Personal Advisor
Children's Services

Health and Wellbeing

Safeguarding –provider services, children in care and care leavers

Personal Advisor

Ref: G5/OL-33072

Contract Type: Temporary to cover Maternity Leave

Grade: 5
Salary: £22,911 - £26,999 p.a. pro rata. Pay Award Pending 

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based:  Unit 12, Whitney Court, Southlink Business Park, Oldham, OL4 1DB

Closing date: 8 November 2019

Shortlisting date: 12 November 2019 
Interview date: 18 November 2019

Role overview 

 

Working within the council’s After Care Team, you will work with young people aged 16 25 years old who are or have been looked after or accommodated by the local authority in order to assist them to live an independent life.  You will be expected to work in an anti-oppressive way, ensuring that our young people have life opportunities and appropriate levels of support.

 

Key responsibilities

  • To carry out the responsibilities and duties for looked after children in line with the Leaving Care Act (2000) and the Children Act (1989) whilst acting as an advocate for young people.
  • To promote the involvement of young people in all aspects of service delivery and pathway planning and also develop and maintain relationships with young people who are or have been looked after.
  • To ensure files and records are accurately maintained, reflecting partnerships with families. In accordance with council policies and procedures. 
  • You will need to manage a caseload effectively, ensuring provision of written electronic records in line with the council’s systems.

Key Requirements

 

To succeed in this role you will need as a minimum:

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required to effectively advise and support our young people.
  • Excellent organisational skills will be needed and good report writing skills.
  • You must be able to travel to different sites across the borough and be able to work outside of normal office hours on occasion. This is an essential care user post.

Job Description and Person Specification.doc

About Us

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.  Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

 

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.  Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages Working for Oldham

 

For details of how we use your data please see out privacy notice: Privacy Notice


Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy. 

Oldham Right to Work in the UK.doc


 

 

 

Location
Whitney Court
Vacancy Description
 

Health and Wellbeing

Safeguarding –provider services, children in care and care leavers

Personal Advisor

Ref: G5/OL-33072

Contract Type: Temporary to cover Maternity Leave

Grade: 5
Salary: £22,911 - £26,999 p.a. pro rata. Pay Award Pending 

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based:  Unit 12, Whitney Court, Southlink Business Park, Oldham, OL4 1DB

Closing date: 8 November 2019

Shortlisting date: 12 November 2019 
Interview date: 18 November 2019

Role overview 

 

Working within the council’s After Care Team, you will work with young people aged 16 25 years old who are or have been looked after or accommodated by the local authority in order to assist them to live an independent life.  You will be expected to work in an anti-oppressive way, ensuring that our young people have life opportunities and appropriate levels of support.

 

Key responsibilities

  • To carry out the responsibilities and duties for looked after children in line with the Leaving Care Act (2000) and the Children Act (1989) whilst acting as an advocate for young people.
  • To promote the involvement of young people in all aspects of service delivery and pathway planning and also develop and maintain relationships with young people who are or have been looked after.
  • To ensure files and records are accurately maintained, reflecting partnerships with families. In accordance with council policies and procedures. 
  • You will need to manage a caseload effectively, ensuring provision of written electronic records in line with the council’s systems.

Key Requirements

 

To succeed in this role you will need as a minimum:

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required to effectively advise and support our young people.
  • Excellent organisational skills will be needed and good report writing skills.
  • You must be able to travel to different sites across the borough and be able to work outside of normal office hours on occasion. This is an essential care user post.

Job Description and Person Specification.doc

About Us

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.  Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

 

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.  Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages Working for Oldham

 

For details of how we use your data please see out privacy notice: Privacy Notice


Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy. 

Oldham Right to Work in the UK.doc