Personal Advisor - Leaving Care Service
Permanent – Full Time
Redbridge is an ambitious, diverse and exciting east-London borough. What we do is driven by changing our relationship with local people to support our vision. As a result, we've developed innovative ways to build our communities and transform our Council.
We're one of the fastest growing parts of the country and the third most diverse London borough. Our communities are attracted by a mixture of excellent schools, relatively affordable housing, high-quality open space and rapid transport connections into the heart of the city.
In Redbridge we are passionate about our care experienced young people and take pride in ensuring that young people feel supported and empowered to achieve their ambitions and goals as they make their transition to adulthood.
An exciting opportunity for a personal advisor has arisen in our Outstanding Leaving Care Service based at Station Road, Barkingside. The successful candidate will be working in a well-structured, supportive and effective team and report to one of three Practice Managers. The role involves working alongside a range of professionals, with young adults, previously Looked After by the Local Authority between the ages of 18 – 25 years old.
This is a rewarding, challenging and essential role, in our support of young people leaving care. Our Personal Advisors have the opportunity to undertake focused work with young people and seek to maximise the potential of care experienced young people who have left the care system by working with providers, other agencies and partners. As a Personal Advisor, you will carry a caseload of young people aged 18-25 years and support them through individual direct work, group-work and activity programmes, which may require some flexible working. You will assess their needs, create and review Pathway Plans and be a consistent support to them into adulthood. You will motivate them to make the very best of the resources available and encourage them to play a part in improving services.
In Redbridge we encourage a culture that puts our care experienced young people at the heart of everything we do, by empowering our staff to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn.
If you value these behaviours too, we would love to hear from you.
Key Accountabilities
1. To give practical, personal and emotional support and advise care experienced young people to meet their assessed need; to maintain and promote their health, physical and emotional wellbeing, benefits, housing, education, training and socialisation skills.
2. To facilitate, directly and indirectly, the assessment of need which may be immediate, short or long term.
3. To identify and support care experienced young people to overcome barriers to learning.
4. To enable and empower care experienced young people to make decisions in their lives and to self-advocate.
5. To advocate on behalf of care experienced young people who do not have the skills to do this.
6. To facilitate the reviews of a pathway plan and to enable and promote, care experienced young people to contribute, in order their wishes and feelings are accurately reflected.
7. To encourage care experienced young people to participate in the development of the service in order they can affect change where needed.
8. The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the borough and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is desirable.
9. Redbridge Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
As part of employment with Redbridge Council this role requires a DBS enhanced check.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity is key to our success.
Interviews will be held week commencing 7th April 2025.
Closing date for applications is the 30th March 2025.
To apply for this post please complete the online application form and attach your CV and a Covering Letter addressing how you meet the criteria for the role as stated in the person specification.
All short-listed applicants will need to demonstrate proof of right to work in the UK. At the London Borough of Redbridge, we receive a high volume of great-quality applicants, we therefore may close a vacancy earlier than advertised. Early applications are therefore encouraged.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment and welcome applications from qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, colour, race, religion, or belief.
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