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Number of Vacancies: 1
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Full-Time, Temporary (12 months)
Additional Payments: Essential Car Allowance
Closing Date: 1 April 2025
Closing time: 11.59pm
This role is subject to:
* Essential Car Documentation - This post is a designated Essential Car User. Therefore, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work. You will receive the Essential Car User Allowance.
* DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Appointable candidates will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice.
The Leaving Care Personal Advisor working within the New Arrivals team will provide a statutory service to unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people aged between 16-25 years who have been or are Looked After by Manchester City Council.
You will manage a case load of children between the ages of 16 to 25 years in supporting social workers to progress post 18 plans.
Establish and maintain positive relationships with service users to support them prepare for adulthood; working proactively with appropriate stakeholders to assess the individual’s needs and ensure young people have positive outcomes.
Provide support and advice to service users which provide the opportunity to engage with appropriate local and national organised and community-based services.
Monitor, evaluate and review assessments as required determining suitable adjustments to ensure that service users are able to achieve their agreed goals.
You will work with the multi-agency team around the child or young people.
You will contribute/be part of our journey to 'Good to Outstanding' journey to continue to improve quality of practice and compliance across the services for our children and young people.
Work with colleagues and stakeholders to produce effective plans of support/intervention that respond to service users' individual needs, identify, and reduce their vulnerability to risk situations.
Candidates Should Be Able To Demonstrate The Following Skills:
* Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates an understanding of the views of others and communicates in a realistic and practical manner using appropriate language and listens attentively to views and issues of others.
* Analytical Skills: Ability to engage with multi agency partners to identify information and to know how to go about obtaining the relevant information.
* Communication Skills: Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, accurately and in a way that promotes understanding.
* Planning and Organising: Demonstrate the ability to organize multiple tasks in the most effective way and allocate time and energy according to task complexity and priority.
* Problem Solving and Decision Making: Able to interpret rules and guidelines and know when something needs to refer to a supervisor/manager.
* Administrative Skills: Ability to use and accurately maintain effective record keeping and administration systems in a rapidly changing environment.
* IT: Ability to use multiple applications, systems, and associated software packages.
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.
To Make Our Ambition a Reality, Every Person We Recruit Needs To Play Their Part. It Takes a Certain Type Of Behaviour, Attitude And Way Of Working To Get Manchester Where It Wants To Be. Our People And Partners Have Agreed Five ‘behaviours’ - The Grounding For How We Must Work Together And Treat One Another:
* We take time to listen and understand
* We work together and trust each other
* We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
* We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
* We’re proud and passionate about Manchester
A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.
Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council:
At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. If you want to find out more about the role, our culture, flexible arrangements or any adjustments, please let us know by emailing jobs@manchester.gov.uk. If you are invited to interview we will ask you if you require any adjustments in order for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.
If you would like to access the job details in another format, such as large print, audio or printed on a coloured paper, please email jobs@manchester.gov.uk or call 0161 227 3373.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
* Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
* Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
* If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
Accessibility:
As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.
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When you join us:
We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.
Other Relevant Information:
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
Who we are - Manchester City Council
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