Assistant Practitioner (Social Work) - ANG05714
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,273.00 to £29,333.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 August 2025 |
| Location: | Arbroath, DD11 3TP |
| Company: | Angus Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ANG05714 |
Summary
Job Description
Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.
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 Health and Social Care Partnership is offering an exciting opportunity to join our integrated Under 65s Community Mental Health Service as an Assistant Practitioner.
Based across both North and South Angus, this full-time role plays a vital part in delivering high-quality, person-centred care. You'll be at the heart of a multidisciplinary team that includes mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, support workers, and psychiatrists—working together to provide holistic support for individuals and their carers.
Your primary focus will be to assess and support carers, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met. You'll champion the Triangle of Care approach, encouraging meaningful collaboration between service users, carers, and professionals.
In this role, you will:
• Provide tailored support, advice, and guidance to carers
• Promote carer involvement in care planning
• Work closely with a range of professionals to deliver integrated, compassionate care
• Contribute to training initiatives and continuous service improvement
• Contribute to Angus Health and Social Care Partnership delivering its legal responsibilities around Carer Support and Self-Directed Support
We’re looking for someone who brings strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively across agencies. You’ll need to demonstrate a commitment to community care principles and social work values as well as an integrated approach to care.
This is a challenging, exciting, and rewarding role which offers the right candidate the opportunity to further develop a triangle of care approach within the community mental health team, improving outcomes for carers.
You will joining a supportive team and will be provided with a period of induction and ongoing support from the Social Work Team Manager and Senior Practitioners. You will have access to flexible working and elements of home working is available.
Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.
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.
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