Personal Advisor

Personal Advisor
Leaving Care
Location: North East
Pay rate:  £18 per hour

Our Client based in the North East  is looking for 18+ Leaving Care Personal Advisor to join their Leaving Care team. In this role you will provide a statutory social work service for children in care and care leavers age 18-25 years, ensuring that all legislative requirements are met. The work with eligible, relevant, former relevant and qualifying care leavers will be done on a case management basis. This will involve the co-ordination, preparation and completion of pathway plans and supporting young people preparing for leaving independently into adulthood.

Your primary responsibilities will include

To act as a full member of the staff team of the Service and to contribute to the development of the Service within the Directorate.
To fully contribute to the work of the Service and to manage an individual caseload, work with individual and groups of young people and to participate in the duty work, responding to need as it arises
To participate in the provision of appropriate programmes for individual service users of the Service, in conjunction with other Directorate staff and other agencies within this field; that will most effectively assist the young people to achieve the transition to adulthood, with particular emphasis upon their transition from being in care, to living independently in the community
Within the role of aftercare adviser, to implement and adhere to all relevant Directorate and Service procedures.
You’ll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible

Perfect candidate will 

• Substantial experience of working with children and young people up to the age of 21 and 25 if they are in higher education in a voluntary or Professional setting.
• Experience of interagency work with young people who are vulnerable, at risk, homeless or have been in care.
• Experience of being responsible for directly assisting young people (caseload responsibility)
• Have worked successfully in achieving outcomes for Young People under supervision.

 

• To be literate and able to write emails, reports, case records and other documents using electronic case recording systems and software such as word.
• Ability to advise young people around budgeting, and to be financially accountable where appropriate.
• Ability to seek and secure education, training and employment opportunities for care leavers.
• Ability to talk to, listen to, and develop good working relationships with young people, including those who may be difficult to engage or are challenging.
• Ability to develop working relationships with family, carers, professionals & partner agencies. (Education, training, employment, accommodation, police, probation, prison, DWP, health, etc).
• To be aspirational for young people. A friendly, sympathetic, understanding and realistic approach, to the needs of young people.
• Good verbal presentation skills.
• Ability to manage time and work to deadlines.
• Ability to respond flexibility to changing situations.
• Effective communication skills.
• A commitment to anti oppressive and anti-discriminative practice.
• Ability to work as part of and contribute to team working.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you

Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from  Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, Brotton, Eston, Skelton and Loftus, Gateshead, Durham, Scarborough,  Hambleton, Stockton-on-Tees,  Whitby, Sunderland, Wetherby, Harrogate, York, Doncaster, Hull, Tadcaster, Haxby, Bishop Wilton, Leeds, Wetherby, Harrogate, York, Tadcaster, Bishop Wilton, Heslington, Leeds, York, Wakefield, Bradford, Huddersfield, , Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Northumberland, Darlington, South Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Whitley Bay.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), Child & Family,  MASH, Children Looked After, Support Worker,  Localities, Children in Need. Child Protection, Court,  Children’s Social Work, Personal Advisor Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.

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