Advanced practitioner

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                            Advanced Practitioner
• Job Location:                     Gloucestershire 
• Salary:                               £46,731 - £49,764 per annum 
• Hours per Week:               37.00 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                     26/01/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:   10664 
• This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for an Advanced Practitioner to join our Turn Around for Children Service on a permanent basis.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £46,731 - £49,764 per annum subject to experience
• £4,000 welcome payment*
• £2,000 retention payment*
• £8,000 relocation package**
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• 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
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy

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 be part of 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 the team

The Turn Around for Children Service is a multi-agency, professional service which manages and delivers the Gloucestershire Family Drug & Alcohol Court.  We support families who have addictions and co-morbidities which present as Hidden Harm for children.  We work intensely, therapeutically, systematically and restoratively with trauma across whole families, most often generational trauma. We work with families in a court setting and write reports every fortnight.  TACS delivers the FDAC with fidelity to the national model, whilst also holding the responsibility for the children and their permanency decisions. We also work with other FDAC’s around the country and are involved in the promotion of the model of collaborative problem-solving courts.  We are in the enviable position of being able to learn from each other in our daily practice but also nationally and politically.  TACS adheres and contributes to the national outcomes framework and takes part in bespoke research.

TACS delivers its service across the county, and although situated centrally in Shire Hall, delivers its interventions to all localities.

The service is made up of:

• An FDAC Judge
• Senior and office administrators
• Service Manager
• Consultant Psychiatrist
• Health visitors
• Speech and Language Therapist
• 2 social workers – 1 of which is an AP
• Clinical lead – mental health nurse
• Substance Misuse lead – nurse
• Occupational Therapist
• Dual nurse (Substance Misuse & Mental Health)
• 2 senior family support workers
• 6 FDAC locality social workers (as part of our hub and spoke model)

About the role

As an advanced Practitioner within the TACS service, you can expect the below:

• you will have a small caseload – likely to be one family but have the capacity/flexibility to respond to caseload of the FDAC social workers.
• you will work closely with the Service Manager to develop and implement changes to the service alongside the Clinical Lead, Judge, National FDAC Unit and all other service members.
• you will implement any changes that are required by Gloucestershire Children's Services.
• you will undertake QA activity for the service, this is likely to be a multi-professional task.
• you will support the locality social workers, delivering monthly group supervision, joint work, guidance and QA of fortnightly reports.
• the role requires close integration of delivery with the other professionals in the service.
• the role requires a social worker who has excellent communication skills and who is able to communicate and develop relationships of respect with partner agencies including the 3rd sector.
• the role requires a social worker who can make honest, respectful and therapeutic relationships with families and is able to problem solve.

About you

 Alongside your experience as a qualified Social Worker, you will need:

• to have preferably completed systemic training
• to preferably have court experience
• to have experience of multi-agency and multi-professional work, especially to understand and respect the role and responsibilities of others
• to be organised and adaptable to work to tight deadlines independently and as a team
• to be comfortable with receiving and giving respectful challenge
• a driving licence and willingness to travel
• Social Work England registration 

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact JaneMarriott on Jane.Marriott@gloucestershire.gov.uk.  

Interviews for this vacancy will take place on Monday 3rd February.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

*Welcome and retention payments are subject to normal tax and national insurance deductions

**Terms and conditions apply

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Advanced Practitioner job profile

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.