Advanced Practitioner – Adult MASH Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Adult MASH Team to work full time based in Luton.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £43,421 per annum.

Main duties:

• To carry a small caseload of complex cases, requiring a high level of professional skill. To support the Operational Manager to monitor the duty and review systems for the team and take corrective action when required. Deploying staff resources and capacity ensuring the appropriate allocation of work to individuals in order to meet Key Performance Indicator’s and Council priorities.
• To supervise, support and mentor staff who are responsible for providing assessments and adult social care services. Ensuring that decisions made meet the legislative requirements of the Care Act 2014 and are therefore strength based and holistic, incorporating need and risk. To ensure that moving and handling assessments are compliant with legislative requirements. To authorise assessments and reviews with delegated authority.
• Under the direction of the manager to recruit, motivate, coach and support the development of staff, providing professional effective supervision, dealing with performance and conduct issues promptly within Council Procedures.
• Under the direction of the operational manager, using professional skills and experience, provide practice guidance to team members ensuring compliance with national and departmental policies, procedures, peer and user feedback. Ensure that case recording is accurate, this includes using the agreed quality assurance framework and acting on the findings to improve practice and accountability.
• To support the Operational Manager and liaise with the Principal Social Worker in matters relating to service development. Participating in the development of strategic objectives and the production of departmental service and team plans, policies and procedures manage projects in specialised and complex areas in line with departmental objectives and service development needs.
• Maintain effective links and working relationships within the Directorate, relevant statutory, local voluntary and private agencies, primary care networks, Health and other local with other professionals and Partners to achieve effective integrated and joint working through initiatives that require a multi-agency approach. Report any providers deficiencies identified by staff in the team are reported to the Commissioning, Quality & Care Placement Team.
• Responding to any complaints or FOI’s that your manager delegates to you in line with departmental policy ensuring any learning is implemented and shared accordingly across the wider teams.

Requirements of this Advanced Practitioner job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Advanced Practitioner job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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