Social Worker

Job Description

Based at Whitehills Health & Community Care Centre, Whitehills, Station Road, 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.

A full-time permanent vacancy has arisen for a Social Worker in the Angus Discharge Team. The team’s focus is working alongside people who have encountered admission to hospital and require additional care and support in order to enable them to remain as independent as possible when they return to the community. We work with adults and their carers who would benefit from social work support, alongside a variety of agencies and services across Angus.

We are keen to attract enthusiastic, creative and hard-working professionals who can facilitate person-centred planning and outcomes led support plans in a timely, safe and efficient manner, whilst also promoting the rights of the people that we work with. This often includes crisis response to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in society who may require statutory safeguarding measures guided by local policy and procedures.

This post provides an excellent opportunity to join a highly skilled, supportive and motivated team. There is access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities to add to the successful applicant’s existing skills for work in multidisciplinary hospital settings.

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 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.