Our Occupational Therapy Team works with cases ranging from elderly reablement to young people with disabilities. We continue to invest in our service, with a staffing structure that supports career progression and continued professional development.
We currently have a number of vacancies due to exciting developments within the service leading to an expansion of the staff team.
If you are motivated and enthusiastic about continually improving services for older people, vulnerable adults, children, young people and their families, then we can offer you regular supervision and support, together with opportunities for personal development and training to enable you to provide a high quality service.
Support will be given for those with less experience to develop their skills and competencies.
These posts require qualifications in Social Care to Level 4 and are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
For an informal discussion about the posts please contact Cressida Travis or Joanna Maddison on 01978 298003 / 298008
The Council welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality, religious belief or age.
The Council is committed to developing its bilingual workforce and welcomes applications from candidates who demonstrate their capability to work in both English and Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
As Wrexham prepares to celebrate its first month as a city, in style, we have some more exciting news to share with you!
You may have heard that plans are now progressing to build a brand new Football Museum for Wales alongside a fully revamped Wrexham Museum on Regent Street.
The new ‘museum of two halves’ is going to be a major new national attraction for Wrexham City Centre, celebrating Welsh football, past and present, in all its diversity, alongside an enhanced, first-class venue for discovering the fascinating and eventful story of our region of north-east Wales.
View the plans and meet the team
So you may be wondering: What will these new museums look like? What exciting new features could the building have? What kind of exhibits are going to be on display in the galleries?
You’ll soon be able to find out! A special open day event is going to be held at Wrexham Museum on Tuesday 13th September.
The event will be an opportunity to view large scale, illustrated displays of the design plans for the new museums.
You’ll also be able to speak to the project design team in person, ask questions and offer feedback and suggestions.
This will be family friendly event. The new museums are being designed to appeal to visitors of all ages so we’d love to see as many children and families as possible coming along to come see the plans and let us know what they think!
Public feedback has helped ‘inform latest design plans’
Cllr Paul Roberts, Lead Member for Partnerships and Community Safety said: “The design team have been making great progress with the plans for the new museums so we’re delighted to offer this opportunity for the public to come and view the proposals up close and speak to the team in person.
“Over 500 people took part in the public consultation last year. The feedback received has helped inform the latest design plans and we’ve also assembled a number of specialist and community focus groups who are working closely with us throughout the project.”
“This is a huge development for Wrexham city centre which promises to attract new visitors from around the country and beyond so I hope as many people as possible will make the most of the opportunity to view the plans at this key stage of its development.”
Get involved – where and when
The open day event will take place on Tuesday13th September at Wrexham Museum on Regent Street.
There will be two opportunities to attend on the day. An afternoon session from 1.30pm-3.30pm and an evening session from 6pm-8pm. Everyone is welcome to attend either session – or both.
And if the idea of a Football Museum in Wrexham has made you go all warm and fuzzy inside, you won’t want to miss Wrexham Museum’s new exhibition – Shirt Stories: A shirt by shirt history of Welsh Football – opening on 17th September.
You can find out more about the ‘Museum of Two Halves’ project on the Wrexham Museum website.
We’ll be supporting the Merchant Navy on FRIDAY 2nd September by flying the Red Ensign to honour the brave men and women who have served in the Merchant Navy during the two world wars, and who continue to serve, to ensure we have supplies to keep our island nation afloat.
The Merchant Navy suffered the very first casualty of the second world war when the S.S. Athenia, a merchant vessel that was torpedoed with the loss of 128 passengers and crew just hours after hostilities were declared. Since then the 3 September has been acknowledged as Merchant Navy Day-however we will be flying the Red Ensign a day early on the 2nd September this year as the flags will change to mark the Royal Welsh Freedom Parade taking place on 3 September
As an “island nation” the UK relies on Merchant Navy seafarers for 95% of our imports, including half the food we eat. The UK has the largest ports industry in Europe. 75% of our exports (by volume) are shipped from UK ports, some of which are supporting the campaign by encouraging visiting ships to sound their horns at 10 am on 3 September.
There will be a short flag-raising ceremony on Friday 2 September at 11.00 outside the main entrance to the Guildhall.
“It’s important to acknowledge the loyal service and pay tribute to all those that have served, or are serving in the Merchant Navy, their work makes an incredible contribution towards the wellbeing and economy of our nation. On behalf of Wrexham County a big ‘Diolch’ (thank you) from us all.”
Wrexham Council continues to make improvements to social services.
The report follows a full inspection by CIW in June of this year, which included a detailed assessment of services provided by the council.
The report highlights:
The improvement journey children’s social services has been on since 2019.
