Emma Richards

I have been a personal Advisor in the leaving care team for over two year. My main responsibilities have been to promote independence to care leaver.

• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of legislation and policy changes within the leaving care team.
• Promote the local offer and what entitlements care leavers have.
• Write clear and precise pathway plans. The pathway plans are written to the young person and have their input in them and there wishes and feelings
• To carry out at least eight weekly face to face visits with the young person.
• Complete individual risk assessments to make sure the young person and others are safe and risk management are in place.
• To attend all professionals meetings including PEPs, LAC reviews, CIC meetings.
• To multiply agency work to make sure the young person has all the support they require.
• To attend CATE Contextual safeguarding meetings.
• Keeping the young persons file up to date with all relevant information.
• To signpost young people to other agencies which maybe of help to them.
• Quickly learned and applied new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.

I worked in the contact team for one year. My main responsibilities included-

• Supervising family time with family and child who were in care.
• Taking detailed notes of interaction between all who was apart of the contact.
• To but in boundaries with the parents about things they could say and couldn't say in front of the child.
• To safeguard the child at all times.
• To completed individual risk assessments when I was supervising high risk contacts.
• To complete schedules for the families and foster cares so they knew when contact was.
• To work with multiply agencies and communicate concerns or positives interactions between child and family.
• To support the family assessment team and be a double up where needed.
• Carried out activities in line with work schedule.
• Communicated clearly with staff to enhance teamwork on production floor.

I started work at SACCS in 2009 as a residential care worker working with CSE children and children who had been subject to sexual abuse. Within my time I worked my way up to a senior care practitioner, where I work

• Carry our supervisions with staff members.
• Assisted the children to obtain and access community resources.
• Counselled the children through difficult times using approved and compassionate strategies.
• Established and maintained working relationships with children on trust and non-judgement.
• Offered practical daily living advice, including financial planning, housing support and legal guidance.
• Helped the children to gain ability to function independently in society.
• Highlighted additional support provisions to maximise child's growth opportunities.
• Adapted support where possible to increase service accessibility.
• Supported the girls in attended court to give evident against there perpetrator.
• Support the children to attend therapy and life story work.
• Attend worker safety meetings when attending the CSE girls on family time.
• Attend TAC meetings.
• To complete daily logs and paperwork on the children each day.