Description
Social Worker – Assessment and Care Management – South East Team
South East Locality Office
Salary: £39,129 - £46,023
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Hybrid and home working available to support a work/life balance, to be agreed with Line Manager.
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 support and 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 qualified Social Worker, who is committed to making a real difference to people's lives, who is energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient, to join us in our busy assessment and care management social work team.
Trauma informed, relationships and strengths based social work is at the heart of our practice, as is the Three Conversations approach.
You will carry out assessment of needs, to identify the best way to support adults and their networks. 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 team environment and have regular supervision and training.
Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by the City of Edinburgh Council. You must hold a degree/diploma or equivalent qualification in Social Work. You must also be registered or in the process of registering with the Scottish Social Services Council. These posts are exempt under Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 (as amended). Your PVG fee and SSSC fee will be paid by us.
If you would like to know more about the team and role prior to you application, please contact
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.
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.
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Responsibilities
Recruitment person specification
Post being recruited for: ………Social Worker…………
Council core competencies
These apply to all posts
These apply to posts with responsibility for managing people or resources
Being customer / client focused
Leading others
Working effectively with others
Managing performance and developing others
Managing change
Political sensitivity
Taking ownership and responsibility
Communicating effectively
Planning and decision making
Managers
1. Specify what the essential requirements are for your vacancy under each category. All candidates that have disclosed a disability must be interviewed if they meet the essential requirements.
2. Specify what the desirable requirements are for your vacancy under each category. Desirable criteria can be used to shortlist candidates if you have a high volume of applicants. However, you cannot use desirable criteria when shortlisting any candidates that have disclosed a disability.
Person specification
Category Essential
Desirable (not every post needs desirable requirements)
Experience
Assessing need
Establishing, monitoring and reviewing care plans.
Multi disciplinary working
Working with adults
Experience of work with dementia ,carers Experience of working in a community team. Experience of working with older people.
Experience of adult protection work
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Knowledge of current legislation and policy. Good communication skills.
Ability to prioritise workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Skills SWIFT /AIS or similar caseload recording and management systems
Understanding management of budgets and development of individual support plans
Qualifications and training
Social work degree
Diploma in Social work Registration with the Scottish Social Services Council.
Adult Protection Training
Dementia specific training Practice Teaching /link supervisor qualification
Mental Health additional training
Job specific requirements
Recognises and works within professional boundaries
Ability to gather and/or analyse complex information and make assessment/recommendation. An ability to keep and maintain accurate electronic records of work.
A willingness to learn and a commitment to continuous professional development.
Not every section needs a desirable – so in this case maybe everything is asked for at essential stage.