Job Description
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership
Social Worker
Citywide
Salary: £37, - £44,: Extra MHO and Practice Educator qualifications attract an additional salary supplement.
Hours: 36 per week full time. Part time hours also available.
Hybrid and home working available to support a work/life balance
Staff Benefits:
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 support and 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 qualified Social Workers, who are committed to making a real difference to people’s lives, who are energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient. Ideally, we are seeking experienced social workers who can join our team as council officers. Trauma informed, relationships and strengths based social work is at the heart of our practice, as is the Three Conversations approach. Adhering to the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act to provide a range of choices to people for how they are provided with the support they need.
You will undertake a range of statutory tasks including assessments and support planning, risk assessment and risk management and Carers’ assessments. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and will support adults, their families, and carers, to balance the complex areas of risk and need with choice and rights. You will also be able to provide advice, support, guidance and, if necessary, interventions, should an adult be at risk of harm and in need of protection under the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act or Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act. You will work in a supportive, well-established teams and have regular supervision and training.