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ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
Personal Adviser RBKC615301
Job Summary:
Salary range: £37,575 – £41,286 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 24th March 2024
About Us:
Play an instrumental part in helping young people live independently.
At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, we work collaboratively to help local residents achieve a great quality of life. From housing to healthcare, we collectively strive to adopt the most relevant and cutting-edge approaches to dealing with every person and every situation. We employ a variety of systemic interventions from a trauma informed perspective.
The Family Services team exists to provide an exemplary service to care leavers. Across a spectrum of ages, we take on full responsibility for young people between 18-25 to give them the best possible opportunities as they transition from care to independent living. Where you come in is making sure that this transition is smooth and successful.
The Role:
First and foremost, as a Care Leaver Personal Advisor, you’ll take a leading role in developing realistic pathway plans for young people. Through providing bespoke services that suit specific needs, your day-to-day will involve forming and maintaining relationships with care leavers. Your efforts will not only contribute to the development of our services but will allow for pathway plans to cover every aspect of an individuals life. On occasion you will participate and lead in group work.
With a focus on accommodation and independent living, you’ll manage a broad caseload and liaise with the wider Family and Children’s services and partner agencies where appropriate. Due to the sensitive nature of this role, you’ll need to participate in regular team meetings, be up to date with all relevant training materials and receive regular supervisory support from your manager.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
With relevant qualifications and experience working with children and care leavers, you’ll be aware of the responsibilities and challenges that surround vulnerable young people. Confident when working independently and autonomously, the range of environments and circumstances will also require you to be an excellent and supportive team player. You’ll have a firm understanding of the nuances between patterns of family life and when other carers and borough professionals can be brought into processes.
Calm and collected, it’s imperative that you’re able to work under pressure while exercising your authority. You will have excellent negotiation skills. Your ability to relate and communicate with children and young people go hand in hand with this essential and culturally sensitive role. Using your knowledge of child and adolescent development, you’ll refer to up-to-date legislation to compassionately and expertly create plans for all service users in your care.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s will not be considered for this role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email:
