Intensive Supervision Court Women’s Specialist

Black Country Women's Aid; West Bromwich; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Country Women's Aid is seeking an Intensive Supervision Court Women's Specialist to work in Birmingham and across the Black Country. The role involves supporting women on intensive community-based sentences, managing regular court reviews and providing trauma-informed, pastoral support.

The post is a fixed-term, full-time position (37.5 hours, Monday to Friday) based in Jewellery Quarter with travel to partner sites as required.

Qualifications

• Experience of holding an active caseload.
• Knowledge of case management systems and report writing.

Responsibilities

• Support women at monthly court reviews and act as their point of contact.
• Provide trauma-informed pastoral support throughout the order.
• Travel to partner sites across the region as needed.

Skills

Active caseload experience

Case management systems

Report writing

Tools

Case management software

Job description

Job Title: Intensive Supervision Court Women's Specialist

Position available: 1 fixed-term position (18 months) full-time (37.5 hours, Monday-Friday, 9am - 5pm), based in Birmingham and across the Black Country

Salary: £25,268.25

Closing date: 23 October 2026

All interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams.

Is this you?

We are looking for someone who is dynamic, personal, creative and empathetic to undertake one-to-one sessions, community asset building and psycho-social interventions that support and enable people to make positive changes to their lifestyle.

Experience of holding an active caseload is important along with knowledge of case management systems and report writing.

The Role

The Intensive Supervision Court is a specialist problem-solving court for women in Birmingham. It can offer alternative, intensive, community-based sentences for women on the cusp of custody. They can be given a community order which asks them to engage with intensive support from multiple services.

The successful candidate will support women to court reviews monthly and be their point of contact, providing a trauma-informed approach and pastoral support throughout the entirety of their order.

The successful candidate will be based between office in Jewellery Quarter, however, may be required to travel to other sites across the region in order to support our partner agencies.

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

An Application Pack Can Be Found Below

• JD Sept 26 ISC Worker
• BCWA 063 Application form v3
• 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 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.

• 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.