Senior Advocate

The Vacancy

We are looking for a Senior Advocate to work 13 hours per week, who will have day-to-day responsibility for the running and promotion of the advocacy service in Hull. Please note that this role will require you live in or close to Hull, as the role will require face-to-face visits with children and young people.

You will manage a pool of advocates which involves recruitment, supporting them through induction and by conducting supervision and best practice meetings, ensuring the provisions of the service we offer to children and young people is to a high standard.

You will be responsible in managing the advocacy referrals and allocating these to the most appropriate advocate to meet the needs of the child or young person, whilst also carrying a small caseload of advocacy referrals yourself where you will provide independent and confidential advocacy to children and young people to empower them to express their wishes and feelings in decision that affect their lives to ensure that their voices are heard.

You will help drive the performance of the service by monitoring the referrals, activity and budgets, and using bespoke system, to prepare statistical and qualitative data reports for monitoring meetings to evidence service target achievements. This will also enable you to identify recurring themes and concerns which can be escalated.

This role also provides the opportunity to work in co-operation with other [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] services and departments and well as acting the link between [Employer hidden] and the local authority.

For more information, please view the attached job description.

In order to meet the requirements of the role, you must live within the geographical area.

In your application, you will need to evidence, using specific examples, how your skills and experience meet the criteria laid out in the person specification, within the job description attached. Requirements include:

• Proven experience in working with children and young people in a social care setting, particularly children in care
• Proven experience of supervising staff and /or volunteers
• Experience and understanding of child protection/vulnerable adult safeguarding procedures
• An understanding of the importance of listening to children and young people without bias or prejudice
• An ability to communicate effectively and to a high standard both orally and in writing to a wide range of people.

[Employer hidden] operates robust safeguarding procedures to ensure the protection of the children, young people and adults at risk we work with. To comply with [Employer hidden]’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a Digital Risk Assessment.

In accordance with UK immigration law, [Employer hidden] is required to ensure that all prospective candidates have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom. Therefore, proof of eligibility to work in the UK will be required as part of the recruitment process.

*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we receive a high number of applications.*