Forensic Advocate

Mind in Enfield and Barnet; Enfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established charity in North London is seeking a dedicated Forensic Advocate to empower patients with mental health challenges. This role involves providing essential advocacy services, ensuring patients' rights are respected, and facilitating their engagement with healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting individuals to navigate their treatment processes and develop self-advocacy skills. Join a passionate team committed to making a difference in the lives of those facing mental health issues, and contribute to a supportive community environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in an Advocacy Role, preferably in a psychiatric setting.
• Knowledge of mental health rights and advocacy principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional advocacy to eligible patients during hospital admissions.
• Ensure patients' voices are heard and rights upheld.

Skills

Forensic Advocacy

Communication Skills

Patient Support

Mental Health Awareness

Education

Degree in Social Work or related field

Job description

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Mind in Enfield and Barnet is a fast-growing charity in North London providing much needed therapy, wellbeing support and advocacy services to people with mental health problems.

The Advocacy, Advice and Information department works to empower people and communities, and challenge stigma and disadvantage caused by Mental Health problems. We champion individual’s voices, uphold their rights, and promote personal autonomy through the provision of high quality information, advice, and advocacy support.

The purpose of this role is to provide professional advocacy to all eligible patients. To ensure that patients voices are heard and respected, rights upheld, and to facilitate positive engagement with ward staff, professionals involved in their care, treatment planning processes, and relevant meetings. This may be facilitated through attendance at patient’s forums, ward meetings, working with patients on a one to one basis providing information, representation and support to develop self-advocacy skills; and developing new forums and forms of support.

Duties will include providing professional advocacy to all patients, informing them of their rights and supporting them with any issues that are impacting them during their hospital admission. Ensuring that advocacy is available for all patients, that appropriate methods of communication are available in order to meet the needs of all patients, and to be able to adapt to changing ward based or external changes.

This role is providing specialist advocacy for 12 Forensic Wards at Chase Farm Hospital and in community locations.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a Forensic Advocacy Role within a Psychiatric Inpatient Setting and have at least 3 years experience of working in an Advocacy Role.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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