Salary: £39,235.35 - £44,509.31 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Job Summary
We are looking for committed and enthusiastic social workers to work within our Children & Families Team. This team works with a range of case work including child protection, statutory assessments, Looked After Children, kinship, fostering and adoption, youth justice assessments and interventions, voluntary support and individual work with children and young people. These posts require a sound knowledge of policy and legislation and an understanding of assessing needs and delivering effective interventions. The Social Workers will work in partnership with other agencies to meet the needs of children and their families.
One full time permanent post and two full time temporary posts.
Minimum Requirements
Where the post you are applying for is considered Regulated Work under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007, successful candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to confirmation of employment being made by East Dunbartonshire Council.
Please note, successful candidates will be expected to meet the cost of the relevant check which will be deducted from the successful candidate’s first salary payment.
Charter of Commitment
The commitment by East Dunbartonshire Council to job applicants is as follows:
1. Individuals will be treated in a polite, friendly and welcoming manner.
2. Equalities monitoring will be conducted to ensure a fair and equitable process with screening being carried out to anonymise sensitive information such as age, gender and disability.
3. The information that we receive will be treated in confidence and with discretion. Only the relevant HR representative/team and the relevant service will see the application form.
4. We will encourage and welcome applications from applicants under the disability symbol. Where the essential criteria are met an interview will be offered to those applying under the disability symbol.
5. We will be pleased to make any reasonable adjustments to ensure accessibility at the interview.
6. We will advise you within reasonable time after the closing date if you have not met the interview criteria. (Normally within 4 weeks)
7. We will advise you of meeting the criteria for interview normally within 3 weeks.
8. We will advise you if you have been successful or unsuccessful at the interview stage as soon as practically possible.
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