Vacancy Details

Description

G09 Salary £37,035 - £39,513 per annum     

This is a permanent full-time post for a social worker based within Wrexham’s Leaving Care Team.

You will be committed to corporate parenting, relationships-based practice as the driver of positive outcomes and transitions. Trauma informed approaches will be at the heart of your practice. We will also expect you to model best practice and mentor workers within the team. You will be joining an established, high performing team with excellent support. We aspire to build an even better service following on from our 2024 CIW visit the Leaving Care Team were acknowledged for the positive relationships built between social workers and our young people.

We continue to build upon our strengths and continue to develop a team which consists of:

•    A passionate and skilled workforce which is enabling care leavers to progress well and benefit from positive experiences
•    A focus on effective transition for young people between the ages of 15 and 18 with support to develop confidence and life skills to negotiate the opportunities and challenges of adulthood.
•    Ensuring accommodation needs are carefully considered so young people feel secure and their wishes around location are respected so they can maintain relationships with people who are important to them
•    Access to a number of in house step down provisions for our care leavers with the aim to develop more provisions 
•    There is a clear focus on education, employment and training designed to help young people of all abilities choose the appropriate route to make the most of their opportunities when they leave care

What will you be doing?
•    Provide a quality social work service that supports children to achieve their potential and achieve positive transitions to adulthood.
•    Effectively manage a number of young people to achieve the best outcomes for them.
•    Model best practice and mentor others.
•    Evidencing a determined commitment to corporate parenting.
•    Working in partnership with children and young people build and sustain relationships, identify needs, and develop plans and responses that meet those needs.

What skills and experience do you need? 
•     Degree in Social Work and current Social Care Wales registration (refer to job and person specification for more information).
•     Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a person-centred approach to building a rapport and relationships with children and families.
•     Ability to reflect on own practice and development enabling flexible and thoughtful social work practice and positive change.
•    Experience of relationship focused social work.

At Wrexham we believe that hard work and commitment to your role should be rewarded, so we offer a package to our social workers that will ensure you always feel supported and valued:

•    Access to a relocation package of up to £5,000

•    Manageable case loads
•    A newly refurbished office space
•    Visible, supportive and determined managers.
•    Diverse range of allocations providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
•    Effective leadership and management which helps to reduce risk for our social workers and the children and families they support
•    Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
•    Access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities.
If you would like to talk to someone informally about this post, please contact Team Manager kim.stewart@wrexham.gov.uk 

What benefits do we offer you?
•    Local Government Pension Scheme
•    Generous annual leave and flexi-time scheme
•    Travel expenses
•    Occupational health service
•    Cycle to work scheme

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.  

An Enhanced DBS check & Social Care Wales registration is required for this position.

We are currently not a licensed sponsor with the Home Office, therefore unfortunately we are not able to sponsor a candidate who will require a visa to take up this role.

The Council welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality, religious belief or age.

The Council is committed to developing its bilingual workforce and welcomes applications from candidates who demonstrate their capability to work in both English and Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.