Social Worker, Community Health

Cardiff benefits from being the capital city of Wales, offering Social Workers the opportunity to work with a highly diverse population with a variety of care and support needs. As the largest local authority in Wales we support nearly 5000 individuals to live well, offering them a person‑centred support structure to ensure they can meet their own needs and outcomes.

Adult Community Services is our largest team in Cardiff supporting anyone over the age of 18 with physical disabilities and older people. The teams are made up of community and hospital based Social Workers who offer services for individuals and families from the first time they need support from Adult Social Services throughout their journey with us. Working alongside a wider multi‑disciplinary team, including Occupational Therapy teams, Social Work Assistants, Day Centre teams and Health colleagues we find solutions to best support individuals to achieve their outcomes.

We have contractual relationships with a wide range of home care providers, offering care and support throughout Cardiff and residential care homes, ensuring that all options can be available to best meet an individual’s needs.

Within the Adult Community Services there are a number of teams who ensure that individuals are supported in the right place at the right time:

• First Point of Contact Social Work team / Adult Assessment
• Hospitals Team
• Case Management team
• Review Team
• Community Duty Team

This role currently attracts a market supplement of £3,000 (full time equivalent), reviewed annually.

This post is for a Grade 8 Senior Social Worker, working within our Community Duty Team.

The service area is made up of a variety of team members, including newly qualified Social Workers and experienced Social Workers, Social Work Assistants, senior Social Workers, Team Managers and a Service Manager.

This specific role will give you the opportunity to further develop your social work skills within a professional, supportive, creative, and hard‑working team.

You will be carrying out direct citizen support which can sometimes involve dealing with complex situations. You will have the opportunity to support other colleagues within the team in a supervisory capacity whilst providing ongoing support to the Team Manager and Service Manager as needed. There is an expectation that you will be committed to service development and form part of a wider decision‑making group of professionals looking at the strategic development of this area.

Wales’s vibrant capital city offers you the opportunity to work within the largest and most diverse community in Wales. Our Adult Services teams support over 5000 individuals and offer a wide range of professional opportunities for both newly qualified and experienced Social Workers. You will join a team that specialises in supporting older people and individuals with physical disabilities and which is committed to strengths based, preventative social work, supporting people to live fulfilled lives and to remain as independent as possible.

As a Cardiff Social Worker, you will have access to a comprehensive range of resources and support to continue your professional development and to help you become the best Social Worker you can be. We take the welfare of our staff seriously and we strive to deliver positive working arrangements that support our amazing workforce to feel respected and valued.

• A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days per year to a maximum of 32 days per year after 5 years, with the option to purchase additional annual leave to a maximum of 10 days.
• With effect from 1st April 2023, this role attracts a market supplement of £3,000 (full time equivalent). This payment is reviewed on a 12 monthly basis.
• Our working culture is flexible, with a flexi scheme allowing you to work to a schedule that suits you, including access to office sites throughout the city.
• Hybrid working – supporting you to flexibly deliver your role whether on visits, from an office or your home.
• Access to the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Pension Fund which is part of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS),…