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Job Description
Before applying for this job, it is important that you read the Applicant Guidance by clicking on this link and the Job Profile attached. These explain the job role and the type of person we’re looking for.
Location: Westburn, 116 Westburn Road Aberdeen
Duration: Permanent, Full Time
Roles that require PVG Membership
Please note that with effect from 1 April 2023, where a role requires PVG membership, candidates will be required to meet the cost of the PVG membership. This applies only to roles with a full time equivalent salary of £30,000 and above. (Teaching roles and jobs at Grade 11 and above (currently £30,285 per annum / £16.64 per hour)
The Council will pay for the PVG membership cost initially, either £18 for existing PVG scheme members, or £59 for non-members, and this cost will be deducted from an employee’s first FULL month’s salary payment.
Job purpose/about the role
- Supports the realisation within children’s social work of the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into practice.
- Supports that the attention and resources of corporate parents are focused on safeguarding and promoting the rights and wellbeing of Aberdeen’s looked after children and care leavers.
- Promotes that those children, young people, and young adults who can access the service are informed about it, are aware of their rights and have their voice and views advocated for.
- Provides an individualised service for children, young people, and young adults to ensure that their voice, views, and experiences are heard and considered in all assessment, planning, and decision-making systems relevant to their lives. Importantly this includes those who may communicate their views in alternative ways or are non-verbal through age or disability.
- Contribute to design, planning and improvement activities ensuring that these are informed by the experiences, views and voice of children, young people, and young adults.
- Commits to supporting trauma recovery through an ethos where children, young people and young adults are listened to, empowered, advocated for and treated with compassion, empathy, and respect, through safe and trusting connections and relationships.
Aberdeen Young Person’s Rights Service : A Service which #KeepsThePromise to support our children, young people, and young adults to enjoy and have their rights listened to and fulfilled.
Requirements
- BA in Social Work or equivalent Social Work Qualification E.g. Diploma in Social Work
- SSSC Registration.
- Ability to travel to meet with young people in the location of where they are living.
Responsibilities
- Practice which is relationally based and inclusive in its intentions.
- Supporting and leading on a change and transformation agenda.
- Building and maintaining trusting and safe boundaries and relationships.
- Applying an advocacy approach.
- Applying a rights-respecting approach into practice.
- Communicating inclusively through use of sensitive and trauma-informed verbal and non-verbal language.
- Designing and delivering participatory activities which engage and connect with children, young people and young adults who are socially disadvantaged and marginalised.
- Writing in accessible, creative, and sensitive ways which represents voice and views and what matters to children, young people and young adults as well as integrating and reflecting their rights.
- Active role modelling and use of communication and language skills which are sensitive to trauma experiences.
- Realising community empowerment.
The Individual
Please see the Job Profile for further details.
Aberdeen City Council is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. For further information, please see our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Recruitment pack.
Flexible Working
We are happy to talk flexible working and offer flexible working for most roles in the organisation meaning that many of our employees enjoy the freedom of choosing a working pattern that suits them as much as it suits the organisation.
Disability Confident
We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you consider yourself to have a disability and think you may require a reasonable adjustment to be made for this part of the selection process, or would like further information in relation to reasonable adjustments, please contact [email protected].
Armed Forces
We are a forces-friendly employer, have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a silver award recipient in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We have a specific email address for those in the forces, those who have left the forces, as well as their partners / spouses / families: [email protected]. We are able to answer questions about jobs and our application / selection process, as well as about our employee support provisions.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
We have a number of guaranteed interview schemes available to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role they are applying for who:
- have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 (all jobs)
- looked after young people, those that are in continuing care or are a care leaver up to the age of 29 (all jobs)
- are aged 16-24 and live in Aberdeen City or have been to an Aberdeen City Council school and are applying for a Modern Apprenticeship (except Trades apprenticeships)
- have done a Foundation Apprenticeship with Aberdeen City Council and are applying for any apprenticeships relevant to the area in which they did their Foundation Apprenticeship
- are New Scots* aged 16-24 and are applying for any apprenticeships
*”New Scots” are defined as refugees and asylum seekers who are in Scottish communities and include those who have been granted refugee status or another form of humanitarian protection, people seeking asylum, those who have been refused asylum, and those whose application has been refused but who remain in Scotland.
Further information can be found at https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/jobs
