Social Workers
Hospital based Social Work Teams
Salary: £37, - £44,
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Competitive and Flexible starting salary discussion before commencement. Extra MHO and Practice Educator qualifications attract an additional salary supplement.
Edinburgh is an exciting city and excellent opportunities exist to join us and contribute towards helping all our citizens flourish. The Edinburgh City Health & Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) is on a journey to transform how Social Work delivers support and services. There is a transformation program to ensure that we support adults and older adults with multiple and complex needs and with increasing levels of frailty to live as independently as possible. We work to ensure that we support older people and their families/carers as effectively as possible. We work effectively together to ensure that the most vulnerable within our city get the right service in the right place at the right time. We work in partnership across services with our health colleagues and a broad range of partners and we have a key priority to shifting the balance of care and promoting more effective early intervention and preventative supports.
We are looking for qualified Social Workers, Social Workers with the MHO qualification, Social Workers with the Practice Educator qualification, and Student Social Workers who are due to qualify this year and who are committed to making a real difference to the lives of the adult citizens of Edinburgh. We are looking for Social Workers who are energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient, and who can make the best use of local resources. Trauma-informed, relationships and strengths-based social work is at the heart of our practice. We use the Three Conversations approach to understand what matters to people and families, what needs to happen next for them, and how we can be most useful. We also have the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act at the heart of our practice, 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 and Carers' assessments. 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 under the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act or Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act .
You will work in a supportive, well-established team and have regular supervision and training.
Your PVG fee and SSSC fee will be paid by us.