Swansea - a great place to live and work.

Swansea is an innovative waterfront city at the heart of the wider Swansea Bay City Region. From stunning coastal scenery to tranquil parks, from its thriving cultural scene to the best of modern city living, the city offers the best of all worlds.

Flexible Home Support is a Swansea wide service targeted at preventing family breakdown.
It is registered under the care Standards Act 2000 and provides direct, practical support to children and their families through personal, social and domiciliary care tasks. 
Support is also provided to develop parent’s practical parenting skills, usually in the family home, in order to reduce stress and minimise risk of accommodation.  This may include direct preventative work, respite provision and promoting community integration etc.  

We have a very clear vision in Swansea which is well understood by the current workforce, that wherever safe, children should remain in the care of their birth families. Signs of Safety is our practice framework and we have used the reclaiming Social Work model to form supported care planning pods, led by a Practice Lead. This supports good supervision and collaboration between staff. Building positive respectful relationships with families, listening to children and ensuring they are involved in decisions that affect their lives is at the heart of what we do.

The service is designed to provide a quick response to minimise the risk of family breakdown, this can be provided on an out of hour’s basis and can include weekends where urgent support is required. Early mornings, After school and Evenings are a particularly busy time for the service.

If you have experience of working with children and families, good organisational and communication skills, manual handling training and are committed to supporting families in order for them to be the best they can be, we would be pleased to hear from you.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Louise Bowley Flexible Home Support Organiser 07917200441