Personal Advisor

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Children in Care and Care Leavers Team covering Stafford and South Staffs. You would support care leavers aged 16 - 25 years old. Our dedicated leaving care service includes Social Workers and Personal Advisors who provide vital support and advice to our Care Leavers during their transition from living in care to adult life.

As part of your role, you will work alongside other professionals from a range of disciplines including, social workers, accommodation providers, housing, welfare benefits, mental health professionals, substance misuse services and foundations to employment.

Through these multiple relationships you will help prepare young adults to ensure they are supported within their journey to independence. Working within the corporate parenting principles you will empower young adults to develop skills to prepare them for their futures.

We are seeking to recruit a motivated, skilled and experienced Personal Advisor. The service is looking for a PA who will work closely with other professionals to prepare care leavers for adulthood.

The service is passionate about ensuring this cohort of care leavers are offered the best opportunities possible to:

- Engage in education, training and employment opportunities
- Acquire budgeting and key life skills
- Secure and maintain their accommodation and housing options
- Live a healthy lifestyle and access all health services they require
- Make good and positive use of community and leisure services
- Promote their family and friendship links
- Be aware of their responsibilities as citizens

If you have the skills and experience of working with young people or Care Leavers we would like to hear from you. You will need to have the following;
- NVQ Level 3 Caring for Children and Young People or equivalent such as; Health and Social Care Level 3.
- 2 years experience of working with teenagers/young adults or 1 year experience with Care Leavers.
- Knowledge of working with other agencies such as; housing, welfare benefits, social care, health and education.

This is a 2 year fixed contract and a unique opportunity to join our dedicated team and lead on good practice, so why not come and join us.

Interviews will take place on the 28th February and 2nd March.

About Staffordshire County Council
**We are no ordinary county council**:
**Our Values**:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

**Our benefits**:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

**Our recruitment process**:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.