Social Worker (Care and Support Team)

Powys County Council; Newtown; Hybride; GBP 42 000 - 44 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Enhanced DBS Check

Disability Confident employer scheme

Market supplement premium (Care &

Résumé du poste

Powys County Council is seeking a Social Worker for the Care and Support Team based in Newtown. You will assess and support children and families to promote safety and long-term permanence within a supportive, multidisciplinary team.

The role offers hybrid working with two remote days, a robust induction, and opportunities for professional growth, supervision, and collaboration across services. A DBS check will be required, and a market supplement may apply.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and engagement with families to promote safe outcomes.
• Ability to identify risks to children and respond with proportionate intervention.
• Experience using a strengths-based model of intervention and familiar with safeguarding processes.

Responsabilités

• Provide a social work service to individual children and young people to keep them safe and achieve permanence.
• Work as part of a team, covering duties on a rotational basis and supporting colleagues.
• Foster good relationships with colleagues and partners to enable effective teamwork.
• Identify risk issues and ensure safeguarding measures are in place to minimise risk.

Connaissances

Communication skills

Risk assessment

Strengths-based approach

Creativity in engagement

Description du poste

Social Worker (Care and Support Team)

Company: Powys County Council

Salary: £42,123 to £44,253 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Y Drenewydd

Working pattern: Hybrid - 2 days remote

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 30 Oct 2026

Closing date: 23 Nov 2026

Summary

Location - North Powys

About the role

The work of the Care and Support Team focuses on children, young people, and their families where there has been a Social Work assessment and where they have been identified as needing additional services. This may be children in need of protection, care and support or families in the Public Law Outline (PLO) process or in court proceedings. There is a mixed skill base within the team of experienced Social Workers and Wellbeing Workers. Day-to-day the team is well supported by 2 Team Co‑Ordinator’s who assist with a number of tasks including organising and minuting meetings, preparing chronologies and other general business support. As a team we are committed to supporting the professional development and career progression of every team member.

The Fostering Team oversees all aspects of the fostering role from recruitment and retention of mainstream foster carers, plus the assessment and support of friends and family that foster. Supervising social workers have manageable caseloads, receive a robust induction, have regular reflective supervision as well as additional support and mentoring when required.

About you

• You will be able to provide appropriate support to children and families, using your enthusiasm and motivation to promote successful outcomes.
• You will be skilful and confident in your communication with others so as to sustain engagement with families in fluctuating circumstances, including where there is hostility and risk.
• You will be creative in your work with children and adopt the use of tools to encourage them to share their wishes and feelings.
• You will require a wide range of knowledge and skills to identify the full range of risks to children and help manage those risks; ensuring proportionate and timely intervention is provided. Help build family relationships and identify individuals support networks.
• You will need to adopt a strengths-based model of intervention and experience in using this model would be desirable.

What you will do

• To provide a social work service to individual children and young people with a view to keeping them safe and enabling them to achieve to their fullest potential within a setting that provides legal permanence.
• To work as part of a team, undertaking tasks on a duty rotational basis, and providing cover for absent colleagues.
• To foster and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and partners that enable the team to work effectively.
• To identify risk issues in relation to the circumstances of individual children, and to ensure that there is safeguarding in place in order to minimise risk.

This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

An additional market supplement premium applies to Care & Support, Through Care and Assessment Teams – this will be discussed at interview