Housing Rights Ambassador

Job Title: Housing Rights Ambassador

Hours: Hours will be depending on opportunities.

Salary: London Living Wage - £ per hour

Location: Coram Campus

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UKs most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UKs oldest childrens charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

About Voices in Action

Coram Voices in Action is a programme with young people at the heart of the issues they are the experts of. Through this programme our Young Ambassadors share their drive to make change. Our aim if for young people to access their rights. We do this by working with other young people as well as making sure the voices of experience are amplified in the political spaces around us.

Voices in Action Housing Rights Ambassadors have exciting opportunities to campaign to improve policy and practice that impacts on homeless young people. They want to ensure homeless young people get the support they need and young people are prevented from becoming homeless in the first place.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing Date: 10th of December

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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