Social Worker - Family Based Care, Foster Care Disability Team

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Social Worker - Family Based Care
The Drumbrae Library Hub

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

This is a post which requires the successful candidate to demonstrate knowledge and experience when caring for children and young people affected by disabilities.

The successful candidate will develop and sustain a flexible range of family-based care placements to meet the needs of children and young people, from birth to twenty-one years of age, for those living with a disability. This will involve the recruitment, assessment, training and supervision of carers.

- To understand the needs presented by children, young people and their carers who are affected by a disability.

- To supervise existing carers to ensure children and young people receive care which meets their needs and is trauma informed.

- To develop and sustain effective working relationships with Practice Team colleagues and other professionals to ensure the services provided by Family Based Care are responsive to need.

- To take an active role, along with colleagues, ensuring that service delivery supports service planning.

- To work within a legislative, policy and procedural context to ensure that care provided to children and young people is safe and which upholds children’s rights.

- To support the FBC Intake duty service on a rota basis with an identified Team Leader.

The successful candidate will have casework responsibility and will be required to hold developmental responsibilities such as carer training, support groups or panel roles.

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.

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