Debates around Black Lives Matter, mass remote working, inequality in our education system exposed by Covid-19 restrictions and debates about privilege – our society and our world of work is very clearly at a turning point.
As a social mobility charity, The Brokerage is in the fortunate position to influence that change in a positive, practical and meaningful way, working with underprivileged young people from state schools. We partner with corporates in the City (financial and professional services) that want our help with building and accessing a different talent pool and change organisational practices to create a post-inclusion culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive and be themselves.
The Brokerage is at a critical and dynamic point having recently launched a strategic re-direction, innovative new services and a relevant new brand, all supporting our vision of a world where a young person’s ability and aspiration alone determine their career path. At the heart of this exciting new direction is implementing our new partnership model to ensure that The Brokerage is both re-positioned as a Changemaker with corporates and ensures sustainable funding of its activities.
To achieve this The Brokerage is currently recruiting for a Corporate Changemaker Manager to lead on the design and delivery of The Brokerage’s employer products and the engagement of our corporate partners. This is a new strand of work for us and this role will be instrumental in developing, testing and delivering our new employer products including our corporate leaders forum, employer culture change workshop and partnership assessment tool. In addition, this role will also lead on the development of our alumni proposition and ensure our alumni are leveraged to enhance our insights, profile and reach.
Main duties
- Manage the development and delivery of our employer products, especially our culture change workshop and develop related products e.g. support sessions for line mangers
- Play a liaison role between our partnerships and delivery teams, ensuring that agreements with our corporate partners are fulfilled and relationships are built
- Work with the Senior Insights and Communications Manager to generate collateral to support our corporate partners in their internal engagement activities around our work e.g. case studies/personal stores, business case around D&I
- Keep abreast about partners needs and develop a deep understanding of how the Brokerage can use our insights to add value and create change in organisational practices and behaviours, working closely with the Senior Insights, Impact and System Manager
- Work with the Partnership Team to deliver our partnerships assessments using insights and knowledge from the wider delivery team
- Manage corporate volunteers and ensure we make the most of their position in the organisation, working closely with the Senior Delivery Administrator
- Manage the development of manager support session and develop and implement a manager support network for our corporate partners for all of our activities
- Support the CEO and wider team with the delivery of the corporate employer forum
- Research and manage the establishment of our alumni proposition and network and how they can be utilised to deliver on our strategic objectives
- Manage corporate and alumni engagement via social media and other channels
- To proactively support the Marketing and Communications Manager with case studies and other materials
- To play an active role in the planning and delivery of The Brokerage’s strategic objectives and participate in The Brokerage events and activities as required.
Person specification
Essential
- Dynamic, outgoing and engaging personality
- Experience of working in a corporate environment
- Experience of HR policies and procedures and wider organisational practices
- Knowledge of corporate D&I agendas and strategies
- Employee volunteer management experience
- Highly organised, with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, to work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment and still produce quality outputs.
- Demonstrable knowledge of and interest in issues surrounding social mobility, education, as well as corporate diversity and inclusion programmes.
- Excellent IT skills, including demonstrable usage of Microsoft Office suite, CRM databases (eg. Salesforce or equivalent) and social media.
7% pension contribution
25 days’ paid annual leave plus Bank Holidays
2 days’ paid volunteering leave
Season ticket loan and a range of other staff benefits
Please apply by submitting a Cover Letter and CV by 0900 on Tuesday 3 November
Interview - dates tbc
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This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys synthesising information and can use their influence and professional authority in varied situations. The Participant Suitability Manager will ensure we provide high quality guidance and support to participants on the Frontline programme, working closely with Frontline’s Programme Management team and Manager to ensure a smooth process. The role comprises three core areas:
Chairing panels
The participant suitability manager will chair participant suitability panels; fitness to practice panels and learning reviews. This vital role requires a social work qualification and experience of chairing complex meetings with a range of partners and professionals.
Managing 2 Selection Advisors and 1 Disability Selection Advisor
You will manage Frontline’s selection advisors who are based in various locations and hold accountability for advising teams on participants suitability for the Frontline programme.
Investigating participant complaints
Carry out investigations for complaints from or relating to participants. Speak to relevant parties, working alongside the compliance team to ensure timescales and process are followed.
