Senior Social Care Officer

Job Description

Based at Kinloch Care Centre, 141 Kinloch Street, Carnoustie, DD7 7EN.

This job is workstyle 1 - Fixed.

In this workstyle most of your time is spent undertaking the direct delivery of front-line services work. Depending on your role there may be a limited requirement to access a specific council location during the course of the working week if you are not delivering your service at a council location.

Kinloch is a residential care centre providing support to permanent residents and short stay respite places.

The Kinloch management team is made up of the manager and 4 senior social care officers who share a duty rota.

Working 24 hours per week, Monday to Sunday, on a rota basis, each member of the management team carries responsibility to manage all staff groups and are delegated responsibility to provide supervision and appraisal to individual staff members.

The management team are responsible for the accommodation and care service provided to service users, and ensuring that service standards are achieved, including consultation and involvement of service users in all aspects of their care.

The senior social care officer on duty is responsible for the unit in the manager’s absence.

Please note interviews will be held Wednesday, 11 March 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 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.