Senior Social Worker - City Wide (Localities) - 11893_1760536278

Senior Social Worker
Citywide – Locality Teams

Salary: £46,023 – £54,476 (pro-rata for part-time)
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

For social work qualification – MHO and Practice Educator qualifications attract an additional salary supplement.

Hybrid and home working available to support a work/life balance.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Edinburgh Social Care Partnership as a Senior Social Worker. We are looking for highly motivated, experienced senior or social worker to join our fast-paced and dynamic service that provides a responsive and person-centred service across a range of our locality teams.

Edinburgh is an exciting city, and excellent opportunities exist to join us and contribute towards helping all our citizens flourish.

About the Service

The Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership is on a journey to transform the way in which Social Work delivers support and services to ensure that we support adults with multiple and complex needs, and increasing levels of frailty, to live as independently as possible.

We work effectively with our health colleagues and a broad range of partners to ensure that the most vulnerable within our city get the right service in the right place at the right time. We have a key priority to shift the balance of care and promote effective early intervention and preventative supports.

About You

We are looking for qualified senior social worker, who is committed to making a real difference to people's lives, who are energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient. Ideally, we are seeking experienced social worker who can join our team as council officers.

Trauma informed, relationships and strengths based social work is at the heart of our practice. Adhering to the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 to provide a range of choices to people for how they are provided with the support they need.

You will undertake a range of statutory tasks including:

• Assessments and support planning
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Carers' assessments
• duties under the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 and Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and will support adults, their families, and carers, to balance the complex areas of risk and need with choice and rights. You will also be able to provide advice, support, guidance and, if necessary, interventions, should an adult be at risk of harm and in need of protection.

You will work in supportive, well-established teams and have regular supervision and training.

Requirements

• Social Work roles (SW / SSW): Degree/diploma or equivalent qualification in Social Work. Must be registered (or in the process of registering) with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).

These posts are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 (as amended). Your PVG fee and SSSC fee will be paid by us (where applicable).

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will also be required.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours"; target="_blank">Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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