LGBT Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) Birmingham & West Midlands.
Full-time 37 hours per week.
Birmingham LGBT is seeking to recruit a full-time LGBT IDVA covering Birmingham and the West Midlands to ensure that LGBT victims/survivors of domestic violence have access to an 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.
Salary: £27,506 per year, plus up to 5% matched pension contributions.
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week, with some evening and Saturday work;
Annual Leave entitlement: 25 days.
Two-year, fixed-term contract, may be extended subject to funding.
Birmingham LGBT is an equal opportunities employer.
Closing date for applications is 5pm on Tuesday 28th October 2025.
Applications should be sent by email
Applications will be reviewed anonymously and candidates selected for interview will be invited shortly after the closing date.
Download an application pack from our website.
For more details or an informal chat about this vacancy, please phone us and ask for your contact details to be passed on to Steph Keeble, Director.
Main Duties
· Provide independent advocacy and support to LGBT survivors of domestic violence.
· Work with survivors from the point of crisis and offer intensive support to help ensure short-term and long-term safety.
· Maintain multi-agency links and partnerships through protocols and procedures that prioritise the safety of survivors of domestic violence.
· Empower service users by providing them with emotional and practical support, thus enabling them to access their rights, empowering them to make decisions and increasing their life options.
· Inform survivors of full range of civil, criminal and practical options that might increase their safety.
Casework Management
· To advise and support LGBT survivors of domestic violence.
· To undertake advocacy casework, working with survivors following an initial assessment of their needs, working within a structured key-working relationship.
· To provide one-to-one-emotional, practical, legal and advocacy support to survivors through the development of an individual support plan, including risk assessments, safety planning and assistance in accessing other relevant services such as the police, counselling, housing, and legal services.
· To support LGBT survivors of domestic violence who are going through the criminal justice system.
· To develop and maintain good working relationships and links with other agencies, referring service users to appropriate specialist agencies where necessary as part of a support plan and in consultation with them.
· To ensure that any issues in relation to child or adult protection concerns are responded to in line with Birmingham LGBT’s policies and are brought to the immediate attention of the line manager.
· To deliver training on LGBT domestic violence.
· To work within Birmingham LGBT’s policies and procedures.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Information Management
· To participate in the collection and maintenance of information on relevant referral agencies and local services.
· To ensure high quality and effective statistical monitoring is undertaken at all times in accordance with Birmingham LGBT’s procedures.
· To produce monitoring reports as requested by the Office of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.
· To maintain accurate, confidential service-user records of contact details and interventions, ensuring that personal information is up-to-date and that it is kept secure and confidential at all times in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Birmingham LGBT’s procedures.
· To ensure that feedback from service users and agencies is actively sought to inform the continuous improvement and development of the service.
Professional Development and Training
· To keep up-to-date with developments in legislation, policy and local and national government initiatives that address domestic violence.
· To attend and prepare for regular meetings with the line manager and to participate in individual appraisals in accordance with Birmingham LGBT’s policies and procedures.
· To attend internal or external training events, meetings or forums, as requested by the line manager and in line with the post-holder’s professional development plan.
· To attend regular team meetings.
· To carry out other duties as may from time to time be reasonably required by the line manager.
· To support colleagues with general duties at the Birmingham LGBT Centre.