Location: Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre 30 Harvesters Way Edinburgh, EH14 3JF
Salary: £37,626 - £44,257 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 36 hours per week
Work From Home: Hybrid
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Social Worker: Immigration and Asylum Support for Children and Families with No Recourse to Public Funds
Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre, 30 Harvesters Way, Edinburgh, EH14 3JF.
We believe that every child and young person deserves the best possible start in life. Our aim is for Edinburgh’s children to be safe, healthy, nurtured, educated, active and respected. Our children's practice teams are at the forefront of providing services to help children, young people and their families deal with difficult situations at various stages in their lives: whether in need of child protection; looked after at or away from home; or at risk of becoming excluded from school or becoming looked after.
Located in the South West Children and Families Practice Team, the post holder will take a lead role in assessing families who present as destitute and have no recourse to public funds. They will develop effective support packages for children and their families and offer advice, support and guidance as necessary.
The post holder will also act as a resource to the Communities and Families Department offering advice and guidance to managers and staff regarding immigration legislation as it impacts on children and families with no recourse to public funds. The role may be subject to change as part of a current re-design of Children's Services.
Applicants must hold a Social Work qualification recognised by the SSSC.
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.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
To help achieve this, we’re 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.
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