This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
1. Job Title: Advanced Practitioner - Disabled Children and Young Persons Service
2. Job Location: Gloucester
3. Salary: £46,731 - £49,764 per annum
4. Hours per Week: 37
5. Contract Type: 12 month FTC
6. Closing Date: 06/07/2025
7. Job Requisition Number: 7306
8. This post is open to job share
We are currently recruiting for an Advanced Practitioner to join our Disabled Childrens & Young Persons team on a 12 month FTC.
Reward & Support
For all your hard work. You will receive the following;
9. Between £46,731 - £49,764 per annum subject to experience
10. Annual retention payment of £2,000
11. Welcome payment of £4,000
12. Flexible and agile working opportunities
13. 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
14. An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
15. Family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
16. Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
17. Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
18. Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
19. An in-house Occupational Health service
20. Employee discount scheme
21. Cycle to Work scheme
22. Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
23. Career development and qualification opportunities
24. Access to our Social Work Academy
25. Paid SWE registration renewal*
Right child, right support, right time, every time
We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help. Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.
Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:
‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.
We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to join an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.
About us
The Disabled Children and Young Persons Social Work Team supports children and young people who are aged 0- 18 years old with significant needs arising from their disability. The team aims to ensure that disabled children and their families have access to a needs led services that promotes resilience, co-production and improves children’s life chances. To do this the team will work with partners to make sure that every child has an accurate assessment of need; with a plan that sets out how support will be delivered, with the aim to improve outcomes. This is an exciting time to join the team as we head into a transformation and expansion of the teams.
About you
As an Advanced Practitioner you are at the heart of Gloucestershire’s practice model. You will hold an expert role within your team. Your role includes facilitating the team and service’s ability to develop and deliver complex social work practice through a combination of joint working, practice advice and guidance, and quality assurance.
You will also model Gloucestershire’s relational systemic practice model and will help promote Gloucestershire’s practice standards across the team.
Advanced Practitioners provide direction to team members around improving the quality of practice. This may include activities such as quality assuring an assessment or attending joint visits with social workers to support their learning.
As an Advanced Practitioner you may provide Newly Qualified Social Workers in the team with monthly reflective supervision and undertake one of the observations of practice, however management of the NQSW will sit with Team Managers. You will also support any Social Work students within the team.
You will have a joint lead for a particular area of practice offering a weekly consultation to practitioners from across the service to book into, to support them to develop their practice in that specific area.
You will work closely with the Social Work Academy through regular forums and training to ensure standardised practice across the teams, bringing new learning and training opportunities to social workers within your team.
As an Advanced Practitioner you will hold a small number of cases, ensuring you have dedicated time to follow your other duties.
As well as your experience as a frontline social worker, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:
26. Social Work England registration
27. Experience at Senior Social worker level
28. A recognised qualification in Social Work
29. To have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012)
30. A full driving licence and willingness to drive
31. Enhanced DBS clearance
How to apply
*Please note, all our welcome payments and retention payments are non-contractual, pro-rata for part time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we have enough candidates for interviews.
Additional Information
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This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.