Practice Manager

Reporting to a Team Manager, to manage and professionally supervise a number of qualified & support staff and to support other colleagues. To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality and legally compliant social care practice to agreed standards for the staff within the remit of the post. To undertake the full legal range of social care assessments and develop person-led support plans that meet the needs and outcomes of individuals. To manage a complex caseload. To maximise the independence and wellbeing of adults and older people. The Adult Care Management Team are divided into two; both teams manage longer-term, complex caseloads with a high emphasis on Relationship-Based Interventions. There is also an element of high-intensity and quick turnaround work under a Discharge to Assess Model. The ethos being to support Adults to leave Hospital when safe and appropriate to do so and continuing their care and assessment out of an Acute setting. Both Adult Care Management Teams hold statutory responsibilities for Safeguarding, Reviews and Support Planning. The Adult Care Management Team, work with adults aged 18 and over, to identify and care plan for eligible Social Care and Support needs. As a Social Care Assistant within this remit, your role will be to manage your own complex caseload, with the support of a Practice Manager and Team Manager.

• Significant post-qualifying social work experience in a Children & Families setting
• Experience of undertaking highly complex casework within a statutory children's setting
• Experience of service delivery which is culturally sensitive and responsive to the needs of a multi-cultural community
• Experience of prioritisation, care planning and service delivery
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in assessing complex risk
• Experience of having to interpret, understand and make judgements on the complex interactions between the risk and protective factors in any given situation when arriving at a decision about whether the child or young person is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm.
• Have high-level knowledge and skills in gathering information from a range of sources, including direct observation of children and young people and their interactions with mothers, fathers and carers.
• Make timely judgments and decisions that are based on evidence and thorough analysis of all the information gathered.
• Demonstrate an ability to draw up specific practical plans with clear timescales that are based on high quality assessments, which set out the planned outcomes for the child or young person.
• Systematically monitor and review decisions and plans, revising them where appropriate in the light of new information and evaluation of whether the interventions are achieving the planned outcomes.
• Know about the different methods of intervention and, on the basis of a critical review of the research evidence, understand their effectiveness.
• Demonstrate or show evidence of having undertaken and managed to completion no of complex cases and able to demonstrate a high level of conceptualisation of critical analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)., To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements:
Educated to degree standard or equivalent Relevant professional qualification (e.g. CSQW, Dip SW, equivalent degree level or equivalent qualification in Social Work or Occupational Therapy) Social Work England registration Evidence of Continued Professional Development Terms and conditions: The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
• Satisfactory declaration of interest;
• This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;
• Satisfactory DBS check;
• Continued professional body registration;
• As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
  
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