Senior Social Worker (Care and Support)
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Fort Social Work Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Young Adult Disability (YAD) Team supporting young adults with their post school transition. YAD are a specialist team of Social Workers who support young people aged 14 to 26 who have a diagnosis of severe learning disability and who may also have complex needs or profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). We are looking to welcome an enthusiastic, highly motivated Senior Social Worker with a keen interest in transitions. Edinburgh is an exciting city, and excellent opportunities exist to join us and contribute towards helping all our citizens flourish.
Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership is on a journey to transform the way in which Social Work delivers 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.
We are looking for a Senior Social Worker, who is committed to making a real difference to people's lives, who is energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient. 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.
This post is open to qualified Social Workers who are committed to making a real difference to the lives of the adult citizens of Edinburgh. We are looking for candidates who are energetic, imaginative, creative and resilient, who can make the best use of local resources.
You will have line management responsibility for a team of social workers with an opportunity to develop the service. Knowledge and experience of working within Mental Health Services, Adult with Incapacity and Adult Support and Protection is essential as well as working with complexity. 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 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.
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. You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page 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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- Location:
- Leith, Edinburgh
- Salary:
- £54,476,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime