Trainee Social Worker, Various Locations across Highlands (4 vacancies)

Job Description

Post Title: Trainee Social Worker
Location: Various Location's across Highlands
Hours: 35 Hours Per Week
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £30,266 - £33,579 p.a.

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: Louise Smith Tel: 07795 825586

Job Purpose:

• To actively contribute to the provision of Children’s Services using the Family 1st/ GIRFEC/Highland Practice Model approach.
• To take responsibility to be motivated and committed to fully meeting the requirements of the Social Work Honours Degree programme or Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work. This will require a self-directed, proactive learning approach
• To work restoratively and in partnership with children and their families to maintain and develop effective relationships to help them make informed decisions and meet their needs. To ensure children, young people and their families and carers voices are consistently included in assessment, analysis and planning, review to ensure better outcomes.

Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact HR Transactions Team, T: 01955 608279 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.

Please find the Job Description below.

The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

The equivalent of Nat 5 Mathematics and English. (The Open University have a numeracy test that meets the requirements if necessary). An HNC meets the English requirement for Undergraduate entry, (application can be made for credit transfer). Successful completion of one of the Open University Stage 1 modules, (DD102 Introducing the Social Sciences and K102 Introducing Health and Social Care), also meets the English requirement.

The academic requirement for entry at Postgraduate level is a degree in a cognate discipline. A Degree from a UK university meets the English requirement for Postgraduate entry.