Senior Practitioner

**Senior Practitioner - Parenting and Family Support Team**:
**Closing date**: 14/11/2025

**Reference**: REQ106320
- 37 hours / Permanent
- 42,839 - 45,091 *
- Penmorfa, Aberaeron
- *All salary values are pro-rata.
- About the role

This position qualifies for a market supplement payment of £200 per month. Please note this additional payment will be reviewed on 31 March 2026.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Social Worker to join the Parenting and Family Support Team on a full-time basis.

The Parenting and Family Support Team provides support for families that enables them to improve wellbeing, resilience, family relationships and reach their potential. The Team focusses on Early Intervention and includes the following provisions:

- Team Around the Family
- Flying Start
- Parenting Support
- Children’s and Families Centres.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated professional who can:

- assist the Team Manager in the delivery of effective and efficient day-to-day operations throughout the team
- supervise and manage Team Members alongside the Team manager
- contribute to the decision making process around stepping cases down from and up to statutory provision
- promote a quality ethos within all aspects of the team’s operations, in line with the legislative and Council’s Quality Assurance framework

Our offer to you

We are committed to developing our people and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role’s key areas of responsibility but in addition, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.

In exchange for your skills and commitment we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible working, competitive annual leave allowance, pension scheme with 14.6% employer contribution, enhanced family benefits, lifestyle savings and employee health and wellbeing packages.

More information about our wide-ranging employee benefits can be found here.

We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:

- Hybrid Working: Subject to certain conditions being met, you may choose to work from home or in an office location. Due to the nature of the role, it will be necessary for you to travel within Ceredigion on a regular basis.

Job Description and Person Specification

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- What we offer
- Work-life balance
- Lifestyle savings scheme
- Generous employer pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Learning and development
- Where you'll work

**Porth Cymorth Cynnar - Community Wellbeing and Learning**

We provide early help, prevention and intervention services to a range of groups and individuals across the County. Our aim is to identify need and offer support before issues and concerns become too great and more formal intervention is needed. Our key functions include:

- Lifelong Learning and Skills
- Leisure & Wellbeing
- Early Intervention Services
- Support and Prevention Services
- Ceredigion Pupil Referral Unit

**Penmorfa**

Penmorfa is our most central office, it is where our Chief Executive and Councillors are based.
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**Aberaeron**

Aberaeron is a picture perfect harbour town and is one of Ceredigion's best loved holiday destinations with fashionable places to stay and eat.