Job Description

Working for Isle of Anglesey County Council

Anglesey is a great place to live and work. At Isle of Anglesey County Council we are committed to making life better for the people who live and work on the island. In order to achieve our priorities our employees are as ambitious as we are, take pride in their work, are innovative, professional, work in partnership and deliver to the highest standards.


Our aim is to create an Anglesey that is healthy and prosperous, where families can thrive.

Overall job purpose

The Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 places a duty on Local Authorities to provide a preventative approach to the delivery of wellbeing to its citizens. To enable us to improve our response to this duty; we are establishing a new team that will provide intensive and rapid support to families with the aim of strengthening resilience, preventing family breakdown and promoting change so that the family environment is a safe one.

The Resilient Families Team will aim to:

Work intensively with families to keep their children out of care. Work intensively with families for reunification within 8 weeks of the child becoming cared for. Work intensively with identified families for the reunification of their children who are currently in care and for whom a return home has been identified as

a long term permanency plan.

The Team will consist of professionals with the skills and experience of working directly with children who receive care and support, their parents and adults with complex health and social care needs. The team will work proactively and intensively with families to manage risk, respond calmly to crisis and through innovative ways, practical support and therapeutic skills, strengthen resilience, parenting capacity and reduce risk within families, to bring about improved outcomes for children and young people.

More information

Please see the job description for more information and for the Welsh language skills requirements for this post.



You're welcome to submit an application in the language of your choice. Applications submitted in Welsh or English will always be treated equally.



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Appointment subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS.

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Contact details

Name:

Dawn Hutchinson

Phone number:

01248 750057

Email:

dawnhutchinson@anglesey.gov.wales




Job Reference: CORP100399