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Senior Practitioner - Help and Protection, Children in Care, and Fostering teams

Coventry City Council • Coventry, West Midlands

Salary

£43k – £43k

Posted

16 August 2026

Work mode

Full-time

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Coventry City Council is hiring a Senior Practitioner - Help and Protection, Children in Care, and Fostering teams in Coventry, a full-time social work role advertised as permanent. The advertised salary is £43k – £43k. Coventry City Council holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Join an ‘Outstanding’ Children’s Service Looking for your next step in social work? Join a service where children, families and social workers are at the heart of everything we do. Coventry Children’s Services is proud to be rated Outstanding by Ofsted, a reflection of the passion, dedication and ambition of our teams across the city. We are committed to creating the very best outcomes for children and young people, while also ensuring our workforce feels valued, supported and empowered to thri…

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Coventry City Council — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £43k – £43k
How this salary compares: about 43% above the £30,000 median across 1,928 social work roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Coventry, West Midlands · Full-time
Similar roles nearby: 11 other live social work roles in Coventry — browse them
Posted: 16 August 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

About this sector

Social work and care is a high-volume sponsorship category driven by persistent demand for care assistants, senior care workers, registered nurses in care settings, and qualified social workers. Many care home operators and domiciliary care providers hold active sponsor licences and recruit internationally on a regular basis.