Children's Enhanced Social Worker

Children’s Enhanced Social Worker – Wrexham County Borough Council
Salary: £38.43 per hour (Umbrella) / £28.70 per hour (PAYE) – All Wales Pledge
Team: Assessment and Intervention Team
Contract: Full time - Initially 12 weeks

Working with Wrexham County Borough Council, We are seeking a motivated and skilled Children’s Enhanced Social Worker to join their Assessment and Intervention Team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where you will make a real difference to children, adults at risk, and their families.

About the Role As part of the Assessment and Intervention Team, you will:

• Conduct Section 47 enquiries and comprehensive assessments.
• Manage an allocated caseload, delivering routine interventions and escalating complex cases requiring higher-level professional input.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to provide support to children, adults, and their families, ensuring risks are identified and minimised.
• Consolidate and develop your skills through mentoring, guidance, and professional supervision, taking on increasing responsibility and independent decision-making.
• Undertake assessments, design care and support plans (including education plans), and recommend appropriate support from internal and external providers.
• Apply social work techniques to meet the needs of children, adults, families, and carers, ensuring all plans are evidence-based, recorded, reviewed, and updated.
• Participate in a duty rota, responding effectively to urgent cases, assessing risks, and coordinating immediate responses while working in partnership with other professionals.

What We’re Looking For

• Social work qualification and Social Care Wales registration.
• Experience in children’s social care, including Section 47 enquiries.
• Ability to manage complex caseloads, prioritise effectively, and make sound professional decisions.
• Strong communication and partnership skills to work with children, adults, families, carers, and other professionals.
• Commitment to delivering child- and family-centred practice.

Why apply?

• Be part of a supportive, experienced team with mentoring and professional development opportunities.
• Work on a varied and meaningful caseload that will challenge and develop your professional skills.
• Make a direct impact on the lives of children, adults, and families in Wrexham.

If you are passionate about safeguarding and supporting children and families, and want to develop your career in a dynamic and rewarding environment, we would love to hear from you. You can apply online, send me your most recent CV to Nicola.mansfield@servicecare.org.uk or call me on 01772 208964. If you know of anyone that meets the requirements for this role, pass them my detiails and ask then to contact me to today.