Advanced Practitioner

Job Title: Advanced Practitioner
Starting Salary: £48,226 progressing to £53,460 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Adult Care Services

About the team

Are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives?

We are seeking experienced and motivated Advanced Practitioners to join our Adult Social Care teams. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career while supporting adults through strength-based practice and promoting independence.

Working within a supportive and collaborative environment, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care and making a meaningful impact on the wellbeing of residents of Hertfordshire.

About the role

As an Advanced Practitioner, you will lead on peer development and practice, supports and supervise staff to develop their skills and knowledge in line with related legislation including The Care Act and Hertfordshire’s Connected Lives principles to contribute to the ongoing development of the service.

Advanced Practitioners are responsible for delivering high quality statutory social care including recognising safeguarding, delivering assessment, supervision and care management functions as well as developing innovative, creative community solutions.

Advanced Practitioners are pivotal in developing links with the local community through undertaking multi-agency work with partner organisations, providers, professionals, individuals, families, and carers.

There is responsibility for ensuring that all statutory health and social care responsibilities are met and delivered to a high standard including safeguarding, assessment, supervision, and care management functions.

We are re-energising our adult social care model of Connected Lives approach that has a strong ethos of strength-based working, identifying personal goals and ensuring personal, family and community resources are utilised to achieve positive outcomes for people.

Our teams

Continuing Healthcare Team
Hemel Hempstead
37 hours per week | Fixed Term April 2027

The CHC Advanced Practitioner (AP) role within the ADT supports the delivery of NHS Continuing Healthcare processes. The role involves working collaboratively with social care and health colleagues to coordinate assessments, gather relevant information, and ensure timely progression of CHC cases. You will need to be organised, confident, and able to manage complex work, contributing to high-quality, person-centred practice and supporting compliance with CHC requirements. You will need to be able to demonstrate a high level of communication skills such as managing difficult conversations, negotiation skills and a clear understanding of the CHC process.

Adult Disability Team East
East Herts Team
Farnham House, Stevenage
37 hours per week

The Adult Disability Service provides support to adults with a learning or physical disability. We are committed to person-centred practice through our Connected Lives assessment process, focusing on the wellbeing of the individual and strive for increased independence. You will need to be a confident individual, capable of working with the most complex cases, and taking on a supervisory role based on developing skill, experience and expertise. The role is responsible for ensuring that all statutory health and social care responsibilities are met and delivered to a high standard including safeguarding, assessment, supervision and care management functions.

Older Peoples Team West
Prevention of Admissions Team
Apsley, Hemel Hempstead
37 hours per week | Permanent

The Older Person Service is a dynamic service that works across the community under the Care Act to safeguard, assess, plan support and review adults and cares with long term health and social care needs. We can offer Hybrid working arrangements, flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, as well as promote your continuous Learning & Development.

About you

You’ll be a qualified social worker with a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience.

In addition, you will also need the following: Actively undertakes a specialist role i.e. Moving and Handling Practitioner, Practice Educator, Approved Mental Health Practitioner, Best Interest Assessor - or agreement to undertake a specialist role within the first year of the role.

You will have extensive knowledge and experience in the field of adult social care, with an emphasis on safeguarding practice and related legislation. You will have the ability to manage competing service priorities and a sound grasp of current legislation, personalisation agenda and meeting the business objectives of the department. Demonstrating management potential, you will have excellent all-round communication and negotiation skills working with the Statutory, Voluntary and Independent sector partners.

You will adhere to Hertfordshire’s Connected Lives Practice Principles by ensuring that people are supported to maintain their independence and receive person-centred care and support. You will utilise your knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and other social care legislation, to manage the most complex cases. You will use of your advanced knowledge and experience to support other members of the team and the management team to ensure good practice. You will develop close working relationships with hospital staff and care providers to ensure effective care planning and balance the use of resources.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Health and Social Care, level 12 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Health and social care

To hear more about this opportunity please contact hrrecruitment@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: This is an on-going position, and interviews will be arranged as and when applications are received.

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.