Young Advisor (Local Safeguarding Children Partnership)

Young Advisor (Local Safeguarding Children Partnership) RBKC609706

Job Summary:

Salary range: £15.21 per hour

Work location: London

Hours per week: Various

Contract type: Casual

Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check

Closing date: 7th April 2024

Interview date: Week Commencing 15th April 2024

About Us:

Be the voice of young people in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.

Do you want to give a voice to other young people in the area? At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and City of Westminster, we are putting local people at the heart of the decisions we make. Now, we’re looking for young people with experience or understanding of social care to tell us the needs and concerns of the next generation.

LSCP Young advisors are young people who will engage other young people to promote their voice in our local area around safeguarding issues that matter. This will be fed back to local services to better inform their plans/delivery.

If this matters to you, LSCP Young Advisors could be the role for you!

The Role:

The Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) works to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

As a Young Advisor to the LSCP, you’ll assist us to understand and hear the voice of young people in the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. This is your chance to improve the lives of children, young people and their families – by telling us what they need, what they’re worried about and how we can improve our approaches to safeguarding and child protection. You will bring your unique expertise and knowledge about being young to influence the work of the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership. 

You’ll be part of a pool of young consultants providing help and insights on an ad-hoc basis. While the work isn’t regular, it’s vital. It’s also an excellent opportunity to improve life for others while gaining valuable work experience yourself.

As a member of the pool, we may ask for your advice on everything from online safety, youth violence, to other risks in the community and exploitation and other safeguarding matters. Your work will help us to make sure the services we offer make a difference to children and young people. You’ll also assist us to get children and communities more involved in our work.

As part of LSCP’s Children and the Community Engagement and Accountability Subgroup, you’ll get to collaborate with and advise a range of statutory and voluntary sector agencies and professionals who provide services to children and families.  

Your responsibilities will include assisting to co-chair subgroup meetings alongside agency leads from the councils, health and the police; acting as a critical friend and trusted person for the council and young people; occasionally helping us produce podcasts, web resources and other materials to promote young people’s voices; challenging the LSCP when you think young people’s voices could be more central to our activity and reassuring us when you feel they are central enough; helping us complete our annual reports; and meeting with other members of the Partnership by phone, email or in-person as needed.    

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

Are you aged 16-25? Are you a good communicator and a team player? 

We’re looking for a range of voices to join our pool, so we’d encourage you to apply whatever your background. 

That said, we’re particularly keen to hear from people with lived experience in social care and recent care-leavers. This would be an ideal opportunity for you to use your experiences to shape, improve and change the nature of Safeguarding Children services in our boroughs.

The projects you work on will vary. Whatever you do, you’ll need to be comfortable working alongside the police, social services and other voluntary partners. 

As such, we’re looking for young leaders-in-waiting who will push us, champion young people’s voices and speak truth to power at regular meetings in person and online.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s will not be considered for this role.

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.

Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk