Social Worker

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Full time
Location: Angus Council
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Job Description Based at Bellevue House, Springfield Terrace, Arbroath.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations, including council buildings, service user's locations, site visits, and from home to best suit your work, meetings, and collaboration.

The Investigations Team is a Social Work Service for Children & Families based in Bellevue House, Arbroath, covering the whole of Angus. The team provides a time-limited service to children and young people for whom there are Child Protection concerns. The role involves working in partnership with families and other services, mainly police, health, and education, to share/gather information, carry out assessments, and respond to any concerns for the child to ensure their safety and wellbeing. Key tasks include engaging with children and young people and supporting families who are often in crisis. We provide a trauma-informed, rights-based, and person-centred service to children, young people, and their families.

Additionally, the team plays a wider role in promoting best practice in protecting children across Angus, and there will be opportunities to become involved in this work.

Angus Council is a forward-thinking council that supports employees to have an agile workstyle, working between home and your team's office base. We are happy to discuss a flexible working plan to enable employees to have a working pattern that suits their lifestyle.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting job opportunity, please contact Lisa McMahon, Team Manager on (01241) 467333.

Please note interviews will be held the week commencing 27 January 2025.

Requirements You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to the job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council Please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form, and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website

https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council

for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role while managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job: those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships, and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.

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