Job Vacancies
- Youth Worker - Detached x5 - SYS-2654
- Location
- Various locations within Blaenau Gwent
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Grade 5 (£27,334 - 30, 296 Pro Rata) 9 hours per week (3 nights) evening work
This post is 9 hours a week (3 nights) evening work for initially a 6 month period
In this role, you will be part of a dedicated team that operates three nights a week across different locations in the Blaenau Gwent borough. Your primary responsibility will be to provide detached youth work support to young individuals aged 11-25. This entails building strong relationships with them, gaining a deeper understanding of their unique needs, and connecting them with other youth settings and services where necessary. You will also play a vital role in providing them with valuable information, support, and opportunities for personal growth. Ultimately, your work will empower these young people to actively contribute towards enhancing community cohesion in the area.
- Closing Date
- 03/10/2024
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- 31st March 2025
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Deputy Headteacher - Rhos Y Fedwen Primary School - SYS-2653
- Location
- Rhos Y Fedwen Primary School
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Leadership Range L5-L9 (£52,985-£58,488 per annum) - Full time
Rhos Y Fedwen Primary School is situated in the community of Rassau, on the outskirts of Ebbw Vale. The school has exceptional grounds and excellent resources. It is an open and friendly school with a dedicated staff, who work hard to create a positive, caring ethos.
The Governors are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative and inspirational Deputy Headteacher, who will hold ALNco responsibility, and is an outstanding practitioner committed to developing teaching and learning of the highest quality.
- Closing Date
- 03/10/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- to commence 1st January 2025
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- INTERNAL - Policy Officer - Equality - SYS-2652
- Location
- Home Worker
- Directorate
- Corporate Services
- Salary
- Grade 7 (£34,834 - £38,223 pro rata/per annum) - 18.5 hours per week
This is an internal advertisement, open to current employees of the Council only.
We are looking for a dedicated and knowledgeable professional to become our Policy Officer for Equality. You will collaborate with community groups, voluntary organisations, public sector partners, and the Welsh Government to ensure our policies and services support equality and combat discrimination. Additionally, you'll offer advice, guidance, and training on equality matters to staff and managers within the council.
- Closing Date
- 19/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- n/a
- Job Type
- Internal
- Full description
- Support Worker (Supporting Change Team) - SYS-2651
- Location
- Agile Worker
- Directorate
- Social Services
- Salary
- Grade 6 (£30,825 – £34,834 per annum) 37 hours per week
Opportunities have arisen for experienced Support Workers with proven experience of working with children, young people and families to work in the established Supporting Change team with the aim of: preventing children becoming Looked After, supporting children for whom rehabilitation has been identified as their permanence plan, contributing to assessments of potential for change and rehabilitation.
- Closing Date
- 26/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- 31/03/2027
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Senior Social Work Practitioner (IAA - Adults) - SYS-2650
- Location
- Agile Worker
- Directorate
- Social Services
- Salary
- Grade 9 (£42,403 – £46,464 per annum) 37 hours per week
Are you a social worker looking for an exciting new challenge?
Blaenau Gwent Prevention Services are looking to recruit a Social Work Lead to join their busy Information, Advice & Assistance Team (Adults). The team manages all new social care referrals into the department and works with individuals to identify outcomes and make plans for their future.
Primary duties for the post-holder (alongside the team manager) will include:
- Providing support, coaching and mentoring to enable front-facing staff to deliver team objectives/principles.
- Providing regular and meaningful supervisions – identifying opportunities for individual and team progression.
- Delivering training to the front-line workers when needed.
- Quality assuring and ‘countersigning’ assessments undertaken by staff without the necessary qualifications.
- Making decisions on referral outcomes based on assessment of risk and prioritization.
- Carrying a small caseload of their own but to also be an involved worker on the more comprehensive IAA referrals.
- Meeting regularly with practitioners in other teams to address any issues and to highlight areas of opportunity.
- Closing Date
- 19/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- N/A
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- INTERNAL - Team Leader - Supported Living / Learning Disability Accommodation - SYS-2649
- Location
- Service Based - Ty Lelog
- Directorate
- Social Services
- Salary
- Grade 6 (£30,825 - £34,834 per annum) 37 hours per week
Supported Living are looking for a Team Leader who will be required to lead and develop a small staff team, to provide support on a flexible basis to people with learning disabilities which will enable them to live a full and meaningful life.
This post is an internal advertisement, open to current employees of the Council only.
- Closing Date
- 19/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- N/A
- Job Type
- Internal
- Full description
- Social Worker (Locality Teams) - SYS-2645
- Location
- Agile Worker
- Directorate
- Social Services
- Salary
- Grade 8 (£38,223 to £42,403 per annum) 37 hours per week
We are therefore seeking creative and motivated social workers to join our Children’s Social Services’ department.
Principal responsibilities include assessment and care and support planning for children deemed to be in need of support, protection or in need of being looked after by the local authority. The locality teams work with children and their families from birth to 14 and our practice is driven by a focus on outcomes, strengths and confident risk management.
- Closing Date
- 26/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- N/A
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Engineer (Design - Mechanical Building Services) - SYS-2639
- Location
- Agile Worker
- Directorate
- Regeneration & Community Services
- Salary
- Grade 8 (£38,223 - £42,403 per annum) - 37 hours per week
A permanent position has arisen within the Regeneration and Community Services Division for an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join the Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering mechanical Design services for major architectural capital and refurbishment projects within the Authority and other joint working Partners.
- Closing Date
- 24/10/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- N/A
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Property Assets & Review Officer - SYS-2626
- Location
- Agile Worker
- Directorate
- Regeneration & Community Services
- Salary
- Grade 8 (£38,223 - £42,403 per annum) - 37 hours per week
We are currently offering an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Property Assets and Review Officer to work within an in-house team to provide support and development of the Council’s Corporate Asset Management Plan. You will be involved in a wide variety of work including reviewing property holdings, providing strategic property advice and providing support and information to grioups and organisations with an interest in Community Asset Transfer. In particular you will need to liaise with building users, client departments and ourtside agencies.
- Closing Date
- 19/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- n/a
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Deputy Headteacher - Abertillery 3-16 Learning Community - SYS-2606
- Location
- Abertillery 3-16 Learning Community
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Leadership Range - L27 - L31 (£90,980 - £100,343 per annum) - Full time
Are you a deputy headteacher or headteacher looking for your next exciting leadership opportunity? Do you want to work within a proud Welsh valley, changing lives and securing the futures of the next generation?
If you are a leader who wants to make real and long-lasting change to a community and its young people, then consider working with the headteacher at Abertillery Learning Community.
A vibrant, multi-campus 3-16 school with a committed staff and governing body welcomes applications from leaders with a passion for education and its power to transform lives.
The successful candidate will fill a key whole school strategic role, they will work shoulder to shoulder with the headteacher and be fully supported in finely tuning and enhancing their leadership of the educational journey for all pupils, from nursery to year eleven.
The governors are seeking to appoint a leader with vision who can embrace the whole school community and lead the school forward on its continued journey of improvement.
- Closing Date
- 26/09/2024
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- Appointment for Autumn Term (or as early as possible)
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
