If you are looking for a fulfilling new role, join our team and work with us to eradicate slavery in all its forms. Unseen works with individuals, communities, business, governments, other charities and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good. To do that, we need experienced and committed people who share our vision and values.
Our people are driven by our values and work together to successfully deliver our strategy. Everyone at Unseen plays a role in tackling modern slavery and exploitation. Once recruited, we aim to support our people to succeed in their roles and grow both personally and professionally.
33 days of annual leave (including public holidays), rising to 38 days with length of employment.
An additional day of leave for your birthday.
Flexible or hybrid working options available.
Enhanced sick leave of up to 60 days.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which offers a complete resource of wellbeing services for employees.
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The Accommodation Support Officer (Safehouse Support Worker) will be based at our safehouse accommodations in North Somerset and the primary purpose will be to provide survivors with high quality support and oversee the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the safe houses.
Responsibilities will primarily consist of:
At other organisations, this role may be known as Support Worker, Accommodation Services Support Worker.
To apply:
The deadline for applications is 20 October 2024.
Interviews will likely be held during the week of 28 October 2024.
In order to apply for this role, you must have lived experience of modern slavery.
Purpose of the role
The postholder will support the collation of lived experience voices into our research work focused on policy impact on what really works to prevent modern slavery. The postholder will work closely with the Policy & Partnerships Manager, the Policy & Partnerships Officer, Senior Caseworkers and Unseen’s Survivor Consultant Volunteers and be responsible for supporting and improving our wellbeing activities, survivor voice forum and consultant focus groups.
To apply:
If you are unable to complete the form online, please email [email protected] or call us on 0303 040 2888 and we will send a printable version for you to complete.
Please note: The only information from your application that will be shared with the hiring manager is your personal statement and CV.
The deadline for applications is 6 October 2024.
Interviews will likely be held during the week of 14 October 2024.
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community we serve including those with lived experience of modern slavery, those with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and religion, people of colour, those with disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
References from previous employers will only be contacted after a job offer. If there are valid reasons for this not to be possible, please mention this on your application.
Any questions, please contact jobs@unseenuk
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all
sections of the community we serve including those with lived experience of modern slavery,
those with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and religion, people of colour, those with
disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
Our mission is simple: to put an end to slavery for good. We do this by supporting survivors of modern slavery and trafficking and working collaboratively with our partners to put an end to exploitation.
We are proud of the expertise and experience of everyone in our team. We’re working together to put an end to modern slavery and human trafficking in order to bring about positive and transformational change.
Since Unseen began in 2008, we’ve supported over 800 survivors of modern slavery through our safehouse and outreach services and identified over 30,000 potential victims through our Helpline.
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As I came to understand more about the issue, including through a visit to an Unseen safehouse, I knew I needed to do more to stop this abuse and exploitation.
For the last five years of my Civil Service career, I was the Modern Slavery Senior Policy Advisor in the Home Office and led on development of the Modern Slavery Act, including the transparency in supply chains provision and business guidance.
I joined Unseen to lead the development of the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline, and Unseen’s work with businesses. I am regularly called upon to present at national and international conferences and use my experience of working with Ministers to influence other governments internationally to take action to address modern slavery and, in particular, business supply chain issues.
In my spare time I enjoy keeping fit, music, reading and travelling.
What ultimately compelled me to act was a report on how people from Eastern Europe were being trafficked through Bristol airport to the USA. Kate Garbers, who went on to be an Unseen Director, and I wrote to all the city councillors, MPs and the Police Chief Constable challenging them on the issue. The challenge came back to us: this city needs safe housing for trafficked women. And so Unseen began.
But we never wanted Unseen to be just about safe housing. We wanted to end slavery once and for all, and that remains our driving focus.
I chaired the working group for the Centre for Social Justice’s landmark report “It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to Fight Modern Slavery”. This is now acknowledged as the catalyst behind the UK’s Modern Slavery Act of 2015. It was a great honour to be awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours that year. On the other hand, I’ve also been described as “the loveliest disrupter you could ever hope to meet”.
This job has taken me from building flat-pack furniture for safehouses, to working with businesses to address slavery in supply chains, to delivering training, raising awareness and advising governments around the world.
When not at work, I enjoy travelling, spending time with my dog Harley, cooking, supporting Liverpool and Yorkshire CC, music (I’m a former DJ) and endurance events such as the Three Peaks Challenge and Tribe Freedom Runs – which I vow never to do again. Until the next time.
