Cardiff Council

About Us

We understand that our services for children, young people and families are only as good as our staff, and we are committed to creating an environment where you will be challenged and supported to be the best you can be, and where you can flourish and add real value to children’s lives.

We are ambitious for our children and young people across all communities in Cardiff, and we are looking for social care professionals who share our vision. We work in partnership with highly trained and skilled early help and prevention services and other partner agencies to ensure that we are working collectively to help achieve good outcomes for families from the very moment referrals are made to our services.

Cardiff is a diverse city with a large multicultural population which can be reflected in our diverse range of social work skills and opportunities where you can be at the cutting edge of working with children and families for a range of different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. The training available to our staff is excellent to ensure that we position your needs and career development at the very top of our service priorities. We truly believe that developing and looking after our staff at all levels fosters the committed outcome led and highly skilled workforce evidenced in Cardiff.

There is important work to do here, and we are proud of our staff and the services we provide to children, young people and families in all of our local communities. I hope that you will consider Cardiff as a place to continue to develop your career in a dynamic, strength based social care workforce and look forward to welcoming you as part of Cardiff Children Services.

What it’s like to work for us?

Working with children, young people and their families is one of the most important and rewarding jobs, the right person can make the biggest difference to children young people and families lives. That is why Cardiff Council has set itself a standard to attract and retain high calibre social care professionals, supporting our city’s most vulnerable children and young people.

Cardiff is a forward-thinking organisation that is looking at remote and innovative ways of working with flexibility to work at home, in the office and supporting safe face-to-face contact with families and children.

Cardiff supports the learning and development of individuals through leadership and management development opportunities whilst actively involving staff in the auditing and review of proactive learning that enables continuous development of the service and individuals within a nurturing and supportive culture.

The type of jobs we recruit for?

Social Care Roles in Children's Services, everything from our qualifying Social Worker roles down to the administrative posts which are crucial to the day to day running of our service area.
Social Worker
Principal Social Care Worker
Social Work Team Manager
Senior Residential Childcare Officers
Residential Childcare Officers
Waking Night Childcare Officers
Foster Carers
Administrative posts

Benefits

Flexible schedule
Work from home
On-site parking
Casual dress
Company pension
Sick pay
Additional leave
Bike to work scheme