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Advanced Practitioner Role in MASH - 36 hours permanent 

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner Social Worker to join our Adult Safeguarding Team in Wirral. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated person to work as a key leader of our team ensuring the highest quality of professional social care practice is delivered in line with legislation, policies, procedures and best practice.

If you have a passion for making safeguarding personal and protecting vulnerable people from harm through a joined up interagency approach. This post gives you the opportunity to express an interest in becoming part of the MASH Team and to be an integral in supporting the development of its guiding principles.

Ensuring a co-ordinated multi agency approach which allows early identification of threat, risk and harm and a focus on early intervention (preventable action) at the right level and at the right time.

Ensuring making safeguarding personal approach is adopted to manage individual needs and improving the user experience and outcomes of those receiving safeguarding services. Speeding up informed, consistent safeguarding decision making.

Working with key stakeholders (including Police, Health and Strategic partners) at the start of an enquiry and during collaboration of safeguarding services and are quickly directed to the right service appropriate to need.

Reducing the number of inappropriate referrals into safeguarding functions and making the right onward referral decisions to the most appropriate agency as early as possible.

Ensuring that the business intelligence arising from MASH services working together to improve consistency, to address gaps and duplicate in service provision and to improve outcomes of those in need of services.

Creating an environment which encourages feedback and shared learning across agencies to improve service provision.

Providing a consultation service to professionals seeking safeguarding advice about thresholds, referrals and early assessments and advice.

They will work with key stakeholders at the start of safeguarding enquiry and during the collaborative risk management and decision making. The role also provides the opportunity to take a leading role, working closely with another Advanced Practitioner in the team, Team Manager and Senior Manager by supporting the day to day running of the team. Providing professional supervision to several Experienced Social Workers and Care Navigator.

You will help to drive and support improvements within the service, contributing to better outcomes for the people we serve by upholding and promoting high professional practice standards.

About the Candidate:

If you are an experienced safeguarding professional who thrives on fast-paced decision making, high-quality analysis, collaboration and problem solving, we would like to hear from and for you to become part of our MASH team.

Should you require any further information about the role, please email allisondouglas@wirral.gov.uk 

 

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check, including a check of the relevant Barred List(s). The Safer Recruitment & Employment Policy and the Disclosures for Recruitment Procedure can be found at : https://www.wirral.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/job-vacancies/safer-recruitment-and-employment

Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must either already have a right to work in the UK before commencing employment or meet the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying.

This is not legal advice, and we advise you to seek your own independent legal advice tailored to your own personal circumstances

If you’re already a Wirral Council employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@wirral.gov.uk

If you are a Wirral resident, are unemployed or out of work, and require help with your application, please contact Involve Northwest’s employment and skills team on info@involvenorthwest.org.uk or contact 0151 644 4500 or 0151 652 4349.

Working at Wirral

You’ll also want to know what it’s like to work here so, as a start:

Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls! We’ve all played a role in developing these, so they reflect the immense pride we have in what we do, what matters to us, what inspires us and inform how we think, approach things and behave.

We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people.

We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, enrolment into the local government pension scheme (an excellent defined benefit scheme), immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.

We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.

Each voice is heard, each contribution valued. We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.

We want you to be your best at work, we create the conditions to help you thrive and we mirror this in our recruitment process. If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier-free and as accessible as possible please contact recruitment@wirral.gov.uk

Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.

It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.

Applications can only be accepted through the Jobs page following registration.  Forms received via the post will not be processed.

All applicants invited to interview must evidence their right to work in the UK.  Details of required documents can be found by clicking the link at the bottom of the Jobs page.

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We do not accept applications or CV’s from recruitment agencies, unless otherwise stated. Therefore, any candidates submitted via a recruitment agency will not be considered for this role.