Advanced Practitioner, Children with Disabilities

Advanced Practitioner – Children with Disabilities

• £41.18 per hour
• Merseyside
• 36 hours p/w
• Hybrid working

About the role:
We are looking to recruit an agency Advanced Practitioner for a Children with Disabilities Service in Merseyside. The Team is based within the All Age Disabilities Service, CWP. The service provides a specialist social work service for children age 0-18 with complex medical conditions, learning disability and autism. You will be supporting social workers to ensure positive outcomes for children, including CP and CLA, and children who access short breaks / respite and CIN.

JOB ROLE PURPOSE:
Working within the standards of conduct, performance and ethics as described by the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC), ensuring compliance with legal, organisational and multi-agency requirements, take a lead role in ensuring that all operational social work practice involving safeguarding, child protection and high level risk is of the highest possible standard and in accordance with relevant legislation and agreed policy, procedures and guidance.

KEY TASKS:
1. Ensure through the provision of services that children are safe and achieving good outcomes.
2. Provide practice or professional leadership, through the development of researchinformed practice, quality assurance, staff development, knowledge development or management.
3. Influence and contribute to strategic development in the organisation.
4. Guide and support a range of internal and external professionals on cases where there are particularly high levels of complexity or risk.
5. Ensure that effective risk management, decision making and preventative work is undertaken to ensure that children are safeguarded effectively.
6. Chair meetings that carry high levels of complexity or risk.
7. Ensure complex cases that involve external partners and their respective legal, statutory and regulatory functions are referred to the Safeguarding Unit for wider consideration.
8. Support interventions that may require complex court work (court of protection).
9. Authorise and quality assure reports, assessments and court documentation to ensure appropriate evaluation of risk and present evidence based statements to Court.
10.Take a constructive approach towards innovation and changes in methods of working to provide the best outcomes for children and families.
11.Lead on specific projects including service developments and manage a caseload as and when required.

For full job description, contact kaye.fleming@pprsocialcare.co.uk

What you need:

• A degree in Social Work or equivalent
• Registered with Social Work England
• At least 3 years PQE direct employment within English Local Authorities
• Completed relevant post-qualifying training
• Enhanced DBS check
• Excellent communication and written skills

 
 
Why Work with Pertemps Social Care?
 
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And much more to ensure your job-search is smooth and hassle-free.
 
Our Roles
 
We place Social Care Practitioners into a wide range of essential roles, including:

• Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO)
• Best Interest Assessor (BIA)
• Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
• Looked After Children (LAC)
• Fostering / Adoption
• Children’s & Adult Social Work
• Service Manager / Head of Service
• Team Manager / Assistant Team Manager
• Occupational Therapist

 
If you’re interested in finding your next role in social care, we can help!
 
📩 Get in Touch Today!
📧 kaye.fleming@pprsocialcare.co.uk
📞 07435 787 863 / 0161 804 7658
 
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