Pathways to Change Senior

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 Domestic Violence and Abuse Support Service

The BCWA Community Domestic Violence and Abuse Support Service supports victims of domestic violence and abuse in Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Walsall through a range of contracted/commissioning arrangements.

The service works in partnership with other services within BCWA and key agencies to assess risk and provide tailored support plans for service users.

Our integrated approach provides effective holistic support for survivors of abuse using a trauma-informed approach.

The team: Our specialist Community Domestic Abuse Support Service supports male and female victims of domestic violence and abuse living in Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall through a range of contracted/ commissioning arrangements.

The service works in partnership with other services within BCWA and key agencies to assess risk and provide tailored support plans for service users.

Our integrated approach provides effective holistic support for survivors of abuse using a trauma-informed approach.

We have a team of supportive, dedicated, self-driven individuals who empower clients to make informed choices, helping them to live a life free from abuse.



Job Role

Job Title: Pathways to Change Senior
Position available: 1 full-time position, 37.5 hours (Monday - Friday, 7.5 hours per day, covering Sandwell
Salary: £27,800 - £30,187.00.


Closing date: 6th October 2023

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 Pathways to Change Senior 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.

The Role:

The Pathways to Change Project is an innovative project designed to reduce offending behaviour of domestic abuse perpetrators through community and group interventions.

Perpetrator work and victim support run in parallel.

Perpetrator work is delivered by St Giles Trust and Relate Birmingham.

BCWA delivers the parallel victim support to victims.

We are looking for a Pathways to Change Senior to provide day-to-day support to the Service Manager and support staff in delivering frontline services to victims of domestic abuse, in parallel to the services delivered by St Giles Trust and Relate Birmingham.

The post holder will assist the Domestic Abuse Support Workers to support victims in being able to recognise and address the dynamics of domestic abuse present in their own situation and to help them regain control of their lives.

The main focus of this position will be to provide day-to-day operational support to the team, assisting in case supervisions if required & case management meetings both internally and externally, where required arranging team meetings and attending partnership meetings and to assist in writing and facilitating training.


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

Click apply to be emailed information about how to complete your application.

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.