Senior Practitioner in Edinburgh

As a Senior Practitioner (Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry) within the Council's Information Governance Unit, you will support care-experienced individuals in accessing their care files through the statutory Subject Access Request process. You will also support care-experienced individuals in accessing redress for any adverse time in care.

You will work in strengths-based and trauma-informed ways to get alongside care-experienced individuals, their families, and carers, in order to support them in obtaining what they require for restoration and keep them safe. You will work with the Council's Information Rights Team and Records & Archives Team to explain complex Data Protection and Social Work concepts and processes to care experienced requesters so they understand their rights, while also managing their expectations on what they might find due to historic record-keeping issues.

You will support care-experienced people with potentially complex needs and trauma to access their client files. As a lead professional, you will assess each person's needs and risks, and work with families, carers, colleagues and partner agencies to remove barriers. Safety and wellbeing always come first. Building trust and positive relationships drives change and better outcomes.

In this post, you will empower care-experienced individuals by recognising their existing support systems and helping them maintain these networks as they navigate difficult material in their files and the memories that come from engaging with this content. The role requires preparing clear, evidence-based, risk-assessed reports within required timescales while also working jointly with partner agencies, including schools, the NHS, the police, and third-sector organisations. This collaborative approach delivers comprehensive assessment and planning, drawing on multiple professional perspectives to provide the best possible service.

You will take responsibility for your ongoing professional development and stay current with relevant theory, research, and legislation. You will participate actively in training and knowledge exchange opportunities. You will demonstrate appropriate initiative and leadership for your role and contribute to a high-support, high-challenge culture within the Records & Archives Team and the wider Information Governance Unit.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. 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 be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

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.

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.