Directorate: Adult Care, Housing & Public Health
Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week
Advanced Practitioner – Preparing for Adulthood Team
Do you enjoy working in a busy environment, working as part of a team with lots of variety to your day?
Do you enjoy supporting the learning and development of others?
If so, being an Advanced Practitioner in The Preparing for Adulthood Team could be the role for you…
We are looking to recruit an exceptional Advanced Practitioner to join our Preparing for Adulthood (PFA) Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and skilled social worker to contribute to the continued development of our Preparing for Adulthood service while promoting outstanding strengths-based practice across the team.
The PFA Team works with young people aged 14-25 with eligible social care needs as they transition from children's to adult services. Working collaboratively with young people, families, carers, education providers, health professionals and partner agencies, the team plays a pivotal role in supporting successful transitions and achieving positive outcomes in adulthood.
As an Advanced Practitioner, you will support the team in delivering high-quality, person-centred social work practice that enables young people to maximise their independence, build resilience, and achieve their aspirations relating to education, employment, accommodation, community inclusion, health and wellbeing.
About the Role
This is a hands-on practice leadership role where you will hold a smaller caseload of more complex and challenging situations while supporting the development of colleagues across the team.
You will:
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Champion high-quality social work practice and strengths-based approaches.
- Provide professional leadership, mentoring, coaching and reflective support to social workers and other team members.
- Support the Team Manager in the day-to-day operation of the service.
- Lead on complex assessments, care and support planning, safeguarding enquiries and risk management.
- Promote positive outcomes for young people preparing for adulthood through collaborative and creative social work practice.
- Support the learning and development of newly qualified social workers, students and experienced practitioners.
- Contribute to service development initiatives, quality assurance activity and practice improvement.
About you
As an Advanced Practitioner, you will provide professional leadership and some supervision to colleagues within your team, supporting the team manager with your team’s day-to-day operations when required and contributing to effective and efficient services.
You will require a sound working knowledge of the Care Act, significant experience in undertaking complex safeguarding enquires and risk assessments and have comprehensive risk management skills. You will be able to demonstrate expertise in the supervision and development of staff, including performance management.
You must hold a registration with Social Work England and be competent at or willing to work to the Advanced Practitioner level of the Professional Capabilities Framework for Registered Practitioners.
If you are a compassionate, innovative, and resilient Social Worker with the drive to deliver ever improving performance outcomes for the people of Rotherham, then this is the role for you. In return we can offer considerable professional growth and development within an environment that is both supportive and encouraging.
A requirement of the post holder will be availability for occasional evening and weekend out of hours work.
Our offer
The successful applicant will be joining a supportive and motivated team who value learning and work closely with other professionals in the area.
A full induction and training are provided as well as regular supervision and team meetings.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working to help you get the right work life balance.
A huddle every morning to keep you connected with your team - time to share ideas and celebrate successes.
An employee assistance programme for any work and personal related support
Staff engagement sessions and Employee Opinion Surveys
A positive learning environment with access to a wealth of resources and practice guidance, and high-quality training opportunities for all staff, plus support from our in-house Professional Practice Team.
Would you like to Talk to Us?
If you are interested in applying for a post with us, we would welcome you contacting us for a discussion.
Shortlisting: 1st September 2026
Interviews: 7th September 2026
This post involves working with adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme and can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.
