Personal Advisor

7 months ago


Dorchester, United Kingdom Triumph Consultants Ltd Full time

**What's involved with this role:
**Temporary Personal Advisor - Care Leavers**

**Reference no: Dorset TCL 91882**

**Pay Rate: £17.60 per hour PAYE
**35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours**

**This opening assignment is for 2-3 months**

**City: DORCHESTER**

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.

Key Responsibilities
- Manage a caseload of care leavers, providing guidance, support and advice within the statutory framework for providing services.
- 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.
- Draw up and implement Pathway Plans which are appropriate to the young person’s circumstances, needs, potential and aspirations in conjunction with the young person and all relevant others.
- Arrange statutory reviews of Pathways Plans and draw up subsequent/amended Pathway Plans.
- Work in partnership with the young person’s parents, carers and other significant adults identified by the young person.
- Promote and maintain relationships for care leavers with their families and carers, where possible.
- Listen to and take account of young people’s views and wishes, using a person centred approach to all work with young people.
- Advocate on behalf of care leavers and work in partnership with statutory and voluntary sector agencies and professionals to ensure effective co-ordination and provision of services to care leavers.
- 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.**

Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:

- Good standard of general education including GCSE Maths and English or equivalent.

Knowledge:

- Working knowledge of the basis of law relating to looked after children and care leavers.
- Working knowledge of welfare benefits, housing and homelessness legislation
- Knowledge of the impact that being in care can have on young people.
- Understanding and appreciation of the role of the Personal Adviser.

**Experience**:

- Experience of working with young people.
- Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating work with young people.
- Experience of multi-agency working.

Skills & Abilities:

- Ability to build and sustain working relationships with young people
- Ability to assess young people’s needs and design relevant interventions.
- Ability to formulate and deliver outcomes.
- Ability to face difficult issues and deal with them sensitively
- Ability to represent the Directorate to other agencies/service users/families.

ALD

**Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please


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