Personal Advisor

We would love you to join our Step Ahead Service, working with and supporting our care experienced young people in Rochdale!

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Care Experienced Team to provide advice support and guidance to young people preparing to leave care. You will meet the responsibilities of the Local Authority for young people aged 16 years and over who have entitlement under the Children Leaving Care Act (2000). The Personal Advisor plays a key role in supporting young people with their transition to adulthood and assists them to live an independent life in their community.

Personal Advisors establish and maintain positive relationships with young people to support them to prepare for adulthood; working proactively with appropriate partner agencies to assess the individual’s needs and ensure young people have positive outcomes.

Additionally you will be delivering high quality support for young people, managing existing and future risks through assessment, and creating plans which ensure the individual needs of young people are appropriately considered. This will include assisting young people to engage with support services provided by both statutory and voluntary agencies, thus ensuring that the young person is appropriately supported and therefore able to contribute actively in the community.

The Personal Advisor holds a key role in providing advice and expertise to promote the service and represent the rights and needs of young people.

What we will do for you

We will provide you with a supportive and coaching environment, informed by our relational practice model.

You will have the full support of colleagues across children’s services, in an environment where we are all actively working to realise our ambition to provide services that are “good and beyond” for each child, young person and their family in our borough.

We want you to realise your ambition with us so that together we can make the biggest impact on improving outcomes for each and every young person.

Finally, nowhere else will you gain as much support and experience on the job, making us a sought-after place to work, so please get in touch and we look forward to reading your application form.

If you have any questions about the role please do not hesitate to contact Verity O’Farrell (01706 922363) as we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this position further with you.

To apply please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the number essential requirements of the person specification.

We suggest that when completing your supporting statement, you use the person specification criteria as headings then give a specific example.

Please ensure you anonymise your CV and supporting statement.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role