Social Worker – Friends & Family Team

Location: Guildhall, Swansea, SA1 4PE
Contract: 3 months
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Working pattern: Hybrid – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday in the office, Monday & Friday working remotely
Pay rate: £30.50 per hour PAYE / £38.43 per hour Umbrella
Employer: Swansea Council

About the Role

Hoop Social Work are currently recruiting for an experienced Social Worker to join the Friends & Family Team within Swansea Council’s Children & Family Services Directorate.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Social Worker with experience in kinship care, fostering, connected persons or permanence work to join a specialist and supportive team for an initial 3-month contract.

About the Team

The Friends & Family Fostering Team is a specialist kinship care service, supporting children who are unable to live with their parents to remain safely within their wider family or friendship network wherever possible.

The team undertakes a varied range of assessment, support and permanence work, including:

• Connected Persons and Family & Friends fostering assessments

• Special Guardianship assessments and support reviews

• Viability assessments

• Full fostering assessments

• Annual reviews

• Supervision and suppo