About The Advocacy Project

We help the most marginalised and vulnerable people make effective choices about what happens in their lives. We 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

The post-holder will deliver Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), RPR and Care Act Advocacy (CAA) across the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing council place many people outside the borough, so this role will require travel to surrounding areas and occasionally longer distances.

You will work as part of the Ealing advocacy team. You may also need to carry out your role in other London boroughs.

Key responsibilities

•  Provide advocacy under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Care Act 2014.
•  Act as a Relevant Persons Representative (RPR).
•  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.
•  Write accurate reports about your work.
•  Refer people to other types of statutory or non-statutory advocacy as appropriate.
•  Raise awareness of independent advocacy and referral pathways for eligible people and referring agencies.
•  Keep your knowledge of legislation and policy up-to-date, including the mental health act, mental capacity act, care act, and local / national policy.
•  Keep up-to-date with developments and good practice in independent advocacy, including different advocacy models.
•  Work with the team to implement the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Amendment 2019 and introduction of Liberty Protection Safeguards in October 2020.
•  Develop good working relationships with key staff within health and social care services.
•  Develop your advocacy practice including in statutory advocacy such as ICCA and IMHA.

General responsibilities

•  Participate in team meetings and training.
•  Participate in personal, team and organisational development.
•  Contribute to monitoring reports.
•  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.

Person specification

Essential:

• IMCA IAQ qualification or at least 2 years extensive experience of working in non-instructed and instructed advocacy in another statutory advocacy provision.
•  Experience of working with older people and/or people with a learning disability and a thorough understanding of the issues that they face.
•  Understanding of the role and responsibilities of advocacy under the Mental Capacity Act and Care Act.
•  Sound knowledge of health and social care services, including current issues in policy, practice and legislation.
•  Experience of the principles and practice of advocacy and an understanding of different forms of advocacy.
•  Ability to listen and build trust, to encourage people to express their own views and to represent clients’ self-defined interests.
•  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal). Good at working with a wide variety of people including commissioners, service users and colleagues.
•  Commitment to working within The Advocacy Project code of conduct, equality and safeguarding policies.
•  Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative, to plan and prioritise your own workload.
•  Willingness to promote The Advocacy Project in line with our mission, vision and values.
•  Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Desirable:

•  Knowledge and experience of delivering advocacy under the Care Act 2014 (ICCA).
•  Knowledge and experience of delivering advocacy under the Mental Capacity Act (IMCA).
•  Ability to speak a local community language.

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.

Remember to get it to us by the deadline listed on page 1.

Job Title: Independent Mental Capacity Advocate

Accountable to:   Head of Operations

Responsible to:   Advocacy Services Manager

Reporting to: Independent Mental Capacity Act Team Leader

Location: Gaddum House, professional and community settings

Salary: £21,589

Hours: 35 hours a week with expectation to provide shared duty cover.

Contract: Permanent (subject to funding)

Job Summary

Gaddum Advocacy (formerly: The Manchester Advocacy Hub) provides all statutory advocacy services across Manchester and we are looking for an energetic and passionate advocate to join our team.

The Independent Mental Capacity Advocate is responsible for responding to advocacy referrals under the Mental Capacity Act and the Care Act as necessary.

Our Advocates work in partnership with the people they support and take their side. Gaddum Advocacy promotes social inclusion, equality and social justice.

Job Purpose

• To provide independent advocacy support to people who lack capacity in line with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Code of Practice.
• To support and represent adults who lack capacity in matters relating to or connected with their deprivation of liberty in line with the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice.
• To promote social inclusion, equality and social justice through advocacy.

Applications for Flexible/Job Sharing work will be taken into consideration

For informal discussion about the role please contact our Advocacy Services Manager, Lily Huggins

To apply, please fill out the application form and demographic form below and return to the email address upon it.

