Personal Advisor
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3TA |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75716757 |
Summary
Personal Advisor (Leaving Care Team)
SO1 (£33,366 - £37,938) This role is eligible for an Essential Car User allowance of up to £963 per annum.
37 hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Central House and a mix of office, community and home working, based on service need.
Application Deadline: 29th July 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 31st July 2025
Interview Date: We will be interviewing over 2 days - week commencing 6th August 2025
Interview Type: Face to face, including Young People and a written test
Interested in becoming a Personal Advisor? Join us for an Introduction to a Personal Advisor role in Stockport Leaving Care Team on MS Teams, taking place on 24th July 2025 from 3:30pm to 5pm. This online session will give you an insight into the role and the exciting opportunity to join our service. Sign up to the event here, and you will be sent a link to join the session.
While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Stockport Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.
Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Stockport’s Leaving Care Service on our ever-growing team as a Personal Advisor. We are recruiting to meet the demand of our growing service and the extended support for care leavers up to the age of 25 years.
We have recently been rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted following our May 2025 inspection.
Come and help us on our journey to become an Outstanding service!
About You
You will be highly motivated to achieve the very best outcomes for our young people who are leaving care and making the transition to adulthood. You will have excellent skills in working flexibly and proactively with young people to ensure they reach their potential. You will have a good understanding of trauma and the impact this can have on our young people. You will be committed to partnership working with our colleagues in both children’s and adults’ services. You will develop and maintain close relationships with all our partner agencies who play their part in supporting our care leavers.
About Us
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please Ruth McDonald (Team Leader) on Ruth.mcdonald@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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