Post No. EDSCH02122.1 - Breakfast Club Assistant - Pentrepoeth Primary School
Pentrepeoth Primary School are looking to appoint a Breakfast Club Supervisor to commence work in September 2023.
We are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic and friendly individuals to help supervise the children during breakfast club
We are a growing school with 452 pupils in the currrent academic year, and this is a rewarding opportunity for individuals who are patient, understanding and possess a caring attitude and are looking to gain experience in a school environment.
The position is offered as follows:
Permanent
5 hours (term time only). The working hours will be 7.50am to 8.50am.
An awareness of assertive discipline strategies and a First Aid qualification would be an advantage, but are not essential as guidance, support and the relevant training will be provided.
These posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and are subject to a successful Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check.
We welcome applications for all our jobs in either Welsh or English. An application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Newport City Council is committed to working towards its workforce being more representative of the population that we serve and particularly welcomes applications from people from the minority ethnic communities represented (or living) in the city. Selection will be made on ability and skills to undertake the role.
Our values – Courageous, Positive and ResponsibleEin gwerthoedd – Dewr, Cadarnhaol, Cyfrifol
Post No. SSCF0231.17 - Social Worker - Family & Friends
Part Time - 18.5 Hours Per Week
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Newport's Family and Friends team as a part time assessing social worker. Your role will include assessing friends and family members who have put themselves forward to care for children who may be unable to remain with their birth parents. You will be responsible for completing regulation 26 assessments, viability assessments and full Connected Persons assessments.
You will therefore need to have excellent assessment skills and be able to carefully analyse potential carers abilities to meet the needs of specific children in both the short and long term. You will also need to have strong communication skills and be able to work to deadlines whilst producing high quality work which will be presented within the Court arena.
You will have the ability to engage with service users effectively, with a focus on the safety and wellbeing of children.You will be skilled in developing and sustaining effective multi-agency working in order to collate relevant information pertinant to your assessment.
You willl have an exciting opportunity to be involved in the development of the new team and will be highly motivated, focused on providing high quality, timely and effective assessments with carers and have good organisational and time management skills. You will be part of a highly supportive environment where you will receive regular supervision and have good access to training and development opportunities.
For this role you will be a practitioner with a professional social work qualification, DipSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent and deliver a quality service to meet the assessed needs of children and young people.
You must be registered with the Care Council for Wales.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (formerly CRB).
Post No. PR123 - Principal Planning Officer
AN EXCITING AND CHALLENGING OPPORTUNITY HAS ARISEN FOR A PRINCIPAL PLANNING OFFICER WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT SECTION.
Newport is a city on the rise and has ambitious growth and regeneration ambitions. Alongside this, the city is also home to beautiful countryside and numerous heritage assets providing a diverse environment to work in.
This is a key permanent, full time post responsible for dealing with major, controversial and high profile planning applications including those that form strategic regeneration initiatives for the city, those subject to Environmental Impact Assessments and those requiring highly complex negotiations relating to Section 106 contributions. Other duties include providing pre-application advice for such projects, dealing with significant enforcement cases, associated appeal work, deputising for the Area Team Manager, assisting in the supervision of the team and presenting reports both to delegated meetings and Planning Committee. The postholder will play a major role in the determination of development proposals which may have a significant bearing on the regeneration of the city of Newport as well as the performance and image of the development management service.
Candidates must hold a recognised qualification in Town Planning. Corporate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute would be an advantage. Substantial experience of dealing with a wide range of development management issues is essential. The planning service in Newport has a high workload and so you will also have experience of working under pressure.
An ability to drive and access sites for the purpose of undertaking site visits is desirable.
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Steve Williams (StephenJ.Williams@newport.gov.uk).
Post No. POSN002995 - Assistant ALN & Inclusion Officer
Fixed Term to Cover Maternity
The Education Department are seeking to appoint a skilled and experienced Assistant ALN Inclusion Officer to join the existing ALN Team on a fixed term basis for 12 months to cover the existing post-holder’s maternity leave.
The ALN Team manage a caseload of over 1300 pupils with Additional Learning Needs (ALN). This is a Statutory, public-facing team who cater for the educational needs of the City’s most vulnerable pupils as well as resolving a range of complex issues on a daily basis, alongside Local Authority (LA), School-based staff and wider stakeholders. This includes pupil specific queries, exclusions, existing and new school placements, delivering of training, provision mapping and development.
The ALN Team is an extremely busy and pressurised one with a statutory responsibility to individual pupils, their families and Schools. The work undertaken is of high risk to the Council. The successful candidate will have experience of working within a pressurised Additional Learning Needs (ALN)) environment with working knowledge of Education Law and regulations.
The post-holder will be required to manage a large individual caseload and be the primary contact for clusters of schools. The applicant will be responsible for writing legal documents in the form of Individual Development Plans (IDP’s) and conversion to IDP’s from previous Statements of SEN (SSEN), which details an individual pupil’s needs and the provision required to meet these, which will be subject to at least annual review.
