Trainee Multidisciplinary Advocate

At Rethink Advocacy, we believe everyone deserves to have their voice heard especially those who face barriers in navigating care, rights, and decision making. If you re passionate about empowering people, eager to learn, and ready to grow into a skilled advocate, this could be the perfect role for you.

This role is a full-time 35 hour per week position, Monday to Friday between 9:00am till 17:00pm based in Exeter and the Devon & Torbay Surrounding areas. It requires that the successful candidate is able to travel to appointments within this area throughout their working day.

We also have qualified positions available, for more information visit our Careers Site to find a Description of the Qualified Advocacy Role.

About the role

As a Trainee Multi Disciplinary Advocate, you will work across 2 of our local Advocacy Teams. The first Team has a fixed base at Langdon Secure Hospital on Exeter Road in Dawlish. The second Team works remotely across Devon & Torbay as part of the Devon Advocacy Consortium (DAC) whose headquarters are based in Exeter. You ll support people with a wide range of needs including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, and physical or sensory disabilities to express their wishes, understand their rights, and be part of decisions that affect their lives.

You don t need previous advocacy experience.
What you do need is compassion, commitment, and a willingness to learn.

We ll support you through:

• Full enrolment onto the Level 4 Independent Advocacy Practice qualification
• Protected study time
• Shadowing, observation, supervision and ongoing training
• Gradual progression to holding your own caseload
• Development in instructed and non instructed advocacy approaches

Once qualified, you ll move into a full Multi Disciplinary Advocate role.

What you ll be doing

• Empowering people to understand their options, rights, and decisions being made about their care
• Delivering advocacy across community and care settings, including homes, hospitals, secure units, and supported living
• Learning and working across three statutory advocacy remits (Independent Mental Health Advocacy IMHA, Independent Care Act Advocacy ICAA and Independent Health Complaints Advocacy IHCA)
• Building strong professional relationships with the people you support
• Maintaining accurate case records and ensuring safeguarding concerns are appropriately raised
• Working flexibly in the field managing your own diary and travel across Devon & Torbay
• Contributing to service promotion, community awareness, and occasional projects

What we re looking for

You ll thrive in this role if you:

• Are passionate about empowering others and supporting their rights
• Can communicate clearly and sensitively with a wide range of people
• Are organised, self motivated and confident managing your own workload
• Are willing to learn and complete the Level 4 qualification
• Can work within clear professional boundaries and uphold confidentiality
• Have strong values around fairness, respect, equity and person led support
• Can travel throughout Devon and Torbay for client visits, training and meetings

This is a field based role with homeworking for admin. You ll travel regularly across Devon and Torbay.

If this sounds like you, apply now!