Advocate - Greater Manchester, United Kingdom - Coram Children's Charity

Coram Children's Charity

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Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Advocate

Service:
Coram Voice Stockport

Contract Type:
Permanent - Part Time

Hours: 21 hours per week

Salary:
£13,020.60 per annum (£21,701.00 FTE)

Location:
Home based with travel across Greater Manchester

About Coram:

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK's oldest children's charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739.

Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

About Coram Voice:

Coram Voice exists to enable and equip children and young people to hold the system to account, to challenge and support it to do its job properly and to uphold the rights of children and young people to actively participate in shaping their own lives.

Coram Voice strives for a society which recognises, and willingly accepts, its responsibilities to children and young people, where the inequalities and discrimination they currently face have been eradicated.

Where those children and young people are fully engaged in all decisions that are made about their lives. Where the views, needs and feelings that they express are at the core of those decisions.

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.

Our
Advocacy services we provide advocacy direct to children and young people in care, in need, in custody and to care leavers and children and young people with mental health needs.

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 Centre's, Juvenile Young Offender Institutions, psychiatric hospitals, residential special schools and children's homes.

About the Role

You will work directly with children and young people providing advocacy to care experienced children and young people and those with Child Protection and Child in Need Plans.

You will empower and support them to ensure their voices are heard within decision-making processes that effect their lives.

You will be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with professionals, carers, other stakeholders and most importantly children and young people.

If you have the necessary experience and skills and a commitment to promoting the rights of young people, we would like to hear from you.

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 scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of up to 25 days' annual leave plus an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year.

A supportive work environment fostering a good work/home life balance and a suite of family friendly policies, which promote employee wellbeing.

You will get a genuine opportunity to make a difference every day.

_ Recruitment process_

We cannot accept general CVs.
Applications must be fully completed.
If you are a current Coram Voice employee you may submit a supporting statement only addressing the person specification requirements for the post.

Closing date:
Sunday 18th June 2023 at 23:59pm

Interview date:
TBC w/c 26th June 2023.

Conflict of interest: the independence of the service is important to Coram Voice. Prospective applicants need to raise any other potential conflicts of interest when initially contacting Coram Voice about this post.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service._
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