them with the support they require through their journey.
We have a team of ambitious, self-driven individuals who support each other. Teamwork, respect and solidarity is at the forefront of our ethos.
Job Role
Job Title: Regional Sexual Violence Services Manager
Positions available: 1 full-time position, 37.5 hours (Monday - Friday, 7.5 hours per day, covering the Black Country
Salary: £31,697.19 - £34,345 (dependent on experience
Closing date: 23 July 2024
Interview date: provisionally week commencing 05 August 2024
BCWA reserve the right to close this advertisement early if sufficient applications are received.
All interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams
Is this you?
We are looking for a highly skilled Rape and Sexual Violence Manager with excellent interpersonal skills, compassion and understanding of the impact of sexual abuse and exploitation.
We are looking for an innovative candidate who has experience of working with adults, who have experienced trauma and abuse, attention to detail, experience of leadership and focus on and commitment to exploring the experience of victims.
The Role:
The Rape and Sexual Violence Service Manager will support the Director of Community Services meet strategic and operational requirements across Sexual Violence Services and ensure maximum use of resources across all service areas/contracts to ensure quality of service provision.
The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day management of the service in line with contract/ commissioned requirements and quality standards.
If you are self-driven, compassionate and hardworking with lots of ambition we would love to hear from you.
If you are ambitious, outgoing and hardworking, we would love to hear from you.
CVs will not be accepted.
Important information for all positions
Black Country Women's Aid is committed to safeguarding and promoting the 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 Criminal Records Bureau 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
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 candidate's 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.