Advanced Practitioner - Safeguarding Adults
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
19/07/2024
Advert End Date:
12/08/2024 12:00
Job Category:
Social Work - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Practice Assurance and Safeguarding Team, Town Hall and Civic Offices
Further Information
Advanced Practitioner - Safeguarding Adults
(Practice, Assurance and Safeguarding Team, Town Hall and Civic Offices)
£45,441 pa
Are you an experienced social worker or health care professional who has experience in Safeguarding, with a strong passion for protecting vulnerable adults and motivating and inspiring others to provide high standards of practice!
If so, look no further than this exciting opportunity to join our Safeguarding Adults Team in South Tyneside, who are committed to keeping people safe and delivering positive outcomes for those living within our borough.
The role of Advanced Practitioner is to lead the way, role model good practice and offer guidance and support within the safeguarding team, wider social work teams and to partner agencies. You will also hold a manageable caseload of complex cases.
This is your opportunity to build an exciting career in a forward-thinking Council with access to a comprehensive range of mentoring, training, and career progression opportunities. Additionally, we offer an excellent rate of pay and a flexible hybrid working.
About the Role:
Assigned to our Safeguarding Adults Team, you will undertake a range of strengths-based interventions aligned to the Making Safeguarding Personal agenda, to ensure adults with care and support needs and their families and carers' achieve their desired outcomes. You will undertake a range of duties including Section 42 Enquiries as required by the Care Act 2014, support and advise colleagues and partner organisations on the requirements of safeguarding. This role will involve chairing safeguarding meetings, delivery of training and may involve assistance in strategic and developmental work.
As a key member of the leadership team, Advanced Practitioners are expected to play a leading role, assisting the Safeguarding Manager to undertake reflective supervision and facilitate practice improvement, motivating and inspiring our practitioners to provide the highest standards of practice, that delivers positive outcomes for people, carers’ and their families.
About You:
Driven by research, innovation and the desire to develop best practice, you must demonstrate an applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation and be willing to undertake further bespoke learning and development to support your future progression.
As an advanced practitioner within the Safeguarding Team you will want to practice in a setting that believes that people are at their healthiest and happiest when they are supported to remain independent, close to the people they love and who love them, in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home.
This role is a great opportunity for someone with the right drive and ambition to join our highly motivated team. The successful applicant will share our enthusiasm, contributing to and influencing improved performance at an individual, team and service level.
If you are committed to adults having choice and control over their support, maximising opportunities for independence and well-being and working in partnership, then this is the job for you.
About Us:
Adult Social Care is changing in South Tyneside. We are a forward-thinking Council that is developing innovative approaches to meet our challenges. Focusing on People, Place and Partnerships, this is a great time to join us. With our new Council Leadership, and a recent service review, we are developing a new 5-year Vision and Strategy for Adult Social Care to help support the next stage of our journey. Working closely with all our partners our vision for the future is to see every person in South Tyneside with care and support needs “Living Better Lives”, to fully utilise their strengths and assets, to remain safe and well; in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home. We want to work with all our partners to ensure the person only need tell their story once and that they have equal voice in co-ordinating their care and support. We understand promoting the importance of social justice and inclusion, respecting people’s rights, citizenship and participation.
Joining us at this time will ensure you are at the forefront of helping to develop and embed co-production and co-delivery, delivering new models of working through our Adult Social Care framework and contributing to our ambitious plans to fully embed our strengths-based practice, improve services and deliver better outcomes for the people of South Tyneside. We remain fully committed to supporting our staff to grow and develop, and we will provide you with the opportunity to use your skills and learn new ones. Through the development of our new Values and Behaviour Framework we will fully support staff to become Curious, Accountable, Responsive and Empowered (CARE).
For an informal discussion about role please contact Rosie Todd, Safeguarding Manager via email Rosie.Todd@southtyneside.gov.uk or on (0191) 4244053.
We offer an excellent benefits package and further information is available here - www.southtyneside.gov.uk/workinghere
South Tyneside Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure will be sought along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
For those posts where there is a requirement to either work in or enter a Care Quality Commission Regulated Care Home (CQC) it would be preferred but optional, that you have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (unless medical exempt) as a condition of employment.
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Closing date: Noon, 12 August 2024.
Interviews will take place week commencing 2 September 2024.