Senior Advocate

Service: London & SE Children’s Rights service

Salary: £29,000 per annum

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid and flexible – a mix of working from our London office, from home and regular work with young people in the community

• Provide direct advocacy support to children and young people, holding a caseload and championing their rights in collaboration with stakeholders and agencies. This includes working with children and young people who are in care or leaving care, who have or need a Social Worker, who are homeless, or who are disabled.
• Provide supervision and support to staff Advocates and casework reviews to Associate Advocates who deliver Children’s Rights Services in London and South East.
• Support the development of service quality and projects for children and young people, ensuring a child‑centered approach.
• Support monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of projects.
• Promote good practice across Coram Voice and external organisations, building equitable and inclusive practice across the sector.

Our advocates will have relevant experience with children and young people and may hold a suitable Advocacy Qualification.

• A matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary
• Generous leave entitlement, including up to 28 days’ annual leave, plus an additional 3 days of paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• A suite of family‑friendly policies
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

• DBS checks: all posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring check.
• Training:
  All successful candidates are required to complete our compulsory training programme which includes training in Advocacy (Advocacy in Action), Safeguarding, and Diversity.
• Conflict of interest:
  The independence of the service is important to Coram Voice. Prospective applicants must raise any other potential conflicts of interest when initially contacting Coram Voice about this post.

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support, including those from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neurodiversity, and those from other underrepresented groups at Coram.

We are committed to safeguarding children and will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.