Senior Practitioner

Job Description

Education and Children's Service's

Senior Practitioner - fixed term until 30/06/2026
Waverley Court

Salary: £44,257 - £52,373
Hours: 36 per week

This is an exciting time in Edinburgh to Join a project to develop, promote and implement person centred / trauma informed and related approaches with a range of new initiatives underway as part of the Whole Family Wellbeing developments to support system change and future sustainability. A key function of all this involves Edinburgh’s families, the voices of children and young people to support a co-design and co-production approach to the service delivery. You will be working collaboratively across the children services partnership in Edinburgh to meet the key objectives of a range of policy drivers such as Getting it Right for Every Child, The Promise and wider poverty agenda. You will work with a wide range of services to design and deliver initiatives that provide development of trauma-informed practices for staff and services at all levels in the council. The service aims to offer earlier support to vulnerable families contributing to the objectives of the Children & Families services to Edinburgh’s strategy.

This is position is open to candidates currently based within third sector organisations who may be interested in a secondment. Those candidates who are interested should seek the appropriate permission and authorisation from their line manager.

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.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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