Job Introduction
Job Title: Advanced Practitioners
Starting Salary: £48,226 progressing to £53,460 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Adult Care Services
About the team
Are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives?
We are seeking experienced and motivated Advanced Practitioners to join our Adult Social Care teams. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career while supporting adults through strength-based practice and promoting independence.
Working within a supportive and collaborative environment, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care and making a meaningful impact on the wellbeing of residents of Hertfordshire.
About the role
As an Advanced Practitioner, you will lead on peer development and practice, supports and supervise staff to develop their skills and knowledge in line with related legislation including The Care Act and Hertfordshire’s Connected Lives principles to contribute to the ongoing development of the service.
Advanced Practitioners are responsible for delivering high quality statutory social care including recognising safeguarding, delivering assessment, supervision and care management functions as well as developing innovative, creative community solutions.
Advanced Practitioners are pivotal in developing links with the local community through undertaking multi-agency work with partner organisations, providers, professionals, individuals, families, and carers.
There is responsibility for ensuring that all statutory health and social care responsibilities are met and delivered to a high standard including safeguarding, assessment, supervision, and care management functions.
We are re-energising our adult social care model of Connected Lives approach that has a strong ethos of strength-based working, identifying personal goals and ensuring personal, family and community resources are utilised to achieve positive outcomes for people.
Our teams
Transfer of Care Hub
Stevenage
37 hours per week | Permanent
The Transfer of Care Hub (TOCH) is a fast-paced, multidisciplinary service that supports safe, timely and effective hospital discharges across Hertfordshire. Working closely with NHS colleagues and system partners, the team manages complex discharge pathways across multiple acute hospital sites, community settings and out-of-county placements, helping people transition smoothly from hospital to community-based support.
As an Advanced Practitioner, you will support Team Managers in leading a busy social care team delivering a seven-day service. You will provide professional oversight, contribute to performance management and support service development, while using your expertise in complex hospital discharge planning, risk management and decision-making. You will work with a range of onward care options, including rehabilitation, reablement, long-term care and community support, ensuring person-centred outcomes are achieved.
We operate a seven-day hospital discharge service (8:00am–6:00pm, including weekends). You will participate in a service-wide rota, working one full weekend every eight weeks, with time off in lieu provided before and after.
Adult Disability Team West - Dacorum - Drug & Alcohol specialism
Apsley, Hemel Hempstead
18.5 hours or 37 hours per week | Permanent
Dacorum is a busy, supportive team providing support to adults with a learning disability, autism or physical disability.
This unique role combines the advanced practitioner duties with a drug and alcohol lead specialism. You will take the practice lead in drug and alcohol work with supporting and advising workers across West Adult Disability Service, case hold the most complex, be the operational lead for Making Every Adult Matter and for policy and commissioning developments”. Experience of working with adults or their carers with substance misuse would be an added advantage.
Older Peoples Team West - Prevention of Admissions Team
Apsley, Hemel Hempstead
37 hours per week | Permanent
The Older Person Service is a dynamic service that works across the community under the Care Act to safeguard, assess, plan support and review adults and cares with long term health and social care needs. We can offer Hybrid working arrangements, flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, as well as promote your continuous Learning & Development.
Older Peoples Team East - Welwyn, Hatfield & Broxbourne Locality Team
37 hours per week | Permanent
East and North Herts Older Peoples Service are looking for an Advanced Practitioner who has a passion to support people to remain in their own homes and promote their independence. You will need to be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in complex case management & safeguarding practice and be committed to working in a personalised and empowering way with our service users and carers. Experience of mentoring and developing skills and best practice within a team is essential. The role would also involve supporting with referral management, leading the team & networking with our community and hospital based social care teams to build positive relationships to promote and deliver on our principles.
Older Peoples Team East - Mental Health Inpatient Unit
Stevenage
37 hours per week | Fixed Term to Aug 2027
This role sits within a mental health inpatient team supporting people with dementia across East and North Hertfordshire. The Advanced Practitioner ensures individuals receive holistic, person-centred assessments in line with the Care Act 2014, helping to plan safe and timely discharges. The position is based in Stevenage but involves regular travel to inpatient units and participation in multidisciplinary meetings.
Key duties include completing social care assessments, contributing to care and discharge planning with clinical teams, advocating for patients’ rights and preferences, and working closely with families and carers to ensure continuity of care. The role also involves maintaining accurate records, supporting safeguarding processes, and assessing risk to promote safe outcomes.
About you
You’ll be a qualified social worker with a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience.
In addition, you will also need the following: Actively undertakes a specialist role i.e. Moving and Handling Practitioner, Practice Educator, Approved Mental Health Practitioner, Best Interest Assessor - or agreement to undertake a specialist role within the first year of the role.
You will have extensive knowledge and experience in the field of adult social care, with an emphasis on safeguarding practice and related legislation. You will have the ability to manage competing service priorities and a sound grasp of current legislation, personalisation agenda and meeting the business objectives of the department. Demonstrating management potential, you will have excellent all-round communication and negotiation skills working with the Statutory, Voluntary and Independent sector partners.
You will adhere to Hertfordshire’s Connected Lives Practice Principles by ensuring that people are supported to maintain their independence and receive person-centred care and support. You will utilise your knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and other social care legislation, to manage the most complex cases. You will use of your advanced knowledge and experience to support other members of the team and the management team to ensure good practice. You will develop close working relationships with hospital staff and care providers to ensure effective care planning and balance the use of resources.
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.
This job role is within the Health and Social Care, level 12 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles - Health and social care
To hear more about this opportunity please contact [email protected] for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: This is an on-going position, and interviews will be arranged as and when applications are received.
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Additional information
We are changing
Hertfordshire County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.
LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
