Children’s Social Work

If you’re a Social Worker and share our brave and challenging mindset, you’ll join a team who love what they do and love the freedom they get to do it.

With your Social Work qualification, you’ll support children, young people, families and groups within the community and you’ll take responsibility for a caseload according to your qualifications and experience. You’ll be confident in your abilities to form, develop and maintain professional relationships with children and young people and their families through direct casework, supervision, shared activity and counselling, in such a way that the child/young person’s family’s needs are met.

And you’ll do it with the full support of our team of expert Social Workers and through the connections of external agencies. This is an opportunity to grow your skills by experiencing the wider world of Social Care. And your development is in your hands. This freedom to grow and opportunity to speak up are the main reasons our Social Work team find working here so rewarding.

Where can you work?

  • Our Permanency and Pathways Team provides direct support to our children looked after and leaving care young people.

    You must be a strong practitioner, have the ability to deliver a range of high quality interventions and build relationships with our children looked after.

    The role requires evidence of effective knowledge of current practices and the expectations of social services in the matter of applied legal and practical skills.

    Working with a wide variety of agencies and professionals the role requires commitment, flexibility and a thorough understanding of all relevant standards and the Social Services and Well Being Act (2014) Wales. The role demands the ability to build effective relationships with social services teams and forge strong collaborative partnerships with other agencies. In addition, the successful candidate will evidence a passion and determination to our children looked after.

  • Children’s First Contact manages the input of referrals into Children’s Services.

    The referrals are checked for any safeguarding concerns and actioned accordingly in line with the Wales Safeguarding Procedures, cascaded to the appropriate teams internally or passed onto our Early Help Service.

    A Social Worker with Children’s First Contact Team will be responsible for responding to all reports received, providing Information, Advice and Assistance or undertaking Section 47 enquiries either through a single agency or joint enquiry approach, alongside North Wales Police. The practitioner will be expected to liaise and work closely with other statutory agencies. You will join an established team that operate within our Children’s Services remit and will take responsibility for ensuring policies and processes are formulated and adhered to.

  • We are currently looking to recruit a permanent qualified Social Worker into our Fostering Teams.

    We are looking for candidates that can demonstrate assessment skills in relation to viability, connected persons, foster carers, special guardians and private foster carers.

    Effective communication skills including verbal and written are key to this role as is having the ability to create and maintain good working relationships with all parties. Experience of undertaking and completing assessment in line with local, national standards is desirable