Reablement & Bridging Locality Team Lead

The Community Resource team Home Care (CRT) are part of Cardiff Council’s Independent Living and Community Care Service (ILS) and work in partnership with vulnerable adults to support them to live independently at home and connected to their communities.

CRT is a joint service provided by Cardiff Council and Cardiff and Vale University health board that aims to support adults, through therapy and/or home care, to recover or maintain their ability to live independently  service provides reablement care which aims to encourage and support people to learn or re-learn skills necessary for daily living, following a period of illness or after a stay in hospital.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cardiff’s CRT Home Care team.

You will work strategically supporting the Senior Management Team, utilising services from our internal and external partners to develop effective pathways to assist the citizens with their hospital discharge reablement care needs or to avoid hospital admissions.

You will work across Health, Social Care, third sector and Local Authority strengthening our partnership arrangements to deliver our corporate objectives to support service users with their reablement potential and assist them to live in their home independently.

You will also line manage a cohort of officers within CRT Home Care, in accordance with all regulations related to Domiciliary Social Care services, including: the Social Care and Wellbeing Act 2014, RISCA 2016, Cardiff Council policies, procedures, and all statutory duties.

We take the welfare of our staff seriously and we strive to deliver positive working arrangements that support our amazing workforce to feel respected and valued.

Cardiff Council also offers some great benefits for staff including:

• A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days per year to a maximum of 33 days per year after 5 years, with the option to purchase additional annual leave to a maximum of 10 days.
• Excellent training and development opportunities

We are looking for those with proven experience of line management in a regulated service and working with vulnerable adults in their own homes.

You will need to be able to demonstrate your ability to work to a preventative model focusing on strengths and outcomes to promote independence along with problem solving and decision-making skills.

You will have a QCF Level 4 or above in Health and Social Care or equivalent professional qualification.

You will have experience of working and communicating effectively with partner agencies in a range of departments within a local authority, health and third sector organisations.

You will need to have the ability to extract, analyse and report data to support the running of an effective and well managed service.

The ability to speak other languages, in particular Welsh, and Community Languages would be an advantage.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check.

This vacancy is suitable for post share.

This post has a requirement for registration with Social Care Wales.

Safeguarding and Child Protection are key priorities for the Council. We aim to support children and vulnerable adults to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. Our services and schools are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of all children and vulnerable adults, and will take action to safeguard their well-being, and acknowledge that children and vulnerable adults have a right to protection.

This is supported in the general ethos of the Council and all schools.

We welcome applications in both English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.

Job Category Social Services - Adults

Department Housing & Communities

Working Pattern/Contract Type Full Time Permanent