Your new role
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time Personal Advisor within a 1-year fixed term capacity.
Within this position, you will be required to provide in depth 1-1 intensive support to the most vulnerable young people, addressing barriers to ETE and enabling them to reach their full potential. These young people include those who have already dis-engaged, are persistent non-attendees, are young offenders and those that are Leaving Care. As well as those that are not undertaking any education or training post-16, who have learning difficulties or disabilities.
Within this post, you are required to be on-site 4 days a week.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this position you must have previously worked within front line services, preferably with young people, along with a qualification within social work, careers, education, equivalent to NVQ Level 4.You need to have the ability to relate to young people in a purposefully but responsive manner and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the needs of young people. Along with this, you must have experience of working collaboratively with partnering agencies and have some knowledge and understanding of children and young people who are open to social care.
What you'll get in return
Pension:
Southend-on-Sea City Council provide membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for employees aged under 75. The LGPS is a generous scheme and provides you with a future income, independent of share prices and stock market fluctuations.
Leave Entitlements:We offer our employees a generous leave entitlement from 25 days up to 32 days based on length of service (Continuous service). Southend-on-Sea City Council also offer a range of flexible working and family-friendly leave.
- We also offer paid time off to allow employees to undertake volunteering activities*
Here at Southend-on-Sea City Council we also offer our employees free access to a benefit portal that provides access to wellbeing support and a range of salary sacrifice schemes to help spread the cost of items, including:
- Bicycles, cars, electronics and gym membership.
- The portal also provides access to a range of discounts on products and services including retail, food shopping, travel, dining out and leisure activities.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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