Closing date: Noon, Monday 29th June

Interview date:  Week starting Monday 6th July

Job Title: Independent Mental Health Advocate

Accountable to:   Head of Operations

Responsible to:   Advocacy Services Manager

Reporting to: Independent Mental Health Advocacy Team Leader

Location: Gaddum House, professional and community settings

Salary: £21,589

Hours: 35 hours a week with expectation to provide shared duty cover.

Contract: Permanent (subject to funding)

Job Summary

Gaddum Advocacy (formerly: The Manchester Advocacy Hub) provides all statutory advocacy services across Manchester and we are looking for an energetic and passionate advocate to join our team.

The Independent Mental Health Advocate is responsible for responding to advocacy referrals under the Mental Health Act as necessary.

Our Advocates work in partnership with the people they support and take their side. Gaddum Advocacy promotes social inclusion, equality and social justice.

Job Purpose

• To provide independent advocacy support to people who are subject to the Mental Health Act in either hospital or community settings to ensure that they understand their rights under the Act
• To promote social inclusion, equality and social justice through advocacy.

Applications for Flexible/Job Sharing work will be taken into consideration

For informal discussion about the role please contact our Advocacy Services Manager, Lily Huggins..

To apply, please fill out the application form and demographic form below and return to the email address upon it.

Closing date: Noon, Monday 6th July

Interview date:  Week starting Monday 13th July

Job Title: Independent Mental Capacity & Care Act Advocate (Maternity Cover)

Accountable to:   Head of Operations

Responsible to:   Advocacy Services Manager

Reporting to: Independent Mental Capacity Act Team Leader

Location: Gaddum House, professional and community settings

Salary: £21,589

Hours: 35 hours a week with expectation to provide shared duty cover.

Job Summary

Gaddum Advocacy (formerly: The Manchester Advocacy Hub) provides all statutory advocacy services across Manchester and we are looking for an energetic and passionate advocate to join our team.

The Independent Mental Capacity & Care Act Advocate is responsible to the Advocacy Manager and is responsible for responding to advocacy referrals under the Mental Capacity Act and the Care Act as necessary.

Our Advocates work in partnership with the people they support and take their side. Gaddum Advocacy promotes social inclusion, equality and social justice.

Job Purpose

• To provide independent advocacy support to people who lack capacity in line with the MCA Code of Practice.
• To support and represent adults who lack capacity in matters relating to or connected with their deprivation of liberty in line with the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice.
• To provide independent Care Act advocacy support to people who have substantial difficulty being involved in Care Act processes in line with the Care Act Independent Advocacy Statutory Guidance.

Applications for Flexible/Job Sharing work will be taken into consideration

For informal discussion about the role please contact our Advocacy Services Manager, Lily Huggins

To apply, please fill out the application form and demographic form below and return to the email address upon it.

Closing date: Noon, Monday 6th July

Interview date:  Week starting Monday 13th July

nia has been delivering services to women, girls and children who have been subjected to sexual and domestic violence and abuse, including prostitution, since 1975. The organisation has three main aims: to provide services for women, girls and children who have experienced men’s violence; contributing to ending male violence against women and girls, and to inform and influence policy and public awareness.

IRIS improves the quality of care given by GP surgeries to women experiencing domestic violence. The IRIS Advocate Educator will roll out a new IRIS service across the London borough of Barking and Dagenham and will provide training to G.P. practices and support women referred to the service.

The posts are funded by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) which has invested £1m to promote and improve the health care response to gender based violence in London.

London’s (VRU) is taking a public health approach to violence reduction, that is contextual; looking at the context and influences that impact on individuals at significant points in their life.

nia has been awarded funding to deliver IRIS in Barking and Dagenham

We are recruiting for two posts on a fixed term contract until 31st March 2021.

Hours:35 hrs p/w

Salary:£28,785

We are looking for highly organised and self-motivated women who are passionate about ending male violence against women and girls.  You will have a ‘can-do’ approach and demonstrable commitment to nia’s feminist approach to supporting women and their children to be safer.

CV’s will not be accepted. 

