Child and Young Person's Well Being Advocate - London, United Kingdom - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Child and Young Person's Wellbeing Advocate at The Havens

Full-time post 37.5 hours - funded until March 2025

This is role is part of a commissioned project across South West London that launched in April 2023, which aims to increase the number of disclosures children and young people are making and ensuring they have access to the therapeutic and criminal justice support they need.

The project will also work to ensure that professionals in the boroughs feel appropriately skilled to meet disclosures of sexual violence and abuse with belief, empathy, and a confident knowledge of next steps.

The Child and Young Person's Wellbeing Advocate will work directly with the survivor, safe parents and carers and their support networks, as part of The Havens' multidisciplinary team to ensure that the survivor's needs are properly understood and met.

The Child and Young Person's Wellbeing Advocate will provide appropriate onward referrals and safeguarding input, drawing on a trauma-informed anti-oppressive approach.

The post holder will have experience of working with survivors who experience multiple disadvantages, learning disability and autism, and understand the criminal justice process.

The Child and Young Person's Wellbeing Advocate will undertake effective partnership working with criminal justice, heath, social work, and other professionals.

The post holder will work in a client-led and therapeutic way to ensure the child or young person's voice is properly heard and guides the adults around them.

You will work in a hybrid way, in schools and other community settings, as well as from home, the office and at Havens sites.

This is an outreach role so requires frequent travel across South-West London.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.

The Havens are London's Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) based in Camberwell, Paddington / Ladbroke Grove and Whitechapel. They are jointly commissioned by the London Mayor's Office for Policing & Crime (MOPAC London) and the National Health Service England (NHS England)

The Havens are a 24/7 service providing care to people disclosing rape or sexual assault.

This care may include forensic medical examination, acute / follow-up medical care and support through counselling, psychology, and Independent Sexual Violence Advisors.