Young Persons Advisor

🌟 Job Opportunity: Young Person’s Advisor – Care Leavers Service
📍 Durham Council | ⏳ 5-month fixed-term contract | 🕒 37 hours per week

About the Role
Durham Council is seeking a committed and enthusiastic Young Person’s Advisor (YPA) to join our Care Leavers Service on a temporary basis. 

The Care Leavers Team has recently been recognised as Outstanding by Ofsted. We pride ourselves on being a supportive and caring team, delivering high-quality, aspirational pathway planning for our young people. Our work is underpinned by relationship-based practice and a strong commitment to participation and empowerment.

Key Responsibilities
As a Young Person’s Advisor, you will:

• Work alongside care leavers to create and implement aspirational Pathway Plans.
• Support young people to achieve stability in housing, education, employment, and training.
• Promote positive emotional and physical wellbeing, ensuring access to relevant services.
• Help care leavers build supportive networks and relationships.
• Encourage structure, purpose, and independence in their day-to-day lives.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and partner agencies to achieve the best outcomes.

What We’re Looking For
✔ Experience of working directly with young people, ideally within a leaving care, social care, or youth support setting.
✔ Strong relationship-building skills and a commitment to young people’s participation.
✔ Knowledge of the challenges faced by care leavers and the support services available.
✔ Organised, empathetic, and resilient, with excellent communication skills.

What We Offer

• A supportive and welcoming team environment.
• The opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of young people.
• 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• Fixed-term contract (approx. 5 months).

📩 How to Apply
If you are passionate about supporting care leavers to achieve their goals and would like to join a dedicated and Outstanding team, we would love to hear from you. 

To express interest or request more information, please contact Emily @ Service Care Solutions on 01772 208964
or emily.bentley@servicecare.org.uk 

The benefits of working with Emily at Service Care Solutions:

• You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of the market
• We are a nationwide supplier of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities which means we have a wide variety of exclusive roles based all over the country
• We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
• We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a week
• At Service Care Solutions we also offer a £250 bonus for referrals! If you think you know someone who would be ideal for this role and they are placed in the job you will then receive £250 at the end of their probationary period.