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About The Advocacy Project
We help marginalised and vulnerable people make effective choices about what happens in their lives. We also support them to speak up and help improve important services we all need. We want to make sure people across all age and care groups – including learning disability and mental health – can:
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voice their concerns
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understand their rights
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make effective choices about what happens in their lives
We do this through advocacy services which support people individually, and user involvement projects that help organisations improve the services they offer.
About the role
We’re searching for an exceptional Independent Mental Health Advocate (Forensic) to work in the medium and low secure forensic units at St Bernard’s Hospital in Ealing.
The role will have a strong appeal to advocates wishing to specialise in forensic contexts.
This role will provide independent advocacy for adults detained under forensic sections. You’ll also raise awareness of independent advocacy, including for people from minority ethnic communities. You’ll work as part of a team of independent advocates, reporting to the manager for the service.
Key responsibilities
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Provide a one-to-one advocacy service and undertake case work, writing accurate case notes and recording data on our system.
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Provide instructed and non-instructed advocacy where appropriate.
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Give information, support and signposting to inform and empower people on any issues about their treatment under the relevant legislation.
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Meet case-working standards, monitoring system requirements and the goals for our service, making sure everyone needing advocacy is referred into the service in the right way.
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Work within the location-specific engagement protocols, security, confidentiality and safeguarding policies (in addition to the Advocacy Best Practice Handbook).
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Actively promote self-advocacy throughout all work with patients where practical.
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Raise awareness of independent advocacy amongst patients.
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Keep your knowledge of legislation and policy up-to-date, including the mental health act, mental capacity act, care act, and local / national policy.
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Keep up to date with developments and good practice in independent advocacy (including different advocacy models).
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Develop good working relationships with key staff within health and social care services.
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Be an active member of the mental health service, contributing to service planning and providing cover for other colleagues when needed.
General responsibilities
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Participate in team meetings and training.
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Participate in personal, team and organisational development.
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Contribute to monitoring reports.
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Keep to our policies, including health & safety, and risk regulations.
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Work to our mission, vision, and values.
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Carry out other projects and tasks as needed.
Person specification
Essential:
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At least two years experience of providing advocacy or supporting people with mental health conditions.
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Understanding of the issues faced by forensic service users with mental health conditions and issues relating to mental capacity.
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Sound knowledge of forensic mental health sections and services, including current issues in policy and practice; knowledge of health and social care practice and legislation.
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Experience of the principles and practice of advocacy and an understanding of different forms of advocacy.
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Ability to listen and build trust, to encourage people to express their own views and to represent clients’ self-defined interests.
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal). Good at working with a wide variety of people including commissioners, service users and colleagues.
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Commitment to working within The Advocacy Project code of conduct, equality and safeguarding policies.
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Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative, to plan and prioritise your own workload.
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Willingness to promote The Advocacy Project and its services in line with our mission, vision and values.
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Commitment to ongoing professional development.
Desirable:
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Knowledge and experience of advocacy under the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act (IMCA) and DOLS.
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IMHA qualification (or be studying for an IMHA qualification and committed to completing this within 6 months).
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Understanding of the Accessible Information Standard.
Benefits of working for us
We’re committed to providing an empowering, flexible and supportive working environment for all our staff.
Our employee benefits include 30 days annual leave (including up to 3 days between Christmas and New Year), participation in a pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, access to a free confidential counselling service, and an interest-free travel/bike loan.
All our staff are supported to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including a monthly lecture series where we invite sector experts to talk to our staff on topical issues.
We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer.
How to apply
Send your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you think you’re the person we’re looking for and how your experience meets the person specification.
Upload your application via our website.
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Tax Justice UK is building a movement for progressive tax reform. We have an extraordinary political moment to win significant tax reform in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. For the first time in decades substantial tax reform is on the agenda. Help us to win support for our campaign from senior government officials and politicians of all stripes.
We’re looking for an experienced political operative to lead our engagement with policymakers. You will have deep knowledge of how Westminster and Whitehall work. It is important that you have relationships with people from across parties. We need someone who is diplomatic, politically switched on and is comfortable building support for complex policy issues. You will be our fourth employee and so will have an opportunity to help a young organisation grow and achieve impact. This will mean getting involved in all aspects of the organisation, including strategy development, movement building, communications and keeping the organisation running.
