Senior Social Worker - (Perm/Full Time) - REF:HSCP/82395 - INV06156
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £52,744.00 to £55,946.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 August 2025 |
| Location: | Port Glasgow, PA14 5JH |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Inverclyde Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | INV06156 |
Summary
Job Description
Senior Social Worker REF: HSCP/ 82395
Salary: Grade 10 £52,744 - £55,946
Location: Princes Street House, 19 – 29 Princes Street, Port Glasgow
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week
Senior Social Worker
An opportunity has arisen to join the leadership team of our Children and Families social work service. Senior Social Workers play a key role in the delivery of our frontline service and are responsible for leading a team of social workers and support workers. As well as providing day to day line management to your team you will also have key responsibilities in supporting and developing your team in line with their identified learning needs and levels of experience. As a leader you will promote a culture of continuous improvement and will reflect the ambition of our Health and Social Care Partnership to ensure that we give our children and young people the best start in life.
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 an experienced and confident leader to join our team. You will have significant 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.
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. The successful candidate in this post will be someone ready to lead and support colleagues through change. We have fully committed to the implementation of Signs of Safety an Healing, this is a full system change process and will be a key part of our journey to improve outcomes for children and their families.
If you would like to find out more about this role before applying please contact:
Alan Stevenson, Service Manager – alan.stevenson@inverclyde.gov.uk / 01475 715270
OR
Lesley Ellis, Service Manager – lesley.ellis@inverclyde.gov.uk / 01475 715369
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.
-
Inverclyde Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community.
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK as we do not hold a sponsorship license.
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: Human.Resources@inverclyde.gov.uk.
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.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme