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Personal Advisor - Pathways Leaving Care Services

Posting date:	12 September 2024
Salary:	£16.26 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	10 October 2024
Location:	Middlesbrough
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Middlesbrough TCL MID996623 (3)

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Personal Advisor - Pathways Leaving Care Services

Job Ref: Middlesbrough MID996623 (3)


Pay Rate: £16.26 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hour

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 1-2 months

City: Middlesbrough

Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role

A Personal Advisor is required to ensure that young people who are care leavers are supported and encouraged to make informed life choices which give them the best opportunity to lead successful adult lives.

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake a comprehensive Personal Advisor service to Children and Families within a defined area.
Formulate and design appropriate plans to meet identified needs and to arrange for the implementation of such plans, in conjunction with other appropriate agencies.
Provide appropriate ongoing support to individuals and families as the key worker.
Ensure that individual professional standards are maintained in line with agreed levels, including full compliance with policy and procedural guidelines and accepting primary responsibility for the level and quality casework recording.
Feed back to the Team Manager any problems in relation to the effective provision of services and/or policies.



Qualifications:

A recognised Care qualification minimum NVQ 4 or equivalent or working towards NVQ4.



Skills & Experience:

Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of working with young people, looked after children and/or care leavers.
Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating work with young people.
Experience of multi-agency working desirable.
Knowledge of looked after children and care leavers.
Knowledge of the legislation relevant to looked after children and care leavers.
Ability to undertake assessment of Service users and carers.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).



Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle with business insurance.

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.


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.

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

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not 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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.











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Job Ref: Middlesbrough TCL MID996623 (3)


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.