Home Based: With travel across Nottinghamshire

Job reference: 5

Contract type: Fixed term until 31.03.2025

Full time: 37 hours, 5 days per week, between the hours of 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday

Salary: £25,454.00 to £29,946.00 per annum (dependent on experience) plus Benefits

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave
• Cash Wellbeing Healthcare Plan Cover
• Death in service benefit
• Option to buy up to 5 days annual leave
• Discretionary shut down days at Christmas
• 1 Community Leave Day per annum
• Bike to work scheme

Job Information

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Independent Advocate to lead the service and work alongside the Community Manager to develop and deliver an advocacy project that delivers an independent advocacy service to beneficiaries of Nottingham City’s Changing Futures Programme.

The objective of the Changing Futures programme is to ensure that people living in Nottingham City who experience Severe Multiple Disadvantage (SMD) receive joined up, flexible, person-centred care from the right services, at the right time, and in the right place to meet their needs.

The focus of the programme is on achieving system change to enable the development and delivery of joined up services that provide effective healthcare, support and other forms of assistance to the most excluded, marginalised and vulnerable individuals who experience SMD. Partnership working is integral to delivering the CF programme and achieving the ambitions for system change.

SMD is defined within the programme as affecting people who experience at least 3 of 5 forms of disadvantage:

• Homelessness
• Substance misuse
• Mental ill-health
• Domestic and sexual abuse
• Interaction with the criminal justice system.

The independent advocacy service is available to beneficiaries of the Changing Futures Programme to support them to make and manage complaints, concerns or grievances (an Issue) in relation to any services they are entitled to, covered by the Programme. This may be the Changing Futures Main Delivery Service, housing services, criminal justice services, domestic abuse services, sexual abuse services, recovery providers, training providers or any other relevant provision.

The role involves supporting individuals to raise any concerns they have about the programme and the support they are receiving. As the advocate linked to this project you need to have a good understanding and experience of delivering Independent Advocacy as well as the Knowledge, Skills and Experience detailed in the Job Description.

Download the full Job Description and Applicant Information Pack

How to apply

We’re keen to fill this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.

Please submit a CV and cover letter (cover letter no longer than 1 side of A4) before the application deadline. In your cover letter please include your reasons for applying for the role, how you meet the requirements of the job description, if you hold a current driving licence and have access to your own vehicle and your notice period. 

Please apply by submitting your CV and cover letter here

Closing date: Midnight, Thursday 2nd May 2024

We are looking to recruit people who share our core values and can demonstrate that they apply and live those values in their daily working practice. 

For an informal discussion please contact 0300 456 2370 and ask for a call back from Rose Humphries, Head of Service for Central & North East of England.

A DBS check will be conducted for this post.

POhWER is an equal opportunities employer, holder of the Investors in People Silver award and a member of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER scheme. We are a member of the Positive about Disability scheme and disabled applicants who meet all the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.