You will help us to:
- build political support for tax reform
- shape a tax reform agenda
- support Tax Justice UK's growth
You will have:
- a track record of winning political change
- an ability to work with people from across the political spectrum
- experience of dealing with complicated policy issues
- the ability to thrive in a young organisation, where you will drive your own projects, as well as shape the organisation’s overall approach
This role is 4 days / 30 hours a week.
To apply please send a CV and cover letter. They should be no longer that 2 pages each. The deadline is 10am, 9 November 2020.
Tax Justice UK was incubated by the Tax Justice Network and launched as an independent organisation in 2017. Our work is supported by technical advisors, with backgrounds in law, academia and campaigns.
Due to limited resources, we will sadly be unable to get in touch with candidates who don't make the shortlist.
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Advocacy Officer
London with remote working
The Advocacy Officer is a new role within our Policy and Campaigns Directorate. We are looking for someone who can communicate fluently in British Sign Language and has excellent written English. You’ll have the opportunity to work across the disciplines within the Directorate, supporting social research, policy, public affairs and campaigns. This is a role for someone with a pro-active mind-set and a desire to develop their knowledge and skills across a number of different functions.
Are you passionate about social change and improving society with and for people with disabilities? Are you excited by the prospect of putting people who are deaf or have hearing loss at the centre of your work? Can you help us harness the voice of the 12 million people with hearing loss to eradicate barriers? Would you be excited to work in a changing environment with a test-and-learn culture? Then this could be the role for you.
If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
In return, we’ll invest in you. Focusing on developing your talent with an emphasis on the skills that excite you. We’ll help you turn your ideas into reality and encourage you to try new things as we work to remove the barriers that people who are deaf or have hearing loss face.
Communication is a basic human need. Yet most of us know someone who struggles to communicate through hearing loss. It can cause substantial harm to friendships, family relationships, confidence, employability, mental health and life chances.
Action on Hearing Loss (formerly the RNID) is the UK’s largest charity for the 11 million people in the UK who confront deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss every day. Established in 1911, we help people to take control of their lives and live the life they choose, removing the barriers standing in their way. We give people support and care, develop technology and treatments, and campaign for equality.
We champion the value of difference and equality and celebrate our diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds or who are deaf or hard of hearing. With almost 20% of our employees having a disability we proudly hold Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria.
VoiceAbility are recruiting a full-time advocate to join our London (Wandsworth Area) team. VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantage or discrimination to have a voice that counts. Providing advocacy and user involvement services across England, VoiceAbility is a growing organisation working with people who are vulnerable or marginalised to raise their voices and have their rights respected.
About the role:
Advocates support people who may be marginalised or vulnerable to speak up and be heard. Their work strengthens voices, supports human rights and changes lives. Advocacy can be vital for people who cannot speak up for themselves, or people who feel they do not have the power to do so. Advocates work in on the front line delivering positive outcomes for the people they support. Advocates will support and enable service users’ understanding of their options. Advocates empower individuals to communicate their views in decision making processes, supporting them to make challenges when necessary and asking pertinent questions on the person’s behalf where they are unable to do so for themselves.
Location: This role will be home based. You will need to be able to travel and work primarily across the Wandsworth area.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,000 - £28,500 Per Annum depending on qualifications. Future scope to earn up to £30,000 subject to qualifications and performance.
All applications by: 11th November 2020
Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays; 5% employer pension & 3% employee contribution; Salary sacrifice pension scheme; Separate Life Assurance Cover; Staff discount scheme including supermarkets, fashion, restaurants, cinemas, holidays and much more; Discounted Gym Membership; Cycle to Work; Employee Assistance programme; Supportive working environment fostering a good work/life balance; Support with professional development.
About you:
• Be passionate about empowering and enabling individuals to have their wishes, feelings, beliefs, and needs taken into account when decisions are made about their care
• Demonstrate excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills
• Have the ability to engage with people with complex needs and communication difficulties
• Be experienced in influencing and working with health and social care professionals, legal services, care staff, family members etc.
• Be able to build good relationships with clients, health and social care professionals, legal professionals, and carers
• Be able to identify and act appropriately where issues of safeguarding individuals arise
• Have strong IT skills to accurately record information in line with policy and current data standards
• Be experienced in working with marginalised and vulnerable adults and/or children
• Be able to research complex and sensitive issues independently, using case law, national policy and guidance for advocates to work for resolution of issues
• Be able to work to tight and changing deadlines
• Be able to work independently
• Preferably hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have access to own transport. There is travel involved in the role.
