Self-directed Support Project Assistant
- Location:
- Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, EH3 6BB
- Rate:
- £22,500 per month
- Contract Type:
- Permanent, Temporary
- Position Type:
- Full Time, Part Time
- Hours:
- 37 hours per week
Social Work Scotland is the professional leadership body for social work. We are a membership body with over 400 individual members and over 35 corporate members. Social Work Scotland has two fundamental objectives: to support the development of the social work profession, and to influence and inform policy and legislation affecting social workers and local communities.
Role Purpose
We are excited to be appointing a Self-directed Support Project Assistant to contribute to the work of a small project team delivering the Scottish Government’s Self-directed Support project, which will be hosted by Social Work Scotland. The project team will develop an implementation framework for the delivery of Self-directed Support, engage with key partners to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience around SDS, and assist local implementers to personalise their processes and systems, drawing on existing local expertise and insight from implementation best practice.
Essential
Candidates should be an experienced office or project administrator, with good written and spoken communication skills.
Contract: Full time (37 hours) or part time considered, fixed term to end March 2021 (secondments welcome)
Interviews will be held on: Friday 30/8/19 at Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6BB.
Enquiries: Enquiries can be made to Corinne Groeneveldt by email to admin@socialworkscotland.org