Commitment across the council – from senior leaders, managers and politicians – to provide appropriate resources for an “ambitious and child-focused service that promotes the wellbeing of children.”
The successful appointment of people to senior departmental posts, and the positive impact this has had on culture, expectations and standards.
Strong working relationships with other agencies, and positive changes to mental health support services.
Positive progress
Councillor Rob Walsh, Lead Member for Children’s Services, says:
“The report recognises the progress we’ve made in children’s social care, while providing us with a continued focus on where we need to improve.
“One of the key things that CIW recognise is the commitment across the council to improve and appropriately resource services. This has played a key part in helping us move forward.
“However there’s still work to be done. For example, we need look at how outcomes are considered and how social workers are assigned to the children we support.
“Our improvement plans will help us put renewed focus on these areas.”
CIW notes that “some progress has been made resulting in developments to practice and better outcomes for children”
Good practice in Adult Services
The inspection also highlighted many positive areas of work in adult social care, including:
“Good examples of effective and timely response to adult safeguarding reports.”
Good multi-agency working with partner organisations.
Councillor John Pritchard, Lead Member for Adult Social Care, says:
“The report highlights several areas of good practice, which is really positive.
“It also confirms what we need to focus on next – including the need to create better access to services like occupational therapy and domiciliary care.
“These are the things we’ll be focusing on now, and we’ll make the improvements needed as we move forwards.”
Commitment and dedication
Councillor Mark Pritchard, Leader of the Council, says:
“I’m pleased that the CIW Inspection Report acknowledges the commitment and dedication of the Chief Officer for Social Care and all of the staff who have been involved to take this forward.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all councillors who supported the budget, which then allowed us to put extra funding of over £10m into Social Care within Wrexham.
“I recognise that in Wrexham we are on an improvement journey and we must continue to protect the most vulnerable people within our communities.”
If you’ve just finished school or college, or you’re just entering the world of work, and you’re not sure what to do next, why not join Wrexham Council as an apprentice?
There’s a huge range of jobs and careers at the council, and an apprenticeship can be a great way to start out.
You can learn skills on the job, earn a wage and take your first steps towards your chosen career.
We have some exciting new apprenticeships across a range of services, including:
Education & Early Intervention Services
Finance & ICT
Customer Service & Digital
Housing
Social Care
HR, Performance and Improvement
Economy & Planning
You’ll get varied and valuable work experience, and lots of support from colleagues keen to help you start your career in local government.
You’ll work towards a nationally recognised qualification in an area of interest to you.
Apprenticeships last for two years and can often lead to further career opportunities at the council.
Take your first step today.
Opening doors
Councillor Beverley Parry-Jones, Lead Member for Corporate Services, says:
“We want more people to consider careers in local government, and we’re very excited to offer this opportunity.
“Those first steps into the world of work can be difficult and confusing, but an apprenticeship is a great starting point.
“You will gain valuable work and life experience, earn a wage and work towards qualifications that will help you in your future career.
“Maybe you’ve just finished school or college and you’re thinking about you’re next move, or you’re just starting out in employment for other reasons.
“Either way, an apprenticeship could be a great option – opening lots of doors for you, and giving you the opportunity to reach your full potential and achieve your aspirations.
“It’s also a great way for us to identify fresh talent, and recruit people with the right skills and attitude to deliver key services for the people of Wrexham.”
How to apply
The closing date for applications is September 9 (2022), so don’t hang about. Apply now to start in October.
We’d like to pass on our warm congratulations to all our students who received their GCSE results today.
Cllr Phil Wynn, Lead Member for Education said: “Every pupil receiving their GCSE results today should be proud of their achievements. “I wish you all well as you head on to further education, work or training.”
Karen Evans, Wrexham’s Head of Education said: “On behalf of Wrexham Council I would like to congratulate all the students collecting their grades today and thank our teaching staff, parents and guardians in supporting them.”
GwE the North Wales regional school improvement service working alongside and on behalf of the North Wales local authorities said: “The 6 North Wales Local Authorities and GwE would like to congratulate all learners on their achievements in this year’s GCSE examinations.
“We would like to wish all young people the very best for the future and acknowledge the support they have received from their schools, families and local authorities through the challenges of the last few years which have been unprecedented.”
Something tells us that we’re about to have a bit more interest in Wrexham over the next few weeks…and years…so to anyone just finding out about Wrexham “iawn/helo/hello/Croeso/Welcome!”
We’d like to share a few interesting things about us that you may not know.
