Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Support Worker

Job Details

Grade: 7A
Hourly Rate: £16.43 - £18.09
Salary: £29,992.20 - £33,021.70 pro rata per annum
Contract Duration: Permanent

Role Purpose

Scottish Borders Council are looking to recruit a highly motivated individual to work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and young people. This post will involve providing day-to-day support including settling within a new community, shopping for essentials and attending appointments.

Scottish Borders Council are committed to keeping The Promise and keeping children, young people and their families' voices at the heart of everything we do. We strive to recruit workers who are passionate about working with children and young people and assessing and supporting their strengths to move towards better outcomes.

We value our staff and understand that they are our greatest asset, we offer a supportive team environment, flexible working, and an approachable and supportive management team. We are fully committed to continuous professional development and, offer regular supervision and annual appraisal. There will be opportunities to develop your practice and support your career pathway, this will be supported by training opportunities such as specific training relevant to the post.

We offer a competitive salary, generous Pension Scheme, and annual leave entitlement as well as access to a number of additional employee benefits and a wide range of learning and development opportunities. The service firmly believes in the power of strength based relational Social Work and its members will hold the ability to address behaviours linked to, or because of, adult and childhood trauma and compromised child/parental relationships and capacity.

Scottish Borders Council prides itself on being a great place to work where staff are trusted, valued, and supported to make a positive contribution at work. We would like to hear from you if you are a team player, empathic, enabling, and resilient with a 'can do’, solution-focussed approach.

Where this is a requirement for the successful candidate to work from home as part of the role you will be provided with the necessary IT equipment by the Council, however, you will be responsible for the provision of any required furniture.

Essential

HNC/SVQ 3 in Social Care or Childcare and Education OR considerable experience and a commitment to undertake such training


A current driving licence and use of a vehicle is an essential requirement of this post.
* If you have a disability which precludes you from holding a drivers licence, Scottish Borders Council will take into account its responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to allow for your disability. Should it be possible to make such an adjustment in order that you can undertake the travel responsibilities of the post, this will be taken into account in consideration for this role.

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be made to Stewart Simpson at stewart.simpson@scotborders.gov.uk.

Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.