At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead health initiatives to improve outcomes for children in care and develop best practice guidance.
- Company: Join Coram, the UK's oldest children's charity, making a real difference since 1739.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunities and safeguarding.
- Why this job: Be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to supporting vulnerable children and young people.
- Qualifications: Experience in health practice and policy, with a passion for improving children's lives.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Contract - Permanent
Location - Coram Campus, London – hybrid of office and home working. Occasional travel to other venues in the UK is required.
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s 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 UK’s oldest children’s 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.
CoramBAAF is the UK’s leading membership organisation for professionals working across adoption, fostering and kinship care. We provide information, best practice guidance, advice, training and resources to support our members and influence policy to improve outcomes for children and young people.
Health Consultant Role
This role is an essential part of CoramBAAF’s multi-disciplinary offer for CoramBAAF members, providing expertise, knowledge and experience of health practice and policy within Adoption, Kinship and Foster care. Responsibilities include:
- Providing leadership and direction in respect of CoramBAAF’s goal to promote positive health outcomes for care experienced children and young people including adopted children and children in kinship care.
- Developing policy and good practice guidance for health and social care professionals and services in a multi-disciplinary context.
- Facilitating the CoramBAAF Health Group and the Health Advisory Committee and ensure that the work of the health group continuously develops to meet the first two objectives.
- Working in partnership alongside CoramBAAF’s existing health consultant.
As a professional membership organisation, CoramBAAF is responsible for delivering high quality research-based policy advice and briefing updates to its members and other relevant stakeholders, including central and local government. This role sits within the policy, research and development (PRD) team, which is led by the Managing Director of policy, research and development and consists of consultants who specialise in different forms of family placement from an interdisciplinary perspective including social work, legal, health and research. Core to the team’s role is the contribution to membership services and products, including publications, conferences, briefings, practice notes and forms. The team also convenes a number of advisory committees and special interest groups that support and feed into these primary functions.
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. 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.
Consulente Della Salute employer: CoramBAAF
CoramBAAF is an exceptional employer dedicated to improving the lives of care-experienced children through impactful health policy and practice. With a strong commitment to equal opportunities, a supportive hybrid working model, and opportunities for professional growth, employees thrive in a collaborative environment that values their contributions. Join us in making a meaningful difference while enjoying the flexibility and support that comes with working at CoramBAAF.
