Advanced Practitioner Childrens Social Care

Rochdale Borough Council; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Excellent CPD opportunities

Career progression pathway

Attractive pension

Staff recognition awards

Job summary

Rochdale Borough Council is seeking an Advanced Practitioner in social work to support and mentor staff within the Family Support & Protection teams. The role focuses on complex family needs, producing court-ready reports and contributing to specialist assessments, without case holder responsibility.

The post lies within the Family Support and Protection team and emphasizes professional practice development.

Qualifications

• Advanced social work practice skills across families with complex needs.
• Ability to supervise staff and support practice development across the team.
• Experience producing high quality reports and assessments for court.

Responsibilities

• Support families with complex needs and contribute to assessments in family support and protection.
• Lead on evidence-based specialist assessments across the service.
• Promote high standards of professional practice within the team.

Job description

Advanced Practitioner – Salary up to £50,908 per annum

We are currently looking for social workers who will enjoy the opportunity to support, supervise and mentor staff across our children’s services, including various programmes such as ASYE and practice placements. There are currently positions available in the Family Support & Protection teams.

Using your advanced practice skills, you will work directly to support families with complex needs and produce high quality reports and assessments for court, alongside other specialist assessments without having case holder responsibility for such cases. This position would lie within the Family Support and Protection team.

You will also support and promote the development and maintaining of high standards of professional practice across your team and the wider service while being competent in leading on various evidence-based specialist assessments across the service.

About us

Here at Rochdale Borough Council, we are committed to supporting our children and young people to live in a borough where they can grow, get on and live well.

Our dedicated teams ensure they feel safe, healthy, successful and heard too, and we are incredibly proud, passionate and pioneering in the way our services are delivered.

Everyone here plays a valued role in achieving this as we work closely with residents to deliver real positive progress and support them to achieve the best possible outcomes as part of our Raising Rochdale ethos.

We always have lots of great things happening in our borough and we never stand still so this is a great time to join our team and succeed at Rochdale.

We offer lots of training and supervision alongside help and guidance to build positive relationships with our children, young people and their families.

We reward you with great benefits:

• Highly competitive salary with an opportunity to earn up to £1,000 extra, every year (£500 retention payment every six months)
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Excellent continuous professional development opportunities
• Exciting career progression pathway
• An attractive pension
• Staff recognition awards and celebration events
• Visible and supportive leadership
• Mileage payment and town centre parking scheme
• Up to 34 days annual leave with an option to buy more
• Paid for Social Work England professional fees
• Staff discount at popular retail and leisure sites

Other benefits

• Work in a modern, award-winning building
• Be conveniently located next to the Metrolink, bus exchange and a short walk from Rochdale train station
• You’re also a 10-minute drive from the M62 corridor

What our colleagues say…

Our social workers say Rochdale Council is a great place to work and their managers are supportive, approachable and listen to their ideas. Here are some further comments from our social workers...

• ‘We work in friendly, supportive, multidisciplinary teams’
• ‘There are lots of easy to access training opportunities to learn and aid career development’
• ‘We have lots of community resources available to support families'
• ‘We are based right in the town centre office, next to M&S and close to local services’

We are making positive progress in terms of our ways to work with children, young people and families as work to deliver better outcomes for all. We are empathetic and listen to our families as we build on their strengths to work towards agreed goals.

As part of our safeguarding commitment to promoting the welfare of our children, young people and vulnerable adults, appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced DBS including a barred list check child workforce.

At Rochdale Borough Council we are committed to our Values and Behaviours.

Proud of the difference we make

Passionate about the diversities of the Borough

Pioneering and Open in our Approach