Worker – Children Services (Grade 9) – Social Care Qualified

Job Description

Job Category : Social Care Qualified
Location : Godfrey Road , Newport, South Wales, NP20 4UR, Newport City Council
Hours Per Week : 37
Start Date : Immediate start
Salary: £30.50 per hour
Newport City Council Childrens Services are seeking inspirational and dynamic social worker who is able to make positive contributions to transform the lives of the families we work with. You will work within a service focused on person-centred and strength based approaches committed to achieving Wellbeing outcomes that enable families to safely live together.

Newport is a great place to live and work, being geographically a small City with a diverse population of which 35,000 are children and young people. Newport is situated on the M4 corridor and is located between Bristol and Cardiff with excellent transport links further afield. The strengths of working and living in Newport are that it is a growing city, one that is developing at a fast rate whilst still providing opportunity to access affordable housing, good schools and excellent community resources. We are proud to have a stable workforce of dedicated staff.. Unique benefits are our effective Prevention and HUB services, the dedicated Mentoring and Consultation team, our partnership arrangement with Barnardo’s to deliver joint interventions to families as well as comparatively low, stable, caseloads, regular individual and group supervision and the opportunities for excellent career development and training opportunities.

This is a social work post. It is 37hr per week Monday to Friday.

Every Friday the office is closed, therefore staff either use Friday as a working from home day and complete admin tasks, or there are partnering locations that staff can work from, such as Newport Library.