Personal Advisor

Personal Advisor

£38,976 - £49,365 per annum
Permanent
Full Time (36 hours)
Wandsworth, London
Ofsted Rating: ‘Outstanding’

Do you have experience of working with Care Experienced young people and a passion to help others to be their very best?

Future First, the Leaving Care Service for Wandsworth Children’s Social Care support over 440 young people aged 16-25 who are in the care of Wandsworth Borough Council. As part of a dedicated, vibrant, and enthusiastic team of professionals, your role will be to help young people build stable and successful independent lives.

Offering some of the most competitive Personal Advisor salaries in London, we also offer some of the lowest Leaving Care caseloads in the Capital to allow you to build fantastic relationships with the young people you support!

Working under the requirements of the Leaving Care Act 2000 and the Social Work Act 2017, you will offer a PA service to the maximum of 22 young people that are allocated to you. You will work alongside the young person’s Social Worker whilst they are 16 and 17 and then take on full case responsibility when they are ready to transition to the Leaving Care Service.

You will build meaningful and supportive relationships with young people to support them into a successful independent adult life. You will take a systemic and trauma‑informed approach to delivering the best service to our Care Experienced young people. Another important element of the role is promotion of user involvement and feedback.

The role entails regular liaison with external and internal partner agencies and extremely proficient organisation and interpersonal skills. You will build positive and supporting relationships with young people which enable them to achieve their goals and succeed in their transition to independent adulthood. You will ensure ’keeping in touch’, Pathway Plans and suitable accommodation is maintained for all young people through regular visits and contact with them.

You will provide duty cover under guidance of the manager and some group work with young people so enthusiasm and a passion for supporting young people is key.

• Previous work with Care Experienced young people.
• Experience of working with young adults in challenging circumstances.
• Experience of identifying safeguarding concerns and risk management.
• Great communication skills with an anti-discriminatory focussed approach.
• Experience in producing high quality assessments and reports.
• An awareness of Trauma Informed practice and understanding of the key issues for Care Experienced young people.

Please note, you will be required to travel around the UK and carry out some limited evening work in line with service participants availability and duty arrangements.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Carlyn Ferreira by email carlyn.ferreira@

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.

Richmond and Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).