Manchester Independent Visitor Co-ordinator

 Manchester Children’s Rights Service

Coram Voice has been commissioned to provide the Children’s Rights Service for Manchester City Council.  This includes providing an Advocacy Service for looked after children, children in need and care leavers and an Independent Visitor Service providing IVs for up to 84 children per year both inside and outside the city. To deliver this exciting service we are establishing an office base in central Manchester and are recruiting a full staff team to join our national organisation.

The Independent Visitors (IV) Service is for children and young people in care.  The responsible authority has a duty to appoint an IV where it appears to be in the child’s interest to do so.  The purpose of the IVs, who are volunteers, is to provide a continuous relationship for a child or young person, to advise and befriend, spending time with a young person on a regular basis encouraging them to express their views and opinions and involve themselves in new activities.

The IV Co-ordinator will assist the Project Manager in the delivery of the service maintaining high standards and ensuring that contractual requirements are met. They will also assist in the recruitment, training and provision of supervision to Independent Visitors.

Information to candidates

We are seeking candidates who are committed to our objectives for children and young people and equally committed to the organisation and the development of our services. We recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and young people we help.

Our Core Purpose

Coram Voice exists to enable and equip children and young people* to hold the system to account, to challenge and support it to do its job properly and to uphold the rights of children and young people to actively participate in shaping their own lives.

Our Vision

Coram Voice strives for a society which recognises and willingly accepts its responsibilities to children and young people, where the inequalities and discrimination they currently face have been eradicated. Where those children and young people are fully engaged in all decisions that are made about their lives. Where the views, needs and feelings that they express are at the core of those decisions.

This is a part time role for 21 hours per week.

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Closing Date: 9am on Tuesday 16^th May 2017

Interviews: Tuesday 23^rd May 2017

Warner Interviews: TBC

For further details please click on the links below and send applications to jobs@coram.org.uk

• Information for Candidates
• Job Description
• Person Specification
• Application Form

 All posts are subjected to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and successful candidates will not be able to work unsupervised with children or young people until the completion of this process.

Coram Voice - working towards quality through equality and the development of a diverse workforce.

We ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this position.

We have chosen to recruit directly as this helps us to minimise our recruitment costs, ensuring that valuable funds aren't diverted from the children and young people we help