Social Worker

Angus Council; Forfar; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Angus Council is seeking a Social Worker for the newly formed Caledonian Team within Justice Services. The role requires experience with domestic abuse cases, including groupwork facilitation and a commitment to flexible working, including evening sessions. This position offers a hybrid working model, combining time in council buildings and home-based work.

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker.
• Ability to work one evening per week.
• Willingness to travel across Angus.

Responsibilities

• Work with the newly established Caledonian Team.
• Deliver groupwork programmes as lead facilitator.
• Provide support to victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Skills

Experience with domestic abuse perpetrators

Groupwork facilitation

Flexibility

Job description

Location: County Buildings Market Street Forfar, DD8 3WB

Salary: £40,636 - £45,815 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time

Hours: 36.25 hours per week

Work From Home: Hybrid

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.

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.