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Social Worker - INTERNAL - PKC11404
£24,898 - £26,563 (21 Hours per week)
Access Team, Pullar House, Perth

Perth & Kinross Council aims to work with the residents of the Perth & Kinross area to provide independent living across all communities.

Access Team within the Early Intervention and Prevention Service has a permanent 21 hour vacancy for a Qualified Social Worker, the team has recently been reviewed with the scope of work focusing on critical and short term interventions along with signposting and Adult Support & protection. This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly innovative team, the work is extremely fast paced and varies each day with excellent training, supervision provided, average case time intervention being two weeks.

The successful applicant will assist in supporting people within the community by providing a range of social work and care management tasks including carrying out Outcome Focussed Assessments, negotiating flexible packages of care, promoting Self Directed Support, attending meetings and working closely with our colleagues in Housing, Locality Teams, Care providers, Commissioning and Health.

Responsibilities also include statutory work under the Adult Support and Protection Act and delivering a duty service completing direct access to care applications and welfare checks.

Benefits also include flexible working scheme, modern working practices, and generous annual leave entitlement.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will be motivated and engaging and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Effective time management is essential for the successful autonomous worker to manage a complex caseload with the ability to be flexible and respond to crisis / competing demands being integral to the role.

A good understanding of Self Directed Support and how this is delivered is essential. The ability to integrate and cultivate successful links within the team and across services is highly desirable.

Knowledge of services, challenges, demands, and demographics within PKC would be an advantage.

You must have experience of assessment of Social and Personal Care needs; You must be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of social work principles and values; Experience of Adult Support and Protection Procedures and all relevant legislation.

You must have a DIPSW, CQSW, CSS and relevant Social Work Qualifications. You must have significant relevant experience of Adult Social Work, NQSW need not apply on this occasion.

You will have a current registration with SSSC and be eligible to register with PVG scheme.  You will also hold a current UK driving licence as the Access Team covers Perth & Kinross in its entirety.

The Individual

If you would like any more information regarding this vacancy, please contact Pamela Ritchie, Team Leader on 01738 475492.

When applying for this post, please provide current contact details (including e-mail addresses) for two referees, one should be your present or most recent employer. However, if you are an existing employee of Perth & Kinross Council, you are only required to provide reference details for your current employer.

At PKC our values and behaviours influence our work and support us in the delivery of the Perth and Kinross Offer. In your application, and should you be invited to interview, you will be asked to describe situations that support the criteria required in the role and which also demonstrate our values and behaviours. Find out more about PKC and you could soon be joining our team!

Please APPLY ONLINE. Facilities are available at all public libraries in Perth and Kinross. If you have a disability and require reasonable adjustments, please call 01738 475555 to discuss.

As part of our safer recruitment measures, any offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of mandatory checks including eligibility to work in the UK, Disclosure Scotland or PVG, qualifications, references, and fitness to undertake the post. This may also include an Overseas Criminal Records Check if you have spent time living overseas.

Some jobs may have been traditionally carried out predominately by one gender, but we would encourage you to apply if you meet the requirements, irrespective of your gender.

What we can do for you

If you are successful in a role with Perth & Kinross Council, you will have access to a range of benefits to help your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

A healthy work life balance is important to us and we provide supportive management and flexible working arrangements to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. You will have access to training and support for continued professional development.

Perth & Kinross Council welcomes applications from former armed forces personnel/reservists. Many of the skills picked up during your military career could be transferred directly into a role with local government.

For more information about working for Perth & Kinross Council and living in one of the most scenic areas of Scotland, look at our Jobs, careers and employment page.

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European Trading Desk - Student Support Analyst Internship

Base Location: Perth or Edinburgh (with a requirement to be based in the office 2-3 days per week)

Salary: Circa £23,422 per annum (pro-rata) + shift allowance + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract | Part Time shift work | Flexible First options available

About the Role

We are looking to recruit for an entry level role within our Front Office which would allow a full-time student looking for a career path within Energy Trading the opportunity to learn about SSE's trading arm and the markets we trade in a practical way. We are looking for hard working, dynamic thinking individuals who have strong analytical skills to provide support to our trading teams predominantly during evenings and weekends, with the potential to join during the weekdays as time allows.

The role would work alongside our European physical operations desk who are optimising our asset portfolio as well as trading real time gas and electricity from the day ahead stage until delivery 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

We would be looking for you to learn our asset portfolio and study the energy market to provide analysis to our traders showing opportunities for creating value within markets we trade. Alongside this we will train you to manage some of our operational portfolio and submit nominations.

This is an incredible opportunity to work in a front office trading environment, to learn electricity and gas markets and understand a large asset portfolio. The EMC, which supports our business by managing real time energy balances and market exposures from SSE's assets and customers and short-term trading teams are at the forefront of the green energy transition.

Your key accountabilities will include:

- As part of a team, you will look to continually evaluate the changing energy markets and develop short term strategies to manage the complexities of our portfolio.

- You will work on pieces of analysis that study the markets we trade as well as the global energy markets to show opportunities for trading value creation.

- You will work alongside our operations, shift and short-term traders to grasp energy market principals and develop a strong market understanding to support your analysis.

- You will assist the European EMC Shift traders to optimise the energy portfolio and submit relevant nominations.

What do I need?

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have;

- You will be a full or part time student - undergraduate.

- Strong numerical, problem solving and analytical skills.

- Great communication / teamworking skills and a strong work ethic.

- Strong attention to detail.

- Advanced Excel.

- Coding skills advantageous: eg DAX, Python etc.

About our Business

SSE Energy Markets is the heart of the SSE Group, securing value for SSE's asset portfolios in wholesale energy markets as we move towards our vision of being a leading energy company in a net zero world. We play a critical role as the short-term energy market asset optimiser, and a long-term energy market adviser, for all SSE's Business Units (across SSE's Wind, Hydro, Low Carbon Thermal, Distributed Energy and Customer portfolios). This role for Energy Markets enables SSE to focus its investment in energy markets capabilities (including Trading, Risk Management, Energy Economics, Settlements and Advanced Analytics) in one centre of excellence, with these enhanced capabilities supporting value creation and decision making across the SSE Group.

What's in it for you?

We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.

What happens now?

All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact us here. You are very welcome to request a call if you would prefer to discuss this over the phone.

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.