22.5 hours per week
Bridgend County Borough Council offers a great opportunity to further your social work career. We want the best Placement Support Workers to join us in the Fostering Team where we work closely with foster carers and other professionals to ensure the best outcomes are achieved for our children and young people.
Bridgend Fostering is a well-established supportive and stable staff team who provide a range of foster care placements to children and young people who are looked after by Bridgend County Borough Council. In addition to providing Emergency, short term and long term foster care placements, we also operate specialist schemes such as Transitional Foster Carers and parent and child and family link.
Bridgend Fostering Team are part of the Cwm Taff Region and as part of our approach to recruiting additional foster carers we have developed a regional front door to ensure a timely response to any new enquiries. We are also excited to be part of the plans to develop an all Wales approach to the marketing and recruitment of foster carers in the future.
The Placement Support Worker in an integral part of the support that we offer to our foster carers and is a varied and rewarding role that can include support at a time of crisis, supporting carers who are the subject of a complaint, providing advice, assistance, consultation and training to foster carers who may have emerging issues which could result in them being unable to sustain their caring role and to monitor the success of any intervention, reporting back to the team manager or supervisor and associated workers to update on progress or when significant issues have been identified.
In 2020 Children’s Social Care launched the outcome focussed approach Social Work model which underpins all of our practice in Bridgend. All new staff will be provided with a suite of training that will support them to develop their practice in line with the principles of the model. We encourage applications from both experienced Social Workers and those in their first two years of service. In return you will receive a robust induction, regular supervision, additional support and mentoring where required. Our programme of support for newly qualified social workers won the ‘Developing a confident and sustainable workforce’ award in the 2018 Social Care Wales accolades. Additionally you will be able to further your career with both development and promotional opportunities.
We are a reflective organisation that continuously builds on its strengths and is committed to the principle that the most effective way of improving outcomes for all Children, Young People and Families is through the provision of accessible, universal services. Join us and you will work in a rewarding, learning environment where staff feel valued.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
Applicants should note that a criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) will be necessary for the successful applicant.
For further information on working as a Social Worker in Bridgend Fostering Team, please contact: Jo Lloyd-Jones (Joanna.lloyd-jones@bridgend.gov.uk)
Closing date 30th June 2021
Shortlisting 15th July 2021
Interviews 2nd August 2021
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