Personal Advisor

Role Responsibility

Personal Adviser .6 post

Location – Thistley Hill, Dover

Do you have what it takes to build positive and beneficial relationships with young individuals?

Would you like to improve the outcomes for care experienced young people?

Would you like to support young people to build bright and stable futures for themselves?

Would you like to spend every day at work knowing that you have made a difference in the lives of young people?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you

The 18+ Care Leavers Service is a growing service that provides support to the Local Authorities Care Leavers. Kent County Council is a large authority and so this service is based at two sites at either end of the county, at Thistley Hill in Dover and Worrall House in West Malling.

The 18+ Care Leavers Service require a Personal Adviser for one of its teams based in Dover to work with both Citizen and Asylum-Seeking Care leavers, to provide assistance, advice, encouragement and support to Care Leavers in their transition to Adulthood. This post is for 22.2 hours and you would need to manage a case load of young people to ensure they actively participate and contribute to their Pathway Planning process to enable them to move successfully into adulthood and independent living. The post embodies the Local Authorities commitment to Care leavers to act as their corporate parent to help them reach their potential.

Our care leavers come from a diverse range of backgrounds, so you’ll need to be flexible with your time and imaginative in your approach to help them achieve the best possible outcomes. You’ll need to be very organised and capable of balancing priorities, including the need to carefully record your work and provide good planning which reflects the aspirations of the young people you’ll be supporting. You’ll need to build close working relationships with colleagues in other agencies as part of a wider network and advocate on their behalf to ensure their needs are met. The Service was rated as “Good” at its last Ofsted inspection and is striving to be “Outstanding”. 

You will be well supported with regular 1:1 supervision, training, team practice and reflections meetings and working alongside colleagues who are passionate about what they do.  

It is essential that you can travel across a wide geographical area, both inside and outside of Kent in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day to support Care Leavers. This can be within Kent and Medway and on some occasions outside of Kent.  Being able to work flexibly is a requirement of the job, on some occasions you may need to work past your contracted hours to meet the needs of our care leavers. Overtime is not paid; however, you will receive your time back in lieu.

Before applying for this post, we are offering you the opportunity to speak to members of the team to hear more about the role, or to answer any specific questions you may have. We hope that this will help you to see if this is the right role for you.  One of our Senior Personal Advisors, Emma Ray will be happy to talk to you about the role any time after 17^th October. You can contact her on 03000 411372.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

Team Manager - Sharon Moodie by emailing Sharon.moodie@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.