Will you ensure Children's voices are loud and clear in everything we do? Can you be the advocacy champion on the next stage of our service journey? With a newly established and experienced Childrens Services Leadership Team, a positive ILACS inspection outcome, and our unwavering ambition to further develop and transform our ChildrensServices and partnerships to enable children, young people and families to flourish and thrive, there has never been a more thrilling time to joinus. Our Childrens Assurance Partnerships and Evaluation (CAPE) Service is expanding, and we are excited to further build a dedicated and sustainable infrastructure. We need individuals with the skills, knowledge, and expertise to contribute to key functions such as strategic development, partnership working, corporate and community parenting, voice and engagement, governance and reporting, systems and processes, assurance, self-evaluation, project developments, statutory inspection, and regulatory compliance. In the context of our relational approach, we are committed to ensuring that children and young peoples voices are first, centre and last in everything we do, and we currently have an exciting opportunity within the CAPE Service for an Advocacy and Voice Officer Are you resilient, passionate about the rights of children and young people, and enthusiastic about building genuine, meaningful relationships to support empower and enable them to be heard and feel heard in their lives? Do you have the drive and ambition to work creatively and with children and young people to make a real difference in their lives? If your answers are yes, then this is the perfect opportunity for you! We are looking for someone who is experienced and knowledgeable about the rights of children and young people and who can demonstrate positive change as a result of advocating on their behalf. The role will: be a champion for childrens voices, advocating on behalf of, with and empowering them to be heard and involved in relation to their individual plans and decisions that impact on them support, enable and champion the voice of children and young people to shape and influence service development and transformation involve working across Childrens Services and the wider partnership to champion childrens voices, challenge and support them to take account of and respond to the views and experiences of children and young people involve some group work, delivery of training and raising awareness of childrens rights Candidates will have a range of methods and mechanisms for communicating and engaging with children and young people with a range of needs as well as staff and managers across Childrens Services and the wider partnership. Closing date: 6 October 2025 Interviews to be held on: 24 October 2025 We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications. As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension. You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform. This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels. NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme. In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide: At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference) You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses) References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position Do you need support? If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form. 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