Young Person Adviser - Leaving Care Service

Young Person Adviser - Leaving Care Service

Are you passionate about helping care-experienced young people build confident, independent and successful futures? The London Borough of Bromley has an exciting opportunity for a Young Person Adviser (YPA) to join its Leaving Care Service, supporting care-experienced young people aged 18 to 25 as they make the important transition into adulthood.

As a YPA, you will be a consistent and trusted professional in a young person's life. Through regular visits and purposeful direct work, you will advise, befriend and assist care-experienced young people, helping them recognise their strengths, overcome barriers and work towards their aspirations. You will work alongside young people to develop and regularly review their Pathway Plans, ensuring that their wishes, needs and aspirations remain at the centre of the support they receive.

You will join a stable and well-resourced Leaving Care Service with access to co-located professionals, including a Mental Health Practitioner, Education, Training and Employment (ETE) workers and a Financial Wellbeing Adviser. The service also includes an active participation programme featuring two youth workers and a Care Leaver Ambassador, supporting the Care Leaver Forum and providing opportunities for young people to influence and contribute to the service.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and regularly reviewing high-quality Pathway Plans, keeping the young person's wishes, needs and aspirations central to all support
• Maintaining clear, accurate and timely case records, including visits, significant conversations, decisions and agreed actions
• Producing professional reports, written updates, emails and correspondence for reviews, meetings and panels
• Supporting young people with accommodation, education, employment and training, health, emotional wellbeing, finances, relationships and practical independent living skills
• Working effectively with colleagues and partner agencies, and contributing to group work and participation activities such as Supper Club, Young Parents' Group and Care Leaver Forum

There are also opportunities for career development within the service, including potential progression to Senior YPA and the possibility of considering social work training as part of longer-term professional development.

About you

The London Borough of Bromley is looking for someone who can combine compassion and relationship-based practice with professionalism, organisation and accountability. You may already have experience within social care, youth work, housing, education or another support setting, or you may have transferable skills that would enable you to develop successfully within the role.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be passionate about improving outcomes for care-experienced young people and believe in their strengths, aspirations and potential
• Be able to establish positive, respectful and purposeful professional relationships with young people
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise and accurate professional records
• Be confident using digital and electronic case-recording systems and comfortable with administrative responsibilities
• Be able to organise and prioritise a busy and varied workload, managing deadlines and following through on agreed actions
• Work effectively with colleagues and partner agencies, with a clear understanding of confidentiality and professional boundaries
• Be resilient, reflective, dependable and willing to learn

The London Borough of Bromley is committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, applications from people with disabilities are actively encouraged, and reasonable adjustments will be considered to support disability employment. The authority is also forces family friendly and part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award), welcoming applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

This post is subject to the completion of required recruitment and pre-employment checks, which will include an enhanced DBS check.

About Bromley

In Bromley we are consistently going above and beyond, enabling our children, young people, and their families to grow and flourish, being aspirational and building resilience for the future. We strive to create opportunities to be innovative and reflective within an organisation that nurtures relationships, always seeks feedback, and has self-confidence to listen and act.

Our vision is: by working together with children and their families and agency partners, we will ensure that every child in Bromley has the right help at the right time to keep them safe, and to meet their needs, so they achieve, thrive, and reach their full potential.

Our ‘Bromley Relationship Model’ is a model unique to our local authority based on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. We are looking for a social worker who is passionate about working with children and their families who will be able use their ability to form good relationships with families and professionals to bring about positive changes for children and young people. Our vision is at the heart of our model and is supported by our purpose, our aims, our social work behaviours, and our enablers.

Bromley Children’s Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of “Outstanding”

You can read Ofsted's report here

Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker

Dedicated time for reflective supervision

Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days

Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers

Two-week protected induction programme

Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker

Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance

The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme

Excellent training and career development pathway

Free Car Parkingat Bromley Civic Centre

The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance

Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas orthe outer southeast area

A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.

Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts

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