Social Worker

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Social Worker - Fixed Term 30/6/2026
City Wide

Hours: 36 per week
Hours: £36,312 - £42,717

The Edinburgh Family Support Partnership is offering an exciting and unique opportunity for applicants to be part of transformational change within the City of Edinburgh.

A number of posts are available which are funded by the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund until 30th June 2026.

The Edinburgh Family Support Partnership is a collaboration between City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families Social Work, Children 1st, Barnardos, The Citdel Youth Centre, Edinburgh Community Food and Safe Families.

The aim of the collaboration is to develop multi-disciplinary, community- based teams in each of the four localities across the city. We aim to address the “missing middle” between universal and statutory services, offering reflexive, whole family support, which is empowering, relationship-based, rooted in GIRFEC and which builds upon existing universal services.

A key element of this innovative project is to develop and embed a Community Social Work approach which enables social workers to be present, visible and accessible within communities.

We will work alongside families using asset and strength-based approaches to build individual, family and community capacity.

Role/ Task

- You will be visionary, creative and highly motivated
- You will have the responsibility of undertaking children in need assessments and implementing interventions with families at an early stage to prevent them escalating to statutory social work.
- You will be required to provide intensive family support working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- You will have the responsibility within the project to map, and engage with families and communities, using strength-based, community social work approaches.
- Engaging with children, young people, families and communities through participative approaches to enhance strengths and build capacity within communities.

Our partners within the collaboration may be advertising additional posts for the project on alternative forums.

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.

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.

Requirements

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.

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.

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