Community Advocate – Secure Services / Advocacy / Mental Health

Community Advocate – Secure Services / Advocacy / Mental Health / Charity
Home Based – Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire/ Northamptonshire/ Buckinghamshire area
Full-Time – 37 hours, 5 days per week Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Salary £26,926.00 per year + Benefits

Giving people a voice – and making sure it’s heard – is something our client does every day. They’re all about promoting equality, challenging unfairness and giving disadvantaged and vulnerable people access to high quality information, advice and advocacy services.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advocate to join their Secure and Complex Services Team working in secure hospitals and residential settings across the country in a peripatetic role covering units in the Kent, Bedfordshire, East Midlands and London area when colleagues are on annual leave. Flexibility to stay away from home when not within a commutable travelling distance is essential and hotel accommodation and travel costs will be provided.

You will be supporting a wide range of vulnerable people with sometimes profound and multiple needs, so ideally you will have experience of this type of work, along with a good working knowledge of voluntary organisations.

You will be a confident positive team player, able to work in partnership with clients and professionals, gaining an understanding of their issues by listening, exploring options and taking action as directed by them. The ideal candidate will have worked in advocacy, Information and advice or similar role before, ideally in a health, social care or voluntary setting and will have experience of working with vulnerable adults.

You will need to have a flexible attitude and must be comfortable handling highly sensitive information, and in seeking support and supervision. Strong communication skills and time management skills will be required and you will need to be computer literate.

Advocates will need to travel independently of public transport (exceptions apply in London)

A DBS check will be required for this post.