Senior Social Worker - (Temp/Full Time) - REF:HSCP/82395

Job Description

Senior Social Worker – Disabled Children and Young People

As a Senior Social Worker, you will play a pivotal leadership role within our Children and Families Service, providing support, guidance and professional oversight to a dedicated team of Social Workers and Support Workers. You will lead and develop practice that delivers positive outcomes for children and families, supporting them through complex statutory processes including child protection, looked after children services, permanence planning and alternative care arrangements – the team you lead will have a focus on working with disabled children and young people.

At the heart of our approach is The Promise and our commitment to ensuring children and young people are listened to, meaningfully involved in decisions about their lives and experience consistent, trusting relationships with those who support them. We have embedded Signs of Safety and Healing as our practice framework, enabling strengths-based, relationship-focused and collaborative work with children, families and partner agencies.

We are looking for an experienced and inspiring practitioner who combines sound professional judgement with excellent communication and leadership skills. You will be confident in providing constructive challenge, nurturing high-quality practice and building strong, collaborative relationships. Most importantly, you will share our ambition for children and young people and be committed to ensuring that their voices, experiences and aspirations shape both individual plans and the future development of our services. Knowledge, understanding and experience of supporting disabled children and young people is essential as will a knowledge of utilising Self-Directed Support (SDS) to promote choice for families.

Why Inverclyde?

Inverclyde is a place where you can make a real impact. Our size allows us to be agile, innovative and responsive, creating opportunities to influence change and see the difference your leadership makes. Alongside a strong culture of professional support, learning and development, you will have the opportunity to contribute to service improvement and help shape the future direction of Children's Services.

If you are passionate about making a lasting difference to the lives of children and families and want to be part of a service with ambition, vision and a commitment to continuous improvement, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion about this exciting opportunity and to learn more about our ambitions for the future, please contact Alan Stevenson, Service Manager, at alan.stevenson@inverclyde.gov.uk or on 01475 715270

Inverclyde Council offers a wide range of benefits to employees including flexible working opportunities, attractive pension schemes, a Buy and Bank Annual Leave Scheme, career development and health and wellbeing support.

You can find out more in our Employee Benefits Booklet which is available on our website Employee Benefits - Inverclyde Council

 

Important Applicant Information:

 

• Please read the Essential Applicant Information details prior to submitting your application.

 

• Please note that if you apply via this website it is important that you regularly check your emails following your application submission. All further communication regarding your application, including any invite to interview and, if relevant, details of any formal offer/contract, will be done by email. You should ensure that your email is set up to receive emails from MYJOBSCOTLAND and Inverclyde Council, and that they are not filtered into any JUNK/SPAM folders.

 

• Inverclyde Council is an accredited Living Wage Employer paying the Living Wage Rate where required.  Please click the link to `Essential Applicant Information’ above for more information.

 

• Inverclyde Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

 

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK as we do not hold a sponsorship license.

 

Vetting by Disclosure Scotland

If you work in regulated work (children and/or protected adults) you will be subject to obtaining a satisfactory PVG. A small number of posts require a Standard or Basic Disclosure check and the majority of all other posts will complete a Criminal Convictions Form. All disclosure checks are obtained via Disclosure Scotland. If you are the successful candidate you will be required to pay the cost of the disclosure check required for your post.

 

Regulatory Bodies

If your post requires registration with a Regulatory Body such as HCPC or SSSC etc., you are required to obtain and maintain registration including paying any fees for HCPC. As part of the local government pay deal, local authority staff are no longer required to pay SSSC fees.  

 

Further Assistance

Alternative application packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille and Audio. To request an alternative application pack or require further assistance to attend and/or participate in an interview, please contact the HR Recruitment Team on 01475 712740 or email Human Resources at: Human.Resources@inverclyde.gov.uk.

Armed Forces Personnel/Reservists

Inverclyde Council welcomes applications from former armed forces personnel / reservists. Many of the skills picked up during your military career could be transferred directly into a role with local government.

 

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the job.

 

Flexible Working

Inverclyde Council recognises the mutual benefits of having a flexible, effective workforce to deliver the best services to our community, whilst enabling employees to balance their personal, home and work responsibilities more effectively, with a view to achieving greater job satisfaction, motivation, morale and productivity. 

Employees are able to apply for a range of options including Part-Time Working, Job share, Compressed Hours, Homeworker, Hybrid Working and Flexible Retirement. More detail can be found in the Flexible Working Policy, linked in the download section of our Employee Benefits web page.