Practice Development Co-ordinator - EAY12774 in Kilmarnock

I am delighted to inform that an opportunity has arisen to join the Social Work Learning and Development Team within Public Protection & Learning as a Practice Development Co-ordinator in East Ayrshire. This is an exciting opportunity for a Qualified Social Worker with professional development experience. East Ayrshire has a longstanding commitment to the learning and development of our workforce, and to those entering the Social Work profession.

Applicants must demonstrate recent, competent operational experience of working as a Qualified Social Worker within Children & Families Services, and how you have supported development and improvement activity within Children's Services. The post holder will support our career pathway learning and development offers for social work practitioners. They will also support multi-agency Public Protection learning and development, and aspects relating to our practice learning agendas, in line with demands and requirements of the wider team.

The role requires a self-driven, motivated and passionate Social Worker who demonstrates an innovative approach to the delivery of sustainable practitioner professional development programmes. They will have responsibility for designing and delivering creative, relevant and interactive programmes of learning and development activity to support the social work workforce with their delivery of high-quality social work services and effective interventions.

Reporting to the Social Work Practice Development Manager, and working as part of a wider team, the post holder will contribute to building on our previous and existing learning activities and, in directly contributing to development programmes that ensures our social work practitioners are well supported in their Continuous Professional Learning and professional development experiences across the span of their career.

We invite applications from experienced and dynamic Social Workers who can positively contribute to our vision for the social work profession. This is an extremely rewarding role with opportunity to positively influence social work practice and to be part of a team that embraces change and sees the highly positive opportunity it brings.

Requirements: The duties of the post involve Regulated Work with children and/or protected adults, as specified in the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Successful applicants for such posts will be required to become a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme member in respect of Regulated Work with either or both of these groups as appropriate, or if they are already a Scheme member, be subject to a PVG Scheme Record Update, before any formal offer of employment can be made by East Ayrshire Council.

Please note: PVG members' records are constantly updated with any new vetting information that arises. Any information that is disclosed on a PVG Scheme Record or Scheme Record Update, if relevant to the post being applied for, will be discussed with the applicant prior to any formal offer of employment being made.

Employment References: We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely “Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment”. With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer. It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

Additional Information: This is a full time permanent post based within Children's HC & JS, Learning Team. Work Pattern - Monday - Thursday 09:00 - 17:00 Friday 09:00 - 16:00 Annual Salary - £47,793 - £50,669. The workstyle for this ‘Flexible’ - 50% -79% of your time in an office location/multiple work locations. You will work at your administrative base or another agreed office location between 2.5 to 4 days per week and only occasionally from home. The admin base for this post is The Johnnie Walker Bond, Kilmarnock.

East Ayrshire Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups including Black and Minority Ethnic people, disabled people and LGBT people. We are also keen to decrease occupational segregation and so encourage women to apply for managerial posts and/or roles in which they are underrepresented. East Ayrshire Council is a Disability Confident employer and a Recruit with Conviction Ambassador.

If you require further information please contact Ann Marie McKenna at annmarie.mckenna@east-ayrshire.gov.uk.