Personal Advisor

**Hours: 37 per week**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Service Area: Children and Young People Service**

**Department: Care Outcomes**

We currently have vacancy for a Personal Advisor within our Care Experienced Team. This is a role primarily supporting young people aged 16-25 years of age and their pathway to independence. The role is 37 hours per week.

This challenging but rewarding role will see you responding to, co-ordinating and delivering a range of social care services to young people and families in the Bath and North East Somerset area. We work closely with our colleagues across the service and have established partnerships with agencies across health, education, support services and adult services to ensure we can respond as effectively as possible to the needs of these young people.

Our team is based at Civic Centre in Keynsham with the Children, Young People and Families Service and we are looking for an enthusiastic worker to join our team. You will experience a culture of mutual support amongst team members and receive formal supervision on a regular basis and appropriate training. You will need to be committed to using a wide range of skills to promote and safeguard the welfare and development of young people and assist them individually and alongside their carers in creative and innovative ways to ensure timely care and support planning and intervention.

“Children’s services in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) are good. Leaders and managers are committed advocates for children and promote a culture of direct work and engagement with children and families. Social workers spoken to by inspectors are positive about working in B&NES” Ofsted 2017.

**About you**:

- Experience of working with children, young people and families in a variety of settings
- Ability to form positive working relationships with children, young people, parents and carers
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and guidance pertaining to children and young people and leaving care legislation
- IT skills to enable operation of standard electronic systems

We are a forward thinking, innovative local authority committed to early intervention and the highest standards in safeguarding.

Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.

**Why B&NES Council?**

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

- A competitive salary package
- A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
- A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
- The Local Government Pension Scheme
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme - whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
- Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
- Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

**Interested to find out more?**

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Kate Hurley on 01225 396464.

**To apply**

Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose - to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be **Bold, Empowered, Supportive **and** Transparent**.

**As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.**

**Safeguarding Statement**:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.

As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.