An exciting opportunity has become available for an Advanced Practitioner in Social Work to work within the Prevent, Reduce and Enable Service, based within the East Adult Contact Team at Macclesfield Town Hall. The position is full time 37 hours a week, from Monday to Friday.
About the role
This position is to support the Adult Social Care Teams in the East on the Prevent, Reduce and Enable Team, to provide a quick and urgent response to those individuals who have been referred with a presenting need. this is a fast-paced role working alongside a small team of Social Care staff and Occupational Therapy and the Reablement Service. The aim of this service is to prevent further crisis or deterioration in needs and preventing a hospital admission.
The focus for the Advanced Practitioner is on ensuring that practice standards are maintained and that assessments are strengths-based and person-centred, whilst ensuring that interventions represent a proportionate response to presenting needs. The Advanced Practitioner will work closely with the Practice Manager and focus on quality assurance for practice related issues within the teams through supervision and informal support for staff. The Advanced Practitioner will give guidance to staff to support their decision-making and to help them tackle challenging conversations and conflict. The Advanced Practitioner would not be expected to deal with budgetary, staffing or team performance issues but is likely to hold a small caseload and deal with any related safeguarding concerns.
The role is diverse with no day the same, for more information on the role please view the 'in this job you will' section within the attached JDPS document. A full safer recruitment DBS will be required.
About you
You will have:
Extensive knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and understand Cheshire East Polices & Processes
A high degree of interpersonal skills
To oversee effective teamwork and have excellent communication skills
Have the ability to converse at ease with both internal & external partners and customers
Have the ability to work flexibly
Be able to provide formal supervision to an identified group of staff
Be able to oversee and manage safeguarding concerns and high-risk situations.
To find out more about the essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the attached job description specification document.
In return we are able to offer:
- Enhanced annual leave - Start with an impressive 34 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) from day one, and watch it grow to 39 days after just five years of service
- Purchase of annual leave – Want more time off? You can purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year, giving you the flexibility to balance work and life just the way you want (Pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Flexible working pattern - Enjoy a 37-hour standard full-time work week with the added perks of flexi-time and hybrid/remote working arrangements where possible. Your work-life balance just got a whole lot better
- Salary sacrifice green car scheme - Drive green and save green! Lease a brand-new electric or hybrid car through our salary sacrifice scheme. There’s no credit checks, no deposits, just significant savings and exclusive offers on a three-year lease
- White goods salary sacrifice scheme - Upgrade your home with ease. Purchase home and electronic items through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost of big-ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets directly from your salary
- Enhanced public pension - Secure your future with our career average pension, where contributions are built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
- Cycle to work scheme - Save up to 25-39% on the retail price of bikes and safety equipment through Income Tax and National Insurance savings. Get fit and save money!
- Employee assistance programme - Access a completely free and confidential assistance service to help manage, reduce, and overcome life’s challenges, both at work and in your personal life
- Discounted gym membership - Stay active and healthy with corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure, including:
- Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
- Off-Peak Racket Sports
- Athletics Tracks
- Sauna/Steam/Spa
Join us and experience a workplace that truly values and supports you!
Organisation
Cheshire East Council
Job Category
Adults Health and Integration
Salary Min
£41,771 Per Annum
Salary Max
£48,072 Per Annum
Employment Type
Permanent
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.
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.
Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed as failure to do so will result in their application being rejected. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
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.
For any technical enquiries please email [email protected]
Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.
For further information, please contact Diane Cuffe by email at [email protected].
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.