Closing Date: 10am, 12 July 2020

Interview Date:                       24 July  2020

These posts will be subject to an enhanced vetting and barring check, but this does not necessarily exclude applicants, and open to women only. Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR), Schedule 9 (Work; Exceptions), Part 1 (Occupational Requirements), of the Equality Act (2010) applies.

Emotional Wellbeing Advocate
London, SE1
Grade B
£25,650 per annum

About Our Vision

Our vision is a city that is safe for the young Londoners who live here. We believe that all young Londoners can have a positive and productive future. Whatever their history, we work alongside them to help unlock their potential, so they can move forward positively.

We are looking for a committed, resilient and experienced Emotional Wellbeing Advocate to help us to improve the safety of violence affected young people in London.

The Role

This role has been developed by Safer London as a result of needs identified as part of our Pan-London services supporting those affected by violence and exploitation to develop a model of support, where young Londoners and their families and carers receive the mental health support they need after and during experiencing violence, intimidation and exploitation.

Evidence shows that providing emotional support after a traumatic event can prevent the emergence of more serious mental health conditions. However, it is recognised that accessing this valuable resource can be problematic with barriers such as stigma, lack of understanding of process and a dearth of localised availability means that many go unsupported and develop entrenched and enduring emotional wellbeing and mental health conditions.

This role seeks to build bridges to available mental health services by offering direct support to those who have been impacted initially, but also advocating strongly on behalf of those individuals to afford access to wider and more specialised support. The support can be offered directly to a child or young person and via family worker consultation to their parents or carers, and aims to offer a short-term support intervention and enables them to access longer-term services and support dependent upon their need.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will be expected to deliver effective and appropriate services to children, young people and their families in line with the Safer London model of work, ensuring that those using our services receive the required support to meet their individual assessed needs.

You will be able to demonstrate a clear understanding and working practice of a trauma informed approach of both service delivery and delivery of services within a safeguarding framework.

You will have a proven track record of developing pathways and relationships that raise awareness of the issues and barriers that children and young people face when accessing mental health services.

You will also provide consultations and training to colleagues who work with children and young people where appropriate.

Safer London values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination, we encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.

To apply, please select the apply button shown. Applications must be completed by midnight on 6th July 2020.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, shortlisting will take place on a rolling basis and the closing date is subject to change at any time.

This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

Other organisations may call this role Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, Mental Health Support Worker, Emotional Health and Wellbeing Worker, Wellbeing Support Worker, Young People’s Support Worker, or Children’s Support Worker.

Head of Policy and Advocacy

Central London/currently remote, £50,000-65,000 depending on experience

This is a permanent role and full time, but we are happy to talk flexible working including part time

Reporting to the CEO, member of the Management Team

Deadline: Mon 22 Jun at 10 am

Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity, is recruiting a Head of Policy and Advocacy, a new role at a critical time.

We are an independent charity, a team of fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm that bad information does — to people’s health, to democracy, and in decisions that affect people’s lives.

This will be a high-profile job at the cutting edge of globally-relevant policy debates. You’ll be working initially to influence government policy and legislation on tackling misinformation and disinformation online, on protecting election integrity and updating election law, and to improve the quality of government information.

Over time, you’ll work with the whole team to shape Full Fact’s advocacy work and make sure that the lessons from our fact checking are translated into effective calls to action in support of our charitable mission to inform and improve public debate. That ranges from seeking corrections when high profile people or outlets get things wrong, to influencing government policy, or making the case for responsible AI in our field.

We are a supportive and ambitious team looking for a creative campaigner with a strong policy skillset, committed to supporting and developing an exceptional team of three Policy Managers and one Researcher. The ideal candidate will have a track record in highly-contested or high-profile campaigns to influence legislation, government policy, or the decisions of public bodies.

We created this team because too many of the issues that affect our mission are either stuck in a world of policy slogans like ‘advertising transparency’ or ‘algorithmic accountability’ with too little actionable policy substance behind them; or at risk of dangerous over-reactions that infringe free speech.

