Personal Advisor

Kent County Council; East Malling; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent County Council is recruiting Personal Advisers for the 18+ Care Leavers Service based at Worrall House. You will support care-experienced young people up to 25, helping them prepare for leaving care and transition to adulthood.

You will encourage active participation, develop detailed Pathway Plans, and collaborate with colleagues and partner agencies to meet young people's needs. Flexible, organised, and able to travel across Kent is essential.

Responsibilities

• Be first point of contact for care-experienced young people up to 25, providing flexible support, advice and planning.
• Encourage participation and develop Pathway Plans enabling transition to adulthood and independent living.
• Build close working relationships with colleagues and other agencies, and advocate for young people's needs.
• Be able to travel across a wide geographical area in Kent/Medway and sometimes outside, with flexible hours and time in lieu for out-of-hours work.
• Role requires a Full UK Driving Licence and enhanced DBS clearance.

Job description

Role Responsibility

Do you have what it takes to build positive and beneficial relationships with young individuals?

Would you like to improve the outcomes for care experienced young people?

Would you like to support young people to build bright and stable futures for themselves?

Would you like to spend every day at work knowing that you have made a difference in the lives of young people?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you!

The 18+ Care Leavers Service is a growing service that provides support to the Local Authorities care experienced young people. Kent County Council is a large authority and so this service is based at Worrall House.

We require Personal Advisers to work with both Citizen and Asylum-Seeking Care experienced young people up to the age of 25. You will be the first point of contact for a specific number of young people, with responsibility for providing flexible support, assistance, and advice when they are preparing and planning to leave care, and throughout their transition to adulthood.

You will need to encourage and support the young adults to actively participate and develop robust and detailed Pathway Plan that enable them to move successfully into adulthood and independent living and helps them achieve their goals. The post embodies the Local Authorities commitment to Care experienced young people to act as their corporate parent to help them reach their potential.

Our care experienced young people come from a diverse range of backgrounds, so youll need to be flexible with your time and imaginative in your approach to help them achieve the best possible outcomes. Youll need to be very organised and capable of balancing priorities, including the need to carefully record your work and provide good planning which reflects the aspirations of the young people youll be supporting. Youll need to build close working relationships with colleagues in other agencies as part of a wider network and advocate on behalf of the young people to ensure their needs are met.

You will be well supported with regular 1:1 supervision, training, team practice and reflections meetings and working alongside colleagues who are passionate about what they do.

It is essential that you can travel across a wide geographical area, both inside and outside of Kent in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day to support the care experienced young people. This can be within Kent and Medway and on some occasions outside of Kent. Being able to work flexibly is a requirement of the role, on some occasions you may need to work past your contracted hours to meet the needs of our care experienced young people. Overtime is not paid; however, you will receive your time back in lieu.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.