Job Title: Children’s Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (CHISVA)
Positions available: 1 full time position (37.5 hours, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)
Salary: £24,310.04 – £27,751.55 (dependent upon qualifications and experience)
Closing date: 27 October 2025
All interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams
Is this you?
We are looking for a qualified/unqualified Children’s Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (CHISVA) to join our supportive Rape and Sexual Violence Service. If you are not qualified, this is an exciting training opportunity providing the appropriate training, support and guidance.
We are looking for an innovative candidate with experience of working with children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse.
This is a great opportunity for someone who loves working with children and young people, providing trauma focused support.
The role:
You will be working with children and young people, between the ages of 5 and 18, who are victims of sexual violence and sexual abuse.
You will be required to provide a high-quality frontline service to victims, ensuring that support is trauma informed and tailored to the individual needs of the child/young person.
You will be working within a multi-agency framework consisting of the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Police, Court, Schools, Social Care and local partnership responses to sexual violence and sexual abuse.
If you are self-driven, conscientious, 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 v1 CHISVA Aug25
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES MONITORING FORM
BCWA-Privacy-Notice-for-applicants v4 final
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.
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.
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.