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The Medaille Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Medaille Trust is seeking a Modern Slavery Accommodation Support Worker in Swindon to support vulnerable adults who have experienced trauma and exploitation. You will work alongside case workers to maintain a safe temporary environment and to monitor service outcomes.

The role requires strong knowledge of health and safety, safeguarding, and quality frameworks, plus excellent communication and IT skills for administrative tasks and reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Health & Safety, safeguarding, and quality frameworks.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills.
• Experience of working with vulnerable adults, and in residential or community settings with non-UK residents.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for day-to-day health and safety of accommodation provision.
• Be responsible for safety, risk management and security of service users on shift.
• Administrative duties: maintain systems, records, and statistics for service users.
• Promote best practice in supporting survivors and monitoring service outcomes.

Skills

Health & Safety

Safeguarding

IT skills

Experience with vulnerable adults

Residential setting

Tools

IT systems

Job description

Modern Slavery Accommodation Support Worker - Swindon

This role requires the submission of a completed Medaille Trust Application Form which you can download from the Vacancies page on Medaille Trust website. This is to be uploaded to the 'Other Document Upload' button. Your application will not be considered without an application form as we do not accept CVS.

About the job

We are currently looking for experienced Modern Slavery Accommodation Support Worker based in the Swindon area to work as a member of the team, and alongside Case Workers to provide a safe temporary environment for vulnerable adults from outside the UK who have experienced trauma and exploitation.

In the role you will:

Be responsible for day-to-day health and safety of accommodation provision

Be responsible for safety, risk management and security of service users whilst on shift

Promote best practise in supporting survivors and monitoring impact of services and outcomes for survivors

Administrative duties: The Accommodation Support Worker is responsible for maintaining administrative systems, records, statistics and any administrative tasks related to the service users.

What we are looking for:

Strong knowledge of Health & Safety, safeguarding, and quality frameworks.

Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills.

Experience of working with vulnerable adults, the ability to work within a residential or community setting with no-UK residents

This service is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week which means you must be willing to work flexibly, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays. You will also be required to be part of an on call rota and able to get to and from the project via public transport or your own car if it is necessary to attend the project whilst on call.

If you have any queries, please contact HR on [e-mail]

Interview date: TBC

This role is a subject to satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service checks.

The ability to drive with a valid licence with use of own vehicle insured for business purposes is desirable.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we reserve the right to interview/ appoint before the closing date. Early applications are therefore strongly encouraged.

Candidates are asked to complete their own application form without assistance from other external sources such as ChatGPT. Where there is reasonable belief that external support is evident, we regret that application forms will not be accepted for shortlisting.

About Us

Medaille Trust is one of the leading providers of support to survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK. We are working to provide refuge and freedom for survivors and fighting to see slavery in all its forms become a thing of the past. The need for this work has never been higher, there are more than 50 million estimated victims of modern slavery worldwide, and over 120,000 potential victims in the UK.

We operate ten safe houses and five outreach hubs, staffed round the clock by specialist staff, working with more than 600 men, women and dependent children each year. We work to raise awareness in the UK and to provide preventive work in source countries. Our Pursue work helps survivors to engage with police and within the legal system to seek justice and to secure convictions against their perpetrators.