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The Glasgow City Care Service is delivered by Glasgow City Council under the management of the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership.
The Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (GCHSCP) is a partnership between Glasgow City Council and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, who plan and deliver health and social care services together for Glasgow. A key priority of the partnership is to make sure that care and support enables people to continue to live in their own homes and communities.
Opportunities to Work in Care Services
Opportunities to Work in Justice Services
Locality Justice Services
This is a crucial role in safeguarding communities and reducing offending within the community. Working with often very vulnerable individuals with complex needs, we require to work effectively across GCHSCP in order to secure better and positive outcomes for individuals subject to statutory orders.
The social work role in Justice Services involves delivering a statutory service in relation to throughcare licenses, supervised release orders, community payback and unpaid work orders. Critical to this function is ensuring comprehensive risk management planning and reviewing of cases to mitigate public protection risks and reduce reoffending rates. Justice staff also have a statutory function in relation to the provision of Court reports with demand increasingly high and with short timescales for these to be provided. A central function of this role is also to meet key performance indicators relating to service provision which are reported onto the Integration Joint Board (IJB) and Scottish Government on a quarterly basis.
We work with a broad range of partners within Justice Services including Police Scotland, Court, Health and voluntary services with the aim being to promote and engage clients in effective offence focused work, preventative and recovery supports and early interventions to reduce the risk of re-offending.
Caledonian Project
The Caledonian system is an integrated approach to address men's domestic abuse and to improve the lives of women, children and men.
The primary aim of the Caledonian System is to reduce the re-offending of men convicted of domestic abuse related offences, thereby increasing women's and children's safety. This is in line with the Scottish Government three-fold intended outcomes for community-based interventions: public protection, reduction of custody and social inclusion of rehabilitated offenders. Working with men, women, young people and children contributes to reducing the likelihood of men re-offending while also maximising public protection.
Staff within the team will be expected to facilitate groupwork on a regular basis (a min of once per week) which might require working beyond 8pm. Whilst the team will be centrally located, this will be a Citywide service so there is an expectation that staff would utilise offices across the GCHSCP to interview and meet with service users.
The successful applicant for the post will be required to complete a competency based screening process that includes a short role play exercise (including feedback on performance) with a member of the Caledonian team, a short presentation as well as structured interview.
Structured Deferred Sentences (SDS)
The role in the SDS team involves delivering a statutory service in relation to the management of Structured Deferred Sentences. Within Glasgow Justice Services we support a number of problem solving Courts within Glasgow Sheriff Court that utilise SDS as a key sentencing option, including the Alcohol Court.
Critical to this post is ensuring comprehensive risk assessment and risk management planning, reviewing of cases to mitigate public protection risks and reduce reoffending rates, and an assessment of needs with clear support plans put in place to address these issues. SDS staff have a statutory function in relation to the provision of Court reports with demand increasingly high and with short timescales for these to be provided. SDS staff also have a presence within the problem-solving Courts and are asked to present their assessments / reports on a regular basis to support decision making. A central function of this role is also to meet key performance indicators relating to service provision which are reported on to the Integration Joint Board (IJB) and Scottish Government on a quarterly basis.
Court Social Work Team
Justice Services provides a Court based social work service to Glasgow Sheriff Court each day with the Court Qualified Social Worker being critical to the day-to-day operational running of the Court service.
Court social work consists of qualified Social Workers who carry out a range of tasks within the Court. These include stand down reports (when requested), welfare assessments and checks with vulnerable clients who are being transferred to custody, liaison with Sheriffs as and when required and supporting other vulnerable clients with a range of issues as they are being dealt with by the Courts. Court social work staff will check the daily custody list for clients who have additional needs and vulnerabilities, offering them support and assistance as required.
The Court Social Work Team operate on all days when the Court is in session, including any weekend or public holidays as required.
Drug Court
The Glasgow Drug Court is a therapeutic problem solving court which supervises the treatment of individuals with drug use issues linked to their offending behaviour. The court aims to break that cycle of addiction and offending.
The objectives of the Glasgow Drug Court are:
- to reduce the level of drug related offending behaviour, and
- to reduce or eliminate an offender's dependence on or propensity to misuse drugs.
In order to achieve those objectives the Drug Court is supported by a specialist supervision and treatment team made up of social work staff, addiction specialists, a medical officer and a nurse team. This team ensures that the service user is given rapid access to treatment once a drug court order is made. The court as a whole is overseen by a multi-disciplinary management team, consisting of representatives of the key criminal justice and treatment agencies.
The Drug Court Team provides a statutory service to the Glasgow Sheriff Drug Court and produce court reports, manage Structured Deferred Sentences (SDS) and Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (DTTOs). Given how the Drug Court operates staff are expected to produce monthly progress reports for court. The team only undertake statutory work. The Social Worker role is key to how the team operates and ensures that clients are seen regularly, their risk and needs managed and progress maintained. The role is also responsible for all of the statutory tasks within the team such as Court reports, risk assessments and supervision action plans as well as managing orders such as DTTOs and SDS.
