My client is a multi-faceted voluntary organization which has been delivering services in the London Borough of Camden since 1982. The organization has 3 main areas of service provision:
Work with young disabled people – centered around our educational work with young people with learning difficulties aged 19 – 25 we have also over the last year developed a volunteering project for young disabled people and a young disabled people’s participation forum.
Family Support –works in partnership with statutory services to support vulnerable children and their families; we have workers who spend part of their week based with Duty and Assessment Teams and in Children’s Centers. Those workers visit families individually but we also deliver structured parenting programmes and less formal drop-in groups for parents and carers to share experiences and get advice.
Advocacy Services –delivers support to help the families of disabled children/children with special educational needs to negotiate with, challenge and understand the systems which arrange educational provision for their children. We also have a Health Advocacy project for people with learning difficulties in Camden who need support to access primary care health services such as the GP, cardio-vascular and breast screening programmes.
Funded by Camden PCT Innovation fund ERC recruited and trained a small group of service users to become peer health advocates. The Health Advocacy project supports individuals with learning disabilities, by having dedicated health advocates support individuals with learning disabilities to their health appointments.
They would like to offer a recent graduate the opportunity to work with them to conduct a research and evaluation of the effectiveness of the health advocacy project, and the achievements of the project to be identified. This will involve collating thoughts and opinions of service users and organizations which have worked with the health advocacy service.
The successful graduate will be from a Social Science subject area with experience of: report writing, research and experience of working with people with learning difficulties. It is also important to have enthusiasm and creativity and be self motivated and able to prioritize workloads.
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