Social Worker; Children & Families

Job Description

Social Worker, Children with Disabilities (working authority wide), based from Aurora House, Clydebank.

West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership are in a position to offer an exciting opportunity for either a newly qualified or experienced social worker to join our Children with Disabilities team. The Service is in the process of redesign to meet the demands and complexities of the current national and international context within which social work provides services. In this context we are developing teams within which staff will be supported to develop their skills and expertise in childcare, with the requisite training opportunities being made available within a structured supervision and skills development framework.

The postholder will have a caseload of children & families affected by disability and complex health needs and will include Child Protection, statutory and non-statutory cases. Good interagency relationships with colleagues in Health and Education is essential to the post.

Newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will benefit from support both internally as part of a local induction process, and within the context of the SSSC first supported year. In this context, NQSW will be given a range of observational, mentoring and experiential opportunities supporting their critical first year in employment. In addition we can offer an initial start pending qualification, moving to a social work post on gaining confirmation of your gaining the social work degree.

If you are more experienced, we can offer a competitive starting salary, with current opportunities within which to progress your career, including leadership and management courses, while actively developing other routes to career progressing enabling more experienced practitioners to use their skills and knowledge more creatively across the service.

This post is considered a Regulated Role with Adults and Children under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2020 and as such membership with the PVG scheme is essential. Further details of this scheme can be found here. Preferred applicants will be required to become members of the relevant PVG scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer being made by West Dunbartonshire Council.

The employment for which you are applying is excepted from the provisions of section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order 1975. Applicants are, therefore, not statutorily entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are "spent" under the provisions of the Act. In the event of employment any failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action.

The Individual

• Access to the Local Government pension scheme (LGPS) with an employer’s contribution of at least 19.3% and all associated benefits
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave, increasing a day each year up to 35 days as well as 8 fixed public holidays each year
• Access to employee wellbeing supports including occupational health & counselling if ever you need help and support