The applicant will be required to undertake monitoring of individual pupil’s placements and provision, ensuring value for money and assessing their impact and outcomes for pupils placed. The post-holder will ensure robustmonitoring of the team’s Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and contribute to the on-going provision development and capacity building of ALN provision across the City.
The successful applicant will receive direct line management from the ALN Inclusion Officers and ALN Manager.
If you would like to discuss the post or require further information, please contact Nathan Kethro, ALN Manager or at nathan.kethro@newport.gov.uk
Post No. HP1030.1 - Senior Policy & Partnership Officer
Permanent and Fixed Term
We are seeking two motivated Senior Policy and Partnership Officers to join our team and help us drive forward our partnership approach to wellbeing and community safety. This is an exciting time with the development of a new wellbeing local delivery plan and a new community safety strategic needs assessment and strategy.
These roles work collaboratively across the council and with our partners, helping to drive our policy work and to design and deliver impactful wellbeing and community safety plans and strategies.
You must be willing to adapt and work independently but still be a critical part of the team and work closely with your colleagues, both internal and external, to ensure a focus on collaboration and policy development and implementation.
One post will be permanent with the other post offered on a fixed term until the end of December 2024 with potential option to extend. Both posts are on a hybrid basis with flexibility for full or part time available.
Closing Date – 23 June 2023Interviews – 3/4 July 2023
Post No. LEICY100001 - Early Years Training & Development Officer
Fixed Term
Newport City Council’s Early Years Team is seeking to appoint an Early Years Training and Development Officer who is a committed, highly motivated individual with excellent communication and IT skills and experience of working in workforce development. Knowledge of the challenges facing the Early Years workforce including health would be advantageous. The post is fixed term until March 2024 with a possibility of extending beyond this date.
Your duties will include: supporting the planning and implementation of a training program for the Flying Start and Childcare workforce. The post holder will form part of a team that will oversee the implementation of quality childcare provision in relation to Flying Start Expansion and Early Years Transformation work which will include liaising with training providers, developing a training schedule that meets the needs of all Early Years professionals, working with private sector childcare providers, and Local Authority employees.
An important part of your role will be to keep up to date with the childcare Qualification’s Framework for Wales as well as the mandatory requirements for workforce outlined by Care Inspectorate Wales in regulation. Contribution to monitoring and evaluation of data including assisting with the production of statutory assessments is required.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
If you are interested in this post and would like further information, please contact Emma Levy on: 07974203081.
Post No. SSCF0105 - Social Worker - Disabled Children's Team
Newport City Council Children’s Services are looking to recruit a passionate and enthusiastic Social Worker to join Newport's Disabled Children's Team.
This is a large and stable multi-disciplinary team which offers exciting opportunities to work collaboratively and innovatively to support the unique challenges faced by disabled children. The post is based at the state-of-the-art Serennu Children's Centre at High Cross, where you will work closely with health colleagues and the Sparkle charity.
You will have a passion for supporting disabled children and be focused on maximizing their developmental opportunities through taking responsibility for their long-term care planning. As a team we cover all aspects of social work including children with care and support needs, children on the Child Protection Register, children subject to Court proceedings, and children who are Looked After. You will have good assessment skills with a focus on the safety and wellbeing of disabled children while promoting their independence and their access to community services. You will have experience of, or an understanding of: the challenges faced by families with a disabled child; be skilled in developing and sustaining effective multi-agency working across a range of professional groups; and have the ability to communicate effectively with a range of people from professionals to non-verbal children.
Newport is a great place to live and work being a geographically small city with a diverse population of which 35,000 are children and young people. Newport is situated on the M4 corridor and is located between Bristol and Cardiff with excellent transport links further afield. Newport Social Services are proud to have dedicated staff who experience a supportive and positive learning environment. We have an innovative approach to meeting the needs of the community and work force through an effective Preventions service, a Safeguarding Hub, and our partnership arrangement with Barnardo's to deliver joint interventions to families as well as: comparatively low, stable, caseloads; regular individual supervision; and the opportunities for excellent career development and training opportunities.
In addition to generous annual leave, good pension scheme, comparative or higher pay than neighbouring authorities Newport City Council offers great benefits including:
* Child care vouchers* Vehicle allowances; Tax free bikes for work* Work life balance - flexible employment* Career development* Health and leisure (with discounts with various organisations to enable you to make choices about your health and lifestyle)* Employee Support Service (Care First)
For this role you will be a practitioner with a professional social work qualification, Social Work Degree, DipSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent and be registered with Social Care Wales (or able to transfer from a similarly recognised body).
Closing date: 26th June 2023Interview date: TBC
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
This post requires you to be registered with Social Care Wales (SCW).
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