LGBT Independent Domestic Violence Advocate

Location: Birmingham
Closing Date: 17th Mar 2024
Rainbow Project: Domestic Abuse Sessional Group Worker

Employment Type: Employed

LGBT Independent Domestic Violence Advocate for Birmingham

Part-time (18.5 hours per week)

Birmingham LGBT is seeking to recruit a part-time LGBT Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) for Birmingham as part of a project whose aim is to ensure that LGBT victims/survivors of domestic violence in Birmingham have access to an LGBT IDVA who will offer support, signposting, advocacy, risk management and safety planning.

We recognise the importance and advantages of diverse workplaces and communities and we acknowledge under-representation in our workforce of Black, Asian and global majority people; people with a Romany or Irish Traveller background, and people with lived experience of migration. We particularly welcome applicants from those backgrounds, identities and lived experiences.

The successful applicant will join a motivated and enthusiastic team based at the Birmingham LGBT Centre in central Birmingham.

Terms: NJC scale point 17 – £26,439 full-time (£13,219 pro-rata), plus up to 5% matched pension contributions.

This position is part-time, 18.5 hours per week, with some evening and weekend work and includes 25 days’ annual leave entitlement full-time (12.5 days pro-rata). It is a 12-month fixed-term contract that may be extended, subject to funding.

Birmingham LGBT is an equal opportunities employer.

The closing date for applications for this position is Sunday 17 March 2024. We will accept applications by email or post.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview in early April 2024.

An application pack can be downloaded at: https://blgbt.org/vacancies/independent-domestic-violence-advocate/ or can be requested by email to: [email protected]

For more details or an informal discussion about the position, please contact Steph Keeble on 0121 643 0821.


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