Social Work Assistant

3 weeks ago

Aberaeron, United Kingdom Ceredigion County Council Full time

**Social Work Assistant - Integrated Triage & Assessment Services**:
**Closing date**: 05/12/2023**Reference**: REQ105095
- 29.6 hours / Temporary- 29,269 - 31,364 *- Penmorfa, Aberaeron- *All salary values are pro-rata.- About the roleWe are currently looking to recruit a temporary Social Work Assistant to join Porth Gofal Integrated Intake team, to work with individuals, families and professionals acting on their behalf. This is an exciting and varied role within the service where you will be the initial contact within Porth Gofal, responsible for discussing a person’s concerns, addressing those concerns by exploring options and providing information and advice on support that is available both within the community and wider area to enable citizens and family resilience, and where appropriate starting a proportionate assessment.

Porth Gofal is the integrated decision making hub for Ceredigion that triages and determines the level of need of all cases and the best outcomes for those individuals. Porth Gofal is the heart of service provision that focuses on ensuring that Citizens receive the intervention that is best placed to meet their needs or where else to guide them to early help or specialist services.

What Porth Gofal provides:

- A responsive service to Citizens living in Ceredigion
- Applies a Strength based needs assessment focusing on service user choice and control using the Signs of Safety framework
- A reduction in the time Social Care professionals spend in determining eligibility for statutory services
- Legislatively compliant service that meets the statutory requirements of the SSWBA
- A safe service that identifies vulnerable and at risk Citizens, that responds effectively

What Porth Gofal achieves:

- Provides information, advice and assistance about community health and social care services for adults that improves the connection between people and their communities
- Encourages a balanced approach to the assessment of need ensuring that citizens are at the centre of conversations, decisions and the “what matters” conversation takes place
- Multidisciplinary triaging of referrals to identify the right professional to respond e.g. physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist or Social care workers to ensure right response at the right time
- Provide more consistent, coordinated assessment for care and support
- Improve the flow of information between services, resulting in faster decisions being made about people’s needs and support
- Reduces hospital admissions. Provides an in-reach service to reduce delayed transfers of care by providing timely discharges from hospital

A commitment to integrated working with a focus on positive outcomes for the citizens is essential.

We are looking to recruit an individual with:

- Excellent communication (verbal and written)
- Ability to analyse the impact of presenting problems and their urgency
- Previous experience of working within a demanding environment

A bilingual policy is in operation.

Job Descrition and Person Specification

Get in touch

For further information and an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Janette Dixon on 01545 574213.

Note: We reserve the right to extend the closing date.
- What we offer- Work-life balance- Lifestyle savings scheme- Generous employer pension scheme- Cycle to work scheme- Learning and development- Where you'll work**Porth Gofal - Targeted Intervention Services**

We are at the core of Ceredigion’s through-age social care provision and we focus on ensuring that each individual receives the intervention that is best placed to meet their needs or, where necessary, guide them to early help or specialist services. Our functions include:

- Porth Gofal Intake and Triage Team
- Targeted Intervention Services
- Fostering Services
- Residential and Day Care Services
- Housing Services
- Integrated Community Equipment Stores
- Emergency Duty Team

More information regarding our teams can be found here.

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