Posted by Service Care Solutions - Social Work • £14.45/hr
We are currently recruiting for a Personal Advisor to join the Leaving Care service in the Barnsley area.
Leaving Care - Barnsley
The main responsibility of this role is to work with care experienced young people aged between 16 and 25 to ensure that they are full equipped and prepared to navigate their way through to adulthood.
To use strengths-based approaches to assess, monitor and review the social care needs of service users and informal carers and find appropriate solutions and make appropriate referrals to external agencies within a preventative, enabling and rehabilitation framework and universal services in accordance with the Care Act eligibility criteria.
Take responsibility for managing casework with the supervision of a qualified senior practitioner within an outcome focussed approach and within the teams expected performance targets and outcomes, whilst promoting independence and assessing and managing risk.
To hold an individual caseload of varying degrees of complexity excluding casework that requires the expertise of a qualified professional.
Working with individual service users to provide support, advice, guidance, assistance, and counselling, with the aim of enhancing or protecting individual welfare.
Provision of Leaving Care Support Services via Pathway Assessment and Planning Process, including education, training, employment, accommodation, health, personal support, family and social relationships, practical skills and financial assistance.
Provision of services within the statutory requirements of the relevant childcare, mental health and community care legislation, in line with the requirements of the Council's policies and procedures.
To work with care leavers in their accommodation or other settings on an agreed basis so as to monitor, assess risk and assist in the implementation of an agreed plan of support using evidenced-based methodologies and by offering practical help to enable care leavers to help themselves, and support them to develop their role as young parents or carers where relevant.
Having obtained consent from the care leaver, to engage and communicate effectively with other agencies and include their professional views in plans for care leavers, working collaboratively and maintaining regular liaison in the best interests of care leavers.
To establish rapport and build respectful relationships with care leavers, their families and their support networks whilst undertaking Review Pathway Plans and co-ordinate support interventions ensuring that their views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately.
The Talent Crowd are recruiting for a Personal Advisor to join a Leaving Care Team in Manchester City Council.
The Leaving Care Service provides a statutory service to young people aged between 16-25 years who have been or are Looked After by Manchester City Council.
Duties include (but not exclusive to): personal care; assisting with mobility needs; medications (as appropriate to role); infection control; supporting residents with dementia, and end of life care; changing bed linen, sorting laundry, safe disposal of clinical waste, manage stock levels and equipment such as wheelchairs.
Delivery of day-to-day holistic care for residents and meeting their unique needs.
Working with volunteers, Wellbeing Coordinator and therapy teams to provide and encourage meaningful activities.