Overview
Somerset – Advanced Practitioner – Adult Social Care - £45.71
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.
* Provide 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.
Qualifications
* Degree/Masters in Social Work and SWE registration.
* 2+ years of post-qualification experience.
* Strong knowledge of UK social care legislation and practice.
* Right to work in UK
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