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Personal Advisor - Care Leavers

Posting date:	22 June 2024
Salary:	£12.00 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 July 2024
Location:	SHEFFIELD, S7 1DB
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Sheffield 0008 BEDB / 1

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Personal Advisor - Care Leavers

Reference no: Sheffield 0008 BEDB / 1

Pay rate: £12.00 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 08:45 – 17:00

This opening assignment is for 3-4 months

City: SHEFFIELD

Office based role

Enhanced DBS required for this role

A Personal Advisor is required to join the Care Leaver’s Team and support and advise young people leaving care by helping them to find suitable accommodation, assistance in budgeting and spending decisions, education, employment and training by undertaking a high-quality needs assessment and pathway plans alongside social workers and working with other multi agency partners. You will act as an advocate for young people and support them to make decisions for their future. You may be asked to travel and escort young people out of Sheffield and may have to work evenings and weekends as part of a rota, however additional payment will be made if you work out of hours.

Key responsibilities:

Undertake the statutory role of Personal Advisor to young people leaving care.
Undertake comprehensive and high-quality needs assessments of care leavers.
Participate in Looked After Children reviews where a child is under 18.
Work jointly with a social worker to complete and implement a pathway plan for young people under 18.
Complete comprehensive and high-quality pathway plans for care leavers over 18 and review these when necessary.
Coordinate the provision of services and take reasonable steps to ensure the young person makes use of such services.
Keep in touch with care leavers to monitor their progress and wellbeing, and ensure they are aware of the local offer for care leavers.
Keep full, accurate and up to date records of contacts with the young person and services provided.
Implement responsibly the service financial procedures and help care leavers develop financial capability. Support care leavers in developing independent living skills and provide advice on housing options, finding and maintaining education, training or employment and in accessing health services.
Act as an advocate for care leavers, recognising the particular challenges they face and your corporate parenting responsibility.



NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

NVQ/QCF Level 3 or equivalent as a minimum and willingness to undertake additional training and/or qualifications as required.



Experience:

Significant experience of working with young people leaving care or in a related field with experience of multi-agency planning with a basic understanding of the law relating to the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and the Children and Social Work Act 2017.
Direct experience of working with looked after young people and young adults between ages 16 and 25.
Experience of multi-agency planning and joint working for looked after young people including some with more complex needs.



Knowledge:

Understanding of adolescence in relation to developmental, familial, social and environmental factors that impact on young people's wellbeing.
Basic understanding of the law relating to young people with an understanding of the legal framework and its practical implications.
Understanding of the law relating to client confidentiality.
Understanding of legislation relevant to leaving care e.g. Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and Children and Social Work Act 2017.
Awareness of the criminal justice system and the respective roles and responsibilities of youth justice services, HMPPS/CRC and children’s services.



Skills & Abilities:

An excellent communicator, understanding and encouraging resilience in young people.
Able to negotiate and resolve conflict and problems.
Ability to assess financial support needs and handle cash to provide immediate support to young people and assist them in budgeting and spending decisions.
Organisational and administrative awareness and competence.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).



***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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Job Ref: Sheffield 0008 BEDB / 1


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.