Yes Advisor

**About Us**
We are committed to improving our services for the children and families we support in West Sussex. In May 2023 Ofsted Inspectors praised West Sussex County Council’s Children’s Services for its ‘relentless approach to improving practice,’ giving the service an overall rating of ‘requires improvement’, with ‘good’ judgements for children in care and leadership and management. The judgements on children needing help and protection and children leaving care are they ‘require improvement to be good’.

Inspectors recognised the ‘strong, determined and cohesive leadership team’ who have made significant improvements since 2019 and their commitment and focus to make further improvements.

For further information about us and about working in Children’s Social Care at West Sussex County Council, please visit **Careers in children's social work in West Sussex**.
**The Opportunity**
**Salary**: £27,334 to £29,777 per annum plus a Crawley Weighting allowance

**Working Pattern**: Full Time (37 hours)

**Contract**: Permanent

**Location**: Crawley area

The YES Advisor role provides and coordinates resources to a young person and their family. Their role is to help the young person identify goals to work on and coordinate the delivery of resources and signpost to other services as appropriate.

As a YES Advisor, you will use a range of tools to assess need and create a delivery plan working closely with the family / carers. You will be expected to undertake assessments and intervention work with young people to provide them with appropriate resources to help them build resilience to deal with the issues they are facing.

You may also deliver direct support to families to develop parenting and life skills, self-confidence, motivation, and goal setting. You’ll also provide direct one to one support with young people. You’ll work closely with partner agencies to effect and sustain positive change for the family, individual members, and the community around them.

You’ll be required to travel to various locations around the county, including to areas that may not be easily accessible by public transport. There may also be an occasional requirement to work evenings to meet the needs of the service. There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public.
**Experience and Skills**
Key Skills:

- Ability to work with young people to identify goals and develop programmes and activities that respond to their interests, offer challenges, and meet their identified personal & social development needs.
- Sound communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective and positive relationships with young people and their parents / carers.
- Ability to work effectively with young people where there is a need to interpret and pull together a variety of sources of information to answer queries, offer advice, give information, assist to solve problems and/or develop practical solutions.
- Ability to work as part of a team to motivate, support team members, colleagues, and partners.
- Sound and accurate IT skills.
- Ability to work to on your own initiative.

Qualifications and/or experience:

- 4 GCSEs with A-C passes including Maths and English, or equivalent qualification or experience demonstrating that level of numeracy and literacy.
- Ability to build effective relationships with a range of different people and be able to demonstrate effective engagement with young people.
- Knowledge of current issues relating to young people, in particular emotional wellbeing issues.
- At least one year’s experience of working with young people in some capacity, either voluntary, within community, family and/or within paid employment.
- Experience of designing resources and delivering effective interventions for children/young people.
- Valid and full driving licence.

**Benefits**
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

In addition to working within a great team and a brilliant opportunity you will receive:
For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.
**Further Information**
The reference number for this role is CAFHE05060.

Job Reference: CAFHE05060