Purpose of the post
•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
•Provide an emergency response service to care crisis outside outside normal working hours for Gwynedd and
•Anglesey Councils
•Ensure children and adults at risk are protected from harm
Responsibility for functions
•Work equipment – mobile phone , laptop etc
Main duties
All duties below will be within the context and operating arrangements of an out of hours service
•Practice within the relevant legislative frameworks and guidance that underpin the provision of social services in
•Wales
•Apply the Code of Professional Practice as a registered professional
•Maintain up to date knowledge and maintain own professional development. Support colleagues with their
•development through mentoring.
•Develop social work practice through supervision and reflection. Support colleagues at different points in their
•career with ongoing reflection through individual or group reflective practice activity
•Manage and be accountable for your own work
•Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary and multi organisational teams, networks, and systems. Advising
•colleagues on complex areas of work.
•Exercise professional judgement and decision making in complex situations.
•Support colleagues at different points in their career to develop confidence around professional judgments.
•Manage complex ethical issues, dilemmas and conflicts in complex situations.
•Support social workers at different stages of their careers with managing more complex issues.
•Prepare and present professional reports and records ensuring information is correct, consistent, and shared
•safely and appropriately. Support social workers at different stages of their career with developing their report
•writing and record keeping skills .
•Support people to participate in decision making processes
•Advocate with and on behalf of, individuals, families, carers, groups and communities
•Work collaboratively with people in need of care and support, their carers and other professionals in complex
•situations , supporting support colleagues with advice and guidance at different stages in their career.
•Undertake strength-based assessments and practice in a way that promotes self-determination, independence
•and empowerment and support colleagues with advice and guidance at different stages in their career. Support
•social workers at different points in their career around this area of work.
•Undertake outcome focussed assessment using a ‘What Matters ‘conversation to identify what is important to
•that individual, eligible needs and to develop outcome focussed plans that facilitate care and support.
•Prepare, produce, implement, and evaluate plans with individuals, families, carers, groups, communities, and
•professional colleagues. Support social workers at different points in their career around this area of work.
•Identify, assess and investigate an Adult or Child at risk in accordance with relevant legislation and the Wales
•Safeguarding Procedures. Support social workers at different points in their careers with developing their skills
•and decision making around working in safeguarding.
•Be a role model and share good practice , advice and support to enable team colleagues, less experiences
•social workers to develop their careers. This will include mentoring, co-working on cases and supporting the
•services quality assurance be auditing and sampling files and practice and advising social worker colleagues on
•specialist areas of work .
Local Duties
•Commit to complete an Accredited Mental Health Proffesional Worker Programme (AMHP) and gain approval
•within 3 years fo appointment
•Due to out of hours nature of work the social worker is responsible of making decisions without the guidance of
•manager on a regular basis.
•Each situation will need to be assessed and prioritised according to level of risk
•Social workers work across adult and children services
Additional Duties
•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.
•Due to the nature of the work, it will be necessary to obtain a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and
•Barring Service (DBS).
Special circumstances
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