ADULTS ADVANCED PRACTITIONER

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd. is seeking an Advanced Practitioner Social Worker to join the Adult Safeguarding Team in Wirral. You will lead safeguarding work and manage complex cases, ensuring high standards of professional practice in line with legislation and policies.

You will work within a multidisciplinary setting, coordinating with partners to protect adults at risk and optimise outcomes for service users while maintaining rigorous adherence to safeguarding procedures.

Qualifications

• Experience in adult safeguarding with advanced practitioner qualifications.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and policies.
• Ability to work with high-risk, high-complexity cases.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload with high levels of risk and complexity, including safeguarding incidents.
• Collaborate with practitioners on highly complex or high-risk cases.
• Ensure timely assessment and review of care and support plans, focused on individual outcomes.
• Promote independence while safeguarding people effectively through risk management and decision making.

Skills

Advanced practitioner

Safeguarding experience

Case load management

Risk assessment

Inter-agency collaboration

Legal applications (Court of Protec)

Job description

Pay: £29.76 per hour

Agency cover for an Advanced Practitioner Social Worker to join our Adult Safeguarding Team in Wirral. We are looking for the right person who has safeguarding experience and has been in an advanced practitioner role. An enthusiastic and self-motivated person to work as a key member in our team, ensuring the highest quality of professional safeguarding practice is delivered in line with legislation, policies, procedures and bes

Purpose

Working within the Standards of conduct, performance and ethics as described by Social Work England, ensuring compliance with legal, organisational and multi-agency requirements. Take a lead role in ensuring that all operational social work practice involving safeguarding, adult protection and high-level risk is of the highest possible standard and in accordance with relevant legislation and agreed policy, procedures and guidance.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

Behavioural:

• Enjoy, achieve, create impact, and thrive in the role and organisation.
• Live our values in the role and organisation.

Adult Social Care service specific duties & responsibilities:

• Manage a case load where circumstances and needs have indicated high levels of risk and complexity, multiple incidents of safeguarding, critical decision making in relation to investigation and protection arrangements and recourse to legal applications (court of protection).
• Work alongside practitioners on cases where there are particularly high levels of complexity or risk.
• Ensure that individuals and carers are involved in timely assessment support planning and review processes, and that care and support plans are person centred and focussed on individual outcomes.
• Ensure that effective risk management, decision making, and preventative work is undertaken to promote independence of individuals and carers whilst taking into account the need to safeguard people effectively.