Advanced Children's Rights Advocates

The Children's Rights Advocates role is a public/customer-facing position within the Children's Rights and Safeguarding Standards Service, ensuring the focus of multi-disciplinary work to help and protect children is on the child's lived experience and progress towards agreed outcomes. The role requires excellent group facilitation and chairing skills, experience in providing professional supervision and support, and a recognised social work qualification. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading on developing social work practice, providing consultation to staff working with children, and contributing to the development of policy, procedure, and practice guidance.

Requirements

• Applied knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, and statutory guidance and national standards relevant to children in need of protection and children in care
• Ability to provide mentoring and professional consultation to all disciplines within the multi-agency children's workforce
• Collaboratively works with all disciplines and agencies to deliver child and outcome-focused service
• Recognised social work qualification equivalent to a minimum of Diploma in Social Work
• Registered as a social work practitioner with the Social Work England
• Significant working experience in frontline child protection social work services including significant practice in child and/or adult protection/safeguarding

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• National award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services