Youth Court
The Glasgow Youth Court was introduced to Glasgow Sheriff Court in June 2021 following discussions between Glasgow City HSCP Justice Services and Glasgow Sheriff Court. The ethos behind the youth court model is to prevent young people from becoming subject to formal statutory measures (via the adult Criminal Justice system) and to use the authority of the court to enhance the rehabilitative power of community sentences such as Structured Deferred Sentences (SDS). The Glasgow Youth Court endeavours to combine the provision of multi-disciplinary intervention and support in the community, with regular court reviews to monitor and encourage young people's progress.
A key aim in introducing a youth problem-solving youth court in Glasgow is to improve sentencing and outcomes for young people aged between 16-25 years in line with sentencing guidelines issued nationally.
The goal of the Youth Court is to create a direct link between the young person and the sentencing sheriff. This approach allows for a more coordinated tailored disposal to be developed between the Sheriff, the Social Worker and the young person, which better meets the needs of the young person.
A key aim of setting up a Youth Court is to reduce the number of young people being sentenced to higher tariff disposals such as Community Payback Order (CPOs) in Glasgow. This is part of our commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and their families by developing services that seek to reduce risk of escalation for young people who are involved with the Justice system.
The Social Worker role is essential to the delivery of the Youth Court model. Qualified Social Workers within the team are responsible for carrying out statutory tasks including completing Court reports timeously, managing statutory orders such as Structured Deferred Sentences and compiling risk assessments and risk management plans for young people. Qualified Social Workers support young people to attend Court, present their assessments to the Sheriff presiding within Court and work with a variety of statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure young people are supported to address the underlying causes of their involvement in the Justice system.
Barlinnie Team
The role of the prison based Social Worker at Barlinnie has a key role in the delivery of the justice statutory Social Work function. They have responsibility for:
- delivering a statutory Social Work Service with a prison based setting and associated tasks in line with National Outcomes and Standards
- risk assessments and associated tasks for case planning for short and long-term prisoners who will be subject on release to statutory supervision in the community. This is inclusive and not limited to; statutory assessments including SA07s, LSCMI, RoSH/RMP, consideration for progression at the RMT, risk assessments related to first grant of temporary release and attendance at enhanced ICM/MAPPA meetings where merited.
- risk assessments and associated tasks in the management of prisoners convicted of schedule 1 offences
- provision of a duty service including non statutory social work support
- delivery of one-to-one offence-focused interventions.
Lillias Community Custody Unit (CCU)
The Lilias CCU provides safe accommodation for up to 24 women currently in custody serving a range of short, and long-term sentences. Its purpose is to support the needs of women in prison whilst promoting closer community contact and access to local services. It is hoped this new approach to women in prison will create sustained stability for women in preparation for successful reintegration back into the community.
The CCU requires statutory prison based social work support. The Qualified Social Worker will carry out duties aligned to the role of a prison based Social Worker and will be based across both the Lilias CCU and Tomorrows Women Glasgow.
The Social Worker will carry out a range of statutory duties for long term prisoners including completion of reports to the Parole Board, risk assessments and risk management plans. They will also attend the Women's Case Management Board, ICMs, RMTs and various other meetings / forums. In addition they will also have a role in supporting short term prisoners, developing plans to integrate women back into their local communities, and supporting this transition as required.
Tomorrow's Women Glasgow (TWG)
Tomorrow's Women Glasgow (TWG) is an innovative and unique Justice Service based in Glasgow. TWG is a trauma informed team and works with women who have complex needs and who are involved in the Justice system.
Their main aim is to enable women to reduce their offending and to address their needs and issues that prevent them from living positive healthy lives.
They support women from the Glasgow area who are on a Criminal Justice Order such as Drug Testing and Treatment Order, Community Payback Order, Structure Deferred Sentence and Prison Throughcare. They also accept referrals without an order if the woman has support needs related to complex trauma and is at risk of further offending or is due to leave prison.
A range of group and individual interventions are available including:
- individual support plan tailored to women's needs
- social care support
- housing support
- individual mental health support and therapeutic group work including Safety and Stabilisation, Anxiety Management, Mental Health awareness, Physical Health, Acudetox, and Well- being Group
- variety of Workshops/Group Work Activities including Arts and Crafts, Cookery, and Drama
They also offer:
- signposting to other Agencies
- employment and voluntary work support
The Social Worker role within TWG will have a wide ranging remit including a mixed caseload of women involved in the justice system, including those women open to the TWG service. There will be an expectation that the post carries out a range of statutory justice social work functions such as risk assessment and case management. In addition, the posts would be expected to manage women who have been made subject to statutory orders via the Glasgow Women's Problem Solving Court, undertaking assessment and case management tasks, and attending and presenting in Court on a regular basis.
Clyde Quay
The Clyde Quay team work solely with people convicted of sexual offending. They are responsible for risk assessment, supervision of prison throughcare and facilitation of Moving forward 2 Change groupwork programme. All cases are subject to management under MAPPA.
The main aim is to work with service users in partnership with other organisations to reduce offending and manage risk in the community. Public protection, trauma informed practice and strength-based work is at the forefront of our practice.
Successful applicants will be expected to be vetted to NPPV level 2 to enable use of multi-agency information management systems. There would also be a requirement for engagement with screening for group work training.
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