Advocacy and Complex Needs Advisor

The Royal British Legion; Pickhill; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days paid holiday (+ bank holidays)

Enhanced maternity/paternity adoption

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development courses

Opportunities to volunteer

Travel loans

Cycle to Work

Job summary

The Royal British Legion is recruiting an Advocacy and Complex Needs Advisor to provide holistic, person-centred support to veterans in North Yorkshire. The role focuses on improving safety and wellbeing for individuals facing homelessness, mental health challenges, addiction issues, domestic abuse, or involvement with the criminal justice system.

It involves diary-ing visits, case notes, and proactive outreach to build engagement.

Qualifications

• DBS check at Enhanced level is required.
• Live within the North Yorkshire area.
• Willing to travel across the designated area during working hours.

Responsibilities

• Complete effective and efficient case management of beneficiary cases; ensure case records are maintained and up to date.
• Conduct home visits to assess needs, build relationships, engage beneficiaries, and develop person-centred support plans.
• Provide specialist advice and advocacy, identify appropriate services, and support referrals to mental health, housing, and addiction services.
• Coordinate support with beneficiaries and partner agencies to overcome barriers and implement priorities.
• Travel within the region to meet beneficiaries in homes or community locations as required.

Skills

Case management

Advocacy

Holistic support

Travel flexibility

Job description

If you are committed to providing holistic and person-centred support to your clients, and making a real difference in people's lives, we may be the perfect fit for you! We have an exciting opportunity to join our fantastic ACN team, as an Advocacy and Complex Needs Advisor covering North Yorkshire. The Royal British Legion's Advocacy and Complex Needs Service operates across the UK, offering holistic support to veterans facing complex and often isolating challenges. Our Advisors directly support beneficiaries experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, issues relating to alcohol and substance use, behavioural addictions, domestic abuse, involvement with the criminal justice system, and other circumstances that may affect the safety and wellbeing of adults, children and their families. Your work will empower the Armed Forces community to achieve their potential and lead more fulfilling lives. We have a number of vacancies across our Advisor team as we are delighted to be enhancing our service offering by increasing the size of our team and adding additional Advisor posts to provide more responsive support to our beneficiaries. Come and be part of the leading Armed Forces charity, making a difference to the lives of those who have served to keep us safe and protect our way of life. Reporting to the Advocacy and Complex Needs Manager for the region, key responsibilities will include:

• Complete effective and efficient case management of circa 20 complex beneficiary cases; ensuring case records are maintained, accurate and up to date
• Complete visits with beneficiaries in their homes to assess need, build and maintain positive, professional relationships, build engagement, review progress and provide practical, person-centred support
• Work holistically with beneficiaries to explore their full range of needs, identify and agree their priorities, and develop a clear, person-centred support and action plan
• Provide specialist advice and advocacy, identify appropriate statutory and external services, including mental health, addiction and substance misuse, and housing services, and support beneficiaries with referrals
• Work collaboratively with beneficiaries and partner agencies to overcome barriers, coordinate support around agreed priorities, and provide practical and motivational support throughout

Face to face work with beneficiaries is an important part of the role, and the successful candidate will need to be able to travel across the designated area to meet beneficiaries in their homes or other appropriate community locations (travelling within working hours).

You must live within the North Yorkshire area. Other periodic travel will be required for team meetings. The successful applicant will require a DBS check at Enhanced level to be undertaken as part of pre-employment checks.

RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer interview schemes for candidates who declare an Armed Forces connection and/or a disability. However, candidates are only eligible for this scheme if their application clearly demonstrates that they meet all of the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification for the role. We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role.

Organisation The Royal British Legion View profile Registered Charity More than 1000 We provide lifelong support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families. Our support starts after one day of service and continues through

• 28 day's paid holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with optional annual leave purchase scheme of up to 5 working days
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Generous pension scheme with employer contributions ranging from 6% to 14%, depending on length of service
• Range of flexible working options may be available, depending on your role
• Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Range of courses delivered by learning specialists to support your development goals and objectives
• Opportunities to volunteer
• Travel loans, Cycle to Work, and more!