- Either professional qualification relevant to working with children and families or substantial relevant experience in a child care position working with children and young people in care as individuals and in groups
- Understanding of child care legislation relevant to advocacy and participation and children's rights
- Understanding of corporate parenting roles and responsibilities
- Have strong communication skills and a strong track records of talking to children in a range of settings
- Experience of supervising staff and providing support to deliver high quality services
- Ability to right reports and present information in a range of forums
- Ability to promote participation of young people in a range of activities as part of service development
Senior Children's Rights Officer - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council
Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £41,208- £45,054 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 Per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 6th May 2024
Interview Date(s): 13th of May 2024
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Corporate Parenting, Children's Rights and Participation Team as a Senior Children's Rights Officer. This role is to lead a team of Children's Rights and Participation Officers to provide a rights based and advocacy service for the children of Leicestershire who are looked after, or who are subject to child protection plans. This role supports key activities of the team including the corporate parenting board, children in care council and celebration of achievement awards. You will be expected to work closely with children and young people, social workers and managers across teams, and other services and professionals. You will work with children or young people in complex situations to support with advocacy and participation. At this time, we want to develop our offer to children and young people and so this is the time for new ideas and developments in promoting advocacy and participation.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must must meet the following requirements :
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Hollie Martin, Service Manager
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