Job Description

48,226-50,269 per year. In Swansea Council, our Supported Care Planning (SCP) team is going through an exciting period of development.

Post title:

Practice Lead

Post number:

SS.67740-V1

Salary:

48,226-50,269 per year

Job description:

Practice Lead (SS.67740-V1) Job description

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Directorate/department:

Social Services

Apply online now for post SS.67740-V1

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Closing date:

11.45pm, 3 October 2025

Further information

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In Swansea Council, our Supported Care Planning (SCP) team is going through an exciting period of development. 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.


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. We have developed a progression pathway 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). Pods of qualified social workers and family support workers are supported by a Practice Lead and a team Manager.


As an applicant for this Practice Lead role, you will not only have extensive experience of front line case management including PLO and Court work, but you will also have experience of supporting staff, providing supervision, support and guidance, to assist them to support families to achieve positive outcomes.

Excellent benefits, including:

Teams holding 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

Megan Allen

on

01792 635180

or via email

Megan.Allen@swansea.gov.uk

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