At our best Full Fact combines practical experience of fact checking; rigorous research, diagnosis, and policy development; and compelling advocacy to achieve change. 

We have strong relationships already: a top-tier cross-party board; collaborations with public bodies such as the ONS and the House of Commons Library; and integrations into major online services such as Google Search, Facebook, and Instagram. We regularly engage with relevant departments, parliamentarians and committees, as well as industry and academic players. There’s plenty of room to build, and plenty to build on.

You don’t need to be an expert in any of our policy areas. You do need to bring your campaigning experience and share our commitment to accuracy in public life, and to freedom of expression.

You’ll report directly to the CEO and be part of Full Fact’s management team alongside the CEO, COO/Deputy CEO, Head of Automated Fact Checking, Head of Communications, and Editor. You will also work directly with the policy sub-group of the board of trustees chaired by Anand Menon.

As a member of Full Fact’s management team, you will have a particular responsibility for nurturing the supportive and ambitious environment we aim for, and for the overall direction of the charity.

If you are interested in applying but not sure you have all the skills, please do apply. We are open both to supporting learning on the job and to rearranging tasks within the team to suit the skillsets of the best applicant. We are happy to talk flexible working, and we are open to part time or job share applications for this role.

How to apply

Please email the CEO, Will Moy, in confidence with a CV and a covering letter that includes your notice period.

We prefer to sift applications anonymously. Please use your initials rather than your name and leave identifying details such as email addresses off your CV and covering letter. Both the covering letter and the CV should be attached to your email so they can be separated from it. Please include your contact details, including a phone number, in your email.

If you would like to arrange a confidential conversation with Will before applying, please email his assistant Paola Churchill.

Before applying please read the requirements we place on staff to protect Full Fact’s independence and non-partisanship. We recognise  that candidates for this job may well have been involved in public campaigning before and that’s not a problem. However, we are an independent and non-partisan charity and we need staff who can live up to that. As an acid test, if you cannot respect and understand people who took a different view than you of recent elections or referendums, this is not the job for you.

Policy and Advocacy are central to Full Fact’s work. If you’d like to learn a little more, read our joint statement with Africa Check and Chequeado: Fact checking doesn’t work (the way you think it does).

Applications close 10 am Mon 22 Jun.

How the application process will work

We want to see you at your best to understand your strengths and the contribution you could make at Full Fact with strong support, including for your learning and development. We also want to make sure that we use your time well during this process and don’t ask for more from you than we need to. Of course we will make any reasonable adjustments we need to make to this process to help ensure you can perform at your best.

The interview panel will be Will Moy, CEO; Mevan Babakar, COO and Deputy CEO; and Amy Sippitt, Head of Research. Amy is currently responsible for the team and is now leaving Full Fact after six years in various roles, having started as a fact checker.

The process starts off with an anonymised covering letter and CV. This will be read by at least two people to produce a shortlist for interview.

The first round interviews will be a phone (not video) interview with Will lasting no more than half an hour at a time that’s convenient for you. We will record it so at least two people can review each interview to decide who we invite back for the second round. The recordings will be deleted at the end of the process.

The second round will include a structured interview and some exercises which assume no prior knowledge. The interview will be with the full panel by video and last no more than an hour and a half. We’ll tell you everything you need to know to prepare, including anything we’d recommend reading in advance. We will ask you to prepare a short presentation for the interview. You will also have a chance to meet members of the team that you would be managing and ask them questions.

If necessary, we may then choose to have a third round that is tailored to you to go deeper on particular aspects of your skills, experience, or approach. This may include meeting other members of the team, the management team’s executive coach, or trustees as appropriate.

Job definition: Head of Policy and Advocacy

Your job is to secure changes from the people and institutions who influence people’s exposure to bad information, including governments, parliaments, regulators, private companies and others. You and your team work to reduce the harm bad information does by tackling its causes and its consequences.

You run a team of three Policy Managers and one Researcher and you are responsible for the quality and effectiveness of its work, for assigning work within the team, and for the wellbeing, management, and development of its members. As a member of Full Fact’s management team, you have a responsibility for the charity as a whole.

