Job title:Childrens Services Worker
Salary:£24,309.07 per annum
Location:Barry
Contract/Hours:Permanent, Full-time – 37 hours per week
Benefits:
* 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
* Pension with up to 7%matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
* Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
* We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer
We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.
Find out more about Action for Children here:Action for Childrenand on X, LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.
About the Service
The Vale of Glamorgan Family Intervention Services in Barry provides professional intervention to families living within the Vale of Glamorgan who would benefitfrom support to make positive changes within their family life.
The age range of the children and young people is between 0 and 17 years old. We have found that the issues facing the parents/carers may include; mental health, substance misuse, trauma, DA, lack of parenting knowledge.
All of these issues can impact negatively on their children and young people and our skilled, compassionate and supportive staff provide a valuable intervention service.
About the role
As a Children’s Services Worker, you will be helping families with practical, hands on advice, guidance and role modelling, to enable parents to make positive changes to their daily parenting roles andhelping them create a stable and healthy home environment. Action for Children manage this team in partnership with Vale of Glamorgan Children and Young People Service.
The role operates similar to a trauma informed model, where our plans are carefully tailored to the individual and the trauma they have experienced in their lives.
The focus of your role is to empower service users to address various challenges and reduce escalations and breakdown in relationships. You’ll do this by providing hands-on support, and in some cases, you'll help make it possible for children to remain with their family.
How you’ll create brighter futures
* Building and maintaining a strong partnershipwith parents and carers
* Supporting parents with daily routines including cleaning routines, promoting self-care and infant care (0-3 years old)
* Planning and delivering complex and specialistinterventions on a 1:1 basis and in acommunity setting.
* Undertaking assessments of caseloads as well as reviewing and managing risks.
* Ensuresafeguarding practices are always in place.
* Flexibility to accompany young people when accessing community-based activities (e.g Swimming)
* Signposting parents to available resources for additional support as and when required
* Work with social workers, colleagues, other support service professionals and multi-agency networks to evaluate caseload needs and the progress that has been made
* Maintain accurate and up-to-date administration and caseload records, including reports of all interactions
Let’s talk about you
* NVQ in Health and Social care, playwork, early years or equivalent is Essential.
* Effective teamworking skills and experience of team group work and lone working in the community.
* Experience of working with Children, Young People and families within communities
* Ability to manage your own workload, administration and diary commitments
* Demonstrate an ability to communicate clearly and sensitivity when talking to families
* Good problem-solving skills and the ability to act and adapt accordingly to situations.
* Good time management skills and reliability.
* Understanding of Safeguarding and willingness to enhance learning and report matters in accordance with agreed procedures.
Good to know
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
For more information about our Childrens Services Worker role, please review our full job description by clickinghere.
If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones atrecruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.ukquoting reference 11601 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
Useful Documents:
* Action for Children employee benefits
* AfC Commitment Statement
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Teitl swydd:Gweithiwr Gwasanaethau Plant
Cyflog:£24,309.07 y flwyddyn
Lleoliad:Y Barri
Contract/Oriau:Parhaol, Llawn amser – 37 awr yr wythnos
Buddion:
* 29 diwrnod o wyliau blynyddol ynghyd â gwyliau banc ac opsiynau i brynu neu werthu absenoldeb
* Pecynnau mamolaeth, mabwysiadu a thadolaeth hyblyg.
* Pensiwn opsiynol, gyda hyd at 7% o gyfraniad y cyflogwr yn cynnwys yswiriant bwyd
* Porth disgownt staff a chymhwysedd Cerdyn Golau Glas gyda disgowntiau gan 15,000 o werthwyr cenedlaethol
* Rydym yn gyflogwr achrededig Cyflog Byw Go Iawn
Rydym yn un o'r elusennau plant mwyaf yn y DU ac rydym wedi bod yn gwneud gwahaniaeth i fywydau plant bregus y DU ers dros 150 o flynyddoedd.
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Ynglŷn â'r Gwasanaeth
Mae Gwasanaethau Ymyrraeth Teulu Bro Morgannwg yn y Barri yn darparu ymyrraeth broffesiynol i deuluoedd sy'n byw ym Mro Morgannwg a fyddai'n elwa o gymorth i wneud newidiadau cadarnhaol o fewn eu bywyd teuluol.
Mae ystod oedran y plant a'r bobl ifanc rhwng 0 a 17 oed. Rydym wedi canfod y gall y materion sy'n wynebu'r rhieni/gofalwyr gynnwys; iechyd meddwl, camddefnyddio sylweddau, trawma, DA, diffyg gwybodaeth rhianta.
Gall pob un o'r materion hyn effeithio'n negyddol ar eu plant a'u pobl ifanc ac mae ein staff medrus, tosturiol a chefnogol yn darparu gwasanaeth ymyrraeth werthfawr.
