Personal Advisor

Location: South East London

Reference: SCS355

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) 36 hours

Salary: £22 Umbrella per hour

Job profile:

To contribute to the operational delivery of an effective Children’s Social Care Service as part of a team responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people who will be leaving or have left care provision, continuously improving outcomes. To be responsible for support, guidance and work with young people in accordance with national and departmental procedures and guidance.

MAIN DUTIES

• Provide advice and practical support to care leavers, including information and advice to enhance financial capability, accommodation options, education, training and employment, leisure and sporting and cultural opportunities to enable care leavers to enjoy and participate in community life.
• Participate in the assessment, preparation, monitoring and review of Pathway Plans, ensuring a person-centred focus and empowering young people and their families.
• Promote and facilitate contact for young people with their birth family members, providing supervision and assessment as required.
• Co-ordinate the provision of services and take reasonable steps so that care leavers make use of services
• Maintain information about care leavers progress and well-being through a range of methods including direct contact.
• Assist young people to maintain positive health and well-being as well as targeted advice and support to access specialist health services.
• Support young people to develop their confidence and decision-making capacity
• Identify and assess levels of risk and need and take responsibility for reporting risk through the line management structure.
• Identify and report safeguarding issues in line with legislation and local procedures.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues and provide expertise/consultative service relating to young people’s experiences in care and after they leave care.
• Work in partnership within the Council and across agency boundaries including statutory, voluntary and local community and faith groups.  
• Attend and represent the department at a range of meetings including reviews and case conference meetings.
• Be responsible, as specified in Departmental Guidance for accurate, timely and up to date data entry on all cases including:

1. Data entry on ICS and any other electronic tools or database
2. Data required for specific PIs/targets

• Ensure that client information data is lawfully gathered, accurate, up to date and only divulged in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the local government common law duty of confidentiality.  Failure to apply these duties can lead to the individual or the Department facing court proceedings.
• Ensure that expenditure on cases is properly authorised and recorded.
• Contribute to the development of the service through team meetings, Departmental and Council events.
• Prepare for and attend Performance and Development Reviews, supervision sessions and staff meetings and make use of all available learning and development opportunities.
• To undertake any other duties as directed from time-to-time to meet the exigencies of the service.

To apply, please send the following below:

Compliance documents required:

• Updated CV  (NO GAPS)
• Social Work England Number
• 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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