Principal Social Worker

All of our frontline positions attract a market supplement of £5000 per annum additional to the stated salary paid monthly on top of your wages.

If you are interested in any of our roles here in Cardiff, would like an informal discussion with one of our manager’s or an opportunity to hear more about Cardiff Social Work Teams please don’t hesitate to contact Laura white on

Cardiff are seeking to build upon the success of recruiting social workers by ensuring that we have the very best principal social workers to coach and support our workers, enabling them to grow and develop. In pursuit of this we have increased the number of principal social workers are seeking to recruit permanent workers with a passion and drive to delivery only the ‘very best’ service to our children and their families and carers.

The proverb ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ is as relevant to a major city such as Cardiff as it is anywhere – the challenge is to identify, engage and work collaboratively with our communities to achieve this. Cardiff’s locality model allows social workers and support staff to work within the local communities and get to know the specific needs of the communities we support.

Working in partnership with other statutory and non-statutory agencies and the 3 rd sector we provide the right level of assistance to our families at the right time, empowering families to reach out to these support networks in order to reduce the long term needs of individuals and the communities they live in.

Cardiff as the capital of Wales offers not only the experience of working in a vibrant, and successful city but also offers easy access to the fabulous South Wales region’s coastline and countryside with worldwide standing. Whether you choose to live in the city or within commuting distance, you have plenty of choice in accommodation, with excellent transport routes. For those practitioners seeking to broaden their experience working with Children and their families, Cardiff has so much to offer, through exciting opportunities to develop practice knowledge in areas that can only be found in the capital city, working with children and families from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.

Cardiff is a forward thinking organisation that is looking at innovative ways of working with flexibility to work at home, in the office and supporting safe face-to-face contact with families and children.

Cardiff Children’s services are leaders in practice and have been chosen as the location for key pilot projects including Family Drug and Alcohol Courts. We are forward thinking and seeking to embrace new models of working to ensure success in supporting children and young people experiencing mental health crisis and children involved with criminal exploitation. Our new ways of working have led us to develop multi-disciplinary teams.

Cardiff supports the learning and development of individuals through leadership and management development opportunities whilst actively involving staff in the auditing and review of proactive learning that enables continuous development of the service and individuals within a nurturing and supportive culture.

There is a key focus on shifting the balance of care ensuring that only those children for whom risks cannot be mitigated are placed outside their family network. This is being achieved through clear analysis of the presenting issues and seeking to tailor support to meet the needs of family which might include daily support in the home and or the use of respite.

Cardiff are committed to working with families through statutory intervention and sharing parental responsibility only where the risks dictate and not as a result of access to resources/services.

You will support children and young people through robust assessment, outcome focused planning and effective intervention to support them in achieving positive outcomes within their families and communities. Working within a restorative practice approach, you will work in partnership with families and multi-agency colleagues in intervening to address both the presenting concerns and underlying difficulties.

This is an exciting…