Are you an empathetic and dedicated Social Worker looking to make a meaningful impact on the lives of older adults in Midlothian?
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Social Worker to join a supportive and well-established Older People's Team based in Dalkeith. This role offers a perfect balance of community-based practice and the flexibility of hybrid working, allowing you to manage your caseload efficiently while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Benefits of our brilliant rewards package include:
... - Flexible Hours: Control your work hours and choose assignments that fit your lifestyle.
- Competitive Pay Rates: We offer highly competitive remuneration for each placement.
- Professional Development: Opportunities to work across various departments, enhancing your skills and broadening your expertise.
- Free training: Keep up to date with your Continuous Professional Development.
- Pension Scheme: Contributory pension.
- Referral Bonus: Receive £300 in vouchers (subject to Ts and Cs).
- Weekly payroll: Randstad runs a twice weekly payroll, enabling you to control your finances by receiving weekly pay.
- Dedicated Support: Our team is here to assist you at every step, from onboarding through the entirety of your placement. We can even help with sourcing accommodation and travel, if required.
The Role
As a key member of the team, you will focus on providing high-quality relationship-based social work. Your primary focus will be ensuring that older people in the Dalkeith area receive the support they need to live safely and with dignity.
Your core responsibilities will include:
- Comprehensive Assessments: Conducting holistic assessments of needs for older people within the community.
- Annual & Outcome-Focused Reviews: Ensuring that care packages remain fit for purpose and promote independence.
- Care Home Reviews: Visiting residents in residential and nursing care to monitor wellbeing and quality of care.
- Multi-disciplinary Collaboration: Working closely with health professionals, families, and external providers to coordinate integrated care.
- Legislative Compliance: Working within the framework of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act and the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act.
Qualifications and Skills:
- A degree in Social Work or an equivalent qualification recognised by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).
- Current SSSC registration as a social worker.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience: Significant post-qualification experience in a statutory Children and Families setting, with a proven track record of managing complex child protection caseloads.
- Legal Knowledge: Expert-level knowledge of relevant Scottish legislation, including the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 and the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
- Assessment Skills: Exceptional ability to gather, analyse, and synthesise complex information under pressure to inform professional judgments.
- Resilience: Demonstrated emotional resilience and ability to maintain professional effectiveness when dealing with highly distressing and challenging situations.
This could be the perfect position in which to realise your career goals.
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Do you have some more questions regarding this or any other role?
If you are interested in discussing the position further, please contact Leah Rowley on 0131 240 0887 or email for a confidential discussion. If you are happy to move forward with the process and are successful to be put forward for this role, a conversation can also be arranged with the Manager to discuss the details about the position further. This gives you the opportunity to ask more questions and to assess if this is the right role for you.
Being a preferred supplier to numerous local authorities and NHS trusts, we can give you access to a wide range of vacancies.
Are you thinking about a change in your career? Whether you are an existing locum or you are new to the locum market and are exploring your options, we have opportunities that are exciting, well paid and flexible.
I have over 21 years experience recruiting within the healthcare market. If this particular role does not sound quite right for you, we have a wide selection of roles across the country that may not be advertised. We are also able to source a particular role to suit your requirements, so whether you work with children or adults in any particular speciality, please get in touch to see how we can support you!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
