Social Worker - ANG05704
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £40,636.00 to £45,815.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Forfar, DD8 3WB |
| Company: | Angus Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ANG05704 |
Summary
Job Description
Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar.
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 working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.
Angus Justice Services is adopting the Caledonian System in Angus. The Caledonian System is an integrated approach, including a nationally accredited behaviour programme for men convicted of domestic abuse offences; and support services for women and children.
We are recruiting a Social Worker for the newly established Caledonian Team which sits within Munro Team, Justice Services. We welcome applications from Social Workers who have experience working with perpetrators of domestic abuse or with victims / survivors of domestic abuse; and also have experience or confidence to deliver groupwork programmes.
The post holder requires flexibility as they will be required to work one evening per week on a regular basis to deliver group work programmes as lead facilitator. Evening groups run from 6-8.30pm. Additionally, the role will involve regular travel around the county of Angus.
For further information please contact: Linzi de Vries or Alison Hendry, Managers, Angus Justice Services on 01307 492150.
Please note interviews will be held Wednesday, 13 August 2025.
Requirements
You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.
Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.
About Angus Council
In addition, 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 whilst 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, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme