Social Services for Children

Location: County Offices, Flint, Flintshire

We are now looking to recruit a Senior Practitioner for Flintshire’s Children’s Permanency Team. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children’s Services who work with Looked After Children across Flintshire.

The post holder will need to have a recognised qualification in social work and have proven competence in work within Children’s Services. Effective communication skills including verbal and written are key to this role as is having the ability to create and maintain good working relationships with all parties. 

The post holder will give direct supervision and assistance for social workers in completing relevant reports and supporting them in the court arena. The role requires evidence of effective knowledge of current practices and the expectations of social services in the matter of applied legal and practical skills.

Working with a wide variety of agencies and professionals the role requires commitment, flexibility and a sound working knowledge of the Children’s Act 1989, the Leaving Care Act 2000 and knowledge of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) 2014.

The role demands the ability to build effective relationships with social services teams and forge strong collaborative partnerships with other agencies.  In addition, the successful candidate will evidence a passion and determination to meet the demands of this role

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Successful candidates must be registered with Social Care Wales and as this post will result in you having substantial contact with children, and/or vulnerable adults and will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services check.

For an informal discussion please contact Ronnie McMahon (Permanency Team) on 01352 701075 or Peter Robson (Service Manager) on 01352 701028.

To apply, please visit our website.

The Council recognises that the ability to communicate in Welsh is an important and valuable skill in the workplace and is committed to increasing the numbers of bilingual employees. We welcome applications for any post from candidates who are able to work in both Welsh and English. We will also support new and existing employees who wish to learn Welsh or improve /develop their Welsh language skills

Applications will be considered on a job share, part time or flexible working basis.