Care & Support Practitioner

Adult Services – Care and Support

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is pleased to offer an exciting Care & Support Practitioner position within Social Care Adult Services.

We want to ensure our services help people achieve their full potential. That means working with people to understand what matters to them and how we can help.

We are looking for a practitioner who is positive and enthusiastic and can work with individuals, families, and carers in line with the requirements and principles of the Social Services and Wellbeing Act (Wales) 2014, and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. We are seeking a practitioner who is able to put the person at the heart of their work.

The successful candidate will undertake assessments, draw up care plans with individuals and their carers, reviewing care and support needs. Working with individuals who live within challenging situations and complex needs, the ability to appropriately manage risk is essential. Carrying a varied case load, you will need to have a focus on a recovery model, balance risk against self-determination, and uphold the rights of the individual, with the ability to deliver quality services.

Working as part of a team, but able to also work autonomously, you will have excellent verbal and written skills and be computer literate. You will need to be organised, self-motivated and be able to prioritise competing demands on your time as well as being creative and resourceful and have a strong belief in empowering and enabling adults towards independence.

Professional development is encouraged and expected in RCT, and the Council has an excellent training department with varied opportunities to participate in training in line with the role of a care and support practitioner. Regular professional supervision is provided, and you will also have opportunity to become involved in peer group supervision.

It would be desirable to have previous experience of working in a care management role or social care within Adult Services, knowledge and understanding of working within adult health / social care and be conversant with all current legislation in Wales.

For further information and informal discussion please contact Georgia Evans - Team Practice & Performance Manager on 07557006390 / (01443) 444596.

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 Adult 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.

As part of the Council’s longer term objectives in relation to the Welsh language and its Workforce Planning Strategy, it is committed to a guaranteed interview scheme for Welsh-speakers of Level 3 and above. If you meet the essential criteria as identified in the person specification for the job and are a Welsh-speaker of Level 3 and above, you will be invited to interview if you choose to participate in the scheme.

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 ArmedForces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.