Senior Practitioner - Assessment Team South
Team: South Locality Older Adults Community Assessment/Review Service
Job Family: Supporting - CBG11
Salary: £39,769 - £42,922 per annum pro rata + MRS of £7,000 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend Grove View, Dunstable Office location on a minimal monthly basis, and as needed to carry out your role
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent
Closing Date: 23rd April 2025
Interview Date: Week Commencing 6th May 2025
About the role:
The South Locality Older Adults Team is a highly professional Adult Social Care Team working across the Dunstable, Houghton Regis and Leighton Buzzard areas of Central Bedfordshire.
We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Practitioner to join our busy and multi-skilled Adult Community Assessment and Review Team. The Team practices at the cutting edge of Adult Social Care with a strong focus on improving customer outcomes in a strength based, person centred way. Working for us, you can expect to be valued for your positive and dynamic practice, be assisted to continue to develop as a practitioner within a supportive learning environment and operate within a ‘can do’ culture. Your contribution in helping us to succeed could enable you to discover your greatness.
You will have skills that help us achieve the delivery of excellent person-centred approaches. You will value sound evidence-based practice and understand that best practice results in best value. You will know the importance of enabling people to be supported to be as independent as possible for as long as possible and that having a strong connection with local services and communities can make a real difference to people's lives and overall wellbeing.
The successful candidate must have a recognised social work qualification and be currently registered with Social Work England. You will also have a minimum of three years post qualifying practice and experience. Your values will demonstrate excellent social work skills in practice and professional pride.
This Senior Practitioner post is key in supporting and developing the day-to-day operation of the team and supporting the team managers in overseeing the continuous approach we have to improving and developing our practice. Working alongside your peers, you will be responsible for managing a small case load including s42 safeguarding work and complex case work; ensuring the timely and proportionate allocation of work within the team; and providing supervision, support and guidance to staff. In return, Central Bedfordshire Council supports the workforce to operate in an agile manner by providing modern IT equipment as well as generous annual leave, local government pension scheme, regular supervision, support to develop and ongoing training. Your role will combine some office-based working and working from home.
The Adult Community Assessment and Review Team is continually striving to ensure that best practice is delivered to the residents we serve and is investing heavily in being a vibrant, supportive and inspiring place to work. If you think you have the skills and aptitude to join us on our journey, ensuring that Central Bedfordshire remains a great place to live and work, we would like to hear from you.
As part of this role, you will need to have a valid driving licence and access to your own transport.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For any further questions or for an informal discussion regarding this post please contact the Team Manager: Gazala.Riaz@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk Telephone: 0300 300 6202
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Safeguarding:
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
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