Job Description
Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar.
This post is Workstyle 4 – Hybrid
You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations, working from council buildings, working in service user’s locations and site visits and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.
This senior social care officer post is part of the Enablement and Response Service and will be responsible for managing a team of social care officers and a home care practitioner.
The remit of the team is to assess people in their own homes for ongoing support and care needs with an enablement focus, working, as part of the Home First initiative, with the wider multi disciplinary team in each locality to prevent admission to hospital, and supporting people and their families to remain at home for end of life care.
This post is predominantly Monday to Friday, however you will be part of a duty rota with a team of other senior social care officers to provide cover out of hours from 7am until 10pm, weekends and public holidays.
Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.
Requirements
You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.
Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.
About Angus Council
In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website for more information about working for Angus Council.
The Individual
We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:
Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.