Senior Advocate - London & South East

Job Title: Senior Advocate

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £27,275.00 per annum

Work Pattern: 35 hours per week (full time). We will consider applicants seeking part-time work.

Location: Essex (home based)

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join Coram Voice as our Senior Advocate in Essex. You will work directly with children and young people and supervise and support other advocates working in Essex. You will need to be innovative and constantly strive to find new ways to transform the lives of young people. Coram Voice and Rethink Advocacy are working in partnership to provide an excellent advocacy service to children and young people in Essex.

You will be joining a highly committed and well supported team working together with colleagues from Coram Voice and Rethink to champion the rights of children and young people.

About Coram Voice:

Our services include Always Heard, the national advocacy safety net and advice service, and a range of local children’s rights projects such as advocacy for children in care, care leavers and other young people needing the support of Children’s Services. We work side by side with some of the most vulnerable children and young people in society and reach out to those who have missed out on the support they need. Join us as we work to transform the lives of children and young people, by supporting them to uphold their rights and actively participate in decisions about their lives. Coram Voice is part of the Coram group of charities which develops, delivers and promotes best practice in the support of children and young people. Our vision is that every child has the best possible chance in life.

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. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

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

Closing date: Monday 20th March 2023 at 23:59

Interview date: Wednesday 29th March 2023

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.

Coram Voice particularly welcomes applications for this post from people with care experience, and those with disabilities. We are also actively encouraging 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 young people 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 and undertake a Warner style interview. Registered Charity No. 312278.