Principal Social Work Officer - Waverley Court - 10780_1751281661
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £74,858.00 to £89,566.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH8 8BG |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10780_1751281661 |
Summary
Principal Social Work Officer
Waverley Court,
Salary: £74,858 - £89,566
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
An exciting opportunity is now available for a Principal Social Work Officer to join the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership. This role which is at the heart of improving the Partnership's senior oversight of the quality of social work practice, ensuring that we deliver high quality, safe, person-centred practice for the people of Edinburgh.
You will influence the organisation at a senior level, and you will be critical in ensuring that the unique role of social work is understood and valued within the Partnership and with partner organisations. You will also ensure that the social work profession within the Partnership is championed and led, with the Chief Social Work Officer in the Council and through key strategic and operational relationships.
You will provide professional leadership and representation of evidence-based social work practice across a range of diverse practice areas within the Partnership and influence the organisation at a senior level; ensuring the unique role of social work is understood and valued within the Partnership. You will actively contribute to the strategic leadership of services and develop and implement standards to ensure a cohesive and high performing social work workforce which embraces cultural change and improved strength-based practice to our citizens.
You will have accountability and responsibility for professional standards and regulation of adult social work and social care services across the whole Health and Social Care Partnership (The Partnership) and will have a lead role in the broader governance of social care functions and responsibilities
You will have direct operational responsibility for the Mental Health Officer Service (MHO) and Adult Support and Protection service (ASP) and will be responsible for the quality of social work practice, ensuring delivery of high quality, safe, person-centred practice.
The role will provide leadership and champion the social work profession within the Partnership and Council, with the Council's Chief Social Work Officer and through key strategic relationships.
You will be a highly experienced operational, strategic and professional leader who is collaborative, empowers those around them, and can help ensure that the principles of quality, safety and compassion are embedded in culture and practice, within a context of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
A professional Social Work qualification and registration is required, and you will be educated to master's level or equivalent.
You will be a professional role model and demonstrate a proven track record in senior social work leadership and complex change across diverse social work and social care services, evidencing a commitment to the integration of Health and Social Care.
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.
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 https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">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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