Children's Rights Manager​/Advocate

Children's Rights Manager / Advocate

Job Title: Children’s Rights Manager/Advocate

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time

Hours:21 hours per week

Salary: £17,895(FTE £29,825) per annum

Location: This is primarily a home-based role, with travel to secure children’s homes and other service sites across the Midlands, Northeast, and Upper South East/South West. The role would suit someone located centrally, such as in the West Midlands (Birmingham area), to maintain reasonable and roughly equal travel distances between sites.

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the children and young people. We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

Coram Voice is a leading national children’s charity committed to championing the rights of children and young people. Since 1975, we’ve worked to ensure that children in care, care leavers, and others who rely on state support are heard, valued, and empowered.

Our vision is a society where children and young people are treated with dignity and respect, free from inequality and discrimination. We strive to ensure their voices are at the heart of decisions that impact their lives.

We are looking for an experienced Children’s Rights Manager to join Coram Voice. In this pivotal role, you will lead a team of visiting advocates whose work ensures that children in care or in need have a voice about their care and treatment within their settings.

The role also includes overseeing the commissioning of advocacy services, ensuring that all services meet required standards, deliver high-quality outcomes, and respond to the needs of children and young people, safeguarding their best interests.

We are seeking a proactive, resilient, and experienced leader who can provide guidance, and professional development to the visiting advocacy team, ensuring services are delivered in line with national advocacy standards and frameworks
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Coram Voice reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. Coram Voice benefits package includes a competitive salary, a matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of up to 28 days’ annual leave plus an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year and a suite of family friendly policies, which promote employee wellbeing.

We are seeking candidates who are committed to our objectives for children and young people and equally committed to the organisation and the development of our services.

Our Service Managers will undertake Shortlisting. Successful candidates will be invited for interview. The interview process comprises of a written exercise and a panel interview. Successful candidates will have a further one to one interview in accordance within Warner recommendations. Internal candidates will need to notify HR of their interest in the post and they will provide further information on the internal application process.

• We cannot accept general CVs.
• When completing your application form, you need to address each point of the person specification and demonstrate how you meet it
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• Applications must be fully completed.
• If you are a current Coram Voice employee you may submit a supporting statement only addressing the person specification requirements for the post.

• 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 (Being a Voice) Safeguarding and Diversity
• Conflict of interest: the…