Advanced Practitioner (16+ Care Leavers)

Date:  17 Nov 2024
Job Location: 

Gloucestershire

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

  • Job Title:                            Advanced Practitioner (16+ Care Leavers)
  • Job Location:                     Cheltenham & Stroud 
  • Salary:                               £46,731 - £49,764 per annum 
  • Hours per Week:               37 
  • Contract Type:                   Permanent 
  • Closing Date:                     15/12/2024 
  • Job Requisition Number:   8580 
  • This post is open to job share 

 

We are currently recruiting for Advanced Practitioners to join our 16+ teams. The teams are based in Cheltenham and Stroud.

 

Reward and support

 

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

  • between £46,731 - £49,764 per annum subject to experience
  • welcome payment of £4,000*
  • annual retention payment of £2,000*
  • up to £8,000 relocation package
  • flexible and agile working opportunities
  • 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
  • an 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
  • salary sacrifice green car scheme (T&Cs apply)
  • links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
  • career development and qualification opportunities
  • access to our Social Work Academy
  • paid SWE registration renewal

 

Our vision

 

Right child, right support, right time, every time

 

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. 

 

For those looking for a future in public service and Children’s Social Care in particular, Gloucestershire offers a myriad of opportunities to start or 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. Our 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 this role with GCC.

 

Our team structures are designed to ensure there is the right level of support available to staff and that caseloads are kept at a manageable level with a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, 5 Leaving Care Personal Advisors making up each team’s full complement of staff. You will work across two teams. We need resilient, driven individuals who will play their part in making our vision for Children’s Services a success. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpin the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect.

 

About the team

 

As Advanced Practitioner in one of our new Care Leaver teams you will support the Team Manager in the oversight of pathway-planning and independence work for care leavers from 16 upwards.

 

About you

 

As an Advanced Practitioner, you will be instrumental in delivering a first-class service which will deliver the best outcomes for the children and young people of Gloucestershire. You will be a resilient, driven individual who can play your part in making our vision for children’s services a reality. Taking on a protected case load, you will work to create the best outcomes for children and young people with complex and challenging needs, risks and circumstances. 

You will take a lead in promoting and supporting quality control and improvement activities within the team and across the service and support performance activities within the team. Your role will also include oversight for the practice and development of Trainee Social Workers on placement and NQSW within the team.
 

As well as your experience as a frontline senior social worker, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

  • Social Work England registration
  • a recognised qualification in Social Work
  • to have passed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE)
  • a full driving licence and willingness to drive
  • DBS clearance

How to apply

 

For an informal chat about this role, please email David.Stewart@gloucestershire.gov.uk  or alternatively please apply before the closing date.

 

*Please note that welcome payments and retention payments are subject to tax and national insurance deductions

 

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council

 

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications or fill the vacancy/vacancies.

 

Additional Information


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


Advanced Practitioner Role 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.