Senior Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £41,511 i £44,711 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Hengoed, Caerphilly County |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Caerphilly County Borough Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | REQ0010308 |
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We are recruiting Senior Practitioners at Caerphilly County Borough Council.
Working hours: 37 hours
Contract Type: Permanent/Full Time
Location: Tredomen
This is an exciting opportunity to join Team Caerphilly and provide support across our dynamic Children’s Services Locality Teams. We have vacancies for full time Senior Practitioners in the Locality Teams of both Caerphilly East and West.
We pay an attractive salary of £41,511 - £44,711 with an additional £3,441 annual market supplement, to be paid in 12 instalments alongside the salary, and offer access to training and development opportunities.
We are seeking to appoint dynamic, experienced and enthusiastic practitioners to become part of our progressive and creative teams.
The successful candidates will hold a more complex caseload, be able to offer support, mentoring and supervision to team members, monitor team performance, assist the Team Manager, and deputise when required.
The Teams undertake high quality assessments and planning for children and their families who require on going social services intervention. The teams cover both short- and long-term work, including Children in Need of Care and Support, Safeguarding, Children Looked After and court work.
If you have the right values, motivation, and commitment to work in a challenging, yet rewarding environment, we want to hear from you.
Are you effective at building positive working relationships with good communication and IT skills? Do you have genuine passion and commitment to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families? Do you want to work collaboratively to promote “what matters” with children and their families? Does this sound like the right job for you?
If so, we will provide you with the following:
Comprehensive induction.
Training to promote your continued professional development.
An embedded risk assessment model.
Evidenced based and timely decision making.
Regular supervision, annual appraisal and opportunities for reflective practice.
Supportive and experienced Senior Practitioner colleagues and Team Manager.
Visible and strong leadership from the Senior Management Team
For the role, we ask that you have:
A Diploma/Degree in Social Work or predecessor qualification.
Successful completion of the Consolidation of Practice Programme within the first three years of practice (if qualified after 1 April 2016).
Registered as a Social Worker with Social Care Wales or equivalent regulators in England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
A full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence and the use of a motor vehicle insured for business purposes to travel throughout the borough to attend meetings.
An enhanced level of social work skills, expertise within child protection and court work and be able to promote and develop good standards of practice both personally and within the team.
We have excellent benefits including the Local Government Pension Scheme, agile working patterns and staff discount schemes.
To view the Job Description and Person Specification please select the relevant attachment from the attachments list
After reading the Job Description and Person Specification, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Sarah Parry/Sandra Engstrom on 02920 849716/ 02920 849725 or email parrys1@caerphilly.gov.uk engsts@caerphilly.gov.uk
Working hours: 37 hours
Contract Type: Permanent/Full Time
Location: Tredomen
This is an exciting opportunity to join Team Caerphilly and provide support across our dynamic Children’s Services Locality Teams. We have vacancies for full time Senior Practitioners in the Locality Teams of both Caerphilly East and West.
We pay an attractive salary of £41,511 - £44,711 with an additional £3,441 annual market supplement, to be paid in 12 instalments alongside the salary, and offer access to training and development opportunities.
We are seeking to appoint dynamic, experienced and enthusiastic practitioners to become part of our progressive and creative teams.
The successful candidates will hold a more complex caseload, be able to offer support, mentoring and supervision to team members, monitor team performance, assist the Team Manager, and deputise when required.
The Teams undertake high quality assessments and planning for children and their families who require on going social services intervention. The teams cover both short- and long-term work, including Children in Need of Care and Support, Safeguarding, Children Looked After and court work.
If you have the right values, motivation, and commitment to work in a challenging, yet rewarding environment, we want to hear from you.
Are you effective at building positive working relationships with good communication and IT skills? Do you have genuine passion and commitment to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families? Do you want to work collaboratively to promote “what matters” with children and their families? Does this sound like the right job for you?
If so, we will provide you with the following:
Comprehensive induction.
Training to promote your continued professional development.
An embedded risk assessment model.
Evidenced based and timely decision making.
Regular supervision, annual appraisal and opportunities for reflective practice.
Supportive and experienced Senior Practitioner colleagues and Team Manager.
Visible and strong leadership from the Senior Management Team
For the role, we ask that you have:
A Diploma/Degree in Social Work or predecessor qualification.
Successful completion of the Consolidation of Practice Programme within the first three years of practice (if qualified after 1 April 2016).
Registered as a Social Worker with Social Care Wales or equivalent regulators in England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
A full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence and the use of a motor vehicle insured for business purposes to travel throughout the borough to attend meetings.
An enhanced level of social work skills, expertise within child protection and court work and be able to promote and develop good standards of practice both personally and within the team.
We have excellent benefits including the Local Government Pension Scheme, agile working patterns and staff discount schemes.
To view the Job Description and Person Specification please select the relevant attachment from the attachments list
After reading the Job Description and Person Specification, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Sarah Parry/Sandra Engstrom on 02920 849716/ 02920 849725 or email parrys1@caerphilly.gov.uk engsts@caerphilly.gov.uk
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