Advanced Practitioner – Neighbourhood Transformation

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Advanced Practitioner to join its client’s Neighbourhood Transformation (Adult Social Care) team, based in London. Job Details: - Job Title: Advanced Practitioner – Neighbourhood Transformation (Adult Social Care) - Location: The Woolwich Centre, London - Pay Rate: Up to £34.75 per hour - Working Hours: 35 hours per week About the Role: The Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking an experienced and proactive Advanced Practitioner to join its Adult Social Care service and support an exciting period of organisational transformation. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled social care professional with strong leadership, safeguarding and practice development experience to play a key role in shaping and embedding new neighbourhood-based ways of working. You will lead and support social workers, social care practitioners and frontline teams through organisational change, helping to establish redesigned locality-based teams and embed a strengths-based, person-centred approach to service delivery. Working closely with managers and frontline colleagues, you will support the implementation of new pathways, processes and working practices, ensuring they are understood, adopted and consistently applied across the service. A key part of the role will involve providing professional supervision, coaching and mentoring, strengthening workforce confidence and resilience, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and high-quality practice. You will also provide advanced professional guidance on complex adult social care matters, including safeguarding, the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Continuing Healthcare assessments. The successful candidate will play an important role in driving integrated neighbourhood working, supporting staff through change and ensuring residents remain at the heart of all service improvements. What will your responsibilities be? Leadership Devlopments: - Provide professional supervision and guidance to Social Workers, Social Care Practitioners and developing practitioners. - Coach, mentor and support newly established teams through organisational transformation. - Act as a professional role model, encouraging staff to embrace new ways of working and maintain high standards of practice. - Support workforce development, professional confidence and continuous improvement. - Promote staff wellbeing, resilience and an inclusive, supportive working environment. - Encourage accountability, innovation and collaborative working across teams. Neighbourhood Transformation & Multi-Agency Working: - Support the development and implementation of new team pathways, systems and processes to strengthen neighbourhood-based working. - Help embed redesigned locality-based teams and ensure new ways of working are consistently adopted. - Work collaboratively with NHS partners, acute hospitals, mental health services, housing, police and voluntary and community sector organisations. - Strengthen integrated working across health, social care and community services. - Support the development of coordinated services that improve outcomes and promote residents' independence. - Work closely with managers and frontline staff to identify challenges and support effective implementation of service changes. Performance Management, Data & Quality Assurance: - Use management performance dashboards to monitor caseload activity, statutory timescales, safeguarding performance and key performance indicators. - Monitor performance relating to Care Act assessments, Carers Assessments and reviews. - Analyse performance information and translate data into meaningful insights for practitioners and managers. - Identify potential risks, delays, casework drift and areas of pressure within teams. - Support managers and practitioners in addressing performance concerns and improving service delivery. - Promote evidence-based practice, professional accountability and informed decision-making. Advance Professional Practice: - Provide expert professional advice and guidance on complex adult social care matters. - Support practitioners to fulfil their statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014. - Provide guidance on Mental Capacity Act 2005 duties, including capacity assessments and best-interest decision-making. - Support practitioners with Continuing Healthcare assessments and Carers Assessments. - Provide specialist advice and interventions for adults accessing Adult Social Care services. - Support staff undertaking complex assessments, safeguarding enquiries and risk management processes. - Promote strengths-based, person-centred practice that prioritises residents' needs, wishes and desired outcomes. Safeguarding & Senior Decision-Making: - Undertake responsibilities associated with the Safeguarding Adults Manager role, providing senior oversight and professional decision-making on adult safeguarding concerns and enquiries. - Provide consultation, guidance and direction to practitioners on Section 42 safeguarding criteria and enquiries. - Support the development and review of risk assessments and safeguarding protection plans. - Chair safeguarding meetings and ensure appropriate multi-agency involvement. - Ensure the adult's voice, rights, wishes and desired outcomes remain central to safeguarding processes. - Ensure safeguarding practice complies with relevant legislation, statutory guidance and London Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults procedures. - Promote the Making Safeguarding Personal approach throughout safeguarding practice. Qualifications and Experience: To be successful in this role you must have; - A recognised Social Work qualification or relevant professional qualification within Adult Social Care. - Current Social Work England registration if applying as a qualified Social Worker. - Significant post-qualification experience within Adult Social Care. - Experience working at an Advanced Practitioner, Senior Social Worker or equivalent level. - Proven experience providing professional supervision, coaching and mentoring to social care practitioners. - Strong knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and adult social care statutory responsibilities. - Comprehensive understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including capacity assessments and best-interest processes. - Extensive experience in adult safeguarding, including Section 42 enquiries, risk assessments and protection planning. - Experience providing senior-level safeguarding oversight and professional decision-making. - Knowledge of Continuing Healthcare assessments and Carers Assessments. - Experience supporting service improvement, organisational transformation or implementing new ways of working. - Experience working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency partners. - Understanding of performance management, KPIs, management dashboards and data-informed decision-making. - Strong leadership, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills. Why Liquid Personnel? - Free DBS and compliance service - Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly - Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies - Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal - Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge - Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK - “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place* - “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us * Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List. BH - 203963 GH - 36817