Preparing for Adulthood 14-25 Additional Needs Pathway Adviser

What will you be doing?

The Preparing for Adult Team (PFA) 14-25 Additional Needs Team play a key role in supporting the transfer from school to the next stage of a young person’s education, training or employment by working collaboratively with a range of professionals and providing careers, information, advice and guidance to support a young person into adulthood. 

Our Advisers also support the Local Authority with their statutory duties and functions for young people with SEND. As part of our role we will build strong partnerships with the Statutory Assessment Team (SAT) and provide vital sources of information as part of their post-16 consultation process. We also provide a clear indication of the pupils’ views and wishes. 

About you

We are committed to equal opportunity and the promotion of young people with additional needs. We will require you to understand and demonstrate your commitment to this. 

We also require you to have a good understanding and commitment for the safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults  

Extensive experience of multi-agency works with young people and their families.  

Knowledge of opportunities for post-16 learners with additional needs.  

Local knowledge of opportunities in education, employment and training.  

Self- disciplined good time management and prioritisation of workload. Ability to plan and complete tasks to meet the needs of the role.  

Ability to communicate through a range of media including report writing.  Must be able to use I.T systems/databases.  

Ability to work across Cambridgeshire on a regular basis.   

Willingness to travel to out of county specialist provision for Cambridgeshire students with EHCP reviews.  

Guidance or other relevant qualifications will be essential in this role

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers