Posted 14/05/2024
£26,104 per annum
Hours: 33 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term until 1st March 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Work Assistant to join our Early Intervention & Prevention Hub. The team has been reconfigured and developed following our recent review of social work.
You will be part of the Early Intervention and Prevention Hub, we support and provide services to adults who have experienced a change in their circumstances that has affected their usual abilities to live independently.
The team provides a short term response, which focuses on outcomes for individuals, maximising individual potential and minimising risk to independence, with an emphasis on choice and control.
Using a strengths-based approach you will facilitate the provision of information, advice and assistance and access to universal services. You will ensure equity of access to tailored short-term enabling care and support for adults affected by disability and ageing. This service focuses on ‘What matters’ to individuals and carers, maximising individual potential and minimising risk to independence, with an emphasis on voice and control.
Responsibilities will include:
In return we offer a supportive environment, regular supervision, appraisals, training and development opportunities.
The post will also provide experience and further knowledge if you are interested in applying for our social work trainee programme. Progression to the programme will be subject to line manager approval.
The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
Bridgend County Borough Council (Welsh: Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is the governing body for Bridgend County Borough, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.
Bridgend County Borough and Bridgend County Borough Council came into effect from 1 April 1996, following the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. Bridgend County Borough Council largely replaced Ogwr Borough Council, though St Brides Major, Ewenny and Wick were transferred from Ogwr to the Vale of Glamorgan.
In November 2014 the council voted to propose a merger with the neighbouring Vale of Glamorgan Council, though this was rejected by the Welsh Government's Public Services Minister, Leighton Andrews, as not meeting the criteria to be able to proceed.
Civic Offices,
Angel St,
Bridgend CF31 4WB.