3 months contract with a local authority  

Job Purpose

• The post holder will lead on cases in consultation with their line manager and other unit members as part of the Unit Model, to ensure that care leaver’s Review Pathway Plans detail their needs assessment and outcomes to be achieved. Review Pathway Plans need to be carried out with the care leaver and any relevant professionals.
  

• To establish rapport and build respectful relationships with care leavers, their families and their support networks whilst undertaking Review Pathway Plans and co-ordinate support interventions ensuring that their views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately.
  
• Having obtained consent from the care leaver, to engage and communicate effectively with other agencies and include their professional views in plans for care leavers, working collaboratively and maintaining regular liaison in the best interests of care leavers.
  
• To work with care leavers in their accommodation or other settings on an agreed basis so as to monitor, assess risk and assist in the implementation of an agreed plan of support using evidenced-based methodologies and by offering practical help to enable care leavers to help themselves, and support them to develop their role as young parents or carers where relevant.
  
• To work independently, and when appropriate as the lead professional, make decisions about the tasks that need doing, taking responsibility for these decisions and their impact on the care leaver.
  

Essential Experience Required

• A good understanding of the context of child development in relation to parenting capacity, adolescence, family and environmental factors.
  
• A good capacity to assess and balance risk and protective factors in families and communities.
  
• Ability to create a rapport and build professional relationships with young people and families
  

Essential Qualification Required

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent child and family training.
  
• Relevant and substantial experience of direct work with children, young people and families.
  

Additional information to note

• A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at enhanced level is required.   
  

The role closes on 16^th April 2026, apply ASAP.