Personal Advisor - Leaving Care Team

Cambridgeshire County Council; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Additional annual leave

Flexible holidays

Pension AVCs

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

IDEAL network

Employee Recognition Awards

Cambs Rewards

Car Lease

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking a full-time Personal Advisor for the Leaving Care Service at Scott House, Huntingdon. You will guide and support Care Leavers aged 18–25 toward independent living within a Pathway Planning framework, collaborating with families and professionals to ensure holistic, positive outcomes.

You will build trusted relationships, record-keeping, and drive consistency and progression as part of a dedicated Personal Advisor team.

Qualifications

• Hold a minimum of an NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent in a relevant work area.
• Commit to working with young people from diverse backgrounds, promoting good outcomes for all our care leavers.
• Possess excellent organisational skills, strong personal resilience, and a passion for working with young people to improve their outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Assess needs and co-create Pathway Plans for Care Leavers.
• Provide guidance, advice and practical support to help with independent living.
• Maintain purposeful contact and keep clear, timely records to support care leavers.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Organisational skills

Relationship-building

Education

NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent

Job description

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We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensivewellbeing package to coverall aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidaysflexibly to better suityour personal circumstances
• MakeAdditional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access todevelopment opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to supportyour personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make apositive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access toPeer Support Groups through our IDEAL staffequality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receiveEmployee Recognition Awards
• AnOur Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and onlinediscounts as well as ourCar Lease andCycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

Do you want to be part of a team that actively encourages and celebrates young people’s aspirations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our Leaving Care Service as a full-time, permanent Personal Advisor at Scott House in Huntingdon.

In this rewarding role, you will provide guidance, advice, and practical support to our Care Leavers, helping them prepare for independent living and supporting them to pursue their ambitions and achieve their goals.

Working within a Pathway Planning framework, you will support care-experienced young people—primarily aged 18–25—as they transition into adulthood. You will collaborate closely with a wide range of professionals and partners involved in a young person’s life, ensuring a joined-up, holistic approach that places the young person at the centre of everything you do.

No two days will be the same. As a Personal Advisor, you will experience a varied and dynamic role, offering continual learning and development opportunities. You will build strong, trusted relationships with young people through consistency, reliability, and respect—meeting them where they are and remaining focused on achieving positive, sustainable outcomes.

Now is a great time to join Cambridgeshire County Council as we develop a new model of practice focussed on relationships and being aspirational for children in our care in terms of their homes, relationships with their families and educational opportunities. We commit to embedding the Council ambitions for a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.

We expect interviews to be held at Scott House, Huntingdon, the week commencing 28th September 2026.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

What will you be doing?

As a Personal Advisor, you will play a vital role in empowering young people as they move towards independence. You will assess their needs, co-create meaningful Pathway Plans, and walk alongside our Care Leavers as a trusted, consistent professional in their lives.

Working in partnership with families, friends, and professionals across education, housing, and health, you will champion each young person’s ambitions and help remove barriers to success. You will maintain regular, purposeful contact, ensuring young people can fully access our local offer for Care Leavers. Alongside this, you will keep clear, accurate, and timely records and contribute to our duty support service as part of a committed Personal Advisor team.

About you

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

• Hold a minimum of an NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent in a relevant work area.
• Commit to working with young people from diverse backgrounds, who have diverse needs, promoting good outcomes for all our care leavers.
• Possess excellent organisational skills, strong personal resilience, and a passion for working with young people to improve their outcomes. You will work in partnership with other agencies involved with our young people.
• Have the ability to work collaboratively to achieve improved outcomes.
• Have strong interpersonal skills and enjoy working with a relationship-based practice approach.
• Have knowledge of the relevant legislation and policies that relate to care leavers.

Successful candidates must be willing to travel both around Cambridgeshire and to other locations across the country (traveling is essential to this role).

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

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We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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