Location: Children's Carers Team 7 Mitchell Street, ML6 0EB
Salary: £43,648 - £48,067 per year pro rata
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Part Time
Hours: 17.5 hours per week
INTERNAL APPLICANTS MUST APPLY VIA MYSELF
This vacancy is internal and open to applications from employees of North Lanarkshire Council and Associated Employers only.
North Lanarkshire Council has a plan. As one of Scotland’s largest local authorities, we are focused on delivering quality Social Work services that put the people in our communities first.
Our Social Workers have a vital role in helping us deliver quality services which promote and deliver both high standards and best value, creating prosperity, achieving social justice, and importantly, meeting the needs of people within our communities. This can only happen if we have the right people with the right skills, abilities, and attitude.
We currently have an opportunity for a social worker within the Corporate Parenting service based in the Children's Carers Centre, Mitchell Street, Airdrie. Our Corporate Parenting service comprises a well-established team of staff who support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, fostering, adoption, kinship, and supported and continuing carers. Our team undertakes assessments and planning, as well as providing support and training. You will be central to our assessment and planning responsibilities consistent with local and National guidance, practice, and service standards.
We are looking for people who have a sound value base, can demonstrate a commitment to providing safe, effective, and person-centred support, and are passionate about achieving positive outcomes for North Lanarkshire’s care-experienced children and young people. If you are committed to involving children and young people and developing services and approaches around the needs of children and their families, then this is an ideal opportunity for you to support North Lanarkshire in fulfilling its commitment to keep The Promise.
To apply, you must hold a CQSW/DipSW, BA (Hons) in Social Work, or equivalent. We are looking for people who possess excellent communication and writing skills, an understanding of trauma-informed practice, and can demonstrate they have the skills and abilities to build relationships and confidence to ensure we deliver the best possible outcomes.
In return, we can offer you a positive professional working experience with a commitment to continuous professional development and training, and support to help you transition into your new role with us. As a newly qualified worker, you will become part of the early integration of a supported year for Newly Qualified Social Workers, where you will receive individual, person-centred support to promote your development and evidence your practice in accordance with the SSSC Standards for Newly Qualified Social Workers. In addition, you will have access to our Early Professional Development Programme and dedicated training and support from our Talent & Organisational Development Team and your own social work team to ensure you transition successfully from a student to a social work practitioner.
You will be registered or eligible for registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), and you will require to become a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme member prior to commencing in this role.
Work Pattern - Part Time 17.5 hours per week
Working here at North Lanarkshire Council
If you’re considering a career with us, you’ll be keen to know what’s in it for you. We have a great package of benefits available, from health and wellbeing to finances and family. This includes 27 days annual leave and 6 public holidays, and a wide range of benefits available to you. We also have a full package of learning and development through our learning academy LearnNL to help you reach your full potential and further your career.
We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.
We have also adopted the Armed Forces Community Covenant to show our support for service personnel, veterans, and their families. We offer a guaranteed interview for service leavers, spouses, reservists, and veterans, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.
North Lanarkshire Council is committed to #KeepingThePromise. This means that if you have ever been in care, you are entitled to a guaranteed interview for this post, as long as you meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. This is one way North Lanarkshire is demonstrating our commitment to supporting Care-Experienced People.
The Plan for North Lanarkshire is to be the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit. The Council recognises that work is an important part of adult life and is critical to our wellbeing and shaping how we live. The Fair Work Convention’s Framework defines Fair Work as work that offers effective voice, fulfilment, opportunity, respect, and security.
Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, and Audio.
***PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT ACCEPT CVS IN PLACE OF THE APPLICATION FORM. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS VACANCY YOU MUST ENSURE AN APPLICATION FORM IS SUBMITTED. ANY CV SUBMISSIONS WILL BE DISREGARDED.***
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