Leaving Care Personal Advisor Officer

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Leaving Care Personal Advisor Officer - Next Steps Service**

**Reference no: Wakefield 0009 6FCE / 1**
**Pay Rate: £15.43 per hour PAYE**

**37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours**

**This opening assignment is for 6 months**

**City: WAKEFIELD**

**Enhanced DBS disclosure required**

**Hybrid working**

You will be joining a team with a strong team culture who are passionate about their relationships with care experienced young people and how this can improve their outcomes. Someone with a passion to join a team and be a part of continued improvement work in the team so we provide an excellent offer to young people.

Contribute towards the provision of an effective Personal Advisor service for children and young people in care, preparing to leave care or who have left care. Discharge the personal advisor role and take responsibility for an individual case load and pathway planning.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Achieve the high aspirations and ambitions that they have to ensure Care Leavers are supported to reach their full potential.
- Ensuring timely and meaningful visits and pathway planning for young people to evidence their part in planning for their future.
- Build meaningful, trusting relationships where Care Leavers feel safe, valued and respected so they have a successful adult life.
- Work together with care experienced young people to continually shape and improve the Leaving Care offer for Wakefield care leavers.
- Undertake direct work with non complex or post 18 individuals and take the lead role in reviewing young people’s Pathway Plans and Risk Assessments.
- Carry out actions as outlined in the Pathway Plan and be involved in the preparation, coordination, and review of the Pathway Plan in accordance with required standards and timescales.
- Provide a comprehensive and personal support to all assigned cases and carry out practical tasks relating to all aspects of the Pathway Plan
- Delegate relevant aspects of the work accordingly to the specialist roles within the service and external agencies as appropriate

**Qualifications**:

- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

**Knowledge**:

- Knowledge and understanding of the difficulties young people face in making the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and other related legislation.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding issues.

**Experience**:

- Recent relevant experience, paid or unpaid, of working with or supporting this user group or other such vulnerable young people.
- Experience of team working.
- Experience of interagency working.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Good standard of ICT skills.
- Listening skills
- Keyboarding skills are required to ensure accurate and appropriate information is produced and provided to service users, customers and clients as required.
- Ability to engage and work positively with children and young people some of whom may have complex needs.
- Ability to carry a caseload and plan and review work effectively.

**Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.**

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not 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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not 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.**

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