Safe House Advocate

Safe House Advocate

Brent

£12.03 per hour

Temporary

• 39hrs per week


• 8am-4pm


• 9am-5pm


• 10am-6pm


• No evenings / weekends / bank holidays

About the role:

Safe House Advocates provide a high-quality emotional and practical frontline support to residents who may have experienced trafficking and modern slavery, including sexual and criminal exploitation, domestic servitude, and other forms of exploitation.

Residents may have moved to a safe house to escape a danger area or a perpetrator, and we work to ensure that they feel safe and protected in the service.

Alongside supporting survivors, you will be conducting daily, weekly and monthly health and safety checks to ensure the building is safe and secure for the residents.

Key Tasks:

• Hold a caseload of residents who are recognised as potential victims of trafficking within the National Referral Mechanism


• Advocate on behalf of residents to ensure access to ECAT* rights and help them navigate through the NRM*


• Identify and assess any risks and put in place appropriate safeguarding measures in response to these risks.


• Report incidents within strict timeframes and liaise with emergency services where appropriate.


• Professionally deal with urgent requests and unpredicted issues


• Hold regular key work sessions with residents, recording all interactions on case management system


• Have a good grasp of public and private services available to residents with no recourse to public funds as well as those who do have recourse. Confidently liaising with these services when needed.


• Write official letters on behalf of service users to the Home Office, or other partner agencies


• Attendance at team meetings, supervisions with your line manager, clinical supervision and mandatory training sessions

Skills & Experience:

• Safeguarding vulnerable adults


• Incident management


• Safeguarding Adults - Desirable


• Modern Slavery awareness - Desirable


• Experience of supported accommodation and housing management - Desirable


• Ability to conduct lone working


• Ability to manage schedules and deadlines while also being able to prioritise urgent matters


• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues and ability to address them appropriately


• Knowledge GDPR principles


• Ability to complete admin tasks


• Confidence in using multiple platforms (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, case recording)


• Fire safety - Desirable


• Knowledge of the National Referral Mechanism - Desirable


• Knowledge of Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Desirable


• Knowledge of Immigration Pathways - Desirable

Please apply with your CV via the apply button.