Leaving Care Personal Advisor needed with Devon County Council based in Totnes
Start Date- ASAP
Contract End date- initially 3 months
Location - Totnes
Hours per week - 37 hours per week
Salary - £12.45 per hour
Description
- Mix of home and office based work
- Manage a caseload of Young People, 16-25
- Maintain monthly contact with young people, maintain reviews of Pathway Plans
- Promote relationships with carers and families
- Undertake interviews, observations and information gathering and to analyse, summarise and evaluate this information into an assessment of the Care leavers needs
- Ensure young people are aware of their entitlements and support them to manage their money, liaise with schools, colleagues and universities to increase educational attainments.
What is required?
- Experience of direct work with young people and their families
- Experience working with young people, families and carers, and identifying their needs
- Experience of implementing service plans on the basis of assessed needs
- Qualification in Children/Care work e.g. CQSW, NNEB, NVQ Level 3 in child or social care or youth work
If you are interested please call Jemma Molloy on 01772 208964 or email me your CV - jemma.molloy@servicecare.org.uk
If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.
The benefits of working with SCS;
- A specialist, dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact
- Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
- An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
- Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
- Payroll service twice a week.
- Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
- Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
- Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
- DBS disclosures provided via fast track online services free of charge.
