Advocacy and Voice Officer
Job description
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 Children’s Services Leadership Team, a positive ILACS inspection outcome, and our unwavering ambition to further develop and transform our Children’s Services and partnerships to enable children, young people and families to flourish and thrive, there has never been a more thrilling time to join us.
Our Children’s 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 people’s 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
1. 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?
2. 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:
3. be a champion for children’s 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
4. support, enable and champion the voice of children and young people to shape and influence service development and transformation
5. involve working across Children’s Services and the wider partnership to champion children’s voices, challenge and support them to take account of and respond to the views and experiences of children and young people
6. involve some group work, delivery of training and raising awareness of children’s 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 Children’s Services and the wider partnership.
For further details, please refer to the role profile or for more information please contact:
Pippa Curtin, Voice and Influence Lead Officer via
Closing date: 6 October
Interviews to be held on: 24 October
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.