personal advisor
Description✓Personal Advisor [Leaving Care Specialists] – Based Bradford
✓Contract type – 6-month contract - Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, 37 hrs/week
✓Pay Rates: - £15.80 to £19.09 per hour Umbrella rate
✓Are you a passionate, dedicated Personal Advisor looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are recruiting a Personal Advisor To provide support services for children and families aged 16 -25, ensuring to work within legal frameworks and policies and procedures appropriate to the service based in Bradford.
✓Information on the Role
✓To provide support services for children and families aged 16 -25, ensuring you work within legal frameworks and policies and procedures appropriate to the service.
✓To give practical, personal and emotional support to children, young people in order to meet assessed need; to maintain and promote their health, physical, emotional development and wellbeing
✓This may include domestic tasks and transporting where necessary.
✓To specifically support and advise young people leaving care in key areas including health, benefits, education, training, employment, accommodation/housing and personal well-being.
✓To identify and support young people to overcome barriers to learning.
✓To enable and empower young people to make decisions in their lives and to self-advocate
✓To advocate on behalf of young people who do not have the skills to do this.
✓To facilitate the construction of a Pathway Plan, from the assessment which establishes a viable response to established need over time.
✓To develop Personal Action Plans with Young People.
✓To encourage young people not only to fully engage with developing their individual plans, but to participate in the development of the service as a whole.
✓To be prepared to work in a variety of ways, apart from direct work with individuals, for example in groups, running "Drop ins" etc.
✓To work alongside colleagues both within Social Services and from other agencies, and to engage with significant people in the young person's life [members of the family, community etc].
✓To support young people through times of major transitions from childhood to adulthood and to take responsibility.
✓To liaise with others involved to ensure that assessed needs are met within the agreed plans for the child or young person and in a timely way.
✓To build up effective interagency networks to have an understanding of voluntary and statutory agencies and an awareness of opportunities within the Local Community.
✓To maintain records and write reports as required in accordance with Directorate policy and procedures.
✓To carry out a range of practical tasks to assist young people with both planned and unplanned activities.
✓Essential Requirements:
✓Experience – minimum of 2 years continuous experience of working with children and young people
✓CRW 3 Level 4 NVQ or equivalent [e.g
✓Relevant degree, DipSW, RGN, Teaching, Youth and Community etc or equivalent as specified by the service]
✓Child and Young Person Development - Understanding and using knowledge of physical, intellectual, linguistic, social and emotional development of babies, children and young people
✓We also offer an outstanding referral scheme for any friends or colleagues.
✓If you are an Personal Advisor and would like to express your interest, please contact us for this great opportunity by calling on [phone number removed][option1] and speak to The Care Team
✓Or email on:
✓Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices
✓4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer Show more →
✓Contract type – 6-month contract - Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, 37 hrs/week
✓Pay Rates: - £15.80 to £19.09 per hour Umbrella rate
✓Are you a passionate, dedicated Personal Advisor looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are recruiting a Personal Advisor To provide support services for children and families aged 16 -25, ensuring to work within legal frameworks and policies and procedures appropriate to the service based in Bradford.
✓Information on the Role
✓To provide support services for children and families aged 16 -25, ensuring you work within legal frameworks and policies and procedures appropriate to the service.
✓To give practical, personal and emotional support to children, young people in order to meet assessed need; to maintain and promote their health, physical, emotional development and wellbeing
✓This may include domestic tasks and transporting where necessary.
✓To specifically support and advise young people leaving care in key areas including health, benefits, education, training, employment, accommodation/housing and personal well-being.
✓To identify and support young people to overcome barriers to learning.
✓To enable and empower young people to make decisions in their lives and to self-advocate
✓To advocate on behalf of young people who do not have the skills to do this.
✓To facilitate the construction of a Pathway Plan, from the assessment which establishes a viable response to established need over time.
✓To develop Personal Action Plans with Young People.
✓To encourage young people not only to fully engage with developing their individual plans, but to participate in the development of the service as a whole.
✓To be prepared to work in a variety of ways, apart from direct work with individuals, for example in groups, running "Drop ins" etc.
✓To work alongside colleagues both within Social Services and from other agencies, and to engage with significant people in the young person's life [members of the family, community etc].
✓To support young people through times of major transitions from childhood to adulthood and to take responsibility.
✓To liaise with others involved to ensure that assessed needs are met within the agreed plans for the child or young person and in a timely way.
✓To build up effective interagency networks to have an understanding of voluntary and statutory agencies and an awareness of opportunities within the Local Community.
✓To maintain records and write reports as required in accordance with Directorate policy and procedures.
✓To carry out a range of practical tasks to assist young people with both planned and unplanned activities.
✓Essential Requirements:
✓Experience – minimum of 2 years continuous experience of working with children and young people
✓CRW 3 Level 4 NVQ or equivalent [e.g
✓Relevant degree, DipSW, RGN, Teaching, Youth and Community etc or equivalent as specified by the service]
✓Child and Young Person Development - Understanding and using knowledge of physical, intellectual, linguistic, social and emotional development of babies, children and young people
✓We also offer an outstanding referral scheme for any friends or colleagues.
✓If you are an Personal Advisor and would like to express your interest, please contact us for this great opportunity by calling on [phone number removed][option1] and speak to The Care Team
✓Or email on:
✓Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices
✓4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer Show more →