Are you ready to be a powerful advocate for children and young people, ensuring their voices are not only heard but truly influence the decisions that shape their lives?
Do you have the passion and creativity to build meaningful relationships and empower children and young people to achieve positive, lasting outcomes?
With a strong, stable and experienced Children’s Services Leadership Team, a positive ILACS inspection outcome, and our unwavering ambition to ensure our Children’s Services and partnerships enable children, young people and families to have positive experiences and outcomes, there has never been a more thrilling time to join us.
Across our Children’s Assurance Partnerships and Evaluation (CAPE) Service, we have a really strong mix of individuals with the right blend of skills, knowledge and expertise to lead and contribute to key functions to build and maintain a safe, sustainable infrastructure to enable our workforce, and our children and young people to flourish and thrive.
In the context of our relational approach, we are committed to ensuring that children and young people’s voices are first, centre and last in everything we do, and we currently have an exciting opportunity within the CAPE Service for an Advocacy and Voice Officer
- Are you resilient, passionate about the rights of children and young people, and enthusiastic about building genuine, meaningful relationships to support empower and enable them to be heard and feel heard in their lives?
- Do you have the drive and ambition to work creatively and with children and young people to make a real difference in their lives?
If your answers are yes, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you!
We are looking for someone who is experienced and knowledgeable about the rights of children and young people and who can demonstrate positive change as a result of advocating on their behalf.
The role will:
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be a champion for children’s voices, advocating on behalf of, with and empowering them to be heard and involved in relation to their individual plans and decisions that impact on them
- support, enable and champion the voice of children and young people to shape and influence service development and transformation
- involve working across Children’s Services and the wider partnership to champion children’s voices, and to challenge and support them to take account of and respond to the views and experiences of children and young people
- involve some group work, delivery of training and raising awareness of children’s rights
Candidates will have a range of methods and mechanisms for communicating and engaging with children and young people with a range of needs as well as staff and managers across Children’s Services and the wider partnership.
For more information, please refer to the attached guidance and role profile. If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Pippa Curtin, Email: [email protected]
Key Dates
Advert closing date: Sunday 12th July 2026
We aim to interview candidates: Wednesday 22nd July 2026
We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.
In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, the references you provide on this form must meet the below criteria:
At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)
- You must provide a professional/company email address (we can not accept personal email addresses)
- References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed on your CV/Application Form
Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position
Please note: This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at a level appropriate to the post. It is a contractual and essential requirement that the successful candidate is registered with the DBS Update Service. You have 30 calendar days from the "date of issue" printed on your standard or enhanced DBS certificate to register for the DBS Update Service using the certificate number.
We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.
We love AI and think it plays a great role in the world of work. However, for your application, we want to hear from YOU! As such, we will be testing applications to determine the use of AI, and applications that have heavily utilised the function will be scrutinised for suitability.
As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.
You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.
This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.
NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.
Do you need support?
If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.
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