SOCIAL WORKER in our Pre-Birth Team job at London Full Time

The Pre-Birth Team is a small, specialist team that has developed since 2017 with the main aim to ensure appropriate planning during the pre-birth stage.

Our Pre-Birth Team sits within Intake & Assessment. Intake and Assessment is a fast paced and exciting team. Due to Cardiff’s demography the work is diverse and progressive.

Practitioners hold cases for a short period of time; long term work is generally transferred at the first planning meeting.

About the job

Due to the nature and complexity of the work, you would carry a caseload between 10-15 cases and work with the families until point of transfer following birth.

This team provides:

• intensive planned intervention, assessment, and support during pregnancy to parents where support needs and/ or risks have been identified, the key requirement for a referral to the team, being that there are no children in the care of parents so this means that parents may have older children who have been removed from their care.

The aim of the team is:

• to assess, provide support, safety plan and risk manage the safeguarding needs of the unborn baby including initiating care proceedings.

The team work closely with Midwifery and other partner agencies to ensure a coordinated approach and there is ample opportunity for multi-agency working.

What We Are Looking For From You

The successful candidate will be & have:

• experience of assessment, care planning, person centre planning and care management skills working actively with all partners to identify and meet individuals care support needs.

• need to have managed a complex caseload including Court work.

• a degree in Social Work (or equivalent) is essential for this role, as well as

• excellent skills in assessment and the ability to write concise records and reports.

• will be a good team player,

• have excellent communication and organisation skills and

• have IT skills.

Mae’r Tîm Cyn Genedigaeth yn dîm bach, arbenigol sydd wedi datblygu ers 2017 gyda’r prif nod o sicrhau cynllunio priodol yn ystod y cyfnod cyn geni.

Mae ein Tîm Cyn Genedigaeth o fewn yr adran Derbyn ac Asesu. Mae Derbyn ac Asesu yn dîm sy’n gweithio’n gyflym mewn amgylchedd cyffrous. Oherwydd demograffeg Caerdydd, mae’r gwaith yn amrywiol ac yn flaengar.

Mae ymarferwyr yn cadw achosion am gyfnod byr; yn gyffredinol, trosglwyddir gwaith hirdymor yn y cyfarfod cynllunio cyntaf.

Am Y Swydd

Oherwydd natur a chymhlethdod y gwaith, bydd gennych lwyth achosion o rhwng 10-15 achos ac yn gweithio gyda’r teuluoedd tan y pwynt trosglwyddo ar ôl geni.

Mae’r tîm hwn yn darparu:

• ymyriadau, asesiadau a chymorth dwys wedi ei gynllunio yn ystod beichiogrwydd, i rieni pan fo anghenion cymorth a/neu risgiau wedi cael eu nodi. Y gofyniad allweddol ar gyfer atgyfeirio i’r tîm yw nad oes unrhyw blant yng ngofal y rhieni, felly mae hyn yn golygu y gallai fod yna blant hyn sydd wedi cael eu cymryd o ofal y rhieni.

Nod y tîm yw:

• asesu, cynnig cymorth, creu cynllun diogelwch a rheoli risg o ran anghenion diogelu’r babi sydd heb ei eni gan gynnwys dechrau achosion gofal.

Mae’r tîm yn gweithio’n agos gyda’r adran Bydwreigiaeth ac asiantaethau partner eraill i sicrhau dull cydgysylltiedig ac mae digon o gyfle ar gyfer gwaith amlasiantaethol.

Beth Rydym Ei Eisiau Gennych

Bydd yr ymgeisydd llwyddiannus yn meddu ar:

• brofiad o asesu, cynllunio gofal, cynllunio â ffocws ar y person a hyrwyddo sgiliau rheoli gofal, gan weithio gyda’r holl bartneriaid i nodi a diwallu anghenion cymorth gofal unigolion.
• profiad o reoli llwyth achosion cymhleth gan gynnwys gwaith Llys.
• gradd mewn Gwaith Cymdeithasol (neu gyfwerth) yn hanfodol ar gyfer y rôl hon, yn ogystal â
• sgiliau asesu ardderchog, gyda’r gallu i ysgrifennu cofnodion ac adroddiadau cryno.
• yn aelod da o dîm hefyd,
• ac yn meddu ar sgiliau cyfathrebu a threfnu rhagorol, yn ogystal â
• sgiliau TG.