Family Rights Group
Sessional Adviser
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Family Rights Group
Established in 1974, Family Rights Group is the national charity that works with parents whose children are in need, at risk or are in the care system, and with members of the wider family who are raising children unable to remain at home.
Our vision is to ensure that children can live safely and thrive with their families or wider family network, and that children in care can have loving relationships to turn to.
Our Advice and Advocacy Service is the only free national specialist advice service for parents, relatives, friends, and kinship carers who are involved with children’s services in England, or need their help.
Our unique service combines legal, social work and practice expertise to support families when social workers or courts are making decisions about their children, combined with the real-time insights and voice of people with lived experience.
We advise parents whose children are in need, deemed at risk or in the care system. We support relatives and friends to be assessed as potential kinship carers (relatives or friends who raise children unable to live with their parents) and access help to raise children who cannot remain at home.
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The principal purpose of this role is to provide advice and information on our national telephone advice line and digital service.
Most commonly our advice service is contacted:
- by parents when social workers are worried about their child’s safety
- by families who need help from Children’s Services to care for their children
- by grandparents and other friends and family members who are raising children who cannot safely live at home
- by families who have a child in care.
As an adviser you will:
- Listen non-judgementally to what families are saying,
- Give information about what the law says and what procedures should be followed.
- Advise and discuss with families what their options are in order to support them to make realistic choices.
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For many families, becoming involved with Children’s Services is a difficult and distressing experience.
As an adviser for the family you will need to:
- provide practical and emotional support;
- examine the issues raised, and advise on the family members’ rights and the options available to them;
- you may on occasion also be asked to attend an in-person meeting.
Responsibilities
- To provide telephone, written or email advice to families.
- To contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the Advice and Advocacy Service.
- To contribute to the overall work of the organisation. This includes participation in the following, which can be included in worked hours: Advice & Advocacy staff and policy meetings and professional development events. Attendance of regular staff meetings is not required.
- To ensure that all work undertaken is delivered in accordance with Family Rights Group’s equalities policy, principles and standards.
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