FDAC Social worker G8

Job Category :Social Care – Qualified

Location :County Hall, Cardiff Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £31.98

Service Delivery:

 Establish a constructive and collaborative working relationship with a range of different service users considering their needs and rights.

 Undertake comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessments with families to identify the needs of the children, young people, and parents.

 Plan keyworker sessions in line with Intervention Plans to meet the needs of individual service users adhering to effective safeguarding practice.

 Work within a multi-disciplinary team (on an individual or group work basis) to deliver interventions to meet the identified needs of children, families, parents, and carers.

 Involve parents, carers, and families in planning, decision making and evaluation and promote the participation of children and young people.

 Deliver services in line with equal opportunities practices. Pay due and professional attention to issues of diversity.

 Contribute to evaluation of services to develop models of good practice.

 Maintain professional practice standards in line with established best social work practice.

 Comply with relevant policies and procedures e.g. Health and Safety policy.

 Provide reports including the Assessment of Parents for a variety of audiences including the Family Courts, Conferences, and Reviews.

 Liaise and work alongside staff from other agencies including the Courts and Local Authorities to ensure that assessments and planned interventions are effectively carried out.

 Actively participate in supervision, team meetings, briefings, and training events.

 Take responsibility for developing your own and others professional knowledge and skills.

 Any other duties that may be required commensurate with the grade and nature of the post.

 Social work qualification.

 Registration with Social Care Wales

 Substantial demonstrable experience working as a Social Worker in children and families’ social work.

 Experience of taking responsibility for case work planning, co-ordination, monitoring and review.

 Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team environment.

 Evidence of up-to-date knowledge of child protection best practice, research and legislation.

 Experience of undertaking family assessments including parenting assessments for Court.

 Evidence of ability to deliver appropriate programmes of direct work through keyworker sessions.

 Experience of working with families where substance and alcohol misuse is a factor.

 Evidence of effective written and verbal communication skills, including providing reports to courts and conferences.

 Experience of engaging with service users, involving them in planning, decision making and evaluation.

 Evidence of ability to work in an equal opportunity and anti-oppressive framework.

 Evidence of ability to effectively manage time, priorities, and resources.

 Evidence of IT skills at an intermediate level including use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Social Work Practitioner in the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Family Drug and Alcohol (FDAC) Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Work Practitioner for the Family Drug and Alcohol Specialist Team (FDAC), reporting to the Team Manager.

The FDAC Team is midway through a two-year pilot project and has excellent partnership relations with its stakeholders and the Family Court Judiciary. Thanks to the collaboration between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan Children’s Services has ensured development of this innovative way of working with families in the Court Process. The FDAC Team have received funding from the National Lottery Wales and are looking for a Social Work Practitioner who is committed to continuing to develop their learning and practice, as well as support the development of the FDAC Pilot in Wales at such an exciting time.

The post holder will form part of a multi-disciplinary specialist team, based in Cardiff Children’s Services, to work with families who have children subject to care proceedings being held in the Family Drug and Alcohol Court. FDAC provides a problem solving, therapeutic approach to care proceedings which aims to improve the outcomes for children by helping parents change the lifestyles that have put their children at risk of harm. It seeks to address the issues around substance misuse, domestic abuse, mental health, offending behaviour and relationships and parenting that has led the families in to Care Proceeding. The work addresses the trauma and the entrenched drivers and behaviours behind the issues giving rise to proceedings to achieve safer and more sustainable family reunification and ensure swifter placement with permanent carers when that reunification is not possible.