Explaining “Who we are” better than we can put into words is local poet Evrah Rose who collaborated on a track recently with Welsh Beatboxer Mr Phormula as part of our City of Culture bid – ‘La-We are Wrexham’
There are two ways of spelling Wrexham/Wrecsam. An English way and a Welsh way. We like both. If you’re interested in seeing what this looks like in Welsh you can click HERE
Wrexham Culture: Historically a market town with a rich industrial past, football, art, the Welsh language, poetry, food and music all play an important role in providing Wrexham with its unique identity. Many of these themes converge at Ty Pawb, Wrexham’s culture hub and recent finalist for museum of the year.
Later in the year Wrexham will host Wal Goch Festival Wal GOCH, a global festival celebrating football culture as well as a National Theatre Wales multi-location, interactive, collaborative production exploring the theme of ‘home,’ with the research for the performance being years in the making.
By far the biggest cultural event to be held annually in Wrexham is the Focus Wales-an international multi-venue showcase festival, which places the music industry spotlight firmly on the emerging talent that Wales has to offer the world, alongside a selection of the best new acts from across the globe. Earlier this year poet Ifor Ab Glyn who was at the time National Poet for Wales penned and performed a poem (in Welsh) about the festival
Welcoming: Wrexham has a history of welcoming new faces and cultures. There are over 70 languages spoken here with the most popular being Welsh, English, Polish and Portuguese (but not necessarily in that order).
Wrexham is a designated ‘Town of Sanctuary’ and we recently asked some of our residents what they love about Wrexham and how they would describe Wrexham.
City Status: Wrexham has recently been awarded City Status.
City of Culture: (not to be confused with city status) and Wrexham county became runner up for the ‘City of Culture’ title in 2025.
As part of the competition a ‘massive banner’ was put up on the Kop end of the Racecourse (you may have spotted it).
And even the Cymru football team showed their support!
Our bid logo featured the Welsh spelling of ‘Wrecsam,’ the ‘coaldust’ was a nod to our industrial past and the bright colours used represented our vibrant and diverse communities. You can see what else we got up to by searching #Wrecsam2025 and or by watching us on @the one show
The race to find the next City of Culture is on! 🙌🏴
Home of football in Wales: Our national team the Football Association of Wales (FAW Cymru) was formed during a meeting at the Wynnstay Hotel located in the Centre of Wrexham in February 1876. Since that date Wrexham has had close ties to the FAW with many players coming from the region and several Wrexham born players featuring in the current squad.
From our national squad to grass roots, football is something us Wrexhamites have a passion for. Even our local police have a team! Here they are playing against local multi award winning Bellevue FC (Another brilliant Wrexham based team that we are very proud of) – with commentary kindly provided by our local radio station Calon FM
The hope is that as the development of the Racecourse progresses we will once again be able to watch international football in Wrexham, the spiritual home of Welsh football. Most fans won’t remember the last time Wales qualified for a World cup back in 1958 (With a goal from non-other than the great Pele putting us out of the competition).
However Wales qualifying for this year’s world cup in Qatar has put a huge sense of pride across our football mad county and nation! There are several fan zones planned around Wrexham for the tournament and we think that it’s going to be one of the best places in the world to watch Cymru Play!
In September we also have a busy schedule of events to enjoy including a free live performance from Wrexham’s own The Royston Club…further details HERE
We like to turn Water into Cold beer: ‘Lager Town’ was Wrexham’s nickname for years. At one time there were 19 breweries in the town and the eldest was Wrexham Lager Beer Company that started operations in 1881. Two immigrants from Germany, Otto Isler and Ivan Levinstein set up the Wrexham lager beer company and introduced a cooling process so that the beer could be served chilled-it’s argued that this was the first place in the UK to do so!
The reason so much beer was brewed in Wrexham was the good supply of water under the town, and the water being rich in minerals. The original Wrexham Lager was even reported to be aboard the Titanic!
We have a Unesco world heritage site dubbed “The stream in the sky”: Described by Unesco as ‘a masterpiece of creative genius’ the highlight of the 11 mile Unsesco world heritage site is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Designed by architect Thomas Telford, construction started on the Aqueduct in 1795 and completed in 1805. You may have to calm your nerves to walk, take a canal boat or even canoe from one side to the other. More information is available here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/pontcysyllte-aqueduct-world-heritage-site
We are lucky to have many historically important buildings in and around Wrexham including:
Councillor Nigel Williams, Wrexham Council’s Lead Member for Economy speaking about the Welcome to Wrexham said:
“This is a really good thing for Wrexham and part of an incredible story about two Hollywood actors and their impact on a North Wales community.
“Football is a huge part of who we are as people, and to many the club is the beating heart of Wrexham. There’s incredible passion and support for the football club.
“We hope the series will be good for Wrexham and will help put the county borough even more firmly on the map as a great place to live, work and visit.
