Job Title: Young Women’s Empowerment Advocate
Position available: 1 full-time position (37.5 hours), based across the Black Country
Salary: £26,278.98
Closing date: 21 August 2026
BCWA reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier should sufficient applications be received.
All interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams.
Is this you?
We are looking for someone who is dynamic, personable, creative and empathetic to deliver interventions that support and empower young people to make positive changes in their lives. Experience of managing an active caseload is essential, together with a sound understanding of the complex challenges, barriers and lived experiences that can influence young people’s behaviour, wellbeing, safety and outcomes.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity available within our Children and Families Team.
The Young Women’s Empowerment Advocate will deliver trauma-informed, strengths-based support to girls and young women across Sandwell. Through individual interventions, group work and multi‑agency partnership working, the postholder will support young women to build confidence, improve wellbeing, develop healthy relationships, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to exploitation and other forms of harm.
The role will support young women who may have experienced trauma, adverse childhood experiences, emotional wellbeing concerns, substance misuse vulnerabilities, criminal exploitation, sexual exploitation, challenging behaviours or involvement with the criminal justice system.
The Young Women’s Empowerment Advocate will deliver the Be You intervention programme within schools, community settings and other agreed locations, developing trusted relationships with young women and supporting them to achieve their personal goals and aspirations.
Working closely with schools, children’s Services, youth justice services, police, health services and voluntary sector partners, the postholder will help ensure young women receive effective, coordinated support that places their voice, lived experience and individual strengths at the centre of all intervention.
The role will also contribute to the delivery of Bloom, the Be You group programme delivered in partnership with DECCA and Barnardo’s, supporting young women to improve emotional wellbeing, self‑esteem, personal safety and future aspirations.
Please note, for this role, an enhanced DBS check will be required.
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 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
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