- Participation Officer (and Consultation’s Champion)

Responsible To: Managing Director

Hours: Part time - 3 days a week

Salary: £17k (F/T equivalent £28k)

Location: Office Based/with opportunity to work from home

Travel: Attend children/service users events/workshops nationally

Job Purpose:

The purpose of this role is to ensure that Banya Family Placement Agency maintains Children’s and Young Persons and Service User Participation throughout all its services. This involves ensuring that all vulnerable adults, children and young people, not just foster children, but also birth children have full participation in all areas and that they are also fully involved and feel they are able to contribute to Banya’s Services.

Participation enables all those who use our service to feel that their voices are listened to and that their views, concerns and ideas can be expressed. Relevant, creative and thoughtful activities and tasks must be designed and completed in order for this to take place, for example, forums.

Introduction:

Full participation, involvement and contribution are crucial and are at the heart of Banya’s Strategy. Participation has been shown to make a significant, measurable difference in the way in which services are shaped and provided to vulnerable adults and young people in care and leaving care.

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