The team you’ll be working with

You’ll be working with an exceptional group consisting of three Policy Managers and one Researcher, and reporting to the CEO.

The rest of our management team—COO/Deputy CEO, Head of Automated Fact Checking, Head of Communications, and Editor—all have strong networks and regularly represent Full Fact to a wide range of audiences.

You will work closely across the team, including making use of evidence from our fact checking work; overseeing the Policy Managers pursuing corrections and other interventions following fact checks and feeding into editorial thinking; overseeing how we use research to make our work more effective; working closely with the communications team, including on media and on involving our supporters; making use of our AI work and automated fact checking tools, and working with them to advocate responsible AI from companies building counter-misinformation tech.

The outcomes you will be responsible for

Standards: Demonstrably maintain the highest standards of accuracy, fairness, and independence in all Full Fact’s work

Knowledge and expertise: Become and stay expert enough in the issues and ever-changing political, regulatory, and legal environment affecting Full Fact’s mission to be able to plan and advocate effectively

Recognition: Within three months, work with colleagues across Full Fact to design and implement a plan to increase awareness of Full Fact and the harms caused by bad information among senior government and political figures

Relationships: Ensure Full Fact maintains and develops strong, trusted, and appropriately challenging relationships with those we work with or work to influence

Policy: Lead Full Fact’s policy development on a range of complex and high-profile issues so that we have specific, credible, proportionate, evidence based and timely proposals to reduce the harm caused by bad information

Advocacy: Secure change in support of Full Fact’s mission and plans

Research and evaluation: Ensure implementation and development of Full Fact's research and evaluation plans and work with our Researcher to make our work more effective

Team: Contribute to a supportive and ambitious culture in your team and across Full Fact, including through goal setting and evaluation, consistent 1:1s with your team members, and regularly seeking and offering supportive feedback

Process: Ensure effective knowledge and information sharing, record keeping, and collaboration across the team

Learning: Within six months, agree your own learning and development plan

What we are looking for from you

Understanding of Full Fact’s mission and environment:

• You act with integrity and you’re happy to commit to Full Fact’s ethos and the seven principles of public life
• You’re politically astute and results oriented
• You understand that part of Full Fact’s work is being a watchdog, and that can attract hostile attention, and how those risks can be managed and mitigated while standing firm for our principles
• You are committed to the political neutrality of our work and have a good understanding of impartiality (please see the rules on our website)

Professional experience:

• Significant experience of effective advocacy such as influencing government policy in its early stages; building majority support in parliament on legislation; or influencing regulators’ policy and actions
• Familiarity with some of Full Fact’s policy context would be an advantage, such as freedom of expression, media, internet, data, election law, and government communications
• Track record of working effectively with internal and external stakeholders up to board level

Skills:

• A fast, flexible thinker, able to guide our team in devising and executing great campaigns 
• Able to lead and influence stakeholders, communicating persuasively in person and in writing whether on technical matters or on points of principle
• Able to both oversee and carry out rigorous research and analysis on a range of complex and high-profile issues

Leadership and management:

• You can run a team which is effective and happy
• You want to work collaboratively and you set an example in seeking and giving supportive feedback across the whole team
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and organise programmes of work, resources, and budgets effectively, including the ability to contribute to the overall strategic planning of Full Fact as part of the management team

Job title: Boys and Young Men’s Advocate
Location: Southwark, with additional working across several boroughs across South East London, and East London (TBC)
Reports to: Service Manager
Contract: Maternity cover for up to 12 months
Hours of work: 28 hrs per week (0.8 FTE)
Salary: £20,448 pro rata (£25,560 FTE)

Safer London is a leading charity working with young Londoners and their families affected by violence and exploitation. We believe that all young Londoners can have a positive and productive future.

