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Social Worker REF: HSCP/ 80553 80821 80882 80529
Salary: Grade 8 £42,924 – £45,451
Location: Princes Street House
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week
Social Worker – Children and Families
As the HSCP continues its journey to implement the recommendations from the National Care Review and realise the ambition of The Promise we are seeking a confident practitioner to join our team. Ideally you will have experience as a practitioner in all aspects of voluntary and statutory community children’s social work, with a clear track record of working successfully in partnership with children and young people and their families as well as other partners to achieve positive outcomes. However We also welcome applications from practitioners who are starting out in their career or those seeking a new challenge in Children’s Services.
Children’s Services in Inverclyde is at the beginning of an exciting period of change, to equip us to continue to meet the needs of our communities, support more children to remain at home and provide a high standard of support to families when they need it.
Our area teams provide high quality assessments and support to children and their families through some of the most challenging periods in their life. Your role will interact with families experiencing risk and high levels of need. Working in conjunction with Health, education and Police colleagues as well as our highly involved 3rd sector partners you will play a key role in identifying and improving outcomes for children and young people locally. As their lead professional you will work alongside them to help them find ways to overcome challenges, feel safe and be confident they are supported.
Recruitment Information Sessions
We have arranged 2 sessions if you would like to meet some of our team including the interview panel we would love for you to join us in our new Children and Families office:
Friday 21 March 2025 Tuesday 25 March 2025
11.30 – 1.30 5.15 – 7.15pm
James Watt Building
William Street Greenock
PA15 1BT
If you would like to know more you can contact:
Alan Stevenson, Service Manager Molly Coyle, Service Manager
[email protected] OR [email protected]
01475 715270 01475 715270
Inverclyde Council offers a wide range of benefits to employees including flexible working opportunities, attractive pension schemes, a Buy and Bank Annual Leave Scheme, career development and health and wellbeing support.
You can find out more in our Employee Benefits Booklet which is available on our website Employee Benefits – Inverclyde Council
Important Applicant Information:
- Please read the Essential Applicant Information details prior to submitting your application.
- Please note that if you apply via this website it is important that you regularly check your emails following your application submission. All further communication regarding your application, including any invite to interview and, if relevant, details of any formal offer/contract, will be done by email. You should ensure that your email is set up to receive emails from MYJOBSCOTLAND and Inverclyde Council, and that they are not filtered into any JUNK/SPAM folders.
- Inverclyde Council is an accredited Living Wage Employer paying the Living Wage Rate where required. Please click the link to `Essential Applicant Information’ above for more information.
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Inverclyde Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community.
- Interviews for non-teaching posts with Inverclyde Council will be based on the Councils’ competency model which is reflected in our performance appraisal scheme. Details of this can be found at the link below and clicking the Performance Overview document on the left hand side:
http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/working-for-the-council/council-induction
Vetting by Disclosure Scotland
If you work in regulated work (children and/or protected adults) you will be subject to obtaining a satisfactory PVG. A small number of posts require a Standard or Basic Disclosure check and the majority of all other posts will complete a Criminal Convictions Form. All disclosure checks are obtained via Disclosure Scotland. If you are the successful candidate you will be required to pay the cost of the disclosure check required for your post.
Regulatory Bodies
If your post requires registration with a Regulatory Body such as HCPC or SSSC etc., you are required to obtain and maintain registration including paying any fees for HCPC. As part of the local government pay deal, local authority staff are no longer required to pay SSSC fees.
Further Assistance
Alternative application packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille and Audio. To request an alternative application pack or require further assistance to attend and/or participate in an interview, please contact the HR Recruitment Team on 01475 712740 or email Human Resources at: [email protected].
Armed Forces Personnel/Reservists
Inverclyde Council welcomes applications from former armed forces personnel / reservists. Many of the skills picked up during your military career could be transferred directly into a role with local government.
Disability Confident
We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the job.
Flexible Working
Inverclyde Council recognises the mutual benefits of having a flexible, effective workforce to deliver the best services to our community, whilst enabling employees to balance their personal, home and work responsibilities more effectively, with a view to achieving greater job satisfaction, motivation, morale and productivity.
Employees are able to apply for a range of options including Part-Time Working, Job share, Compressed Hours, Homeworker, Hybrid Working and Flexible Retirement. More detail can be found in the Flexible Working Policy, linked in the download section of our Employee Benefits web page.
