Advanced Practitioner Grade I *MR

Job Description

Job Category : Social & Healthcare Qualified
Location : Plymouth City Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £38.54

 Directing work with children, young people and families in multiple
settings/locations, ensuring the child/young person’s voice is central to all
case work and recording including:
o Delivering recognised packages of support and tools to engage
children, young people and families to achieve positive outcomes.
This will require climbing stairs and lifting small children and their
equipment, travel to and from destinations, lone working and
occasional weekend and evening working
o Building purposeful, effective relationships with children and families,
demonstrating a high level of skill in evidence based, effective social work approaches to helping children and families which support
change
o Working to tight deadlines, managing conflicting demands and
interruptions
(30%)
 Undertaking assessments of need and risk; plan for outcomes, reviewing in
line with procedures and applying understanding of the key risk factors
affecting child welfare and development including:
o Analysis of the decision-making, the difference between opinion and
fact, the role of evidence and the reasoning of any conclusions
reached and recommendations made
o Maintaining timely and accurate case recording in line with practice
standards, managing information in line with the council’s policies,
procedures and guidance on data protection
(40%)
 Undertaking Court work and may be called upon to give evidence on behalf
of the Local Authority (15%).
 Participating positively in supervision, practice development and newly
qualified worker scheme requirements (15%)

Essential qualifications/knowledge

 Degree or higher qualification in Social Work that has resulted in
registration with relevant professional regulatory body for the profession
 Knowledge of the legislative frameworks for child and family social work

Desirable qualifications/ knowledge

 Knowledge of child and family social work in a statutory setting
 Understanding of child development, including the impact of different
parenting styles on development; the impact of loss, change and uncertainty
in the development of resilience and assessment of vulnerability

Essential experience

Some experience of working in a child care setting, which may have been
gained though student placement or voluntary or paid work

Advanced Practitioner role Capped case load and no duty

Up to £250 per week for expenses