Combined Role Profile

Grade Profile - Technical/Professional - (Grade 8/9)
Applies to all technical/professional posts at Grade 8/9

Purpose
Technical specialists who are highly experienced practitioners within a professional area (e.g. Legal, Engineering, HR, Social Work). As entrant levels to professional disciplines, they have a workload requiring the application of both applied and theoretical knowledge.	
Scope of Work	
Roles are typically reactive and working within clearly established service and professional
guidelines. Roles will need to apply judgment and analysis to identify alternative solutions to a variety of routine situations. They will need to be proficient in delivering all routine aspects of the job but will increasingly be involved in non-routine work e.g. supporting less experienced staff or taking part in project work with more senior members of staff.  Communication skills are important as role holders will be interacting with internal and external customers regularly.	
Accountabilities/Responsibilities	
The following are a range of duties that are appropriate to this grade. The Operational Context Form will specify duties appropriate for the role.

•	Select appropriate procedures to independently carry out more complex technical tasks of an increasingly higher risk nature (e.g. designs, inspections, assessments, analyses) to produce the required technical output (e.g. identification of customer needs, implementation of routine service processes).
•	Undertake specialised technical and analytical support activities to assist professional
colleagues in delivering more complex services.
•	Collate and analyse technical data from a variety of sources and interpret findings for review by more senior colleagues.  May include producing ad hoc reports or project work.
•	Provide information, advice and guidance to customers by interpreting established
procedures, using technical experience, and by applying best practice within the field.
•	Provide on the job training, mentoring and guidance to less experienced members of staff to ensure they are able to develop the necessary skills to deliver in their role.
•	Regularly communicate with other agencies and service providers to share information,
build working relationships and to ensure joined up service provision.
•	Suggest improvements to current working methods to contribute to improvements in service delivery.	
Skills, knowledge and experience	

•	Recognised vocational or professional qualification plus broad experience in area of expertise.  May be working towards a professional qualification or be of graduate entry level with sound practical experience.
•	Detailed knowledge of own service area and relevant working systems, equipment and/or IT software, plus an awareness of Council policies and services related to the role
•	Analytical skills and problem-solving capability
•	Ability to informally train and mentor less experienced staff
•	Ability to influence others based on technical or professional expertise
•	Ability to build and maintain effective networks and relationships

In addition to the skills knowledge and experience described above, you may be required to undertake a lower graded role as appropriate.	

Performance Indicators
•	Quality of own work against legal, safety and best practice standards
•	Adherence to internal/external quality standards if applicable
•	Adherence to policies and procedures
•	Accuracy and timeliness of information recording and processing
•	Customer and stakeholder feedback
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Operational Context Form

Post title: SCAYT+ Emotional Health Worker/Social Worker	

Directorate: Children and Young People	
Location:	
Burnley/Preston	

Establishment or team:	
SCAYT+	
Post number:		

Grade:	
Grade 8	Staff

responsibility:	
No	
Essential Car user:	
Yes	

Scope of Work – appropriate for this post:

The aim of the overall SCAYT service is to provide therapeutic support to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of looked after and adopted children and young people and their parents/carers and staff and to enable them to thrive. Support will utilise and build upon the assets and strengths of the child, family and the community that surrounds them.

To provide support and information to carers of children looked after and those adopted by the local authority.
To contribute to the formulation of assessments and provide treatment, alone and jointly, as agreed with other team members and those involved with care planning for the individual child.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities – appropriate for this post:
1.	Support for Carers of Children Looked After and those adopted
To be part of a team providing emotional health and wellbeing support for carers of Children Looked After and adopted
2.	Therapeutic Support to Children Looked After and adopted

A small part of the work (25% of the total team’s work) will be working directly with children, individual members may do more or less than this figure.
3.	Requests for involvement
To respond to requests as per the process and priorities of the multi-disciplinary team.
4.	Consultancy, liaison and support to other Agencies
To provide consultation and support to other agencies and to ensure effective communication between the Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Services and other providers of services in order to ensure a consistent and co-ordinated response to young people looked after with Mental Health needs.
To provide consultation and support to field social workers, foster carers and residential social workers to ensure that the mental health needs of children/young people looked after and adopted are well met.
5.	Therapeutic Services
To provide a range of interventions for those who are referred, by putting into action agreed treatment objectives, either jointly with other multi disciplinary team members, individually, or with professionals from other agencies, in order to help towards personal and/or inter-personal changes. This may include direct work with parents/carer, and others.
.6.	Records
Maintain records and prepare reports, as required. To store, share and present them as required using appropriate technology and taking account of legislation on data protection.	

