Job Title: Advocate
Service: Coram Voice: Croydon
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 35 per week (open to part-time/flexible working for the right candidate)
Salary: £25,000 - £26,500 per annum (including London Weighting) depending on experience
Location: Hybrid and flexible (a mixture of working from Coram Campus, home and meeting with young people in the community).
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.
About Coram Voice:
Coram Voice is a national independent children’s charity established in 1975. It exists to enable and equip children and young people to hold systems to account, to challenge and support them to do their jobs properly and to uphold the rights of children and young people to actively participate in shaping their own lives.
About the Role
We are looking for an Advocate to join our team in London. We seek applicants who have transferable skills, a willingness to learn, a desire to promote the rights of children and young people, or already have an IAP City and Guilds Level 3 or IAQ City and Guilds Level 4 in Advocacy. You will work directly with children and young people in, and on the edges, of care, providing them with advocacy support in the community and various settings.
You will empower and support them to ensure their voices are heard within decision-making processes that affect 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
Coram Voice offers an attractive benefits package, including a competitive salary, a matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of up to 25 days’ annual leave, and an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year. We foster a supportive work environment that promotes a good work/home life balance and employee wellbeing.
Recruitment process
Our Children’s Rights Managers will undertake shortlisting. Successful candidates will be invited for an interview, which comprises a written exercise and a panel interview. Internal candidates will need to notify HR of their interest in the post.
Returning your application:
- We cannot accept general CVs.
- When completing your application form, you need to address each point of the person specification and demonstrate how you meet it.
- 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 : 11.59pm, 6 October 2024
Interview date: We will interview on a rolling basis as applications are received.
General consideration for applications:
- DBS checks: all posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring check.
- Training: All successful candidates are required to complete our compulsory training programme.
- Conflict of interest: Prospective applicants need to raise any other potential conflicts of interest when initially contacting Coram Voice about this post.
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and believes a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We encourage candidates from all sections of the community, including those from minority ethnic backgrounds and those with lived experience of care.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
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