Ynglŷn â'r rôl
Fel Gweithiwr Gwasanaethau Plant, byddwch yn helpu teuluoedd â chyngor, arweiniad a modelu rôl ymarferol, er mwyn galluogi rhieni i wneud newidiadau cadarnhaol i'w rolau magu plant dyddiol a'u helpu i greu amgylchedd cartref sefydlog ac iach. Mae Gweithredu dros Blant yn rheoli'r tîm hwn mewn partneriaeth â Gwasanaeth Plant a Phobl Ifanc Bro Morgannwg.
Mae'r rôl yn gweithredu'n debyg i fodel sy'n ystyriol o drawma, lle mae ein cynlluniau wedi'u teilwra'n ofalus i'r unigolyn a'r trawma y maent wedi'i brofi yn eu bywydau.
Ffocws eich rôl yw grymuso defnyddwyr gwasanaeth i fynd i'r afael â heriau amrywiol a lleihau gwaethygu a chwalfa mewn perthnasoedd. Byddwch chi'n gwneud hyn drwy ddarparu cymorth ymarferol, ac mewn rhai achosion, byddwch chi'n helpu i'w gwneud hi'n bosibl i blant aros gyda'u teulu.
Sut byddwch yn helpu i greu dyfodol mwy disglair
* Adeiladu a chynnal partneriaeth gref â rhieni a gofalwyr
* Cynorthwyo rhieni â threfniadau dyddiol gan gynnwys trefniadau glanhau, hyrwyddo hunanofal a gofal babanod (0-3 oed)
* Cynllunio a chyflawni ymyriadau cymhleth ac arbenigol ar sail 1:1 ac mewn lleoliad cymunedol .
* Gweithio gyda gweithwyr cymdeithasol, cydweithwyr, gweithwyr proffesiynol gwasanaethau cymorth eraill a rhwydweithiau amlasiantaeth i werthuso anghenion llwyth achosion a'r cynnydd sydd wedi cael ei wneud
* Cynnal asesiadau o lwythi achosion yn ogystal ag adolygu a rheoli risgiau.
* Cynnal cofnodion gweinyddu a llwyth achosion cywir a chyfredol, gan gynnwys adroddiadau ar bob rhyngweithiad
* Sicrhau bod arferion diogelu ar waith bob amser.
* Hyblygrwydd i fynd gyda phobl ifanc wrth iddynt gymryd rhan mewn gweithgareddau cymunedol (e.e. Nofio)
* Cyfeirio rhieni at adnoddau sydd ar gael ar gyfer cymorth ychwanegol yn ôl yr angen
Gadewch i ni siarad amdanoch chi
* Mae NVQ mewn gofal Iechyd a Chymdeithasol, gwaith chwarae, blynyddoedd cynnar neu gyfatebol yn Hanfodol.
* Sgiliau gweithio mewn tîm effeithiol a phrofiad o waith grŵp tîm a gweithio ar eich pen eich hun yn y gymuned.
* Profiad o weithio gyda Phlant, Pobl Ifanc a theuluoedd o fewn cymunedau
* Y gallu i reoli eich llwyth gwaith, eich gweinyddiaeth a'ch ymrwymiadau dyddiadur eich hun
* Dealltwriaeth o Ddiogelu a pharodrwydd i wella dysgu ac adrodd ar faterion yn unol â gweithdrefnau y cytunwyd arnynt.
* Dangos y gallu i gyfathrebu'n glir a sensitifrwydd wrth siarad â theuluoedd
* Sgiliau datrys problemau da a'r gallu i weithredu ac addasu yn unol â sefyllfaoedd.
* Sgiliau rheoli amser da a dibynadwyedd.
Da i wybod
Sylwer na allwn gynnig nawdd ar gyfer y rôl hon.
I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am ein rôl Gweithiwr Gwasanaethau Plant, darllenwch ein disgrifiad swydd llawn drwy glicioyma.
Os, am unrhyw reswm, bydd angen cymorth â'ch cais arnoch chi cysylltwch â Scott Jones ynrecruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.ukgan ddyfynnu’r cyfeirnod 11601 a byddwn yn hapus i roi unrhyw gymorth sydd ei angen arnoch chi.
Amrywiaeth, cydraddoldeb a chynhwysiant
Yn Gweithredu dros Blant, rydym yn ymroddedig i feithrin gweithle amrywiol, cynhwysol a dilys. Rydym yn annog ceisiadau’n frwd gan ymgeiswyr Du, Asiaidd ac o Ethnigrwydd Lleiafrifol, ac ymgeiswyr anabl, am nad ydynt wedi eu cynrychioli’n ddigonol yn Gweithredu dros Blant. Rydym am gymryd camau pwrpasol a bwriadol i sicrhau cyfleoedd cyfartal i bob grŵp mewn cymdeithas ac i Gweithredu dros Blant.
Mae staff gwrywaidd yn cael eu tangynrychioli o fewn ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant. Hoffem annog mwy o ymgeiswyr gwrywaidd ar gyfer ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant.
Dogfennau Defnyddiol:
* Buddion Gweithwyr Gweithredu dros Blant
* Datganiad Ymrwymiad GdB
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