Advanced Practitioner

Job description

Job Introduction

Job Title: Advanced Practitioners
Starting Salary: £49,817 progressing to £55,224 per annum
Hours: Full Time / Part Time
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent / Secondment
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.

We have opportunities in the following services:

Adult Safeguarding
Stevenage
37 hours per week | 12 Month Secondment /Fixed Term to Sep 2027

As an Advanced Practitioner, you will join a supportive and highly skilled Adult Safeguarding team, leading safeguarding practice and partnership working across Hertfordshire. You will manage safeguarding enquiries in line with the Care Act 2014, support colleagues through mentoring and supervision, and work collaboratively with internal and external partners to achieve positive outcomes for residents and carers.

For an informal conversation about the role please contact [email protected]

Adult Disability Service West

Dacorum Locality Team
Apsley, Hemel Hempstead
18.5 hours per week | Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner to join the Adult Disability Service West Team on a permanent basis, within our Dacorum Locality Team. The Adult Disability Service provides support to adults with a learning or physical disability. We are committed to person-centred practice through our Connected Lives assessment process, focusing on the wellbeing of the individual and strive for increased independence. You will need to be a confident individual, capable of working with the most complex cases, and taking on a supervisory role based on developing skill, experience and expertise. The role is responsible 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.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact [email protected]

Dacorum Team - Drug & Alcohol Specialism
Apsley, Hemel Hempstead
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.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact [email protected]

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.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact [email protected]

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

Recruitment timeline: Applications are regularly reviewed. Interviews and appointments will be made on a first come first served basic - apply early to avoid disappointment. Please check your emails for updates.

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.

IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC PREFERENCE OF TEAM, PLEASE MENTION THIS AT THE TOP OF YOUR COVER LETTER.

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.