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Job Description / Person Specification

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Salary

£42,708 - £47,754 per annum

National pay award pending

Type of vacancy

Fixed Term

Work pattern

Full Time

Duration (Months)

6

Hours per week

37

Work Base

South, mid and north Notts

Working Arrangements

Hybrid

Job Description / Person Specification

Advanced Social Work Practitioner JD (2).pdf – 173KB Opens in a new window

Competency Framework

Tier 6

Interview date

To be confirmed

Number of posts

Multiple posts are available

Closing Date

20 August 2025 23:55

Are you ready to take on an exciting challenge in a fast-paced, supportive team? We're looking for dynamic, enthusiastic and compassionate individuals with relevant knowledge, skills and expertise in all areas of Social Work practice and hospital discharge to join us in our Urgent and Emergency Care Teams.

You will develop as a practice lead which will be integral to supporting the Team Manager to implement change and embed new ways of working. The ideal candidate will have a passion for Social Work with the ability to enable effective integrated working with partners and the promoting of independence through reablement and enablement approaches. The preferred candidate will supervise and mentor staff and be responsible for managing a small complex caseload of a mixed priority of work. You will have experience of safeguarding vulnerable people and will act as a safeguarding manager for the people you supervise.

Using strength-based approaches you will promote the principles of choice and control, personalisation, and self-directed support to ensure that where possible people and their care givers can assess and manage their own needs, risks, and uncertainties. You will work with other Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Community Care Officers in a fast-paced team.

Key Skills

• Building trusted relationships.
• Active listening to understand what matters most to the people you work with.
• Ensuring that a person wishes, feelings and beliefs are central to decision making.
• Connecting people to wider networks of support and opportunity.
• Keeping in touch with people to ensure that things or working well and if anything needs to change.
  
  

• Recognising that people are the experts in their own lives.
• Communicating respectfully with and about people.
• Thinking and acting creatively.
• Professionally challenging circumstances and environments that marginalise, exclude or oppress.
• Critical reflective practice and a desire for continuous learning and professional development.
  
  

• Respect the dignity and diversity of the people you’re working with.
• Understand and respond to people’s unique needs and aspirations.
• Uphold human rights and social justice.
• Have professional curiosity.
  
  

• Latest technology for flexible working.
• Mileage payment.
• A comprehensive career pathway with induction, supervision, and Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
• An excellent occupational pension scheme.
• A flexible and supportive work environment.
• Generous annual leave plus 8 statutory bank holidays.
  
  

• Monday to Thursday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM.
• Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
• Office presence: 2 days per week
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Government Administration

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