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Practice Mentor - Effective Child Protection
£45,441 - £47,420 a year | Permanent
- Reference:
- 23-25772
- Job title:
- Practice Mentor - Effective Child Protection
- Directorate:
- Children and Supporting Families
- Service:
- Management Unit
- Closing date:
- 25/01/2024 10:00
- Job type/Hours:
- Permanent | 37 Hour
- Salary:
- £45,441 - £47,420 a year
- Pay Scale:
- PS5
- Location(s):
- Dolgellau
Details
Job Advertisement
Practice Mentor - Effective Child Protection
Salary: £45,441 - £47,420
Are you...
An experienced social worker?
• Looking for an opportunity to be creative and innovative in your work?
• Want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people?
• Want to contribute to the development of child protection in Gwynedd and beyond?
• Want to work through the medium of Welsh?
• An enthusiastic and positive person?
• Possess good people skills?
If your answer to the points above is 'yes', why not come and work with us?
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative project within the Council in the field of child protection. 'Effective Child Protection' is a practice model that is being developed in Gwynedd and and is being implemented in several other Local Authorities. A key part of the work is the role of the Practice Mentor.
As a Practice Mentor you will provide training and deliver practice mentoring interventions on a one to one basis and in groups. You will use established methods as well as develop new ways of working in this field of work. Practice Mentoring itself is an emerging field. It is a role that is developing nationally and this job is an opportunity to create, experiment and evaluate motivational and mentoring interventions in the field of social work.
You will be a practice champion in Gwynedd, in North Wales and beyond, offering training, supervision and support as other Authorities adopt this model of working.
The successful candidate will be expected to be registered as a Social Worker with the Care Council for Wales, with a good understanding of, and be experienced in the field of child protection and in developing their motivation and mentoring skills.
See the Information Pack – Find out more about the job and expectations in the Job Description and Personal Details.
Information about Effective Child Protection and the Risk Model is available on the web at the following sites:
Effective Child Protection in Gwynedd to keep children safe | Effective Child Protection
https://www.modelrisg.cymru/en
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually. (Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
For further information about this post please contact Dafydd Paul on 01286 679230
Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH Tel: 01286 679076 E-Mail: swyddi@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
CLOSING DATE: 25/01/2024
If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.
Person Specification
Personal attributes
Essential
•Pro-active and positive when pioneering and improving practice in the field of care
•Interest in promoting the development of individuals, teams and the organisation
•A passion to see Gwynedd Council excelling in the field of Children's services, and building further on the positive results of the recent inspection
•Willingness to work as part of a team to co-ordinate project efforts, with a focus on testing the effectiveness of the practice model to others.
•Willingness to develop skills, qualifications, knowledge and understanding of any field key to the success of the project (specialist, e.g. child protection, children's services; or general, e.g. mentoring, project, data analysis, Ffordd Gwynedd)
•Able to work on a level of professional influence in the field of child protection, with practitioners, leaders, managers and senior managers; locally, regionally and nationally.
Desirable
•A range of experience and skills that influence the development of individuals, teams and services, in order to choose the best approach for the influence and change task.
•Have contributed to the leadership and innovation in developing practice
Qualifications and relevant training
Essential
•Relevant Social Work qualification
•Training on the Well-being Act 2014 and the Child Protection Guidelines (2008)
Desirable
•Registered Social Worker (RSW)
•Training on the Risk Model
•Management training and/or qualification
•Training and/or a qualification in coaching and mentoring
•Training and/or qualification in training
Relevant experience
Essential
•Experience of working within the field of children’s services
Desirable
•Experience of working within the child protection field
•Experience of working with the Risk Model
•Experience of attending Child Protection Conferences and Core Groups
•Experience of supervising, mentoring or holding skills development workshops
•Experience of working in teams
•Experience of working within a project structure
•Experience of carrying out research or contributing to research projects
•Experience of managing in Children's Services
Skills and specialist knowledge
Essential
•A detailed understanding of the Child Protection Guidelines (2008) and other regulations
•Able to analyse and understand current practice intersections with the statutory expectations
•Able to work with individual practitioners and groups of practitioners in order to develop a professional practice in statutory social work.
Desirable
•Skills in using ‘Collaborative Conversations’ in the field of child protection
•Knowledge of risk assessment skills (of significant harm) by using the Risk Model
•Knowledge of the ‘Collaborative Conversations’ and/or 'Motivational Interviewing' communication field.
•Coaching or mentoring skills
•Skills in working in small groups to promote practice
•Skills in gathering data and analysing information about practice
•Communication and presentation skills for various audiences
Language requirements
Essential
Listening and Speaking - Higher Level
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.Able to give a pre-prepared presentation and respond to any comments and questions on it in Welsh or English.
Reading and Understanding - Higher Level
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.Able to gather information from various sources such as letters, reports, articles through the medium of Welsh and English in order to fulfil the post.
Writing - Higher Level
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).
Job Description
Purpose of the post
•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
•Ensure that children in Gwynedd are protected from harm
•Ensure that children in Gwynedd are protected in the most effective manner through transforming practice
•Realise the benefits of the 'Effective Child Protection' project for various shareholders and throughout the span of the project
•Be a practice champion for the 'Effective Child Protection' (ECP) project
•Steer and support the project to model transformation in the practice of child protection on a local level in the first instance
•Produce a model that has been trialled for the North Wales region's Head of Children's Departments and on behalf of the six counties in the region.
•Provide an evaluation that proves the value of the practice model for shareholders
•Develop products that could be introduced to other Authorities within the region, and then with the potential of rolling it out nationally.
Responsibility for functions
None
Main duties
Innovate and lead on practice:
•Provide intervention that is in-keeping and complies fully with the Child Protection Guidelines, legislation and other regulations; demonstrating an understanding and expertise in the field whilst innovating in practice.
•Provide a practice mentoring service for 'Effective Child Protection' (ECP) on an individual level with social workers, senior practitioners, team managers, child protection co-ordinator, senior managers within the Gwynedd Children's Services.
•Provide practice development sessions on 'Effective Child Protection' (ECP) for staff within the Children's Services including social workers, senior practitioners, team managers, child protection co-ordinator, senior managers within the Gwynedd Children's Services. This will be on an individual session basis, as well as group sessions.
•Provide an internal specialist advisory service for the Children’s Services on 'Collaborative Conversations'
•Provide an internal specialist advisory service for the Children’s Services on the Risk Model
•Provide an internal specialist advisory service for the Children’s Services on the 'Effective Child Protection' (ECP) model.
•Provide social work practice interventions in special circumstances to meet the needs of the innovation project, including chairing (if suitable), attending or observing Child Protection Conferences, core groups or professional meetings.
•Work in a manner that is in-keeping with the attributes of 'Effective Child Protection' (ECP) e.g. communicate co-operatively in order to model the change for staff.
Project:
•Work under the leadership of the Safeguarding and Quality Senior Manager as the Project Leader.
•Produce, co-produce, develop and refine project outputs in accordance with the Project Plan
•Provide information to users and shareholders on a local, regional and national level through various methods
•Provide, develop and produce project communication materials
•Provide, develop and produce project training materials
•Act as part of the Project Team, for the Project Plan
•Act in accordance with the principles of Ffordd Gwynedd
•Communicate effectively with internal and external experts in the field, advisers and trainers
•Commission research and evaluations, produce and analyse data and information in order to prove the model value
•Develop relevant skills for the project, for example mentoring skills
•Develop knowledge and an understanding of specialist fields for the project, e.g. collaborative communication
General
•Responsibility for self-development.
•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
•Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
•Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
•Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
•Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
•Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
