About the role

This position qualifies for a market supplement payment of £200 per month. Please note this additional payment will be reviewed on 31 March 2024.

We are currently looking to recruit a permanent Senior Practitioner Social Worker to join the Integrated Triage and Assessment Team, Porth Gofal team. This post is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and committed member of staff to work in a multi-disciplinary environment which will support vulnerable individuals and their families within a hospital and community settings. 

Porth Gofal is the integrated decision making hub for Ceredigion that triages and determine the level of need of all cases and the best outcomes for those individuals. Porth Gofal is the heart of service provision that  focuses on ensuring that Citizens receive the intervention that is best placed to meet their needs or where else to guide them to early help or specialist services.

What Porth Gofal provides:

• A responsive service to Citizens living in Ceredigion
• Applies a Strength based needs assessment focusing on service user choice and control using the Signs of Safety framework
• A reduction in the time Social Care professionals spend in determining eligibility for statutory services
• Legislatively compliant service that meets the statutory requirements of the SSWBA
• A safe service that identifies vulnerable and at risk Citizens, that responds effectively

What Porth Gofal achieves:

• Provides information, advice and assistance about community health and social care services for adults that improves the connection between people and their communities
• Encourages a balanced approach to the assessment of need ensuring that citizens are at the centre of conversations, decisions and the “what matters” conversation takes place
• Multidisciplinary triaging of referrals to identify the right professional to respond e.g. physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist or Social care workers to ensure right response at the right time
• Provide more consistent, coordinated assessment for care and support
• Improve the flow of information between services, resulting in faster decisions being made about people’s needs and support
• Reduces hospital admissions by providing rapid wrap around reablement response service
• Provides an in-reach service to reduce delayed transfers of care by providing timely discharges from hospital
• A commitment to integrated working with a focus on positive rehabilitation outcomes for the citizens is essential

The ability to travel throughout the county is essential.

Must have 2 years post qualifying experience with experience of supervising staff.

A bilingual policy is in operation and candidates who do not have the linguistic ability in Welsh will be supported and encouraged to achieve the ALTE standard within 2 years.  

Should you wish require any further information about this role please contact Jackie Roberts on jackie.roberts@ceredigion.gov.uk or 01545 574 108.

Job Description and Person Specification

Note: We reserve the right to amend the application closing date.

Safeguarding and protecting adults at risk and children are key priorities for us. We aim to support adults at risk, children and young people to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We acknowledge their right to protection and will take action to safeguard their welfare. Each member of staff and volunteer is expected to share this commitment, and we will require an Enhanced Check by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly CRB before appointing to this post.