Job Description Clackmannanshire Children’s Services Social Worker Clackmannanshire Cares, Can You? Are you passionate about improving children’s outcomes? Are you looking for an inspiring challenge? Do you believe you can make a real difference in improving children’s life? Clackmannanshire Council has recently restructured its children’s services, creating new teams with ambitious plans, utilising new approaches to working with children and their families that will make real differences to improving children’s lives. Opportunities are available within our Youth Justice and Case Management teams. The service is committed to work in a multi agency manner to improve outcomes for children and young people, with a significant emphasis on an effective and early intervention approach. Partnership working and team thinking will be crucial to the success of this service and the partner wide whole system approach. It’s about ‘thinking differently’ and ‘doing differently’ to achieve better outcomes for our children and young people. Clackmannanshire Council supports a balanced caseload approach. We offer regular supervision, support and professional development We offer a range of family friendly/ flexible working patterns If you would like to discuss any specific aspect of working in Clackmannanshire Children’s Service please contact: Margaret McIntyre, Childrens Services Manager Stuart Landels , Service Manager Requirements This post is considered regulated work with children and/or protected adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. You will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by Clackmannanshire Council. The cost of this check will be deducted from your salary. Should you have difficulty in accessing the documents and wish to request a paper application pack along with an application form please call (24 hrs) and leave your details along with the reference number of the post. Please note that if you are selected for interview you will be notified by e-mail.