Desirable skills or experience:
• Hold or be working towards Independent Advocacy Qualification.
• Knowledge and experience of the Care Act (2014) and Mental Capacity Act (2007),The Principles of Human Rights and Advocacy, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Mental Health Act (1983, revised 2007).
NB If you don't already hold the Independent Advocacy Qualification, it is a requirement of that you complete this within 12 months of commencing employment.
You may have experience of the following: Advocacy, Vulnerable Adults, Social Work, Healthcare, Policy, Legislation, Support Work, Charity, Third Sector, Advice & Guidance.
How to Apply: To apply for this role, please complete the online application form using the criteria in the person specification and upload your CV detailing your work history. NB CV's will not be used to short list.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Assessment/ test: Online 18th November 2020
Interviews: To be held online via Teams week commencing 23rd November 2020
Equality and Diversity Statement
VoiceAbility believes in fostering an inclusive workplace which welcomes, values and celebrates the diversity of its staff and partners, treats all on a basis of equality and encourages all to meet their maximum potential.
Our mission is strengthening voice, supporting rights, changing lives
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the Role
You will work directly with children and young people providing advocacy and other children’s rights support which will empower and support them to navigate the care system. This direct work will include issues based advocacy support for children in need, looked after children and care leavers, as well as children subject to the Child Protection process.
You will be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with professionals, foster carers, commissioners, other stakeholders and most importantly children and young people.
Coram Voice particularly welcomes applications from care leavers or individuals with experience of being ‘looked after’ by the state. 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.
If you have the necessary experience and skills and a commitment to promoting the rights of young people, we would like to hear from you.
To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to our website.
For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.
Closing Date: 9am, 30th October 2020
Interview Date: 10th November 2020
All posts are subjected to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and successful candidates will not be able to work unsupervised with children or young people until the completion of this process. Coram Voice - working towards quality through equality and the development of a diverse workforce.
We ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this position. We have chosen to recruit directly as this helps us to minimise our recruitment costs, ensuring that valuable funds aren't diverted from the children and young people we help.
Registered Charity Number 1046207
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VoiceAbility are recruiting 2 full-time advocates to join our Hampshire team. VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantage or discrimination to have a voice that counts. Providing advocacy and user involvement services across England, VoiceAbility is a growing organisation working with people who are vulnerable or marginalised to raise their voices and have their rights respected.
About the role:
Advocates support people who may be marginalised or vulnerable to speak up and be heard. Their work strengthens voices, supports human rights and changes lives. Advocacy can be vital for people who cannot speak up for themselves, or people who feel they do not have the power to do so. Advocates work in on the front line delivering positive outcomes for the people they support. Advocates will support and enable service users’ understanding of their options. Advocates empower individuals to communicate their views in decision making processes, supporting them to make challenges when necessary and asking pertinent questions on the person’s behalf where they are unable to do so for themselves.
Location: This role will be home based. You will need to be able to travel and work across the Hampshire & Southampton area at multiple sites.
Hours: 2 x 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £21,000 - £26,500 Per Annum depending on qualifications. Future scope to earn up to £28,000 subject to qualifications and performance.
All applications by: 9am Monday 2nd November 2020
Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays; 5% employer pension & 3% employee contribution; Salary sacrifice pension scheme; Separate Life Assurance Cover; Staff discount scheme including supermarkets, fashion, restaurants, cinemas, holidays and much more; Discounted Gym Membership; Cycle to Work; Employee Assistance programme; Supportive working environment fostering a good work/life balance; Support with professional development.
About you:
• Be passionate about empowering and enabling individuals to have their wishes, feelings, beliefs, and needs taken into account when decisions are made about their care
• Demonstrate excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills
• Have the ability to engage with people with complex needs and communication difficulties
• Be experienced in influencing and working with health and social care professionals, legal services, care staff, family members etc.
