Social Worker - Mental Health & Substance Misuse Team

Job Description

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Social Worker: Mental Health & Substance Misuse Team
Craigroyston Health Clinic

Salary: £37,626 - £44,257 (Pro Rata)
Hours: See below

2 x 36 per weel, Fixed Term Contract (2 Years)
1 x 24 per Week), Permanent Contract

We are looking to recruit some highly motivated and enthusiastic social work professionals that can work within an integrated setting and have an ability to form good relationships with other professionals and with vulnerable groups of people that come into contact with mental health and substance misuse services. If you want to make a real difference in working with people who have mental health or substance misuse, then we would like to hear from you.

To fulfil the statutory role of professional Social Worker undertaking a comprehensive range of social work tasks including needs assessment, risk assessment, care planning and care management and joint work with other agencies as required. To work with other professionals and agencies to ensure an effective multi-disciplinary approach in providing a high quality, responsive service.

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.

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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