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Personal Advisor
Hackney
24/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full Time: Mon - Fri 36/hrs a week
Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Personal Advisor in the Hackney area. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Leaving Care Service as a Personal Advisor to work alongside Social Workers and Personal Advisors and report to the Team Manager.
Whether you have previously worked in a statutory setting as a Personal Advisor or have experience of working directly with young people aged 18 - 25 living in the community, we would like to hear from you.
The role involves working together with the Virtual School, accommodation providers and PMU to ensure that care leavers are supported and prepared for independence. Good engagement and organisational skills are essential in holding a caseload of up to 25 care leavers and reviewing Pathway Plans in a timely way.
An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role.
Main duties and responsibilities:
1. To establish rapport and build respectful relationships with care leavers, their families and their support networks whilst undertaking Review Pathway Plans and co-ordinate support interventions ensuring that their views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately.
2. Having obtained consent from the care leaver, to engage and communicate effectively with other agencies and include their professional views in plans for care leavers, working collaboratively and maintaining regular liaison in the best interests of care leavers.
3. To work with care leavers in their accommodation or other settings on an agreed basis so as to monitor, assess risk and assist in the implementation of an agreed plan of support using evidenced-based methodologies and by offering practical help to enable care leavers to help themselves, and support them to develop their role as young parents or carers where relevant.
4. To work independently, and when appropriate as the lead professional, make decisions about the tasks that need doing, taking responsibility for these decisions and their impact on the care leaver.
5. To bring to the attention of your line manager any concerns relating to the quality of a care leaver's accommodation or their safety and well-being and/or other young people they share with.
