Senior Practitioner

Job Description

Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations including working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity within Children, Families and Justice Service (Forfar & Kirriemuir Locality Team) for an experienced and skilled practitioner to support the delivery of high-quality services to children, young people and their families, ensuring safe, effective and person-centred practice.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will support the Manager in the day-to-day operational management of the service and provide professional leadership within the team. You will play a key role in supporting staff with complex casework, promoting best practice and ensuring positive outcomes for children and families.

You will provide guidance and support to social workers and other practitioners, assisting with the oversight of complex cases, including risk assessment and planning, and support the implementation of GIRFEC and child protection procedures.

You will contribute to quality assurance, audit and continuous improvement activity supporting staff development through mentoring, supervision and practice learning and work effectively with partners across health, education, police and third sector.

You must hold a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).

You will have significant post-qualifying experience in children and families social work, demonstrate experience of working with complex cases, including child protection and have a sound understanding of relevant legislation, policy and practice frameworks.

You will be able to demonstrate strong professional judgement and decision-making, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be committed to improving outcomes for children and young people.

You will also able to support and challenge practice to ensure high standards and work effectively as part of a multi-agency team.

Angus Council offers a supportive working environment, with opportunities for continuous professional development and learning. We are committed to staff wellbeing and flexible working.

For informal enquiries please email - Lesley Gibson gibsonla@angus.gov.uk

Please note interviews will be held week commencing 10 August 2026.

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 https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

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, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.