Social Worker (Community Intervention Service for Sexual Offending) - Grindlay Street Court Social Work Centre - EDN29422

Job Description

Children’s, Education and Justice Services

Social Worker, Community Intervention Service for Sexual Offending (CISSO)
Grindlay Court Justice Services, Edinburgh

Salary: £37,626 - £44,257 (pro rata)
Hours: 18 per week

CISSO is seeking an enthusiastic, qualified social worker to join the team. CISSO, providing a service to people from East, West and Midlothian, Edinburgh, and the Scottish Borders, is a specialist team contributing towards community safety and the protection of children and adults through: Case consultation for justice social work staff; Providing a range of group interventions; Joint assessments and interventions, with justice staff, where groupwork is not appropriate; Providing training for justice social work and other professional staff groups; Providing consultation, advice and contributing to court and other assessment reports. The applicant should be aware that evening work and travel across L&Bs, is required in this post

Edinburgh Justice Services are committed to providing high quality services while ensuring a compassionate approach to people accessing our services and supporting staff wellbeing. We offer a high level of training to support continuous professional development and to deliver a broad range of interventions, including established, accredited, group work programmes. We are implementing Trauma Informed Practice, Safe & Together™ and Restorative Justice practice models and interventions across our services, and have established a Women’s Centre, in partnership with NHS Lothian, to reduce barriers and meet the needs of women involved in the justice system.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post and the service provided please email Steven.Harvey@edinburgh.gov.uk.

Candidates will have a Social Work qualification recognised by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and be registered, or eligible to register, with the SSSC. In addition, they will be trained in and have extensive experience of using risk assessment tools and leading risk management processes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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