Advanced Practitioner

This is an exciting time to join Barnsley Children and Family Social Care Service who are seeking to recruit an Advanced Practitioner to join our Practice Development Hub to cover maternity leave. Our service has a genuine commitment to supporting our teams and social workers to deliver the very best outcomes for our children and young people, makes it the perfect time for forward thinking, motivated and dedicated practitioners to join us in Barnsley.

As part of our commitment to the development of children’s services we are aspirational for our workforce and ensuring that our staff have the support and training they need to do their job to the very best of their ability. We currently have an opportunity for an Advanced Practitioner who will have a key role in shaping and developing social work practice, sitting within our Practice Development Hub. You will not be expected to have case holding responsibility in this role.

You will work with colleagues in the Hub and alongside the Practice Development Manager and Principal Social Worker to develop, drive and deliver our continuous professional development and training offer for children’s social workers and practitioners. In this role you will:

• Develop and deliver training, support learningand drive best practice across Children’s Social Care
• Work closely with the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that learning from audit is embedded in our training and development
• Work with partners, including Colleges and Universities, todrive multi agency working and good practice across services
• Ensure that staff and teams have the resources and tools to support their professional development
• Offer mentoring and support to colleagues
• Play a key role in the Social Work Academy, ensuring that apprentices and Newly Qualified Social Workers have the very beststart to their career
• Offer mentoring to Practice Educators and assess and support student social workers on placement in Barnsley

Alongside team managers, provide supervision, support and guidance to Newly Qualified Social Workers in their Assessed and Supported Year in practice

This role requires a recognised Social Work qualification, registration with Social Work England and significant post qualification experience, including supervision and mentoring.

Shape a better future with us

Join us on our journey to a brighter future. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. Let’s make a better Barnsley for everyone.

A lot to look forward to

Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. As part of our team, you can be sure we’ll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. You see, we prioritise learning and enabling you to achieve your potential. So we’ve created a development process that lets you grow in the way that suits you - whether that’s training to be a leader, or learning flexibly online.

We are an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ authority, with high aspirations for our children and young people. At Barnsley we are committed to the support and development of our social workers. You will receive regular supervision, appraisal, training and development opportunities, all aimed at promoting outcomes for children and supporting your career development and progression.

If you feel that you have the skills, knowledge and experience which will help us to achieve positive outcomes for our children, young people and families in Barnsley then we would like to hear from you.

If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Louise Danks (Service Manager Practice Development Hub and PSW) email louisedanks1@barnsley.gov.uk

Interviews will take place on Thursday 19 March