Duties will include;

• To continue developing pathway plans with young people and other relevant professional staff and to review such plans as appropriate in line with the Leaving Care Act 2000
• To attend Social Services Department Planning and Review Meetings, as appropriate.
• To take responsibility for a given caseload of young people and to assist other young people who may not be allocated.
• To work with such young people in a young persons centred fashion, involving them at all times in planning and decision making, and seeking at all times to maximise each young persons potential.
• To ensure individual young people are fully informed and consulted about the service available to them, and that they are empowered and able to complain about the service if they so wish to.
• To work with young people across a range of Leaving Care issues:
  • Accessing and maintaining the most suitable housing options.
• Maximising young peoples income by assisting them to access both the State Benefit and Social Services financial system, and help and encourage them to budget their money.
  • Helping young people with their employment/training/further education options to liaise with Employability Officer.
  • Ensuring young people make use of their right to primary health care, give consideration to issues such as healthy eating and healthy living, have access to physical and sexual health promotional information, and are supported fully where issues such as drugs, alcohol and mental health become a significant issue and to refer them to mainstream services if required.
  • Encourage young people to access, re-access or develop an interest in social and leisure opportunities.
  • Individually supporting young people to help them talk through past issues, and gain confidence and self esteem to address current and future issues.
  • To directly assist the young people to gain the necessary skills to have a clean and tidy property.
  • Helping individual young people, as appropriate, to address their racial, cultural, religious and linguistic needs.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.