• Be able to build good relationships with clients, health and social care professionals, legal professionals, and carers
• Be able to identify and act appropriately where issues of safeguarding individuals arise
• Have strong IT skills to accurately record information in line with policy and current data standards
• Be experienced in working with marginalised and vulnerable adults and/or children
• Be able to research complex and sensitive issues independently, using case law, national policy and guidance for advocates to work for resolution of issues
• Be able to work to tight and changing deadlines
• Be able to work independently
• Hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have access to own transport. There is travel involved in the role.
Desirable skills or experience:
• Hold or be working towards Independent Advocacy Qualification.
• Knowledge and experience of the Care Act (2014) and Mental Capacity Act (2007),The Principles of Human Rights and Advocacy, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Mental Health Act (1983, revised 2007).
NB If you don't already hold the Independent Advocacy Qualification, it is a requirement of that you complete this within 12 months of commencing employment.
You may have experience of the following: Advocacy, Vulnerable Adults, Social Work, Healthcare, Policy, Legislation, Support Work, Charity, Third Sector, Advice & Guidance.
How to Apply: To apply for this role, please complete the online application form using the criteria in the person specification and upload your CV detailing your work history. NB CV's will not be used to short list.
Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 2nd November 2020
Assessment/ test: Online Wednesday 4th November 2020
Interviews: To be held online via Teams. Successful candidates at assessment/test stage will be interviewed week commencing 9th November 2020
Equality and Diversity Statement
VoiceAbility believes in fostering an inclusive workplace which welcomes, values and celebrates the diversity of its staff and partners, treats all on a basis of equality and encourages all to meet their maximum potential.
Our mission is strengthening voice, supporting rights, changing lives
Our vision is of a society in... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Communications Manager
Pay: £32-37,000
Location: Islington, London
Contract Duration: Permanent
Reporting Line: Role will report to Director of External Engagement
About 5Rights Foundation
One billion children are online and account for one third of all users globally. 5Rights Foundation exists to build the digital world that young people deserve, allowing them to live and work online creatively, knowledgably, and fearlessly.
We are a policy-driven organisation, which aims to realise ambitious, systems-level change. As such, we advocate for enforceable regulation and international agreements that allow children and young people to thrive online. We develop standards and protocols with engineers and policy colleagues around the world to help businesses reshape and redesign their digital services with children and young people in mind. We publish and lead across our policy areas to formulate new thinking and solutions to address the challenges posed by the digital world, enabling it to cater for children and young people by design and default. Our focus is strongly oriented towards achieving real-world change, though shaping legislation, regulatory frameworks, and industry best practice.
We are looking for a dynamic communications manager to deliver and manage our public messaging and communications including our press relations, website and social media. You will be a confident, able communicator and a skilled writer, with a clear commitment to the missions and values of the Foundation.
We believe that our staff are our most valuable asset and we are committed to attracting and retaining diverse, exceptional talent. We are a small team and work collaboratively, flexibly and with respect for others.
Key Responsibilities
• Growing our media presence and act as first point of contact for all media relations, ensuring that we respond in a timely and appropriate manner to opportunities and proactively building and owning relationships with the press to achieve our mission.
• Drafting of all press releases, quotes and OpEds, and preparing spokespeople for media appearances.
• Supporting the Chair and senior team in delivery of the external engagement strategy and plan.
• Managing and delivering public and private events such as roundtables, media launches and seminars.
• Oversee public website and directly manage our social media presence, ensuring that our interventions support the Foundation’s mission.
• Contribute to all communication needs of the Foundation’s mission and individual projects.
• Support the External Affairs Director in managing key stakeholders and contacts.
• Overseeing publication of key reports, microsites and other external comms products.
Person Specification
Essential skills and attributes
• Experienced and confident press relations manager.
• Excellent engaging writing style with a high attention to accuracy and ability to reflect nuanced policy calls.
• Experience of delivering events such as roundtables, report launches and briefings.
• Creative and innovative thinker in developing communications opportunities.
• Independent worker with the ability to balance and prioritise competing tasks.
• Enjoys working to exacting standards to maintain the quality of our output.
• A commitment to our values and mission.
Desirable skills and attributes
• Experience of growing an organisation’s media presence.
• Professional experience of social media function and innovative ways to extend our reach.
• Experience working with designers and web developers to deliver projects to time and budget.
• An understanding of the issues relevant to one or more areas of our work.
• Experience of collaborating effectively and creatively with a wide range of partners.
• Experience of managing projects and teams from conception to completion.
