Children’s Advisor

Temporary Personal Advisor - Care Leavers
60 per hour PAYE
35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
Improve the life chances of young people who have left local authority care, in accordance with relevant legislation and the Council’s Policy on services to care leavers. Also 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.
Supporting care leavers to gain practical self-care skills – health, budgeting, domestic skills – and enabling them to understand and manage themselves as individuals and their relationships with others.
Work in partnership with the young person’s parents, carers and other significant adults identified by the young person.
Listen to and take account of young people’s views and wishes, using a person centred approach to all work with young people.
Engage care leavers in learning, training and work opportunities.
Ensure care leavers who are entitled to claim welfare benefits, receive their full entitlements.
Ensure that care leavers have access to the range of accommodation available, and are provided with the necessary support to maintain their accommodation.
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 no t 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.
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