Gellideg Family Centre
The Gellideg Family Centre provides a range of services designed to enable the child / young person to meet their individual development potential. This will be achieved through the assessment and support of the child / young person’s development in line with the dimensions of the assessment framework. Specifically –
- The provision of family support / crisis intervention / assist with child development assessment at the child in need stage with the aim of preventing child protection investigations.
- The provision of family support / crisis intervention / assist with child development assessment at the child protection stage to assist with the risk reduction in order to prevent family breakdown and the child becoming looked after.
- The provision of family support / crisis intervention / assist with child development assessment to enable and support rehabilitation plans when the child is looked after.
- The provision of placement support / crisis intervention / assist with child development assessment for children placed with local authority foster carers.
- In partnership with Drugaid, to engage with substance misusing parents / carers and assist them in minimising substance misuse related harm and risk.
- The delivery and of complex packages of support to assist the child’s development where the child has a disability.
- In partnership with identified voluntary organisations, to support and assist a vulnerable young person with independent living.
- In the event of emergency, to be a point of contact and support for the Contact Service out of normal office hours and at weekends.
- Participation in the assessment of the child’s development using the dimensions of the assessment framework
- Practical support with / for parents (mentoring), identified by the children’s services of ICS with a view to improving the prospects of the child’s development and identifying future longer –term support needs.
- Keep safe
- Healthy eating and health promotion
- Individual work with parents and children as above
- Supervising and providing a venue for intra familial contact as requested by the contact manager
- In partnership with Drugaid, the service combines a client-centred approach within a harm reduction model of provision, aiming to motivate and sustain motivation for change. Therapeutic intervention, support and advice will be focused on substance misuse and the links between substance misuse, parenting and the effects on children.
Group – work with parents and children that includes:
- Dealing with behaviour and relationship problems of children
- Self – esteem and self – confidence building – this includes: anger management, relaxation, safe stress relief strategies.
Interventions will include:
- Assessment
- Motivational Interviewing
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Harm Reduction
- Drug / alcohol education
- Anger management
- Anxiety / stress management
- Relapse prevention
- Relaxation techniques
- Auricular acupuncture
The above services will operate between 7.30 am and 9.00pm seven days per week. The overall service is designed to be flexible and therefore individual service types will be tailored to meet the evidenced need.
Specifically:
- Services will operate between 7.30am and 9.00pm seven days per week.
- The ‘out of hours’ service would provide interventions as outlined above before and after school and at weekends.
- All of the services work will be time – limited (6 – 8 weeks) and will be contingent on the receipt of a clear Care Plan.
The staff at Gellideg have a variety of experience, qualifications and skills which lends itself to a flexible and complimentary service.
- 1 x Manager (37 hours)
- 1 x Health Visitor (Deputy Manager) (37 Hours)
- 1 x Contact Manager (18.5 hours at Gellideg)
- 1 x Drug Aid Worker (30 hours)
- 7.5 x Support Workers (this includes 2 x NNEB trained staff, 3 x Social Work Trainees, one of whom is a Senior Outreach Worker) ( 277.5 hours)
- 5 x Family Aids (134 hours)
- 7 x Sessional Staff
The Family Centre Manger is accountable to the Service Manager – Intake & Early Assessment. The Health Visitor, receives clinical supervision from North Glamorgan NHS Trust, the Drug Aid worker, is line managed via MIDAS and the Contact Manager, and is line managed by the Service Manager – Family Support. All other listed staff are accountable to the Family Centre Manager.
Referrals are received via the Intake and Early Assessment Process, i.e. one point of entry. However, the originator of the referral may be from any source. The key to the process is ensuring each contact receives an Initial Consideration. Should there be a clear need for a service of the type outlined above, but no requirement for social work allocation for formal assessment, a referral to Gellideg Family Centre may still be made. In which instance, the Key Worker would be identified from the Family Centre. All involvements, assessments and services received would be entered on to the SWIFT system. Each case will receive periodic review by the Family Centre Manager in line with a pre-determined timescale. Where a service is being received without an allocated Social Worker, and should circumstances dictate, a request (referral) to the Intake & Early Assessment Team for assessment should be made in the normal way.
Once received by the Manager the referral will be considered and the referrer notified of its receipt and the intended action as per current operating procedures. The decision as to the provision of service rests with the Manager of the Family Centre.
For more information, contact the Duty Officer on (01685) 724506
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