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Post title: Consultant Social Worker
Post number: SS.73004
Salary: £44,539-£45,495 per year

Directorate/department: Social Services

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Closing date: 11.59pm, 11 August 2023

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Swansea is an innovative waterfront city at the heart of the wider Swansea Bay City Region. From stunning coastal scenery to tranquil parks, from its thriving cultural scene to the best of modern city living, the city offers the best of all worlds.

Child and Family Swansea's purpose is doing what matters to make things better for children, young people and families.

We are looking to recruit a Consultant Social Worker with the knowledge and experience of working with developmental trauma. Experience of working with families within the care system and those supported by social care teams would be beneficial but not essential. The team is a trauma informed, attachment focussed team, who pride themselves on providing high quality, innovative and meaningful work with children, young people and the systems that support them. We aim to tailor interventions in a sequential and developmentally congruent way.

The role will include therapeutic work, consultation to social care staff, our Residential Care offer and the wider network supporting children and families. This post would be good fit for someone who is interested in working flexibly, creatively and innovatively to address the needs of children and young people.

Additionally, developing relationships with children and young people in need and their families and working as part of a team around the child working to help them recover and thrive. We also work in collaboration with partner agencies.

This is an opportune time to join our organisation as we have been remodelling our Family Support, Edge of Care, Supported Care Planning and Early help services to enable us to better meet the needs of families in Swansea. Ensuring families receive the right support at the right time, from the right place, and as early as possible, will ensure the best possible outcomes for children and families. This will enable statutory children's services to focus on those families with the most complex needs.

We are also in the process of re-designing our Therapy Offer at Swansea focussing on the development of a multi-skilled team with the capacity to focus on new areas of work and enhancing the therapy offer to both the children and families we support and the workforce.

This means you will be joining an expanding team of five full time therapists and a consultant Social Worker with skills including but not limited to family therapy, therapy, play therapy, dyadic developmental psychotherapy, integrative and creative counselling, therapeutic life story work and systemic family therapy. It is clinically led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and also has a Team Manager. We are also in the process of appointing 2 Specialist Practitioner Psychologist with a view to enhancing the overall clinical structure.

This means you will be joining a team of colleagues with a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills in supporting children with therapeutic interventions and those around the child to be as therapeutic as possible. This will provide you a great deal of multi-disciplinary input and support of your direct work whilst also providing you much opportunity to learn and develop your own practice in order to be able to benefit some of the most complex and vulnerable children in Swansea.

You will play a key part of the team around everyone child. As the service develops and we grow as practitioners we hope to expand the therapeutic opportunities via appropriate group work approaches and you will have the opportunity to partner with team members to grow and facilitate these excellent opportunities for young people and their recovery. You will also have a specific focus on our residential care offer, supporting the staff team to provide high quality, trauma informed care to the children and young people who are using that service.

At Swansea, we understand the need to nurture and support staff. From the excellent induction process when you join us and throughout your time with us we will support your work and career. The recently implemented workforce wellbeing strategy supports our focus on staff care. You will also benefit from experienced and supportive managers and a risk sensible culture.

We have a very clear vision in Swansea which is well understood by the current workforce, This supports building positive respectful relationships with families, listening to children, understanding what matters and ensuring they are involved in decisions that affect their lives is at the heart of what we do.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Rob Jenkins (ITS Manager) on 07810506142 or [email protected] or email Claire Bevan, Consultant Social Worker on [email protected].

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