IDVA
Overview
Hours:
35
Leave:
28 days plus 14 Bank Holidays pro rata
Salary:
£33,357
Closing date:
17/11/2026
Reporting to:
Families Team Leader
Recruiting manager contact details:
Mary Cunningham, Service Manager – mary@leedsgate.co.uk
Pension and benefits:
5% employer contribution pension, with an additional 5% employee contribution. Leave; 28 days plus 14 Bank Holidays (pro rata)
Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange (Leeds GATE) is here for Gypsies and Travellers across West Yorkshire; a brave and creative, membership organisation led by and for its members. We work to improve quality of life, challenge racism and inequality, and create lasting change. We deliver advocacy, family support work, youth work, education support and community development, working in partnership to improve the systems and services that shape outcomes around homes, health, education and inclusion.
Our members are at the heart of our organisation. We build trusted relationships, support people to build confidence and help themselves, and create opportunities for members to shape our work and the decisions that affect them. We believe people should be safe, have their privacy respected, their culture valued and that everyone should be treated equally and included.
Join us as our Independent Domestic Violence Advisor
As our IDVA, you will provide specialist, culturally informed and trauma-informed support to Gypsy and Traveller community members experiencing domestic abuse across West Yorkshire. The role independently manages a caseload, assesses and responds to risk, supports safety and recovery, coordinates wider support and advocates for members within relevant services and multi-agency processes. The role also contributes specialist domestic abuse knowledge to Leeds GATE teams and helps strengthen culturally appropriate responses with partner services.
The role will be underpinned by our values including:
- Leeds GATE believes that everyone is equal and can be included
- Leeds GATE is brave and creative
How to apply
Please download all the files linked below, which will include the job description for the role, application form, equalities monitoring form and applicant guide. Our applicant guide provides pointers on how to fill in the application form and what we are looking for from our applicants. Please fill in the application and equality monitoring forms and send to us by the closing date shown to vacancies@leedsgate.co.uk. You can also send your application in by post or hand in in person to our Leeds building. We cannot accept CV’s.
If you need any information in a more accessible format or need other adjustments making for your application, please contact us.
Interviews will be held week beginning 23rd November.
Job description and person specification
DownloadApplication form
DownloadEquality monitoring form
DownloadApplicant guidance pack
DownloadVacancy statements
All GATE staff are required to work within and are supervised on Leeds GATE’s values. Leeds GATE is committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk. Therefore, all appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and relevant roles will need to complete an enhanced DBS check.
Leeds GATE is an equal opportunities employer.
Our story
Leeds GATE has over 20 years of history in the community, that directs our choices and strategy to this day. Learn more about where we come from and where we’re going next.
Our wellbeing offer
We want to ensure our staff are cared for and valued. Below is a summary of our staff benefits on offer to employees:
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Team days
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Central location in Leeds and working locations across West Yorkshire
Our vision and values
Find out more about Leeds GATE’s mission, vision and values that guide every aspect of our work.
Contact us
If you have any questions about the job role, or you just want to find out more about us and fancy a chat, please contact the hiring manager as above, or talk to us at our office. We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email, pick up the phone or arrange to come in and see us – find out all the details via the button below.
