Overview
Reference: RA0005937
Description: About the Team
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of care experienced young people?
Do you have a background in youth work, advocacy, or first hand knowledge of care experienced young people?
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and dedicated individual to join our team as a Personal Advisor. We are looking for the right candidate to join us in empowering and supporting care experienced young people as they transition into adulthood and independence.
At Warwickshire County Council, we are committed to providing comprehensive support to care experienced young people aged 18-25. We aim to create opportunities for care experienced young people, helping them build fulfilling lives and achieve their goals and ensuring positive outcomes. We work closely with our young people, supporting them through all their unique needs and challenges, while fostering their personal growth and resilience. Find out why we are good Ofsted
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Find out more about Us and Our Offer to you
The Role
As a Personal Advisor, you will play a pivotal role in assisting care experienced young people on their journey to independence. You will provide holistic support, supporting them as a trusted mentor, advocate, and guide throughout their transition period into adult life. Your responsibilities will include:
Building meaningful relationships: Establishing a strong rapport with care experienced young people, earning their trust and respect while demonstrating empathy and understanding.
Creating individual pathway plans tailored to each young person’s needs, goals, and aspirations. Assisting them in developing life skills, accessing education, training, and employment opportunities, and promoting their overall well-being. You will also be responsible for ensuring that our young people are aware of and access all their entitlements through the local offer for care leavers.
Advocacy and representation: Championing the rights and needs of care experienced young people, advocating for their voices to be heard and influencing positive change.
Partnership working: Collaborating with a variety of partner agencies and organisations to ensure coordinated and seamless support for our young people.
Empowerment and resilience-building: There is the potential for facilitating workshops, training sessions, and group activities that enhance life skills, emotional well-being, and self-confidence among care experienced young people:
Key Requirements:
A background in youth work, advocacy, or a first hand understanding of care experienced young people, which will enable you to relate to their experiences and challenges they face. Read more in our Agile Working leaflet
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, allowing you to build strong relationships and engage effectively with a diverse range of individuals.
A compassionate and empathetic approach, coupled with the ability to provide non-judgmental support, guidance, and encouragement.
Strong organisational and time management abilities to ensure the efficient delivery of support services.
A positive and resilient mindset, with the ability to adapt to changing circumstances and where necessary go the extra mile for our young people. This is the difference you make.
Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, when/if required on occasions.
The role entails travelling both within Warwickshire and out of county, therefore regular access to a vehicle will be required.
If you are looking for a rewarding role within a high performing and settled team where you can make a meaningful impact and be a catalyst for positive change in the lives of care experienced young people, we want to hear from you! Join our passionate team and contribute to the personal and professional development of those who need it the most.
We also offer agile working, as well as hybrid working Children and families service – rewards and benefits – Warwickshire County Council.
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Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feelsvalued, included, safe, supported,andwelcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information:
Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
For an informal discussion about the position please contact Peter Berridge /Leanne McCormack, Team Manager on 02476754380.
Closing Date: 29 April 2024
As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification.
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contacthrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.ukand we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce.Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. Seemore
Region: Warwick
Location: Warwick
Salary: *GBP*28,770.00 – *GBP*31,364.00 per annum
Package: Fulltime, Permanent
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
