Principal Social Worker - Intensive Intervention

1. We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and professional individual working to join our service as Principal Social Worker.
2. You will ensure that service users and their families are provided with user-friendly written reports about their circumstances and plans for intervention.
3. You will benefit from an improved career pathway for Social Work professionals, and an employee reward package.

Work Type: Full time

Contractual hours: 37

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is pleased to offer Social Work positions within Social Care Services.

All our practitioners have the chance to influence the development of our work and are supported by a strong, experienced management team both at strategic and operational levels.

We recognise that social work is professionally and personally challenging and demands considerable levels of skill, commitment, and enthusiasm. We offer a dedicated in-house Learning and Development Centre which actively supports practitioners at each level to maintain their skills and Continuous Professional Development.

Our Social Care Departments have benefitted from comprehensive and significant investment in recent years, and we have responded to this by strengthening preventative services which aims to add capacity to the front line.  

You will benefit from an improved career pathway for Social Work professionals, and an employee reward package, which includes flexible working, Leisure for Life membership discount, and access to the Cycle to Work and the Let’s Connect technology purchase schemes.

Those starting a Social Work career will also be supported to attend our First Year in Practice peer support programme which aims to bridge the gap between qualifying and consolidating practice.

Benefits of Working for Rhondda Cynon Taf Council:

• Flexible Working Arrangements
• Excellent Career Development
• Excellent Pension Scheme with Employer Contributions
• Occupational Health support and advice
• Staff Rewards scheme
• Vectis Card shopping discounts

Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

In support of the Council’s voluntary pledge to support the Armed Forces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.

Responsiblilties:

• To build a professional relationship with service users and their families and to use that relationship to safeguard adults/children, promote positive outcomes;
• To communicate effectively with service users and their families, ensuring that their views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately, and plans reflects their views;
• To establish rapport and build a respectful, honest and trusted relationship with service users and their families, in order to identify and reduce risk in line with safeguarding procedures;
• To ensure that service users and their families are provided with user-friendly written reports about their circumstances and plans for intervention;
• To understand and respect the rights of service users;
• To support the completion of good quality assessments and the analysis of risk through the use of best practice guidance.