Care Experienced Consultant

Job Title: Care Experienced Consultant

Salary: £11.05 per hour

Contract: Sessional

Hours: Sessional work - Estimated 5-20 days per year

Location: Currently Home Working

About Coram Voice:

Coram Voice exists to enable and equip children and young people to hold the system to account, to challenge and support it to do its job properly and to uphold the rights of children and young people to actively participate in shaping their own lives.

Coram Voice strives for a society which recognises, and willingly accepts, its responsibilities to children and young people, where the inequalities and discrimination they currently face have been eradicated. Where those children and young people are fully engaged in all decisions that are made about their lives. Where the views, needs and feelings that they express are at the core of those decisions.

Coram Voice is a national independent children’s charity established in 1975 and has grown to become one of the leading organisations for children and young people in the UK.

Coram Voice is a leading children’s rights organisation. We champion the rights of children. We get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them.

Purpose of the role:

Coram Voice are recruiting a group of care experienced peer researchers to work with us across the projects we run at Coram Voice and to support the work we do with young people in and leaving care across the country.

You will work closely with the Participation Manager and the Voices Improving Care team. We will work with the successful candidates to provide training about peer research. You must be willing to travel when necessary.

We are specifically looking for care experienced peer researcher to work on LIFT (Life in Transition). The LIFT Project is led by researchers from the University of Bristol, working with colleagues in Coram Voice, the University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast. The LIFT Team want to test a short training for Personal Advisors (PAs) to help them better support care leavers’ health and wellbeing.

LIFT is currently testing the training programme in a feasibility trial. LIFT is working with three local authorities and the study will last for 12 months. The purpose of the feasibility trial is to test out the training and our research methods in practice. PAs and care experienced young people will be asked to provide feedback at several stages: before the PAs have received the training, after some the PAs have received the training, 24 weeks after the start of the feasibility trial and 48 weeks after the start of the feasibility trial.

LIFT are looking for care leavers to be a part of interviewing other care leavers whose PAs may or may not have received the training intervention.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Friday 3rd March 2023 at 23:59

Interview date: Week Commencing 13th March 2023

Coram Voice is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.