Social Worker

Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026

Closing Date: Sunday 11 October 2026

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: FC8 £43,437.09 to £47,604.34

Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week

Location: Based in either Dunfermline and South West Fife or Cowdenbeath

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement .

Job Details

Fife Council has undergone an exciting redesign as part of Fife’s vision to deliver accessible and available services at the right time to children, young people, families and carers. This has been informed by national and local policy which looks for our teams to be child focused, strength based, and trauma informed.

This exciting opportunity is to work as social worker within the Enhanced Children and Families Team which focuses on planning for children and young people subject to a Compulsory Supervision Order at home, foster care, kinship care, residential care, including secure placements. This role varies with focus on parenting capacity assessments to support care planning, permanence planning, Life Story work, as well as reviewing plans which may lead to the potential reunification of families.

Within this role, you will carry a caseload whereby you will undertake assessments in order to provide logical and coherently evidenced recommendations to enable children to be with their families wherever possible, or review plans to which may lead to the potential reunification of families. You will also undertake initial assessments, develop Child’s Plans which are co-produced with families as part of a relational approach, you will identify, assess and manage risk as well as Safety Plan for our children and young people at risk of significant harm. You will strive to make sure plans are progressed in a timely manner to deliver on The Promise and ensure plans progress for the children and families within Fife.

This role will require multi-agency working and developing positive working relationships with the Team around the Child. We look for compassionate workers who genuinely have passion for the role.

A link to the role profile and the Families First Strategy is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.

The Person

You will be a qualified social worker (or a social work student close to qualifying).

- Registered with the SSSC.

- You will carry a caseload of varying complexity requiring specialist skills and knowledge to enable the team/individual to respond effectively to the assessed needs/risks of service users.

- You will be able to communicate effectively with children, young people, their carer's and other professionals involved with families.

- You will be able to assess need and risk.

- You will be able to work individually and/or collaboratively to produce plans to support vulnerable people.

- You will be able to coordinate and/or deliver interventions to support children, young people and families.

- You will produce high-quality written work and be able to work to timescales.

- You will be able to organise your diary and prioritise your work.

- You will be committed to keeping The Promise and making a difference for children and families.

- You should have the ability to travel across Fife.

Workforce Support

The Children, Families and Justice service is invested in supporting its workforce to be skilled, confident and competent. We offer a range of support to our employee’s including:

- A comprehensive induction programme for new workers

- A commitment to regular and reflective supervision

- A culture where your voice matters and opportunities are available to shape how we work together

- Bespoke training, mentoring and a range of career development opportunities, with protected study time equivalent to one working day per month

- Enhanced support to Newly Qualified Social workers including a monthly forum

- Generous annual leave and working arrangements with home-working opportunities and office-working as required

- Competitive salaries

- Local Government pension scheme and employee benefits and rewards scheme

- Use of the Magic Notes tool to reduce the time required to complete administrative tasks.

- To hear more about what it’s like to work in a Children and Families Team in Fife, please listen to Brad’s experience Working with children and families | Job Fife

Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland.

As this role requires SSSC registration, the successful applicant will have three months to apply for registration.

If appointed, you must start your application as soon as possible so you're registered within the required six months.

If you need to achieve a qualification to maintain your SSSC membership, information will be provided if you are appointed. You must ensure you complete the qualification within the specified timeframe.

More details are included in the role profile.

Further Information

- Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile

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