Canolfan Maerdy Job Vacancy

Nursery Manager

Location: Canolfan Maerdy, New Road, Tairgwaith, SA18 1UP

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Salary: c.£20K per annum dependent on experience and qualifications

Contract: Permanent - minimum 30 up to 37 hours per week; hours negotiable for an exceptional candidate. Job sharing and secondments considered.

Closing date: Monday 8th June 2015. Interviews to be held 16^th June 2015

For more information please click 'Read More'

Disability Powys - Access and Outreach vacancy

Access and Outreach Worker

Disability Powys are seeking to recruit an Access and Outreach worker to coordinate and develop the information and advice service provide by Disability Powys, and deliver the Access and Outreach support service.

Term: 3 year fixed term

Salary: £9,464 (£13/hr)

Hours per week: 14 hours per week

Area: Powys

Base: Llandrindod Wells / Home based

Closing date:   Midday 2nd June

Interviews:      10^th June

The post is funded by Awards for All and the Sobell Foundation

For information and application pack please contact the Office -

info@disabilitypowys.org.uk or Tel 01597 824059

What Support is Available for Parents?

Please see the message from the Powys Strategic Parenting Forum.  To help plan services and to make sure that Parents/Carers can access the right support we need to know what is currently happening.  There is a short survey below to help find out.

Please do complete and let us know.  The information will be used to make sure that ALL parents/carers can access some level of support.  Organisations and agencies will be able to help signpost parents/carers to the right support available in their area.

Re: Parenting Support in Powys

We know that parents play a crucial role in supporting their children’s social and emotional development and in helping them to do well in school. We also know that access to parenting support benefits a whole range of parents. In Powys we are proud of the range of parenting support offered to our parents from a variety of agencies.

So that we can map out the support that is available to parents and be able to signpost parents to relevant support we would like to know whether you are currently offering any parenting support and, if so, the type of support you are offering. Knowing where the strengths and expertise are across the county will also help to avoid duplication of resources.

If you would like more details regarding the free training and supervision that can be offered locally to support you in your parenting work please get in touch.

We would be very grateful if you could complete the following questions, which should only take a couple of minutes. 

You can complete the questions online by using the link below:

Parenting Support Survey

Thank you for your help on behalf of the Strategic Parenting Forum in Powys.

Dr. Sue Evans                                                                Mrs Helen James

Consultant Child Psychologist                                        Head of Children’s Public Health

Carers Week Event

Knighton Saturday Club Coffee Morning

 in Aid of Carers Week

Crossroads Care Mid & West Wales invites you to a coffee morning held in the Knighton Day Centre on Wednesday 10^th June 2015 at 10.00pm to 12 noon.

Come down and have a coffee or tea and some cake for carer’s week.

There will be plenty of relaxation time for carer’s and qualified staff to answer any questions you might have. 

So please come down and come and see Crossroads in Carer’s week the address is:

12 Y Bwythyn, Knighton, Powys LD7 1DG     Telephone: 01874 610346

Click Here for Flyer

Infoengine is the online directory for 

Powys / Mid and West Wales.

Click Link (below) to infoengine

HOW TO REGISTER / POLICING THE SITE:

Organisations can register their own details by visiting the homepage and 
following the instructions. Each organisation is responsible for the details they 
enter. If the infoengine team is notified of concerns around inappropriate 
material or service provision then a member of the team has the right to hide 
the details in question from the public pending further investigation. 

IMAGES / PDF UPLOAD:

If an organisation chooses to upload an image or PDF document – this is 
sent to the team for authorisation prior to going live. The team reserves 
the right to delete any offensive or inappropriate material. Organisations are
urged to gain permission to publish images and the responsibility for this lies
with the organisation. 

TRANSLATION:

Organisations have the option to add details of their services bilingually but it 
is down to each organisation to translate their own information. 

