Senior Social Worker

3 days ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time

Job Description

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Senior Social Worker – Substance Misuse Team
Woodlands House, 74 Canaan Lane, Edinburgh

Salary: £44, - £52,
Hours: 36 per week

A vacancy has arisen for a qualified Senior social worker to lead the Substance Misuse Team Residential Rehabilitation Team/Alcohol related brain damage.

The team comprises of Mental Health and Substance Misuse Social Workers, Community Care Assistant and Peer support worker. This post is based within Woodlands House Astley Ainslie hospital and Milestone House. Experience of partnership working would be desirable as the team works closely with our partners in health and is integrated within the wider Health and Social Care Partnership.

Experience required:

• Professional Social Work Qualification (i.e. BA, DipSW, CQSW or equivelent)

• Any of the following post qualifying qualifications would be desirable; MHO accreditation, Practice Educator qualification or Advanced professional certificate in Adult Protection.

• Experience of supporting people who have challenging and complex needs, ideally with a focus on Mental Health and Substance Misuse service users would be desirable.

The post holder is expected to demonstrate:

• An ability to manage risk and allocate work within the team

• An understanding staff supervision and development

• An ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a range of individuals including service users and other professionals

• An understanding of Adult Support and Protection legislation.

• The ability to use complex information to prioritise work

• An interest and awareness of recovery focused models of delivery in the community for both Substance Misuse and Mental Health

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

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