Personal Advisor Leaving Care Service

Description

Our local government clients are recruiting a Personal Advisor to lead on cases in consultation with their line manager and other unit members as part of the Unit Model, to ensure that care leavers’ Review Pathway Plans detail their needs assessment and outcomes to be achieved. Review Pathway Plans need to be carried out with the care leaver and any relevant professionals.

 Responsibility

To establish rapport and build respectful relationships with care leavers, their families, and their support networks while undertaking Review Pathway Plans and coordinating support interventions, ensuring that their views and wishes are heard and accurately recorded.

Qualification – Essential

• Previous experience in the care profession.
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent child and family training
• Advanced – Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), social media and CRM.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience Requirements - Criteria to be Evaluated at the Shortlisting Stage.

Successful candidates will have:

• Relevant and substantial experience of direct work with children, young people and families.
• A good understanding of the context of child development, about parenting capacity, adolescence, family and environmental factors.
• A good capacity to assess and balance risk and protective factors in families and communities.
• Ability to create a rapport and build professional relationships with young people and families.
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively with young people using a range of intervention tools and approaches.
• Ability to work creatively utilising good problem-solving skills.
• Capacity to reflect on changing circumstances, new evidence and be open to the views of others.
• Capacity to prioritise tasks, manage own workload and be accountable for your work with young people.
• Ability to summarise, analyse and evaluate complex information.
• Ability to work as part of a team, establish and maintain effective communication and good working relationships.
• Ability to work with other professionals, demonstrating a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of different agencies to promote an integrated approach and multi-disciplinary working.
• Reliability and integrity, together with an enthusiastic and positive attitude towards staff, colleagues and peers and the capacity to apply diplomacy and demonstrate resilience in a complex and demanding environment.
• A keen interest in research findings and contributing to the development of best practice with care leavers.
• A good working knowledge and understanding of national and local policy, procedure and guidance about care leavers as well as children in need and at risk.
• Capacity to share information verbally and by writing concise reports about care leavers with other agencies to safeguard them and promote their welfare in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
• To be computer literate and in possession of the skills necessary to work with information management and recording systems.
• To undertake any task on behalf of other unit members or buddy units as required, commensurate with the level and grade of the post.

Essential Compliance Requirements

• 5 years' reference including current employment
• Enhanced DBS check Summary
• A pre-engagement screening is mandatory for this role.

Diamond Blaque Group, a leading provider in the public sector, is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and acts as an employment agency for this vacancy.