Independent Advocate
Citizens Advice · Sheffield, TX · 1 mo ago
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We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the job posting text.
Let's extract content:
- Title: Independent Advocate (but we don't repeat as heading)
- Full and part-time hours will be considered
- Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (the higher salary is for advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy)
- Temporary until 31st October 2027
- Sheffield Advocacy Hub provides all statutory advocacy in Sheffield as well as some non-statutory work.
- Advocacy enables people to get their voices heard, rights upheld and make their own informed decisions.
- Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues.
- Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law.
- This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets.
- Significant prior experience of working with people with acute mental health problems, learning disabilities, brain injury, serious physical illness or people who may lack the capacity to take specific decisions is essential.
- Ideally applicants would have a level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or a relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work).
- We can offer you a supportive culture within a charity setting committed to social justice.
- We offer an attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment including: 35 hour working week; Pension scheme; Health Plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
- Job application packs are available to download at www.citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk or you can contact applications@citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk. Please quote the job reference number in the subject heading. All candidates must submit the application form (no CVs accepted) to applications@citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk by 9:00am on Monday 5th October 2026. For an informal discussion about the post, contact the applications inbox and we will arrange for someone to contact you. Interviews will be held on Friday 16 October 2026. This post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for work with adults.
We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove the cookie part at top, and also remove application instructions (the paragraphs about downloading packs, email, reference number, deadline, informal discussion, interviews, DBS check). Those are application instructions; we need to drop them.
Thus we keep only substantive job description: role description, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule.
Let's categorize:
- About the role: description of role, what advocacy does, etc.
- Responsibilities: maybe the duties: providing independent advocacy, working to requirements of Advocacy Charter, etc., championing for people, etc.
- Requirements: significant prior experience working with certain groups is essential.
- Qualifications: ideally applicants would have level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or relevant professional qualification (e.g., social work).
- Skills: maybe not explicitly listed; could infer but we should not invent. If not present, skip.
- Benefits: supportive culture, attractive remuneration package including 35 hour week, pension scheme, health plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
- Pay: Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (higher for City and Guilds qualification).
- Schedule: Full and part-time hours will be considered; also 35 hour working week mentioned under benefits; but schedule could be "Full and part-time hours will be considered". Also mention temporary until 31st October 2027 (duration). That could be under schedule or maybe a separate section like "Contract". But we only have allowed headings; we could put duration under Schedule? Might be better to include under Schedule: "Temporary until 31st October 2027; Full and part-time hours considered; 35 hour working week." However we need to avoid filler. We have real content: "Full and part-time hours will be considered" and "Temporary until 31st October 2027". Also "35 hour working week" is under benefits but could also be schedule. We'll keep schedule section with those points.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the job posting text.
Let's extract content:
- Title: Independent Advocate (but we don't repeat as heading)
- Full and part-time hours will be considered
- Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (the higher salary is for advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy)
- Temporary until 31st October 2027
- Sheffield Advocacy Hub provides all statutory advocacy in Sheffield as well as some non-statutory work.
- Advocacy enables people to get their voices heard, rights upheld and make their own informed decisions.
- Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues.
- Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law.
- This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets.
- Significant prior experience of working with people with acute mental health problems, learning disabilities, brain injury, serious physical illness or people who may lack the capacity to take specific decisions is essential.
- Ideally applicants would have a level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or a relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work).
- We can offer you a supportive culture within a charity setting committed to social justice.
- We offer an attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment including: 35 hour working week; Pension scheme; Health Plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
- Job application packs are available to download at www.citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk or you can contact applications@citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk. Please quote the job reference number in the subject heading. All candidates must submit the application form (no CVs accepted) to applications@citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk by 9:00am on Monday 5th October 2026. For an informal discussion about the post, contact the applications inbox and we will arrange for someone to contact you. Interviews will be held on Friday 16 October 2026. This post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for work with adults.
We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove the cookie part at top, and also remove application instructions (the paragraphs about downloading packs, email, reference number, deadline, informal discussion, interviews, DBS check). Those are application instructions; we need to drop them.
Thus we keep only substantive job description: role description, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule.
Let's categorize:
- About the role: description of role, what advocacy does, etc.
- Responsibilities: maybe the duties: providing independent advocacy, working to requirements of Advocacy Charter, etc., championing for people, etc.
- Requirements: significant prior experience working with certain groups is essential.
- Qualifications: ideally applicants would have level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or relevant professional qualification (e.g., social work).
- Skills: maybe not explicitly listed; could infer but we should not invent. If not present, skip.
- Benefits: supportive culture, attractive remuneration package including 35 hour week, pension scheme, health plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
- Pay: Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (higher for City and Guilds qualification).
- Schedule: Full and part-time hours will be considered; also 35 hour working week mentioned under benefits; but schedule could be "Full and part-time hours will be considered". Also mention temporary until 31st October 2027 (duration). That could be under schedule or maybe a separate section like "Contract". But we only have allowed headings; we could put duration under Schedule? Might be better to include under Schedule: "Temporary until 31st October 2027; Full and part-time hours considered; 35 hour working week." However we need to avoid filler. We have real content: "Full and part-time hours will be considered" and "Temporary until 31st October 2027". Also "35 hour working week" is under benefits but could also be schedule. We'll keep schedule section with those points.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings and - for lists,
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent.
Let's draft sections:
About the role
Sheffield Advocacy Hub provides all statutory advocacy in Sheffield as well as some non-statutory work. Advocacy enables people to get their voices heard, rights upheld and make their own informed decisions. Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues. Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law. This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets.
