I am currently recruiting for a young persons advisor to work in Islington.

This role is initially for 3 months and requires applying candidates to have an enhanced DBS.

Primary job function:

To achieve good outcomes for children looked after and those leaving care, to significantly reduce the gaps in outcomes between them and those within the general population. This will be achieved by:

 Building effective relationships with the children, young people and their carers within your caseload, using a strengths based approach to achieve this.

 To have a thoughtful and relationship based approach, working collaboratively with professionals, carers and parents to ensure trauma informed care is provided, recognising the support needs of all placements, to promote stability and permanence for all children and young people.

 Being ambitious for every child to reach their potential in all aspects of their development including education, health and emotional wellbeing, from 0-25.

Duties:

1. To contribute to the developing culture of trauma informed practice that helps to improve the quality of relationships with children and young people, through Motivational Practice.

2. To deliver an efficient and effective leaving care service to young people that supports the outcomes of the The Children and Social Work Act 2017, Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000, and the Children Act 1989 in line with local and national policies.

3. To assess risk and devise multi-agency plans for young people, whilst working closely with their professional network, parents and/or carers.

4. Improve outcomes for children and young people by supporting them to come to terms with their losses, experience reparative parenting, establish meaningful relationships and by promoting their education, training and employment opportunities to enable them to lead fulfilling and successful lives.

5. To develop your skills as a practitioner through engaging with the support services available to you including training, working closely with the embedded clinicians, individual reflective and group supervision.

6. Work with the professional network to identify permanent placements for all young people at the earliest possible opportunity, ensuring that the right support is offered at the right time. The ultimate goal being to support our young people to secure independence as and when they are assessed to be ready to do so.

7. Use a relationship based approach to improve placement stability. To provide skilled support to the placement that enables young people to develop independence skills, and to provide creative support packages that equips them to achieve independence in a timely manner.

8. To work in partnership with the professional network to offer clear pathways and access to a range of universal, specialist and targeted services as and when required. To develop robust support packages for vulnerable young people including the provision of safeguards to prevent young people from falling between services.

9. Work closely with the professional network to ensure that young people are in the appropriate placement for their needs, and as far as possible that they are given the opportunity for family life.

10. Building and sustaining transformational relationships and meaningful direct work with young people, families, their carers' and professionals. Practitioners need the skills and capabilities to develop and sustain these relationships.

If you are interested in this role, please contact Andy at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208964 or email andrew.quinney@servicecare.org.uk