Senior Practitioner – Integrated Discharge Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Integrated Discharge Team to work full time based in Enfield.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner  job is up to £47,805 per annum.

Main duties:

• Provide professional guidance and support to social work staff supporting the delivery of high-quality customer focused services (strengths based practice).
• To be one of the designated practice teachers for the operational team, ensuring that all qualified social workers maintain their registration status through recorded on-going professional developments.
• Assist in gathering information for the purpose of responding to customer complaints and Ombudsman’s Enquiries.
• Carry out joint visits with supervisees and other staff where appropriate.
• Ensure the allocation of work for those supervised.
• Attendance at, and participation in, meetings, case conferences etc. as directed.
• Contribute to training programmes and provide training and development opportunities for staff.
• Contribute to the management and development of specific areas of service, including improvements in delivery, determination of priorities, service team plans, and implementation of new practice initiatives.
• Participate in the recruitment of staff in accordance with Departmental policy and to the review if staff training and development plans.
• Take responsibility for mentoring/consultation to team members which may include students on placement.
• Provide guidance, support and direction in workload management, undertake performance appraisals where appropriate and co-ordinate induction programmes for new staff.
• Undertake a quality assurance role for the service, identifying problem areas and recommending solutions, ensuring that assessments and care plans meet the needs of service users.
• Implement the Safeguarding Adults policy & procedure and manage staff through the process, including chairing (Enquiry Outcomes Meetings) complex strategy meetings.
• Participate in the development and management of systems associated with team functions, including gathering and analysing of information.
• Take responsibility for entering information and data onto the online systems relating to own cases.
• Work jointly with the Administrative Officer, seeking to improve the knowledge and practical applications of the systems amongst frontline operational staff.
• Assist with development of the service, briefing colleagues in new procedures and different methods/approaches.
• Actively encourage customer participation in the delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the service.
• Initiate research, recommend best practice and implement changes in policy within a specialist area of service and participate in service development, briefing colleagues in new procedures and different methods/approaches.
• Undertake complex assessments and care planning.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
•  Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.