Leaving Care Personal Advisor - Empower Young Futures

Pharmacyupdate; England; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Remedy Social Care is recruiting for a Leaving Care Personal Advisor to join the Oxfordshire team on behalf of the client Oxfordshire County Council. The role focuses on guiding, coaching and advocating for care-experienced young people as they move toward independence.

You will build relationships, develop Pathway Plans and coordinate services across housing, health and education to empower young people to achieve their goals.

Qualifications

• Experience working with care-experienced young people.
• Ability to coordinate services across agencies.
• Experience with Pathway Plans and welfare checks.

Responsibilities

• To act as a case manager and develop positive working relationships with young people.
• To encourage and empower young people to participate in all decision-making processes affecting their lives and involve the peer consultation workers in this process when appropriate.
• To be involved in understanding the young person's needs and co-ordinate/participate in their need's assessment.
• To develop, monitor and review the pathway plan to ensure needs are met, including triple track planning.
• To provide and access various information, advice, planning and preparation, and holistic support to meet young people's developing needs, especially in health, housing and post 16 careers.
• To work with interpreters and raise any issues where necessary
• To support with the UASC process and follow guidelines for when YP are not given immigration status or become All rights exhausted.
• To ensure young people are aware of and receive their financial entitlements.
• To liaise with other agencies, especially housing, EET, vulnerable adults and health services.
• To co-ordinate the provision of services and take reasonable steps to ensure that the young person makes use of such services.
• To keep informed of the young person's progress and well‑being by monitoring their progress through regular contact with supporting agencies.
• To participate in a duty system and work productively within a team. To be part of the team doing initial welfare checks for spontaneous asylum seekers who are children arriving in Oxfordshire.

Skills

Case management

Interagency liaison

Advocacy

Communication skills

Job description

Remedy Social Care is recruiting for a Leaving Care Personal Advisor to join the Oxfordshire team on behalf of the client Oxfordshire County Council. The role focuses on guiding, coaching and advocating for care-experienced young people as they move toward independence.

You will build relationships, develop Pathway Plans and coordinate services across housing, health and education to empower young people to achieve their goals.