Social Worker - Senior Social Worker - Specialist Social Work Practitioner (closing date: 21/03/25)

Post title: Social Worker - Senior Social Worker - Specialist Social Work Practitioner
Post number: SS.73571 SS.73572 SS.73573
Salary: £39,513 - £48,710 per year dependant on experience
Directorate/department: Social Services

Supported Care Planning roles, from £39,513 - £48,710, dependant on experience:

*** Applications welcome from NQSWs and students ***

Social Worker (Grade 9): £39,513 - £43,693  Social Worker (SS.73571) Job Description (PDF, 262 KB) 

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Senior Social Worker (Grade 10a): £44,711 - £46,731  Senior Social Worker (SS.73572) Job Description (PDF, 278 KB)

Apply online now for Senior Social Worker post

Specialist Social Work Practitioner (Grade 10b): £47,754 - £48,710  Specialist Social Work Practitioner (SS.73573) Job Description (PDF, 364 KB)

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Closing date: 11.59pm, 21 March 2025

Further information

About us
Our focus in SCP is working compassionately with families with complex needs, including child protection concerns, and those being assessed within PLO and in the court arena. We remain committed to using the Signs of Safety model of practice, embedded over the past 13 years, and have developed our family networking approach to compliment this. 

An innovative service, we are proud that SCP, along with our colleagues from Jigso, has recently been awarded a Social Care Wales 'Building Bright Futures for Children and Families' accolade for our collaborative work with families during pregnancy, birth and beyond.

We work collaboratively with our fantastic support services, to provide excellent packages of support for families, and have extensive support services to draw on.  In addition to Jigso, these include our own Therapy team, FAST service (providing intensive parenting and adolescent support), and parent and child support services (providing in home PAC support as an alternative to PAC foster placements) to name but a few. 

Progression
It is a priority in Swansea that our Social Workers share our values and principals of being committed to working tirelessly to support children to live safe and fulfilling lives in the care of their family, and in SCP we recognise that our area of practice is challenging and requires great skill and expertise. Our new progression pathway is a development opportunity for Social Workers in this area of the service who demonstrate sound social work skills and values to progress from Social Worker, to Senior and then to a Specialist Social Worker (PLO and Court), without competitive interview, instead by demonstrating their ability through their case management. 

As an organisation, we support those that wish to step into management through shadowing and training opportunities, but we also know that not all of our Social Workers and Senior Social Workers want to progress to become Practice Leads or Managers, as they continue to thrive in directly supporting children and their families. Our new Specialist Social Work Practitioner post enables our most highly experienced and skilled workers to remain in direct practice whilst providing support to colleagues, whilst their pay reflects their specialist work, aligning with that of Practice Lead. 

We do not provide market supplements as we recognise the importance of workers having certainty of pay, and in such uncertain financial times, we chose to prioritise fair and permanent pay structures for staff. We are particularly interested in inviting applications from qualified Social Workers with proven track records of supporting families through PLO and court processes, but also welcome those interested in being supported to develop their practice in this field and becoming our future Seniors and Specialist Social Workers. 

Excellent benefits, including:

• Low caseloads (Oct 2024 average of 14 cases with an ambition to reduce to an average of 10)
• Competitive salary
• Regular Wellbeing opportunities
• Monthly rewards and recognition draw
• Seaside office space
• Hybrid / flexible working to achieve a work life balance
• Generous annual leave entitlement 
• Family Friendly Policies
• Excellent pension with the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work scheme
• Staff discounts
• Discounted leisure centre and gym membership with Freedom Leisure
• Relocation package (up to £8,000)
• Health and wellbeing support
• Training and development opportunities

For further information, please contact Carol Jones on 01792 635180 or via email Carol.Jones3@swansea.gov.uk 

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