“We’re sure everyone will be looking forward to watching the series, and hopefully, it will highlight not just our amazing football story, but also the passion and character that makes Wrexham unique.”
From our community to yours – Croseo i Wrecsam – Welcome to Wrexham
The 2022/23 garden waste collection service begins on Monday, September 5, so if you use the service and haven’t renewed yet, you’ll need to do it soon to avoid missing any collections.
To renew – or sign up if you’re new – just head over to wrexham.gov.uk/gardenwaste to make your payment online. It’s the quickest and easiest way, and you get to do it at a time that suits you.
The charge for 2022/23 remains frozen at £25 per green bin per year, and the service runs from Monday, September 5, 2022 until Friday, September 1, 2023.
If you paid for garden waste collections last year (2021/22), your green bin(s) will continue to be collected until September 2.
Cllr Hugh Jones, Lead Member for Environment, said: “To get the best value it’s really important to sign up to the 2022/23 service soon. We know there are some residents who are intending to renew but haven’t got around to it yet, and we really encourage them to do so as soon as possible so they won’t miss out on any collections. We want people to get the best value for their money and to do that they will need to have paid before the new collections commence in September.”
Remind others
Even if you’ve already renewed your own green bin, it’s worth checking in with any family, friends or neighbours who use the service to see if they’ve remembered to renew for the new collection year as well.
Some of them may have forgotten, or not realised they will need to renew their green bin before September, and will likely appreciate the reminder.
Please pay online where possible
The easiest way to pay for the service is online at wrexham.gov.uk/gardenwaste. If it isn’t possible for you to pay online you can call Streetscene on 01978 298989 to make a card payment, but you are likely to experience a wait if you do so. We highly recommend paying for the service online where possible.
New stickers for 2022/23
Everyone who signs up will receive a sticker pack with a new sticker, which should be displayed on your bin lid from September.
We’re asking residents to NOT put their new sticker on their bin lid until the new service starts in September. Please continue to display your 2021/22 sticker until that service expires on September 2.
No cash or cheque payments
In previous years, we’ve had a number of customers who attempted to pay for the service by sending cash and cheques to us. We must reiterate that we are unable to accept these payments.
I don’t want to renew the service – will you remove my garden waste bin?
Any unwanted garden waste bins can be removed on request. Once requested it may take a number of weeks for the bin to be collected. In the meantime, make sure your bin remains empty, accessible, but not left out causing an obstruction.
It may be worth keeping hold of your old garden waste bin for now because, if your garden waste bin has been removed and you change your mind in future, there is a charge for a new one.
What can I do with my garden waste if I do not want to pay for the collection service?
You can take your garden waste to one of our household waste recycling centres (free of charge). Alternatively, you could compost garden waste at home.
This year, Wrexham Library celebrates being in the Rhosddu Road building for 50 years and we know that so many of you must have some amazing memories, and some brilliant photos!
The library has changed a lot over the years and we would love to see any pictures you have that show what you have loved about it over the years.
Maybe you have a picture of the kinderpit in the children’s library?
Perhaps the huge collection of vinyl records?
Did you study there back in your school/college days?
Do you have a picture of the outside of the library from back in the day?
Maybe you remember drawers and drawers filled with tickets?
Whatever moments at the library you have captured, we would love to see them.
You can call in the library and drop any pictures off (we will get the original back to you) or you can email them to library@wrexham.gov.uk.
During August and early September, you will receive a letter or form from us, asking you to confirm your details on the electoral register, so that when election time comes around, you are all set to cast your vote.
We’re urging all residents to check these electoral details or risk losing their chance to vote on decisions that affect them.
Checking details like this is called the annual canvass. This is something we have to do every year by law and means that we contact every household in Wrexham to check the details we have for each property are correct.
If everything is correct it means that everyone who is eligible to vote, can vote, and now that more people than ever are able to vote in Welsh elections it’s important to make sure the register is up to date.
In Wales, 16 and 17 year olds are able to vote in Senedd and local government elections, which means that 14 and 15 year old need to register too. If you have anyone living at your property that is aged 14 or older, they can now be added to the electoral register so that when they turn 16 they are able to vote in these elections.
All foreign nationals, that are legally living in Wales, are also able to vote. Previously it has only been British, Irish, Commonwealth or EU citizens. This means if you’re from a country other than these you can now vote at these elections.
Ian Bancroft, electoral registration officer at Wrexham Council, said: “Keep an eye out for updates from Wrexham Council! The annual canvass is our way of making sure that the information on the electoral register for every address is accurate. To make sure you don’t lose your say at the next election, look out for instructions from us.
“If you don’t hear from the council, you might not be on the register. If you want to register, the easiest way is online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.”
You have until November 30 to let us know if anything on your form has changed.
