Advanced Practitioner - Hereford, United Kingdom - Hoople Recruitment

Hoople Recruitment

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Hereford, United Kingdom

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About The Role:

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Job Title:Advanced Practitioner - Early Help Service

Hours:37

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

Contract:
Permanent

Closing date:17/12/2023

We have a new and exciting vacancy for a part-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 cases in accordance with the Right Help Right Time document, offering a minimum of weekly consultations to assist the timely step-down processes to ensure the child and family receive support, and ensuring a smooth transition via our mosaic system.

You will take a lead role in the weekly Early Help panel meetings where referrals are reviewed and threshold decisions made.

As an Advanced Practitioner you will have a crucial role in partnership working, taking responsibility for chairing the locality Multi-agency Group (MAG) meetings whereby step-down cases are discussed and professionals can bring cases for discussion if they are stuck or have particular worries about a family.

As Chair and Advanced Practitioner, you will be responsible for considering threshold at the MAG meetings.

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), child exploitation briefing, 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.

You will help to contribute to creating and delivering professional learning opportunities and support to our workforce who provide care and support to the children and families we work with in Herefordshire.

As an Advanced Practitioner you will work alongside the Service Manager and the Early Help Service in providing coaching, mentoring, observations, training and support to Early Help Practitioners where this has been identified as an individual learning need.

This will include offering practice learning opportunities for apprentices and student social workers within the service.

As part of service development, you will also have a role within the quality assurance and auditing processes, and working with the Service Manager and Head of Service to consider and implement any learning and areas for development identified from these processes.

You will support the Service Manager on areas of practice development and training within the wider service, and support with the implementation of our practice standards, quality assurance framework, professional values, policies and procedures.

You will also be supported in and expected to identify areas for your professional development through attending training, learning from latest research and good practice, keeping apprised of current statutory guidance and legislation, and hearing from the experiences and feedback of children and families.

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

Advanced Practitioner starting salary of £43,223
£47,403 (including £5,000 market rate supplement per year).

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Welcome payment £5,000 for experienced social workers joining our children's teams
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Relocation packages:support of up to £10,000
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Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
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Professional development:protected time and budget to support social workers develop themselves and their careers.
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Career progression:clear pathways to progress to senior social worker level
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Generous Annual Leave: 26 days' annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. After five years' continuous service, this increases to 31 days (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
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Flexible working:flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
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Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling