Social Worker - North East Thrive - EDN30301
Job Description
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership
Social Worker - Thrive Welcome TeamNorth East Edinburgh: Base: Inchkeith House
Salary: £37,626 - £44,257 (pro-rata for part time)Hours: 18 per week
Edinburgh City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is undergoing a period of transformative change to improve access to mental health and wellbeing support for people. We are looking to welcome enthusiastic Social Worker with a keen interest in adult mental health and working in the community into our Thrive Welcome Team in North East Edinburgh.
There is a multi-disciplinary and interagency approach. The teams have been co-designed to deliver accessible, short-term, mental health interventions; working with adults aged 18-64 in Edinburgh. People engage with the teams for a variety of reasons such as acute mental health distress and self-harm, anxiety, depression.Challenges and strengths may include employment status, housing situations, community connectedness or social isolation. Individuals are assisted to build their own self-agency and are linked, where suitable, to services in the wider community.
The team use the Thrive model and utilise approaches that are asset based; solution focused and use motivational interviewing delivered in a trauma aware and trauma skilled way.
The social work role has a particular focus on utilising professional skills to support risk assessment /management and responses as well as liaising with wider mental health service colleagues where appropriate.
Not sure if it is a good job fit for you? You would be suited to this job… if you can work smartly with people to help them establish goals and identify how social work, the wider team, local community and commissioned services can assist.
You would love this job…if you’re committed to work as part of a wonderfully, diverse team assisting and developing general service delivery whilst retaining your professional identity and unique contribution.
You would excel in this post…if you are positive, practical, hopeful and solution-focused in your approach, keen to work alongside people with a belief in their self-determination. The service is committed to continuing professional development, supervision and student education.There is a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as regular city-wide learning and reflection between the four Thrive Welcome Teams.
If you would like to learn more, please contact: Katie Bryce, Senior Social Worker; katie.bryce@edinburgh.gov.uk
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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