UPDATING DETAILS:

Infoengine automatically refreshes itself – every 6 months the system sends
an email to the main contact for each organisation asking them to check and 
update their entry, if this contact doesn’t respond in approx. two weeks then 
the email is sent to another contact, if provided, and if this second contact 
doesn’t respond the Infoengine team is notified and aims to contact the 
organisation through other means to see if they are still operating. 

SAFEGUARDING:

Any provider of a service in which children under 8 years old are looked
after for a period of two hours or more must register with the Care and 
Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW). To reduce the risk of parents 
accessing potentially inappropriate or unsafe childcare services Infoengine 
recognises search terms such as childcare, child-minder, nursery and will 
redirect people using these terms to the local Family Information Service which 
maintains its own database of registered providers.

Link to Infoengine

Infoengine Registration Form Cym

Infoengine Registration Form Eng

Regional Map of Infoengine Coverage

Parenting Support Programmes - what's available in Powys?

Do you provide support for parents?  This could include very formal programs or something more informal. We want to find out what is available out there so that:
parents can be signposted and access support
services can be coordinated, reducing any duplication and plugging any gaps.

The survey will be sent round very soon, so watch out and let us know.

Childrens Environmental Activity Day 28th May Broneirion, Llandinam

This May our activity day will have an environmental theme. We will be running a day or workshops and activities looking at our environments and the impact we have on them. As always the day is open to any school aged child but under 8's must be accompanied. 

Contact broneirion@girlguidingcymru.org.uk or 01686 688204 for more details and a booking form

May Half Term Activity Day for Children

Thursday, May 28 at 10:00am

Broneirion, SY17 5DE Llandinam


Click Here

Early Years Engagement Events

As you may be aware, Powys County Council is undertaking a review of early years provision. The aim of the review is to ensure that all funded early years providers have the necessary resources to deliver high quality early years provision which is sustainable, suitable and accessible for children and families accessing the service for future years.

The events are as follows;

1 June 2015: Pentecostal Church, Brecon

3 June 2015: Newtown Integrated Family Centre, Newtown

5 June 2015: Pavilion, Llandrindod

For more information and to book on please see attached documents.

Fel eich bod efallai’n gwybod, mae Cyngor Sir Powys yn cynnal adolygiad o’r ddarpariaeth blynyddoedd cynnar.  Nod yr adolygiad yw sicrhau bod yr holl ddarparwyr blynyddoedd cynnar a ariennir yn meddu ar yr adnoddau angenrheidiol i gyflwyno darpariaeth blynyddoedd cynnar o’r ansawdd gorau sy’n gynaliadwy, yn addas, ac ar gael i blant a theuluoedd sy’n defnyddio’r gwasanaeth ar gyfer y blynyddoedd i ddod. 

Mae’r digwyddiadau fel a ganlyn;

1 Mehefin 2015, Eglwys Bentecostal, Aberhonddu

3 Mehefin 2015, Canolfan Integredig i Deuluoedd y Drenewydd, y Drenewydd

5 Mehefin 2015, Y Pafiliwn, Llandrindod 

Am fwy o wybodaeth ac i archebu lle ar gweler ys dogfennau amgaeedig

Early Years Review Letter

Adolygiad Blynyddoedd Cynnar

Powys Parents/Carers of Children/Young People with Disabilities - Registration Coming Soon!

We are at an exciting point in development and setting up a Parents/Carers Forum focused on those families with children/young people with disabilities and/or complex health conditions. 


We will be sending round a registration form very shortly with an explanation on how your organisation and parents/carers can become involved.

Mid Powys Virtual Ward Workshops

Dear Health & Social Care Network

PtHB would like to invite the voluntary sector to contribute to the plans for the roll out of the Virtual Ward to the Mid locality GP cluster. 

