Job Description Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership Social Workers Hospital based teams (Western General Hospital) Salary: £37,626 – £44,257 (Extra MHO and Practice Educator qualifications attract an additional salary supplement) Hours: 36 per week Benefits: Wide range of employee benefits https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/candidateportal/myrewards 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 the way in which Social Work delivers support and services. There is a transformation programme 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 in order to ensure that the most vulnerable within our city get the right service, in the right place and at the right time. We work in partnership across services with our health colleagues and a broad range of partners and a key priority in relation 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, who can make the best use of local resources. Trauma informed, relationships and strengths based social work is at the heart of our practice. You will undertake a range of statutory tasks including assessments and support planning, risk assessment and risk management. 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 2007 or Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. You will work in a supportive, well-established team and have regular supervision and training. Follow us on: Twitter – @EdinburghHSCP, Linkedin – Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, Website – www.edinburghhsc.scot 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. Requirements 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 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. Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs Alert me to jobs like this