Personal attributes
Essential
Positive attitude towards service users and co-workers
The ability to be creative and imaginative with children and families
Sensitivity
Flexibility
Commitment to working to promoting the welfare of the child.
The ability to work under pressure
Can work individually and as a member of a team
Enthusiasm to learn about and put into action a range of intervention methods
Desirable
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Qualifications and relevant training
Essential
5 GCSE’s grade C or above
Qualification in childhood studies or equivelent (eg Degree, NVQ 3, Diploma in welfare Studies, Child Development)
Desirable
Evidence of relevant personal development through in service training
Experience of working within the socal care sector.
Relevant experience
Essential
The ability and experience of working alone and as a member of a team.
The ability to communicate well.
Working in a creative and positive manner.
The ability to work under pressure.
Experience of working with children, young people families who present with a range of complex needs.
Being able to demonstrate an ability to create rapport and build effective relationships.
Knowledge of safeguarding, childcare legislation, local Child Protection Procedures, and an understanding of child development, parenting capacity and risk and protective factors.
Able to build reflective, supportive, and outcome-focused relationships with individuals from a diverse background.
Experience of planning work in a structured and efficient manner.
Attending and contributing to meetings.
Desirable
Experience of conducting or contributing towards, assessments, care planning and reviews with clients with complex needs.
Knowledge and experience of the support of special Guardians.
Knowledge and understanding of a range of evidence-based approaches including attachment and loss theory, relationship and strength based interventions.
Experience of giving analytical feedback on input and progress in cases
Skills and specialist knowledge
Essential
An awareness of the The Local Authority Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2018.
IT skills/ Social Media
Knowledge of children’s needs and child development in particular children who have suffered trauma, separation and loss.
Understanding and commitment to anti-discriminatory and anti oppressive practice
The ability to interpret and record events clearly and accurately
Clean, current driving licence
The ability to prepare quality reports in both English and Welsh
The ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
Evidence of multi-agency awareness and working in parnership
Maintaining supportive relationships with colleagues in social work and external agencies.
Ability to engage with looked after children and their foster carers and maintain relationships.
Collate appropriate information in order to make informed decisions regarding packages of support.
Understanding of the purpose of supervision.
Awareness of professional self-management
Desirable
Experience and knowledge in relation to interventions methods such as parenting, behaviour management, healthy lifestyles, mindfulness.
Experience in marketing.
Language requirements
Listening and Speaking - Intermediate
Able to maintain a fluent conversation on a number of various everyday subjects, and discuss cases involving the field of work.
Reading and Understanding - Intermediate
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.
Writing - Intermediate
Able to write letters for a specific purpose, e-mails and short reports in Welsh and English, using vocabulary and simple phrases that are familiar to the field of work. (They will need to be checked before being sent out).