Senior Practitioner – City Adult Locality Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the City Adult Locality Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £45,403per annum.

Main duties:

• To monitor staff performance and, in consultation with the team manager, contribute to identifying individuals and the teams learning needs.
• To acquire and develop specialist knowledge as required by the team and the Directorate.
• To ensure any appropriate legal/financial arrangements are correctly in place for the provision of services to service users and carers in liaison with appropriate teams and panels.
• To ensure monitoring and reviewing systems are in place for clients on their caseloads and to ensure case files and electronic recording on Mosaic is current.
• To consider an enabling ethos and approach to supporting service users and their families/carers and in joint working with partners and agencies.
• To follow the relevant procedures for ensuring that information and data is collected and recorded accurately to enable reliable analyses and reporting.
• To participate in any duty rota systems to meet urgent service need.
• To provide regular supervision to practitioners and non-registered staff as agreed with the team manager.
• To ensure that the quality of work meets the required national standards and local procedures.
• To provide consultation on day to day practice on professional matters to staff and managers.
• To keep an accurate record of advice given and decisions taken as a result of consultation and supervision.
• To co-work complex cases and assist practitioners planning, preparation and presentation of evidence, records and reports.
• To carry a small caseload comprising more complex work as appropriate and dependent on Team requirements/support, taking responsibility for seeking appropriate information, advice and consultation.
• To work in conjunction with the Registration and Inspection Units in monitoring good practice within Local Authority and Independent Sector Residential and Nursing Homes.
• To work with nursing reviewing officers to ensure that under continuing care provision assessment for health services provision are undertaken when appropriate.
• To support hospital discharge arrangements for patients in liaison with hospital based professional staff and relevant agencies/teams to ensure safe discharged and prevention of admission.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Senior 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.