Personal Advisor

Contract to start ASAP

Duration: 224 days with a possible extension.

Responsibilities:

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: -data entry on ICS and any other electronic tools or database -data required for specific PIs/targets

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