Personal Adviser

Job Description

To ensure the diverse population of care leavers are provided with the necessary support, to successfully make their transition to adulthood. To provide a high quality service to care leavers, working in partnership where possible with families, and other statutory and third sector organisations

• Deliver a high quality service to care leavers aimed at ensuring best outcomes and enabling the young person to succeed as they make their transition to adulthood.
• Regularly prepare, update, review and implement pathway plans in conjunction with the supervising manager and ensure parallel planning where applicable.
• Undertake human rights assessments and ensure that the rights of young people are observed.
• Co-ordinate the provision of services and take reasonable steps so that care leavers make use of services available
• Keep informed about care leavers’ progress and wellbeing; ensuring plans are progressed to meet assessed need.
• Keep full, accurate and up to date records of contacts with care leavers and services provided, accurately and in a timely manner on the care leaver’s electronic case file.
• Work holistically with care leavers and families around times of transition and transfer to additional services where appropriate.
• Seek active partnership with parents, carers and other professionals to promote and safeguard the welfare of young people.
• Support care leavers to enter and sustain education, training and employment.
• Work with other organisations to overcome barriers to learning and employment faced by young people.
• Support care leavers in all aspects of the process required to access accommodation and to ensure they are supported to maintain their tenancy and their resettlement needs are met.
• Ensure care leavers have accessed welfare benefits where eligible.
• Contribute to workshops/training sessions for care leavers to provide independence skills and other identified skills.
• Work with care leavers who have additional needs such as complex mental health, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, young parents (possibly subject to CP/Proceedings), immigration issues which also includes those who have an adult services lead worker
• Undertake assessment of need following re-referral post age 21 for those wishing to resume education or training where eligible.
• Ensure young people obtain legal advice as required in order to progress their immigration status and to carefully monitor and support this process whilst maintaining active links with the Border and Immigration Agency and legal advisors. Ensure parallel planning for possible return to country of origin.
• Ensure that all expenditure on cases is properly authorised and recorded, and that cases with financial packages are regularly monitored and reviewed.
• Promote the welfare of care leavers with particular regard for their age, sex, health, race, religion, culture and life experiences.
• Maintain and develop up to date relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and practice, through training and development opportunities as required or agreed by Team Manager,
• Take responsibility for managing an individual caseload, having regard to the relative needs of all service users and ensuring an effective use of time and resources.
• Bring any issues of concern regarding a young person/adult or a placement to the immediate attention of the supervising or duty manager where there is reason to believe that the young person/adult may be at risk of harm or have been harmed

Rate: £19.95 per hour Umbrella

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 3 months

Pay: £19.95 per hour

Expected hours: 36 per week

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Social work: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person