Leaving Care Worker (G7)
Job Category: Childrens Services
Hours per week: 7.50
Location: Newark Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5YD, Lincolnshire County Council
Pay: £27.33 per hour
Min 2 days in the office, 3 days on visits or home working
Must be able to drive and have access to a car. Some national travel and overnight stays may be required.
Job Description
To be a key pivotal point of contact and coordination of support for young people who are leaving care. The worker will be responsible for providing a flexible and reliable connection to our young people. The leaving care worker is key in coordinating the plans we make, and will lead on bringing together the resources available from other agencies to ensure that young people transition to adulthood in a safe and healthy manner. This role will involve direct work with young people, as well as working with their network of peers and family, to ensure they achieve outcomes in line with their individual plans, and the Councils Children in Care and Care Leavers Strategy.
To support and challenge agencies, families, and young people’s wider relationships to bring about lasting change to help drive improved outcomes for care leavers. If young people choose not to work with the service, and are considered harder to reach, then it is the role of the worker to utilise their skills to foster a connection to the young person and bring together the right agencies and opportunities to enhance the life chances and outcomes for care leavers.
To support young people 16 to 25, to move successfully through life, secure education, training, employment, access stable accommodation, and to progress into adulthood as a happy and healthy adult.
The leaving care offer spans children and adult services from 16 to 25 years old, so this job will require staff to have a knowledge of both arenas. Staff will need to be able to help people access support and services to aid social development and deliver direct targeted interventions and support to young people who may be at elevated levels of risk. For example, they may be at risk of engaging in anti-social behaviour, risk of losing employment, accommodation, or experiencing poor mental health.
The role will also be required to work as a team to provide a duty service to support young people who may be in crisis and to ensure support is available via the duty service to meet needs and offer information advice and guidance.
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