Social Work Assistant – Disabilities Team (Adults)

1. Are you looking for the opportunity to work in the beautiful, peaceful countryside of West Wales and for a forward thinking local authority that provides good staff support?
2. We have an opportunity in Ceredigion to recruit into a Social Work Assistant post.
3. We offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible hours scheme, competitive annual leave allowance and a generous pension contribution scheme.

Reference: REQ105673

Are you looking for the opportunity to work in the beautiful, peaceful countryside of West Wales and for a forward thinking local authority that provides good staff support?

We have an opportunity in Ceredigion to recruit into a Social Work Assistant post to work with young people with disabilities and their families and there will also be opportunities to continue to support the young people into adulthood and to work with adults who require care and support as we develop a through age Disabilities Team in the Extended Support Service.

The Authority is committed to a strengths based approach using Signs of Safety and is in the process of transformation to a through-age and whole family model which offers greater flexibility to develop plans & services to meet needs. This model provides exciting opportunities for collaborative working between departments within the authority as well as with our partner agencies.

There will also be opportunities to specialise in the area of your choice.

We are seeking Individuals with a degree of fluency in the Welsh language, A successful applicant without the required Welsh language skills will be fully supported to reach the desired standard within 2yrs of appointment.

In exchange for your skills and commitment, we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible hours scheme, competitive annual leave allowance and a generous pension contribution scheme.

In addition, we are committed to developing our people and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role’s key areas of responsibility but in addition, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.

We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:

• Hybrid Working: Subject to certain conditions being met, you may choose to work from home or in an office location.
• Flexi-time: Hours may be worked within a defined bandwidth, Monday to Friday, subject to service needs.

Contract Type: 37 hours / Permanent

Location: Penmorfa, Aberaeron