Social work in Salford

Create a great future for yourself and help us to build a great future for the people who need our services.

Working in social care is infinitely rewarding and challenging, with enough variety to keep you engaged and motivated throughout a lifelong career.

Whether you begin your great future in our Community, Health and Social Care directorate, working to promote choice and maintain independence with vulnerable older people, people with a disability or mental ill-health, or in our Children's Services directorate, improving the life chances of children and families, you will be making a real difference to people's lives from day one.

We are currently recruiting Children's Services social workers to help us achieve our ambition of building a brighter future for children in the city.

We’ve got solid, concrete plans in place to improve our children’s services, and we’re looking for social workers to come with us on our journey.

If you are passionate about helping children and are committed to excellent practice we want to hear from you! In exchange we can offer you a supportive environment in which to develop a rich and rewarding career.

What you can expect from us:

• A desirable package and benefits
• Clear management support / supervision policy
• A commitment to suitable caseload management
• Induction and mentoring
• Clearly laid out career pathways
• Training and development

These webpages will give you more information about being a social worker in Salford. Use the links on the left hand side to find out what we can offer you and if this sounds attractive you can apply for our current vacancies. You can also request a call back if you’d like to speak to somebody about these opportunities.

Alternatively you can leave us your details and we will contact you when a more suitable vacancy becomes available.

This page was last updated on 20 October 2011