 

If you provide health and social care support / services in Builth, Llandrindod Wells, Rhayader, Knighton or Presteigne, PtHB will be holding two workshops giving you the opportunity to discuss the roll out. The details are as follows

 

Group 1: Builth, Rhayader, Llandod. 2 June 2015 @ 13:30 Builth Wells Practice

Group 2: Presteigne & Knighton – 5 June 2015 @ 13:30 Knighton Hospital Seminar Room

For more information and to book visit the HSCN Blog

Learning Disability Awareness - Free places offered

We have places available on the Learning Disabilities Awareness training

30^th June 2015 in The Gwalia, Llandrindod Wells 9.30am – 4.30pm

Aim:

This course will help participants to understand a values-based approach which embraces the four key principles of rights, independence, choice and inclusion to ensure that people with learning disabilities are supported to live as valued members of their communities.

Key Learning Outcomes:

 To have an understanding of historical and current attitudes towards Learning Disability

 To have an understanding of why socially valued roles are important

 To have an understanding of the principles at the heart of a quality service

 To have an understanding of the real issues people face in regard to choice, participation, respect, relationships and compliance

 Become more aware of our own attitudes and values towards difference, disability, institutionalisation and inclusion

Target Audience:

Course Provider: Llaw yn Llaw

Please book your place via Trent Self Service or email pwbotu@powys.gov.uk  or telephone 01597 827507

Regards

Training Unit

Powys County Council

Play Montgomeryshire Plays throughout North Powys

Play Montgomeryshire Plays throughout North Powys

 
Play Montgomeryshire is running a number of Play Projects throughout North Powys this May Half Term. They are joining up with Newtown Library again and are bringing crafts out of Africa for the session by running a Craft Workshop and Story Telling at Newtown Library on Tuesday 26th May from 1.30 to 3.30pm. Newtown Library will be reading  stories to the children from 1.30pm, and Play Montgomeryshire will be running a Stay and Play session for children of all ages from 2 to 3.30pm.  The Stay and Play craft session will involve craft activities related to Africa, plus toys to play with and join in with their friends. As usual members (membership is free of charge) may buy craft materials to do their own crafts over the Holidays. All children are welcome to join us at these Play Sessions in Newtown Library - there will be something for all ages.

Play Montgomeryshire is continuing its play sessions on Bryn Y Gog Estate in Machynlleth over the half term on Tuesday and Thursday 11am to 3pm all free of charge. All play will be outdoors and include a range of loose parts that kids just love to play with - Tarpaulins, ropes, bats and balls, paint and paper etc. The play will take place  just outside the closed shop on the green. It will be staffed by Play Workers who will support free of charge, free of spirit play with local children.  

The same type of play will be taking place for the children of Oldford, and the rest of the Welshpool area to enjoy, just up from the Skansis Pitch on the Tuesday from 2 to 4pm and the Thursday 1 to 4pm.

The Stay and Play sessions at Machynlleth Community Church will continue during the holidays on Wednesdays from 10 to 12am, as will the craft sessions on the first Saturday of the month from10.30 to 12am. Newtown Library craft sessions will be on the last Saturday of the month at the same time.

For more information please phone 01686 626713, email admin@playmontgomeryshire.co.uk or visit our facebook page (Play Montgomeryshire).

Bilingual Poster Play Oldford

Bilingual Poster Play Bryn y Gog

Bilingual Poster 2015

Assistant Youth Worker (maternity cover) Welshpool Youth Centre

Position Title: Assistant Youth Worker

Reference Number: LYS0316 6 hours, Fixed term until 31/03/2016

Salary Grade: JNC Youth Support Worker Scale 1 – 4

£15,144 to £16,431 per annum pro rata

Location: Welshpool Youth Centre

Directorate: Place

Service: Leisure and Recreation Services

Accountable to: Area Youth Worker

For Powys Recruitment please click Here

Welsh Government's Consultation on Changes to the Registration of Childcare Provision in Wales

PAVO is about to draft a response for Welsh Government's Consultation on "Changes to the Registration of Childcare Provision in Wales".  What do you think about this?   See below the main changes:

The key aims of the proposed changes are to ensure:
PROPORTIONALITY; taking into account the needs & ages of children.
QUALITY;  of care in all provision for all children.
SAFETY;  all children are cared for in safe & secure places.

