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Location

Remote | United Kingdom

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Job description

We are looking for a Senior Advocate who will have day to day responsibility for the running and promotion of the advocacy service in Bedfordshire.

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. The role will involve coordinating return interviews and residential visiting advocacy.

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 NYAS services and departments and well as acting the link between NYAS and the local authority.

For more information and to apply, please visit the link.

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

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

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Salary

£13.11k - £16.17k per annum