Whatever their history, when a child or young person comes to Safer London, they are just that – a child or a young person. By working alongside young Londoners, their families and peers, as well as the places where they spend their time, we can create a safe London not just for them – but everyone.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Boys and Young Men’s Advocate to join our amazing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to play an integral role in improving the lives of young Londoners, their families, peers and communities.

In this role at Safer London, you will provide one to one support to boys and young men who are at risk of or who have experienced extra familial harm or abuse. This may include child sexual abuse not perpetrated within the family context including sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, children who present with harmful sexual behaviour or harm associated with exposure to violence.

Core responsibilities of the role are, but not limited to:

- Undertaking high quality case recording in line with the highest standards and best practice principles.
- Working creatively with colleagues to generate project resources and material as required.
- Making appropriate onward referrals and/or signposting young people to support services and positive activities.
- Working with partners, communities and other key stakeholders to deliver the service effectively.
- Contributing to the reporting around the service both internally and externally

If you are a committed, resilient and experienced Boys and Young Men’s Worker and believe you can contribute to helping us to improve the safety of young Londoners and their families then please apply.

Additional Information

We’re committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect anyone who works and volunteers with us to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.

At Safer London we value diversity and we’re committed to creating an inclusive culture. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We know that in order to make London a safer place for the young people that live here, we need a diverse range of perspectives, experience and knowledge.

How to Apply

To apply, please complete the online application form.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact our team.

Please note; we don’t accept CVs.

Victim Support is looking for a Triage Independent Victim Advocate based in London.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

The purpose of this role is to provide high quality holistic support to all victims and witnesses of crime referred to Victim Support whether by the Police, another agency or self-referred.

You will lead on completing initial needs and risk assessments that are comprehensive and holistic, providing immediate and short term intervention to clients. Where longer term support is required or facilitation through attending appointments with clients you will make an initial appointment with a caseworker internally or refer externally as appropriate.

There will be a particular focus on those that are the most vulnerable, including repeat victims and victims of high harm crime. You will be expected to provide practical and emotional support in a way that is approachable, flexible and caring, showing empathy at all times. As well as being tenacious in support of your clients and being able to solve problems and surmount the challenges posed by the criminal justice system.

There will be a requirement to work as part of a rota that includes regular evening work (till 8pm) and weekend work (Saturdays only).

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as (A). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment for our staff. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We welcome applicants from all communities and as part of our commitment to the we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.

Victim Support is looking to recruit a Senior Independent Victim Advocate Team Leader to cover our two offices in Lancaster and Fylde, Lancashire. Managing the teams of Independent Victims Advocates based in the offices.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

We are recruiting a Senior Independent Victims Advocate, managing teams based in our Fylde and Lancaster offices.

To be successful in this role you will have knowledge of the Criminal Justice system and the impact crime has on people and communities. You will also be able to demonstrate a background of managing teams.

You will work as part of the team on a shift pattern covering the operating hours. The post is subject to an enhanced criminal records check

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification. In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role. If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment for our staff. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We welcome applicants from all communities and as part of our commitment to the we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.

Job title: Housing Advocacy and Sustainment Worker
Location: Southwark with outreach work across London
Reports to: Service Manager (Places)
Contract: Full time permanent subject to funding
Hours of work: 35hrs per week
Salary: £25,650

About Safer London

Safer London is a leading charity working with young Londoners and their families affected by violence and exploitation. We believe that all young Londoners can have a positive and productive future.

Whatever their history, when a child or young person comes to Safer London, they are just that – a child or a young person. By working alongside young Londoners, their families and peers, as well as the places where they spend their time, we can create a safe London not just for them – but everyone.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Housing Advocacy and Sustainment Worker to join our amazing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to play an integral role in improving the lives of young Londoners, their families, peers and communities.

In this specialist role at Safer London, you will provide non-judgemental advice, guidance and assistance to young Londoners and their families in relation to housing, tenancy sustainment and debt management. You will also provide support to the wider team within Safer London around housing and resettlement work.

