Job title: Advanced Practitioner (Adults) (Grade 9) Job Category: Social Care Qualified Location: Musgrove Park, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5DA, Somerset Council Hours Per Week :37.00 Pay: £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. • • Support the Service Manager to control a devolved budget within agreed financial parameters. Work with the team to maintain effective information and administrative systems that support and monitor the work of the local team. • Use delegated authority to make purchases to agreed limits where necessary. Responsible for an agreed financial authorisation level for personal budgets following assessment of need and support plan under the Care Act 2014. • Understand and use performance data to compare your services both locally and nationally using this to improve your area. • Maintain a high standard of report writing and give evidence in court in relation to private and public proceedings as required, including providing support to others to do so. • Responsible for undertaking Audits Working in collaboration with the Service Manager to develop Service/Locality workplans that will inform the operational practice of the team. • To support the Service Manager in the Leadership and management of the teams, ensuring effective operations in planning, team development, human resources and staff development, and financial oversight. • Work in collaboration with the Service Manager in the preparation of social work development reviews and identification of staff training needs and in providing induction programmes for new staff. • Working alongside the Service Manager, staff, and a broad range of colleagues to contribute towards the delivery of a consistent, effective, and efficient service. • As directed by the service manager, formulate and lead on the achievement of specific objectives aligned to local, regional, and national strategic direction, to facilitate a high-performance team focused on the needs of the people and populations who access services, their families, and their carers. Provide professional, reflective supervisionusing critical reflection and a range of other supervisory techniques. Proactively participates in audits and assurance activities to ensure high quality, safe and legal practice. 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. � Understanding of system thinking, used to reduce demand and costs. � Experience of operating within a budgetary framework and an understanding of the relationship between this and managing demand. � Model and promote confident and critical application of professional ethics to decision-making, using a legal and human rights framework, and support others to do so � Model and promote a culture which encourages reflection on the influence and impact of own values on professional practice � Demonstrate confident leadership, management and arbitration of ethical dilemmas, providing guidance and opportunities for the professional development of others � Promote people�s rights to autonomy and self-determination, supporting, challenging and guiding others as appropriate �