Senior Social Worker

Senior Social Worker (North West Locality and City Wide Service YAD) 
Fort Social Work Centre

Salary: £46,023 - £54,476
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Young Adult Disability (YAD) Team supporting young adults with their post school transition. YAD are a specialist team of Social Workers who support young people aged 14 to 26 who have a diagnosis of severe learning disability and who may also have complex needs or profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). We are looking to welcome an enthusiastic, highly motivated Senior Social Worker with a keen interest in transitions. 

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 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 Senior Social Worker, who is committed to making a real difference to people's lives, who is energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient. Trauma informed, relationships and strengths based social work is at the heart of our practice. Adhering to the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 to provide a range of choices to people for how they are provided with the support they need.

This post is open to qualified Social Workers who are committed to making a real difference to the lives of the adult citizens of Edinburgh. MHO, Practice Educator and ASP qualifications are desirable. We are looking for candidates who are energetic, imaginative, creative and resilient, who can make the best use of local resources. 

You will have line management responsibility for a team of social workers with an opportunity to develop the service. Knowledge and experience of working within Mental Health Services, Adult with Incapacity and Adult Support and Protection is essential as well as working with complexity. Experience of managing others and working within a multidisciplinary team is also desirable.

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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View Senior Social Worker job description 

Experience:

• Working within a community based practice team.
• Multidisciplinary working.
• Experience of working with adults with complex needs. (Desirable) 
• Experience of adult protection work. (Desirable) 
• Supervision of staff. (Desirable) 
• PRD and staff development. (Desirable) 

Knowledge, skills and understanding:

• Knowledge of current social work legislation and policy
• Good communication skills
• Ability to prioritise workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Computer/IT literate
• Knowledge of systems used within Health and Social Care. (Desirable) 
• The ability to recognise and challenge poor performance. (Desirable) 
• The motivation, encouragement and support of staff in maintaining high performance. (Desirable) 

Qualifications and training:

• Degree in social work or equivalent recognised by Scottish Social Services Council.
• Registration with SSSC.
• Adult support and protection. (Desirable) 

Job specific requirements:

• Recognises and works within professional boundaries.
• Ability to gather and/or analyse complex information and prioritise and appropriate response.
• An ability to keep and maintain accurate electronic records of work.
• A willingness to learn and a commitment to continuous professional development.
• Managing allocation of work within the team.
• Driving licence. (Desirable)