Vale of Glamorgan Council
Social Worker - Family Support Team
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About Us
Do you want to deliver services for children that are flexible, focused on need and readily available when families need them?
We are now seeking a Social Worker to join our Family Support Team. You will help families in a purposeful way and manage risk confidently, working with families on a longer term plan. You will be involved in all aspects of work, including planning and review for children receiving care and support as well as those subject of a child protection plan, or until care proceedings conclude. Work in this team is about helping people work out what matters to them and then helping them achieve their goals.
This is an exciting time to join the Vale of Glamorgan Children and Young People Services as we have expanded our workforce to meet demand, and to ensure workloads are manageable so we can deliver meaningful, purposeful services.
Our workers say the Vale:
- Lets you be yourself
- Has approachable managers at all levels
- Cares about people
Support, warmth and opportunities to develop will be central to our offer to you.
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Understand what good practice looks like when supporting families
- Have experience in achieving excellent outcomes with children, young people, and their families
- Confidently manage risk and build strong relationships across multi-agency partners
- Demonstrate a commitment to relationship-based practice
In return, you will be part of an Authority that is:
- Resourceful and resilient
- Committed to improvement and open to new ideas
- Dedicated to maintaining manageable workloads, where you have time to effectively support children and their families.
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Benefits include:
- Regular supervision with a strong and committed extended management team
- Our own bespoke ‘Building on Strengths’ approach that allows workers the freedom to use their expertise to deliver practice in the most helpful way
- Hybrid working options
- Opportunity to request flexible working arrangements
- Excellent opportunities for personal and career development
- Health and Wellbeing Support including 24hr Helpline
- Childcare Support Scheme
About The Role
Pay Details:
- Grade 8, SCP 26 – 30 £37,280 - £40,777 (pro rata) + £5000 enhancement
- Grade 9, SCP 31 – 35 £41,777 - £46,142 p.a (pro rata) + £5000 enhancement
Salary on appointment will depend upon qualification and experience as determined by the appointing officer. There is no automatic progression from Grade 8 to Grade 9.
Hours of Work: 37 hours / Full time (mutually beneficial work patterns can be agreed)
Main Place of Work: Docks Office, Barry
DBS Check Required: Enhanced and Barred Children
Description:
To provide a social work service to children, young people and their families / carers, in line with the relevant legislation, guidance, regulations and national standards.
To work as part of a team, to undertake all activities involved in offering longer term support to children and families.
Work with partner agencies in order to maintain and develop relationships that ensure effective and timely support to children, young people and their families / carers.
About You
Workers in the Vale of Glamorgan are able to be kind, consistent and focused in their work with children, young people and families making a real difference to children and families when circumstances are challenging. Managers are readily available and staff wellbeing is a priority.
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You will need:
- To be a qualified and registered Social Worker with Social Care Wales.
- Experience of statutory social work with children, young people and their families.
- Knowledge of the principles of the Childrens Act 1989 and the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014.
- Experience of using the Wales Safeguarding Procedures.
- An ability to negotiate effectively.
- A commitment to partnership working.
Please see attached job description / person specification for further information.
Additional information
Relationships are central to our work, and we have altered our recruitment process to reflect this.
To apply please register your interest here:
https://forms.office.com/e/8LxVcj1cLW
We will then contact you for an informal chat to see if we might be a good match.
If after a chat we all want to proceed we will ask you to fill in a short form detailing your work history and references and then arrange an interview.
Alternatively for further information, please contact:
Amanda Penny/Emma-Jane Reynolds, Team Manager
01446 725202
Please see attached job description / person specification for further information.
DBS Check Required: Enhanced Children and Adults
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