Head of Modern Slavery Services

Location: City of Edinburgh

Migrant Helphave an exciting opportunity to recruit a Head of Modern Slavery Services to join our team!

Location :
Scotland or Northern Ireland (Hybrid)

Contract : 12 month fixed term (with potential to be extended or made permanent)

Salary : £49,807

About us

Migrant Help is a leading charity that was established in 1963 and delivers a range of support and advice services to people affected by displacement and exploitation across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable people, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.

The Head of Modern Slavery Services role :

Part of the Modern Slavery Services team in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Head of Service is a rewarding and supportive role at Migrant Help. Provide high‑quality management oversight of Migrant Help’s Trafficking and Exploitation Survivors’ Service (TESS) Scotland and our Modern Slavery Human Trafficking (NI) service. You will develop and nurture the effective working relationships required for excellent service delivery as a strategic partner to Scottish Government and Department of Justice NI, and sector partners, to provide high‑quality support to our clients.

Key

responsibilities of our Head of Modern Slavery Services :

• Provide leadership, ownership and accountability for the day‑to‑day operational management of the service
• Point of escalation and support for Regional Managers
• Line management, supervision and appraisal of direct reports and oversight of staff, supervisory responsibilities for Regional Managers
• Co‑ordination of strategic stakeholder engagement plan for both services
• Responsible for the recruitment, management and development of the two regional teams, ensuring high performing, highly motivated and engaged teams that will contribute to organisational success
• Working with the service Director to develop reliable long‑term forecasts of demand for service planning purposes
• Ensure compliance with all statutory and contractual requirements, and adherence to Migrant Help’s Policies and Procedures
• Lead contact for Migrant Help’s Quality Team for organisational or contractual audits and inspections, providing oversight of audit and quality monitoring activities undertaken by the modern‑day slavery teams to implement actions, mitigations, recommendations and opportunities for improvement across the service within the agreed timescales

The experience and skills you need to become our Head of Modern Slavery Services :

• Experience and understanding of working with external agencies and developing increased opportunities for service users
• Ability to motivate and lead a diverse team of managers
• A demonstrable ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally, including well‑developed report writing and presentation skills
• Ability to work in a timely fashion dealing with challenging and changing needs, prioritising work as necessary

Migrant Help is committed to safeguarding those we provide as a service to; applicants will have to undergo strict vetting procedures throughout different stages of the recruitment process therefore:

This post is subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Group (PVG) and ACCES NI check therefore applicants must:

• Be able to provide documents to show their right to work in the UK (such as Passport, work visa, settled status document, certificate of registration, naturalisation as a British citizen, Biometric Residence Permit etc.)
• Provide full employment history for the previous 3 years and/or suitable documentation to cover any gaps in employment

These are some of the benefits we offer :

• Our working week is 35 hours per week offering flexibility and work‑life balance
• Enhanced family‑friendly provisions
• Employees will gain an extra day annual leave per year to a maximum of 39 days, including bank holidays (pro‑rata)
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave
• Access to Perkbox, an employee rewards and benefits platform with over 9,000 deals and discounts, a range of free perks, employee wellbeing support and other additional employee benefits and recognitions
• Wellbeing support
• Migrant Help offers employees a non‑contributory pension scheme;
  Migrant Help pays 8% worth of employee salary into the pension scheme

Closing Date : 5 January 2026

Please note:

During the festive period we continue to welcome applications, but response times may be longer than usual.

If you are interested in becoming our new Head of Modern Slavery Services, please click 'APPLY' today. We look forward to hearing from you!

We encourage applications from disabled people by offering them an interview if they meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Please note this vacancy may close early depending on applications received.

As part of your role, it is important you operate within Migrant Help’s values:
Protection, Diversity, Equality, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence.

Migrant Help is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

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