Self-Employed Ind. Professional Parent Advocate

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About NYAS

As an established leading rights-based charity, NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service) is well positioned to ensure that children, young people, and adults across England and Wales are fully respected, represented, and supported in expressing their views and having their rights upheld.

We work with care-experienced children, young people, and adults who are often reliant on statutory services suffering the negative impact of the cuts in public expenditure. Our combination of social care and legal services places us in a unique position to ensure that they receive the services they need and that their voices are heard.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment which means NYAS welcomes applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or belief, or any other protected characteristic.

NYAS is proud to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer and we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.

Work with us to help change young lives.

The vacancy

We are looking for a Self-Employed Independent Parent Advocate(s) to provide independent and confidential advocacy to parents with children subject to a child protection plan and parents of looked after children under the age of 18 years.

The role of the parent advocate is to support parents to positively engage with professionals from third sector and statutory organisations to resolve issues that are negatively impacting their family.

You will have direct responsibility for a case load and will enable parents to make effective use of policies or complaints procedures by providing information, support, and advice.

You will empower parents to achieve positive outcomes and help them deal with issues that are affecting their families.

To be considered you must have significant experience of direct work with parents and families.

For more information, please view the attached contract delivery specification.

To meet the requirements of the role you must live within the geographical area.

Note for candidates - when completing the application form, it is important that you refer to the person specification within the contract delivery specification and detail how you can evidence the criteria.

NB: As part of the recruitment process, all candidates who have been successfully interviewed and completed our safer recruitment process will be required to attend and complete accredited Advocacy training. This is a recognised qualification across this sector.

NYAS provides this training at a significantly reduced rate for self-employed advocates. Further details are discussed at interview.

You will also be required to complete annual safeguarding and compliance including, Personal Safety, Data Protection, Information Security, Safeguarding and Equality and Diversity. You will be able to subscribe to an e-learning platform provided by NYAS. The platform will provide 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. You can do this on the e-learning platform at a significantly reduced cost compared to undertaking each course individually with different providers.

NYAS operates robust safe procedures to ensure the protection of the children, young people and adults at risk we work with. To comply with NYAS’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a Digital Risk Assessment.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we receive a high number of applications.

Self-Employed Ind. Professional Parent Advocate

Lewisham, Lewisham, Greater London, United Kingdom

£16 per hour

Contract - Part-time

Posted today

Closing date: 05/03/2026

Job reference: CM1481891LewSIPPA

Documents

Contract delivery specification for Self-Employed Independent Professional Parent Advocate - Lewisham.pdf

Self-Employed Ind. Professional Parent Advocate

Lewisham, Lewisham, Greater London, United Kingdom

£16 per hour