Advanced Practitioner - Disabled Children and Young Persons Service
23 days ago
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job. • Job Title: Advanced Practitioner - Disabled Children and Young Persons Service, • Job Location: Gloucester, • Salary: 48226 - 51356 per annum, • Hours per Week: 37, • Contract Type: FTC until March 2026, • Closing Date: 17/08/2025, • Job Requisition Number: 7306, • This post is open to job share We are currently recruiting for an Advanced Practitioner to join our Disabled Childrens & Young Persons team on a FTC up until March 2026. Reward & Support For all your hard work. You will receive the following; • Between 48226 - 51356 per annum subject to experience, • Annual retention payment of 2000, • Welcome payment of 4000, • Flexible and agile working opportunities, • 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service, • An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff), • Family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family, • Supportive and positive working environment with regular robust supervision, • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free confidential counselling and advice for employees available 24 hours a day online and by telephone., • An in-house Occupational Health service, • Employee discount scheme, • Cycle to Work scheme, • Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT) and the Young Employees Network, • Career development and qualification opportunities, • Access to our Social Work Academy, • Paid SWE registration renewal* Right child right support right time every time In our recent inspection in June 2025 our Childrens Services have been officially judged asGood with Outstanding elements.Ofsted also said Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to offers a range of opportunities to develop your career supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer a developing systemic practice methodology an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning are a local authority adopting and training all colleagues in systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive then consider a role with GCC. About us TheDisabled Children and Young Persons Social Work Team supports children and young people who are aged 0- 18 years old with significant needs arising from their disability. The team aims to ensure that disabled children and their families have access to a needs led services that promotes resilience co-production and improves childrens life chances. To do this the team will work with partners to make sure that every child has an accurate assessment of need; with a plan that sets out how support will be delivered with the aim to improve outcomes. This is an exciting time to join the team as we head into a transformation and expansion of the teams. About you As an Advanced Practitioner you are at the heart of Gloucestershires practice model. You will hold an expert role within your team. Your role includes facilitating the team and services ability to develop and deliver complex social work practice through a combination of joint working practice advice and guidance and quality assurance. You will also model Gloucestershires relational systemic practice model and will help promote Gloucestershires practice standards across the team. Advanced Practitioners provide direction to team members around improving the quality of practice. This may include activities such as quality assuring an assessment or attending joint visits with social workers to support their learning. As an Advanced Practitioner you may provide Newly Qualified Social Workers in the team with monthly reflective supervision and undertake one of the observations of practice however management of the NQSW will sit with Team Managers. You will also support any Social Work students within the team. You will have a joint lead for a particular area of practice offering a weekly consultation to practitioners from across the service to book into to support them to develop their practice in that specific area. You will work closely with the Social Work Academy through regular forums and training to ensure standardised practice across the teams bringing new learning and training opportunities to social workers within your team. As an Advanced Practitioner you will hold a small number of cases ensuring you have dedicated time to follow your other duties. As well as your experience as a frontline social workerthere are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post: • Social Work England registration, • Experience atSenior Social worker level, • A recognised qualification in Social Work, • To have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012), • A full driving licence and willingness to drive, • Enhanced DBS clearance How to apply For an informal chat about this role please email or alternatively email *Please note all our welcome payments and retention payments are non-contractual pro-rata for part time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we have enough candidates for interviews. Additional Information To access the Job Profile for this role please follow the link below:- This is a Gloucestershire County Council job. • Job Title: Advanced Practitioner - Disabled Children and Young Persons Service, • Job Location: Gloucester, • Salary: 48226 - 51356 per annum, • Hours per Week: 37, • Contract Type: FTC until March 2026, • Closing Date: 17/08/2025, • Job Requisition Number: 7306, • This post is open to job share We are currently recruiting for an Advanced Practitioner to join our Disabled Childrens & Young Persons team on a FTC up until March 2026. Reward & Support For all your hard work. You will receive the following; • Between 48226 - 51356 per annum subject to experience, • Annual retention payment of 2000, • Welcome payment of 4000, • Flexible and agile working opportunities, • 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service, • An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff), • Family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family, • Supportive and positive working environment with regular robust supervision, • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free confidential counselling and advice for employees available 24 hours a day online and by telephone., • An in-house Occupational Health service, • Employee discount scheme, • Cycle to Work scheme, • Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT) and the Young Employees Network, • Career development and qualification opportunities, • Access to our Social Work Academy, • Paid SWE registration renewal* Right child right support right time every time In our recent inspection in June 2025 our Childrens Services have been officially judged asGood with Outstanding elements.Ofsted also said Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to offers a range of opportunities to develop your career supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer a developing systemic practice methodology an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning are a local authority adopting and training all colleagues in systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive then consider a role with GCC. About us TheDisabled Children and Young Persons Social Work Team supports children and young people who are aged 0- 18 years old with significant needs arising from their disability. The team aims to ensure that disabled children and their families have access to a needs led services that promotes resilience co-production and improves childrens life chances. To do this the team will work with partners to make sure that every child has an accurate assessment of need; with a plan that sets out how support will be delivered with the aim to improve outcomes. This is an exciting time to join the team as we head into a transformation and expansion of the teams. About you As an Advanced Practitioner you are at the heart of Gloucestershires practice model. You will hold an expert role within your team. Your role includes facilitating the team and services ability to develop and deliver complex social work practice through a combination of joint working practice advice and guidance and quality assurance. You will also model Gloucestershires relational systemic practice model and will help promote Gloucestershires practice standards across the team. Advanced Practitioners provide direction to team members around improving the quality of practice. This may include activities such as quality assuring an assessment or attending joint visits with social workers to support their learning. As an Advanced Practitioner you may provide Newly Qualified Social Workers in the team with monthly reflective supervision and undertake one of the observations of practice however management of the NQSW will sit with Team Managers. You will also support any Social Work students within the team. You will have a joint lead for a particular area of practice offering a weekly consultation to practitioners from across the service to book into to support them to develop their practice in that specific area. You will work closely with the Social Work Academy through regular forums and training to ensure standardised practice across the teams bringing new learning and training opportunities to social workers within your team. As an Advanced Practitioner you will hold a small number of cases ensuring you have dedicated time to follow your other duties. As well as your experience as a frontline social workerthere are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post: • Social Work England registration, • Experience atSenior Social worker level, • A recognised qualification in Social Work, • To have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012), • A full driving licence and willingness to drive, • Enhanced DBS clearance How to apply For an informal chat about this role please email or alternatively email *Please note all our welcome payments and retention payments are non-contractual pro-rata for part time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we have enough candidates for interviews. Additional Information To access the Job Profile for this role please follow the link below:-