Advanced Practitioner - Hereford, United Kingdom - Herefordshire Council

Description

About The Role

Job Title: Advanced Practitioner – Early Help

Hours: 37

Salary: HC9 £38,223 - £42,403 (plus £5,000 market rate supplement per year £43,223 - £47,403)

Welcome payment £5,000 after 6 months completion in post

Relocation package of up to £10,000 available

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: 02/05/2024

The Role

Our priority in Herefordshire is to keep children safe and give them a great start in life. It's the priority for the council, our partners and for all of us who work in the Children's Wellbeing directorate.

How do we do this? By having dynamic, dedicated, passionate and professional staff who work in a culture that focuses on what we can achieve with children, what they can achieve themselves, and the relationship we build with families and partners to enable this.

Herefordshire has a really strong team ethos. Our teams are passionate about the work they do and the positive difference they and the teams they are in make to people's lives. This is all underpinned by the focus and support from their managers and the council as a whole.

This is an exciting time to join Herefordshire Council Children's and Young People's Directorate as we consolidate our improvement to shape learning and development across the service.

We have a new and exciting vacancy for one full time Advanced Practitioner to join our Early Help Service who work to support families who have been assessed through an Early Help Assessment as we strive to achieve improved and sustainable outcomes for children, young people and their families.

As an Advanced Practitioner you will be helping to ensure that the service works at the correct threshold and will be making threshold decisions to support this. You will have responsibility with the step-down process from social care, which will involve close liaison with the social care teams, reviewing case files in accordance with the Right Help Right Time document, developing appropriate wellbeing plans for children and families in line with our Supporting Families Outcomes Framework and ensuring a smooth transition via our mosaic system. You will take a lead role in reviewing referrals and making threshold decisions on these referrals.

As an Advanced Practitioner you will have a crucial role in partnership working.You will represent the Early Help Service at various multi-agency panels and decision making forums which will include MARAC, Joint Decision Making Panel (Youth Justice Service), Children Missing in Education, amongst others. You will represent the Early Help Service confidently and professionally.

You will also prepare and deliver multi-agency training with the aim of improving the quality of the Early Help Assessments and the Early Help Service that the children, young people and family receives. We know that this is inextricably linked to outcomes for families which we are committed to improving.

We Offer

A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:

• Advanced Practitioner basic salary: £38,223 - £42,403 per annum
• Market rate supplement:plus £5,000 per year
• Welcome payment £5,000 for experienced social workers joining our children's teams
• Relocation packages: support of up to £10,000
• Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
• Professional development: protected time and budget to support social workers develop themselves and their careers. We have a diverse and comprehensive training offer in place to support you in your role.
• Career progression: clear pathways to progress and supported by the Social Care Academy to be a work based supervisor with the potential to become a Practice Educator as a development pathway.
• Generous Annual Leave: 31 days' annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
• Flexible working: flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment of professional membership fees
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

About Us

Herefordshire is a beautiful, historic county located in the heart of the Marches on the border with Wales. We are one of the most rural and sparsely populated counties in England with a wealth of unspoilt countryside, distinctive heritage, and lively and attractive market towns.

Our priority in Herefordshire is to keep children safe and give them a great start in life. It's the priority for the council, our partners and for all of us who work with Children & Young People.

How do we do this? By having dynamic, dedicated, passionate and professional staff who work in a culture that focuses on what we can achieve with children, what they can achieve themselves, and the relationship we build with families and partners to enable this. We have invested heavily in training and developing staff in our relational practice approach with our improvement partner Leeds City Council, so it's an exciting time to join Herefordshire – we believe in investing in you so you can be the best you can be

Herefordshire has a really strong team ethos. Our teams are passionate about the work they do and the positive difference they and the teams they are in make to people's lives. This is all underpinned by the focus and support from their managers and the council as a whole.

We will deliver better support to our most vulnerable children and their families, develop stronger relationships with partners across the region, and beyond.

Therefore, we take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Come to Herefordshire and join the journey.

Herefordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and vulnerable adults. If you are offered this position, it will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check and further pre-employment checks.

We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.

The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

• Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the "Disability Confident" scheme;
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant; and
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.

To apply, please submit your CV and complete the supporting statement within the application form, referring to the job description & person specification, detailing how you meet the specific requirements of the role.