12-month contract with a local authority
Summary
* We are seeking to recruit two TESS Personal Advisors to join our Care Leavers and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) TESS team on a 12-month contract with a local authority. This role involves providing practical support and guidance to young people aged 16+ and care leavers who face emotional and relational challenges. You will be part of a team offering outreach support, befriending, social development, and facilitating access to community resources. A significant aspect of this role is supporting young people and care leavers/UASC at the TESS Drop-In provision, a support hub with a friendly, open-door approach. You will work alongside the therapeutic team to enhance emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships, fostering emotional stability and personal resilience.
Responsibilities
* Promote, support, and meet the health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people (0-25 years).
* Support children, young people, and care leavers in building resilience.
* Promote attachment security and placement stability for children in care.
* Foster connections, support networks, and healthy relationships for care leavers.
* Address the impact of developmental trauma.
* Provide interventions grounded in relationship-based and trauma-informed practice.
Qualifications
* Training and awareness in issues such as separation and loss, emotional, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental difficulties, mental health issues, and developmental trauma.
Experience
* Substantial experience working with children and young people up to the age of 21, and 25 if they are in higher education, in a voluntary or professional setting.
* Experience in interagency work with vulnerable, at-risk, homeless young people, or those who have been in care.
* Experience in directly assisting young people with caseload responsibility.
* Proven success in achieving outcomes for young people under supervision.
* Proficiency in writing emails, reports, case records, and other documents using electronic case recording systems and software like Word.
Additional Information
* Working hours: 36.50 hours per week.
* The role requires a DBS check.
* The application deadline is 16th September 2025; apply ASAP.