Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
* Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
* Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
* Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
* Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support other to develop these skills.
* Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.
* Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
* Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
* Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
* Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
* Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
* Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
* Contribute to and provide professional leadership or organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
* When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget