Personal Advisor LBS-008A
Job Category: Social & Health Care Non-Qualified
Location: Sumner House, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:15
Salary: £19.78
You may already be working within Southwark and want an opportunity to change roles into this fast-paced service. If you are organised, self-driven and excited about this outreach role, do apply. We are looking for a relationship-based practitioner who can develop supporting meaningful relationships, with compassion and respect.
The role of a Personal Advisor is both demanding and rewarding. It requires Personal Advisors to be a corporate parent for up to 22 young people, demonstrating friendliness, reliability, and good listening skills. Visit to young people age 18 and over take place at a minimum of 8 weekly. This pans out to be a minimum of 3 visits a week. Personal Advisors routinely initiate contact with young people and their network in between visits. Records of the visits are shared with young people and written up within 72 hours. Statutory reports are required whenever there is a significant change of circumstance. These are known as pathway plans. They are written in a personalised way with young people a minimum of every 6 months, which pans out to be one completed week.
If you have the qualities to ensure our care experienced young people will benefit from your appreciation and belief in them as unique individuals, please apply. You will be joining an existing dedicated workforce we are proud of. Team members support each other through conversion, joint visits, team meetings and supervision.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
• To support and enable young people who are currently in care, and those who have left care and are eligible for leaving care services, to make a successful transition to adulthood through practical and planned interventions.• To provide a comprehensive and effective service, within Southwark’s practice framework, assessing need, and planning and working purposefully with young people.
• To support our young people, their networks and professionals, to manage risk, safeguard young people, and promote positive outcomes.
• To provide a service which is relationship-based and works collaboratively with our young people, centred around our young people, and which responds in a timely manner within statutory guidelines, working collaboratively with the team.
Knowledge:
• Knowledge of the health, education, training and work experience needs of young people and how these can be met.
• An understanding of the needs of children looked after, and care leavers, including adolescent development, the impact of trauma, transition to independence, environmental factors, and risk and protective factors.
• Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory framework relating to children, young people and families, particularly leaving care regulations. • Knowledge and understanding of the problems and issues faced by people living in an inner city, multi- racial/cultural community.
• Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key children’s agencies.
• Understanding of systemic practices, and restorative and attachment- informed approaches.
Experience:
• Experience of working directly with vulnerable children or young people, in a professional or voluntary capacity, implementing effective interventions with successful outcomes.
• Experience of group work with young people and delivery of intervention programmes, with successful outcomes.
• Computer literacy skills at a level to maintain case records within information management systems, and ability to use technology to support online communication.
• Experience of working effectively as part of a team and balancing personal workload
Special Conditions of Recruitment:
• A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level is required.
• Comply with and promote the Council’s Equal opportunities policy.
• Occasional requirements to work evenings and weekend.
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