3 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
• The Reablement & Bridging Senior Care Officer plays a key role within the Community Reablement Team, supporting adults to regain or develop the skills needed for independent daily living following illness or a hospital stay.
• The post-holder will provide senior-level care for more complex cases, encourage strength-based independence, and ensure high-quality, person-centred practice.
• They will line-manage a team of Reablement Care Workers, provide supervision, maintain training standards, and ensure compliance with statutory duties, regulated service requirements and Cardiff Council policies.
• The role involves hybrid working, rota-based hours and delivering a high standard of care within a regulated setting.
Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):
• Line-manage a designated team of Reablement Care Workers, providing supervision, guidance, mentoring and support.
• Ensure training and compliance standards are maintained in line with CIW regulations, RISCA 2016, the Social Care (Wales) Act 2014 and Council policies.
• Monitor individual client cases, ensuring care plans remain appropriate and provide regular feedback to Team Leads and Assessors.
• Support more complex cases by delivering strength-based, person-centred care aimed at developing or re-establishing independence.
• Promote independence by empowering service users to make informed choices while ensuring safe risk management.
• Maintain accurate and compliant records for staff and service users.
• Collaborate with partner agencies, internal departments, health professionals and third sector organisations.
• Provide day-to-day problem-solving support to Reablement Care Workers, including overcoming technology or system barriers.
• Maintain required training levels and registration with Social Care Wales.
• Work in line with the Council’s safeguarding, health and safety and equality policies.
• Work flexibly across community locations, homes, County Hall and hybrid working arrangements as service needs demand.
Skills/Experience:
• Experience working with older people and/or adults with disabilities.
• Experience in a home care or community care setting.
• Proven experience of supervising or line-managing staff within a regulated care service.
• Ability to work to challenging timescales and prioritise tasks under pressure.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with vulnerable clients and multi-agency partners.
• Understanding of CIW standards, regulated services requirements and health and safety responsibilities.
• Ability to maintain high standards of record-keeping and case documentation.
• Strong problem-solving ability and mentoring skills.
• Computer literacy, including confidence using Office 365.
• Person-centred, strength-based and outcomes-focused practice approach.
• Good numerical skills.
Additional Information:
• Ability to work flexibly across rota requirements (7am–10pm).
• Hours: 37 per week, rota-based (any 5 days out of 7, between 7am–10pm)
• Location: County Hall / Community settings / Hybrid
• Staff Managed: 8–13 Reablement Care Workers
• Enhanced DBS is required for this role.