The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
We are highly ambitious to continue to improve outcomes for our children, including increasing numbers of children and young people in education, work and training, developing our expertise and practice in safeguarding young adults and ensuring good accommodation outcomes.
We are determined that all Looked After Children and Care Leavers are provided with the very best opportunities, support and pathways to successful independence.
The role:
Southwark Council is recruiting Personal Advisors to join us on our continuing improvement journey. This is an amazing opportunity for an amazing, passionate person to work with our young people.
Personal Advisors are key colleagues in Children’s services work, fulfilling a statutory function, working with care leavers (aged 18 to 25) to befriend, advise, assist and enable them through both providing practical support directly but also through mobilising multidisciplinary networks in the statutory and not for profit sectors.
Your primary aim will be to help our care leavers to make a successful transition to adulthood through practical and planned interventions.
About you:
The collaborative nature of the work requires excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills. A key part of the role is relationship building and timely written recording on file, at the latest by the next working day.
You must be organised and committed to working in partnership with our children and young people and determined to deliver the services they deserve. Together.
You will be passionate about making a positive difference to care leaver’s lives and will want to work with our young people to clearly and SMARTLY set out their goals in Pathway Plans and work with them to achieve their ambitions.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional details
Please note this post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at enhanced level.
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: 11/12/2022 at 23:59
Interview Date: 23/12/2022
Assessment Date: 09/01/2023
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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