Social Worker - North East Thrive

City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate Social Workers to join their Thrive Welcome Team in Edinburgh. This role focuses on enhancing access to mental health support through a collaborative, community-oriented approach. You will engage with adults facing mental health challenges, utilizing professional skills to assess risks and connect individuals to essential services. The organization is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, providing ample training and development opportunities. If you are solution-focused and enthusiastic about making a difference in the community, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in social work with a focus on mental health support.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support risk assessment and management for adult mental health.
• Work with individuals to establish goals and connect to services.

Skills

Social Work

Risk Assessment

Motivational Interviewing

Community Engagement

Solution-Focused Approach

Education

Degree in Social Work

Job description

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Edinburgh City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is undergoing a period of transformative change to improve access to mental health and wellbeing support for people. We are looking to welcome enthusiastic Social Workers with a keen interest in adult mental health and working in the community into our Thrive Welcome Team in North East Edinburgh.

There is a multi-disciplinary and interagency approach. The teams have been co-designed to deliver accessible, short-term, mental health interventions; working with adults aged 18-64 in Edinburgh. People engage with the teams for a variety of reasons such as acute mental health distress and self-harm, anxiety, and depression. Challenges and strengths may include employment status, housing situations, community connectedness, or social isolation. Individuals are assisted to build their own self-agency and are linked, where suitable, to services in the wider community. The team uses the Thrive model and utilises approaches that are asset-based, solution-focused, and use motivational interviewing delivered in a trauma-aware and trauma-skilled way.

The social work role has a particular focus on utilising professional skills to support risk assessment/management and responses, as well as liaising with wider mental health service colleagues where appropriate.

You would be suited to this job if you can work smartly with people to help them establish goals and identify how social work, the wider team, local community, and commissioned services can assist.

You would love this job if you’re committed to work as part of a wonderfully diverse team assisting and developing general service delivery whilst retaining your professional identity and unique contribution.

You would excel in this post if you are positive, practical, hopeful, and solution-focused in your approach, keen to work alongside people with a belief in their self-determination. The service is committed to continuing professional development, supervision, and student education. There is a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as regular city-wide learning and reflection between the four Thrive Welcome Teams.

If you would like to learn more, please contact: Katie Bryce, Senior Social Worker; [e-mail]

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 outwith 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.

Requirements

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.

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.