Personal Advisor - Leaving Care Service
Tower Hamlets
£23/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full Time: Mon - Fri - 36/hrs a week - 3 - 6 months contract
Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Personal Advisor - Leaving Care Service in the Tower Hamlets area.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
1. Provision of Leaving Care Support Services via Pathway Assessment and Planning Process, including education, training, employment, accommodation, health, personal support, family and social relationships, practical skills and financial assistance.
2. Working with individual service users to provide support, advice, guidance, assistance, and counselling, with the aim of enhancing or protecting individual welfare.
3. Provision of services within the statutory requirements of the relevant childcare, mental health and community care legislation, in line with the requirements of the Council's policies and procedures.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To manage a caseload, develop and monitor and review Pathway Plans of support and interventions in agreement with the service user.
2. Respond to requests for support and assistance, taking sufficient basic information about the needs in question to be able to determine the level and type of assessment required.
3. Participate in completing Pathway Assessments in a timely manner and in partnership with young people, carers, social workers etc.
4. Ensure that Pathway Assessments and Plans pay particular attention to individual strengths, areas for further development and action plan for moving onto independence; ensuring that the views of the young people as well as the relevant professionals are recorded explicitly in the assessments/plans.
Knowledge
1. Knowledge of child care legislation including the Children Act 1989 and associated guidelines and regulations.
2. Understanding of the powers and duties of a Local Authority in relation to children looked-after and young people leaving care.
3. Knowledge and understanding of one or more of the following:
* Education provisions, benefits and grants for care leavers.
* Knowledge and understanding of issues impacting on Asylum Seeking and Unaccompanied children and young people.
* Knowledge of accommodation issues faced by care leavers, welfare housing benefits, supported housing and permanent accommodation, education, training and employment in relation to care leavers.
* Understanding of the processes of involving users in design and delivery of services.
4. Understanding of the issues faced by young people moving to independence and the most appropriate system of supporting them in this transition