Principal Social Worker | Fostering Team | Cardiff | £41.50ph

Company: Tripod Partners
Apply for the Principal Social Worker | Fostering Team | Cardiff | £41.50ph
Location: Cardiff
Job Description:

Principal Social Worker needed for the Fostering Team in Cardiff, paying up to £41.50 ph!

  • Job Title: Principal Social Worker
  • Team: Fostering
  • Employer: Cardiff Council
  • Rate: £41.50 per hour

About The Role:

This is a non-case holding position offering the opportunity to combine strategic planning and service development with involvement in day-to-day practice matters. Working closely with the Service Manager, you will help ensure the delivery of a consistently high-quality fostering service, tailored to meet the needs of both kinship and mainstream foster carers.

You will play a key role in supporting staff, promoting best practice and ensuring assessments and service delivery meet the required standards.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and support the development of fostering practice and service performance.
  • Undertake quality assurance of fostering assessments completed by internal and external assessors.
  • Provide supervision, guidance and support to staff within the fostering service.
  • Maintain a strong working knowledge of fostering legislation, regulations and guidance.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the fostering panel process and its role within the service.
  • Contribute to strategic planning, service improvement and the development of effective fostering provision.
  • Work alongside the Service Manager to develop tailored support for kinship and mainstream foster carers.
  • Promote high standards of practice, safeguarding and quality across the service.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

  • Your own dedicated specialist consultant
  • Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
  • Prompt and reliable payroll
  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • £500 referral fee

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Posted: October 18th, 2026