Personal Adviser- Leaving Care
Location: Nottinghamshire
Reference: RQ1396096
Supply Care Solutions are a market-leading Medical, Social Care and Education recruitment consultancy, we offer a range of accredited services across the public sector, providing highly skilled, compliant professionals in all grades and specialties, including short, long term and permanent positions.
Type: Locum work
Hours: Full time (Monday to Friday) 37 hours
Salary: Up to £17 umbrella per hour depending on experience
Job profile:
- To work as a Personal Advisor for young people who are in care and care leaver’s. To contribute to the assessment process and implementation of Pathway Planning for Children in Care and Care Leavers by offering direct support, advice, guidance and practical help. Post holders will carry case-holding responsibility as appropriate and support Children in Care and Care Leavers.
- To work to achieve the specific aims and objectives of the Aftercare Service and the Children, Families and Cultural Services Business Plan.
- To work collaboratively with a range of partner organisations to assess, plan and intervene with vulnerable young people and their families.
- To manage a caseload of individual service users in accordance with assessed risk and policies and procedures and the Children Act guidance and regulations.
- To use manual and computerised systems for the recording of information and data and ensure that all relevant records and documents are managed in accordance with policy and procedures and to keep up to date case records in accordance with policy.
- To contribute to the development and delivery of interagency strategies relating to vulnerable young people.
- To attend and contribute to statutory child care reviews and participate in meetings including those in a variety of settings and institutions such as district councils, hospitals and custodial units.
- To work flexibly to meet user need, including unsocial hours as required.
- To undertake specific specialist roles in relation to complex assessment or service development.
- To be fully aware of the principles of safeguarding as they apply to vulnerable children and young people in relation to work role and ensure that your line manager is kept fully informed of any concerns. To be part of Protection Plans for vulnerable children and young people as necessary.
- To review the needs of identified careleavers to ensure that plans and services reflect current needs and risks using Children Act Pathway Planning Guidance.
- To contribute to the duty arrangements of the Leaving Care team seeing young people by appointment and in crisis, dealing with internal and external enquires, providing support assistance and information as required, recognising the need to involve other more experienced staff where appropriate.
- To maintain effective liaison and work in partnership with other staff or managers and other agencies, organisations and individuals as required and as appropriate.
- To attend and contribute to team meetings, identifying training and whole service events.
- To coordinate and ensure the delivery of a wide range of specialist and mainstream services through advocacy, inter-agency working and direct intervention to achieve positive outcomes for a diverse group of vulnerable young people including unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
- To provide transportation as needed including the transport of service users including the moving and handling of goods and belongings.
- To ensure that the views of service users and their families are taken into account and are central to the planning and delivery of services.
- To design, co-ordinate and deliver independence preparation training to groups of vulnerable young people.
Must have driving license and access to car
How TO APPLY- Please send the following below:
Compliance documents required :
Updated CV (NO GAPS)
Right to work in the UK(Passport,Visa, biometric card etc)
National Insurance Number
DBS(Copy of current Valid DBS certificate)
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