• Understanding of the particular dynamics of working in a small organisation.
To apply for this role, please click 'Apply' to send your CV with covering letter outlining why you are interested in the role. Please ensure you include a covering letter as the information is essential for your application.
Background: Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority, established in 1986 following the disappearance of 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh whilst at work. We work towards creating a society in which people are safer - and feel safer - from the prevalence of stalking, harassment, aggression and violence, achieved through Supporting people; Education; and Campaigning. Our stalking helpline advice and advocacy service offers support and advice to thousands of victims of stalking every year. Caseworkers advocate on victims’ behalf with police, social services and other statutory or victim support agencies.
Overall purpose of role:
The overall purpose of the role is to provide expert advice and advocacy to victims of stalking.
- To give guidance and information by telephone, email and face to face to those affected by stalking.
- To provide casework support and advocacy to victims of stalking, liaising with both voluntary and statutory services to ensure positive outcomes for victims.
- To provide support and guidance to volunteers where necessary.
- To support the Stalking Support Team Leader and Helpline Manager where required.
Fixed Term Contract until March 2022.
Closing Date: We will be reviewing applications as they come in. We will close the vacancy once a suitable candidate is identified.
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, submit your CV and a covering letter, addressing the shortlisting criteria.Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
Mission
Our mission is to reduce the risk of violence and aggression through campaigning, education and support.
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About The Advocacy Project
We help marginalised and vulnerable people make effective choices about what happens in their lives. We also support them to speak up and help improve important services we all need. We want to make sure people across all age and care groups – including learning disability and mental health – can:
- voice their concerns
- understand their rights
- make effective choices about what happens in their lives
We do this through advocacy services which support people individually, and user involvement projects that help organisations improve the services they offer.
About the role
This role is deputy to the Head of Service Delivery. The post-holder will be responsible for:
- providing leadership to at least one of our large advocacy services
- leading on quality assurance across the organisation
- leading on implementing new services
- managing the referral service
- deputising for the Head of Service Delivery
Role & responsibilities
Leadership
- Provide senior management support to at least one advocacy service, including line management support for identified staff.
- Lead on contract monitoring meetings promptly identifying and managing follow-on work
- Monitoring and delivery of projects and contracts to time, budget and quality
- Act as the lead member of staff in hackney and develop effective working relationships and partnerships with key staff within health and social care services and commissioning
- Managing the referral pathway and associated team to ensure a smooth, supported and efficient service
Deputise for Head of Service
- Leading, managing and supervising service managers.
- Presenting a visible and accessible leadership presence that supports staff based in central offices as well as those in remote locations.
- Working with the Senior Leadership team to develop the organization and create and maintain a positive working environment and supportive culture.
Service development and implementation
- Mobilise a new service within agreed timescales and provide a seamless transition for the people we support and staff members.
- Supporting the business development team to consider what people in our communities need and develop models that meet these needs.
- Making sure service models and commitments we make in bids are achievable and bringing them to life once we’ve secured the funding.
- Leading on setting up new services, making sure the impact on the people we support and staff is positive and does not compromise on quality.
- Giving an excellent handover to the service manager who will deliver the new service; working with stakeholders to evaluate the implementation.
- Making sure there’s a robust plan in place after the initial implementation phase and providing light touch support to managers so all areas of the service comply with the contract.
Safeguarding practice
- Deliver training and coaching around safeguarding.
- Support managers to make sure safeguarding practice is person-centred, focusing on supporting the person to be safe in a way they want.
- Support managers when and how to escalate safeguarding concerns internally and within the local authority if concerns remain.
Quality Assurance
- Work with managers to gather and analyse information.
- Actively celebrate the impact of the work we do and identify areas to develop.
- Plan, implement and review actions to remedy areas of development.
Knowledge, skills & experience
- At least 4 years experience managing staff within advocacy services or services that support people with health and social care needs
- Independent Advocacy Diploma preferably in IMCA and Care Act. Successfully completed the IAQ module on managing an advocacy service (or prepared to gain this within 6-12 months).
- Extensive experience of non-instructed advocacy
- Effective communication and coaching skills to help people reflect & develop.
- Ability to motivate and develop a positive, honest and open team culture.
- Experience in recruiting, TUPE, induction, appraisals and giving robust regular supervision and informal support including addressing performance issues.
