We are recruiting Social Workers at Caerphilly County Borough Council.
Working hours: 37 hoursContract Type: Permanent, Full TimeLocation: Various Locations throughout the borough This is an exciting opportunity to join Team Caerphilly and provide support across the wider Childrens Services. We pay an attractive salary of £36,648 - £39,186 (with an additional £3,441 market supplement to be paid in 12 instalments) and offer access to training and development opportunities. Caerphilly County Borough Council's Children Services Locality Teams are looking for full time Social Workers in Caerphilly East, Caerphilly West and Blackwood Team, who have the right values, motivation, and commitment to work in a challenging, yet rewarding environment.
If you are a qualified social worker, or are due to qualify this year, come to work in Caerphilly and be supported on your social work journey.
We welcome applications from third year social work students. Successful applicants will be offered the opportunity of starting as unqualified support workers. Once qualified, they will then be appointed as social workers.
If you are effective at building positive working relationships, have good communication and IT skills and have a genuine passion and commitment to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families, we want to hear from you. We work collaboratively to promote "what matters" with children and their families.
Caerphilly Children Services have strong links to the Gwent Attachment Service and Caerphilly has invested in MyST therapeutic service, which provides intensive support to our Children who are Looked After.
We will provide you with the following: -
There are six geographically located Children Services teams. The teams undertake high quality assessments and care management of children and their families who have been assessed as requiring on going social services intervention. The teams cover both short- and long-term work, including Children in Need of Care and Support, Children Looked After, Child Protection and court work.
For the role, we ask that you have:
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 Carol Davies on 01443 86475 or email [email protected]
Previous applicants need not re-apply.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
We are legally required to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Successful applicants are required to provide appropriate documentation such as a birth certificate, passport or work permit in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
If you have any difficulty applying online, please contact [email protected] for further information.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all successful applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
You must possess a Diploma/Degree in Social Work or predecessor and be registered as a Social Worker with Social Care Wales (or able to transfer from another recognised body). The current registration requirements state that completion of the Consolidation of Practice qualification within your first 3 years of practice is mandatory (if you qualified after 1st April 2016). Failure to successfully complete this qualification will result in you being unable to renew your Social Work Registration or practice as a Social Worker.
This post attracts a Market Supplement of £3,441 per annum, in addition to the annual salary, which will be paid in 12 monthly instalments.