Advanced Practitioner in Social Work

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities. 

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

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The focus of this Advanced Practitioner role is to work with the dedicated OT, social care staff, Reablement service as well as the Community Development Officer and LAC to support new individuals on ensuring that a quick response is provided with the support Reablement and aids and equipment to prevent or reduce longer term needs. The Advanced Practitioner will oversee allocations and ensure that assessments are strengths-based and person-centred, whilst ensuring that interventions represent a proportionate response to presenting issues. The Advanced Practitioner will work closely with the Practice Manager and oversee any safeguarding concerns and check effective signposting to alternative services. They will also oversee carers assessments and must be able to handle the demands and pressures of the role. The Advanced Practitioner will give guidance to staff to support their decision-making and oversee their supervisions. The Advanced Practitioner would not be expected to deal with budgetary, staffing or team performance issues.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop leadership skills and trial a different role. The successful candidate will have relevant, up-to-date, experience of using an asset-based approach in the community, which promotes health and well-being and seeks to prevent, reduce or enable each individual that is presented for this pilot process.

What we are looking for:

• An experienced and enthusiastic Grade 9 Social Worker who has a good understanding of adult safeguarding concerns.
• A Social Worker with some experience of supervisions and have an understanding of the Prevent, Reduce and Enable agenda.
• The candidate should be self-motivated with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work within the Adult Community Teams and wider multi-disciplinary arena.
• Good organisational skills and time management is key to effectively supporting staff and the ability to feed back at regular meetings in a clear and concise way.
• The candidate should be able to provide a client centred approach to care and demonstrate sound knowledge through evidence-based assessments and management of support in a variety of situations.
• It will be essential for the post holder to work autonomously within the Council’s policies and professional practice, in addition to maintaining accurate and comprehensive client documentation.

The post holder will be based at Macclesfield Town Hall, but hybrid working is available and includes working at home on occasions and there may be a necessity to travel to other bases.

Cheshire East Council operates a ‘flexible and mobile’ working policy.

If you have any queries or require additional information about this post, please contact Caroline Bleakley on 07976 864380 or at caroline.bleakley@cheshireeast.gov.uk Diane Cuffe on 07775221695 or diane.cuffe@cheshireeasst.gov.uk 

Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.

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If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.

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