Personal Advisor

The job itself

We have an exciting Personal Advisor opportunity available in our Children with Disabilities Social Work Team, covering East Riding of Yorkshire Council area and sitting within our Strengthening
and Supporting Families portfolio.

The Children with Disabilities Social Work team is a county wide specialist team responsible for assessing and supporting children and young people with severe and complex disabilities. The team work in collaboration with specialist services both internally and externally to ensure that we can provide the most appropriate support to children and their families. The right candidate will have access to an excellent training offer, alongside support from the Team Manager, Area Manager and our colleagues within specialist services and Participation Improvement and Innovation.
You will have the opportunity to set the standard in a developing and growing practice system to ensure that we achieve the best outcomes for children, young people and their families. The team are passionate about ensuring the children who they support receive an excellent service, ideally we are looking for somebody with experience of working with children with disabilities, who has understanding of the impact on the child and family.

The base for the team is at Anlaby Children's Centre and the Local Authority offers remote working opportunities and various bases to ensure that our workers have access to an office near them, their team and the children and families they support.

The East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children's Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection. Since the last inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement.

Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it. Senior leaders and councillors are clear about what their strengths are and what still needs to be improved in service delivery, and their self-evaluation is accurate.

They have ambitious plans and have secured significant investment to develop their services further as part of their continuous improvement journey. Senior leaders lead by example, and this has supported practitioners to embed the relational model of practice with the families they work with.

The right candidate

We are looking for an energetic, Personal Advisor who can demonstrate tenacity and enthusiasm in making a positive difference to the lives of children and young people.

This opportunity will allow you to work with children that are in the care of the local authority and have disabilities. We strive to ensure families are empowered to achieve lifelong positive goals.
As a Personal Advisor you will have the privilege of walking alongside and supporting young people to make a successful transition to adult life.

The role will undertake the personal advisor' duties as defined in the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and statutory guidance (Regulations Guidance).

You will have an experience of working with children, young people and their networks and the experiences of working within a children's social care setting and demonstrable commitment to the values of family involvement, relational approaches, and
empowerment.

In East Riding we really value positive relationships. Therefore, it is essential that the post holder is able to work relationally with others with a flexible and adaptable approach -
always demonstrating their commitment to working to the highest possible standards whilst remaining at all times child centred.
You will have good written and oral communication skills which will enable you to prepare clear Pathway Plan's and progress requests for Direct Payments and care packages.

You will be able to demonstrate a high level of motivation and the ability to work independently, with skills in working within timescales and with conflicting priorities.

Why work for East Riding?

Benefits of being a Personal Advisor in East Riding include:

Flexible working options including option for a 9-day fortnight.
Clear development pathways with supportive learning and development offer.
Regular reflective supervision with a focus on your wellbeing, your development, and what is working well.
Strong management support at all levels.
A service wide commitment to celebrating best practice and practice strengths.
A service wide commitment to promoting staff wellbeing and support.
Opportunities to develop specialist skills.

Take a look at our recruitment web pages and our Children's Social Care information page for a full range of benefits and support.

Our model of practice

Stronger Together: You can, I can, We can'

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

Other important information

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.

These posts are subject to an enhanced DBS Check.

Interviews for this position will be held between 29th March and 17th April 2024.