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Trobwynt Practice Lead (Right Door)
£41,418 - £43,421 a year | Temporary 31/03/2027
- Reference:
- 24-26965-H2
- Job title:
- Trobwynt Practice Lead (Right Door)
- Directorate:
- Children and Supporting Families
- Service:
- Management Unit
- Closing date:
- 07/06/2024 10:00
- Job type/Hours:
- Temporary | 31/03/2027 | 37 Hour
- Salary:
- £41,418 - £43,421 a year
- Pay Scale:
- PS3
- Location(s):
- See Job Advertisement
Details
Job Advertisement
*PLEASE NOTE*
Cyngor Gwynedd is committed to being an inclusive employer, and to enhancing the diversity of the workforce.
Your application form will be assessed anonymously. Your title, name and email address will not be shared with the appointing panel for the purpose of shortlisting. You should carefully consider this when completing the further information section of the application form.
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack
Location: Caernarfon and Hybrid Working
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.
Children’s Commissioner’s report highlighted the need for transformation in the way services work together to support children and young people whose needs are not deemed severe enough to require specialist support but, who are experiencing emotional distress and/or displaying behaviours of concern.
We are looking to develop an additional service model, alongside the edge of care aspect of our service, to enhance our provision to meet some of the challenges described in the ‘No Wrong Door” report.
It is designed to be flexible and responsive to different levels of need, with each level providing intervention and support tailored to, and proportionate to the child or young person’s need, with a focus on providing timely help and preventing problems becoming more severe.
It’s all about families getting the right help at the right time and in a way that is right for them.
All services that have a role in mental health and wellbeing need to come together to work out how best to meet the need. These services can be from health, education, social services or the third sector. All have something to offer depending on a family’s circumstances.
The more services come together to listen to what families need, the more they can adapt how they work together to fill the gaps. Services offering extra help might focus on particular groups of children and young people, or on particular issues.
'No wrong door' helps establish what is working well in an area and what services are needed. It also prevents the frustration of waiting on a list to find it’s not the right service after all.
In a complex multi-agency network of services this is best achieved through a managed process characterised by good joint working, information sharing and mature partnerships. This post will therefore focus on a multidisciplinary approach and promoting interventions as if it were a single agency.
The Trobwynt Practice Lead would be integral to the implementation of this strategy and will be required to provide guidance, support and professional mentoring in order to influence change in culture from all partners, in order for the service to become fully integrated as well as multiagency collaboration. Trobwynt practice lead would directly manage key workers within the service to provide children with complex needs timely help and preventing problems becoming more severe. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who has an interest in developing a new aspect to our services, with good flexible working opportunities.
For further information or an informal discussion please contact: Gwenan Hughes 01286 679369 gwenanmedihughes@gwynedd.llyw.cymu OR Aled Gibbard 01286 679713 aledwyngibbard@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
For further information about this post please contact Aled Gibbard on
Interview date to be confirmed.
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: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 07/06/2024
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
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
Good interpersonal skills.
Ability to work in a non- oppressive manner.
Ability to lead (staff and project).
A firm commitment to social work values when working in partnership with children and their families.
Well informed and an interest in professional development and a desire to teach others.
Desirable
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Qualifications and relevant training
Essential
Relevant qualification in Social Work (DipSW, CQSW, CSS) or
A registered nurse, or
Probation Service Worker (Dip in Probation Service Studies), or
Qualified Teacher.
Evidence of relevant continuing professional developments.
3 years post qualifying experience.
“Every Social Worker ( or anyone who describes themselves as a Social Worker) should be registered with Social Care Wales. Cyngor Gwynedd will reimburse the annual registration fee to the Worker”.
Desirable
Practice Teaching Award, PQ1 or full PQ award.
Management qualification.
Relevant experience
Essential
Experience of supporting colleagues/students in the workplace.
Substantial experience on children’s services.
Experience of working with a range of partnership agencies.
Experience of working with complex cases , through both taking responsibility and sharing with others.
Significant experience of working under the Social Services and Wellbeing Act 2014 or have been involved in project/s associated with the legislation.
Desirable
Experience of managing staff/workloads.
Experience of working in other associated work fields.
Experience of work within other agencies
Experience or working on a regional level and contributing to national discussions.
Having presented training.
Skills and specialist knowledge
Essential
Substantial knowledge of the Social Services and Wellbeing Act (Wales) 2014
Thorough knowledge about children’s growth and development throughout the 0-18 age range.
An awareness of the effect of trauma and childhood experiences on children’s development.
A sound knowledge of the legal background which underpins social services for children.
An awareness of the Right Door agenda (deriving from the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ No Wrong Door report).
Ability to lead an inspire a team, and plan work effectively.
Ability to work under pressure and prioritise effectively.
Current Driving Licence.
Desirable
Ability to deliver training.
Chairing skills.
Language requirements
Listening and Speaking - Higher
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.
Reading and Understanding - Higher
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.
Writing - Higher
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.
•Provide active guidance and lead/change management to a workforce employed by Gwynedd Council to ensure that children and families in the area have access to the right person at the right time and receive the right support to enable them to continue to live their own lives.
•Lead on a specific work area within the team (Right Door work programme).
Responsibility for functions
•Allocate work and offer staff supervision.
•Authorise expenditure from the team budget.
Main duties
•Offer a service to children and families in accordance with a legislative framework, including allocating work and managing team members' workloads.
•Ensure that work is done in accordance with legislation, policy, guidance and accepted good practice that is relevant and lead on safeguarding issues within the team in accordance with statutory requirements and the council's policies and procedures.
•Contributing to the development of the Service and being accountable for performance monitoring (mainly responsible for the Department's response as part of developing the Right Door work programme) and contributing to the general development of the Service.
•Provide advice, guidance, support and professional mentoring to practitioners and develop professional practice within their teams and the service in general. Undertake some direct work with children, young people, families and carers and oversee the work done by the team in providing evidence based interventions and outcomes
•Ensure an effective duty rota for the service.
•Collaboration and coordination at a cross-departmental level and with other Professional agencies, independent and voluntary agencies operating in the field, including elements of commissioning work.
•Lead on a range of meetings and processes to ensure effective professional practice.
•Empowering staff to make decisions that they could defend.
• Practice in accordance with the Care Council for Wales Code of Practice for Social Care Workers
•Support and provide guidance to employees, which requires a high level of skill, assessment and analytical skills. This will include providing guidance on evidence-based policy, practice and interventions.
•Leading the Right Door programme within the team, acting as an active contact point for the development of this element of the Department's work.
•Performance and Development – Identifying staff strengths and areas of development through constant supervision and evaluation. Focus on improving performance through effective management and development and by measuring, monitoring and evaluating performance. Implement and develop business plans that reflect this. Contribute to, and develop a training programme for the team and other teams.
•Be prepared to respond to an emergency if necessary
•Undertake any other duty or responsibility as required by the Head of Service.
•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.
Special circumstances
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