Advanced Practitioner – Referral & Assessment Team

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

The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £52,806 per annum.

Main duties:

• To undertake casework with the more complex and challenging families that require a high level of social work expertise. To carry a small caseload and jointly allocate with less experienced social workers.
• To supervise, support, advise, mentor newly qualified and less experienced staff in Complex/High Risk cases. This will include authorising assessments, plans and other documents and chairing strategy meetings and discussions.
• To support, advice and mentor social workers to ensure understanding and compliance with legislation, statutory guidance, local procedures and guidance in relation to safeguarding vulnerable children, looked after children and permanence planning.
• To lead, model and support others to deliver relationship based, reflective practice which is congruent with the vision, values, practice framework, bottom lines and meets the expected practice standards.
• To promote effective participation and engagement with children, young people and families. Leading on seeking feedback in order to learn and deliver good outcomes and supporting social workers to deliver family network meetings and family group conferences.
• To work closely with the Principal Social Worker and Quality & Improvement Service to create and promote learning opportunities, promoting training and CPD in the team.
• To take a lead role in a specialist area of practice such as domestic abuse, court work.
• To lead and facilitate group supervision, case mapping and practice development sessions within the team/service. To act as practice leaders for Signs of Safety and contribute to the overall implementation plan.
• To act as practice educator or be willing to undertake the PEPS 1 and 2 and to offer student placements in the team.
• To promote excellent interagency work by modelling and providing advice and support with partnership working and chairing multi-agency meetings.
• To support social workers to wrote complex reports, including Child Permanence Reports, Child Protection Conferences Reports and court reports.
• To deputise for Team Managers when required to do so by the Group Manager and Head of Service.
• To support the Team Manager in improving performance management and quality assurance.

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.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.