Job Details
Are you passionate about the rights of people with mental health problems in inpatient and residential settings? Are you able to challenge others on their behalf? Do you want to make a difference to their lives?
NYAS provides mental health advocacy to individuals within mental health settings throughout the UK.
Our service provides independent advocacy to people within mental health hospitals and community-based settings. We support individuals to ensure their voice is heard regarding their care and treatment and that they are aware of their rights.
The primary users of our services are vulnerable adults however some settings do include working with children and young people.
Due to expansion and development of the service we are recruiting self-employed advocates to join our thriving workforce and we are recruiting in Burgess Hill. If you live within this geographical area and are able to provide weekly visits to our settings, we would like to hear from you.
This role is most suited to professionals with a portfolio of self-employment work and may be combined with other regional/service work on behalf of NYAS.
About the role
We are looking for professional and passionate individuals to become self-employed advocates to support our service delivery.
We provide advocacy support for individuals with mental health issues and learning disabilities at times when it is important for their wishes and opinions to be heard and their feelings expressed, for instance, representing them during discharge meetings, ward rounds and at multi-disciplinary team meetings.
You will provide weekly visits to the allocated setting and deliver independent and confidential mental health advocacy, on behalf of NYAS to vulnerable adults within various inpatient settings in accordance with service specifications to ensure that the individuals you are supporting have their voices heard and that they are actively involved in decisions about their care and treatment.
You will work to agreed outcomes and ensure that individuals are taken seriously and that their rights are respected, helping the person to access and understand appropriate information that is relevant and available to them and will complete case notes to a high standard and input these onto a case management system.
To be considered you must have experience of direct work with vulnerable adults or young people within a health or social care environment and have access to your own laptop.
As part of the recruitment process to become a Self-Employed Advocate with NYAS, all candidates who have been successfully interviewed and completed our safer recruitment process will be required to attend and complete Advocacy training. Further details are discussed at interview.
You will be required to complete annual safeguarding and compliance training including, Personal Safety, Data Protection, Information Security, Safeguarding and Equality and Diversity.
This will be via an e-learning platform provided by NYAS, the 2-year subscription fee is £36. The platform also provides you with the opportunity to undertake a number of other professional courses that you can complete in your own time to maintain your own CPD and is at a significantly reduced cost compared to undertaking each course individually with different providers.
