Senior Practitioner

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Contractual hours 37

Basis Full time

Package Grade

Job category/type Social Work – Adults/Children

Date posted 09/07/2026

Job reference 18941

37 hours per week

Temporary – 2 years

Due to further expansion in the Kinship & Permanence team, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Social Work Practitioner to join our friendly and dynamic Kinship & Permanence team. The role focusses on supporting kinship carers to become Special Guardians to achieve permanence for their kinship children through comprehensive and evidence‑based assessments and robust support planning and reviewing.

In this rewarding role you will be committed to working with kinship carers in a strength‑based and compassionate way, demonstrating your established knowledge and experience of working within a kinship care/children’s service at a senior level including compliance and quality assurance monitoring. As a senior practitioner, you can expect to be liaising closely with Managers at various levels, our legal department, and other children’s Social Work teams.

A proven ability to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships through excellent communication will support a successful application.

To ensure that we consistently meet the needs of our kinship carers, the children in their care and their families, an important part of your role will be to have oversight of the day to day operational tasks ensuring we are meeting our compliance and legal timescales, working with the Team Manager to contribute to the development of the service. You may also be asked to provide supervision to Social Work Assistants as and when required.

To support you in this exciting and rewarding role, you will receive a robust induction, high quality, regular supervision as well as professional encouragement to access training and career opportunities. Whilst we are a Signs of Safety Local Authority, previous training and experience of the model is not a requirement as we provide favourable training and a dedicated officer to support the teams to integrate the model into their everyday working arrangements.

We understand that social workers undertake challenging, yet rewarding, duties everyday and as a local authority we value the resilience and passion demonstrated on a regular basis by our teams.

• We operate a convenient flexible working and hybrid working model, allowing you to maximise your time in line with your personal priorities.
• We are committed to promoting the health, safety, and wellbeing of our employees, and provide you access to a free Employee Assistance Programme which includes a confidential 24/7 counselling line and support specialists.
• As a valued member of staff, you will have access to a generous pension scheme and exclusive discounts and rewards.
• A monthly Health and Wellbeing newsletter with various initiatives and strategies to raise awareness and encourage a healthy workplace for you and your team.

The Kinship and Permanence Team is co‑located with the General Fostering and Placements Team, Care Experienced Children and 15+ teams to enable effective collaborative working, based in the Civic Offices. We are a team of 16.5 staff comprising of Team manager, Deputy Team Manager, Senior Practitioner, Supervising Social Workers, Reunification Support Workers, a Social Work Assistant, as well as having dedicated Business Support staff.

We are a forward thinking, creative, supportive, and friendly team who are passionate about kinship care, if you share our passion we would love to hear from you and you can expect a warm welcome when you join us.

The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

An Enhanced Children and Adults Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.

A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.