That seems good.
Responsibilities
- Provide independent advocacy in line with the Advocacy Charter, Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and associated guidance and case law.
- Champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want, particularly related to health and social care issues.
- Work to strict and demanding targets while maintaining a high degree of professionalism.
But need to ensure we are not inventing beyond what's in text. The text says: "Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law." That's a responsibility. Also "Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues." That's another. Also "This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets." That's also a responsibility. So we can list those.
Requirements
- Significant prior experience of working with people with acute mental health problems, learning disabilities, brain injury, serious physical illness or people who may lack the capacity to take specific decisions is essential.
That's the only explicit requirement.
Qualifications
- Ideally applicants would have a level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or a relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work).
- Advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy qualify for the higher salary.
But the second bullet about salary is more about pay; maybe we keep under Pay. However it's a qualification that influences pay. Could be under Qualifications as additional info. But we need to avoid duplication. The text: "Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (the higher salary is for advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy)". So we can mention that under Pay.
Thus Qualifications: just the level 3/4 qualification.
Benefits
- Supportive culture within a charity setting committed to social justice.
- Attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment.
- 35 hour working week.
- Pension scheme.
- Health Plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
But "attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment" is somewhat vague; but it's in the text. We can keep.
Alternatively we could combine supportive culture and remuneration package as prose. But we need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The benefits are a list; we can list them.
Pay
Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (the higher salary is for advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy).
Schedule
- Full and part-time hours will be considered.
- Temporary until 31st October 2027.
- 35 hour working week (also listed under benefits).
But we have duplicated 35 hour week; we could keep only under Benefits and not repeat under Schedule. However schedule section should have real specific content; we have "Full and part-time hours will be considered" and "Temporary until 31st October 2027". The 35 hour week is also schedule but we already have it under Benefits; we could keep it only under Benefits and not duplicate. But schedule could still have those two points.
We need to avoid filler; we have real content for schedule.
Thus schedule with two items.
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like cookie, application instructions, etc.
Check we didn't include any mention of job reference number, email, deadline, interviews, DBS check. Good.
Now output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft final HTML:
About the role
Sheffield Advocacy Hub provides all statutory advocacy in Sheffield as well as some non-statutory work. Advocacy enables people to get their voices heard, rights upheld and make their own informed decisions. Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues. Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law. This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets.
Responsibilities
- Provide independent advocacy in line with the Advocacy Charter, Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and associated guidance and case law.
- Champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want, particularly related to health and social care issues.
- Work to strict and demanding targets while maintaining a high degree of professionalism.
Requirements
- Significant prior experience of working with people with acute mental health problems, learning disabilities, brain injury, serious physical illness or people who may lack the capacity to take specific decisions is essential.
Qualifications
- Ideally applicants would have a level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or a relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work).
Benefits
- Supportive culture within a charity setting committed to social justice.
- Attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment.
- 35 hour working week.
- Pension scheme.
- Health Plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
Pay
- for lists,
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent. Let's draft sections:
About the role
Sheffield Advocacy Hub provides all statutory advocacy in Sheffield as well as some non-statutory work. Advocacy enables people to get their voices heard, rights upheld and make their own informed decisions. Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues. Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law. This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets.
That seems good.Responsibilities
- Provide independent advocacy in line with the Advocacy Charter, Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and associated guidance and case law.
- Champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want, particularly related to health and social care issues.
- Work to strict and demanding targets while maintaining a high degree of professionalism.
Requirements
- Significant prior experience of working with people with acute mental health problems, learning disabilities, brain injury, serious physical illness or people who may lack the capacity to take specific decisions is essential.
Qualifications
- Ideally applicants would have a level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or a relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work).
- Advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy qualify for the higher salary.
Benefits
- Supportive culture within a charity setting committed to social justice.
- Attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment.
- 35 hour working week.
- Pension scheme.
- Health Plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The benefits are a list; we can list them.
Pay
Salary £28,534.00 or £31,912.00 per annum (the higher salary is for advocates who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification in Independent Advocacy).
Schedule
- Full and part-time hours will be considered.
- Temporary until 31st October 2027.
- 35 hour working week (also listed under benefits).
- with two items.
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like cookie, application instructions, etc.
Check we didn't include any mention of job reference number, email, deadline, interviews, DBS check. Good.
Now output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft final HTML:
- Provide independent advocacy in line with the Advocacy Charter, Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and associated guidance and case law.
- Champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want, particularly related to health and social care issues.
- Work to strict and demanding targets while maintaining a high degree of professionalism.
- Significant prior experience of working with people with acute mental health problems, learning disabilities, brain injury, serious physical illness or people who may lack the capacity to take specific decisions is essential.
- Ideally applicants would have a level 3 or 4 qualification in independent advocacy or a relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work).
- Supportive culture within a charity setting committed to social justice.
- Attractive remuneration package with good terms and conditions of employment.
- 35 hour working week.
- Pension scheme.
- Health Plan with integrated employee assistance programme.
About the role
Sheffield Advocacy Hub provides all statutory advocacy in Sheffield as well as some non-statutory work. Advocacy enables people to get their voices heard, rights upheld and make their own informed decisions. Our advocates champion for people to be independent and live the lives they want to live as much as possible, particularly related to health and social care issues. Our advocates provide independent advocacy, working to the requirements of the Advocacy Charter, the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and their relevant Codes of Practice, associated guidance and case law. This is a challenging but rewarding role requiring a high degree of professionalism, and working to strict and demanding targets.
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