Advanced Practitioner

St Helens Council; St Helens; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

St Helens Borough Council is seeking an enthusiastic management team member for the CHC and DOLS Team. In this role, you will provide vital leadership in social care assessments while ensuring team welfare and professional development. Ideal for qualified social workers, this position offers support in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Benefits

Free parking in specified agile working hubs

Additional holiday purchase scheme

Monthly supervision and annual appraisal

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience managing social work teams.
• Ability to support complex cases and staff development.

Responsibilities

• Assist and deputize for the Team Manager.
• Manage a team of Social Workers and Best Interest Assessors.
• Drive good practice development in service delivery.

Skills

Team Management

Social Care Assessments

Wellbeing Support

Client Welfare Promotion

Education

Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England

Job description

We are St Helens Borough Council

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitable candidate to join the management team of the CHC and DOLS Team. The management team consists of one Team Manager and one Advanced Practitioner and we report directly to the Head of CHC and DOLS. The team’s base is Forster House and consists of Social Workers, Best Interest Assessors, Assessment and Review Workers and Admin staff.

The CHC and DOLS Team works with adults age of 18 years and over. The team is busy and the work complex and challenging. As part of the management team you will be expected to cover for the Team Manager when absent and to provide on-going support to the staff within the team.

The role will be to assist and deputise for the Team Manager, to manage a team of Social Workers, Best Interest Assessors and Assessment and Review Workers to undertake social care assessments, support with participation in health assessments for CHC consideration, social care reviews and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard Assessments. This will assist to deliver outcome focused support plans for adults with eligible social care needs.

To support and undertake staff management, supporting wellbeing, training, and development, working with the standards of conduct, performance and ethics as described by Social Work England.

To drive good practice development and improvement in the service and ensure the safe and effective delivery of services to adults with eligible social care needs. To take a lead role supporting social work staff with complex cases.

The team is a supportive team and we work closely with our health colleagues from the ICB. A good induction and monthly supervision will be provided.

The team has a flexible working arrangement, which means you will be required to divide your working week between home and the designated office.

This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its clients and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our current benefits package for this role includes:
·Free parking in specified “agile working hubs.”

·Additional holiday purchase scheme

.Monthly supervision and annual appraisal.

.You must be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.

Interested to Find Out More?

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Gemma Thompson Team Manager of CHC and DOLS team via email [e-mail] or telephone [phone].

We welcome and encourage visits to the team before applying for the post, if this is something you would like please contact the team and we will be happy to arrange it.

This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Leader. This means that the Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.

Equality & Diversity
St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Borough Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality

St Helens Borough Council is a Disability Confident Leader. Disability Confident Leader lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.