Senior Personal Advisor

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO2
Salary: £39,951 – £42,840 per annum
Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 12th May 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 20th May 2024
x2 Positions required

About Haringey

We are investing in creating a better borough for all our residents and bettering the lives of children and young people in Haringey is our first corporate priority. We are located in the north of the capital with a population of approximately 250,000 people and a growing population of 0-19-year-olds. We are a diverse and fast-changing borough and tomorrow’s leaders; artists and innovators are busy growing up here.
Haringey is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as we strive for excellence in all we do.
In short, we’re a council with high ambitions; a place to work that is full of energy and focus. Our teams have passion, integrity and commitment, and people join us, do so as they see Haringey is a learning organisation, and the people that work here strive for continuous improvement in their practice, aiming high to ensure we provide outstanding outcomes for our children.
We offer a great place to develop a career that is yours to own.

About the Role

We are currently recruiting for Senior Personal Advisors to join the Young Adults Service.  The Young Adults Service supports Care Experienced Young People aged 16 up to 25 and we are passionate about ensuring that our young people are supported to achieve to the very best of their abilities.
The Senior Personal Advisor will support a caseload of Care Leavers who have the most multiple and complex needs within the 18+ Care Leaver service adopting a multi-agency approach, working in partnership with care leavers, families and other statutory and third sector organisations, providing assistance, advice and support to care leavers, encouraging care leavers to actively participate in their Pathway Planning to transition successfully into adulthood and independence.
Further the Senior Personal Advisor will support the development of Personal Advisors within the Young Adults Service, the development of best practice, and partnerships between Young Adults Services and other statutory and third-party organisations.

About You

You will be passionate about working with care experienced young people and will have experiences of having worked with and supported young people aged 16 to 25 from different racial and cultural backgrounds to achieve their best outcomes.
You will have knowledge of the difficulties and range of issues faced by young people who are care experienced as they transition into adulthood.   You will have experience of building positive working relationships with young people and ability to empower and support using a person-centred approach.  You will have experience of supporting young people in distress and with a complexity of needs, and will be able to support in a professional manner.  You will be able to demonstrate maturity and resilience to cope with working in stressful and demanding situations.
You will have good written and verbal communication skills and will be able to engage with young people, colleagues and professionals from external agencies.  You will be able to work both as part of a team and independently.  You will have experience of completing and reviewing support plans.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.