Social Worker

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 3.

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.

We are currently recruiting inspiring social workers to join the Collaborative Care Home Support Team within the Angus Health and Social Care Partnership. We are looking for someone who shares in our ambitions and is committed to ensuring that service users receive enhanced standards of care and support.

You must have extensive knowledge and experience of social work services and demonstrate you have the skills and knowledge to be able to make decisions which support our policy framework, standards and service objectives.

As a Social Worker, you will offer interventions, using a co-ordinated holistic approach that helps care staff develop strategies and build competence and confidence to support residents.

You will review and support the needs of service users in care home settings ensuring their needs and rights are met. In addition, you will support the delivery of robust scrutiny of practice relating to adult protection, residents of care homes across the service and local multi-agency arrangements to promote the achievement of positive outcomes for service users.

You will also actively demonstrate, promote and uphold social work values and deliver fair and evidence-based decision making.

If you want to know more about this fantastic opportunity, please contact Sam Whannel on 07470 732355 for an informal discussion

Please note interviews will be held Thursday, 16 May 2024.

 

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 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.