Core responsibilities of the role are, but not limited to:

- To provide young Londoners and their families with information, advice and guidance on housing and tenancy sustainment and, where appropriate, to signpost them to support available from other agencies.
- To liaise with landlords and Local Authorities to explore resettlement housing options, including seeking financial support to access Private Rented Sector accommodation.
- To advocate on behalf of and act for service users where necessary, drafting letters, completing forms, compiling budgets and financial statements and carrying out any calculations as appropriate and reasonable.
- To provide consultancy to colleagues across Safer London around the housing and resettlement theme.
- To work proactively to support service users to manage the financial aspects of their tenancies, including debt management, and to address emerging rent, utility and council tax arrears, including liaising with landlords and other providers.
- To support service users to make claims for Housing Benefit, Dual Housing Benefit, Discretionary Housing Payments and Council Tax Support, and advocate on their behalf in relation to claims.

If you are a committed, resilient and experienced Housing Advocacy and Sustainment Worker and believe you can contribute to help us to improve the safety of young Londoners and their families then please apply.

Additional Information

We’re committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect anyone who works and volunteers with us to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.

At Safer London we value diversity and we’re committed to creating an inclusive culture. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We know that in order to make London a safer place for the young people that live here, we need a diverse range of perspectives, experience and knowledge.

To apply, please complete the online application form.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact our team to discuss.

Please note, we don’t accept CVs.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Women in Prison’s Mental Health Through The Gate service. The service works in partnership with the Mental Health In-Reach Team at HMP Bronzefield to provide psychologically informed support to women who have experienced complex trauma.

We are recruiting for a Mental Health Through The Gate Advocate to provide in-depth advocacy, advice and support to a caseload of women who have multiple intersecting needs including a significant history of trauma, mental ill health and/or a diagnosis of personality disorder. Historically other services may have struggled to engage with these women. The role will provide support to women in HMP Bronzefield, through the gate (TTG) and for up to 6 months in the community.

We actively encourage applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from Black, Asian and minoritised women and women who have personal experience of the criminal justice system.This role is only open to women, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.

TO APPLY:

To apply, please download and read the Mental Health Through The Gate Recruitment Pack including the Job Description and Person Specification and complete the application and equalities monitoring forms in full. 

Hope for Justice is seeking experienced and enthusiastic professionals who are able to work directly with survivors, offering legal advocacy and specialist support and advice.

Could you join our team of Independent Modern Slavery Advocates, helping people who have been victims of modern slavery to understand and access their entitlements to welfare and housing benefits, conducting needs-led assessments, and signposting them to relevant services?

The successful candidates will have worked previously with vulnerable adults in an advisory capacity, and have excellent knowledge of welfare benefits law and the laws relating to modern slavery. They must also have demonstrable core legal skills including research, advocacy, negotiation, drafting and interviewing. A full list of required skills, competencies, duties and responsibilities is available in the Role Profile, below.

These full-time positions will be based at Hope for Justice Head Office in central Manchester.

Role Profile - Independent Modern Slavery Advocate

Department: UK Programmes - Advocacy

Location: Head Office, Manchester

Main Purpose

• To provide advocacy and victim services to survivors of modern slavery in the UK - managing a caseload, conducting assessments and developing pathways for survivors.
• To provide advice to professionals and individuals, building partnerships with other organisations and providing specialised training.
• To support Hope for Justice’s ‘Reforming Society’ agenda.