Compulsory registration required for childcare providers upto ages of 16 or 17 for disabled young people.

LESS THAN 2 HOURS
No plans to change the exception currently in place for childcare operating less than 2 hours.  But what do you think?

MULTIPLE PREMISES
Should childcare providers operating across more than one
setting be allowed to register multiple premises in a single registration process?  

Any other comments?  
You can leave comments here
OR on Facebook at:  Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations/CYPF 
OR send your comments directly to PAVO via email

Substance Misuse Consultation

The Powys Area Planning Board for Substance Misuse, are holding

workshops in Newtown, Llandrindod Wells and Ystradgynlais to help refresh

their Substance Misuse Strategy. To do this they need to hear the views of a wide

range of people. 

For more information please see attached flyer.

EVENTS

Tuesday 2nd June at 1.30 pm – 4:30pm

The New Life Church, Fiveways, Llandrindod Wells

Thursday 4th June at 1.30 pm – 4:30pm

The Miners’ Welfare Hall, Ystradgynlais

Thursday 11th June at 1.30 pm – 4:30pm

NPTC Campus, Llanidloes Road, Newtown

Regards

Gail Lawrence

Training Administrator

Powys County Council

For attached Flyer please click HERE

Training / Hyffordiant : CHILD PROTECTION LEVEL 2 / AMDDIFFYN PLANT LEFEL 2

Understanding How to Safeguard the Welfare of Children and Young People - Accredited Training Level 2 through Agored Cymru

Understanding How to Safeguard the Welfare of Children and Young People - Accredited Training Level 2 through Agored Cymru

1 July 2015, Rhyl - Online Booking Form

7 July 2015, Neath - Online Booking Form

  

A one-day course

A one day course aimed at anyone working directly or indirectly with children and young people in a wide range of workplace and community settings. The purpose of the training is to give participants confidence and essential knowledge on how to safeguard the children and young people in their environment. 

The training is accredited through Agored Cymru and participants will need to complete assessments to demonstrate learning. Upon successful completion of an assignment the participant will achieve 3 credits at Level 2. This unit forms part of the Welsh quality assurance framework for vocational training.  

As a result of the training participants will:

• Learn about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, including E-safety
• Understand the roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people
• Understand how to safeguard children, young people and practitioners in a work setting
• Identify the characteristics of different types of child abuse
• Know how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused, harmed or bullied
• Be able to describe the principles and boundaries of confidentiality and when to share information 

COST:

Members £130*

Non members £155*

Please Note - * The advertised rates include a charge of £25 per person  for Accreditation, External Verification and Agored Cymru Certification. 

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact training@childreninwales.org.uk for more information. 

You may be interested in our upcoming training courses...

September 2015 9 - An Introduction to Leadership, Merthyr Tydfil 10 & 11 - "Keeping Our Children Safe" Training for Designated Person for Child Protection, Cardiff 11 - An Introduction to Leadership, Wrexham 16 & 17 - "Keeping Our Children Safe" Training for Designated Person for Child Protection,Llandudno Junction 22 - Working with Fathers, Cardiff 29 - Working Positively with Autistic Children in the Early Years, Cardiff 30 & 1 October - Thinking About the Unthinkable: Child Sexual Abuse, Rhyl

October 20156 & 7 - Understanding How to Safeguard the Welfare of Children and Young People - Accredited Level 3 Training through Agored Cymru, Cardiff 13 - An Introduction to Action Learning Sets, Wrexham 14 - Responding to Attachment Difficulties in School and Early Years Settings, Wrexham 15 - An Introduction to Action Learning Sets, Cardiff 21 & 22 - Thinking About the Unthinkable: Child Sexual Abuse, Cardiff 23 - Working Positively with Autistic Children in the Early Years, Llandrindod Well

For Welsh version please click on 'Read More'