7.	Assessment
To assess the needs of children looked after, individually or together with other members of the team.  To contribute to multi agency assessments.

Additional supporting information – specific to this post.
Other Duties

1.	The post holder will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and be expected to establish and develop effective working relationships with team members, consult with other team members as appropriate and develop and maintain joint working methods.

2.	This post will be line managed by the Team Manager SCAYT+.  Clinical and multi-disciplinary peer supervision will be expected within the SCAYT+ Team.

3.	The post holder will be required to take part in a structured scheme of performance development and appraisal.

4.	The post holder is responsible as far as is reasonably practicable for their own health and safety and the health, safety and welfare of other people in the course of their work and is expected to take any necessary appropriate action to ensure this.

5.	As an employee of the Local Authority the post holder may be involved in child protection work e.g. attending case conferences

Prepared by:	
Kevin Goosey	
Date:	
08/01/2019	

The above form sets out the area of work in which duties will generally be focused, and gives an example of the type of duties that the postholder could be asked to carry out. PLEASE NOTE that this is for guidance only. Postholders are expected to be flexible and to operate in different areas of work/carry out different duties as required.

Equal opportunities
We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in the way we deliver services to the community and in our employment arrangements. We expect all employees to understand and promote this policy in their work.

Health and safety
All employees have a responsibility for their own health and safety and that of others when carrying out their duties and must co- operate with us to apply our general statement of health and safety policy.

Safeguarding Commitment
We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Customer Focus

We put our customers’ needs and expectations at the heart of all that we do. We expect our employees to have a full understanding of those needs and expectations so that we can provide high quality, appropriate services at all times.

Skills Pledge
We are committed to developing the skills of our workforce.  All employees will be supported to work towards a level 2 qualification in literacy and /or numeracy if they do not have one already.

Lancashire County Council

Person specification	
Post title: SCAYT+ Emotional Health Worker/Social Worker	Grade: Grade 8	
Directorate: Children and Young People	Post number:	

Establishment or team:	

Requirements	

Essential (E) or
Desirable (D)	To be identified
by: application form (AF), interview (I), test (T), or other (give details)	
Qualifications
Applicants must hold a recognised social work qualification DipSW/CQSW/CSS or degree level qualification or equivalent in education or health.
Applicants must demonstrate that they have training and/or experience relevant to the post; they must also prove that they hold appropriate HCPC registration.

E	

AF/I	
Post Qualifying Child Care Award	D	AF/I	
Nursing Qualification
Teaching Qualification	D	AF/I	
recognised accreditation in a therapeutic discipline (e.g. family
therapy, play therapy, psychotherapy, cognitive/behavioural therapy)	D	AF/I	
Specific training on the mental health needs of children and
adolescents. Driving Licence	D

E	AF/I

AF/I	
Experience			
Work with Children and Families	E	AF/I	
Work with children looked after by the local authority or placed for
adoption.	D	AF/I	
Experience in therapeutic practice.	D	AF/I	
Work in a multi-disciplinary setting.	D	AF/I	
Use of Clinical Supervision
Delivery of Training	D
D	AF/I
AF/I	
Use of Consultation model of support for carers	D	AF/I	
Knowledge and skills			
Understanding of emotional/behavioural/relationship problems of
families and their members.	E	AF/I	
Understanding of the needs of children/young people looked after and adopted by the local authority, and of their carers and parents.	E	AF/I	
Awareness of the inter-personal aspects of presenting psycho-social
problems.	E	AF/I	
Familiarity with literature and research findings on the promotion of emotional wellbeing in children and young people.	E	AF/I	
Demonstrable level of competence in working with families and
carers.
Ability to work both individually and collaboratively.	E

E	AF/I

AF/I	

Ability to produce clear written reports.	E	AF/I	
Other (including special requirements)

1.	Commitment to equality and diversity
2.	Commitment to health and safety
3.	Display the LCC values and behaviours at all times and actively promote them in others
4.  Commitment to attend training identified as part of your     professional development.

