Male Specialist Abuse Advocate

Job Title: Male Specialist Abuse Advocate

Position available: 1 full-time position (37.5 hours), available to male and female applicants

Location: West Bromwich base but will cover the Black Country area

Salary: £25,282.44 – £28,861.62 (dependent upon qualifications and experience)

Closing date: 02 March 2026

All interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams.

Is this you?

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Specialist Abuse Advocate to join our dynamic team. If you are creative and innovative and have experience of working within a needs led service, this is for you. This position is suited to an individual who can help and support victims as well as work in collaboration and partnership with other services and professionals.

The Role:

The Male Specialist Abuse Advocate will work within the Respect Toolkit framework as well as assist with the development of a specialist service for males. The post holder will:

• Provide tailored support to male victims of domestic abuse, stalking, rape and sexual violence, including carrying out risk and needs assessments and managing a caseload.
• Offer reassurance and emotional support to male victims who may be reluctant to come forwards, providing information about the service and creating a safe space to talk.
• Raise awareness of the particular dynamics of abuse against men within the community and with professionals and where necessary provide training and learning opportunities.
• Respond to identified barriers that stop men from accessing help.
• Promote the new service to external partners.

We are looking for a creative, ambitious and flexible candidate who can assist with the promotion and growth of this exciting and dynamic new service.

This service is a part of Black Country Women’s Aid and will be exclusively for all male victims living within the 4 named areas of the Black Country. This position is funded by the Office of the Police Crime Commissioner and Ministry Of Justice and is part of developing a response to male violence and abuse.

If you are self-driven, compassionate and 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 Male Specialist Abuse Advocate March Feb26

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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 Criminal Records Bureau for details of any previous criminal convictions.

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 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.