- Experience of analysing data and writing clear, concise reports.
- Time management skills to make sure reporting and contract compliance is addressed within agreed timescales.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Experience of building effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, whilst not compromising on the independence of the service.
- Experience of working with commissioners to agree contracts and making sure services comply with the contract within agreed timescales.
- Experience of implementing services to minimise the negative impact on the people we support and our staff.
- Excellent project management skills and experience.
- Passionate about supporting people to have their voices heard, feel in control of decisions about their lives and have their rights upheld.
- IT skills including database experience
- A track record in supporting people to embed robust safeguarding policies that support a person in the most person-centred way possible.
- Experience of building excellent working relationships and open communication with local safeguarding professionals, focused on supporting the person to be safe in a way they want.
- An excellent understanding of national legislation and policy relating to adult safeguarding.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Experience of planning, implementing and reviewing action to remedy areas of development.
- An excellent knowledge of advocacy standards.
- Extensive skills to manage change which inspires staff to work together to develop their practice.
Values and attributes: everyone at The Advocacy Project needs to show values and attributes which help us in our mission to give an outstanding service to the people we support and be an excellent place to work.
- Be part of a team to make the organisation a great place to work.
- Participate in personal & organisational development, including team meetings / training.
- Continually look for evidence of strengths and areas of development. Be open to requesting and taking feedback to support your development. Ask for support if you don’t know the answer or need help in a particular area.
- Contribute to organisational reporting and communications.
- Keep to our policies, including health & safety, and risk regulations.
- Work to our mission, vision, and values.
- Carry out other projects and tasks as needed.
Benefits of working for us
We’re committed to providing an empowering, flexible and supportive working environment for all our staff.
Our employee benefits include 30 days annual leave (including up to 3 days between Christmas and New Year), participation in a pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, access to a free confidential counselling service, and an interest-free travel/bike loan.
All our staff are supported to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including a monthly lecture series where we invite sector experts to talk to our staff on topical issues.
We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer.
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Mind in Brighton and Hove empowers and supports people who have experience of mental health issues in Brighton and Hove and West Sussex. Our Advocacy Services take action to help people say what they want, secure their rights, represent their interests and obtain services they need.
We are seeking to appoint a full-time (35 hours per week) Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) & Community Advocate in West Sussex; based in Worthing but will regularly meet with clients across West Sussex.
This split role involves providing Independent Mental Health Advocacy, working within the framework of the Mental Health Act 1983 to support people to understand their rights under the Act and participate in decisions about their care and treatment across the area of West Sussex. The post requires an understanding of advocacy, experience of managing a client case load, excellent communication skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a range of professionals, whilst retaining independence.
In return, we offer a range of benefits including full induction, nationally accredited advocacy qualification and 29 days’ leave (pro rata) per year excluding bank holidays, 3% pension contribution and access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
Full job details and application pack can be found on our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: Midday on Monday 26th October 2020
Interview date: Wednesday 4th November 2020 via Microsoft Teams or at 51, New England Street, Brighton
All successful applicants are subject to DBS clearance.
We are committed to equal opportunities and we value diversity in our workforce and aim to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability (including experience of living with mental health issues), gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.
Mind in Brighton and Hove empowers and supports people who have experience of mental health issues in Brighton and Hove and West Sussex. Our Advocacy Services take action to help people say what they want, secure their rights, represent their interests and obtain services they need.
We are seeking to appoint a full-time (35 hours per week) Community Advocate in West Sussex; based in Chichester but will regularly meet with clients in Chichester, Bognor Regis and Midhurst.
Advocates are responsible for the provision of independent, professional mental health advocacy primarily within community settings across West Sussex. This post requires an understanding of advocacy, experience of managing a client case load, excellent communication skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a range of professionals, whilst retaining independence.
In return, we offer a range of benefits including full induction, nationally accredited advocacy qualification and 29 days’ leave (pro rata) per year excluding bank holidays, 3% pension contribution and access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
Full job details and application pack can be found on our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: Midday on Monday 26th October 2020
Interview date: Tuesday 3rd November 2020 via Microsoft Teams or at 51, New England Street, Brighton
All successful applicants are subject to DBS clearance.
We are committed to equal opportunities and we value diversity in our workforce and aim to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability (including experience of living with mental health issues), gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.
