Personal Advisor

Belmont Recruitment; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for a Personal Advisor to join Cheshire West and Chester Council on an initial 3-month temporary contract. This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Essential responsibilities include providing care leaver eligibility, driving Corporate Parenting, and delivering high-quality support through risk and performance management, with safeguarding and statutory compliance at the core of daily practice.

Qualifications

• NVQ or recognized accredited programme such as Child/Social Care, Education or Youth Work Qualifications.
• Experience of working with children, families and young adults.
• Experience of working in a multi-agency team to support care leavers transitioning to adulthood.

Responsibilities

• Provide care leaver eligibility across the borough with a consistent, high-quality offer.
• Drive Corporate Parenting responsibilities within services to support care leavers.
• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based support through performance and risk management.
• Identify safeguarding needs for care leavers through supervision and policy compliance.
• Act as the lead professional for care leavers ensuring robust planning and escalation.

Skills

Care experience

Multi-agency collaboration

Risk assessment

Education

NVQ/Children's Social Care/Youth Work qualification

Job description

Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for a Personal Advisor to join Cheshire West and Chester Council on an initial 3-month temporary contract. This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide young people with care leaver eligibility across the borough a consistent, high quality, and responsive care leaver offer
• Drive the responsibilities of Corporate Parenting within our own services, ensuring care leavers are looked after as though they were our own children.
• Deliver high quality, evidence-based support to young people. Deliver this through performance management and risk management in accordance with the relevant Policies and Procedures.
• Identify support and safeguarding needs for our care leavers, through effective supervision and compliance with all policies and procedures.
• Act as the lead professional for care leavers ensuring robust planning, escalation of concern, and compliance with statutory responsibilities.

Essential Requirements

• NVQ or recognised accredited programme such as Child/Social Care, Education or Youth Work Qualifications
• Experience of working with children, families and young adults. The skills to analyse and link information about young people to identify existing and emerging needs.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-agency team to provide high quality support to care leavers who are transitioning into adulthood.