About the job Adult Advanced Social Care Practitioner

Job Purpose

To provide professional supervision and/or leadership of staff, working in partnership with the manager, staff and others and contribute towards an effective an efficient team service. To be responsible for both the assessment of individual needs and the initiation and coordination of a range of outcomes to meet them, promoting the principles of a strength-based approach, personalisation, rights based social work practice, choice and control, to ensure that people can assess and manage their own needs, risks and uncertainties.

Key Responsibilities

1. Provide a lead practitioner role in the team: supporting the development of good, evidence-based practice particularly in the key areas of risk enablement, safeguarding, the Mental Health and Mental Capacity Act.
2. Promote a Strength Based Approach which embeds the ethos of promoting independe...