Senior Practitioner - Social Care Direct - EDN30466

City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000

Job description

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Senior Practitioner - Social Care Direct
Waverley Court

Salary: £44,257 - £52,373
Hours: 36 per week

Social Care Direct is the first point of contact for children, families and professionals seeking a social work service. Social Care Direct also manages requests for information from other professionals and partner agencies. Referrals are assessed by Senior Practitioners who will recommend and implement initial social work interventions, through a screening process.

Social Care Direct has expanded to provide a direct service to children and their families who require support. The Team works with Children in Need, who are not subject to Child Protection Investigations, or statutory measure of care.

Main duties will include:

1. Screening referrals and passing requests for services on to Locality Practice Teams and other Children and Families services where appropriate.
2. Liaising with other professionals and families to identify appropriate initial interventions.
3. Working in partnership with Customer Service Advisers, Health and Social Care, and Emergency Social Care colleagues.
4. Undertaking short term direct (face to face) assessments on a city wide basis.

All applicants will be able to evidence clear assessment skills using current research and models of practice; excellent communication skills with children, families and other professionals, both written and verbal; resilience to work and achieve positive outcomes in what is a fast-paced environment; willingness to develop services ensuring best practice.

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.

To help achieve our goal of improving our organisational culture, we are 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.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work. We recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Happy to talk flexible working.