View Vacancy -- Temporary Regional Workforce Engagement Officer – Careers in Social Care and Early Years and Childcare

Secondment Opportunity

Full time (37 hours) – location Rock Grounds Aberdare. Will be required to work across Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend County Borough Council areas

A 6-month temporary position to cover maternity leave is available in Cwm Taf Morgannwg’s highly successful Social Care Workforce Development services. You will be joining a dynamic staff group as we continue to meet the workforce needs of the social care and early years and childcare workforces across the statutory, voluntary and independent sector.

The key objectives of the role are to:

• Provide a regional point of contact for Social Care Wales to facilitate the effective roll-out of a national attraction, recruitment and retention campaign for social care, early years and childcare
• Provide a resource within the region to continually promote careers in social care, early years and childcare

You will be a member of a close working team and have a unique opportunity to work in a wide variety of settings within the organisations and partner agencies. In particular, there will be an expectation of raising a positive profile and clear career pathways of social care and early years and childcare within schools, colleges, higher education, the Department of Work and Pensions and with other key stakeholders.

You will be required to hold a recognised, relevant health and social care or early year’s qualification as specified in the Social Care Wales Qualification Framework and have three years’ experience of working in a social care/early years and childcare setting. You will also have experience of planning and implementing projects.

With a sound knowledge of current policy and practice in relation to children’s and adult services, you will also need excellent communication, networking and team working skills.

There may be an opportunity for this to be considered as a secondment for internal staff subject to management agreement.

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.

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, Reservists or Spouses and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.