View Vacancy -- Brokerage and Review Officer

Working to the requirements of the Children act 1989 and the Social Services and Well Being Act 2014, the Resilient Families Service is responsible for the delivery of effective Team Around the Family arrangements across the County Borough.

As part of the Resilient Families Service, it is the responsibility of the Assessment, Brokerage and Review Team to provide a timely response to referrals into the Resilient Families Service securing the positive engagement of families; undertake a proportionate resilience based assessment; create bespoke support plans from a suite of available interventions and; direct the delivery of high quality support from a range of providers. The Brokerage and Review Officer will undertake all plans for RFS and also reviews of those plans. They must have assessment experience of undertaking support plans with children and families, and a good knowledge of services available to support families.

The successful candidate must possess the Children and Young People level 3 in Health and Social Care (QCF) or predecessor NVQ Level 3 in Caring for Children and Young People or ability to achieve the QCF within 2 years of being allocated an assessor.

For further information, please contact Joanne Lewis or Lisa Lewis on (01443) 425006.

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 view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.