Personal Advisors, Care Leavers Service

We are further expanding our service and are recruiting Personal Advisors who will be supporting our care experienced young people as they transition into adulthood.  We are looking for applicants who share our passion for delivering the very best support to our care experienced young people in meet their aspirations and realising their full potential.

In this role you will:

Support young people to develop their independent living skills and to be successfully engaged in education, training and employment. Undertake regular visits and work collaboratively with young people and those supporting them within the framework of their pathway plan. Provide young person-focused support to ensure our care leavers achieve their ambitions and realise their highest potential. Work as part of a supportive team to provide a high quality service to all of our young people Our Care Leavers Service is one of the nation’s biggest and supports care experienced young adults in their transition from care to independence.

Our priority is to support and enable our care experienced young adults to realise their aspiration and ambition and have a sense of feeling cared for, cared about, and able to care for themselves. Championing their voice as corporate parents is central to all that we do and achieve with them.

Connections Count

At Birmingham Children's Trust our trust-wide practice model is Connections Count where relationships are pivotal in how we work.

Are you committed to a systemic, strength-based, relationship and solution-focused practice model? Can you contextualise the needs of care leavers through a trauma informed / adverse childhood experiences lens? Join us for an information briefing webinar to hear more about the role of the Personal Adviser in our service. Hear from a Personal Adviser about their job role,  a care experienced young person, and learn about how the Care Leavers Service works in Birmingham. The webinar will be about 40 mins.

Please contact careleaversbss@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk if you would like to attend.

The dates will be:

Tuesday 11th March 1pm 

Thursday 20th March 5pm

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

We actively deliver services that are culturally responsive to the needs of the children, parents and carers we work with to deliver equality, diversity and inclusivity in all we do.