Position Summary
Reporting to the National Advocacy Manager, the National Advocacy Officer supports national, sub-national and local advocacy across Malala Fund’s programme countries in line with national advocacy strategies. They support grantees and other partners to identify and implement advocacy activities through technical advice, project management support and the development of research and knowledge products. They also provide support to the Programmes department to administer advocacy-focused grants and collect impact data.
I. Responsibilities and Tasks
Strategy Implementation
- Working with the National Advocacy Manager, identify and provide support as necessary to grantees, In-Country Representatives (ICRs) and other strategic advocacy partners to ensure effective delivery of national advocacy strategies and documentation of impact and learning.
- Work with Malala Fund’s In-Country Representatives and Communications colleagues to develop and oversee delivery of Malala Fund-led national advocacy campaigns.
Programme and Grant Support
- Provide advocacy technical support to enhance the effectiveness of Malala Fund’s advocacy-focused programmes.
- Perform grant administration duties for advocacy grants. This will include but not be limited to: grantee identification; working with potential grantees on proposal development; supporting the application of Malala Fund’s monitoring and evaluation framework by grantees.
- Working with the National Advocacy Manager, support the applied learning needs of grantees as part of a comprehensive programme of support for strategic advocacy.
Research, Policy and Writing Support
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of education issues in programme countries.
- Write advocacy briefs and talking points as necessary.
- Support the development of research and knowledge products to enhance national advocacy impact.
General
- Support the wider advocacy objectives of Malala Fund, contributing to organisational-wide projects and priorities as relevant or required. Represent Malala Fund in external forums as needed.
- Oversee the work of consultants and outside contractors as necessary.
Organisational Culture
- Uphold the Values of Malala Fund.
- Actively contribute to making Malala Fund a diverse and equitable workplace through inclusive practice and openness to different perspectives, cultures and ideas.
- Maintain behaviour and conduct which uphold the highest standards for safeguarding, professionally and personally.
- Act as a role model for a ‘learning organisation’ culture by seeking insight and using problems as opportunities to learn.
II. Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential:
- Demonstrable knowledge and expertise in issues relating to the empowerment of women and girls, girls’ education or other social justice issues.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable:
- Able to apply monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks for advocacy.
- Up to date knowledge of policy debates surrounding girls’ education.
- Working knowledge of any language(s) relevant to Malala Fund’s work.
Experience
Essential:
- 2-3 years’ experience of contributing to policy change by planning, managing and implementing advocacy programmes in a developing country context.
- Experience living and working in the global south, preferably in at least in one where Malala Fund implements its programmes.
Desirable:
- Experience supporting networks of advocates to promote change.
Behaviours
Essential:
- Strong commitment to gender equality, racial justice and other social justice issues.
- Strong commitment to the Malala Fund’s mission to empower girls through education.
- Strong commitment to professional development and continued learning within advocacy and campaigns.
- Excellent team player with ability to work independently and in collaboration with colleagues at all levels across departments and external stakeholders.
- Flexibility to operate in a wide range of cultural and institutional contexts.
- Takes initiative and able to work effectively under pressure.
Background: Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority, established in 1986 following the disappearance of 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh whilst at work. We work towards creating a society in which people are safer - and feel safer - from the prevalence of stalking, harassment, aggression and violence, achieved through Supporting people; Education; and Campaigning. Our stalking helpline advice and advocacy service offers support and advice to thousands of victims of stalking every year. Caseworkers advocate on victims’ behalf with police, social services and other statutory or victim support agencies.
Overall purpose of role:
The overall purpose of the role is to provide expert advice and advocacy to victims of stalking.
- To give guidance and information by telephone, email and face to face to those affected by stalking.
- To provide casework support and advocacy to victims of stalking, liaising with both voluntary and statutory services to ensure positive outcomes for victims.
- To provide line management to helpline sessional staff
- To provide support and guidance to stalking advocates and volunteers where necessary.
- To support the Stalking Support Team Leader and Helpline Manager where required.
Fixed Term Contract for 6 months
Closing Date: We will be reviewing applications as they come in. We will close the vacancy once a suitable candidate is identified.
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter addressing the shortlisting criteria. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
Mission
Our mission is to reduce the risk of violence and aggression through campaigning, education and support.
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