Advanced Practitioner Social Worker – Learning Disability & Autism Service (Adults)
Somerset County Council
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Department Social Care
Working pattern Full Time
Location Somerset
Closing date 30 August, 2024About the job
Working as part of a small, supportive Learning Disability and Autism service in the East of Somerset, supporting a team of up to four Social Workers and two Adult Social Care Practitioners. You will have a close working relationship with the Service Manager, who will provide regular supervision and guidance in your role and expectations and plans for the Service and Department.Providing supervision to the Social Workers and informal support, advice and guidance to the team. We operate a duty system in both sides of the County that everyone in the team participates in and Advanced Practitioners share the responsibility of managing the duty system and rota. This offers different ways of working with the people we support for example using motivational interviewing skills and crisis intervention work and positive risk management.You will be given the opportunity to work closely with colleagues and specialist professionals to contribute to decision making as part of our weekly Peer Forum discussions. These are designed to enable a “critical friend” approach to request for increases to personal budgets and packages of care.We work closely with other specialist teams in the Authority such as Preparing for Adulthood, Commissioning, Occupational Therapy, the DOLS team, Mental Health, Safeguarding, and CHC as well as having close links and partnership working with our LD Health colleagues in Somerset Foundation Trust.We advocate working in a strength based and personalised way, operating under the three conversations model to enable people to live more independent and fulfilling lives with positive outcomes.Our goal of working with people to develop gloriously ordinary lives remains the same throughout our practice which means:
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced practitioner who wants to further develop their practice and professional leadership in teamsWe offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But to be successful in this role you will:
,At Somerset Council, we work hard to attract the best staff and we want to make sure that once you are on board, you are well supported and rewarded for the work you do.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:
When applying, please state the area you’d like to be considered for. Remaining open? That’s fine too, just let us know.This is a Grade 9 post with a current salary of £39,186 to £43,421 per annum. Appointments are normally made at the bottom of the salary scale. All Advanced Practitioner Social Worker interviews will take place virtually over Teams.We are a socially active council and run many webinars and events, team away days, volunteering opportunities plus, hold regular staff Q&A sessions. We encourage professional development and training to support your learning and aspirations. And there are also a variety of networking groups and activities that you can join.We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve so we will always welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our teams. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.Got a question about becoming an Advanced Practitioner Social Worker with Somerset Council? Give Helen Readdy, Recruitment & Engagement Officer a call on: 01823 355166 / 07977410483 or email:Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don’t delay, apply today!InvestmentWe have recently invested £1.4m into our workforce. As a result, we have substantially increased the number of social work, occupational therapy, advanced practitioner and other leadership posts. We’ve also increased; Adult Social Care Practitioner roles, introduced Occupational Therapy Assistants and strengthened our Business Support. This investment is enabling us to re-focus on providing excellent social work and occupational therapy practice and doing the right thing, with and for, the people we serve.Smaller specialist teamsWe have created smaller neighbourhood teams who will know and be part of their local communities, alongside new specialist teams including Mental Health Social Care, Learning Disabilities and Adult Safeguarding.Additional postsWe have created additional Advanced Practitioner Posts to provide compassionate and visionary leadership, and developed effective, supportive teams with a strong sense of identity and belonging.There are also new Practice Development Advanced Practitioner Posts within teams/services focusing on practice, social work values, human rights, social justice, anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice, and providing practice education, quality assurance and CPD.Competency framework linked to Career pathwaysWe have launched a Competency Framework linked to a career pathway, and professional, leadership and academic programmes and qualifications.We are prioritising the prevention agenda including our Occupational Therapy Service developing Somerset Independent Living Centres across Somerset.AmbitiousWe are ambitious and are working to make real change happen. We want relationship-based practice, compassionate leadership and co-production with the people we work with and serve, to be at the heart of all we do.We are reclaiming narratives about social work and believe in the power of lived experiences of people (including workers), and sharing stories. To get a sense of this, listen to Social Work Sessions podcast:You will be working alongside nationally recognised professionals with staff shortlisted for “Social Worker of the Year” awards 2022 and 2023.We have a supportive and friendly culture… Don’t believe us? Checkout our Glassdoor rating.Not currently living in Somerset? Don’t worry! Subject to meeting qualifying conditions, we offer relocation of up to £8,000.Somerset has plenty to offer! Situated in a beautiful, rural county in a central southwest location but with good city links. With scenic countryside, historic sites, charming towns and villages, family-friendly attractions, beaches, festivals (Glastonbury!) and events, outdoor activities, zoos, water parks and plenty of local produce to try, there’s something for everyone!This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams
£39186 – 43421 per year
Somerset
Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:02:08 GMT
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