Senior Social Worker
HM Prison Edinburgh
Salary: £47, - £56, (plus environmental allowance)
Hours: 36 per week (part-time hours will be considered)
Edinburgh Justice Services are committed to providing high quality services while ensuring a compassionate approach to people accessing our services and supporting staff wellbeing. We offer a high level of training to support continuous professional development and to deliver a broad range of interventions, including established accredited group work programmes. We are implementing Trauma Informed Care and Restorative Justice practice models and interventions across our services.
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be part of the social work team operating within HMP Edinburgh. There are a range of tasks which have to be carried out by the team in relation to pre-release, risk assessment and planning, associated with parole and other statutory supervision post-release. This includes:
1. Providing reports for the parole board and prisoner tribunals to assist them in making a decision about the release of prisoners
2. Participation in the Integrated Case Management Case Conferences (ICM)
3. Completing risk assessments in order to inform of the prisoners level of risk and needs
4. Working with other providers in the prison such as psychology, programmes, health services and addictions services etc. in planning for prisoner's progress throughout their sentence
5. Liaising with justice services in the community throughout the prisoner's sentence and preparation for release.
Accountable to the Team Leader, the post holder will: ensure a high quality of practice is provided and maintained, appropriate services are delivered to meet service users' needs within the Council's statutory obligations, policies and procedures; provide professional support, supervision and leadership to a group of staff, whilst maintaining a direct involvement in social work practice; represent and promote the Council at multi-agency meetings, with local community groups and be a department representative at a range of information sharing and risk planning forums.