Independent Visitor Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Coram Children's Charity

Coram Children's Charity
Coram Children's Charity
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Job Title:
Independent Visitor Coordinator

Service:
Coram Voice, Independent Visitor Services

Contract Type:
Permanent

Salary:
£27,000 per annum

Hours: 35 hours a week

Location:
Bloomsbury, London (Home Based)

Job Introduction

  • Are you passionate about supporting and developing volunteers?
  • Are you looking for an opportunity to help make positive differences to the lives of children and young people who are looked after or care leavers of the local authority?
  • Do you want to work with a leading national independent children's charity?
Then come join us here at Coram Voice. We have an exciting opportunity for you to become a co-ordinator of our independent visiting services in London.


Our work


Coram Voice is a national independent children's charity established in 1975 and has grown to become one of the leading organisations for children and young people in the UK.

Coram Voice is a leading children's rights organisation. We champion the rights of children.

We get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them and work to improve the lives of children in care, care leavers and others who depend upon the help of the state.


We provide:
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Advocacy services direct to children and young people in care, in need, in custody, are care leavers and children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems. Advocates around the country support children and young people to get their voice heard in decisions about their lives. This may be through the telephone helpline or through an advocate working directly with a child, for instance, to support them at a review meeting or to help them make a complaint about their care. Coram Voice provides visiting advocacy services to most of the secure units nationally, to Secure Training Centres, Juvenile Young Offender Institutions, psychiatric hospitals, residential special schools and children's homes.
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A National Helpline to provide access for children and young people to advocacy and advice, with access to legal advice and links with other national helplines such as ChildLine.
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Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) to advocate for young people as qualifying patients under the Mental Health Act, to support them to get their views heard in matters relating to their mental health.
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Independent visitor services offers a child or young person in care an adult volunteer who provides independent, one-to-one visiting, advice and befriending support. Our independent visitors can become the only long-term, consistent source of support throughout a young person's time in care.
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Independent services provide independent person services for complaints by children and for reviewing whether children should be detained in secure units on welfare grounds.
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Policy and campaigning to create a better system for all children and young people looked after by the state, for their care to be more child-centred and to give young people a greater say in decisions about their lives.
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Participation services to ensure children and young people have a voice in the development and delivery of services and campaigns, and through the process, provide the opportunity to develop relevant skills that will be of benefit to them in their future lives.
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Training, development and information for young people, advocates and child care workers, offering courses in advocacy, children's rights and child-centred practice across a range of areas including the National Advocacy Qualification.


About the Role


You will co-ordinate and deliver a statutory independent visitor service to children and young people in care and care leavers.


You will recruit, assess and train volunteers to become independent visitors, who are volunteer befrienders to children and young people looked after or care leavers.

You will manage a cash flow to fund suitable activities for independent visitors to enjoy with the young person.

You will manage data and reporting for this statutory service so that service leads and other stakeholders can understand the activity in the service.


We are a child led service; you will not act outside of the young person's instructions (except in matters of child protection and safety.)You will build strong relationships with the child or young person, independent visitors and other significant adults; you will support Independent Visitors to develop long term, meaningful friendships with the young person.

You will work in partnership with other parts of the service, organisation and external agencies and professionals.

This is to ensure there are pathways to attract and retain Independent Visitors in the area and sometimes out of area.


What you will receive


We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so.

Coram Voice benefits package includes a competitive salary, a matched pension
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