What's involved with this role: Temporary Personal Advisor x2 - Children & Families Reference no: Sheffield 0009 4950 / 1 Pay rate: up to £16.40 per day PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 08:45 - 17:00 This opening assignment is for 6-7 months City: SHEFFIELD Enhanced DBS disclosure required Looking for applicants who can support and advise young people leaving care by helping them to find suitable accommodation, assistance in budgeting and spending decisions, education, employment and training by undertaking a high-quality needs assessment and pathway plans alongside social workers and working with other multi agency partners. You will act as an advocate for young people and support them to make decisions for their future. Key Responsibilities: Undertake the statutory role of Personal Advisor to young people leaving care Undertake comprehensive and high quality needs assessments of care leavers Participate in Looked After Children reviews where a child is under 18 Work jointly with a social worker to complete and implement a pathway plan for young people under 18 Complete comprehensive and high quality pathway plans for care leavers over 18 and review these when necessary Coordinate the provision of services and take reasonable steps to ensure the young person makes use of such services Keep in touch with care leavers to monitor their progress and wellbeing, and ensure they are aware of the local offer for care leavers Keep full, accurate and up to date records of contacts with the young person and services provided Implement responsibly the service financial procedures and help care leavers develop financial capability. Support care leavers in developing independent living skills and provide advice on housing options. Qualifications: NVQ/QCF Level 3 or equivalent as a minimum and willingness to undertake additional training and/or qualifications as required. Knowledge: An understanding of adolescence in relation to developmental, familial, social and environmental factors that impact on young people's wellbeing. Understanding and encouraging resilience in young people; be able to negotiate and resolve conflict and problems. Understanding of the law relating to client confidentiality. Understanding of legislation relevant to leaving care e.g. Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and Children and Social Work Act 2017 Awareness of the criminal justice system and the respective roles and responsibilities of youth justice services, HMPPS/CRC and children’s services. Experience: Significant experience of working with young people leaving care or in a related field with experience of multi-agency planning with a basic understanding of the law relating to the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and the Children and Social Work Act 2017. Significant experience of working with young people leaving care or in related field and/or specialist knowledge and experience in related areas. Direct experience of working with looked after young people and young adults between ages 16 and 25. Experience of multi-agency planning and joint working for looked after young people including some with more complex needs. Skills & Abilities: Ability to relate research evidence to professional practice. The ability to assess financial support needs and handle cash to provide immediate support to young people and assist them in budgeting and spending decisions. An excellent communicator, understanding and encouraging resilience in young people; be able to negotiate and resolve conflict and problems. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. 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. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. 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. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. 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