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.)
Purpose of the post
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- Helping vulnerable individuals to live their lives in the way they want to live.
- Assess the needs of adults and their carers in accordance with the requirements of the Social Care and Well-being Act 2014 and other relevant legislation and guidelines.
- Providing an Information, Advice and Support service to citizens to enable them to meet personal objectives.
- Helping people identify solutions, prevent dependency and promote independence.
- Providing information regarding the supportive resources available in the community, from the third sector, the Council and the Health Board in order to enable citizens to live as independently as possible and improve their quality of life.
- Ensuring that the needs of individuals are met in accordance with the Council's safeguarding arrangements and the statutory responsibilities.
Responsibility for functions
- Finance - Providing practical and appropriate advice and guidance to service users to facilitate effective financial management in the Service.
- Equipment - Responsibility for any specialist equipment used to carry out the job.
Main duties - Level 1 Newly Qualified Social Worker (General Duties)
- 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.
- Consolidate and develop the skills and knowledge gained through formal qualification through mentoring and guidance of experienced practitioners.
- Attend relevant first 3 years in practice workshops and complete the Consolidation Programme. Work with mentor to develop practice.
- Actively participate in regular reflective supervision and consult with your line manager and other experienced colleagues.
- Manage and be accountable for your own work.
- Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary and multi organisational teams, networks, and systems, with guidance from your line manager and other more experienced colleagues.
- Support and empower people to participate in decision making processes.
- Advocate with and on behalf of individuals, families, carers, groups and communities.
- Undertake strength-based assessments and outcome focussed assessment using a 'What Matters' conversation, under the guidance of your line manager or other experienced colleagues.
- Prepare, produce, implement, and evaluate plans with individuals, families, carers, groups, communities, and professional colleagues under guidance from your line manager or more experienced social workers.
- Identify, assess and investigate an Adult or Child at risk in accordance with relevant legislation and the Wales Safeguarding Procedures, guided by line manager or more experienced colleagues.
Level 2 - Social Worker and Level 3 - Lead Social Worker duties build on the Level 1 duties, with increasing responsibility for complex situations, and for Level 3 mentoring, supporting colleagues and acting as a role model for team colleagues.
Local duties include the IAA duty, assessing mental capacity in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act, arranging residential and nursing placements, supporting applications for Extra Care Housing, contributing to court cases and reports to the coroner, attending and contributing at safeguarding and team reflective meetings, and supporting students on placement.
Special circumstances
- Working unsocial hours occasionally as required.
- There will be an expectation for the post holder to be part of any arrangements that are established on a rota basis.
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
For further information about this post please contact Sandra Jones-Parry on 01766 510300 or via e-mail SandraJones-Parry@gwynedd.llyw.cymru