Job Description

40,777 - 48,226 per year. In Swansea Council, our Supported Care Planning (SCP) team is going through an exciting period of development. Recognising that at their most vulnerable times, families want and need experienced, skilled and excellent practitioners to support and guide them, we support our teams to continually develop their skills and reflect on their practice to enable them to be the workers that families really need. We have been able to reduce caseloads and offer exciting development opportunities through our internal progression pathway, supporting our social workers to be at their best, and to progress in their careers in a way that works for them.

Post title:

Social Worker - Senior Social Worker

Post number:

SS.73571 SS.73572

Salary:

40,777 - 48,226 per year dependant on experience

Directorate/department:

Social Services

Social Worker (Grade 9):

40,777 - 45,091 per year Social Worker (SS.73571) (PDF, 262 KB)

Apply online now for Social Worker post SS.73571

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Senior Social Worker (Grade 10a):

46,142 - 48,226 per year Senior Social Worker (SS.73572) (PDF, 278 KB)

Apply online now for Senior Social Worker post SS.73572

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Closing date:

11.45pm, 3 December 2025

Further information

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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. As well as recruiting externally into our social worker and senior social worker posts, our new progression pathway is a development opportunity for Social Workers working in this area of the service who demonstrate sound social work skills and values to progress from Social Worker, to Senior and then to our new Specialist Social Worker (PLO and Court) post, 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 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 who are due to qualify this year or who are newly qualified and are 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 (August 2025 average of 12 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

Safeguarding

Within Swansea Council there is a "Safeguarding is Everybody's Business" principle, and this applies to all Swansea Council employees, elected members, volunteers and contractors. Further details can be found at https://www.swansea.gov.uk/corporatesafeguarding

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