Advanced Social Work Practitioner

1
11 April 2023
Permanent
Part Time
18.5
Lawn View House, Station Road, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 5GA
Adult Social Care and Health
3 April 2023
£39,493 - £44,539 per annum (pro rata)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Living Well Flexible Response Service for a part time Advanced Social Work Practitioner.  We are looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, registered qualified Social Worker who is strongly committed to working in partnership with the people of Nottinghamshire.

If you are looking for a new challenge and have the experience and skills to supervise staff, participate in promoting a learning environment, facilitate group supervisions and provide leadership to Social Workers and Social Care Practitioners we would like to hear from you.

You would have experience working with individuals with complex care and support needs, have ideally completed a qualification such as Practice Educator, Best Interest Assessor or Approved Mental Health Practitioner or be willing to work towards this. You would also be expected to have a good working knowledge, experience and understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation. You will be responsible for a small but complex caseload and will be expected to undertake and complete comprehensive safeguarding investigations.

You will be expected to work closely with and provide guidance to Social Care colleagues regarding adults who have care and support needs and carers providing Strengths Based, evidence based assessment and reviewing intervention. This role will also involve working in partnership with colleagues and staff from other agencies. You will be expected to be experienced in IT skills, Promote Independence, choice and control of service users to enable them to continue to live within their homes whether this is in the community or a care home environment.

You will need to be experienced in completing Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, assessments and reviews in a timely manner with older people, have experience of record keeping procedures, working as a member of a team and have very good organisational skills. You will also be experienced in working to tight timescales and commissioning cost effective personalised support to meet the assessed needs of the service users as part of the reviewing process. Managing Safeguarding as part of Making Safeguarding Personal is part of the role and this can be offered as a development opportunity for you.

The post requires you to be able to provide structured, positive supervision to social workers and CCO, providing support in complex case work. You will be responsible for supporting the development of good, evidence-based practice particularly in the key areas of risk enablement, safeguarding, the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, Court of Protection work.

You would be joining a friendly, positive and busy county wide Living Well team. The remit of the team is to support Living Well district teams with work they are unable to allocate and/or complete due to demand.  The team has a reviewing function to assist with meeting district targets of overdue reviews and also completes targeted work tasked from the Senior Leadership Team. Our team covers all areas of Living Well across the county and is based at Lawn View House, Sutton. Staff also work remotely at local offices and from home depending on work and visits.

Should you need any further information please contact Ali Lewis (Team Manager) on 01158546463 / ali.lewis@nottscc.gov.uk

Appointment to this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Disabled applicants who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview. A job share scheme is available for all full-time posts: both permanent and temporary, unless otherwise stated. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.

Nottinghamshire County Council strives to ensure that it goes beyond the requirements of the Equalities Act and prides itself on being accredited as a Disability Confident Leader Organisation.

Therefore, the County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age or sexual orientation.

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