Advanced Practitioner Social Worker CA12 1341 Grade L

Job Description

Job Category :Social & Healthcare Qualified
Location : Monkton Park Council Offices, Wiltshire Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £30.32

The team works with people with long term and complex needs providing care and support to enable
people to be as independent as possible

The advanced practitioner role provide practice and professional leadership, support and supervision for social workers and
social care staff in adult care teams.

Advanced Social Workers make a difference by working both directly with people in
highly complex situations, and by supporting staff to provide better outcomes for people who use
services, families, carers and communities.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
• Participate in and where appropriate chair meetings of internal/external partners and other
agencies, Best Interest decision maker, or facilitation of this, CHC joint decision making panels,
etc.
• Take a lead role in promoting safeguarding within the team in line with Wiltshire policy and
procedures for safeguarding adults. Perform Investigating Officer role as required, usually for
complex and/or multiagency working.
• Manage a small caseload of complex work, using person centred practice principles to assess,
support plan and review with the aim of promoting well-being and positive risk taking of individual
customers.
• Ensure that personal practice is in line with current legislation, including The Care Act (2014), The
Mental Capacity Act (2005) and The Mental Health Act (1983) and local policies and procedures,
as relevant to the role.
• Ability to manage and resolve complex and high-risk situations using negotiations and diplomacy,
involving customers, their families, or staff groups. Where these fail pass to the assistant team
manager
• Participate in the planning, prioritising and allocation of work within the team.
• Promote, develop and model high quality social work practice including working within statutory
responsibilities, evidence based practice and comply with professional standards required by the
Health and Care Professions Council.
• Provide professional support to social workers, customer co-ordinators and other team members,
including development of skills, knowledge and experience and addressing performance issues.
• Provide specific operational professional advice and guidance to team managers, Heads of
Service, Directors, and commissioning colleagues on a broad range of issues relevant to social
work.
• Supervise and appraise social workers and customer co-ordinators. Ensure that the practice of
staff you supervise is in line with the current legal framework, including The Care Act (2014), The
Mental Capacity Act (2005) and The Mental Health Act (1983) and related local policies and
procedures, as relevant to their role.CA12-1341 Advanced Social Worker Dec 2017 Page 5 of 8
• Work in collaborative partnerships with colleagues from the council, health and other stakeholders
within the voluntary and community sector which promote well-being, social inclusion and resilient
communities to influence and improve service delivery.
• Contribute to and participate in development of best practice in social work in conjunction with the
Principal Social Worker (Adults)