37 hours per week
This is an exciting time to join our West Integrated Cluster Network Teams. The Cluster Team work and support to develop a team around the person and their family or those important to them. The people we support can have long term complex challenges around their physical health; mental health and emotional well-being. We work with both older and younger adults, with the aim to provide a holistic support to allow individuals to live their lives as they wish to and ensure voice, choice, independence and control in their lives. The Teams consist of Social Workers, District Nurses, Occupational Therapists; Physiotherapists; Dietetics; Speech and Language Therapy; Pharmacy and Community Psychiatric Nursing. We work closely with G.P. surgeries and the third sector partner agencies to assess and support the needs of adults affected by long term complex and adverse conditions as well as their carers and families.
In this role, you will be working alongside the social work team. Supporting individuals in their recovery to address their mental health and/or substance misuse issues and achieve their outcomes.
This will include actively completing brief interventions with individuals to support them to remain independent, which may also involve direct work with carers.
You will work with individuals in a strengths-based, outcome focused way, focusing on ‘what matters’ and supporting individuals’ to identify their strengths and capabilities. Ensuring safety and reporting safeguarding issues is essential. The individual will monitor risks, participate in multi-disciplinary meetings, and collaborate with professionals on care plans.
The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
An Enhanced Children and Adults Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.
The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.
Closing Date: 26 August 2026
Shortlisting Date: week commencing 31 August 2026
Interview Date: week commencing 07 September 2026
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