Household Support Worker - Household Support & Advice Team
City Chambers
Salary: £33, - £39,
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
An exciting opportunity has arisen for several posts across all localities within the City of Edinburgh Council's Household Support team.
A service with a broad and varied remit, Household Support takes an innovative approach to responding to and preventing anti-social behaviour and wider societal issues including homelessness, poverty, access to education and community support utilising a 'No Wrong Door' approach.
At its heart, Household Support is a preventative and early intervention service which seeks to address the root causes of anti-social behaviour and family breakdown by offering a range of holistic supports, including housing support, family support and mediation as we contribute to preventing homelessness.
You will work closely with individuals, families, groups, communities and partners to promote a restorative approach to neighbour disputes, social inclusion, and community involvement.
You will work systemically with individuals, families and communities to understand and promote positive change and promote the safeguarding and wellbeing of children, families, individuals and communities.
Offering a person-centred, outcome focused, intervention to all age groups including vulnerable adult clients as well as families who may have children of a pre-school age part of the household, you will draw on the principles of Getting It Right for Everyone in undertaking assessments and develop SMART action plans to support people to achieve positive outcomes, maintain tenancies, tackle inequality, isolation and poverty.
As such, this post is suitable for candidates who have an interest and experience in promoting resilience in communities by supporting vulnerable people whose issues may range from experiencing or causing anti-social behaviour, are at risk of homelessness, struggling with parenting skills or are in financial hardship.
You are also expected to have an SVQ level 3 in Social Services and Healthcare (SCQF 7) or be willing to work towards gaining this qualification to fully meet SSSC registration requirements. On job training will be provided as we value continuous professional develop so a commitment to your on-going learning and development is expected.
If you wish to know more about the role please contact Debbie Corner or Ross turner
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. 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 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.