The Director of Adults & Health noted that there are additional funding available through the Winter Pressures funding for 18/19 and 19/20 to enable the recruitment of additional temporary staff.
The Director of Adults & Health approved that this 2 year funding stream is utilised to create - 12 temporary additional posts (6 x PO1 registered Social Workers; 3 x C1 Wellbeing Workers; 3 x B1 Business Support Officers) and the associated IT/phones. The Social Workers and Wellbeing Workers will be recruited to by Adults and Health; the B1 posts will be recruited to by Shared Services.
The Director of Adults & Health approved the temporary (2 year fixed term contracts) funding of the above posts to create the capacity to embed changes to promote system flow.