Main Duties

• Empowering survivors by providing a clear overview of their rights and entitlements in theirown language, providing options and choices every step of the way
• Once the survivor understands their rights, providing a detailed assessment (legal and support needs, including an individual risk assessment and safety planning). Anticipating and understanding the barriers victims face and the advocacy needed to overcome barriers
• Ensuring smooth transfer into safe accommodation and into the community, advocating for clear pathways of support for the survivor in accordance with the non-statutory government endorsed Slavery and Trafficking Survivor Care Standards 2018, produced by the Human Trafficking Foundation
• Act as a single point of contact for the survivor and relevant agencies through all processes. Providing a point of trust for the victim and high-quality communication with all relevant agencies
• Ensure “supported” referrals to relevant legal and support agencies - including supported housing; victim/witness support; and immigration, civil compensation, public law and criminal law solicitors
• Where necessary, support attendance at appointments, empowering and advocating for the survivor’s needs and wishes to be heard in all processes, as well as supporting the survivor to negotiate these processes and overcome barriers in processes
• Assist survivors in developing confidence to do things themselves to foster independence
• Ensuring the survivor is well supported as a witness through criminal and civil proceedings and ensuring their voice is heard in these proceedings
•  Establishing good working relationships with key agencies and services the survivor routinely interacts with e.g. support workers, social services, GPs and other statutory and non-statutory agencies, to help ensure clients receive coordinated help and support
• Manage a caseload to ensure every client has opportunities to access relevant services appropriate to their individual needs
• General file management and compliance with professional legal ethics, including confidentiality

Key Result Areas

• Progressing caseload from initial assessment to closure, addressing identified needs
• Building and maintaining partnerships with other organisations (including state and NGO) to create opportunities for survivors of modern slavery
• Supporting the Reforming Society agenda – providing evidence base for reform; providing advice and training, where necessary, to agencies in the community to improve responses to victims of modern slavery thus creating lasting structural change

Soft Skills

• Communication skills (including presentation)
• Relationship management
• Creative problem solving
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Negotiation & conflict resolution
• Decisiveness
• Listening & providing feedback
• Positive attitude and resilience
• Empathy and emotional intelligence
• Critical thinking and attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure & time management
• Flexibility
• Self-motivation and strong work ethic

Technical Skills

• Strategic and operational knowledge of modern slavery and broader Human Rights legislation
• Understanding of the legal rights and obligations of victims of modern slavery – including an understanding of immigration, housing, community care, welfare benefits, public law, civil law (including access to compensation), debts and victim rights in the criminal justice process
• Advocacy, research and drafting skills
• Interviewing skills, particularly in relation to vulnerable people
• Maintaining professional boundaries
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency

Experience & Education

• Educated to Degree level
• Previous work with vulnerable adults, ideally with a legal or social work background
• Enhanced DBS check
   

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

Since the coronavirus outbreak began, our society has pulled together to achieve extraordinary things. Thousands of people sleeping rough have been temporarily housed in a matter of weeks, and many more were prevented from becoming homeless due to emergency changes to legislation.

As we begin to emerge from lockdown, we now stand at a crossroads: we can build on the incredible progress that has been made by helping everyone move into a secure and permanent home; or we risk seeing thousands of people being forced into homelessness.

We are recruiting for a Philanthropy Manager to join our expanding Partnerships and Philanthropy team, to work alongside our inspirational supporters and beneficiaries to bring an end to homelessness in Great Britain.

About the role
As Philanthropy Manager, you will lead on launching and growing our new philanthropy Giving Club. We are working with an excellent consultant now to design this new offer and the new post holder will take over the reins to establish this exciting new supporter journey. We have a well-established and loyal supporter audience already giving at this level and we want to provide them with an exceptional supporter experience, whilst also providing the engine room to grow our partnerships and philanthropy networks.

The philanthropy team have already grown income by 124% in recent years with a number of new team members in place, so now is a brilliant time to join now that we have clear plans in place for further growth, a great energy in the team and an incredibly urgent cause.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have

• Some experience of philanthropy fundraising, building strong relationships and securing gifts of 4 to 5 figures
• A natural flair for relationships and the ability to work equally well with a wide range of people
• Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and listening
• Knowledge of planning, monitoring and evaluating success in fundraising
• You will be a team player, with a flexible approach and the ability to collaborate well with others

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
• Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
• 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your on-going development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. For the supporting statement section, please address how you meet points 1-5 of the person specification, which can be found on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team, contact details can be found on our website. 

Closing date: Tuesday 14 July (23:59)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

For more information about our work and to see our work in action, please visit our website.

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094