*This is an essential car user post. However in certain circumstances consideration may be given to applicants who as a consequence of disability are unable to drive.

Date:
08/01/2019

Note: We will always consider your references before confirming a job

E E
E

E	

I I
I

AF/I	

LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

PRE-EMPLOYMENT RISK IDENTIFICATION FORM (R.I.F.)

(NB Completion of this form does not fulfill the requirement to undertake a general risk assessment under the management Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999)

A Pre-employment Risk Identification Form must be completed by the Head of Service/ Headteacher/Line Manager. If any assistance is required in completing this form, please contact the Health and Safety Team.

CONFIDENTIAL

Team/Establishment	SCAYT+	
Post title	SCAYT+ Emotional Health/Social Worker	
Description of main activities the employee will be required to undertake (or attach role profile) Attached	
Form completed by: (print name) Debbie Cookson	

A.	The post to which this form refers will or may involve one or more of the following activities. (Please indicate YES or NO)

Managers should note that if any of the following 10 activities are involved, there is an automatic requirement for a pre-employment assessment by Occupational Health and, possibly, for subsequent Health Surveillance.

		YES	NO	

1	Work at heights (e.g. over 2m from tall step/extension ladders; scaffold towers, roofwork etc).			

2	Work in excessively noisy environments above statutory control limits (Highly unlikely to include examples associated with any office environments.  Examples
might include use of woodworking machinery, road drilling, masonry cutting etc).			

3	Work in unusual environmental conditions (e.g. where access or egress or free
flow of air may be restricted or where there may be a build up of gases, vapours or fumes or the use of breathing apparatus is required).			

4	Use of hand operated tools and equipment known to be associated with hand arm
vibration syndrome (e.g. percussive metalworking tool; rotary handheld tool [not floor polishers]; grinders; percussive hammers and drills etc).			

5	Driving a heavy goods vehicle, coach, bus or minibus belonging to Lancashire County Council, transporting others in their own vehicle, or regularly transporting
more than three other people as part of normal duties.			

6	Some contact with hazardous substances (e.g. chemicals with an orange warning
label indicating: very toxic; toxic; harmful; corrosive; sensitising by inhalation/skin contact; carcinogenic; mutagenic; toxic for reproduction; professional bio/pesticides; organophosphates; gluteraldehyde; latex gloves).			

7	Prolonged or frequent exposure to machine generated wood dust, or other heavy
or excessive concentrations of mineral dust.			
8	Work with lead or lead-based products (e.g. some paints).			
9	Food handling/preparation (of raw or uncooked food only).			

10	Occupational fieldwork or work in extreme conditions (e.g. involving excessive
heat or cold or frequent walking for long distances over rough terrain in all weather conditions, forestry/countryside work).			

B.	The post to which this form refers will or may involve one or more of the following activities. (Please indicate YES or NO)

This section is for the information of applicants and does not facilitate a referral to Occupational Health.

		YES	NO	

11	Face to face contact with the public/service users (e.g. at sensitive front line posts re abuse, aggression, assault).			
12	Working in isolation/lone working.			
13	Work with electrical wiring (e.g. colour blindness).			

14	Work where there may be an increased risk of needlestick injuries or blood borne infections HIV; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C: (e.g. site supervisors; site work, grounds
or buildings maintenance, gardeners; some carers).			

15	Work that may bring the employee into contact with rats, rat contaminated ground
or other animals or livestock (e.g. risk of weils disease, other animal borne diseases, zoonoses).			

16	Manual handling (other than routine office/administrative lifting and carrying e.g. assisting / moving service users with mobility problems, portering type activities).			

17	Working with vulnerable service users (e.g. children with disabilities; the elderly; children/adults with learning difficulties; alcohol/drug abusers).			

18	Work involving repetitive movements or forced posture (e.g. twisting, screwing,
movements of the hands wrists, arms and/or shoulders awkward body and limb posture or excessive force, bending, kneeling).			

19	Work as a regular display screen user (where more than 1/3 of a person's time is spent using DSE continuously over any 1 month period).			

Any other occupational hazards/comments that you consider to be relevant to the post which are not included above:

Head of Service/Headteacher/Line Manager
(please print)	Debbie Cookson	
Telephone
Number:	07977200740	Date:	08/04/2016	

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