Advanced Practitioner - Central Locality Team (Adults)
Come join the fantastic Central Locality social work team! We are a vibrant community team based in High Wycombe at the heart of Chilterns. In addition to the salary advertised, you will receive a market premium of £2,525 per annum, and you will also receive a Golden Hello lump-sum payment of £2,500 paid on successful completion of your probationary period.
Please apply on our Buckinghamshire Council career site using the link below:
Buckinghamshire Council Career Site
We understand that you can't give what you don't have, so we focus on staff wellbeing to enable employees to support the most vulnerable communities. To achieve that, we organise meditation and getting active sessions, team building and volunteering days, and promote open and inclusive communication.
Robust Induction
We have an innovative approach to induction whereupon you will be provided with a buddy and presented with a schedule of shadowing opportunities already booked into your calendar to help you settle into your role from the first day on the job.
Realistic Expectations
You can expect a manageable caseload of up to 25 active cases and supportive approachable managers to guide you. You are never alone.
You will get free parking and an essential car user allowance. We will cover the cost of your annual Social Work England registration.
Main Duties of the Job
To ensure the highest standards of service are provided to the residents of Buckinghamshire, Advanced Practitioners will ensure:
* Work in accordance with the Better Lives framework
* Promote and deliver goal-based support to help people achieve greater independence
* Promote equality as an integral part of the role and treat everyone with fairness and dignity
* Provide a proactive personalised approach to the delivery of care and practice
* Respond to people's needs in a timely manner
* Focus on improving people's well-being
* Give people greater choice and control over the care that they receive
* Take account of people's risks and safety at all times, identifying mitigations to reduce that risk
* Support people to achieve the outcomes that are most important to them using all available resources and taking responsibility for the public purse
* Provide personalised information and advice, safeguarding, assessment, support planning, and review to individuals/families and their carers
You must be a qualified Social Worker (holding a social work degree or equivalent) and be registered with Social Work England. In addition, a full driving licence with access to a vehicle is an essential requirement for this role.
Naturally, you will be a great people person, familiar with working to a strength-based approach where you think outside of the box and enable people to prevent, reduce or delay the need for care.
About Us
Despite the challenges that Adult Social Care has faced within the last 12 months, our approach in Buckinghamshire has not been to take shelter and wait for the storm to pass. Instead, we have chosen to transform and restructure Adult Social Care so we can respond to a crisis as well as build for the future. We have created more roles in Social Work and Occupational Therapy; we are adapting to work much more closely with the community and support people near to where they live; we have developed a new career progression framework to encourage staff ambition and development; finally, to establish the conditions to deliver outstanding practice, we have reduced the numbers that managers supervise and the caseloads the team have, to allow for more contact with our residents.
Initiated in 2019, our strength-based practice model, Better Lives, has been improving outcomes linked to independence, developing social connections, and improving areas that are important to the residents we support.
We are looking for motivated, ambitious, and inspiring people to join us on our journey.
Job Responsibilities
Please see the job description attached for a full list of essential and desirable skills required for the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Please see the job description attached for a full list of essential and desirable skills required for the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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