Personal Advisor (Leaving Care)
| Posting date: | 31 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2026 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG2 3NG |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7347 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £32,597 - £35,412 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
As a Personal Advisor, you will be working with young people who are leaving or have left care, developing plans to help them transition successfully into adulthood. You will provide practical and emotional support, giving high quality advice and guidance linking young people with more specialised support where appropriate; enabling them to develop independence skills for life.
Personal Advisors will have case-holding responsibility and support Children in Care and Care Leavers both within and outside of Nottingham City. A commitment to multiagency working to support the progress and safety young people is key to this role. You will be highly organised and a skilled communicator enabling you to build up effective working relationships with a variety of young people from different backgrounds.
About You
To apply for this post you must be able to demonstrate:
- Knowledge of Childcare legislation, including Leaving Care and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children.
- Commitment to child centred practice and understanding of child protection issues.
- Case holding experience.
- Able to record efficiently and to keep records up to date and produce concise, literate assessments, plans and reports.
- To understand issues of safeguarding for children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- Possession of full driving licence, access to a vehicle, including access to internal pool cars for longer distances (utilising your own car and pool cars you will need business insurance), expectation and willingness to travel both inside and outside the City Council boundary as required. For utilising own car, milage allowance is 45p per mile.
- Possession of full driving licence, access to a vehicle (utilising your own car you will need business insurance), expectation and willingness to travel both inside and outside the City Council boundary as required.
Who can apply for this Job?
You do not need any specific qualification to apply for this opportunity, however, you must have a caring, nurturing, compassionate nature with a willingness to give a 100% to the citizens across the city that need your dedication and care.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post
You can find the job description for this post here.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact the Duty Manager at the Leaving Care Service using LeavingCare.Duty@nottinghamcity.gov.uk 0115 8761333
Closing Date: 14/04/26
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: 30/04/26
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