Community Advocate
Mind in Enfield and Barnet, Enfield Town, Enfield
Community Advocate
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Mind in Enfield and Barnet, Enfield Town, Enfield
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 19 Jun | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 7548d9a8547541d2be589143211e6d90
Full Job Description
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Community Advocate to work with a new partnership of local VCS organisations working together to provide an accessible advocacy service, across the borough of Enfield. The role will suit someone with experience of promoting vulnerable individual voices, and representing their rights through the provision of high quality information, advice, and advocacy support. Duties will include:
- ·Providing goal focused community advocacy to eligible clients
- Processing new referrals and queries, ensuring that appropriate referrals and logged and inappropriate signposted to relevant services
- Supporting the triage of referrals across the LEAP partnership, signposting to other providers where appropriate, Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.
experience of working with people experiencing Mental Health issues - experience of working in an advocacy role
- excellent verbal and written communication skills
- excellent multi-tasking and time management skills
- the ability to produce well -written reports and meet deadlines
- good knowledge of relevant legislation such as Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 2007, Mental Capacity Act 2005
- knowledge of Benefits, social care, housing, and other relevant areas The successful candidate should have a minimum 1-2 years of experience working with people with mild, moderate and severe mental health issues.
This is a full-time position, 35 hours per week covering the service between 9-5 Monday to Friday.
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