Practice Specialist

Guardian Jobs; East London; Hybrid; ZAR 1 035 000 - 1 103 000; Full time

Job summary

A social work charity is seeking a Practice Specialist to prepare and support social work participants in their development. This role involves coaching, supervising, and ensuring high quality teaching delivery. Candidates should have frontline practice experience and the ability to establish strong partnerships with healthcare professionals. Flexible working arrangements and generous benefits are offered in this exciting role.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Matched pension scheme (up to 7% employer contributions)

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in frontline practice as a social worker.
• Confidence in delivering training.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with partners.

Responsibilities

• Prepare participants to become outstanding social workers.
• Visit participant units and conduct virtual meetings.
• Coach and supervise student social workers.

Skills

Delivering training

Coaching

Supervision

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

Practice Specialist (experienced Social Worker)

Salary : £46, or £49, (London based)
Contract : 6 to 9-month fixed term contract
Working pattern : Full time, 37.5 hours a week
Location : Hybrid / homeworking
Due to travel across London and South East, you will be based in London or Southeast.

You'll be expected to attend our London office, in Chancery Lane / Farringdon or London venue at least 2 days a month, with flexibility.
Closing date : 5 pm, Monday 1st December

• Interview dates : 10th and 12th December
• We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated professional to join our Practice Specialist team, working within our Programme team.Practice Specialists play a crucial role in preparing Think Ahead participants to become outstanding social workers.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced social worker to maintain links with frontline practice and practice education, with development opportunities for teaching delivery, and coaching and mentoring others.

Each Practice Specialist will have responsibility for a number of Think Ahead units (groups of 4-6 participants based in the same organisation), ensuring that participants receive an outstanding practice learning experience, and that there is effective delivery of our innovative curriculum in the practice environment provided by the NHS Trusts and Local Authorities that we partner with.

This will include visiting units of participants on placement, and virtually unit meetings.
Support development of CSW's through regular coaching, supervision and training.
Establish strong relationships with all relevant key contacts across our partner NHS trust and local authorities, holding regular meetings to quality assure the programme and develop our partnerships.
Provide specialist professional social work expertise to the Think Ahead team bringing experience and knowledge of frontline practice.

Who We're Looking For

We are also looking for someone with experience and confidence in delivering training and is willing and motivated to get involved in this evolving area of the charity.

What We Can Offer You

We offer excellent employee benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement (28 days) plus additional office closure over Christmas, enhanced family-friendly leave, flexible working around our core hours of 10am to 4pm, a matched pension scheme with up to 7% employer contributions, an employee assistance programme and more.

How To Apply

Download the candidate pack from our website. Please provide a CV and a supporting statement (max 2 pages) outlining your fit for the role based on the person specification in the candidate pack and email these to us, together with the completed Equality and Diversity questionnaire. We will use both the CV and the supporting statement to enable us to shortlist for interview.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to consider any applications that do not address how the candidate meets the person specification in the supporting statement.