Purpose of the post
•Provide a range of support interventions for children and their families within the Community, assisting the unit's manager to coordinate the work.
•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the centre of everything we do.
Responsibility for functions
•Staff Supervision
•Finance for children’s activities.
•Equipment and tools used to transport children in a car.
Main duties
•Coordinate the work allocated to staff from day to day, including intake of new referrals, allocate the work and keep records.
•Attend planning meetings as required, contributing to care plans to meet the service user's requirements.
•Act as a designated worker for some service users, leading on devising imaginative and innovative work programmes to assist the user to respond to the difficulties presented.
•Deputise in the absence of the Resources Manager.
•Assist with the management of cash and other elements of the budget in accordance with the Council's financial guidance.
•Offer regular supervision to staff members within the team.
•Work in accordance with the All Wales Child Protection Guidelines and the Children in Need Assessment Framework and their families, as a member of children and families teams in the three areas of Gwynedd, including the Looked After Children's Team.
•Promote and enable Children and their Families to live independently within the community.
•Promote and enable Children to reach their full potential, in a manner that promotes their well-being, health, development and safety.
•Promote personal choice, enable children and families to take meaningful decisions and give control to children and their families for decisions that impact them.
•Ensure that the service responds to the child's needs.
•Ensure consistency in provision and recognise the importance of the relationship between children, families and the provider.
•Assist and support families to continue to care for their children.
•When a child is received into the authority's care, work in partnership with the parents for the early return of the child back to their care.
•Reduce the risk to children and families by working as part of the multi-agency protection plan.
•Provide a supervised contact service between looked after children and their families as part of a court care plan.
•Prepare detailed reports on the contents of the contact between the children and their families and include the reports in the child's file.
•Attend team meetings and any other meetings as required and considered suitable by the Resources Manager.
•Receive regular supervision.
•Familiarise yourself with the Council’s policies, arrangements and guidelines relating to good practice and Health and Safety related issues.
•Attend training courses as instructed.
•Responsible for self-development.
•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety regulations in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
•Operate within the Council’s equal opportunities and equality policies.
•Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management standards and 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.
•Responsible for reporting any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.
Special circumstances
•Need to work flexible hours, over weekends and bank holidays as required. (Working 37 hours over 5 days a week).