This is a Permanent, 35hrs per week vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
Your role
Are you passionate about helping people access the services they need in your local community? Are you interested in starting a career in advocacy?
Would you like to be part of a leading Advocacy Provider where you can make a difference?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Multidisciplinary Advocate to join our established and friendly Durham Advocacy Team.
Our team provides a range of specialist advocacy services to adults and young people with a range of additional needs including learning disabilities, physical and sensory disabilities, and mental health. We support people, who have difficulty advocating for themselves, to express their views and wishes and understand their rights and entitlements. Advocates support people in situations where decisions are being made about them which can include care and support needs, medical treatment, and accommodation.
How will you make a difference?
In a Trainee Multidisciplinary Advocate role, you will be working towards the Level 4 qualification whilst learning on the job with a caseload. As an advocate you will promoting the interests of the people you work with helping people find their voice and empower them to advocate for themselves.
The training will enable you to provide a high quality, responsive and effective advocacy service. Your role will be to:
You will be field based covering geographical area of County Durham to support clients and also have flexibility to work from home. The role is full time 35hrs per week between Monday to Friday 9-5.
What we are looking for:
The role is ideal for anyone who has a passion and keen interest in supporting local communities and would like to start a long-term career in Advocacy service.
You will receive an intense practical training alongside support with obtaining relevant qualifications so that you can develop your knowledge and skills to become advocate expert in comprehensive range of areas and understand the role of the advocate in line with the Advocacy Charter.
To be considered for the role you will:
Don’t meet all requirements?
If the role sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t exactly match every single requirement, we would still encourage you to apply, you may be just the right person for our position!
Caring for our people.
We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic and our LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrate our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and (asexual) (LGBTQIA+), people with a disability, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
The Recruitment Advisor looking after this role is Sylwia Kraska-Pakulska. If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to drop her an email at recruitment@rethink.org
Our Charity
Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:
What do we value?
Passion
We are passionate about leading the way to a better quality of life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.
Commitment
We work tirelessly to provide support for everyone severely affected by mental illness.
Openness
We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.
Hope
We offer hope of a better quality of life for all those severely affected by mental illness.
Expertise
We constantly use our expertise to provide practical and personal support for people who are severely affected by mental illness.
Understanding
People who are severely affected by mental illness are at the heart of everything we do in our organisation – our membership, our governance and our workforce.
Equity
We believe that in a world where discrimination and disadvantage exist, treating people with equity is critical to ensure justice and fairness for all.
Openness
We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.
What will you receive?
You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses. You will also receive:
Employer funded pension
Flexible
working
Life
assurance
Employee Assistance Programme
Eyecare vouchers
up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses
Training opportunities
e-learning courses & much more
Annual
leave
25 days rising to 30, plus bank holidays
Rethink
day
1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
PULSE
Reward, Benefits and Recognition Platform
Employee Assistance Programme
Rethink day
1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
For the full list, see our website here.
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