Social Care Professional

2 months ago


Powys, United Kingdom Powys County Council Full time

About the Role:

The Care and Support Team at Powys County Council focuses on providing a social work service to individual children and young people, ensuring their safety and enabling them to achieve their full potential. This involves working with children, young people, and their families where there has been a Social Work Assessment and where there have been identified needs for support and oversight by Children's Services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • To provide a social work service to individual children and young people, with a view to keeping them safe and enabling them to achieve their full potential.
  • To work as part of a team, undertaking tasks on a duty rotational basis, and providing cover for absent colleagues.
  • To foster and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and partners that enable the team to work effectively.
  • To identify risk issues in relation to the circumstances of individual children, and to ensure that there is safeguarding in place in order to minimize risk.

About You:

You will be able to provide appropriate support to children and families, using your enthusiasm and motivation to promote successful outcomes. You will be skilled and confident in your communication with others, able to sustain engagement with families in fluctuating circumstances, including where there is hostility and risk.

Requirements:

  • You will be creative in your work with children, adopting the use of tools to encourage them to share their wishes and feelings.
  • You will require a wide range of knowledge and skills to identify the full range of risks to children and help manage those risks, ensuring proportionate and timely intervention is provided.
  • You will need to adopt a strengths-based model of intervention and experience in using this model would be desirable.

What We Offer:

Powys County Council is committed to supporting the professional development and career progression of every team member. We offer a supportive and collaborative work environment, with opportunities for growth and development.



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