Dynamic Support Advocates

We are looking for empathetic, proactive, child-centred people to join our Dynamic Support Advocate Team. Dynamic Support Advocates are Lived Experience Practitioners who provide CYP and families with practical and emotional support and connect them to community services/assets including to a peer community of support with similar lived experiences.

Dynamic Support Advocates help to improve the experience of children and young people with learning disability, Autism or both, and their families/carers, supporting them to navigate complex care and support systems. Ideally you will have lived experience from either yourself having autism and/or a learning disability, or parenting/caring for a person with one of these conditions. You will need excellent communication skills, with a confident ability to access support and advocate for your clients across multiple professions. Your empathetic nature will enable you to quickly build trusted relationships with families in complex and crisis situations while empowering them to build resilience and robust support networks. A child-centred approach to delivering high quality personalised care is key, requiring a creative, flexible outlook with a ‘can do’ attitude. Involve is fully committed to upholding the rights of all children, young people and adults to be protected from harm and abuse and to achieve the best outcomes.

Please note, you must be able to drive and have access to a vehicle for this role.

You can find the full Job Description and Person Specification for the role attached below.

We at Involve Kent pride ourselves on being an employer of choice and encourage applications from experienced candidates and those with potential, irrespective of identity, background, life experience or circumstances, It’s vital that the voluntary sector is as diverse as the society we serve. We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring in terms of their culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor. This role also includes providing regulated activity with adults and employment is therefore subject to relevant checks with Disclosure and Barring service.