Job Category: Social Care Qualified Location: Musgrove Park, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5DA, Somerset Council Hours Per Week :37 Salary: £32.13 per hour Role purpose This post holder will be required to manage and deliver operational services within a small, specified neighbourhood or Locality area providing professional high-quality leadership to ensure professional social work practice across Adult Social Care. �Support adults in their community to remain independent for as long as possible because we help their families and local communities give them the support, they need to reduce the risk of them losing their independence. �Deliver care or support, when people do need it, through high-quality, joined-up social care, health, and wellbeing services. These services will enhance rather than replace their existing informal support networks. �Support people out of hospitals in a timely manner and prevents admissions by using their own and the community�s assets to enable them to return home. �Give people control of the care and support services they receive so that these are delivered where, when, and by the people they want, and they achieve the outcomes that are important for them. Deliver service standards determined by the key principles of The Care Act and relevant professional codes of practice focusing on:- • promoting wellbeing and independence. • reducing or delaying the need for long-term support. • enabling people to achieve their desired outcomes. • carrying out timely and robust personalised assessments and reviews. • safeguarding vulnerable adults in all that we do. The postholder will act as an Advanced Practitioner in one of the following areas:- • Neighbourhoods • Intermediate Care • Mental Health Social Care • Community Learning Disabilities • Hospital Interface Service • Mental Health In-Patient Service • Safeguarding • Preparing for Adulthood • Peripatetic Responsibilities • Contribute to developing, managing, monitoring, and auditing of performance and quality indicators of the identified service area so that they become an integral part of team improvement to help deliver better outcomes to individuals and communities. • Alongside the Service Manager build a high performing team, deploying staff according to service requirements taking account of skills, experience, professional qualifications, and development opportunities • Have oversight of and be involved in complex cases when appropriate/required. This might be joint working, one-off assessments/reviews, or holding cases with agreement by Service Manager. • Identify and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising with key agencies to gather information. • Work with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to support outcome-based planning for adults and their carers/families. Provides high quality regular supervision and appraisals, to qualified workers within the team to ensure practice is safe, legal and high quality. • Ability to provide advanced decision making, problem solving and advice to the Social Care workforce in relation to practice issues. • Undertake a lead role in the team to ensuring an efficient response to referrals for the Department�s services, coordinating assessments, risk assessments, case planning and review processes. Knowledge / Experience / Skills Knowledge Social Work qualification. � Current and valid registration with Social Work England. � Evidence of Continued Professional Development. � Holding or working towards Post Qualifying Professional Standard � Extensive knowledge of social work practice, with an emphasis on risk management, with adults of any age who have physical, sensory, learning disability, dementia, or other long-term conditions � Extensive experience in supporting staff with complex case casework, including chairing relevant meetings, following agreed procedures, and resulting in robust action plans with defined timescales. � Extensive working knowledge of SCC �s policies in relation to supervision and performance review and proven experience in their application. � Good understanding of the practical application of all relevant Social Care legislation and proven track record of supporting staff with statutory requirements.